AS THE ECONOMY GOES DOWN, Obama's approval goes up. Hard to believe, but here's the data from the last 12 months:

The signs are not good....

IT WAS A PARODY THEN; now ... not so much. "Kids say the darnded things" was much better when Art Linkletter did it with real kids.

FIRST DO NO HARM: E-cigarettes and the Food & Drug Administration.

If you can't do harm first, then you can't 'fix' it....

UNEXPECTEDLY, OF COURSE: Bronze plans to disappear from ObamaCare exchanges.

ECONOMIST REMOVED from American Airlines flight for doing math.

FAKE INDIAN, er, 'Native American', on warpath against white man.

I guess it's not cultural appropriation if you're a progressive....

POWERLINE: What the hell happened?

I think the answer is that conservatism cannot exist without populism; the desire for 'free stuff' is too strong.

THE TRUMP TRAIN is picking up steam.

RIGHT ANGLE: Out of the blue and into the red.

UNEXPECTEDLY: another ObamaCare exchange struggles.

REPUBLICAN BUREAUCRAT: conservatives in need of political asylum. The author mistakes the Republican establishment for the Republican party. I don't think it was either Democrats or Independents who overwhelmingly voted for Trump in the Republican primaries and caucuses.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures is up. Here's my favorite this week:

But I like this one about Bernie's 'universal care' platform.

Go and see them all.

OH, MY: Is President Obama guilty of cultural appropriation?

FUTURE NEWS: University of Missouri closed due to snow(flakes).

HUH? Feminists are in favor of sexual assaults?

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL is stealing my thunder: Is Taxing Harvard, Yale And Stanford The Answer To Rising College Costs?

Well, close enough.

THEY DESERVE EACH OTHER: Give D.C. back to Maryland.

WATCH AS Mercury transits the sun on May 9th.

But carefully, if you value your eyesight....

RYAN TO TRUMP: I'm not ready to support you yet.

TRUMP TO RYAN: I'm not ready to support you either.

I'm with the Donald on this one; it's time for the Republican 'establishment' to get on the Trump train and work with him to "make America great again".

THE DONALD ISN'T ALL BAD: He may be the presidential candidate that would get humans to the Red Planet sooner rather than later.