YEAH, WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Energy Department prepares to approve more green loans. “he Energy Department said Thursday it expects to begin tentatively approving new taxpayer-backed loans for renewable energy projects in the coming months. The announcement comes about seven months after Solyndra, the California solar firm that received a $535 million loan guarantee from the administration in 2009, went bankrupt, setting off a firestorm in Washington.”

POLL: Trayvon case shows ‘blacks, nonblacks’ split. “Black Americans and Americans of other ethnicities have widely-divergent views of the Trayvon Martin case, according to a new poll that shows the black community overwhelmingly believes he was murdered and that police let his killer get away due to racism.”

THEY HAVEN’T LEARNED: MPAA Chief Dodd Hints At Talks To Revive SOPA.

Christopher Dodd, the former Connecticut senator who now leads the MPAA, hasn’t given up on his dream of censoring the Internet. In an interview with Hollywood Reporter, he said that Hollywood and the technology industry ‘need to come to an understanding’ about new copyright legislation. Dodd said that there were ‘conversations going on now,’ about SOPA-style legislation, but that he was ‘not going to go into more detail because obviously if I do, it becomes counterproductive.’ Asked whether the White House’s decision to oppose SOPA had created tensions with Hollywood, Dodd insisted that he was ‘not going to revisit the events of last winter,’ but said he hoped the president would use his ‘good relationships’ with both Hollywood and the technology industry to broker a deal.

You can’t trust these guys. The GOP should overcome its reluctance to criticize a big business and go after Hollywood hammer-and-tongs. It would be a good issue for them, and it’s the right thing to do. But I’ve been pointing this out for a decade, and they’re still not listening.

TOM MAGUIRE: “In this country, we don’t send people to jail on the theory that we don’t know if they are guilty or not.” But some people are doing their best to change that.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Energy Dept. offers prize to create mobile apps that already exist.

STANDING UP AGAINST THE POLITICS OF DIVISION: Krauthammer blasts ‘shameless,’ ‘over-the-top’ WH for invention of the ‘war on women.’

ARBY’S NOT INTERESTED IN hearing criticism.

TEN YEARS AGO ON INSTAPUNDIT:

BERKELEY HATEWATCH UPDATE:

Jewish students coming out of worship services have been pelted with eggs and subjected to epithets, Oleon said. Last week someone threw a cinder block through the front windows and wrote “F– Jews” in black marker on the Jewish Hillel cultural center’s recycling bins. Some Jewish students believe that Berkeley professors, even those who are Jewish, have unfairly come down hard on Israel in lectures.

Some things haven’t changed much.

RATINGS: Stewart & Colbert Trounced By Cartoons, Reruns, ‘Pawn Stars.’ Well, if they lose their present gigs, I hear there’s an opening at Current TV. I always preferred Guy Fieri to either of them anyway. Apparently, a lot of people agree.

BREITBART IS HERE: 20 Doctors Disciplined For Handing Out Fake Sick Notes to Protesters & Andrew Breitbart.

WHY WON’T PLANNED PARENTHOOD take $500,000 from Tucker Max? “What? I thought Planned Parenthood’s mission was about helping women, not passing judgment on humor.”

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS REVIEWS Katie Pavlich’s Fast and Furious, Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up.

WELL, I’D CONSIDER CANCELLING MY SUBSCRIPTION TO TIME IF, YOU KNOW, I still subscribed to Time.

YEAH, WHO COULD’VE SEEN THAT COMING? “Keith Olbermann was disheartened to discover Al Gore, Joel Hyatt and the management of Current are no more than dilettantes portraying entertainment industry executives.”

PROF. JACOBSON: Conservatives better wake up to anti-conservative boycott movements. “It is a tactic used only against conservatives and conservative groups, and the truth of the accusation doesn’t matter.” I recommend responding in kind.

YOU’LL NEED A PHOTO ID, to visit the offices of groups that don’t want you to have to show a photo ID to vote.

I’VE ALWAYS THOUGHT OF HIM AS MORE OF A DIM BULB: Keith Olbermann thinks he’s a very expensive chandelier.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: “How Can I Forgive Him for Sexting other Women?”

HEY, MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR A MOBIUS DICK COMEBACK TOUR! Electronic Dance Genre Tempts Investors. “For an industry increasingly reliant on aging headliners — like Bruce Springsteen, Madonna and the Rolling Stones — the appeal of a genre with fresh stars and a huge young audience is undeniable.”

AT AMAZON, warehouse deals in Grocery & Personal Care.

ROGER SIMON: The L.A. Times Should Release the Khalidi Tape for Passover.

DAVID BOAZ: If it’s bad manners to call Obama a “socialist,” why is it okay for him to charge opponents with “social Darwinism?”

HOW TO NEGOTIATE LIKE A WOMAN.

INDOCTRINATION: Va. school teacher thinks ‘Republicans are stupid.’ As events in Wisconsin have illustrated, public-school teachers are overwhelmingly Democratic, and professionalism does not appear to bar efforts to use children for political gain.

STUDENT LOANS MEET THE FUTURE: “The student loan market has become a classic blue model example of good intentions gone wrong. In the beginning, subsidized federal loans helped make a college diploma part of the American Dream, but over time the combination of rising tuition costs and some dubious choices regarding course selection have saddled students with increased debt levels and decreased earnings prospects, leading to an ever more dysfunctional system.” But some people are working on a solution.