FREEZING THE FIRST AMENDMENT: Cop Arrests NBC Reporters, Says Your First Amendment Right Can Be Terminated. What’s his name? The police officer’s name should be reported. If I ran a media operation, anytime someone laid hands on one of my reporters, I’d publish his or her name, picture, and disciplinary record. Then I’d file a lawsuit. Every single time.

DEPLOYING SOCIAL PRESSURE IN WISCONSIN: “We have seen the power of a single mailer disclosing the voting behavior of oneself and one’s neighbors.” Ann Althouse comments: “It’s important for people to know when political organizations, like the Greater Wisconsin Political Fund, are deliberately using a psychological manipulation that has been tested and studied. Please, get out the word that mailers like this are trying to mobilize… The Surveillance Effect.”

Have you noticed that the left’s nightmare is a small town where everybody sees and comments on whatever you do, but they try to turn every place into a small town where everybody sees and comments on whatever you do?

PROGRESS IN OBAMA’S WAR ON INEQUALITY: “Last year the US made great strides towards a more equal society: we cut the number of millionaires by more than 100,000. According to a study from the Boston Consulting Group, 129,000 evil US millionaires rejoined the ranks of the proletariat last year as the value of their stocks, cash and other non-business and non-property assets fell below the magic number.”

Leftists are unhappy not that some are poor, but that others are rich.

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THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, Glenn Greenwald would be mocking the White House for prosecuting leakers while engaging in self-serving, politically-motivated leaks itself. And they were right! Hey, rube!

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: GEOPOLITICS, PUTIN STYLE. “According to Germany’s Spiegel, a chill has fallen over German-Russian relations even as summer reaches the far north. The Kremlin’s recent snubbing of German President Joachim Gauck and Putin’s absence at the G8 summit have led to suspicion as to how much swagger the Russian leader will exhibit in the coming months as his EU neighbors struggle. . . . Putin is certainly likely to enjoy some geopolitical benefits as the European Union writhes in its currency woes. But it takes more than weakened neighbors to make a great power. Putin’s Russia is essentially a limited and secondary power in the sense that its own wealth depends large on the prosperity of others. If the world economy slows, the price of oil and gas fall, and the position of whoever rules Russia weakens. The EU might suffer in such a scenario but Russia’s ability to capitalize on its neighbors’ distress will be limited by its own financial weakness.”

4000 TEA PARTIERS RALLY in Caledonia, Wisconsin. Plus, a report from Milwaukee.

Just don’t get cocky.

JIM TREACHER: Smartest. President. Ever.

INDEED: David Kirkham emails:

I walked into Wal-Mart last night to buy some ammo and saw Wal-Mart is selling guns again after years out of the business.

The world is changing.

Yes. I believe they’re even selling Evil Assault Rifles.

NOW THIS IS JUST SAD: GOP Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (Mich.) announced Saturday that he would end his write-in bid for reelection and would finish his term in Congress.

His decision comes after news last week that the five-term lawmaker had failed to collect enough signatures to appear on the ballot in his bid for reelection to the House.

McCotter was quick to acknowledge the misstep saying that the “buck stops with me” and had begun efforts to wage a write-in campaign. . . .

McCotter had suggested that his campaign’s failure to secure 1,000 valid signatures to be on the ballot had been the work of political sabotage. Of the 2,000 signatures submitted, reports said only a few hundred were deemed valid by Michigan state election officials.

The whole thing smells. But somebody should give him a TV show. I’ve seen him on Redeye and he’s got a wicked sense of humor.

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HOW’S THAT BLOGGER-INTIMIDATION THING WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? Stacy McCain Investigates Neal Rauhauser.

UPDATE: If They Accuse You Of It, They’re Probably Doing It.

ANOTHER UPDATE: SWATting Story Again In Big Media.

IN WISCONSIN, another creepy political letter.

DR. MANHATTAN: Our Special-Ed System Favors the Rich (And Romney Has a Plan to Fix It).

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL IS BOGUS: Harvard Law School Fails Our Test: Its Censoring of Our Posters and Blog Betrayed Its Committment to Freedom of Expression.

We expected the Law School administration to be upset about our choice of topic, and timing, in implementing Professor Sunstein’s suggestions about how to ensure consideration of a diversity of information in the marketplace of ideas, via paper-based communication with passersby. We expected some sort of counter-speech (though we heard none). What we didn’t expect was something reminiscent of George Orwell’s novel 1984 — that the Harvard Law School administration would respond by censoring our speech, and acting to erase it from the historical record.

We didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition.

Nobody ever does, kid. Nobody ever does.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 3 Ways To Get Better Customer Service Using Social Media. “Your CEO may have a compensation package that’s bigger than what 100 of us make in a year, but our viruses? Man, are they contagious.”

WISCONSIN: Dana Loesch Interviews Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefish.

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Bear disrupts Bakersfield graduation, forces playground evacuation. “A young black bear nearly crashed a middle school graduation Thursday morning when it wandered over a fence and onto an adjacent Bakersfield elementary school playground, scattering students and providing a spectacle for parents.”

U.C. BERKELEY DEAN CHRIS EDLEY ON The Great American Public Law School of the Future.

THE PROBLEM WITH AIRLINE SEATS.

Changes are happening now, as major U.S. carriers look for new ways to pump up profits by either adding to or reducing the number of coach seats, increasing legroom or cutting the distance between rows.

You might call it a game of aeronautical chairs that will directly affect passenger comfort, convenience and cost.

Two experts with inside knowledge of the airline seat industry– a vice president at a seat manufacturer and a nationally recognized expert in the study of body measurements — recently talked frankly about some of the reasons behind the anger and discomfort.

Are the seats getting smaller? Closer together? Are passengers getting bigger? Are we getting angrier?

Well, no. Yes. Yes. And it’s unclear.

Read the whole thing.

IS FACEBOOK LOSING ITS COOLNESS? Some teens aren’t liking Facebook as much as older users.

LIVING OFF THE GRID in a mail-order home. “House Arc is designed to be put together like a piece of Ikea furniture, according to Bellomo. In other words, anyone with moderate carpentry skills should be able to assemble it. If the home is no longer needed, it can also easily be taken apart and shipped somewhere else.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Economics of High-End Prostitutes. “I look back on my post from a year ago and recognise my ignorance: high-end prostitutes do have a unique skill-set.”

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