OBVIOUSLY, THIS PROSECUTOR’S BUDGET IS TOO BIG: Third Circuit Upholds Injunction of Threatened “Sexting” Prosecution.

So the prosecutor (1) threatened to prosecute plaintiff’s daughter (2) even though it turns out he didn’t have probable cause for a prosecution (3) unless the daughter went through the “education program.” All three elements, it turns out, seem to be crucial to the decision.

Perhaps the injunction can be amended to require District Attorney George Skumanick to undergo mandatory constitutional rights sensitivity training. Or tar and feathering, whatever.

FROM READER ROB KISER, his book, Killing Strangers.

WHO NEEDS A CONTRACT WITH AMERICA? Congressional Candidate Gives Supporters Permission To Hang Him. “‘If I don’t do what I say, I’ll give you my address, and you can bring a rope and you can hang me,’ Fincher told the crowd.” I like that.

THE NETROOTS: So who are the rubes, again?

Rahm Emanuel insulted Nutroots types by calling them “retards,” also claiming they could be taken for granted on Obama Care and mostly ignored. Of course, the Netroot bloggers were furious.

So, what did they do about it? Precisely what he said they would, nothing.

No surprise there.

PJTV: Beyond Immigration: With Hispanics, A Land Of Opportunity For GOP.

BYRON YORK: The GOP health care count: 209 no, 204 yes, 18 undecided.

GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE: Walgreens will stop taking new Medicaid patients in Washington state as of April 16, saying it loses money filling their prescriptions.

OBAMA ON FOX NEWS: Comments from Tunku Varadarajan and Jammie Wearing Fool. Here’s some video.

THE GENDER DEGREE GAP and the Great Mancession.

JOSE GUARDIA: What’s up with the White House Twitter avatar?

POWER LINE: These Are The Good Old Days. “If Obamacare passes, President Obama and the Democrats will become part of, and perhaps dominate, most of these conversations. Every excessive wait, every missed phone call, every postponed appointment will become Obama’s fault. . . . These complaints won’t be confined to the elderly. Old people complain more about their dealings with doctors primarily because they spend so much more time with them. But I’ve never met a person who likes being blown off by a doctor or sitting for 40 minutes in the waiting room, plus an extra 15 in the examining room before the doctor arrives. Nor have I ever met a person who enjoys hearing his or her aging parents complain about their medical service, especially when the complaint is justified.”

PJTV: TWO SPEECHES:

Kill the Bill 1: Rep Mike Pence (R-IN) Welcomes Freedom Fighters back to Washington, DC.

Kill The Bill 2: Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) Tells DC Protesters to Keep Setting Brush Fires of Freedom.

IN A WORD, YES: Does Hayek belong in High School Economics Classes? To hold up the inclusion of Hayek as evidence of excessive conservative bias is self-refuting. I mean, if that’s all you’ve got . . . .

Of course, Hayek is rapidly becoming so extremely cool that high-school students will be reading him on their own.

UPDATE: From the comments:

My fourth grader has been assigned four essays so far this year. They were on MLK, Michael Jordan, Dr. Charles Drew and his mother. He knows who Eleanor Roosevelt was, but not FDR. He identifies Albert Einstein as “a famous immigrant”. He knows who Rosa Parks was, but not Abe Lincoln.

Hurray for somebody teaching Hayek. At this point, even teaching who Salma Hayek is would be an improvement.

Heh.

MARKDOWNS ON cellphones and accessories. So should I get a Droid, a Nexus One, or a Palm Pre Plus? I like the mobile-hotspot feature in the Palm.

CITIZEN SURGE: On a special Tea Party TV edition of InstaVision, I talk with Scott Rasmussen about Tea Party Politics & The Return Of Self-Governance. Plus, how the American political class is like Detroit auto executives in the 1970s, and what Tea Partiers can learn from Luke Skywalker.

And, once again, I recommend his new book, In Search of Self Governance.

SIGN OF THE TIMES: I just got an email from Democrat Roy Herron, who’s running for John Tanner’s seat in Tennessee. Here’s the key bit:

My top three priorities in Washington will be fiscal responsibility, fiscal responsibility, and fiscal responsibility.

Washington is mortgaging the future of my sons and your children and our grandchildren. And Washington is risking the future of this country with trillions in debt.

I drive a 12-year-old truck with 375,000 miles on it. My sons call me cheap, but Washington needs more of us with 375,000-mile pickups who’ll spend your money like our own.

Sounding more like Scott Brown than Barack Obama . . . . And who’s this “Washington” he’s running against, exactly? . . .

OBAMA WILL BE IN FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA FRIDAY, and Tea Partiers are planning to meet him.

DAN RIEHL: What is FreedomWorks’ Problem?

HEH. THAT’S FUNNY. Helen and I looked at Toyotas today, too.

WILL WE SEE PROTESTS LIKE THIS HERE IF OBAMACARE PASSES? Thai Red Shirts hurl own blood at PM’s house.

RETRACTO’S VACATION appears to be going well. Come back rested, Retracto — your work isn’t finished!

HOME TAPING: Killing music? And home sleeping is killing hotels!

BOINGBOING: DID PEREZ HILTON violate federal obscenity law? From the comments: “So wait, Perez Hilton’s very existence isn’t offensive, but dwarf porn is? I’d rather see the dwarf porn than anything Perez has to say about it.”

THE DRAFT COMPLAINT IS ALREADY ONLINE: Landmark Legal Foundation to File Suit to Stop President’s Health Plan if ‘Slaughter Rule’ is Used.

QUIZ: What’s your DIY IQ?