ROBERT REICH: “Obama Has Handed The Election Over To The Super Rich.”

AND WE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT, IF IT WEREN’T FOR THOSE MEDDLING KIDS: RIAA Chief Whines That SOPA Opponents Were “Unfair.”

ELON MUSK ON SpaceX’s Reusable Rocket Plans.

LIFE AMONG THE RICH: Stanford Campaign Brings In $6.2-Billion, a Record for Higher Education.

Meanwhile, in other higher-education news: Bankruptcy Lawyers Warn of Student-Loan ‘Debt Bomb’ as Client Caseloads Rise.

WILL THE GOVERNMENT PUT MONEY MARKET FUNDS OUT OF BUSINESS? Well, that’s the pattern lately.

SUDAFED SUPPORTERS PUSH BACK:

West Virginia is not the only place in the United States where law enforcement officials are blaming the law-abiding people for a meth problem that already has pushed behind-the-counter Sudafed and other pseudoephedrine-based over-the-counter medications. You have to sign a log and you are limited as to how many Sudafed packets you can have. It is like buying rubbers in the old days.

This is akin to gun control

In 2005, West Virginia adopted these restrictions under the promise that this would end the meth labs. The meth labs grew. Now the state government wants more control — more regulations — more pushing around people whose only “crime” is to have a cold or allergy.

This craziness is spreading.

Doubling down on failure — it’s the government way! But why put up with it?

AT AMAZON, new releases in Camera & Photo. Lots of interesting stuff there. I haven’t bought a new digital camera in a while. I probably should, just to see how the latest stuff stacks up.

Also, today only: SanDisk Cruzer 32 GB USB Flash Drive for $22.99.

MICKEY KAUS: Ending Unionism As We Know It. “The problem with Wagner Act unionism isn’t necessarily that unions aren’t democratic. It’s that they are granted a power–mainly the power to go on strike as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent of a firm’s workers without the strikers getting fired–that maybe they shouldn’t have. The UAW is a democratic union. That didn’t stop it from crippling the auto industry. The problem is that the wrong people voted in the UAW’s democratic elections–not the suppliers who would be hurt when UAW members decided democratically to win themselves inefficient work rules, not the mayors whose towns were decimated, not the taxpayers who had to bail them out (in part to save the suppliers and mayors), and certainly not the customers.”

Well, the customers voted with their wallets and bought Toyotas.

AT RICE UNIVERSITY, free open-source textbooks.

JOSEPH NOCERA: Boy, that Keystone Pipeline decision was a stinker, wasn’t it? But it’s not Obama’s fault. It’s America’s. “I realize that President Obama rejected Keystone because, politically, he had no choice. My guess is that, in his centrist heart of hearts, the president wanted to approve it. But to give the go-ahead before the election was to risk losing the support of the environmentalists who make up an important part of his base. . . . Surely, though, what the Keystone decision really represents is the way our poisoned politics damages the country.”

I WAS ON SHANA PEETE’S SPREECAST last night, talking about the Prop. 8 decision.

MICHAEL BARONE: GOP must show young it’s a party of options.

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler Super Bowl Ad: The Untold Obama Connection. I think Clint may have damaged his brand here. Plus this: “Chrysler’s spot, moreover, wasn’t the only Super Bowl ad that seemed to adopt themes from the Obama reelection campaign’s playbook. GE’s advertisement showed American workers once more on the assembly line turning out industrial projects for domestic consumption, something the president hopes to encourage with his policies. Both ads sounded themes similar to Obama’s in front of the largest audience ever to watch an American television broadcast—111.3 million people.”

Bail ’em out, then they support you. Nice work if you can get it.

GOOD GRIEF: Presidential historian pleads guilty to document theft.

SUSANNAH BRESLIN: How To Get A Freelance Job.

Here’s what emails I get from young men asking for advice are like: self-assured, to the point, confident. Here’s what emails I get from young women asking for advice are like: supplicating, meandering, questioning.

You want to know why women are having a hard time getting ahead? They ask for favors like they don’t deserve them, they don’t know what they want even when they ask for it, they let everyone know that what they’re very, very unsure about is themselves.

Here’s where that gets you: nowhere.

If you don’t act like you believe in yourself, why should someone else?

CHANGE: House Panel Approves Keystone Pipeline Bill. “The bill is the latest GOP-led effort to advance the Alberta-to-Texas pipeline. Republicans are also trying to punish Obama politically ahead of the 2012 election for failing to greenlight the project that GOP lawmakers call a way to create jobs and boost energy security.”

BRYAN PRESTON: It was a good night for Rick Santorum.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: WaPo: Some legislators send millions to groups connected to their relatives.

IT’S LIKE THESE PEOPLE JUST HAVE IT IN FOR THE INTERNET OR SOMETHING: Democrats to continue Internet coup with new cyber bill. “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, following a recent anti-piracy legislative debacle with SOPA and PIPA, will lead his second effort of 2012 to push Internet-regulating legislation, this time in the form of a new cybersecurity bill. The expected bill is the latest attempt by the Democrats to broadly expand the authority of executive branch agencies over the Internet.”

CHINA’S ACHILLES HEEL: With little in the way of force projection, China’s dependence on natural resources in unstable parts of the world could undercut its economic ambitions. There are limits to freeriding.

FREE SPEECH: Government Employer Free to Fire Human Resources Officials Who Publicly Criticize the Propriety of Gay Rights Laws. See, once we stopped persecuting commies, the value of dissent quickly became unappreciated.

EATING LIKE A CAVEMAN. It’s the latest thing!

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Fisker Automotive lays off workers while renegotiating government loan.

MESSAGE: Evil Republicans Will Steal Your Ladyparts!!!! Seems to be a recurring theme.