HOPE: Fully 44 percent of the nation’s 15 million unemployed have been out of work for more than six months.

FLOATING HILLARY CLINTON’S NAME for the Supreme Court. That won’t address the Ivy League overrepresentation problem.

WORLD’S DEEPEST UNDERSEA VENTS discovered in the Cayman Trough.

OH, NO: Bad news: Insufferable New York hipsters decide census isn’t cool enough to fill out.

HOW CORRUPT IS the U.N.’s World Food Program?

CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRESS IN ARIZONA: “Arizona is on the verge of becoming the third state to let just about any adult carry a concealed weapon.”

PICTURES FROM THE Jefferson County, Missouri Tea Party.

IRA STOLL: Is Someone Manipulating The Price Of Gold?

I’M GUESSING NOT: The Increasing College Degree Gap; Will College Women’s Centers Address *This* Gender Issue? (Via NewsAlert).

MICHAEL GRAHAM: “I want to commend Boston’s progressive Left for the outstanding job they’re doing fighting the hate-mongering of Sarah Palin and the Tea Partiers in advance of Wednesday’s rally on Boston Common.”

DAVE KOPEL: Potential Supreme Court nominee records on the Second Amendment.

ASTROTURFING FOR AMERICA: Or, er, something like that.