JIM DUNNIGAN: Endgame For Khadaffi: “Out of approximately 50,000 regular troops, only a hardcore of about 5,000 soldiers and special forces can be considered reliable, and it’s simply impossible to retain dictatorial control over a population of almost 7,000,000 people with only a single brigade of soldiers. It is now out of the question as to whether the government can retake the entire country. It can only hold out for as long as possible.”

OUT: STAY-AT-HOME WIVES. In: Stay-at-home girlfriends.

SPY MAGAZINE, back issues now online via Google Books.

NICK GILLESPIE: Why The Evil Koch Brothers Must Be Stopped: They Support Drug Legalization, Gay Marriage, Reduced Defense Spending. Kind of an odd target for lefty demonization, but hey, you gotta find your Emmanuel Goldstein somewhere.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Rise Of The Adolescent Mind. “There are lots of issues involved in Wisconsin, in the impending financial and fuel crises, and in the sense of American impotency abroad. Yet a common denominator is a national adolescence, in which we want what we have not earned. We demand the world be the way that it cannot; and we don’t wish to hear ‘unfair’ arguments from ‘bad’ and ‘mean’ people.”

2012 INFINITI M HYBRID to start at $53,700.

TUNING OUT: Student protests fizzle at UWSP today.

UPDATE: At Memeorandum, a roundup of union-protest thuggery.

AMAZON PRIME INSTANT VIDEO: A comparison with Hulu, Netflix, etc.

ORGANIC MICROPROCESSORS and bendable microchips.

IN THE MAIL: In Fire Forged: Worlds of Honor V and Golden Reflections.

UNION VIOLENCE VS. THE TEA PARTY: The News Hounds That Didn’t Bark.

Note that the Newspaper Guild is part of the Communications Workers of America.

And guess what: The thug who assaulted Tabitha Hale was from the Communications Workers of America. So it’s no surprise that we’re not seeing as much reportage as the story might otherwise warrant.

UPDATE: From Tabitha Hale: “They’ve been comparing themselves to the Egyptians ousting Mubarak. Looks like they’re not too far off, given that they share the tendency to assault women with cameras.” And to have those assaults covered up by the press.

SHUTTLE LAUNCH COVERAGE at SpaceTimesNews.

M. SIMON: “What is going on in Wisconsin is the bursting of the lower education bubble. You heard it here first.”

DAVID BERNSTEIN ON OBAMA’S DOMA CONTRADICTION:

According to news reports, while Justice will not defend DOMA in Court, the Administration will continue to enforce DOMA until it’s declared unconstitutional by the judiciary.

Wait a second! If the Executive Branch is asserting the authority to engage in independent constitutional review of an existing law, and the president decides that the law is unconstitutional, it strikes me that the Executive Branch has no business enforcing this unconstitutional law.

So I take the Obama Administration to task not for asserting executive review here, which is at least arguably proper, but for trying to split the baby in half, and declaring that it won’t defend an unconstitutional law, but will enforce it. And not just any unconstitutional law, but one regarding which the Administration claims there are no “reasonable” supporting arguments.

Yes, you take an oath to enforce the Constitution. This may give the President the authority to enforce the Constitution as he sees it, but it surely doesn’t give the President the authority to choose not to enforce the Constitution as he sees it.

TOM MAGUIRE ON Obama’s precedents.

TALKING CARS with the Car Lust guys.

A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON for Charles Manson?

UPDATE: Several readers email that Manson was convicted only of state offenses. If that’s true — and I think it probably is, though I don’t know much about the case beyond the famous facts — then he’s barking up the wrong tree, as the President can only issue pardons for federal offenses.

TRANSPARENCY! POLITICO: Lobbyists: White House sends meetings off-site to hide them.

SOMETHING ROTTEN IN NEW ROCHELLE? Blogger Robert Cox gets a death threat.

JENNIFER RUBIN: Walker Is Winning In Wisconsin. Plus, a vote on requiring Photo ID for voters.

USE THE INTERNET as your law library. An amusing story.

TODAY ONLY: A scanner for your photos, for $34.95.

UPDATE: Reader George Fillmore writes: “Looked like a good deal until I read the comments- maybe it’s still a good deal, but I’m going to pass on it- I’ve got a ton of photos to scan in and I guess I’ll just keep on lifting the lid and place the photos on the glass.” I went ahead and ordered one. For the price I figured it was worth taking a chance, and I can take this to older relatives’ homes and scan their stuff to the memory card there, then burn it to CDs or print at home.

INSTAVISION: Downgrading Tuition Costs: How One University Is Bursting the Higher Education Bubble. I talk to John McCardell, President of the University of the South at Sewanee, about Sewanee’s decision to cut tuition 10%, and what it portends. (Bumped up).

THOUGHTS ON the Tea Party’s Second Anniversary.

PROF. JACOBSON: All Your Thoughts Are Belong To Us. This is what the defense of ObamaCare has become. More here.

Plus, a Nena reference.