FOUND: The Most Potentially Life-Friendly Exoplanet So Far.

DANA LOESCH on Harry Reid's 'terrorists' at the Bundy ranch.

From my email.

THE EUROPEAN UNION'S new Sentinel-1a radar satellite has returned its first images of Earth.

Its maiden pictures depict Brussels, flooding in Namibia and one of the mightiest ice features on Earth - Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica.

What? There's ice on Planet Earth? Alert the global warmists, stat!

WESTERN STATES debate retaking control of federal lands. Based on what's happening in Nevada, this strikes me as a good idea. At the very least, graft at the state level is likely to be a bit more obvious and a lot less profitable.

OBAMA JUST SET UP a headfake for the Democrats on the Keystone pipeline.

Plausible, I suppose. But do you really think Obama is that smart?

FEDERAL LANDS:

So sell it! Sell it all.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: royal baby edition. My favorite:

Another Friday afternoon, another job-killing, freedom-killing policy in place.

CAPTION CONTEST AT THE TATLER: how to subtitle Hillary's new book Hard Choices.

The clear winner is 'What Difference Does It Make?'

THERE'S NO PLACE for the middle class in the Democrats’ top/bottom coalition. Which conveniently explains why the Democrats are so intent on destroying what remains of the middle class.

The Democrats won't be happy until there's only two classes: controllers and controllees.

"MAYBE THE CLIMATISTAS should shoot the moon and go back to an ice age scare. A lot more people would buy it."

BIRDS OF A FEATHER flock together.

SOME SYMPATHY for Cliven Bundy and his family.

They don’t have a chance on the law, because under the Endangered Species Act and many other federal statutes, the agencies are always in the right. And their way of life is one that, frankly, is on the outs. They don’t develop apps. They don’t ask for food stamps. It probably has never occurred to them to bribe a politician. They don’t subsist by virtue of government subsidies or regulations that hamstring competitors. They aren’t illegal immigrants. They have never even gone to law school. So what possible place is there for the Bundys in the Age of Obama?

Read it all.

AT 30? An emerging adult? Give me a break. Seriously.

WHY I'VE ALWAYS LIKED SOUTHWEST AIRLINES: watch the video.

CONSERVATIVE LEADER calls for a new movement to stop the loss of self-government. The Tea Party is alive and well.

FORMER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE John Paul Stevens has suggested the following modification to the Second Amendment to ensure its 'proper interpretation' as a collective, not individual, right:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the Militia shall not be infringed.”

Many take issue with that interpretation, and I would just add the following thought. The 'militia' in colonial America consisted of "a subset of 'the people'—those who were male, able-bodied, and within a certain age range", defined then (and codified in the Militia Act of 1903) as 17 to 45 years of age. Since the average age at death of males was 45-50 years well into the early 20th century, that would seem to indicate that the entire male population of the U.S. is -- or should be -- a member of the militia. Thus Justice Stevens 5 words add nothing.

HOT AIR has more on Justice Stevens 'helpful' comments.

THE DOWN SIDE OF BEING LIBERAL, and other amusing puffery: "[having to pretend that] the Democrats’ politically-inspired claims make sense, even though they are contrary to his own (and everyone else’s) experience."

X-47B WINS COLLIER: The Northrup Grumman X-47B autonomous combat drone for carrier operations is the winner of the 2013 Collier Trophy, what many consider aviation's top prize.

GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS: Why are the Democrats waging a war on their own women?

Because their own women are dumb?

BUT DOES HE ACCEPT OBAMACARE? Don’t Worry About Hillary’s Health — She’s Got A Great Doctor!