BUT THEY WON’T SAY WHO IT WAS: “Seasoned” NBC Producer Behind Edited Zimmerman Clip. I’d say “deceptively edited” myself. Perhaps even “libelously edited,” which may be why they’re keeping mum.

UPDATE: Jim Treacher: “Weeks ago, this stopped being just a story about a shooting in Florida. This is about the utter corruption of the mainstream media. Hey, it’s your reputation, NBC News. It’s been taking a beating for decades now. If this is how you want to finally destroy it, fine by us. No wonder you actually made nice-nice with Sarah Palin. You’re just that desperate to win us back.”

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Leon Panetta’s $860K commute to California.

SEVEN RULES for recording the police.

WELL, DARN: Google Glasses Face Serious Hurdles, Augmented-Reality Experts Say.

TYLER COWEN IS OPTIMISTIC about American exports. Well, good.

THE MOST-WIRED CARS of the New York Auto Show.

THE RIGHT QUESTION TO ASK OBAMA ON THE CONSTITUTION:

What exactly does he think Congress does not have the power to do under the Commerce Clause? Or, to be more precise, does the commerce power have judicially enforceable limits — and if so, what are they?

Indeed.

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Also, discounts on SOG knives and tools.

DON’T TELL ERIC HOLDER: Justice Department Probing Widespread Stimulus Fraud.

BILL WHITTLE’S AFTERBURNER: Slowly . . . Slowly.

IRONY: Arby’s is owned by company named after Howard Roark of The Fountainhead. But its president is a big Democratic donor.

SPEAKING OF UNEXPECTEDLY: Republican Committee Makes Big Turnaround on Fund-Raising. “With the divisive and drawn-out Republican primary season moving toward a close, the committee reported more money in the bank at the start of last month than the Democratic National Committee, which raised about $137 million during the same period but also spent far more.” How is the DNC managing to spend so much more when there’s no primary, and no general election campaign yet? High overhead? Or are they doing something I haven’t noticed?

UNEMPLOYMENT DROPS TO 8.2% DESPITE UNEXPECTEDLY FEW NEW JOBS. “The drop in the unemployment rate, to the lowest level since January 2009, reflected a drop in the labor force. The separate household survey, from which the jobless rate is derieved also showed a drop in employment.”

PROF. JACOBSON: CNN proves “beyond a reasonable doubt” why cases should not be tried in the media.

R.I.P.: Jim Marshall, Namesake Inventor of the Marshall Guitar Amplifer, Dead at Age 88.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Is Obama ‘Dangerously Close To Totalitarianism’? I think it’s more that he’d like to be a lot closer than he is, and we’ve seen that some of his supporters would like that too. Nice to be clear where people stand, anyway.

WORRIES ABOUT FREEDOM: Yale Faculty Registers Concern About Campus in Singapore.

In a vote of 100 to 69 Thursday night, the arts and science faculty members who make up Yale College, passed a resolution expressing “concern regarding the history of lack of respect for civil and political rights in the state of Singapore” and calling on the new college to uphold principles of civil liberty, nondiscrimination, and political freedom—values that it says are “at the heart of liberal-arts education.”

Of course, the Yale faculty might want to look at problems with freedom right there in New Haven.

PEGGY NOONAN: Say, this Obama fellow isn’t as much like JFK as I thought.

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SETTING THE BAR FOR “SOCIAL DARWINISM” KIND OF LOW: ‘Radical’ Ryan Budget Spends 46% More than Clinton’s. “If you further adjust for inflation and population growth, Ryan’s budget still spends more than Clinton’s.”

I like the Ryan budget, but it’s not radical enough. The country’s broke, and our President, along with much of our political class, is in denial.

LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Alaskan ATF Agents Violating Federal Ban on Gun Registration.

YA THINK? Former Biden Adviser: Green Jobs Oversold. “If you run a solar plant, it doesn’t take a ton of people to run some of these plants. … So, some of these firms don’t employ as many people as you might hope.” Especially after they go bankrupt.

AMERICAN IDLE: GSA Federal Worker Does Rap Video Bragging About Lavish Perk. The country’s in the very best of hands.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Obama v. SCOTUS: Democrats were unpleasantly surprised by the strong constitutional argument against Obamacare.

With Obamacare remaking one-sixth of the economy, it would be unusual for the Supreme Court to overturn legislation so broad and sweeping. On the other hand, it is far more unusual to pass such a fundamentally transformative law on such a narrow, partisan basis.

Obamacare passed the Congress without a single vote from the opposition party – in contradistinction to Social Security, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, and Medicaid, similarly grand legislation, all of which enjoyed substantial bipartisan support. In the Senate, moreover, Obamacare squeaked by through a parliamentary maneuver called reconciliation that was never intended for anything so sweeping. The fundamental deviation from custom and practice is not the legal challenge to Obamacare but the very manner of its enactment.

The president’s pre-emptive attack on the Court was in direct reaction to Obamacare’s three days of oral argument. It was a shock. After years of contemptuously dismissing the very idea of a legal challenge, Democrats suddenly realized that there actually is a serious constitutional argument to be made against Obamacare — and they are losing it.

James Taranto says they’re going through the Kubler-Ross stages of grief.

Related: Byron York: To Obama, legal precedents are all about politics.

HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRESS: Canada Abolishes Long Gun Registry.