TEN YEARS AGO ON INSTAPUNDIT, Michael Barone emails a correction from Italy:

You mention that the Democrats are running against Bull Connor.

But when Connor set the police dogs and fire hoses on peaceful civil rights demonstrators, he was the Democratic National Committeeman from Alabama–a member of the Democratic National Committee!

Worth reminding people of again.

AT AMAZON, bestsellers in Health, Fitness & Dieting.

PUBLIC EDUCATION UPDATE: “This assignment was just creepy beyond belief — like something out of East Germany during the Cold War.”

Fire ’em all and privatize.

MAKING AN ECONOMIC COMEBACK in North Dakota’s “Man Camps.”

SANTORUM: Obama Is Preferable To Romney. No he’s not, and you just demonstrated that it’s time to end your campaign. Either you’re an idiot, or you’ve cracked under the pressure. Either way, go home.

BILL MAHER REAPING what Media Matters has sown. “Bill Maher is feeling the heat. And Maher doesn’t like it. . . . Maher is right. But an amnesty is not possible so long as groups like Media Matters and Think Progress exist, because what Maher decries is their very reason for existence.”

Related: Evidence of Media Matters coordination disappears from “independent” anti-Rush group website. “The discomfort of associating with Media Matters is understandable.”

IN SCIENCE FICTION, the new Human Wave movement.

PJTV: Anti-Semitism and Murder in France: Some Deeper Problems within. “Roger L. Simon interviews French PJ Media Correspondent Michel Gurfinkiel about the latest from France. The perpetrator is now dead, but some important questions remain for France. Is mass immigration turning into a problem? How can we overcome the paralysis of political correctness? And lastly, what can we do about the threat of radical Islam?”

Speaking of which, note this from the Jerusalem Post.

ANN ALTHOUSE ON ETCH-A-SKETCH MANIA: “This is the most inane nonincident of the campaign season.”

FISH, MEET BARREL: Joe Biden’s “Most Audacious Plan in 500 Years” – A historical perspective.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY: A Hydrogen-Powered, Jellyfish-Shaped Immortal Underwater Surveillance Robot.

HOW MAGNETIC LEVITATION could shape the future.

AT AMAZON, bestsellers in portable generators.

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: Obama heckled during energy speech in Ohio. “The president, looking frustrated, stopped speaking and addressed the man.”

PROF. BAINBRIDGE: What Is Crowdfunding? First In A Series.

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS: The White Savior Industrial Complex: If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement.

Nonsense. It’s all about feeling good about ourselves, and creating some high-prestige jobs for upper-class types. With perhaps a bit of emergency sex thrown in.

CHARLOTTE ALLEN: The ‘Inequality’ Movement–A Campus Product.

The sharp political focus on inequality, driven into the public mind by the Occupy movement and endorsed by President Obama in his State of the Union message, was born, not on the street, but on the campus. It thrives there, mostly under the aegis of elite universities such as Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia and Johns Hopkins. Those universities have free-standing inequality centers bearing such titles such as Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy (Harvard), Global Network on Inequality (Princeton), and the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (Stanford).

Cornell now offers a minor in inequality studies for students who are ” interested in government service, policy work, or related jobs in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), or want to go on to graduate work in anthropology, economics, government, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public policy, or sociology.”

At the University of California, Berkeley, students study “Social Inequalities, American Cultures.” Occidental College’s program is called “Social Class and Inequality in the United States,” and at the University of Michigan, it’s “Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy.”

Most campuses play it straight, evaluating the effects of programs meant to uplift the poor and reduce poverty. Other colleges manage to combine many unlovely campus obsessions into a single curriculum: advocacy teaching, Marxism, the feeling that America is deeply unjust, race and gender theory, quota thinking, anti-male feminist analysis, and the belief that a primary job of government is to redistribute wealth.

You want to redistribute wealth? Spend your endowment to provide free tuition. You want to fight inequality? Start admitting applicants at random, without regard to SAT scores or grades.

RUGER’S MADE 5 MILLION 10/22 RIFLES: Here’s the original 1964 review. I still miss the Remington Nylon 66.

RUN, DENNIS, RUN: Personally, I think he should be the Green candidate for President.

JOHN CARTER HEADED FOR A $200 MILLION LOSS: But why?

APPARENTLY MY VERY BRIEF IN-STORE REVIEW HIT ON A KEY POINT: Apple’s iPad throws off much more heat: tests. “Apple Inc’s new iPad throws off a lot more heat than the previous version, lending weight to complaints on Internet forums that the hot-selling tablet computer could get uncomfortably warm after heavy use, an influential consumer watchdog found after running tests.”

But if you want to trade in your old iPad and get a new one, Amazon will take it.

E. DONALD ELLIOTT: The Case For Trimming the EPA. “The EPA, just as large as it ever was, is now on autopilot, churning out rules and regulations without heed to cost or competing values. It spends huge sums chasing the tiniest of risks.” Elliott is a lawprof and former EPA general counsel; he was on the Yale faculty when I was there.

YOUNG, SMART, and crazy about science. “It’s the best neutron source in the world.”

UPDATE: Link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN a 35-year-old man retakes the SAT.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: I Can’t Stop Cyber-Stalking My Husband.