THOUGHTS ON LBJ.

“SMART DIPLOMACY:” On “Targeted Killing” Speech, Eric Holder Strikes Out. My own take is that Holder has little credibility on any subject at this point, so it doesn’t much matter what he says.

MATT WELCH: The Symbolic Presidency: Obama says he can get you a job. So why can’t he produce a federal budget?

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“THE INTERNET WAS HIS RITALIN:” D.C. Remembers Andrew Breitbart. In place of this week’s InstaVision, a video Helen and I did in DC this weekend. I was the cameraman, she did the interviews.

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED. YOU CAN’T ARGUE WITH SCIENCE. Charles Lane: Electric cars and liberals’ refusal to accept science.

The electric vehicle flop also illuminates a point about science — or the politics of science.

Democrats and liberals are fond of calling their conservative and Republican adversaries “anti-science.” To the extent that the right espouses “creation science,” or disputes established facts about environmental degradation, it’s an appropriate label.

But progressives’ fascination with electric cars and other alternative-energy schemes reflects their own refusal to face the practical limitations of alternative energy — limitations that themselves reflect stubborn scientific facts.

Nobody tell Chris Mooney!

SLOUCHING TO VICTORY: Mitt Romney wins six on Super Tuesday but gets labelled a loser.

Poor old Mitt Romney.

He wins six out of 10 states on Super Tuesday and a clear majority of the delegates available. He overcomes a 12-point opinion poll deficit in Ohio to narrowly beat Rick Santorum, who wins only three states.

In terms of delegates – the only measure that really counts – Romney is on 386, Santorum on 158, Newt Gingrich on 94 and Ron Paul on 60. He’s still far short of the 1,144 delegates needed to secure the Republican nomination, but that’s because of the proportional system introduced by the Republican party this year.

On Super Tuesday, according to RCP’s Erin McPike, he added to his vote total making it 3.2 million votes to Santorum’s 1.9 million. Thus far, he’s won 14 states to Santorum’s six, Gingrich’s two and Ron Paul’s zero.

Yet this is portrayed as Romney’s “worst night yet”, a “bad night”, as “winning ugly” and his candidacy is branded “lethargic”. Even the most favourable takes on the Super Tuesday results stress that he hasn’t sealed the deal with conservatives, that he’s outspent his rival fourfold but is still only just beating them and that the Obama campaign is delighted with life.

So what’s going on?

A lot.

MICHAEL BARONE: On Iran and Entitlements, Obama Kicks The Can Down The Road.

HMM: Obama loses Dem primary in 15 Oklahoma counties.

MICHELLE KNOWS BEST: Pink Slime For School Lunch: Government Buying 7 Million Pounds Of Ammonia-Treated Meat For Meals. “Pink slime — that ammonia-treated meat in a bright Pepto-bismol shade — may have been rejected by fast food joints like McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Burger King, but is being brought in by the tons for the nation’s school lunch program.”

When the government gives it to you, it’s good for you. My favorite line: “We originally called it soylent pink.”

UH OH: We’re underestimating the risk of human extinction.

I agree, which is why I think space colonization and settlement is essential.

NICK GILLESPIE: It’s Like Totally Different When a Liberal Blowhard Guy Calls a Conservative Woman a Twat!

But if Noah’s catalog of rancid liberal misogyny is incomplete, is he right that Fluke isn’t a public figure and hence not fair game? She’s not as famous or all growed up as, say Hillary Clinton or Laura Ingraham (“a right-wing slut” according to MSNBC populist Ed Schultz), but even Noah notes that she’s a political activist. But that’s besides the point: How does being, I don’t know, a syndicated columnist such as Michelle Malkin, make it less fucked up that Matt Taibbi wants to put “a big, hairy set of balls in her mouth”? The point isn’t that Rush Limbaugh is a bigger tool than liberals who resort to sad-sack sexist japes. It’s that there’s something seriously fucked up with all of that sort of thing. Especially when you’re pretending to be serious thinkers or writers or commentators.

Noah’s second reason for why Limbaugh needs to be held to a different standard is also odd: El Rushbo has more divisions than the Pope when it comes to commanding a Dittohead Army or something. If asked about it, any pol should dismiss such dumb comments, as should listeners. What exactly that has to do with, say NPR favorite Marc Maron’s comments about hate-fucking Michelle Bachmann, I don’t know.

If you’ve ever needed a reason to rethink dumb attachments to the left-right, liberal-conservative Manicheanism at the heart of conventional politics, the sort of idiotic Team Red vs. Team Blue mentality underscored by Noah’s need to exonerate the misogyny of his ideological allies should give you something to ponder.

Or, you know, ignore.

SHOCKER: Exit polls: Gas prices, economy are top Super Tuesday issues. “Seven in 10 voters in the seven Super Tuesday states that hold primaries said the price of gas was an important topic in deciding who to vote for in the GOP presidential primary, according to CBS News. Southern states seemed to care most about gas prices: in Georgia, 81 percent said it was the top issue in deciding, while in Oklahoma, 79 percent said it was the most important. In Tennessee, 77 percent it was important. The Associated Press found that the economy was also a top issue influencing voters as they went to the polls.”

OOPS: Investors Flee Carbonite After Limbaugh Announcement.

TEN YEARS AGO ON INSTAPUNDIT: “I SAID THERE WAS A CULTURE-SHIFT on guns after 9/11, and here’s more evidence: Harvard Law Students have started a shooting club. Follow the link for photos of an ethnically diverse group of sometimes-machine-gun wielding law students, and assorted gun information.”

A NEW WEBSITE: BeBreitbart.com.

SARAH PALIN TO OBAMA: If Rush Was Offensive, Why Are You Taking Money From Bill Maher?

BLAME CANADA: For lower prices at the pump.

SUPER TUESDAY ROUNDUP: All the results here.

BILL QUICK: “Why are conservatives always surprised when they discover that leftists are fighting a war to the death with them, and all’s fair in war?”

CARBONITE STOCK PRICE not looking so good. It set a new, and much lower, 52-week low today and barely recovered at all by close.

UPDATE: Reader Mike Puckett writes: “Not even Han Solo would touch Carbonite now!” I don’t think he was that happy touching it before.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Barry Dauphin writes:

Hey Glenn,

Bill Maher is now defending Limbaugh, saying he apologized and Maher hates intimidation by sponsor pull outs—LOL

Wonder if he’s feeling the pinch of HBO cancellations.

Hmm.

HOW TO START AN INDOOR GARDEN.

Related: Container vegetable gardening.

IF THESE GADGETS ARE GOING TO PLAY THE ECONOMIC ROLE SOME ENVISION, THERE’LL HAVE TO BE BETTER SECURITY: Eavesdropping Antennas Can Steal Your Smart Phone’s Secrets.

SO IF YOU WANT TO CANCEL YOUR CABLE/HBO AND GET A ROKU BOX, here’s one for a mere $50.99. For added mischief, when you cancel cable, you can tell the company that it’s because of Bill Maher . . . .

But it goes beyond Maher. Give your money to people you like. Don’t give it to the people you don’t. Don’t make that a short-term boycott, make it a long-term strategy.

Meanwhile, reader Allen Covert writes:

I dropped all HBO channels from my satellite package yesterday. It took five minutes on the phone. My dvd player came with netflix and amazon so I can see almost any movie I want when I want.

Yes, there are all kinds of gadgets that support this.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: “Will there ever be a TV show that portrays Christians as normal, decent, struggling and complicated human beings?” “Any racial or ethnic group in this country as negatively portrayed on primetime TV would be up in arms–and rightly so.” Actually, Big Bang Theory does pretty well. . . .