POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: Negligence edition. My favorite:

But all are good.

A VACATION? What Would Cause President Obama to Cancel a Fundraiser?

YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID: "You can, sometimes, if you win an election. We should try it some time."

Steven Hayward, commenting on a comment to his post on today's climate embarrassment.

DAMNED IF YOU DO, AND DAMNED IF YOU DON'T: California couple faces fine for brown lawn after complying with water-saving rules.

It's axiomatic that bureaucracies and liberals (an oxymoron, I know) are stupid, but California carries stupidity to a whole different level.

AT SOME POINT, HAVEN'T YOU MADE ENOUGH MONEY? Is Hillary Worth $2,777 Per Minute? It's all about money laundering.

NASA SCIENTISTS: Optimistic about finding alien life one day. My suspicion is that the aliens have already found us ... and are hiding.

FOX NEWS: Obama hits Russia with more sanctions, hints at extending Iran's nuclear deadline.

Uh, huh.

LAWLESSNESS is now the dominant theme in the Obama saga. It explains why so many Americans simply ignore the government (to the extent possible) and go on about their business.

VENUS EXPRESS survives daring atmospheric dive.

BLUE COLLAR PERSPECTIVE: "The presidency isn’t too big ... [Obama] is just too small."

I THINK IT'S CALLED 'FREEDOM OF SPEECH': http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/court-rules-texas-allow-confederate-flagFederal Court Rules Texas Must Issue Confederate Flag License Plates.

The Left is all for freedom of speech, provided it's their speech. Your speech, not so much.

HEH: Company run by daughter of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) ator moves to Europe to escape US corporate tax. You do what you have to do in order to remain in business.

No sales. No profits. No business.

AN ELECTION PREDICTION from the Scorekeeper (#9): "Republicans go with the most patriotic. Democrats ... always choose the the biggest liar."

TWO VIEWS ON BORDER CONTROL:

From my email.

ENLIGHTENMENT:

I became confused when I heard the word 'service' used with these agencies:

Internal Revenue 'Service'
U.S. Postal 'Service'
Cable TV 'Service'
Civil 'Service'
State, City, County & Public 'Service'
Customer 'Service'

This is not what I thought service meant. But today, I overheard two farmers talking, and one of them said he had hired a bull to service a few cows.

BAM!!! It all came into focus. Now I understand what all those agencies are doing.

I hope that you are now just as enlightened as I am.

Yes. We're from the government and we're here to 'serve' you.

FOR ANTI-SEMITISM, it’s deja vu all over again. "Perhaps this time Israel will clear Hamas out of Gaza once and for all. Or perhaps, as David Goldman argues, events and demographics will inevitably lead Israel to annex Judea and Samaria, which, when it happens, will hardly provoke a whimper. Or maybe the collapse of almost all of the region except for Israel, too horrific to ignore, will finally abash the anti-Semites into silence...."

SHUN THE NON-ALARMIST: New York Times spotlights sophomoric treatment of climate science pariah.

DYING IN A FLURRY OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: Did Archie also invent a cure for global warming before taking a bullet?

It was a dumb comic even back in the days of the dinosaurs when I was a kid.

BYRON YORK: Why Obama won't take strong action in border crisis.

EXOGRAPHY: Wall Street migrates south to low-cost Southern cities. Just don't bring your blue-state culture with you.