While President Obama has turned a deaf ear to demands for a security fence on the U.S. border, he wants to spend $243 million for a "space fence" -- a system to track bits of space debris and objects orbiting the Earth.

Another far out proposal from the Obama administration is to encourage commercial development of the moon. And, of course, a system of regulations of U.S. companies doing business on lunar territory will inevitably follow.

A measure of American "ig'nance": According to mediaite.com, "In today's edition of 'The Youths Is Ig'nant,' a recent poll revealed that 77% of all Millennials between ages 18 and 34 cannot name the senators from their home state."