COMING TODAY: test flight of a flying saucer.

PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: Used properly, lawfare is a good thing.

IF YOU LIKE AIRCRAFT VIDEOS, you'll love this: F-35 operational test trials.

The comments, maybe not so much. The one that particularly sticks in my craw is the '14-year-long development' comment. The YF-22 (F-22 precursor) rolled out on 27 August 1990 (I was there); the F-22 achieved IOC (initial operational capability) 15 years, 3 months, and 16 days later, on 15 December 2005. Yes, development cycles are excruciatingly long - and getting longer - but that's a result of bureaucracy, not technology.

AMMO GRRRLL: Safe Spaces for Psychotic Ninnies, circa 1975. Ammo Grrrll punches back, not twice as hard, but thrice as hard. Or maybe 'fource' as hard, if that's a word.

NEVER. NEXT QUESTION? When will climate scientists say they were wrong?

IF HILLARY BECOMES PRESIDENT, who will make her obey the law?

Ultimately, the Presidential Records Act depends on the honesty of the president. That's not Clinton's strong suit. Recent polls have shown substantial numbers of Americans do not believe she is honest and trustworthy. After the State Department experience, they would have good reason to be suspicious of her in the White House.

Indeed we do. Democrats are foolish for not having a Plan B.

UH-OH: When someone buys vanilla ice cream, he's basically right there with John Wilkes Booth, helping him steady his aim at Abraham Lincoln's head.

I switched to Vanilla Caramel Fudge -- is that good enough?

MEGYN KELLY takes down Rand Paul on the Patriot Act.

Bravo, Megyn.

IMPRIMIS: Frank Capra on "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God".

GREAT NEWS: that puddle in your front yard is a federally protected waterway. I was considering reinstalling the rain gutters on my house ... now I'll have to think again lest they become a 'federally protected waterway'. And I suppose if I had to remove the protective berm in my back yard, my basement would become a (protected) seasonal wetland....

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS: another ObamaCare failure.

Let’s force doctors to spend a lot of money to become technology dependent and adopt electronic health records when the old way of doing things was working just fine. And hey – as a bonus, our health information is now more vulnerable to hacking and we can lose some privacy along the way! Electronic health records haven’t saved a single life or a single dollar, but they have created a lot of expense, confusion, and tremendous demoralization for our health care providers. It wasn’t broken, and it shouldn’t have been “fixed.” If the Republican Congress was smart, it would repeal this onerous, useless provision of Obamacare.

Let's help -- call your Congresscritter today.

I COULD BE paying my student loans until I'm 77. Yes, and you could have not taken the loans in the first place. Sorry, but my sympathy meter is not impressed.

SOME THOUGHTS on the unintended consequences of intended consequences. Less regulation is always better regulation.

I remember (unsuccessfully) pointing that out back in the late 70s when seat belt laws started to become de rigueur. Yes, deaths decreased (slightly), but the number of accidents increased dramatically as drivers, assuming they were better protected, took more driving risks.

INSURERS OUTRAGED over new measure to cap Medicaid costs. Progressivism at its finest: we provide the mandates; you provide the money.

A NEW BUMPER STICKER from the Ted Cruz campaign: "Friends don't let friends turn Left".

Heh.

DARWIN AWARD DEMONSTRATION: What not to do with self-driving cars. Luckily (for them, not the gene pool) they failed.

EPIC MOCK-ALANCHE: labor unions who pushed for $15 minimum wage in Los Angeles now want an exemption.

What a choice! A union job at less-than-minimum-wage, or no job at minimum wage. Scroll down to the comments -- and bring your popcorn.

A FLIGHT over the Great Barrier Reef. The pictures are spectacular, but what I liked most was this comment:

The landing was pretty much terrifying; all I saw the pilot doing was spinning some wheel next to his seat which doesn't seem legit, but we made it!

The pilot landed using only the rudder pedals and the trim wheel, which is the mark of an excellent - and experienced - pilot. My instructor tried to teach me how to do it, but I was never able to make it all the way to the ground using trim-and-rudder alone.

Linked from Instapundit.

MUSLIM PREACHER: masturbation will make your hand pregnant. I suppose he should know....

THOMAS SOWELL: How to open the mind of a college graduate. The recommended books are excellent; the problem is that being a college graduate does not necessarily imply the ability to read.