REPUBLICANS WARN BLM eyeing land grab along Texas-Oklahoma border. I almost hope they try; Texas would hand the Fed's ass back on a silver platter.

"IT’S CLEARER BY THE DAY that progressives are perfectly happy to leave others free to do exactly what progressives demand, no more and no less."

[REDACTED]: "In matters of transparency, the Obama Team can always be counted on to do the right thing — after exhausting all other legal options and being forced into it by the federal courts."

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Should the bankrupt, blighted city of Detroit turn in its charter?

FOR THOSE wondering what a real political scandal looks like . . . here's one. But it can't be a real a political scandal -- can't be -- because it involves a Democrat.

OBAMA SENDS strongest signal yet that he expects Democrats to lose the Senate. Impeachment a possibility? Nah, but it is a pleasant thought.

HAH: "[T}he threshold for “earning too much” is just above what a two-earner journalist or academic couple can plausibly make."

IN THE 'WAR ON YOUTH' the youth strike back.

I hope it's not too late.

SALON on Fox News’ demented poster boy.

I find it interesting that in the entire article, running to about 1500 words, Fox News was never mentioned. There was a single reference to Sean Hannity, who of course has a show on Fox, but it isn't clear that 'poster boy' Cliven Bundy was on Hannity's Fox News show or his separate radio show.

WHO IS FASTER than a speeding bullet? Answer: anyone who is not directly underneath the 'bullet' when it exits the barrel.

I've got tree stumps on my property smarter than whoever did this graphic.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON on the death of real America: "[Cliven Bundy's] our past, Harry Reid and the bunch in Washington our future. To paraphrase the ancients, sometimes we’d rather be wrong with Cliven Bundy than right with Harry Reid — and the SWAT teams that will revisit Mr. Bundy and his clan very, very soon to enforce a dispute over grazing fees and insensitivity to a tortoise."

SETTLED SCIENCE.

ROGER KIMBALL on President (*).

(*) the worst President in U.S. history.

THE GROWING financial disaster that is ObamaCare:

The largely unwritten ... story ... is that the ACA is rapidly becoming a colossal fiscal disaster as enrollment proceeds heedless of the concurrent collapse of the law’s financing structure.

Do tell. But not to worry, per Obama the government isn't running out of other people's money; it's printing its own.

ONLY 'BLIND LUCK' has prevented worse disasters as push begins for a $250 million telescope to spot asteroids on collision course with Earth.

What the health and safety nannies out there fail to understand is that even with a 7-plus billion world population there's a whole lot of empty on Earth.

OBAMACARE: when lying doesn't work, cheat.

YOU JUST THOUGHT YOUR RECORDS WERE PRIVATE: Scientists embark on unprecedented effort to connect millions of patient medical records.

This is only the beginning....

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS are down, largely thanks to ... fracking.

And a crappy economy worldwide.

INSTAPUNDIT: "The world has been taken over by chuckleheads."

Best comment: "I think it's time to take The Onion offline - the real world is stealing its material."

COLORADO EMINENT DOMAIN CASE settled with $115,000 sale.

A contentious eminent domain case in which a local government sought to take private backcountry land for open space has been settled, with the landowners agreeing to a $115,000 sale.

"To me, what just came out of it is, you can't win, you can't fight the government," landowner Ceil Barrie said Wednesday.

Asked what lessons they shared, Ceil Barrie said with teary eyes, "Yeah, don't annoy the government."

Pity. I was hoping they'd sue.