FROM THE INSTA-WIFE, AN ONLINE POLL: How would you feel if you found out you were raising another man’s child? For her book.

UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: Media Matters’ Tax Exempt Status May Face New Scrutiny.

THE NRA LAUNCHES ITS NEW TRIGGER THE VOTE CAMPAIGN with a video featuring R. Lee “Gunny” Ermey.

FELLOWSHIPS for aspiring law professors.

#GREENFAIL: Energy Conversion Devices files for bankruptcy as solar energy lags. “In the latest setback for the solar energy industry, Auburn Hills-based Energy Conversion Devices said today that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and intends to sell its assets, including its main subsidiary United Solar Ovonic. . . . The bankruptcy follows an unsuccessful effort by ECD to find additional capital. In November, the money-losing company suspended manufacturing to cope with high inventory levels and announced the layoffs of 500 employees. Its sales have suffered from cutbacks in solar energy incentives in Europe and a worldwide glut of solar panels. Analysts also said the company’s technology was no longer competitive.”

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Russia Blunders in South Ossetia. “Putin is known as a coldhearted and calculating politician, but if the Kremlin was indeed responsible, this recent incident underscores the fact that Russia still isn’t very good at foreign policy (something Americans have often forgotten since the Cold War).”

IN THE ATLANTIC, REBECCA ROSEN INTERVIEWS REBECCA MACKINNON about her new book, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom. “The fact that anybody can create their own software programs and use them on the Internet, or plug new devices into the Internet, without having to obtain permission or license from any authority is the result of conscious decisions by the people who first created the Internet: decisions that could have been made differently if those creators — working mainly in the United States in the late 60’s — had been working in a different political and cultural context.”

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FIRST THE HIMALAYAS, NOW THIS: The Science is Settled: “Dramatic Claims About Snow Disappearing in the Sierra Just are Not Verified.”

HOLLYWOOD BENDS OVER BACKWARD to accommodate Chinese censorship. Even for films distributed outside of China.

NANNY STATE UPDATE: Preschooler’s Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria “Nuggets:” State agent inspects sack lunches, forces preschoolers to purchase cafeteria food instead. “A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious. The girl’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the agent who was inspecting all lunch boxes in her More at Four classroom that day.”

Tar. Feathers.

HOPE AND CHANGE: Adulthood, Delayed: What Has the Recession Done to Millennials?

I AGREE: “Federal Prosecutors … Should Not Be Able to Hide Behind the Shield of Anonymity When They Make Serious Mistakes.”

MICHAEL BARONE: A Failure Of Imagination Put Washington Metro On Wrong Track. “Believers in central planning should take a look at Washington’s Metro rail transit system. While they will find many things to like, they will also see examples of how central planners — and especially rail transit planners — can get things disastrously and expensively wrong.”

CHANGE: Mortgage Applications Down as Purchase Demand Falls.

EUROPE: North and south split as euro zone economy shrinks.

THE DAILY CALLER: Interesting Nuggets From Media Matters’ Tax Records. My favorite: “Media Matters reported at the end of 2010 that $612,500 of its assets were “restricted” by donors to be applied to ‘gun and public safety issues.’ During this time, The Daily Caller has already reported, Brock’s personal assistant was carrying a holstered and concealed Glock handgun when he accompanied Brock to events.” I’d be surprised if he were carrying it legally, given DC’s restrictive laws.

Meanwhile, a new David Brock theme song. “I got a loaded bodyguard.”

THE HILL: FCC moves to kill LightSquared over GPS interference concerns. “The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved to reject LightSquared’s planned wireless network on Tuesday after the president’s top adviser on telecom issues said there is ‘no practical way’ to prevent the network from disrupting GPS devices.”

TODAY IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS: LAUSD Principal Focuses On Real Miramonte Criminals: The Children. “That both teachers and administrators view parents and students as the enemy is an open secret. But it’s rare that you see it expressed so baldly.”