FLORIDA LAWMAKERS take aim at backyard gun ranges. In Virginia, I could almost have a backyard (handgun) range, but I may be just a bit too close to one of my neighbors.

Plenty of room in the basement, though. It would probably be ear-shattering for anyone in the house, but perfectly legal.

HEH: Barack Obama celebrates Presidents' Day:

THE 'WRECKOVERY': five years later.

Are you wrecked yet?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The 'Let's Save California Now!' acts. Rainbows and unicorns will be forever grateful.

HOW CAN THERE BE A CLOWN SHORTAGE with so many Democrats to choose from?

THE U.S. MIDDLE CLASS is being turned proletarian. Of course. The upper and lower classes can be controlled bought; one with subsidies; the other with favors.

Only an independent middle class cannot.

JOHN KERRY: a “weapon of mass destruction”. The rest of the PowerLine team piles on.

Kerry and the Obama administration remind me of an old joke from my days as a military contractor. A Prussian leader (Bismarck?) once divided military personnel into four categories: brilliant & industrious; brilliant & lazy; stupid & industrious; and stupid & lazy. The brilliant & industrious were to become his field generals; the brilliant & lazy, their staff. The stupid & lazy were kept as cannon fodder; the stupid & industrious kicked out.

Now we know from where the Obama administration came....

AIR FORCE can’t explain questionable details of Obama’s Tennessee visit.

But the White House can. Ask yourself who contributed more to the Obama campaign.

IT'S PRESIDENTS DAY: Honor them.

By executive order.

FAITH IN SCIENCE? Skip the trust part; if it can't be verified, it ain't science.

Science is a tool, not an authority.

TO LIBERALS, arithmetic is magical thinking. One plus one is anything you want it to be....

As I noted in at least one earlier post, for a liberal to propose something is for it to be so -- none of those intermediate messy steps need be taken.

More Sidney Harris cartoons can be found here.

PELOSI: We're going to save the 'little people' from their follies even if we have to kill them to do it.

GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF TEA PARTY RACISM: Um, .... let me get back to you on that.

THANKS TO GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES, expensive, inefficient solar power plant fries birds in Nevada.

More on the bird fryer here.

HE'S GETTING WORRIED: Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) pulls stupid tweet attacking Republicans.

SCARY CHART?

Not to me; in fact, it's moving pretty well as I predicted well over a year ago. If, as I hope, the Republicans take over both Houses of Congress in 2014, I expect a significant, but not catastrophic, loss of market value as investors start withdrawing funds from 'storage' to reinvest in productive economic activity. If the Democrats win, then I expect to see the market continue to rise as investors continue to seek safe haven.

MILTON WOLF: Sen. Pat Roberts is a 'former' Kansas resident.

Seems to me that's a charge you could make against almost all the D.C. political aristocracy.

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane. The sole purpose of income/wealth redistribution is to make everyone equally poor; or as I put it in other posts, to guarantee everyone an equal share of nothing.

HEH: Tennessee workers reject unionization bid by United Auto Workers. Ths despite the fact that VW was favorably inclined.

HE SHOULD CHANGE HIS NAME TO DAVID GREGORY: DC Man Faces Trial for Having a Shotgun Shell that Doesn’t Work.