A REWARD FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE ARREST OF THE THUG WHO PUNCHED STEVEN CROWDER. I’ve pledged $1K toward this. Zero tolerance for this crap.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Best Used Cars For Every Need.

STEVE CROWDER SENDS THIS FOOTAGE OF HIM BEING ASSAULTED BY UNION THUGS IN MICHIGAN. Crowder emails: “The video is self explanatory. I was sucker-punched 4 times on camera, without retaliation, choked, and the AFP tent is torn to the ground with women and children inside of it. Extremely violent footage. Please post for truth.” It’s also rich listening to the union guy yell about “parasites” and “freeloaders.” Don’t they know those words are racist?

The video shows numerous union representatives engaging in violent, illegal conduct. Their faces are clearly identifiable. I hope they will be prosecuted, and sued.

And will President Obama condemn this violent behavior?

UPDATE: Michael Lotus writes:

No matter what Obama does, there is going to be a lot more of this.

These guys are out of ideas, out of money, and have no sane argument to make for what they want everyone else to pay for.

Thank God for camera phones. Even ten years ago, they would have done a lot worse, and gotten away with it.

And to answer your question, my guess is Obama says nothing and the news media does not cover it, which means it never happened.

Or it would mean that if it weren’t for camera phones and the Internet.

Crowder showed good restraint. If he had thrown a punch, he’d have been stomped to death.

We need to identify this guy and make an example of him. And his union bosses. I’ve pledged $1000 toward the reward fund.

MIKE RIGGS: President Obama Is Now to the Right of Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels on Marijuana Policy.

MOE LANE STANDS wholeheartedly behind Electoral College Reform.

A QUESTION FOR THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: Is the U.S. Government Really A Spy Machine?

HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: Data mining may be used to cheat on restrictions on Affirmative Action.

UNDERWORLD: Rez Cowgirl.

And, inevitably, this. I love the guy in the footlights with the Canon GL-2. I remember when that was cutting-edge. I still have mine. Helen and I used it as a high-quality webcam, together with a Verizon EVDO card, to provide live video coverage of some early Tea Party rallies. But now I want a lager.

By the way, if you’re looking for a great live techno concert video — and who isn’t? — I recommend Underworld’s Everything Everything.

I also highly recommend the techno documentary Better Living Through Circuitry. I would say that it’s a little dated, but it doesn’t really lose anything for that.

110 PREDICTIONS for the next 110 Years.

DAVE CLARKE AND CHICKS ON SPEED: Disgraceland. “Well, I took a spin on the celebrity couch.”

Not to be confused with Disgraceland Records.

And here’s a whole Dave Clarke live set.

POLITICAL VIOLENCE: “Question No One Is Asking: Will Obama Demand Union Members Behave Peacefully, Or Will He Bless Their Violence With Silence?”

INFLIGHT ELECTRONICS: Even the FCC Thinks It’s Dumb That We Have To Turn Off Electronic Devices During Takeoff.

ILLINOIS: Big win for gun-rights groups: Federal appeals court tosses state ban on carrying concealed weapons.

THE CARNIVAL OF SPACE IS UP!

PROFESSOR JACOBSON IS COVERING the Michigan Right To Work Protests. Or, more accurately, the Michigan protests against the right to work. So they’re anti-rights protesters!

Meanwhile, Michigan Democrats are threatening violence: “There will be blood.” So they’re violent anti-rights protesters!

You’d think this would get more national press, but then, lots of journalists are union members and hence have a conflict of interest.

UPDATE: Thugs follow-through with violence; AFP tent stormed, Steven Crowder punched.

Related: Teacher’s Union Protesting With Misspelled Sign.

MORE: Video: Democrats Threaten Violence on Michigan House Floor.

“Michigan has both the highest unionization and unemployment rates in the Midwest.” Coincidence?

EMILY ESFAHANI SMITH: Let’s Give Chivalry Another Chance. Just remember, chivalry was a system, which imposed behavioral expectations on women as well as men.

RICHARD EPSTEIN: Memo to SCOTUS: Cut the FDA Down to Size.

SAY, MAYBE MAYOR BLOOMBERG AND HIS “PUBLIC HEALTH” FOLKS SHOULD TURN THEIR ATTENTION FROM SODAS TO ACTUAL PUBLIC HEALTH: Study Shows Soaring STD Rates In Many Areas Of New York City.

LIMITS OF THE POLICE POWER: Dave Kopel asks: Does any government have the legitimate power to ban medical marijuana?

His analysis is based on an article that he and I wrote a while back.

KATRINA ON THE HUDSON, NOW WITH EXTRA BUREAUCRACY: NYC Housing Authority Misses Big On Sandy.

FEMA is still picking up the pieces from Hurricane Sandy more than a month after the storm hit New York City. Although most of the city has returned to normal, federal disaster employees continue to find distressed people, often the elderly and disabled, trapped in apartments in the farthest corners of the city. Federal and city authorities are now assessing what exactly went wrong. Much of the blame thus far lies with the city Housing Authority, which is charged with managing city-owned housing and preparing for exactly this sort of catastrophe.

A new feature in the New York Times explores just how unprepared and ineffective the Housing Authority was in tackling the largest disaster the city has seen since 9/11. . . . The article compiles an overwhelming list of failures: signs of deep incompetence, political game-playing and multilayer bureaucratic failure on the part of the Housing Authority. Faced with a serious crisis, the agency failed miserably in doing its most basic job—not so much because of a lack of money as because of slothful management and an inefficient, ossified bureaucratic culture. The Housing Authority after Sandy did exactly what bureaucracies usually do: it covered its rear, staged heartwarming photos for the press, and shamefully neglected the poor and the helpless it was supposed to serve. In other words, it behaved much like a failing public school, or any other blue model institution out of its depth and focused mostly on preserving its routine as the real world crumbles around it.

Disgraceful. But hardly surprising.

AN EMBARRASSING METRIC DISAPPEARS: Why are government statistics on taxpayer migration being discontinued? “The IRS and the U.S. Census Bureau (which provides technical support in reporting tax migration data) have not made an official announcement as to why the program is being discontinued. So we are left to speculate why such vital economic statistics suddenly got canceled. . . . The very idea of people voting with their feet is uncomfortable to some politicians.”

Hayek: “Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis of unfavorable comparisons with elsewhere, the knowledge of possible alternatives to the course actually taken, information which might suggest failure on the part of the government to live up to its promises or to take advantage of opportunities to improve conditions–all will be suppressed. There is consequently no field where the systematic control of information will not be practiced and uniformity of views not enforced.”

From The Road To Serfdom.

I BLAME BUSH: Cayman Islands Premier Arrested. Charges against Premier McKeeva Bush include misuse of government credit cards and importation of explosives.

AT AMAZON, Warehouse Deals in Pet Products.

Also, today only: Assassin’s Creed III for $33 plus get three $3 Amazon Credits.

HMM: ATF Ruling On Sporting Purposes Exemption To Armor Piercing Ammunition.