TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Breaking: Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Failed to Pay $287,000 in Property Taxes on Aircraft.

AT AMAZON, Top Deals In Electronics.

INSTAVISION, WITH VIRGINIA POSTREL: Rediscovering Freedom: Obama and the Libertarian Renaissance.

INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: EPIC EMINENT DOMAIN BATTLE: Inner-City Kids, Boxing Gym Fight Back.

KEITH HENNESSEY: A 25 cent per gallon gas tax increase?

ERIC POSNER: Why Congress Played No Role In The Libya Intervention.

IN UTAH, THE TEA PARTY STRIKES A BLOW FOR OPEN GOVERNMENT: “Gov. Gary Herbert called Monday for the repeal of HB477, the controversial bill restricting access to many government records, saying the measure had ‘resulted in a loss of public confidence.’ . . . After public outcry, lawmakers changed the bill to delay its effective date until July 1. But protests have continued, along with a petition drive to send HB477 to a voter referendum.”

THE HILL: Barney Frank: Obama might not have stomach for fight over Elizabeth Warren.

JUAN WILLIAMS: Defund NPR.

A LOOK AT THE EPA’S NEW MERCURY CONTROLS. “These positive trends do not mean additional mercury controls are unnecessary, but it does put their urgency in perspective.”

IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, a review of Walter Olson’s Schools For Misrule: Legal Academia And An Overlawyered America. “Law schools wield more social influence than any other part of the American university. To what effect?”

As I’ve noted before, this could be profitably read together with Ben Barton’s The Lawyer-Judge Bias In the American Legal System.

I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ONE GODDAMN THING ABOUT MY CARBON FOOTPRINT (CONT’D): Governor Caught Using State Jet For Campaign Events. And here’s Gov. Steve Beshear talking about the importance of energy efficiency. Try flying commercial, dude.

HOW’S THAT RECOVERY GOING? Existing-Home Sales Plunge, Setback for Housing Recovery. Unexpectedly!

SOME CHEAP tsunami survival ideas. None of these look that practical to me.

CLAIRE BERLINSKI: What I’ve Been Up To In Israel.

THE POLITICS OF FEAR: China takes hard line on activists, many missing. Tom Friedman was unavailable for comment.

NISSAN: Quake In Japan Will Delay Leaf Deliveries in U.S.

SO OVER THE WEEKEND, I cracked and got an iPad2 — buying the nursing-home machine whetted my appetite. One thing that I’ve been impressed with is how good the PJTV videos look on it. (The PJTV site has been made more iPad friendly, and they’ve also addressed a buffering problem that used to make videos stutter sometimes.) I think the iPad/iPod model for video delivery is likely to be a good one.

The nursing-home deployment, meanwhile, has gone well, as many readers predicted. The iPad is more a media-consumption than media-production tool, but that’s fine in this application. You can blog from one — I did, last night (it works better using the Terra browser than the Safari browser, which is odd) — but that’s not really its strong suit.

UPDATE: Reader Andy Halushka wants specs: It’s a 64GB wifi model. I thought about 3G, but since I have the hotspot feature on my iPhone, I figured I didn’t really need it. Also, this was the last one they had!

And reader Derek Bottcher writes: “Getting my hands on an iPad 2 where I live (Arlington, Virginia) has been frustratingly difficult. How were you able to get one? The Apple store or another retailer? I waited in front of our local Apple store three mornings before it opened last week and came away empty-handed each time.” I hit the Apple Store at noon on Sunday and snagged the last one.

IN THE MAIL: From psychologist Martin Seligman, Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being.

RAISES WON’T MAKE EMPLOYEES WORK HARDER, but pay cuts make them slack off.

TWO NEW STUDIES BACK CLAIM THAT PROFESSORIATE IS LIBERAL. But they’re claiming it’s all just because of “self-selection.” Whatever — it’s still a serious diversity problem. And there’s nothing more important than diversity, right?

HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: Little-Known Colleges Exploit Visa Loopholes to Make Millions Off Foreign Students.

DARN. I MISSED VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR DAY!

RALPH NADER: If Bush Should Have Been Impeached, Then Obama Should Be Impeached. On the other hand, Ann Althouse replies: “If you thought George Bush acted appropriately, then you should see that one benefit of the Obama presidency is that it has denied the Democrats the ability to stand at a distance and criticize, as if they were above that sort of thing.” That’s true, and I’m certainly enjoying the phenomenon.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Campus Carry In Texas: “The 97 legislators who’ve signed on to Texas’s pending ‘campus carry’ bills haven’t done so out of some misplaced devotion to the code of the West. Unlike most of their critics, they actually understand the issue.”