“SPECTRUM CRUNCH” MAY SLOW U.S. MOBILE REVOLUTION. The network coverage is great, but the networks are kinda thin. This is beginning to show up in things like the end of unlimited data deals.

COMPUTER SECURITY: Is The Antivirus Era Over?

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: It’s Obama, Not Romney, Who’s Stuck In The 1950s.

The 1950s and 1960s — taxes were high, unions were strong, incomes more equal. And the U.S. economy grew by 3.7% a year. So, Obama seems to suggest, let’s just dial up the economic Way Back Machine — raise taxes on the rich, reregulate industry, boost union power – and we can go back to the future.

But there’s no going back, Mr. President. The post-World War II decades were affected by a host of unique factors, not the least of which was that they came right after a devastating global war that left America’s competitors in ruins. A National Bureau of Economic Research study described the situation this way: “At the end of World War II, the United States was the dominant industrial producer in the world. … This was obviously a transitory situation.”

And as former Bain Capital executive Edward Conard notes in his new book, Unintended Consequences, the size of the U.S. labor force was constrained during those decades by both the 1930s baby bust and casualties from the war. So a surge in jobs and a restricted supply of labor produced fat wage growth. Hoping for a return to that era is futile, Conard concludes.

Indeed.

IF ONLY SOMEONE HAD ASKED OBAMA ABOUT THAT YESTERDAY. OH, WAIT. . . WaPo wonders: What will hundreds of thousands of job permits do to the economy? “We’re not creating enough jobs to keep up with population growth as it is. With this new policy in place, Obama will introduce hundreds of thousands of suddenly-eligible workers into an economy with an 8.2% nominal unemployment rate, a 14.8% U-6 un/underemployed rate, with a civilian participation rate that has plummeted from 65.7% at the start of the Obama recovery in June 2009 (the same as it was when he took office, too) to 63.8%, lower than it was when Reagan faced his first midterm election. Those who are already struggling to find jobs are not only going to face more competition for those slots, the glut of labor will depress entry-level wages even further.”

But that’s okay: “Don’t make the mistake of dismissing the short-term benefits of this move for Barack Obama.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Too Many Biomedical Graduates, Not Enough Jobs.

TWEETING TRUTH TO POWER: Michelle Malkin on Twitter Domination.

THE MOON STILL BECKONS: To Russia, Anyway.

ILYA SOMIN: Do Government Subsidies for Health Care Justify Paternalistic Soda Pop Regulations?

I think paternalistic soda pop regulations justify banning government subsidies for health care.

AT AMAZON, it’s the Car Electronics Outlet Sale.

RADLEY BALKO: Myths and Misconceptions About Indiana’s New Self-Defense Law.

Contrary to the impression one might get from some recent headlines, a new Indiana self-defense law does not authorize Hoosiers to wantonly open fire on police officers.

The Week ran the headline “The Indiana law that lets citizens shoot cops.”

The Russian cable news network site RT went with “Indiana legalizes shooting cops.” Bloomberg News was only slightly less sensational with its headline: “NRA-Backed Law Spells Out When Indianans May Open Fire On Police.” . . .

Fortunately, the law does nothing of the kind.

The changes to the law resulted from a widely criticized Indiana State Supreme Court ruling, Barnes v. State, in May 2011. The situation that triggered the court case (an appeal of a criminal conviction) resulted from an 2007 incident in which police responded to a 911 call about possible domestic violence.

After Richard Barnes had a verbal altercation with police, his wife pleaded with him to let officers into their home. Barnes refused. The police entered anyway. Barnes responded by shoving an officer to prevent him from coming inside. Barnes was arrested, charged and convicted of battery on a police officer, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. He appealed, arguing that because the officers’ entry into his home was illegal, he was permitted to use force to prevent them from coming inside.

The Indiana Supreme Court could have simply ruled that as a result of the call, Barnes’ state of mind and his wife’s pleas provided exigent circumstances for police to enter the Barnes’ home legally. Instead, the court went much further, finding that “there is no right to reasonably resist unlawful entry by police officers.” The court even acknowledged that this unraveled hundreds of years of common law precedent.

The ruling effectively barred anyone accused of using force against a police officer, for any reason, from arguing self-defense or the defense of others at a trial. At the time, critics pointed out that with the ruling, a man who uses force against a police officer who is raping his wife would not be allowed to argue in court that he was defending his family. The battered spouse of a police officer who fends off her husband could in theory be arrested and, under the ruling, wouldn’t be permitted to argue self-defense.

While those scenarios may seem far-fetched, a bad prosecutor sympathetic to a wayward officer could easily make them a reality. . . . The Castle Doctrine law says that if someone has entered or is attempting to enter your home without your consent, you’re legally permitted to use a reasonable amount of force to expel the intruder from your residence. If you reasonably believe your life or members of your family are in danger, you can use lethal force. The revision to Indiana’s law simply states that public servants aren’t exempt from such treatment. . . . So why are Indiana’s police officials so worried? Like any interest group, police organizations are designed to support policies that benefit their members. If you have a state court ruling that says citizens can never use force against police officers even when one flagrantly violates the law, it isn’t difficult to see why police groups would aggressively oppose any legislation to override that ruling. . . . In seven years of reporting on paramilitary-style drug raids, I’ve reviewed cases where police officers have shot and killed innocent people after mistaking a blue cup or a glinting wristwatch for a gun. In nearly all of these situations the officers were cleared because prosecutors determined that given all the circumstances, the officers had made a reasonable error in judgment. Now in Indiana, the citizens on the receiving end of these raids will be given the same consideration.

Police should not enjoy any special privileges in the use of force, or in the unlawful entry to private property. In my opinion, they shouldn’t even enjoy official immunity, a doctrine that is as clear an example of judicial activism as anything in the law. Well, except maybe judicial immunity.

IS OUR SENSE OF SELF AN ILLUSION?

THE NEW MODEL ARMY: Video: Army’s Cupcake Tank Fires Desserts.

TOYOTA BUILDS A CAR FOR KIDS. “The three-seat electric vehicle [is] designed to build enthusiasm in automobiles among children in Japan where interest in cars has been waning in recent years.”

SCOTT WALKER ON where America should be heading.

HOW’S THAT ARAB SPRING WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? Egypt’s Liberals: We Were Duped. “We met with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on Feb. 14, and they were very cute. They smiled and promised us many things and said, ‘You are our children; you did what we wanted to do for many years!’ Then they offered the same smiles and vague promises the next week, he said, and the next month after that.”

Over here, we use the term “rubes,” but “dupes” works just as well. . . .

WELL, TED KENNEDY DID THAT A LOT WHEN HE HELD THE SEAT: Elizabeth Warren is “Getting Hammered.”

ANN ALTHOUSE ON FEMINIST ELIZABETH WURTZEL: “She’s irritating for about 10 reasons, including the fact/fiction that rich men are clamoring to marry her.”

UPDATE: Much more from Sister Toldjah.

SCIENCE: National Research Council: Don’t Worry Too Much About Earthquakes And Fracking. The science is settled. You can’t argue with science.

WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: White House says reset of relations with Russia has been successful.

CATHOLIC HOSPITALS TO OBAMA: No deal. “Let’s call it Churches 1, Obama 0.”

FATHER’S DAY IS TOMORROW, but you can still send an Amazon gift card. You can send one electronically, or even print one out.

Also, today only: Harman Kardon GO + PLAY II Portable Loudspeaker Dock for iPod and iPhone, $199.99.

SEBASTIAN THRUN ON WHAT’S NEXT FOR SILICON VALLEY. Key bit:

Frustrated that his (and fellow Googler Peter Norvig’s) Stanford artificial intelligence class only reached 200 students, they put up a website offering an online version. They got few takers. Then he mentioned the online course at a conference with 80 attendees and 80 people signed up. On a Friday, he sent an offer to the mailing list of a top AI association. On Saturday morning he had 3,000 sign-ups—by Monday morning, 14,000.

In the midst of this, there was a slight hitch, Mr. Thrun says. “I had forgotten to tell Stanford about it. There was my authority problem. Stanford said ‘If you give the same exams and the same certificate of completion [as Stanford does], then you are really messing with what certificates really are. People are going to go out with the certificates and ask for admission [at the university] and how do we even know who they really are?’ And I said: I. Don’t. Care.”

In the end, there were 160,000 people signed up, from every country in the world, he says, except North Korea. Rather than tape boring lectures, the professors asked students to solve problems and then the next course video would discuss solutions. Mr. Thrun broke the rules again. Twenty-three thousand people finished the course. Of his 200 Stanford students, 30 attended lectures and the other 170 took it online. The top 410 performers on exams were online students. The first Stanford student was No. 411.

Mr. Thrun’s cost was basically $1 per student per class. That’s on the order of 1,000 times less per pupil than for a K-12 or a college education—way more than the rule of thumb in Silicon Valley that you need a 10 times cost advantage to drive change.

So Mr. Thrun set up a company, Udacity, that joins many other companies attacking the problem of how to deliver the optimal online education. “What I see is democratizing education will change everything,” he says. “I have an unbelievable passion about this. We will reach students that have never been reached. I can give my love of learning to other people. I’ve stumbled into the most amazing Wonderland. I’ve taken the red pill and seen how deep Wonderland is.”

“But Wonderland is also crazy!” I interrupt.

“So?” . . . I ask why he always takes on these quantum changes instead of trying something incremental. “That’s what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground—to radically experiment and find out. I’ve seen the light.”

Now Mr. Thrun is talking like a true Silicon Valley entrepreneur. “The AI class was the first light. Online education will way exceed the best education today. And cheaper. If this works, we can rapidly accelerate the progress of society and the world. If you think Facebook is neat, wait five to 10 years. So many open problems will be solved.”

I’ve met a few others like Sebastian Thrun. When you ask them why they took on a huge challenge, they ask: Why not?

Read the whole thing.

SPACE: China Launches 1st Female Astronaut and 2 Men to Space Lab. “China launched three astronauts into space Saturday (June 16), kicking off an ambitous test mission that marks the country’s first attempt to dock a manned spaceship in orbit and its first flight of a female astronaut. . . . If all goes according to plan, Shenzhou 9 will soon link up with the unmanned Tiangong 1 space lab, and China will become the third nation — after the United States and Russia — to perform a manned docking in Earth orbit.”

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