Well, in principle anyway. Obama wants to enable the private sector for space exploration. The NASA folks are, of course, highly exercised over this .. but I have no doubt that if the government got out of the way the private sector could do a more efficient job of developing cost-efficient ways to get people to and from the International Space Station and other ventures. The question, of course, is whether or not the government is going to get out of the way.

There is, though, the issue of defense. Some nation will eventually exercise military control of space. Hopefully Obama isn't going to abandon the military role here.

Butt Neckid, I've got your prize, right here!

Give me a break, would you?

OK ... here's the deal. The Food and Drug Administration is a bit upset with General Mills, the folks who make Cheerios. Cheerios boxes, it would seem, make the claim that Cheerios can lower your cholesterol 10% in one month. True? Don't know. But the FDA says that this advertisement on the box makes Cheerios a drug and they want the language changed or eliminated.

My beef? An Internet headline this morning said "Now Obama Admin Battles Cheerios." Oh yeah .. this is all Obama's fault. Any other president and the FDA would be sitting silent. Are you kidding me? Look ... there is enough about Barack Obama to cause concern with any thinking American who values liberty, but trying to paint Obama as the enemy of Cheerios? A bit much, don't you think? How in the world can we expect anyone to pay attention when we bring up some actual problems with Obama's theory of governance? "Oh yeah, that's the same guy who was worried about the Cheerios."

Just a little updated on our wonderful government education system in this country. According to the national survey commissioned by the California Academy of Sciences:

• Only 53% of adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun.
• Only 59% of adults know that the earliest humans and dinosaurs did not live at the same time.
• Only 47% of adults can roughly approximate the percent of the Earth's surface that is covered with water.*
• Only 21% of adults answered all three questions correctly.

I've said before that the most dangerous group of people in this country ... and that would include drug dealers, gang bankers and terrorist cells ... is the teacher's unions.