HOW QUAKES measure up.

CORPORATE CENSORSHIP: Apple’s Iron Grip On Apps.

THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL college campuses.

DICK DURBIN: Of course premiums will still go up with ObamaCare.

UPDATE: Durbin To Obama: “You Lie.”

IS IT SMART FOR THE WHITE HOUSE to be in a pissing match with the Chief Justice? A reader emails: “I think it’s going to really hurt Obama in the public’s perception, because of the high regard for Justice Roberts on all sides.” Well, it makes the White House look petty, thin-skinned, undisciplined, and unable to handle criticism. Which it is.

UPDATE: Jan Crawford: It’s getting ridiculous.

Whether the White House has a short-term or long-term strategy or no strategy at all, it’s flat-out absurd and ill-advised for the administration to think it should always have the last word. It’s like my 6-year-old: “I don’t LIKE your idea. I like MY idea.”

That’s their style.

ANOTHER UPDATE: James Joyner comments.

LEE HARRIS: Weak Tea Or Strong Tea? Too many of those currently ‘analyzing’ the Tea Party movement seem to have no genuine interest in grappling with its potential historical significance. Plus, David Brooks’ appeal to snobbery.

UPDATE: They expected 600, but over 2000 showed up at this anti-Obamacare meeting.

IN THE MAIL: From Gal Luft, Beer, Bacon and Bullets: Culture in Coalition Warfare from Gallipoli to Iraq.

MUST-SEE REASON TV: Virginia Postrel on health care innovation.

Some related thoughts of mine on the subject are here.

YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR IT: Mad Men Barbies.

MATT WELCH: The president’s habit of telling untruths.

The president, who promised in both word and style to usher in a “new era” of Washington “responsibility,” routinely says things that aren’t true and supports initiatives that break campaign promises. When called on it, he mostly keeps digging. And when obliged to explain why American voters are turning so sharply away from his party and his policies, Obama pins the blame not on his own deviations from verity but on his failure to “explain” things “more clearly to the American people.”

It’s funny — all he had to do to be a success was to live up to the kind of Presidency he promised. But he didn’t, and it appears that he couldn’t. Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Reader Kevin Greene writes:

The best example of this is health insurance mandates. The President defeated Hillary Clinton for the nomination of his party by telling Americans that it was wrong to require people to purchase insurance. Now, as President, he is trying to force people to purchase health insurance. And threatening IRS audits and fines. And he claims to not understand the opposition to this proposal.

People didn’t get the “expiration date” business . . . .

XENI JARDIN plays DJ for a day.

AIR POWER: Budget Wars Spell Grim Future For F-22 and F-35 Planes.

YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE: Schumer’s Immigration Reform Plan: A National ID Card.

NICOLE GELINAS ON New York and Greece’s Problems: “Greece is no innocent victim: It helped get itself into a mess — by exploiting the bailout mentality. New Yorkers should pay special heed — because we could be in the same boat. . . . The question is: If New York continues to act like Greece, how will the bond markets react?”

THE MUDVILLE GAZETTE: Stop The Goodwar, I want to get off.

THE HONEYMOON CAR.

KENNETH ANDERSON on Drone Warfare and the Harvard National Security Conference.

Probably the most important conclusion for me from discussions following my Predators over Pakistan essay is that I have not been sufficiently clear, with myself or in writing, that the appeal I am making to self-defense law does not preclude the application of the normal laws of war in those places where there is an armed conflict. Discussion of this topic seems a little bit like the blind men and the elephant — the military people responsible for a counterinsurgency ground war in Afghanistan see Predator strikes in their theatre of conflict, quite rightly, as not a big issue. It is not different, really, from the missile fired by a jet 25 or 30 miles away — it’s just another standoff platform. The legal rules of targeting are no different, and it’s just another standoff firing option.

At the other extreme, however, is the CIA using Predators to attack a targeted designated by the President under procedures outlined in US statutes for covert action by the CIA. Is that different, legally?

Read the whole thing.

MATT DRUDGE IS HAVING FUN:

Jules Crittenden: It’s a Quagmire!

MORE ON laptops in classrooms. My feeling is that students will have to practice law in the presence of such distractions, so we might as well start building up resistance — and weeding out those who can’t — now.

SHOCKER: Milwaukee Police Ignored ACORN Voting Fraud Cases. “Keep in mind, the allegations in this case involve not just voter registration fraud, but actual voting fraud. Actual fraudulent ballots cast in the 2008 elections.” Wait, I thought that was just a right-wing myth.

UPDATE: A reader notes that the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel story leaves out ACORN. But two ACORN workers were indicted.

ANDY KESSLER: Lessons of a Dow Decade: Capital misallocation is usually a fallout of bad government policy. Sorry, it’s at WSJ and it’s subscriber-only. I’m bummed that they’ve put most of their editorials and opeds behind the paywall.

UPDATE: Obama’s America: The Rich Are Getting Richer.

ANOTHER UPDATE: If you’re not a WSJ subscriber, you can see Kessler’s piece on his site.

DUDE, THAT WAS FOR WHEN REPUBLICANS HAD THE MAJORITY: Dems Say No To New “Gang of 14.”

NOT SO MUCH WELFARE QUEENS as matriarchal dynasties.

CLAUDIA ROSETT: Help! I’m a Constituent of Eric Massa. Plus, from Will Collier: When Congressmen Behave Badly.

ON THE CENSUS, list your race as “American?”