CHANGE: Majority of Columbia Students Favor Return of ROTC.

THE TREACH IS BACK: Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact. Well, possibly. He’s the Treach, he’s the Treach and he’s better than you — it’s the way that he moves, the things that . . . well, I’d better just stop there.

AUSTIN BAY: The Megalomaniacal Style In American Politics:

Gadafi, Mugabe, and Chavez are charismatic figures – their charisma is now institutionalized as cult of the personality propaganda spewed by state controlled press agencies. Obama swept into office on personal charisma –a charisma reinforced by mainstream media idolatry. No, America is not Libya, Zimbabwe, or Venezuela. Anything but. We are, however, living with what results when personal charisma magnified by media adulation trumps executive management experience, demonstrated knowledge, proven judgment, the proven ability to coordinate and lead in crisis, practical private sector business experience, and the ability to forge a workable compromise.

Read the whole thing.

MICHAEL BARONE: It’s The Union Work Rules, Stupid!

POLITICO: Despite openness pledge, President Obama pursues leakers. “The Obama administration, which famously pledged to be the most transparent in American history, is pursuing an unexpectedly aggressive legal offensive against federal workers who leak secret information to expose wrongdoing, highlight national security threats or pursue a personal agenda. . . . That’s a sharp break from recent history, when the U.S. government brought such cases on three occasions in roughly 40 years.” Plus this: “The campaign here against whistleblowers is actually unprecedented in legal terms.” It’s like they’ve got something to hide. Or maybe they just lack the Bush Administration’s dedication to the principles of openness and a free press. . . .

Anyway, remember the fierce moral urgency of change? Well, this is what you voted for when you voted for change. Suckers.

SCIENCE: What makes women happy. The science is settled. You can’t argue with science.

AT AMAZON, another cheap external hard drive on sale.

WANT EDUCATION REFORM? Start with Higher Ed.

ROBERT FARAGO: The Real Reason Why The ATF Smuggled Guns Into Mexico. “The amount of money—cash money—flowing in the drug trade is beyond your wildest imagination. Tens of billions of dollars. The Mexican drug lords have corrupted officials on both sides of the border, at the highest possible levels. Why not the ATF? Money talks, guns walk. Makes perfect sense.”

CHANGE: Moody’s: More Colleges Will Declare Fiscal Exigency: “Moody’s Investors Service is today releasing a report predicting that the coming years will see more public colleges declare ‘financial exigency,’ a condition of such dire financial danger that faculty groups acknowledge it may justify steps as severe as layoffs of tenured faculty members.”

THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS WEEKEND, if you were out, you know, having a life or something:

Now, The Lower Education Bubble? My Sunday Washington Examiner column.

How the iPad can bring comfort in hospitals and nursing homes.

More on the Department of Education’s insider trading scandals, among other DoEd scandals.

Remembering the first SUVs.

China not so enthused by middle east protests.

Bill Whittle: Why Public Sector Unions Are Doomed.

A call for Eric Holder to retract false claims about domestic violence.

Obama now homebrewing at the White House. I approve.

Charles Krauthammer on how W’s “freedom agenda” is looking pretty good.

Harvard Professors Raked In Millions From Khadafy.

Texas serious about bringing down tuition costs.

Al Qaeda doesn’t rock and roll.

What Pick-Up Artists teach about gender relations.

The New York Times faces fiscal reality. Well, kinda.

It’s come to this: Unauthorized cleaning as transgressive behavior.

A stroll down memory lane with Jacques Chirac.

Just how bad has the ManCession gotten? Personally, I prefer the term “He-Cession,” but that seems to be a minority view.

What happens when you take black voters for granted.

The Christian Science Monitor on that ATF Mexico-gunrunning scandal.

AS FOOD PRICES SOAR, Japan braces for pain.

TIM CARNEY: Meet the lobbyist who turns “green” into greenbacks. “Environmental policy is not driven by tree-hugging activists, earnest liberal bloggers, or ecologically minded citizens. Instead, it flows from the lobbyists and executives of well-connected multinational corporations and built-for-subsidy startups that see profit in the loan guarantees, handouts, mandates, and tax credits Congress creates in the name of saving the planet.”

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION INSPECTOR GENERAL investigating agency’s handling of Madoff fraud.

TAXPROF: Laws Taxing Amazon Are “fiscal siren songs, seductive but ultimately forbidden.”

EXPLORING the moral universe of Wonkette.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Some Very Bad American Habits.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD on the grand strategy of Rome, and what we can learn today.

MICKEY KAUS: Chuck Lane catches his colleague Ezra Klein in a moment of intellectual honesty and makes sure he pays for it.

THIS IS NOT THE CHANGE YOU WERE LOOKING FOR: Some Californians Will Have To Decide Between Food and Gas.

OBAMA’S BUDGET targets “dynasty trusts.”

TYLER COWEN: The Fiscal Illusion: “As we fail to make progress on entitlement reform with each passing year, Professor Buchanan’s essentially moral critique of deficit spending looks more prophetic. We are fooling ourselves most of all. United States government debt in public hands is now more than $9 trillion, but most people still don’t realize what it will take to pay that off. . . . The famous Keynesian rejoinder, ‘In the long run we are all dead,’ is less comforting when that long run comes into sight.”

Something that can’t go on forever, won’t. That’s going to be the theme for this decade, I suspect.

HOW POLITICIANS killed the Easy-Bake oven.