THE CBO SAYS WE’LL BE MAXED OUT IN NINE YEARS: Tom Blumer says that’s way too optimistic.

STEWART BAKER: Privacy Law Rots From The Head.

KATIE ROIPHE: Unexpected Pregnancy, Morality, and the Law.

As a thought experiment, I tried to imagine I was having an irresolvable conflict with a man over an accidental pregnancy. I told Conley I just don’t see a compromise: It has to be the woman’s choice.

He said, “Then the man shouldn’t be responsible for the baby.”

Read the whole thing.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University of Rochester Ending Free Tuition for Employees’ Children. “University of Rochester students who are the children of UR faculty and staff will no longer get free tuition at the college, beginning in 2013. . . . For the coming school year, tuition at UR will be $42,890, which is a 4.5 percent increase over the past school year.”

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN . . . OH, HELL, YOU KNOW THE REST. John Yoo: Obama, Drones and Thomas Aquinas. “The ironies abound. Candidate Obama campaigned on narrowing presidential wartime power, closing Guantanamo Bay, trying terrorists in civilian courts, ending enhanced interrogation, and moving away from a wartime approach to terrorism toward a criminal-justice approach. Mr. Obama has avoided these vexing detention issues simply by depriving terrorists of all of their rights—by killing them.”

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A “SOFT BAILOUT” FOR SPAIN coming today?

SUBPRIME COLLEGE EDUCATIONS: A nice shout-out for the Higher Education Bubble in the Washington Post from George Will. It’s amazing how much denial you see from the WaPo commenters.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: The Main Message From Madison: The Jig Is Up.

WAR ON COAL: New ad targets Lamar Alexander. Not sure what he’s thinking here.

Maybe there’s something I’m missing here, but it seems to me that Alexander should be emulating Bob Corker.

UPDATE: Reader Trey Monroe writes:

Hey Glenn, you had written that you did not understand Lamar Alexander’s stance on coal. He sees coal power as causing acid rain that is hurting the Smokies. Streams up there are measurably acidified a bit, and he blames coal. Honestly, I don’t have the expertise to critique his thinking, but he and I have shared some emails over the years, and that is where his head is at. He, like me, loves that area, I think he has property in Townsend, and in his mind, he is protecting the Smokies from coal. Without strongly supporting clean nuclear energy (he has some good ideas but no juice behind them.) I appreciate how he has taken the time to email back and forth with me concerning that and a couple of other issues, and I appreciate him as a man. But he is not at his core a small government man, and it shows. I wish him a happy, long retirement.

Well, I don’t like burning coal either, but if you’re anti-coal you pretty much have to be either pro-nuclear or anti-power.

RETURN OF the Reagan Democrats?

POLITICIZED: IRS Denies 501(c)(4) Status to Emerge America — Is Crossroads GPS Next?

Next they’ll be auditing Obama’s enemies.

THE NEW CIVILITY: Oscar-Winning Schindler’s List Producer Disinvited from Giving Speech at High School Because He’s Too Conservative.

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Law School Applicants Are Down 14.4%, Applications Are Down 12.6%.

PEGGY NOONAN: What’s Changed After Wisconsin: The Obama administration suddenly looks like a house of cards.

President Obama’s problem now isn’t what Wisconsin did, it’s how he looks each day—careening around, always in flight, a superfluous figure. No one even looks to him for leadership now. He doesn’t go to Wisconsin, where the fight is. He goes to Sarah Jessica Parker’s place, where the money is.

There is, now, a house-of-cards feel about this administration.

It became apparent some weeks ago when the president talked on the stump—where else?—about an essay by a fellow who said spending growth is actually lower than that of previous presidents. This was startling to a lot of people, who looked into it and found the man had left out most spending from 2009, the first year of Mr. Obama’s presidency. People sneered: The president was deliberately using a misleading argument to paint a false picture! But you know, why would he go out there waving an article that could immediately be debunked? Maybe because he thought it was true. That’s more alarming, isn’t it, the idea that he knows so little about the effects of his own economic program that he thinks he really is a low spender.

For more than a month, his people have been laying down the line that America was just about to enter full economic recovery when the European meltdown stopped it. (I guess the slowdown in China didn’t poll well.) You’ll be hearing more of this—we almost had it, and then Spain, or Italy, messed everything up. What’s bothersome is not that it’s just a line, but that the White House sees its central economic contribution now as the making up of lines.

Any president will, in a presidential election year, be political. But there is a startling sense with Mr. Obama that that’s all he is now, that he and his people are all politics, all the time, undeviatingly, on every issue. He isn’t even trying to lead, he’s just trying to win.

Well, when “I won” is your rule for governance, that makes sense.

NOT FROM THE ONION: “Mob attacks women at anti-sexual assault rally in Egypt.” They need Col. Colt to be equal.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Attorney General Eric Holder completely unaware that federal courthouses require visitors to show government-issued photo IDs.

THE HILL: Holder appoints two prosecutors to probe national security leaks.

CHANGE: 70 House Members to Call on DOJ to Investigate SWATing of Conservative Bloggers.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: “For the sixth year in a row, tuition at the University of Wisconsin’s four-year campuses will go up by the state’s legal maximum of 5.5 percent.”

This kind of thing is happening all over the country. Can this continue when, as Bill Clinton points out, median income is now lower than when he left office?

That’s a question that people are starting to ask.

DAVID SWINDLE REVIEWS Dennis Prager’s Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph.

ACE BREAKS THE SILENCE. And calls for action.

UPDATE: Silent Like A Carpet Bombing.

YOU GOTTA LOVE TEXAS: Introducing an 85 MPH speed limit.

UPDATE: David Kirkham emails to brag: “We already have 85 mph zones in Utah.”

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