ATTY. GEN ERIC HOLDER subpoenaed in Fast and Furious investigation.

JACOB SULLUM: Jerry Brown Lets Police Rummage Suspects’ Mobile Phones Without a Warrant.

MICHAEL YON: Red Air: America’s Medevac Failure.

VIDEO: Economic Freedom In America Today.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: EU: 16 Steps Forward, One Giant Leap Back?

NEW YORK TIMES SUES JUSTICE DEPARTMENT over secret anti-terrorist law. Secret anti-terrorist law? Wait, is that Bush fellow still President? I must have nodded off.

“SMART DIPLOMACY:” Wikileaks Cable: Obama Tried to Apologize to Japan for the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? “A heretofore secret cable dated Sept. 3, 2009, was recently released by WikiLeaks. Sent to Secretary of State Clinton, it reported Japan’s Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka telling U.S. Ambassador John Roos that ‘the idea of President Obama visiting Hiroshima to apologize for the atomic bombing during World War II is a “nonstarter.”’ The Japanese feared the apology would be exploited by anti-nuclear groups and those opposed to the defensive alliance between Japan and the U.S.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Nothing says “we’re secure in the value we add” like efforts to outlaw competition! University of California teachers’ union aims to block online classes. “Frankly, it’s astonishing to me that a knee-jerk defensiveness of lecturers’ jobs is the best this union can do. They could at least make the case for why face-to-face interaction enhances education.” Or maybe they couldn’t.

AT AMAZON, Jewelry Under $100.

Also, Jewelry Under $50.

DENALI NATIONAL PARK and the War On Photography.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Richard Vedder: Forgiving Student Loans Is The Second-Worst Idea Ever. “Why should we give a break to this particular group of individuals, who disproportionately come from prosperous families to begin with? Why give them assistance while those who have dutifully repaid their loans get none?”

DATECHGUY REPORTS from the Spin Room at last night’s debate. “The fedora really came in handy here, Mr. Cain recognized me and answered my question concerning driving the debate.” Video at the link. Some firstrate on-scene blog-reporting.

OCCUPY L.A. SPEAKER: Violence Will Be Necessary To Achieve Our Goals. “Long live revolution! Long live socialism!”

Maybe they should change the name to “Doucheify L.A.” Do the Dems and Obama really want to endorse these guys?

UPDATE: Related: Paltry Crowd Toting Oversized Novelty Checks Demands Redistribution of Wealth. “Listening to this motley mob it almost sounds as if they’re reciting Obama word for word. . . . I heard a CBS News radio report yesterday saying there were more police than protesters. So why are they getting such attention?” As soon as it looks like it’s hurting the Dems — which will probably be sometime around today or tomorrow — the press attention will vanish.

REUTERS: Democrats Wary Of Their Unpopular President. “Four years ago, Senator Claire McCaskill was one of Barack Obama’s biggest boosters in his presidential campaign. But when he recently visited her state of Missouri, she did not have time to join him. . . . Congressional Democrats are upset, even angry, with Obama right now. They complain he has not consulted them, he moved toward the political right after Republicans won the House in the 2010 election and often has not distinguished between them and Republicans in blasting an even more unpopular Congress.” Not much love for President Millstone.

UPDATE: Drudge features a cruel juxtaposition.

KEVIN WILLIAMSON: Default Is In Our Stars. “It’s not getting better.”

UKRAINE: Jailing Tymoshenko: A Gift To Putin.

A FORMER CALL GIRL turned Love Guru.

JAMES TARANTO ON THE #OCCUPY PROTESTERS: What’s their slogan going to be, “Smash the system–re-elect the president”? Heh.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): From “Spreading The Wealth” To “Spreading The Misery.” “Faced with the stark failure of their policies to create jobs or to produce a ‘more just’ society, progressives are replacing ‘spread the wealth’ with ‘spreading the misery’ as their polar star. Thus, President Barack Obama champions a so-called ‘jobs bill’ calling for the very same policy mix that produced today’s high misery index. Targeted and temporary tax cuts and another massive increase in government spending are to be funded by permanent increases in tax rates on so-called millionaires and billionaires — those who make more than $200,000 a year. This plan puts hope over experience.”

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Obama’s earplugs and blinders prevent job creation.

HOW’S THAT “ARAB SPRING” WORKING OUT? Egypt Sliding into Military Dictatorship. “When the revolution that eventually overthrew Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak began, I warned that the end result could easily be a government as bad or worse than Mubarak’s was. In a revolutionary situation, liberal democratic forces often get outmaneuvered by more ruthless and better-organized opponents — even if majority public opinion would prefer a liberal regime.”

So we need well-organized and ruthless fans of liberal democracy.

MORE HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS: “A federal judge has ordered Brown University to turn over fund-raising and donation documents sought by lawyers in a case involving a former student who says he was falsely accused of rape and pressured to leave the university. . . . The former student, William McCormick III, was suspended in 2006 following “sexual misconduct” charges and later agreed to leave Brown permanently, but he says in a lawsuit that he did so under duress. In 2009, he sued Brown, the student who accused him, and her father, a wealthy Brown alumnus and donor, arguing that his accuser’s father had used his sway at the university to influence how administrators handled the allegations. . . . Historically, students who have contested a college’s finding of sexual misconduct have argued that they didn’t receive due process or the proceedings were fundamentally unfair. Mr. McCormick and his lawyers are reaching for broader information—including fund-raising records—to show the proceedings were biased.”

I love it that Brown regards the secrecy of its fund-raising records as “sacrosanct,” as opposed to, I dunno, due process, I guess: “FIRE has been checking into some of the due process protections for students who are accused of sexual assault or sexual harassment at Brown and other universities nationwide. One of our findings is that Brown uses the lowest standard of evidence among the top 100 U.S. colleges and universities (as ranked by U.S. News & World Report). It is bad enough that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) earlier this year mandated the lowest possible standard of proof, “preponderance of the evidence” (or a 50.01% standard), which threatens students’ due process rights and forces most of the Ivy League schools to lower their standards and, accordingly, their accuracy in such cases. (FIRE has explained this problem at length.) But even worse, Brown’s policy doesn’t even go for a standard of proof; it has gone lower. Brown requires only a ‘reasonable basis’ for a finding of guilt in these cases, even if the majority of the evidence is on the other side.”

DEMOCRATIC SENATE defeats Obama’s jobs bill. “President Obama received a slap from members of his own party Tuesday as the Senate voted 51-48 to block his $447 billion jobs package. The jobs plan, which the president has spent much of the last month touting on a cross-country tour, fell well short of the 60 votes it needed to proceed. The only Democrats to vote against the measure were Sens. Ben Nelson (Neb.) and Jon Tester (Mont.), but a number of other centrists in the party indicated they would vote against the package even though they supported launching a debate on the measure. . . . Tuesday’s vote bolstered Republican leaders’ argument that opposition to the president’s agenda is bipartisan.”

BLOG COMMENT OF THE DAY: “Real men don’t watch television. Real men read Instapundit.” Well, duh.