MORE ON THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT’S rather novel extension of “terrorism” to include minting silver coins.

AUSTIN BAY: Arab Fear Or Arab Freedom? “Heaven knows Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian prison state needs a face-lift or head transplant. Assad’s Alawite minority has perfected divide, kill, and control techniques worthy of North Korea’s Kim Il-Sung and Romania’s Nicolae Ceausescu.”

ILYA SOMIN: Does US Military Action Against Gaddafi Require Congressional Authorization?

UBIQUITOUS VIDEO: Today Only: A sale on the Flip Mino HD camera.

MY COLUMN IN TODAY’S NEW YORK POST: Uncivil disobedience: Media ignores union thuggery.

SAY, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT? “It’s hard to escape the conclusion that antiwar activity in the United States and around the world was driven as much by antipathy to George W. Bush as by actual opposition to war and intervention.” Well, the corpse is twitching a bit today, but yeah.

L.A. TIMES: With Obama in Brazil and Biden fundraising, U.S. voters give them record low approval on the economy.

WHERE’S THE CIVILITY? (CONT’D): Leftists, Marxists, Anti-Semites & Pro-Union Activists Hold Antiwar “Palin Whore” Rally (Video). Well, if we’re bombing somebody, it’s surely Sarah Palin’s fault. After all, she’s a former vice-presidential candidate.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: America Through The Looking Glass. “Debt is now the father of us all. In some sense, every cruise missile fired, every Social Security check cashed, ever NPR show aired is done so in part with borrowed money. In response, the president saw the impending doom of insolvency, appointed a bipartisan commission to draft a solution, and then ignored his own appointees’ recommendations. So far the excuse is largely that George Bush ran up debt as well, although last month Obama’s red-ink exceeded the entire 2007 budget deficit under Bush — 30 days of Obama trumping 365 of Bush.”

STACY MCCAIN IS SPREADING GOOD CHEER among lefties unhappy with Obama’s Libya policy. As only he can do.

INCUMBENT SEN. JON TESTER (D-MT) in dead heat for re-election.

SHOULD THE FEDERAL RESERVE Raise Rates To Boost The Economy?

WAR UPDATE: Left Wheel Of Obama Bandwagon Falls Off.

SARAH PALIN in Jerusalem.

SHOCKER: Critics contend Assistant Attorney General Loretta King guided more by racial politics than the law.

WHAT LESSON WILL IRAN learn from Libya? We should next treat Iran in a fashion that will provide a cautionary lesson to others. But I doubt that we will.

THE HILL: Ron Paul to highlight pet themes with bullion hearing. “Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) continues to hit on his favorite ideas as chair of a subcommittee overseeing domestic monetary policy, devoting his next hearing to the bullion program at the U.S. Mint. The House Financial Services Committee announced its April hearing schedule Friday, and it included an April 7 hearing by Paul’s subcommittee devoted to the Mint’s program of creating coins out of precious metals.”

WEAK ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLES: Dave Price responds to my thoughts about extraterrestrial intelligence.

I’M NOT SURE WHAT I THINK OF THIS: AT&T Faces Year-Long Scrutiny for ‘Unthinkable’ T-Mobile Bid. Seems to me that AT&T’s network isn’t so hot to begin with, but will taking over T-Mobile help? I’d like to see more cellular competition, not less.

PUBLIC-SECTOR UNION UPDATE: “Prison guards at a Western Maryland correctional facility say a union boss berated and tried to intimidate them after they raised questions at a pre-shift meeting about how their fees are spent and the benefits of belonging to a union.”

UPDATE: Okay, I can’t resist quoting this passage:

“At first, I thought it was some kind of act or Charlie Sheen moment,” said another guard, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal. “We just looked at one another, bewildered. These were legitimate questions. We’re supposed to go to Mr. Berger if we have concerns — and he called me a Republican.”

Read the whole thing. This doesn’t suggest that the unions feel things are going their way . . . .

FLASHBACK: Obama vs. Obama on War Justification.

UGH: Death toll from Japan’s disasters over 8,000; more than 13,000 missing.

PROF. JACOBSON: “Among the ironies of the intervention in Libya is that those who most bitterly complain about the Israel Lobby were in fact part of a Libya Lobby.” Not such a surprise, really. After all, it turned out that most of those most bitterly complaining about a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy were in fact members of JournoList.

ED DRISCOLL: The Great Barack And War Swindle. “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”

ANTIGOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATIONS in Syria. Big ones.