HEY, LET’S NOT BE HASTY HERE. . . . White House Says Keystone Pipeline Still Possible.

ED DRISCOLL: Global Warming Causes Amnesia.

GENE HEALY: “Nobody who wants the presidency too badly ought to be trusted with it.”

PREEMPTIVE STRIKE: Democrats target likely veep pick Sen. Rubio. “Democrats have started to wage a political assault against Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and the intensity of their attacks will intensify in the coming weeks. Senior officials in the Democratic Party anticipate that Mitt Romney will win the Republican presidential nomination and then tap Rubio to be his running mate.”

CHARLIE MARTIN: Watch The Other Hand.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College At Risk.

NITS MAKE LICE: James Taranto eviscerates Charles Blow’s anti-Mormon bigotry. Have you no decency, sir? No decency at all?

TODAY’S DAILY $1.99 Kindle Book Deal.

EUGENE VOLOKH: “I don’t think that we’re in danger of losing our free speech rights because some people say things that are offensive to Muslims. I do think that free speech rights are in danger when judges berate alleged crime victims for their anti-Islam speech, and thus convey the message that the legal system may be biased against those who engage in such speech and may fail to protect those people because of such speech.”

The judge needs to find a new line of work that’s in line with his capabilities. Barista is a stretch, I think. But let’s be honest here. This is fear masquerading as broadmindedness. It’s all about the beheadings. So if you want respect for your religion, start beheading people. That’s the real message.

MEGAN MCARDLE: Why I Still Think We Should Eliminate The Corporate Income Tax. “I think the thing’s horribly inefficient–companies and rich people spend an exorbitant amount of time arranging their affairs to be lower-taxed, rather than more productive. Taxing capital once, when it hits a person, as ordinary income, would in one fell swoop eliminate most of the tax-avoidance activity that goes on in this country. It’s also not necessarily as progressive as its proponents think.”

Plus this: “If we really hate corporate power, we’d probably want to look at the things that entrench it–like heavy regulatory burdens that are more easily borne by large, powerful companies. But this is not an argument that ever gets much traction outside of some economists, and the libertarian community. Which makes me think that the corporate income tax is largely expressive–we like policies which penalize corporations, particularly big ones, regardless of their actual effect on corporate power.”

AT LAW & LIBERTY: Duplicity and Diversity in Higher Education.

UNSUCCESSFUL VATICAN ATTACK provides insight into Anonymous.

AGAIN? Threatening mailings containing suspicious powder hit Capitol Hill.

REDESIGNING PEOPLE: How Medical Technology Could Expand Beyond The Injured.

Last fall at the TEDMED meeting in San Diego I watched a man walk who was paralyzed from the waist down. Injured a year earlier, Paul Thacker hadn’t been able to stand since breaking his back in a snowmobile accident. Yet here he was walking, thanks to an early-stage exoskeleton device attached to his legs.

This wasn’t exactly on the level of “exos” we’ve seen in sci-fi films like Avatar and Aliens, which enable people to run faster, carry heavier loads, and smash things better. But Thacker’s device, called eLEGS — manufactured by Ekso Bionics in Berkeley, California — is one harbinger of what’s coming in the next decade or two to treat the injured and the ill with radical new technologies.

Other portents include first-generation machines and treatments that range from deep brain implants that can stop epileptic seizures to stem cells that scientists are using experimentally to repair damaged retinas.

No one would deny that these technologies, should they fulfill their promise, are anything but miraculous for Paul Thacker and others who need them. Yet none of this technology is going to remain exclusively in the realm of pure therapeutics. Even now some are breaking through the barrier between remedies for the sick and enhancements for the healthy.

Faster, please.

#OCCUPYFAIL: Ben & Jerry’s Forgainst Huge Corporate Salaries of the One Percent.

DOWNGRADE: Greece Cut to Selective Default by S&P.

Related: Yen Rises Versus Euro as Standard & Poor’s Cuts Greek Ratings.

NONPROFITS: Reader Kate Nguyen sends a link to Sand Soldiers of America.

HMM: Secret memo suggests White House ignored SOS from Iranian opposition.

SEXISM FROM THE LEFT: “That is a depiction of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser. Why show him as a female? Some lefty is confused. Trying to denounce Prosser, he has unwittingly expressed the opinion that to be female is to be debased and inferior.” Well, if you look at the Occupy-camp rape rate, this isn’t such a surprise.

TEN YEARS AGO ON INSTAPUNDIT: “Is it possible that Paul Krugman, smart, virtuous, incorruptible Paul Krugman, was fooled by a Hollywood set and a group of play-acting middle managers and secretaries?”

WHAT’S WRONG WITH NEBRASKA? “Santorum leads Obama in the swing states, 50% to 45%, and nationwide 49% to 46%. This gives him an edge of three percentage points over Romney, whose swing-state lead is 48% to 46% and who ties the president nationally at 47%.” Wait, I thought he was an unelectable extremist. . . .

I’m not a fan of Santorum, whose big-government social conservatism is pretty much orthogonal to my own views. But I’m not convinced that he’s as out of touch with the views of American voters as his media critics think.

HAVE YOU NO DECENCY? Politicizing the Ohio School Shooting.

Remember that whole “new civility” thing? Me neither.

WHAT YOU MISSED ON MSNBC: MSNBC host Rachel Maddow’s new favorite word: ‘Vaginal.’

PAUL BEDARD: Mainstream media scream: Schieffer’s bow to Obama.

THAT’S COOL: Not one, but two Oscar winners from the Knoxville area.