YOU DIDN'T EARN THAT: Obama calls successful Americans society's lottery winners.

Yeah, that'll win the hearts and minds of those of us who have worked 50-60 hours a week for 40+ years to achieve our successes.

There’s a lot more [progressive] code language in the [video] clip from the Georgetown “poverty summit”.... Obama lamented successful Americans “divesting” from “the commons” by sending their children to private school or working out in private clubs. He claims these acts of free association and pursuit of happiness foster an “an anti-government ideology” which endangers “those things which draw us together.”

Like nanny-statism and government control.

YOU NEEDN'T WORRY about self-driving cars -- they've only had 11 accidents in 6 years.

Umm, I've only had three bumper-tappers in 54 years of driving.

CARLY FIORINA on her presidential campaign:



It's long, almost an hour, but well worth the time spent.

As I've said before, it you really, really, really want a woman President, Carly Fiorina is that woman.

SHARING IS NOT PERMITTED? Storage shed built at no cost to the school district torn down. Because Title IX.

[O]fficials with the Clark County School District showed up at the school and demanded that the storage shed be torn down. They said it violated Title IX.

Title IX states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

In other words, for every boy sport there must be a girls alternative.

And in the case of Arbor View High School – if the boys have a storage shed – the girls must have a storage shed.

“It requires that we have equal facilities for boys programs and girls programs,” [according to] district spokesman Joe Murphy.

It doesn’t seem to matter one iota that the girls softball team never asked for a storage shed.

“The girls aren’t complaining.... It’s totally coming from the school district.”

You’ve probably turned to your significant other and wondered aloud, “Those administrators are morons. There’s no reasonable way a storage shed could violate Title IX.”

But we’re not dealing with reasonable people here, folks. We’re dealing with public school administrators.

The moron quotient is strong in this district.

EVEN THE DUMBEST DEMOCRAT EVENTUALLY GETS THE MESSAGE: New Jersey finally throws in the towel on its 'smart gun' law.

It only took 13 (yes, 13) years.

A DRUGGED ELECTORATE IS A DOCILE ELECTORATE: ObamaCare linked to opiod prescriptions.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

IS THAT ALL? NASA funds electricity-harvesting robotic space eel with explosive jet thrusters and electroluminescent skin.

IT'S THE ONLY THING for which he's even marginally competent: Obama back in fundraising mode (and Democrats expect him to stay there).

"As Michelle [Obama] helpfully reminds me, I don't have another race to run," Obama said at one of his fundraisers this week. "This is not a project that stops after a certain term in office, and it's not a project that stops after an election. This is something that we have to sustain over the long term."

He's not going away. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

SPACE-X CAPSULE soars in first test of crew escape system. Time magazine has the video (annoying commercial alert).

THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY of small nuclear reactors. Economics killed small nuclear power plants in the past — and probably will keep doing so.

I'm surprised, somewhat dismayed, and a little bit skeptical. It's obvious that there are economies of scale in terms of large anything, but there are also other factors that can obviate that economy of scale. For example (in this case): a network of mini-reactors within the confines of a large city minimizes the need for large, transcontinental high-tension power lines.

(Sarcasm alert for those who need one.) And as an added bonus, a nuclear meltdown will primarily affect nanny-state politicians and their enablers.

WHO SAID the Clintons aren't green? Oh, that green....

DEMOCRATS GET a taste of Obama’s arrogance:

With the sand running out on the Obama presidency, it’s finally dawning on the president’s friends and fans that he can be a real jerk.

Can be? The proper verb is 'is'.

DEMOCRATS: the first panel is what they are; the remaing panels, what they want of us.

THE THREE STAGES OF CAT ADOPTION:

Stage 1: Wife says, "Oh, no, Midnight showed up for dinner again."

Stage 2: Wife says, "Oh, no, Midnight hasn't shown up for dinner."

Stage 3: Wife says, "Midnight, meet Dr. Morrow, your new veterinarian."

We're still at Stage 2, but I anticipate Stage 3 won't be long.

OBAMA SHOULD BE REGRETTING THIS DECISION:

Gen. James Mattis, known to his troops as “Mad Dog Mattis,” [retired in 2013] after 41 years of military service.

The Marine Corps Times is calling Mattis the “most revered Marine in a generation.”
Mattis has been commander of the United States Central Command since 2010 and led the 1st Marine Division into Iraq in 2003.

According to reports, President Barack Obama decided to force the Marine Corps legend out early because he rubbed civilian officials the wrong way, and forced them to answer tough questions regarding Iran.

Mattis was an inspirational leader of men and his powerful words will go down in history. Here are (very few) of the best he has had to offer:

Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they’re so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.

Starting in 2016.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

I can't tell you how many times I heard this particular admonition during my two tours of Iraq. I am utterly convinced that there are many soldiers alive today because they heeded that admonition.

The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

On the political battlefield too. Republicans take heed.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.

Except in the Land of Unicorns & Rainbows, where there are no enemies, just 'misguided friends'.

You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it’s going to be bad.

As we have seen in the Land of Unicorns & Rainbows....

... do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.

Advice for the rest of the world, effective January 21, 2017.

Anybody surprised Obama forced this guy to retire early?

Original post by the Washington Free Beacon on March 18, 2013 (no link).

HEH: a warm welcome for Hillary in Los Angeles....

ASSAULTING FREE SPEECH -- but only from the Left.

[W]hat about all of those lectures from the times of "Piss Christ?" Do those no longer apply now, when free speech offends a group less distasteful to the cultural elite? Are offenses against Christian sensibilities the only ones permitted by the First Amendment?

Bumper sticker summary: "Free speech for us; hate speech for you."

GOODBYE, MERRY CHRISTMAS: Consumer Product 'Safety' Commission to regulate Christmas lights. Is there anything the drones of the Nanny State are willing to leave alone?

SCRATCH A PROGRESSIVE....