HERE’S WHY FEDERAL BUREAUCRAT UNIONS LOVE BIG GOVERNMENT: Katie Watson of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group reports today that federal employee unions added 40,000 new members in 2015. That’s the biggest annual increase in eight years.

Was EPA Unwilling to ‘Go Out on a Limb’ for Flint?

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Even More Suicidal Vets Bolted From Phoenix Facility, VA Tries To Dodge Findings.

Related: Close call: VA worker reinstated with back pay after missing time due to being in prison for armed robbery.

FAIL: Ivanpah solar power plant not producing enough electricity, may be forced to close

GREEN IS THE COLOR OF STATUS: Alas, this isn’t about St. Patrick’s Day but about trendy snobbery that hurts the poor.

Most transparent administration ever: Court Orders Release of White House Climate Documents

Again: New AMS survey busts the 97% climate consensus claim

and finally: 

SHOT: Leonardo DiCaprio: We Can’t Elect a Candidate Who Doesn’t Believe in Climate Change.

Chaser: Obama takes two Air Force One planes to Argentina for sightseeing.

Hangover: Leonardo DiCaprio the ‘eco warrior’ flew on a private jet from NY to LA SIX times in SIX weeks, Sony hack documents reveal.

I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who are telling me it’s a crisis start to act like it’s a crisis themselves, to coin an Insta-phrase.

because if you paint them pretty colors they HAVE to work, right?

A Political System Fails in Brazil.

One of the reasons for the revolt is economic. Right after Dilma’s reelection, it became clear that she had lied to the nation. After more than a decade of uncontrolled spending sustained only by the temporary boom of commodities, the government — surprise! — had run out of other people’s money. Brazil’s economy shrank 3.8 percent in 2015, and the markets predict a similar decrease this year. Unemployment and inflation are running out of control.

Centralized command of the economy will work next time, I’m sure.

You remember Paul Krugman?  He was the econ advisor to Enron (alhough Ctrl-F on his wiki page doesn't reveal that!)

HENRY MILLER: Drugs And The Democrats. “The Democratic campaign trail this political season has been replete with policy ‘solutions’ to the much-publicized spikes in the prices of a few drugs. These policy prescriptions are a doubling down on the kinds of government interventions that have made the current system slow, unwieldy, expensive—and sometimes, deadly.”

long but readable: LIFE INSIDE “ A FAITH OF LIES.”

I've been saying this for years: Kurt Schlichter: Liberals May Regret Their New Rules. “ Conservatives have principles, but human nature is a powerful thing, and human nature favors payback.”

Prediction: Everything that lefties do to Trump and other Republicans will return on them, threefold. And they will try to pretend that there’ s no connection.

SALENA ZITO: A third party emerges — within the Republican Party. “ Nearly 59,000 registered Pennsylvania Democrats have changed their voter registration since January. . . . This is pretty much a case of Reagan Democrats finally making it official, said Kyle Kondik, a University of Virginia political analyst.”

A response to Brussels: THE COUNTRY’S PLANET’ S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: That horrible feeling when you realize the entire Western world is being run by the mayor from ‘Jaws.’

WaPo seems surprised that people regard yoga in school as an Establishment Clause problem.

In my opinion, it’ s cultural appropriation and otherizing not to perceive that this is religion.

Commenters pick up the cue and say things like “ Georgia hicks object to ‘ mindfulness.’ Why am I not surprised?” /” They opt for ‘ mindlessness.’ ”

Wow. Double otherizing.

Watch their heads explode when you tell them that it started as a sex cult.

IN VINO, VERITAS: Flashback: Hillary called Obama ‘incompetent and feckless’ in boozy rant.

PROMISE MEETS EXPIRATION DATE.

SHOCK FLASHBACK: Obama wrote that Illegal Immigration HURTS ‘Blue-Collar Americans,’ and STRAINS Welfare pic.twitter.com/bEd0GX5BzA

— NumbersUSA (@NumbersUSA) March 19, 2016

Good catch by Stephen Miller on Twitter: “Watch it again. [Obama] says 2 Cubans, 1 Black President, a woman, and then a democratic socialist,” adding, “Favorite thing about this.. Obama recognizes candidate heritages but then comes to Sanders’s ideology because Jewish…I mean gosh, why would Obama skip over Sanders’ Jewish heritage?”

Six years ago our better in Congress gave us the APA: Obamacare Was Going to Lower Health Care Costs. What Actually Happened.

Hawking the Affordable Care Act (ACA) six years ago, President Barack Obama said, “Every single good idea to bend the cost curve and start actually reducing health care costs [is] in this bill.”

CMS Was ‘Passive’ in Preventing Fraud in Administering Obamacare.

A third of applications had “inconsistencies” worth almost two billion dollars in subsidies.

It's not like I'm a cheerleader advisor or anything .... after all I only have a JD ....still

Marcia Coyle, Do Your Job

History of No Senate Hearing for Nominees

[David Bernstein] Obama irony alert: The Supreme Court should be above politics

BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS DEMS WOULD DO THE SAME THING IF PARTIES WERE REVERSED: WaPo: Why the campaign to pressure Republicans to confirm Merrick Garland is failing.

Cruz Promises to Nuke the Dept. of Education.  Can you take Energy too, please?

Zero tolerance SUCKS!  High School Censors Swastikas, Missing Entire Point of Satirical Anti-Nazi Play, The Producers

Two College Degrees Later, I Was Still Picking Kale For Rich People.

She doesn’t say what she majored in, but I’m guessing that this advice applies: