HOOKERS TO MARTHA COAKLEY: Can’t a girl make an honest living around here?

INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE hits an all-time high.

WHO KILLED THE JOBS? This chart tells you just about everything you need to know as you prepare to vote in 2012.

SEXISM FROM REP. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON: ‘I’ve never met a man that had the need for birth control.’

Really? Birth control is just for women?

DID THE SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMMISSION violate the Administrative Procedure Act?

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Geithner: Why, no, our new budget does nothing to address America’s long-term fiscal crisis.

PHIL BOWERMASTER: Whiskey, the Moon, and Unimagined Possibilities.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Congressional Budget Office: U.S. enduring the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression.

LIFE AMONG THE BARBARIANS: Bloomberg’s New York: Gun amnesty for criminals, felony charges for unwitting Marine.

CNN POLL: Obama contraceptive mandate not so popular. “According to the survey, 50% of the public disapproves of the Obama administration policy, with 44% saying they approve of the plan.”

BROCK AND THE GLOCK: Armed men guarded Media Matters boss as he took $400,000 gun control donation.

This hypocrisy will not get the attention that the media pay to other kinds of hypocrisy by other kinds of political figures.

BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT US TALKING ABOUT HOW THE COUNTRY’S GOING BROKE UNTIL THERE’S NOTHING LEFT TO STEAL: Why Are We Talking About Contraception When The Country’s Going Broke?

JAMES TARANTO: Fear and Feminism: Some criticism of Rick Santorum is downright irrational. Yeah, I’ve never been a Santorum fan, but the attacks on him are unusual in their dishonesty and meanness.

FEELING GOOD ABOUT MY DAUGHTER’S EDUCATION: Listening to her debunk Andrew Napolitano’s simplistic comparison of Rome with the contemporary United States.

He’s right about the debt, but his history is atrocious.

TEN YEARS AGO ON INSTAPUNDIT: Jim Bennett on the French:

The French are not a nation of cowards, as the “surrender-monkey” epithet implies. They are a nation of talented, creative, and brave individuals. Unfortunately, they seem to alternate being led by a crowd of moral dwarves, alleviated by the rule of the occasional flawed giant. It has been three decades since the last such grand, albeit irritating, giant disappeared. What gives France its current bad name has been the pack of moral munchkins in charge ever since.

The Lollipop Guild is still running the show.

ERIC HOLDER’S CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS.

DAVE FOULK: Making History With Hallerin Hill.

WORK EXPERIENCE: “I was a terrific little snob who thought she knew everything . . . . As ridiculous as it sounds, that was the first time I became aware that clever people are buried in every nook and cranny of life. It is astonishing that no one pointed this out to me sooner.”

TODAY’S REAL NEWS: “This is the second year in a row that Geithner has described an Obama budget as unsustainable.”

I GUESS THAT MEANS THEY’RE AGAINST RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, THEN: Democrats Protest Religious Freedom Hearing.

ED DRISCOLL ON CHRIS CHRISTIE, WHITNEY HOUSTON, and the abolition of America.

DON’T BE RIDICULOUS — IT’S ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE TO CELEBRATE A HUMAN-RIGHTS VICTORY OF THIS MAGNITUDE: Quebec outrage as Tories celebrate long-gun registry vote with cocktail party. “The bill passed easily, by a margin of 159 to 130, as the Conservatives used their majority in the House secure passage of the bill, which now goes to the Senate where the Conservatives also have a majority.. . . But supporters of the long-gun registry, many of whom are from Quebec, said they were appalled by the festive attitude of the Conservatives, who attended a cocktail reception with pro-gun lobbyists on Parliament Hill to mark the historic change.”

Usually politicians celebrate reducing people’s freedom. This is a pleasant change.

“YOU WERE PROBABLY EXPECTING A 22-YEAR-OLD MIT GRADUATE:” The Delivery Guy Who Saw Jeremy Lin Coming. “Monitoring from his silver Toshiba laptop, Weiland has been amused by the new appreciation of his work. A 51-year-old father of two, grandfather of one, vegan and amateur trail runner who lives by himself in a region full of cyclists and snowboarders, Weiland doesn’t fit the profile of a 21st-century sports wonk.”

I WONDER IF ANYONE WILL ASK OBAMA ABOUT THIS? Libyan militias ‘out of control,’ Amnesty International says. And will this affect Hillary’s prospects, or Samantha Power’s shot at being the next Secretary of State? Oh, who am I kidding? They’ll just talk about birth control instead.

PHIL BOWERMASTER: Robots Are Stealing Our Jobs!