CARLY FIORINA: Government is a hammer looking for a nail.

If we want a woman President, this is the woman.

APPOMATTOX: Today marks the sesquicentennial of a most remarkable and pivotal event in American history: Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.

It is a demarcation point in the American timeline. Before April 9, 1865, America was a country that had slaves. After that date, it did not.

This 150th anniversary comes, however, with little fanfare, which is odd considering we now have our first black president. There should be joy. There should be celebration. Instead President Obama pays no attention to the sacrifices that made his presidency possible because he cannot use the event to divide the American people along the color line, Indeed, Appomattox undermines his narrative of inherent white bigotry for in the Civil War, as Jesus died to make men holy, white men died to make men free.

That is a truth Obama and the Left do not wish to acknowledge.

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SUPPORT THE 'Assault Firearm Elimination and Education of our Streets Act', newly introduced in Congress. Turn in your weapon, get a $2000 tax credit, buy a new firearm for $1200, and take home the extra cash (or upgrade). Gun manufacturers will thank you.

UPDATE: The Scorekeeper agrees.

SUPPORT ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: order your steaks well-done.

TWITCHY: Comment of the day.

NASA PROMISES to discover alien life within 20 years. Obviously they've been looking in the wrong places. I'd suggest Washington, D.C. Or New York City.

WET BASEMENT? It's global warming.

PRESERVE THE STATIST QUO: support mandatory voting. Scroll back in time for more.

PUNCHING BACK: The University of Michigan reverses decision to cancel showing of 'American Sniper'.

There's no right to not be offended in the Constitution.

WHOA! THE SCIENCE IS IN: Government food nannies now recommend you eat vegan.

Didn't you know the only legitimate science is 'political' science?

HO-HUM, ANOTHER RED LINE: Kerry warns Iran US 'not going to stand by' as Yemen conflict worsens.

TOWNHALL: The 5 dumbest ideas to take root in America. All from liberals progressives.

NEXT ON CABLE: the Space Weather Channel.

THINK: It's not illegal yet.

But Democrats are working on it. Because fairness.

THE BUCK PASSES HERE: Obama admits Iran deal passes off weapons threat to future presidents. So let's impeach him now and let the next President start early....

FREEDOM OF WHAT? Should wedding-related businesses be able to refuse participation in a gay wedding?

ONCE WAS ENOUGH: Our once-in-a-lifetime president.

If only Americans had the sense not to grant him a second term and made him truly a once in a lifetime president....

THOMAS SOWELL: Comparing Barack Obama to Neville Chamberlain is unfair -- to Chamberlain.

If you look back through history, you will be hard pressed to find a leader of any democratic nation so universally popular -- hailed enthusiastically by opposition parties as well as his own -- as was British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain when he returned from Munich in 1938, waving an agreement with Hitler's signature on it, and proclaiming "Peace for our time."

Who cared that he had thrown a small country to the Nazi wolves, in order to get a worthless agreement with Hitler? It looked great at the time because it had apparently avoided war.

Now Barack Obama seems ready to repeat that political triumph by throwing another small country -- Israel this time -- to the wolves, for the sake of another worthless agreement.

Back in 1938, Winston Churchill was one of the very few critics who tried to warn Chamberlain and the British public. Churchill said: "The idea that safety can be purchased by throwing a small State to the wolves is a fatal delusion."

After the ruinous agreement was made with Hitler, he said: "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." Chamberlain's "Peace for our time" lasted just under a year.

Comparing Obama to Chamberlain is unfair -- to Chamberlain. There is no question that the British prime minister loved his country and pursued its best interests as he saw it. He was not a "citizen of the world," or worse. Chamberlain was building up his country's military forces, not tearing them down, as Barack Obama has been doing with American military forces.

At least Chamberlain loved his country.

ISRAEL TO AMERICA: "You would have to be to be a sociopath to believe [the president's promises]." They're right.

“ARE YOU FREAKIN KIDDIN ME!!!?!” Utah city threatens fines over kids' cardboard castle.

We had something similarly stupid happen to us when we lived in California, but we didn't have Facebook then. This family is punching back, and the neighbors have apparently joined in. Good for them.