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METAPHOR ALERT: Minnesota light rail train runs off tracks after Obama lauds it in visit.

You can't help but think 'ObamaCare' when you read it....

POLL: Not even the uninsured like ObamaCare.

They're beginning to pay attention.

UPDATE: Seniors don't like ObamaCare either.

A CAUTION about expertise. Whenever you hear someone declared an 'expert', keep in mind the origin of the word: from 'ex', meaning has-been, and 'spurt', a drip under pressure.

NEW EXCUSE: Keystone XL pipeline may cause cancer. The evidence is much stronger that life causes cancer. So should we ban living?

LOCKED OUT: the real job lock.

KEPLER SPACE TELESCOPE finds and confirms over 700 new exoplanets. No intelligent life found; only progressives.

More seriously, the space telescope website is here.

NASA CAPTURES photos of Alaska landslide. More photos here.

DAMS HELP MORE: NASA helping California deal with drought.

'LIBERTARIAN PARANOIA': Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.

FOURTEEN YEARS worth of reasons why the GOP grassroots scoff at Washington Republicans.

Republicans who lack the will or principles to fight on major issues will still use Obama’s obstructionism as the baseline for excuses not to advocate bold initiatives. Whether it’s a debt ceiling or a budget bill, they will fear brinkmanship with Obama as much as they do now.

The Red State post is here.

RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE, Obama declares Happy Hour. It makes you wonder what he would have done on 9/11/2001.

THE FIRST HUMAN to die on another planet may be alive today.

LAND OF INEQUALITY: California's flight of the middle class.

An analysis conducted last year by the Hoover Institution’s Carson Bruno revealed that the group making up the largest share of the California diaspora is the middle class. These are not titans of industry looking to maximize profits in Texas or Florida; these are everyday citizens who’ve found themselves priced out of what was once called the California dream.

Read it all.

THE OUTER LIMITS: Shut up, they explained.

But it's no longer "shut up, they explained". It's now "Shut up, we explain."

FAA RISKS losing drone war.

“Most people want to comply with the FAA rules,” said Ted Ellett, a former FAA general counsel who is now a partner specializing in aviation at the law firm Hogan Lovells. “But the more the FAA acts like a big daddy, behemoth government agency that is imposing excessive restrictions, the more the feeling of ‘I’m an American, they can’t tell me what to do’ kicks in. And that’s a real danger for the FAA.”

This applies, I think, to much of Obama's liberal agenda, especially ObamaCare. I expect such massive passive civil disobedience that the ruling class will have to surrender.

Americans won't -- can't -- be controlled.

VIA INSTAPUNDIT: The Honest University Commercial. Funny, but it does remind that honesty appears to be making somewhat of a comeback. Recently I received a mailing from one of those 'we buy your house for cash' outfits that was surprisingly honest. They wrote - upfront, not in the fine print - that they would not pay you market value for your home; discount would be their return for the risk of repairs and reselling it at market prices.

TWEET OF THE DAY: "You call what I just did walking into a wall. I call it looking for walls I can pass through and marking that one off the list." From @goldengateblond via the Instapundit twitter feed.

IT'S TIME to move on from blaming the Bush administration.

FRANCE. I RECOMMEND FRANCE: Angry homophobe Alec Baldwin vows to leave New York.