MISTRUST: Fear over China’s plan to vaccinate millions for measles highlights growing public distrust.

OBAMA’S DIVERSITY PROBLEM: The Hill: Obama faces new criticism from women’s groups over his team.

MICHAEL TOTTEN: Above The Killing Fields Of The Galilee.

AT AMAZON, it’s the Fall Blowout Sale. Not actually involving tires. . . .

REASON TV: What We Saw At The 9/12 Tea Party Rally In DC.

THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS WEEKEND:

Poverty rate rockets.

Another “rube” self-identifies.

Outdoing Lady GaGa.

The moral and intellectual decline of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Tom Brady and the lucrative nonprofit sector.

What I wrote on 9/11/01.

Blog reports from 9/12 Tea Party rallies.

Plus, pointing out the fake tea partiers.

ROGER SIMON: Young Guns: The Conservative 2.0 Campaign Book. “Campaign books are almost never ‘high literature,’ nor are they usually intended to be. And no one would mistake Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders for de Toqueville’s Democracy in America, but the new book (published tomorrow) by Congressmen Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy is the next best thing to a classic. It is a war cry. This war cry is not just the predictable excoriation of the failed liberal Democratic policies of Barack Obama, but a striking attack by the three Republican congressmen on their own party for having violated the small government principles upon which they were elected. If the Tea Party movement is looking for leadership, it may be sitting there in plain sight with Cantor, Ryan and McCarthy.”

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: The Rule of Law Suffers Another Blow from the DOJ.

STEWART BAKER: WE SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS ONE COMING. “Russian government allegedly teams with Microsoft to suppress dissenters using dubious claims of software piracy. Staggeringly excessive piracy penalties were pioneered by the United States, but it was only a matter of time before authoritarian governments discovered their charm.”

Plus, from the comments: “What is coming —you can see it a mile away— is the selective enforcement of video duplication and software piracy laws by the political party in power to suppress their opponents. . . . Yes, the Ruskies learned from us, but we also learn from them. It’s a vicious race to the bottom.” It does seem likely to fit the gangster government paradigm. But perhaps the voters will provide a bit of discipline.

PROF. JACOBSON: Vote Mike Stopa on Tuesday In MA-03 Primary. Hey, he’s got my endorsement: He’s a Tea Partier and a nanotechnologist!

MICHAEL BARONE: Gangster government stifles criticism of Obamacare. “The threat to use government regulation to destroy or harm someone’s business because they disagree with government officials is thuggery. Like the Obama administration’s transfer of money from Chrysler bondholders to its political allies in the United Auto Workers, it is a form of gangster government.”

But it’s a futile, if thuggish, effort when even their own guys are distinctly unsupportive: “According to Politico, not a single Democratic candidate for Congress has run an ad since last April that makes any positive reference to Obamacare.” But then, “futile, if thuggish” seems like a pretty good description of this Administration in general.

CHANGE: Obama’s America: Record Increase of People in Poverty, Blacks and Latinos Hardest Hit.

BASEL III: The Most Important 7% In Finance.

More here.

EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT THE NEED FOR MORE MONITORING OF FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES.

But given what we know about the misbehavior of traditional nonprofit colleges in terms of graduation rates, employment prospects, and enormous student-loan indebtedness, I’m wondering why the for-profit sector deserves special attention.

To me, this looks like an effort to deflect blame from traditional institutions, while simultaneously cutting down on competition.

UPDATE: Reader Rob Crawford writes: “A sister-in-law of mine works for a state university, and after I mentioned to her that I was taking on-line courses towards a master’s, she spent fifteen minutes trying to find exactly who is behind the on-line university. This is after admitting that her school doesn’t even try to recruit from in-state students, and that they’re closer to a private school in attitude. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that the tuition cost of my entire degree is the same as a single semester for an out-of-state student at her school. I suspect that fact alone will be causing traditional schools heartaches for years.” It’s all a vast conspiracy.

CNBC: Outlook Gloomy At Secret Billionaires’ Meeting.

Well, it should have been held in an underground lair built inside an extinct volcano. Otherwise, it’s not much of a Secret Billionaires’ Meeting.

UPDATE: Doomsday warnings of US apocalypse gain ground.

THE HILL: Big party week for the Obamas.

A LOOK AT Greece’s version of the Tea Party. Scarily different. “Seeing people working at a branch of the Marfin Bank, young men hurled Molotov cocktails inside and tossed gasoline on top of the flames, barring the exit. Most of the Marfin Bank’s employees escaped from the roof, but the fire killed three workers, including a young woman four months pregnant. As they died, Greeks in the streets screamed at them that it served them right, for having the audacity to work. The events took place in full view of the Greek police, and yet the police made no arrests.”

UPDATE: Reader Alan Kellogg objects: “Calling those thugs tea partiers is like calling the Nazis a Jewish sect.”

Well, I said it was scarily different. . . .

LEFT-WING TERRORISM SURGES IN EUROPE: “As this chart shows, left-wing terrorism dwarfs right-wing terrorism in Europe — perhaps surprising given the attention paid to Europe’s far right. Islamist and Separatist terrorism, however, remain the largest categories.”