HOW DONALD TRUMP IS HURTING OBAMA.

THE HILL: Groups say AT&T merger is Job killer.

FIRST AMENDMENT AND COMMERCE-CLAUSE LIMITS on “Amazon laws.”

CHANGE: Claire McCaskill’s Private Airplane Now For Sale After Tax Scandal.

PROPAGANDA: Big Dollar Effort To Defend ObamaCare Falls Short.

BYRON YORK: White House: Libya fight is not war, it’s ‘kinetic military action.’ Well, okay then.

FILE A RECORDS REQUEST, face assassination: “These attempts seem to stem from angry government officials that were suspended due to the incriminating evidence that was unearthed under the Act.”

WHY OBAMACARE remains unpopular.

THE HILL: Dem lawmaker says Supreme Court may nix individual mandate.

“A VIRTUAL LIVE-ACTION HERO:” Japan tsunami scuba rescue. “Akaiwa said he was at work a few miles away when the tsunami hit, and he rushed back to find his neighborhood inundated with up to 10 feet of water. Not willing to wait until the government or any international organization did, or did not, arrive to rescue his wife of two decades — whom he had met while they were surfing in a local bay — Akaiwa got hold of some scuba gear. He then hit the water, wended his way through the debris and underwater hazards and managed to reach his house, from which he dragged his wife to safety.” But that was just the beginning.

MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE EURO-CRISIS: Portuguese Premier Resigns After Austerity Is Rejected. “The parliament’s rejection of austerity measures—as well as Socrates’ resignation—comes just a day before a European summit. Socrates has said rejection of the austerity plan would force the debt-laden country to follow Greece and Ireland and seek an international bailout, which he opposes.”

JIM TREACHER: Is Howard Dean a hypocrite? YEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHH!!!

AFTER HER 9/11 AND HOUSING DEBACLE BACKGROUND who better for FBI Director than Jamie Gorelick?

Gorelick served as vice chairman of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) when the government-sponsored enterprise began bundling subprime loans into securitized financial instruments. Prior to that, she served as deputy attorney general in the Clinton Justice Department under then-Attorney General Janet Reno from 1994 to 1997. . . . But Gorelick is perhaps best known for her 1995 memo, written when she was deputy attorney general, that later became known as “Gorelick’s Wall,” a policy prescription limiting the flow of information between intelligence gatherers and criminal investigators that some believe helped allow the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center to go unchallenged.

Gorelick also got sweetheart loans from Countrywide. Hey, who better to be in charge of law enforcement for this administration? Did I mention her views on the Duke lacrosse false-rape accusations?

UPDATE: A reader emails: “The story here in Chicagoland is: Patrick Fitzgerald is on the short list. Fitzgerald stepped in and stopped Blago from incriminating too many Obama people. I highly doubt Jamie Gorelick could get appointed to anything, it’s a miracle she isn’t in jail.”

It’s a miracle, but a promotion would be in keeping with her entire career.

ANOTHER UPDATE: “No.”

DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS VISUALIZED: “(aka The New York Times Is Delusional).”

Related: “Now that the NYT paywall is up . . . when I want to blog about a basic news story — e.g., Elizabeth Taylor has died — I go to the Washington Post site, or other standard news site. For the last 7 years of blogging, I nearly always went to the NYT, linking several times a day. That’s over.”

I MENTIONED A WHILE BACK that Saul Levmore was visiting at UT Law. Here’s video of his speech.

WITH THE WORLD IN CRISIS, DON’T WORRY: The Oval Office is manned!

Okay, it’s an old photo, but I couldn’t resist.

Related: Hypocrisy On The Fly: Obama Does Latin America.

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE ON SELF-PUBLISHING LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP. That’s pretty much what happens with drafts on SSRN already.

NOW IN THE BASEMENT: I can report that the weather radio went off and warned us of a tornado warning several minutes before the TV did.

THOUGHTS ON libertarian purity.

AT AMAZON, markdowns in Kitchen & Dining.

FLIP, MEET FLOP: Howard Dean: You know what’s sometimes worth doing? Military intervention in the Middle East. Plus, from the comments: “And then we’re going to Bahrain, and Qatar, and Kuwait, and UAE, and Saudi Arabia….YEEEEAARRGH!” Heh.

HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD PALESTINE? New Anti-Israel Movie Premieres At The U.N.

MORE REPORTING ON Henry Granju’s death.

VIDEO: Rumsfeld: If you’re wondering who to thank for Gaddafi’s lack of nukes …

NEW TRENDS IN Arab Anti-Semitism.