George Zimmerman: The most likely scenario. “Zimmerman should prevail on classic self-defense at trial regardless of stand your ground. Raising stand your ground before trial gives him the possibility of a quicker win, and the opportunity to preview the state’s strategy before it gets to a jury. The problem for Zimmerman is the notoriety of this case — any judge is going to want to avoid making that call and find a reason to let the case go to the jury.”

The Yankee Comandante. “…the incredible life of William Alexander Morgan, an American who began as a volunteer for Castro’s revolution in the mountains of Cuba, became one of the two non-Cuban comandantes (the other was Che) and ended up having his head blown off by one of the dictator’s firing squads.” The world’s useful idiots ignore the story of Ernst Röhm at their own peril.

Green energy jobs far short of Obama goal. Obama proposed flushing investing $15 billion a year in green energy production to create 5 million new jobs. How did that work out? “The wind industry has actually lost about 10,000 jobs since 2009, even though it doubled its domestic production, the American Wind Energy Association reports.” What Obama calls “visions” everyone else calls “hallucinations.”

Miami police shoot, kill man eating another man’s face. “…the naked man they shot was trying to chew the face off another naked man, and refused to obey police orders to stop his grisly meal.” Maybe CBS will change their minds about cancelling “CSI: Miami” after this. David Caruso’s one-liners pracitically write themselves.

AP fact-check blasts Obama spending claims. “Who’s buying the notion that Barack Obama is a fiscal conservative who’s engineered the slowest spending growth since Calvin Coolidge? Not the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler, who gave the argument three Pinocchios in a fact-check yesterday, and not the Associated Press, either.” A lie so big not even the WaPo and the AP will buy it. Awesome.

Meet The Weiner Truthers. “A group of liberal bloggers believe that Anthony Weiner was blackmailed by Andrew Breitbart into a false confession, and are carrying out a lonely Twitter crusade to spread their theory — in spite of the fact that Weiner himself has never claimed this to be the case.” And you probably thought this was another story about the stuff they put in frankfurters.

30 North Korean officials involved in South talks die ‘in traffic accidents’. “North Korea has a habit of executing bureaucrats who are perceived to have failed the regime, even though they are often merely carrying out the orders of higher-ranking officials or members of the ruling family.” Umm, and what would’ve happened to them if they didn’t carry out those orders? Talk about a Catch-22.

Maraniss book: Obama was accomplished pot enthusiast in high school and college. So much so, Barry acknowledged “Ray the dealer” in his high school year book (see below.) Awesome. FYI: we’ve known a few habitual pot smokers over the years and one thing they seem to have in common is that they were all lazier than an unemployed mattress tester.

Has Debbie Wasserman Schultz worn out her welcome with Obama? “…while Obama has been able to count on Schultz to carry his political water, he has become increasingly irritated by her polemic behavior, which only served to galvanize Republicans and cost them precious support among independents.” Huh? Sounds like a case of the pot calling the kettle “polemic.” Barry has cost himself more indy support than anyone. Just sayin’.

Half of Detroit’s streetlights may go out as city shrinks. “Detroit, whose 139 square miles contain 60 percent fewer residents than in 1950, will try to nudge them into a smaller living space by eliminating almost half its streetlights.” Turning out the lights in Detroit in case the last person to leave forgets to do it.

Unabomber updates Harvard University alumni book. “Kaczynski graduated in 1962 and is locked up in the federal Supermax prison in Colorado… In an alumni directory, he lists his occupation as ‘prisoner’ and says his awards are ‘Eight life sentences, issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, 1998.'” Wonder if he checked off the “Native American” box, too.

The Growth Canard in Europe. “The problem with Greece, Spain, Italy, and so forth is not that they lack fiscal stimulus (more government spending), but that stealing from the public till is their principal occupation.” “The southern Europeans want a nanny state, but they don’t want to pay taxes. They want Germany to pay their taxes for them.” Just call them the blue men of Europe.

INFORMAL (UNDERGROUND) ECONOMY AS PERCENTAGE OF GDP

ABC eulogizes the President that wasn’t. “The 2004 version of Barack Obama, who captured the nation with a dazzling speech about unity and went on to win the presidency on a message of hope, died on Monday. He was 8 years old.” Barry the magic unicorn may be dead but the insipid fantasies of gullible journ0lists go on.

Bill Clinton’s glamorous fundraiser called “worst party ever” by angry guests. The worst party ever for the worst Party ever.

In Europe, time for Plan B, only there’s no plan, and no time. Apparently the Greeks as well as the Eurozone are making contingency plans for a Greek Euro exit although they’re still all denying it will ever happen. “This crisis was ultimately going to resolve itself in one of two ways: the Continent was either going to form a United States of Europe, or the euro experiment was going to fail. It appears to be going in the latter direction.” Eurogeddon.

Obama’s war on coal hits your electric bill. “The market-clearing price for new 2015 capacity – almost all natural gas – was $136 per megawatt. That’s eight times higher than the price for 2012, which was just $16 per megawatt. … These are not computer models or projections or estimates. These are the actual prices that electric distributors have agreed to pay for new capacity. The costs will be passed on to consumers at the retail level.” Think what that’ll do for the economy.

Biden: Imagine where we’d be if obstructionist Tea Party hadn’t taken House. Probably the same place as Solyndra or Lightsquared is right now, but that’s not what Gaffy Duck meant. Although given his propensity for blurting out the truth inadvertently at times, you can never be totally sure…

The rain from Bain gives Obama a pain. Anderson Cooper repeatedly asks Obama super-PAC chief Ben LaBolt how Obama can justify attacks on Mitt Romney’s work at Bain while holding fundraisers with Blackstone and other private-equity firms that do the exact same work. LaBolt ignores the questions and keeps repeating campaign talking points over and over. Just sayin’ what the teleprompter tells him to say, like his boss.

Cronkite and the roots of media bias. The late Walter Cronkite is the MSM’s symbol of the “golden age” of news when reporting was objective and impartial, before Fox News and talk radio screwed it all up. Maybe not… “a new biography of Cronkite spills the beans on the godlike anchorman’s unethical practices, including blatant partisanship that would make the conservative talkers on Fox and the liberals on MSNBC blush.”

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) said on C-SPAN yesterday that President Obama’s presence at his gay wedding would be a party pooper. Oh, but it’s only because Obama will bring all those pesky Secret Service agents with him, you see. No worry, Barn, hire a few hookers and you’ll never know the SS was there.

U.S. lets China bypass Wall Street for Treasury bond orders. China can now buy U.S. government debt straight from the U.S. Treasury, in what is the Treasury’s first-ever direct relationship with a foreign government, says Reuters. Forget the UK, our “special relationship” now is with our new Sugar Daddy. Bet they’ll get the best seat at the fire sale when the day of forced liquidation arrives, too.

Catholic archdioceses of NY, Wash DC, sue Obama Admin for violation of 1st Amendment rights. Challenging the contraception mandate. “The lawsuit in no way challenges either women’s established legal right to obtain and use contraception or the right of employers to provide coverage for it if they so choose,” said Cardinal Wuerl. “This lawsuit is about religious freedom.” That damn hunnert-year-old constitution thingy again.

Emmy winner Campbell Brown, formerly of CNN and NBC, rapped President Obama for being condescending toward women. Says Obama’s web ad, “The Life of Julia,” is “a silly and embarrassing caricature based on the assumption that women look to government at every meaningful phase of their lives for help.” Is Obama so devious, creepy and dishonest even non-conservatives are noticing? Could be.

Lovitz: Obama selling a “victim mentality.” “…a victim mentality is what he’s selling and nobody with a victim mentality will get anywhere. Ever. They will never succeed,” Lovitz said. Jon, unfortunately it’s what Obama does, it’s who he is.

France’s answer to Anthony Weiner. France’s new Socialist Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault’s last name, pronounced properly in French, sounds like an Arabic slang word for penis. Yeah, but at least his first name isn’t Richard.