CURIOUS. Trayvon Martin autopsy shows injury to knuckles.

I'm sure there's a good explanation for this. Doubtless the prosecution and NBC will produce evidence that George Zimmerman initiated the fight by scraping Martin's knuckles with his teeth.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Retail sales cool after warm weather spree.

A few more months of this, and we'll find the mainstream media blaming Obama's sagging poll numbers on global warming.

REGIME CHANGE IN YEMEN– HOPE AND SAME: "President Obama issued an executive order Wednesday giving the Treasury Department authority to freeze the U.S.-based assets of anyone who 'obstructs' implementation of the administration-backed political transition in Yemen…. also targets U.S. citizens who engage in activity deemed to threaten Yemen’s security or political stability…."  Meet the new boss; same as the old boss: "In 2006, President George W. Bush issued a similar order regarding Ivory Coast in West Africa."

Telemarketers: still vermin, still one step ahead of regulators.

AS OF THIS MORNING the price of a gram of gold exceeds that of a pound of uranium at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  Yet another way in which the Obama administration is catering to those who feel nostalgia for the days of FDR.

TAR, may I introduce you to my friend feathers?

POLITICO: Everything you always wanted to know about some random nobody in a Romney campaign ad, but were afraid…

It's an understatement to say the insider media are in the tank for Obama. A bottomless yawning void would be more accurate.

SMART DIPLOMACY: "'We are ready when he and his government are ready,' said Victoria Nuland, the U.S. State Department spokeswoman, on Tuesday. 'We have been for more than a week now….' Nuland's comments came on the same day that U.S. lawmakers listened to Chen describing reprisals that he said his relatives continue to suffer at the hands of the authorities in Shandong…. 'My elder brother was taken away…. [T]hey came back and started beating up my nephew, and they used stakes and violently beat him up….'  [T]wo to three dozen men scaled the wall and broke into his house after midnight, took him away and went back to beat his family…. [He] tried to defend himself and now faces a 'totally trumped-up' charge of attempted homicide…. [R]elatives' homes ha[ve] been broken into and they ha[ve] been beaten by people working for the government. '[A]ll their communication tools are confiscated.' Rep. Christopher Smith, R-New Jersey, described Chen's confinement to his hospital room with his wife and their two children as "virtual house arrest."

Well played, Hillary. Well played.

FISCHER'S OUTRAGEOUS CHESS MOVES: Trampling over the credentials, credibility, and crust of party choice Jon Bruning, the state senator Deb Fischer has achieved an upset in the Nebraska primary and (after some formalities) will become her state's next US Senator. Throw the bastards out!

HEH: Christie v Booker

EVERYONE EXCEPT THE RUBES KNOWS THE EURO IS ON ITS WAY OUT, but what about the dollar? It was once common to read descriptions of California as America's Greece: a place of ideas that defined the culture. But in the modern sense, as a place of reckless and unsustainable spending, consider that Greece is a pipsqueak in comparison to Europe as a whole, while California's economy is over ten percent of the United States.

Anything that can't go on forever, won't go on forever.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR A REPUBLICAN the educational content at the White House website would become a partisan propaganda tool, and they were right!

OBAMA: NOT NEARLY AS "EVOLVED" as James Buchanan.

The good news for Obama is that his administration has everything it takes to be modestly more successful than Buchanan's.

SO … IT HAS COME TO THIS.

READER DOUG MATACONIS SENDS THE FOLLOWING IMAGE, to which I can only reply, HEH.

To be fair to the woman wearing a million pound hat, I'll bet that her vacations over the past three years cost less than a million pounds. Nor is the woman in the million pound hat, by all accounts, a hypocrite.