VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL: “The EPA Has Violated The Law Here.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Prosthetics That Feel.

NOT SO BAD: A look at the state of the Anglosphere, from Joel Kotkin and Shashi Parulekar. “It’s indisputable that the Anglosphere no longer enjoys the overwhelming global dominance that it once had. What was once a globe-spanning empire is now best understood as a union of language, culture, and shared values. Yet what declinists overlook is that despite its current economic problems, the Anglosphere’s fundamental assets—economic, political, demographic, and cultural—are likely to drive its continued global leadership. The Anglosphere future is brighter than commonly believed.”

MICHAEL BARONE: “I have long been puzzled by the enthusiasm with which many young liberal bloggers cheer on proposals to raise tax rates on high earners. I can understand why they might favor them, but not why they seem to invest so much psychic energy in the issue.”

They’re suffering from status envy.

JAMES TARANTO: Unthinkable Thoughts: How feminism deforms intellectual culture.

When a decent young man professes a desire to marry an old-fashioned girl and take financial responsibility for his family, Yoffe treats him as a deviant. She denounces him as “sexist” even though he is careful to affirm that women have every right to work outside the home if they choose to do so. He mentions nothing about politics, yet she feels compelled to bring Santorum, the feminists’ Emmanuel Goldstein, into the mix.

Yoffe’s hostility to this young man tells us more about elite culture than it does about her personally. (We’ve met her, and she’s perfectly pleasant.) By his account, his female classmates have been indoctrinated with the same rigid ideas about “sexism” that Yoffe expresses in her response.

There’s probably a higher education bubble angle to this, too, somewhere. . . .

READER JOHN MARCOUX WRITES: “I went to the Charleston Gun show recently. The crowd seemed unusually large. Turns out it was the biggest crowd ever for a Mike Kent show in his 25 years of doing shows around the southeast, including Asheville and Myrtle Beach.”

THEOLOGY FROM THE pickup artist crowd.

TEN YEARS AGO ON INSTAPUNDIT: “Last year we had a panel of bigshot songwriters and entertainment lawyers at the law school, and I was moderator. In an effort to stir up some disagreement (since we had people from both the industry and the artist sides) I suggested that the record industry was vulnerable to racketeering charges. I failed miserably: everyone agreed that I was right.”

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CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED: From Jules Crittenden, recommended combat reads. He likes S.M. Stirling’s The Peshawar Lancers, which I remember liking, too.

ROMNEY wins Michigan.

UPDATE: A Big Night For Mitt Romney.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Romney scores two big wins in Arizona and Michigan.

MORE: Bryan Preston comments.

ANN ALTHOUSE’S POLL makes a strong case for Romney.

FIGHTING VIOLENCE ON THE BORDER: Rangers With M-14s in America’s Most Dangerous National Park. “Since 2009, the park has offered van tours to the springs, as long as rangers armed with assault rifles go along to protect the visitors.”

LAWRENCE LINDSEY: Geithner and the ‘Privilege’ of Being American: The Founders argued that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were rights that preceded government—not things to be granted by it.

A ROMNEY WIN IN ARIZONA. Still waiting on Michigan.

THE INSTA-WIFE ON Sandra Tsing-Loh’s daddy issues.

EDWARD NIEDERMEYER: Blind Spot: Electric Cars And “The Freedom Thing.”

PETER INGEMI: Obama not acting like he’s as well-positioned as pundits claim.

UPDATE: John Steakley writes that he called it last year.

JUST IN TIME FOR THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY: The Forgetting Pill Erases Bad Memories Forever:

This new model of memory isn’t just a theory—neuroscientists actually have a molecular explanation of how and why memories change. In fact, their definition of memory has broadened to encompass not only the cliché cinematic scenes from childhood but also the persisting mental loops of illnesses like PTSD and addiction—and even pain disorders like neuropathy. Unlike most brain research, the field of memory has actually developed simpler explanations. Whenever the brain wants to retain something, it relies on just a handful of chemicals. Even more startling, an equally small family of compounds could turn out to be a universal eraser of history, a pill that we could take whenever we wanted to forget anything.

And researchers have found one of these compounds.

In the very near future, the act of remembering will become a choice.

Read the whole thing.

ACT OF VALOR FALLOUT: Suddenly “Message” Movies Are Bad.

DIETS: The Importance of Portion Control. But is the solution really “changes in public policy?”

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FASTER, PLEASE: A Universal Flu Vaccine That Just Might Work. I’ve been following this for a while, and I think it’s very important.

FRACK NATION DOCUMENTARY nears funding goal. “As of today, Ann & Phelim Media has raised $123,090, via 1,731 new subscriber-producers, with 38 days to go, via Kickstarter. We need to keep the momentum up, and the pressure on, because 1) if they don’t get fully funded in the next 38 days, all the money gets returned to the citizen-funders, and 2) it always takes a bit more money to promote a film than anyone thinks, and the finished work has to be pushed out there as aggressively as possible, during this delicate time in our nation’s energy history—particularly if we’re going to truly dig out (or drill out) of this economic quagmire.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: A Third of Students Transfer Before Graduating, and Many Head Toward Community Colleges.