IN THE MAIL: The Global-Warming Deception: How a Secret Elite Plans to Bankrupt America and Steal Your Freedom.

COMEDY CENTRAL: Waxman whacks ‘fishing expeditions.’ “Coming from Waxman, that line about fishing expeditions is nothing short of hilarious. During his two years in the chair now occupied by Upton, Waxman was Quick-Draw McGraw in demanding documents, issuing subpoenas and dragooning witnesses, particularly if doing so resulted in embarrassment for Republicans, Fortune 500 CEOs, oil companies, or public utilities. . . . Nobody was laughing, though, when Upton added that under Waxman’s leadership, the committee failed to convene a single hearing on Obamacare.”

STEPHEN HUNTER: Why 33 rounds makes sense in a defensive weapon. And why there should be no ban on full-capacity magazines. “Those who would ban extended magazines, will say that although hundreds of thousands are in circulation and thousands more will surely be sold before a ban is enacted, it will be worth it if it saves just one life. But the other half of that question must be asked, too: Is it worth it if it costs just one life?” I don’t think they care how many lives it costs.

HMM: DARPA working on major cyber security break through. “The DOD’s advanced research arm, DARPA, is currently working on two programs that could radically change cyber security; one program, CRASH, is based on the human immune system and will make it less likely that computers will spread cyber infections to other networks; DARPA is also working on another program, PROCEED, which will allow programmers to work directly with encrypted data without having to decrypt it first; both are highly experimental and may not succeed, but researchers have high hopes.” Well, my only thought is that if you have cyber-security that’s modeled on the human immune system, the result will be a generation of hackers expert in overcoming the human immune system. I can see longer-term problems with that . . . .

VERONIQUE DE RUGY: Stimulus Data for First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2011.

THE HILL: Poll: Voters Oppose Raising the $14T Debt Ceiling.

TODAY ONLY: Sanyo 8MP camera/1080p camcorder combo for $149. Ubiquitous cameras rule.

OF COURSE THEY DON’T: Threats Made Against Black Justice; Liberal Civil Rights Groups Apparently Do Not Care. But it’s useful to point out the hypocrisy yet again. “And by the way, we’re still waiting for the head of the NAACP’s Washington office to keep his word on this pledge that the NAACP would denounce attacks made on black conservatives he made last July.” Video at the link.

SO THEY SENT ME AN ADVANCE COPY of Donald Rumsfeld’s new book, Known and Unknown: A Memoir, and although I’m not done with it, I think so far it’s pretty good and quite interesting. I doubt, however, that anything that Rumsfeld says will be allowed to change the narrative on Iraq, any more than Doug Feith’s War and Decision did. The press knows what it thinks, and can’t be bothered to rethink, especially when it’s busy crafting all-new narratives.

SEN. RAND PAUL: A modest $500 billion proposal. “My proposal would first roll back almost all federal spending to 2008 levels, then initiate reductions at various levels nearly across the board.” It’s a good start.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Clueless On Cairo.

A VISIT TO 21st Century Israel.

DOES AMERICA HAVE A LAW PROBLEM, OR A LAWYER PROBLEM? If you missed it yesterday, check out my Washington Examiner column.

CHANGE: Chrysler releases $9m Super Bowl ad while requesting more taxpayer dollars. Yeah, SayUncle noted last night that he was paying for an awful lot of those Super Bowl ads. Also, they sucked.

TARGETING AL-AWLAKI: “For many people, the Obama administration’s decision to put Al-Awlaki, who holds US citizenship, on the capture-or-kill targeting list, directly on the say-so of President Obama, is the ‘rubber-meets-the-road’ intersection of counter-terrorism, international law, and domestic Constitutional law.”

COMMON CAUSE’S CONVICTIONS OF CONVENIENCE: Or, given the whole “lynch Clarence Thomas” business, maybe we should call it Kommon Kause’s Konvictions of Konvenience.

Related: Common Cause And The Oldest Profession. “Amusingly, Bob Edgar is a former Congressman himself who supposedly got into things like Common Cause in order to clean up the political system: I’m not sure how this can be reconciled with explicitly calling for the lynching of uppity black men (and their wives) – but then, neither did Common Cause – at least, once they got caught. Although the sheer crawling nature of that apology makes one wonder who from Common Cause’s leadership cadre got caught on camera calling for somebody’s death…”

YAY! THE INTERNET BUBBLE IS BACK! AOL Pays $315 Million for Huffington Post. Which means that InstaPundit’s valuation just skyrocketed. Thanks, Arianna!

TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE (CONT’D): Al Sharpton Owes $3.7 Million In Back Taxes.

RICH GALEN on Egypt and the media. “In fact, their being in Cairo was adding zero news value other than making the plight of western reporters the focal point of the story which was not the point of their being in Cairo in the first place. Even having decided that the million-dollar-anchors were not helping report the story, much of the rest of the reporting has been laughable.”

“WE ARE THE SAME WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!” (CONT’D): “‘Weeks, not months.’ That is Attorney General Eric Holder, on March 15, 2010, explaining to the House Judiciary Committee how long it would take the Obama administration to decide where to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. Nearly eleven months later, still no word.”

Ah, remember how under the Bush Administration these detentions were obviously illegal and unnecessary, part of a brain-dead Neanderthal strategy that would soon be swept away by the fierce moral urgency of change? Good times, good times . . . .

CHARLIE MARTIN: A Theory Of Bill O’Reilly. “O’Reilly is a self-important middle manager. If he sees you are ‘above him’ in stature, someone who makes him look good by being on the screen with him, he’s obsequious. If he sees you as beneath him, then he expects deference.”

UPDATE: Roger Simon: “Bill O’Reilly’s pre-Super Bowl interview of Barack Obama was mighty slow going and felt a good deal longer than its fourteen minutes and sixteen seconds. Two or three minutes in I was about to shut it off, but I kept watching, almost fascinated by the sheer pointlessness of it all.”

HOPE: Sarah Palin Throws Support Behind GOProud Participation at CPAC.