AN EMPTY PANTSUIT: Hillary Clinton is the political equivalent of the Kardashians -- being famous for being famous. Unfortunately with the plethora of low no information voters available, it may be enough to win.

LEADERSHIP THEN AND NOW: KAL 007 vs. MH 17. Then was better.

REGULATORY CAPTURE: Just another tool in crony capitalism's toolbag.

And yet another reason for dramatically cutting the size of government at all levels.

PATHETIC:

Hamas, even with its all its longer-range missiles, is capable of inflicting no more damage on the Zionist Entity than a lone killer armed with only a steak knife.

Still, even one crazed killer armed with a steak knife is one too many.

SANCTUARY CITIES: A modest proposal for housing illegal immigrants. In addition to San Francisco, Baltimore, and the White House, I'd recommend Berkeley, CA; Austin, TX; Seattle, WA; Elizabeth Warren's digs in Massachusetts, and of course the Clinton estates in Washington DC and New York.

A complete list of sanctuary cities/states is here.

SO IF YOU don't like them, are afraid of them, or are jealous because you can't afford them, then they must be banned regulated into oblivion? The Dangers of Private Planes.

UKRAINE REBEL LEADER claims Flight MH17 was filled with already-dead bodies. Well, yeah, by the time it hit the ground I'm sure that was true....

BILL WHITTLE on Apollo's legacy.

Or rather, lack of one.

THE BENEFITS OF FEMINISM: Who’s Unhappiest? She’s 42, Single, and Working.

SUBMERGED BAGS OF AIR could turn wind and solar power into round-the-clock resources. And if we could inflate the bags with the hot air generated by Congress, we wouldn't need wind turbines....

GOOD NEWS: If you're a taxpayer, you only owe $151,342.

SHOE on government:

Perfect.

ARIZONA (CHARTER) SCHOOL requires students to read books by Glenn Beck's Tea Party hero.

But liberal hero Howard Zinn gets a pass....

Actually they're probably mad because the charter school kids can read.

MOTHER JONES: Scientists Are Beginning to Figure Out Why Conservatives Are ... Conservative.

And of course it's because conservatives are knuckle-dragging Neanderthals, slavering for an opportunity to bash someone/something, and suitable only for "successfully monitoring and attending negative features of the environment" (read as digging ditches and shoveling sh stuff).

FROM A TRICKLE TO A FLOOD: An endless wave of illegal immigrants.

So tell me again it's not Obama's fault.

ERIC HOLDER: Let's try that race card again. Get over it, Eric. We don't dislike you because you're black; we dislike you because you're a narcissistic, incompetent, race-baiting bungler.

RANDOM THOUGHTS: Police arrest ex-Marine in murder of New York mom. Never mind the story itself; it's all too common to waste words on. But why is it that nearly every time a violent crime is reported, the perpetrator's military history (if he or she ever served) is reported regardless of its relevance to the crime?

I don't think I've ever seen a headline "Police arrest Harvard grad in ... (whatever crime)."

ONE SMALL STEP FOR A MAN, July 20, 1969.

Where were you when the Eagle landed? I shouldn't be surprised, I guess, but still, I am. Most of the people in the videos were either young children, or not yet born, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped on the Luna's surface for the first time.

My wife and I, newly married, were sitting on our living room floor in our first (rented) house in Waianae, HI, watching on a tiny black-and-white Sony MicroTV. I still have that television.

That was many, many moons ago....

THE SCOREKEEPER insults cats (#3).

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

But all are good.