DANIEL DREZNER IS HAVING A Super Wednesday!

REMEMBERING WHEN INDIANA tried to legislate Pi.

J.D. JOHANNES’S DOCUMENTARY, Anbar Awakens, will be having its world premier at CPAC on February 9. He’ll be doing a panel with Jeff Emanuel and Bill Roggio, too.

BILL ARDOLINO LOOKS inside Iraqi politics.

THE ULTIMATE outdoor home theater.

THE FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION launches a new multimedia project, including a video from Evan Coyne Maloney. It’s called F.I.R.E. on Campus. If this stuff interests you, I think they’re worth supporting with donations. I’ve donated to them myself.

UPDATE: Speaking of F.I.R.E., here’s their letter to the Brandeis trustees.

THOUGHTS ON HIGHER EDUCATION and the role of students from Prof. Kenneth Anderson. “The poltiical discussion over university tuitions is being conducted almost entirely as though the students in question are, and will continue to be, American students. That is unlikely to remain the case, particularly at the elite universities with endowments large enough to be relevant to the fees question. The composition of those student bodies needs to enter the discussion, not just tuition levels.”

What if the student body is composed of the Governor’s daughter?

HELLER’S BRIEF (that’s the pro-gun side) has been filed in the Supreme Court. Direct link to the brief (PDF) is here. Plus, some thoughts from Dave Hardy on standards of review.

A LOOK AT PROGRESS ON plug-in cars.

IN THE MAIL: Douglas Schoen’s Declaring Independence: The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System.

MICHAEL SILENCE: “They say John McCain will have to start courting the social conservatives. Seems to me the social conservatives should start courting him.”

FOOD THAT BOTH TASTES GOOD and kills intestinal worms! You can’t ask for more than that!

MORE HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS:

The idea of requiring colleges to spend a minimum proportion of their endowments has gained some political currency of late, promoted mostly by Sen. Charles Grassley, and higher education officials have suspected that the alluring notion might make it into legislative form some time in the not-too-distant future. Little did they know it would be tomorrow. . . . among the 61 amendments to the Higher Ed Act bill that lawmakers said they would seek to offer on the House floor Thursday was one, offered by Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), that would require colleges, regardless of wealth, to spend at least 5 percent of their endowments each year in ways that would reduce what students pay to attend college.

Welch’s amendment had college officials in a full-fledged tizzy Tuesday.

I can see why. But after decades of supporting the intrusive regulation of every other industry, higher education is in a poor position to resist.

THIS IS INTERESTING: “Just one corporation (Exxon Mobil) pays as much in taxes ($27 billion) annually as the entire bottom 50% of individual taxpayers, which is 65,000,000 people!” I wouldn’t have guessed that.

REMEMBERING the lies of Tet.

ILYA SOMIN sees an upside to conservatives’ distrust of McCain: “Many conservatives either supported or at least refused to aggressively oppose the Bush Administration’s massive expansion of domestic spending, most notably his prescription drug and education plans. They did so in part because conservatives for a long time felt a sense of affinity with Bush and trusted him. There is very little such trust between conservatives and McCain. It will therefore be much more difficult for him to win conservative support for comparable boondoggles.”

CHARLES HILL LOOKS BACK ON THE GIULIANI CAMPAIGN, with harsh words for The New York Times, which he calls “a never-ceasing slander machine.”

A LOOK AT who’ll be playing Bonnaroo this year.

HMM: “Exit polling for Super Tuesday contests show a growing trend towards division by ethnicity among Democrats.”

Further thoughts here: “According to Dick Morris, Bill and Hillary Clinton wanted to make the primary contest a question of race and it worked.”

UPDATE: Further thoughts from Evan Coyne Maloney.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Arnold Kling on a patchwork of prejudices: “In November, after the election, the media will tell us that the public delivered a mandate on issues. But what issues caused Asian and Latinos to vote against Obama? What issues caused evangelical Christians to vote against Romney?”

NO RETREAT FROM the war on terror.

READER ROSS WEINER WRITES: “What do you think of Bobby Jindal as a McCain VP choice?” I like Jindal, but he just got elected Governor. Isn’t it too soon?

KEN WHEATON: My Adventures in Voting Irregularities.

MCCAIN REACHES OUT to conservatives. He needs a full-scale charm offensive.

UPDATE: A good review from John Hinderaker.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Related thoughts here.

BRANDEIS UPDATE: Massachusetts ACLU condemns Brandeis University.

HUMAN RIGHTS: Milk, two sugars, and a strip search.