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WaPo: Feinstein: CIA searched Intelligence Committee computers
She thinks spying on people without a warrant is bad. Now that they're spying on her. [rdbrewer]

In Support Of More, Not Fewer Aircraft Carriers. They can dream but reality says no.

Rand Paul vs. Ted Cruz Round 4. Welcome To 2016

Josh Kraushaar, National Journal: Time for Truth in Labeling: Obama Is Not Centrist
Someone thought he was a centrist? "It's a useful corrective to the notion, fueled by the White House, that the Republican Party alone is responsible for gridlock in Washington. But Kohut downplays one significant factor that has expedited the Democratic polarization: President Obama himself." [rdbrewer]


Sean Trende: Another Look at Dems' Chances of Losing the Senate
"All the modelers seem to agree that the Democrats’ Senate majority is in real trouble, and that they may even be underdogs in their quest to keep it. The current polling certainly bears out this view...." [rdbrewer]


Victor Davis Hanson: Obama: Ike Redivivus?
"[A] persistent myth has arisen that Obama is reminiscent of Eisenhower — in the sense of being a president who kept America out of other nations’ affairs and did not waste blood and treasure chasing imaginary enemies." [rdbrewer]


Jonathan S. Tobin: The Media’s Obama Protection Society
"But, as Dylan Byers wrote in Politico, Attkisson had an even bigger problem: most of her colleagues at CBS didn’t like the fact that she had spent the last few years reporting aggressively about the Obama administration’s various shortcomings and scandals. Journalists at mainstream media outlets like to pretend that they play it down the middle when it comes to whoever is in power." [rdbrewer]

The Independent: Space debris orbiting Earth to be destroyed with giant lasers fired from Australia
("Space debris," nudge nudge, wink wink.) [rdbrewer]

Bobby Jindal: Provocative Weakness
"Obama should learn from history and consider Russian ambition at Yalta 69 years ago." [rdbrewer]

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Grown Men and Women Attempt to Label Male and Female Reproductive Systems (buzzfeed link) the girl stuff confusion is understandable. Look, it's all crazy down there with the ladyparts. I'm just the guy with the courage to say so [via Becki]

Instapundit straw poll [rdbrewer]

Manly Slang from the 19th Century
"Eternity Box. A coffin. Fart Catcher. A valet or footman, from his walking behind his master or mistress." Via @davereaboi. [rdbrewer]

Dakotalapse: Beautiful time-lapse photography [rdbrewer]


io9: NASA unveils a gorgeous new gallery of celestial images
Large wow-factor. Via @DebbyWitt, as is this: 1950's British scifi artwork. [rdbrewer]

THE RECKONING: The father of the Sandy Hook killer searches for answers. Must-read of the day.

NBC: Scientists Suggest Dark Matter Played Role in Dinosaurs' Doom
"Randall and Reece suggest that there's a thin, dense disk of the stuff running along the midplane of our Milky Way galaxy. Our solar system traces an up-and-down, wavy motion through that plane as it travels around the galaxy...." So every 30 million years, we get bombarded by comets. Via HotAir. [rdbrewer]

Next Global Warming Catastrophe? SmallPox
I was going to post the article's picture but I took pity on you. [ArthurK]

Kirsten Powers, The Daily Beast: Pope Francis Declares Divorcees Deserve Compassion, Too [rdbrewer]

Megan McArdle, Bloomberg: How Not to Help the Uninsured [rdbrewer]


Joseph Curl: Today’s GOP really is Reagan’s ‘Big Tent’ party
"[The press] misses that the Republican Party really has once again become the 'Big Tent' that President Reagan once set as a top goal. It is, as several top party leaders have said recently, full of warriors fighting it out on 'the battlefield of ideas.'" [rdbrewer]


Byron York: Senate Democrats' donor-friendly global warming show
Dems are doing some kind of global warming push. Knock yourselves out, guys. [rdbrewer]

Video, FoxNews: Ukraine crisis: 'We are three steps from war'
Eric Shawn interviews Prof. Stephen Cohen. Interesting. [rdbrewer]


Brendan Bordelon: Ted Cruz doesn’t get why media treats Obamacare repeal as a ‘bizarre proposition’
"Cruz can’t understand why the mainstream media views the repeal of Obamacare as a 'bizarre proposition,' noting that the healthcare bill is 'the most unpopular law in the country.'" Word. Also from TheDC: NLRB charges union members with threatening to rape, harm managers’ kids. [rdbrewer]

AoSHQ Podcast Stream with Stitcher
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The March 7, 2014 episode with guest Matthew Continetti has been posted.
[Ask The Blog]

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"Band of Brothers" WWII Vet Bill Guarnere Dies at 90 Rest in peace.

Stephen F. Hayes: Obama’s Fantasy-Based Foreign Policy
"For five years, the Obama administration has chosen to see the world as they wish it to be, not as it is. In this fantasy world, the attack in Fort Hood is 'workplace violence.' The Christmas Day bomber is an 'isolated extremist.' The attempted bombing in Times Square is a 'one-off' attack. The attacks in Benghazi are a 'spontaneous' reaction to a YouTube video. Al Qaeda is on the run. Bashar al-Assad is a 'reformer.' The Iranian regime can be sweet-talked out of its nuclear weapons program. And Vladimir Putin is a new, post-Cold War Russian leader." [rdbrewer]


• Micth McConnell, three days ago at CPAC: "If I'm given the opportunity to lead the U.S. Senate next year, I won't let you down."
• Mitch McConnell, yesterday: "I think we are going to crush them everywhere," referring to Tea Party efforts.
• Mitch McConnell, tomorrow: "Aww, I didn't mean that. Y'all are going to help me beat that Democrat in November, right?" [rdbrewer]


Mediaite: Ann Coulter Mocks ‘Obama Magic,’ Slams GOP Cowardice on Immigration at CPAC
Mickey Kaus is there too. Excellent discussion. [rdbrewer]


Pwnage via Twitchy. [rdbrewer]

In 1946, an armed group of WWII veterans took on a corrupt Democrat sheriff and his deputies to retrieve stolen election ballot boxes. The Battle of Athens TN 1946 Some factual background info here. [dri]

Cornell Lab Bird Cam
Live. Just because. [rdbrewer]

Actual Headline: Enormous Smith Cloud Hurtling Towards Milky Way Protected by Inner ‘Force Field’
Via @ComradeArthur. [rdbrewer]


FoxNews: NASA planning to send robotic mission to Europa, Jupiter's watery moon that may harbor life
"Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb said going to Europa would be more exciting than exploring dry Mars: 'There might be fish under the ice.'" Or, as Andy Levy said on RedEye, "space fish." More from Wired. [rdbrewer]

Disney Bets $1 Billion on Technology to Track Theme-Park Visitors.
Could be expanded to museums, zoos, airports, malls, etc.
[JohnE.]

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