AND FINALLY: God Bless the USA.

FIGHT PC CENSORS: Practice free speech on July 4th.

IT'S INDEPENDENCE DAY: "Restore the Republic; revolt against socialism."

TWO REASONS why the Democrat party should be renamed the Dumbocrat party:

More at PowerLine's Week in Pictures.

EXPLAINING the Declaration of Independence. In the Washington Post, of all places....

A REMINDER:



The link is here.

THE FOURTH OF JULY is Independence Day, not Fireworks Day. Here are some reminders.

"SUGAR BABIES" in education. Follow the link, and read the comments. My favorite is this one: "Just because one prostitute is victimized by another doesn't make the first one virtuous."

SUGARY DRINKS cause 184 thousand deaths worldwide annually. That sounds like something terrible until you realize that it's just 0.3% of the 58 million deaths in a worldwide population of 7 billion.

So -- if you're unlucky enough to die this year, it's 99.7% certain that it won't be a sugary soda that kills you.

CALIFORNIA TRIES to push Uber into yesterday's labor market. Which is a classy way of saying out of the market altogether.

SHOE EXPLAINS call forwarding.

AUDI PLANS TO BE the first commercial automobile on the moon. Well, sort of....

AMMO GRRRLL returns with her take on 'Yes Means Yes'.

MORE THAN A THIRD of those who buy fitness wearables abandon them within a few months. Could it be that they find they don't like human (or mechanical) nannies nagging them 24/7?

Especially in light of the fact that the nannies are wrong most of the time?

MEGA-INSURERS could cost consumers. Could? The proper verb is 'will'.

And for the socialist Left, that's not a bug; it's a feature.

UNLESS IT'S YOUR PRIVACY: Medical privacy is overrated. I can understand the medical community's desire for gobs of data, but I don't think that desire obligates me to participate ... especially when it is patently obvious that there is no meaningful way to protect that data from exploitation by those whose motives are, shall we say, less pristine.

WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? State Department admits Hillary did not turn over all emails. The Left would never allow a little thing like honesty get in the way of accomplishing its mission of controlling America.

SPACE-X FALCON 9 launch failure just now about 2 minutes post-launch.

IEEE SPECTRUM: What does “Responsible Innovation” mean? In a nutshell, it's a politically correct buzzphrase for control of engineering by the Left, who will determine what is, or isn't, 'responsible'.

THE TRAGEDY of California's bureaucrat-made drought.

California "is a classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people's lives and livelihoods at the altar of ideology." -- Carly Fiorina

And, of course, their money.