MORE ON WISCONSIN: Blaska attempts to extract details from Lueders about his unnamed sources in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. “Yeah, conservatives should show up and celebrate the signing of the budget bill, the momentous event that occurred yesterday. Maybe you didn’t notice. It was overshadowed by the gigantic turd Lueders felt moved to drop at exactly that moment.”

It’s as if that was the whole point.

TOM BLUMER: Ohio’s Lost Decade And Its New Hope: Can John Kasich and Tea Party activists save Ohio?

DAN MITCHELL: Should American Taxpayers Finance Another Big Fat Greek Bailout? “Never have so many paid so much to subsidize such an undeserving few.”

WISCONSIN: “Can ‘fake’ Democrats really pull an upset” in the Wisconsin recall primaries?

If my goal were to convince taxpayers that government is just a racket and not worth a dime of my hard-earned money, I don’t think I could do better than the Wisconsin political establishment has done over the past few months.

THOMAS LIFSON: Dutch Abandoning Multiculturalism. As Jim Bennett says, “Democracy, open immigration, multiculturalism — pick any two.”

DAVID LEONHARDT DEFENDS THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF COLLEGE in the New York Times, and Arnold Kling comments:

Or, perhaps, college filters out people with low cognitive ability, low conscientiousness, and other adverse traits. I want to see an experiment, in which some people are randomly chosen to go to college and others are chosen not to go to college. Then, proceed to compare outcomes. Meanwhile, nonexperimental data is of little or no value. . . . My elitism comes from the few years I spent as an adjunct at George Mason. The typical undergrad in my course could not write a paper or solve an algebra problem. I doubt that adding more students at this margin is the way to raise people’s incomes.

Somebody should run the experiment on a small scale, before we embark on a grand social policy on this.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Reader Fred Butzen writes:

To answer Arnold Kling’s post, there already is a control group for his college/no-college experiment: the cohort of young people who enlist in the armed forces out of high school. I would say that those who complete a four-year tour in the armed forces emerge at least as motivated and at least as skilled as those who’ve spent four years studying liberal arts in college – or arguably, more so. Still, to some employers, a degree in philosophy (my major, back in the day) has more appeal than four years spent doing the difficult, dangerous work of defending our nation. Go figure.

Hmm.

“DID I JUST SAY THAT ALOUD?” And on video.

MICKEY KAUS: “Andrew Sullivan (along with Ezra Klein and every other respectable center-left writer) believes the solution to the deficit problem will require a ‘balanced’ mix of budget cuts and tax increases. Of course it will. But that doesn’t mean the partial deficit cut package Obama negotiates now has to include tax increases. Why can’t we have a deal with just tough spending cuts (and some stimulative short-term tax cuts)? We can raise taxes later. Sullivan is guilty of punditism. He wakes up every morning believing he must have a full solution for each and every policy problem. Then the policymakers can implement these thoughtful solutions–sort of like pressing a button. Cuts and tax increases! Shared sacrifice! That’s the fair and responsible plan. Where’s my check?”

How about enact Bob Corker’s spending cap, and then let voters decide whether they’d like more programs, or lower taxes?

CLARICE FELDMAN: Abolish The ATF Over Gun-Smuggling Scandal. As a lesson to other federal agencies. “If there are agents in the Bureau unconnected with this operation who have valuable skills and experience we wish to retain, the successor agencies of the Bureau are free to rehire them. As to the others — those who went along to get along — it will encourage federal employees working for an out of control agency to take advantage of the federal whistleblowers procedure and turn in the wrongdoers before such egregious harm comes to pass. It simply is not enough to accede to a pattern of what Darrell Issa calls ‘felony stupid’ conduct and keep your place at the federal table.”

ATF has long been one of the most dysfunctional federal law enforcement agencies anyway, so it would be small loss.

Plus this: “I believe there were a lot of people involved at the Department of Justice and I doubt there’d be so much stonewalling and mudslinging were Holder in the clear.”

MAKING SENSE OF RAY NAGIN: “Now I understand why this guy doesn’t trust anyone with firearms. It’s projection. He probably doesn’t trust himself, and assumes everyone else is as much a loon as he is.”

UMBERTO ECO: PHILOSOPHY IS NOT STAR TREK. Though having spent my childhood in the company of philosophers, some quite eminent, I’m not sure that Star Trek comes off as badly as all that in comparison. But then, I have been reproved for my disrespect of philosophy — or, at least, philosophers — by no less than Derek Bok — and in the New York Times Book Review, at that. So I am presumably one of those flyover people with low-sloping foreheads that the Timesmen get so exercised about.