NEW CAREER PATH IN NEW YORK: Bedbug Hunter.

UPDATE: Reader Bill Stephens writes: “I guess ‘Bed Bug Hunter’ is one of those Green Jobs that Obama has been promising.” Heh.

TERRORIST LAWFARE WORKS AGAIN. It works as long as it’s tolerated.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 30 College Presidents Made $1 Million in 2008.

Related: 100 Colleges Charge $50k/Year — Up from 58 in 2009-10 and 5 in 2008-09.

BARE BREASTS as “a protection against dangerous fundamentalism?” I say, why take chances?

ED MORRISSEY interviews Bobby Jindal, about Jindal’s new book, Leadership and Crisis.

AIRPORT SECURITY REPORTS: “Where are the airlines?”

“For me at least travel in China is much more pleasant than in the US, because I don’t have to deal with surly prison guards.”

Plus, a video:

And new TSA t-shirts.

ANNE APPLEBAUM: Europeans are starting to realize that their governments are too big. Will Americans catch on next? “Throw your Euro stereotypes out the window: Last weekend, a Greek government that has cut public-sector pay and lowered pensions won a clear victory in local elections. Despite strikes and violence, despite the fact that Greece’s debt is still growing and more cuts are coming, there will be a Socialist mayor of Athens for the first time in 24 years. (And, yes, in Greece, the Socialists favor budget cuts, and the conservatives oppose them.) Nor are the Greeks alone. Last month, voters re-elected a Latvian government that cut public-sector workers’ pay by 50 percent. The British government coalition, which is also trying to eliminate benefits and cut spending, remains strangely popular, too. Although—contrary to my previous observation—London witnessed its first Continental-style, anti-austerity riot last week, there wasn’t much general enthusiasm for the protesters. Some of their leaders wound up denouncing the riots, and they haven’t hurt the government’s poll numbers yet, either.”

GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE: Veteran slams VA as ‘worst’ part of injury.

ROGER KIMBALL: WHO GOVERNS? “What do people want government to do? Only 21 percent of those polled believe that our government governs with the consent of the governed. They do not want to be be governed by Democrats. They do not want to be governed by Republicans, either. They want a government that, by adhering to the principles of limited government and fiscal responsibility, will continue that great experiment that Washington, Madison, and Hamilton inaugurated in the late 18th century: a government that managed the great trick of being an exercise in self-government.”

ANN ALTHOUSE: “There’s some really deep feeling brewing out there about the TSA’s newly intensified searches of airline passengers. I’m wondering what potential this very particular issue has for skewing politics more generally.” I think it’s a metaphor — the government doing to us physically what it’s been doing to us economically and politically for years . . . .

POLITICO: The big disconnect: D.C. elites think Obama will be re-elected, the public doubts it. “The midterms not only dealt a big shock to the Democrats, but also sent a message to President Obama. According to the new POLITICO ‘Power and the People’ poll, only 26 percent of the public believes he will now be re-elected as President in 2012. . . . This big difference can partially be explained by the different ways that the two groups see the economy and the world today. Seventy percent of D.C. elites admit that they have been affected less than the average citizen when it comes to the economic downturn. The elites see the Tea Party as purely a fad (70 percent).” Insular and out of touch.

Related thoughts from Don Surber.

BEATLES SONGS finally available on iTunes soon?

MAKING THE BEST out of winter’s short days.

REASON TV: Coming Soon to an Airport Near You: Prison-style strip searches?

IN DEFENSE OF going to law school. More here. There are a lot of good reasons, so long as you keep expectations in line with reality, and don’t go into debt.

TIMOTHY DALRYMPLE: The Wages Of Spin: How Obama Lost America. “The Obama camp ran their campaign in such a way that they won the election by dooming the presidency. Of course there is nothing new in politicians promising more than they can deliver. But Obama committed this political sin on such a gargantuan scale that it ought to be named after him. . . . Obama’s actions in the Presidency have not matched the costume he wore in the campaign. Americans will not trust him, will not believe him, will not be persuaded by him, until they believe he’s no longer performing. Obama doesn’t need more theatrics. He needs to show America he’s not an actor.”

JOHN ELLIS: ‘Defend the Humanities’–a Dishonest Slogan. “There was a time when ‘save the humanities’ would have been an appropriate cry, but that was years ago, when they were being dismantled in one department after another and replaced with the intellectual triviality and sheer boredom of endlessly repetitive Marxist identity politics, as cowardly administrators looked on and did nothing. The poverty of intellectual content was masked by an elaborate jargon, but that only made things worse: the remade programs became the laughing stock of their campuses. But now the day of reckoning has arrived. Enrollments have collapsed, to the point where the smaller departments face extinction. Those enrollments are sinking not because students don’t value the humanities, but because they do.”

THEY GROW UP SO FAST: Happy Fifth Birthday to Pajamas Media!

CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS withholds support for Pelosi.

A MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP FROM JOSE GUARDIA. Time-zone arbitrage from Barcelona!

MICKEY KAUS: Why I’m Still Worried About The Pelosi-Reid “Lame Duck.”

It seems to me the trainwreck of big legislative issues is another reason for DREAM opponents to worry. Why? Precisely because compared with the giant, headline;grabbing issues, DREAM looks like small potatoes. Suppose the Democrats fight furiously against a big item on the GOP wish list–say, extending the Bush tax cuts for those making more than $250,00–but suddenly let Republicans know that they will cave, and give their opponents a huge victory, if only the GOP agrees to slide this little immigration provision into the larger bill. Will Republicans have the fortitude to say “no”? Will the press pay attention to the DREAM “sweetener,” or focus only on the big set-piece tax battle?

The DREAM Act might fail in a clean, well-publicized up-or-down vote in the Senate. But slipped into a much bigger bill in the dead of night–I’m not so sure.

Pay attention.

WHY THE DELAY ON KIRK’S SWEARING IN? Illinois is just more backward than West Virginia.

MICHAEL GRAHAM TO JANET NAPOLITANO: You go first.

SPECIAL INTERESTS SEE YOU NAKED: “The degradations of passing through full-body scanners that provide naked pictures of you to Transportation Security Administration agents may not mean that the terrorists have won — but they do mark victories for a few politically connected high-tech companies and their revolving-door lobbyists.”

CLAUDIA ROSETT: The Deepening Mysteries of U.N. Financial Disclosure.