Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Sen. Paul puts hold on Obama judicial nom who wrote at least one unreleased drone killing memo. Continuing his smart pattern of asking for actual gets when does these things, Paul says he'll release the hold if Obama releases the memos.

Former presiding FISA court judge says he expects no legislative alteration to the FISA regime until at least after the midterms.

Iowa's 1st congressional district GOP voted over the weekend voted to add this plank to the GOP platform: "We support the removal of the institution of marriage from government control." It was heated. "'I begged people to stand up, I shouted stand up for morality!' Saul wrote on Facebook. 'No one else other than the 89 stood. I shouted at the ones sitting down and called them moral cowards. They threatened to remove me and called the sergeant of arms.'"

Suprise! Switching from gasoline to ethanol-enhanced fuel is linked to more ozone pollution.

Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft say they are rewriting their privacy policies so that they will now disclose to the user if a government agency subpoenas the user's information without a court-issued gag order.

Read this teacher's angry post about having to administer a flawed Common Core exam.

This sounds like something out of turn of the century pulp horror—turn of the last century, that is.

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Quote of the Day I

"But regardless of your background, regardless of the history they have, if we're taking something somebody said in their home and we're trying to turn it into something that leads to you being forced to divest property in any way, shape or form, that's not the United States of America. I don't want to be part of that."

-- Mark Cuban

Quote of the Day II - On the Nerd Prom AKA the White House Correspondent's Dinner

"The correspondent's dinner was a thoroughly medieval spectacle. Never was a lord's hall so earnestly thronged by grateful peasants as that venue. The comparison was nearly exact since it featured jesters, court ladies and the obligatory men-at-arms hovering outside the drawbridge of the castle. Royalty was of course in attendance, resplendent in its dazzling gowns and chic elegance. The designated buffoon of the evening was Kathleen Sebelius who was employed as a sight-gag as an obligatory adjunct to something broken as if she could absorb for herself the sins of the King."

Thought Policing Comes to the Sports Leagues

Cuban's point, though, is a valid one. It is, as he says, a "slippery slope" for NBA owners-or the owners of any sports franchise-to decide who should be able to enter their club based on the righteousness of their thinking, because who is to determine what is righteous?

As if to prove Cuban's point, Esquire's four-eyed, multi-chinned, monomaniacal hack in residence, Charles P. Pierce, took to the digital pages of his glorified lad mag to call for Adam Silver to enact similar sanctions on the owner of the Orlando Magic. His thought crime? Opposing same sex marriage. Note: The owners of the Magic have not been accused of, say, banning gay people from the arena or making them uncomfortable at games. Simply engaging in the political process in a wholly legal manner is enough for Pierce to call for their defenestration.

Similarly, Washington, D.C.'s fake congresswoman, Eleanor Holmes Norton, issued a call for Roger Goodell to sanction the owner of the Washington Redskins for profiting off of racism. Ace has handled the idiocy of referring to the name "Redskins" as racism better than I can; allow me to simply note that this only helps prove the NBA owners are setting a dangerous precedent if they vote to strip Donald Sterling of his property for saying offensive things and holding offensive thoughts

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For your non-astronomy needs.

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Are butter, cheese and steak really bad for you?

rdbrewer trumped me on this one (check the sidebar), but this is an important article about a very important study. Too many of the current nutritional mandates emerging from our benevolent dictators government are based on faulty science, or no science, but rather the political expediency of getting the first lady's face plastered all over the media. more...

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Or whether this guy is a lunatic

Or...Jelly Doughnuts.

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More From The NRA Annual Meeting

John, Ben and I got together and did a special podcast episode on last week's NRA Annual Meeting.

Referenced:

• Daniel Defense


• Target Vision Cam


• Ohio Ordnance Works


• Geraghty: The LeftÂ’s War Against the Culture of Gun Owners


• John E: The Media Finally Notices The Decades-Long Drop In Violent Crime, And All It Took Was a Wayne LaPierre Speech


• Bob Owens: The REAL NRA Show

So, So Stupid

This is as uninformed as the "gun tech" guy we talked to at the NRAAM (discussed on the podcast). They've constructed a straw man argument that the NRA is full of luddites that oppose all sorts of technological breakthroughs in "gun safety".

Meanwhile, companies have been making biometric gun safes for years. If the Wired folks weren't so busy sneering, they might've attended the NRA Annual Meeting and dropped by Gun Vault's booth.

Gun Of The Week

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In case you missed it, our so-called independent Press and current White House occupant had an evening of champagne and self-congratulation last night. Twitter was all a-twitter about the First Lady's dress.

Here's a visual guide to explain to you what is considered Good versus Bad according to the MSM.

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Welcome again to the Spaced-Out Challenge! Whether you have a question about equipment, a new astronomical discovery you want to expand on, or just want to kick back and enjoy the cosmos above, come one come all on our weekly astronomical journey.

This week, I review a fantastic gizmo that can take your iPhone out into the great beyond and we will review a small but wonderful constellation just "under" the Big Dipper. more...

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Better late than never.

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How about a little history to start of this ONT. Tremendous story of the incredibly stupid one at the Hanoi Hilton. While his first tour may not have started out well, he was incredibly key in getting our POWs back in the end.

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