POST CYPRUS: Expect These Eight Steps From The Government’s Playbook.

THE (UN)AFFORDABLE CARE ACT: California’s $910 Million ObamaCare Exchange.

OBAMA AS NIXON? Really, I just can’t see it myself.

MISSING: SPACE HEDGEHOG:  You can’t make this stuff up.  UK residents near Oxfordshire are undertaking a frantic search for Cassie, a knitted (yes, knitted) hedgehog, who was launched into space as part of an experiment.  And, BTW, she’s adorable.  Here’s hoping she’s soon found, safe and sound.

DON’T LET WHAT HAPPENED TO BEN LABOLT HAPPEN TO YOU.

IS OBAMA THE (IMPERIAL) PRESIDENT NIXON ALWAYS WANTED TO BE? It’s an immensely important question, but the fact that Jonathan Turley is raising it in USA Today is also rather significant. If this becomes an MSM meme …

INSERT CLOWARD AND PIVEN REFERENCE HERE: Soaring Social Security disability rolls headed for collapse.

A PRESUMPTION OF LIBERTY?:  Roger Pilon of the Cato Institute offers an insightful libertarian perspective on the gay marriage cases being heard by the Supreme Court this week.  Read the whole thing.

MICHAEL WALSH: Mike Bloomberg, Liberal Fascist (Part Two).

THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE: William Shatner ‘Appalled’ by IRS ‘Trek’ Spoof.

BREAKING NEWS: CNN ACTUALLY CRITICIZES OBAMA: Say, high-speed rail is an expensive bust, huh?

Wow, if that doesn’t take the cake, or what?

BACKDOOR GUN REGISTRATION: Missouri Dept. of Revenue Subpoenaed On Backdoor Gun Registration With FEMA and DHS.

PERHAPS THE REST OF EUROPE HAS BECOME TOO WEAK: Was Thatcher Right? Is Germany too strong?

THE GREAT RECESSION HAS BEEN FOLLOWED BY THE THE GRAND ILLUSION: “Don’t be fooled by the latest jobs numbers,” Mort Zuckerman writes in the Wall Street Journal. “The unemployment situation in the U.S. is still dire.”

RELATED: “The Congressional Budget Office is now projecting that the U.S. economy will never achieve full employment during the eight years Barack Obama serves as president.”

BECAUSE YOUNG CHILDREN NEVER DO THINGS THEY’RE TOLD ARE DANGEROUS: Young children should be given lessons about the dangers of pornography.  Does anyone remember when the boomers said “question authority?”  Now the very concept seems to evade them.

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: Kim Kardashian: Kanye West is not responsible for my fashion sense.

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STEPHEN LATHROP IS A VICTIM OF BIG GOVERNMENT: Sen. Ron Johnson, R-WS, says Lathrop’s case answers the question “what difference does it make?”

UPDATE (From Ed): Video added; don’t miss this one.

AT AMAZON, markdowns on storage & organization essentials.

KEYSTONE PIPELINE FOES SHOULD FACE REALITY, says MIT’s Christopher R. Knittel in Bloomberg.com:

Opponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline warn of its potentially catastrophic consequences. Building it, climate scientist James Hansen says, would mean “game over” for the climate.

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman hopes that, if it’s given a green light, “Bill McKibben and his 350.org coalition go crazy.” And he means “chain-themselves-to-the- White-House-fence-stop-traffic-at-the-Capitol kind of crazy.”

Are they all just crying wolf and using Keystone XL as a proxy battle against oil?

I hope so, because the economics behind laying a pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast would make it difficult for the pipeline to have any effect on greenhouse-gas emissions. I trust that if opponents dug a little deeper into the issues and the market for oil, they would agree — at least privately.

Three things would need to be true for Keystone to lead to more emissions. Otherwise, the pipeline could actually reduce them.

How many “game overs” does Hansen get in one year, considering he’s already seen one of his earlier doomsday countdowns come and go this year with Planet Earth still very much doing fine?

MY LATEST POPULAR MECHANICS COLUMN: Who has the legal right to mine an asteroid? Love the illustration by Michael Byers. Note the “Property of GHR” in the background. . . .

ROGER L. SIMON: On Marriage — Again.

PROP 8 ORAL ARGUMENT TAKEAWAY:  As reported by NBC News, the Supreme Court’s questioning of lawyers today suggested a reluctance to prevent States from defining marriage as “one man, one woman” by declaring a constitutional right to gay marriage.   But then again, after arguments in Obamacare, most observers thought the law was doomed.  Prognostications about SCOTUS are dangerous.

CHANGE: “Where Are The Books?”

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Blastocyst From the Past: My birth mother spent her whole life hiding my existence. Should I spoil the secret?

ALL THE CHARISMA OF AL GORE AND HILARY CLINTON’S EASE OF MANNER: Napolitano doesn’t rule out 2016 run for president.