MICKEY KAUS READS THE WHITE HOUSE FACT SHEET ON THE BUDGET DEAL, and has some questions.

HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: NALP Objects to ABA Reform of Law School Placement Data Reporting.

MICHAEL WALSH ON THE DEBT DEAL: Floundering Obama Aims For ’12 Miracle.

PROF. JACOBSON: Help Me Crowdsource The Debt Bill. “Here it is. It’s 74 pages. We’ve heard various explanations of “the deal.” I have some views on the deal as explained, but I’d be interested in what readers find that may be at odds with what they’re hearing or at odds with the Boehner PowerPoint.”

WELL, YOU KNOW, THE HOBBITS WON IN THE ORIGINAL STORY, TOO: WaPo: How The Tea Party “Hobbits” Won The Debt Fight. “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid complained Saturday evening that Congress has raised the debt limit 74 times since 1962 without conditions. He is right. This is happening for the first time in history, thanks to the Tea Party. . . . The Tea Party is also winning the battle of ideas. Last week, Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod crowed that the debt-limit battle was shaping up as a ‘definitional fight’ in which voters would see Obama as defending the reasonable center against Republicans who are ‘pandering to the extremes.’ Well, if Axelrod is so confident that Obama is winning this ‘definitional fight,’ why was the White House so adamant about ducking a second round next year?”

MARK PERRY: The Mancession Continues: Men Have Lost 192 Jobs for Every 100 Jobs Lost by Women Since Jan. 2008. (Via NewsAlert).

Here’s some background on why.

WALL STREET JOURNAL: A Tea Party Triumph: The debt deal is a rare bipartisan victory for the forces of smaller government. Well, it’s an incremental triumph at best. But, you know, we got in this mess via a series of incremental triumphs for the forces of larger government, so . . . .

FRANK J. FLEMING: Why Obama Should Be Re-Elected. “Now, there are people who say Obama has done an awful job. They go on and on about how he has no idea what he’s doing in the Middle East and cite all these statistics that show how bad the economy is, and it’s all rather dreary and depressing. No one needs that.”

JULIAN SANCHEZ: CONGRESS IS OUT TO SPY ON YOUR COMPUTER. “If Congress had to name laws honestly, it would be called the ‘Forcing Your Internet Provider to Spy On You Just In Case You’re a Criminal Act of 2011’ — a costly, invasive mandate that even the co-author of the Patriot Act, Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.), says ‘runs roughshod over the rights of people who use the Internet.'”

DAN MITCHELL: Yes, the budget deal could involve tax hikes.

DEBATE: SHOULD YOU PAY SALES TAX ON AMAZON? That’s kind of a misstatement, since you’re already required to do so — in the form of a “use tax” — pretty much everywhere. The real question is whether Amazon can be required to collect the tax on your state’s behalf. Because the states don’t want to bill voters directly.

OBAMA AND BUSH’S REAL EFFECTS ON THE DEFICIT in one graphic.

DANIEL GROSS: Debt Deal or Not, Confidence in America Is Shredded. Well, we have the worst political class we’ve ever had, with the possible exception of the 1850s.

AM I THE ONLY PERSON ON THE PLANET WHO DIDN’T GET GUNS FROM THE ATF? The t-shirt.