POLL: Swing State Voters Want the Affordable Care Act Held Unconstitutional or Repealed.

WE KNOW WHERE THAT LEADS — BUT APPARENTLY, THEY DON’T: Wave of Nationalizations Spreading Across South America.

AT AMAZON, warehouse deals in kitchen gear.

Also, today only, a 3M Filtrete Water Filter for $19.99.

SCOTT JOHNSON ON OBAMA’S DUBIOUS DONATIONS.

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Why Are Elite Law Schools Hiding Their Placement Data?

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: As Economy Sputters, Obama Tries Distraction. Well, yes.

SUSANNAH BRESLIN: Why I’d Rather Work For A Man Than A Woman.

CHINESE DISSIDENT CHEN: “I’m very disappointed at the U.S. government. . . . I don’t think (U.S. officials) protected human rights in this case.”

UPDATE: An analysis from Walter Russell Mead. “24 hours later, the deal is a heap of rubble, US-Chinese relations have been dinged and Chen is complaining to reporters that the US embassy abandoned him and saying that he wants to leave China with Secretary Clinton. Via Meadia hopes that this tangled story can still have a happy ending — and we have nothing but respect for the skills and the intentions of the US officials working on this case — but at the moment this has to rank as one of the more awkward diplomatic messes of recent years.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Obama’s Foreign Policy: Good Enough For Government Work? “The conventional wisdom is that President Obama has the advantage in this year’s presidential campaign when it comes to foreign policy. I agree. His signature accomplishments — the killing of bin Laden, the end of our military involvement in Iraq, and the promise to wind down our involvement in Afghanistan — are likely to be deemed good enough for government work. But then, so was Bill Clinton’s foreign policy, until 9/11. If we hold Obama to a higher standard, it quickly becomes apparent that he and his “smart power” practitioners have the wrong line on nearly every aspect of foreign policy. This isn’t surprising. Obama is ambivalent about American interests as they traditionally have been understood, and this ambivalence is reflected in the manner and degree to which he pursues them.”

INSTAVISION: I TALK TO JONAH GOLDBERG about his new book The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas. (YouTube link).

And here it is on PJTV.

CHER HAS A TWITTER MELTDOWN. Huh. Cher is still alive?

MY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW PIECE, A DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO RECORD THE POLICE, co-authored with John Steakley, has hit the SSRN Top Ten Downloads list at #3. To everyone who downloaded it, thanks for your interest! If you haven’t read it, you may find it interesting. And it’s quite short by law review standards.

UPDATE: It’s now moved up to #2. Thanks again to those who were interested enough to download it.

ED MORRISSEY IN THE FISCAL TIMES: Dismal Job Growth and Stagnation Will Unseat Obama.

MORE ON ELIZABETH WARREN’S CREDENTIALS:

That “box checking,” as critics call it, likely played a role in her Harvard hiring especially when her background is compared to those of the other near-100 Harvard Law School professors and assistant professors, according to an analysis of law schools the professors attended. Most graduated from Harvard, and all from the nation’s top 10. Warren graduated from Rutgers University in Newark, ranked 82nd by Top-Law-Schools.com.

What’s more, only Rutgers has current law school professors who graduated from Rutgers. And in the analysis of the law school degrees of the roughly 350 Ivy League law school professors provided by a Warren critic, only one graduated from a lower-ranked law school than Warren, a Yale professor who attended the University of Nebraska Law School, ranked 89.

That’s more a reflection on their other hiring patterns than on Elizabeth Warren. Kinda inbred, aren’t they?

LONGEST AIRLINER EVER: New Longest Commercial Airliner: Lufthansa to Debut Boeing 747-8. “Boeing handed over the ceremonial keys of a new 747-8 Intercontinental to Lufthansa Tuesday in what will be the new longest passenger airliner in the skies. The aircraft is the stretched version of the popular 747-400 series Lufthansa currently flies.”

SHOCKER: May Day Protestors Cannot Explain Their Signs Or Their Cause.

ONCE THEY CANNED NAT HENTOFF AND REPLACED HIM WITH ROY EDROSO, THE SEX ADS WERE THE BEST PART: Senators urge Village Voice to pull online sex ads.

A BOYCOTT BEST BUY MOVEMENT? Heck, I’ve been doing that for years. I almost cracked my bocott when I went by recently to pick up a cable and they didn’t have it, but told me I could get it via their online store. That was helpful.

ORIN KERR: Does the Equal Protection Clause Require Local Police to Investigate and Prosecute Sexual Assault Crimes? “I favor aggressive investigation and prosecution of sexual assault crimes. With that said, I’m a bit puzzled by the legal theory animating DOJ’s investigation. If equal protection requires similar treatment of similar things, what is the standard for measuring whether sexual assault crimes are being treated equally? Do we compare prosecutions for sexual assaults in cases with female victims with prosecutions for sexual assaults in cases with male victims? Or do we compare prosecutions for sexual assaults as a whole with prosecutions for other crimes that are generally deemed equally serious? And if the latter, does that mean that the federal constitution’s Equal Protection clause mandates a particular approach to allocation of state and local law enforcement resources in sexual assault cases?”

It means Obama is worried and the DOJ is trying to help him play the “war against women” card.

WISCONSIN: Madison School District Must Pay $31K for Refusing to Turn Over Employee Sick Notes.

I THINK THE CONDEMNATION IS BASED ON RACISM: Video: The freaky quadruple deaky “tanning mom” clip.

BUT OF COURSE: Dan Savage’s Website Celebrates Occupy Vandalism.

UPDATE: Reader Steven Jens writes: “He’s not ‘anti-bullying,’ he’s just on the other side.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Paul Butzi thinks this is unfair:

I dislike Dan Savage intensely.

That aside, as support for the claim that ‘Dan Savage’s website celebrates vandalism’, this example falls pretty short.

It’s a piece by Brendan Kiley, a potty-mouthed columnist of kindergarten intellect. Dan Savage is the editor. Savage, as editor, is free to exercise discretion to publish a variety of views – in this case, there are entries on the Slog which both support the vandalism (Kiley’s) and some that oppose it.

I thought that’s how it was supposed to work – you know, the whole marketplace of ideas jostling for adherents kind of thing.

There are plenty of things about Dan Savage to not like. Allowing the newspaper for which he is the editor to publish a variety of viewpoints including one that excuses the vandalism as well as some that condemn it, however, is not one of them. I wish he did it more consistently, in fact, since it’s usually just a spittle-flecked leftist rant through and through.

Please don’t bash Savage for the one instance where he’s allowing something vaguely resembling rational discourse is actually taking place on the pages he controls. It’s not as if there’s a shortage of valid things about Savage to point out.

That’s a fair point. I actually like his show okay — but it’s apparent that, as with Garrison Keillor — the public version of him is considerably spiffed-up and smoothed-over.

THIS DOES SEEM LIKE A CONCISE SUMMARY OF THE ADMINISTRATION’S POSITION: Obama inherited everything from George Bush (except the intelligence network that tracked down Bin Laden).

UPDATE: Prof. Stephen Clark predicts the future narrative:

Should Romney win in November, any improvement in the economy will be due to the foundations laid during Obama’s term – tragically cut short – and insufficient time to realize his genius because Bush’s mess was so very large. But he was a terrible politico-administrator you say? Well, in an effort to expiate their collective guilt Americans thrust him into a position that he wasn’t prepared to occupy at that time – if only they had been more patient. Those who want to believe will go on believing.

Should Romney win in November, an ex-President Obama will make Jimmy Carter seem positively decorous in comparison. However, for Republicans, this might just be a gift that keeps on giving.

Sounds about right.

PUSHBACK: Michelle Malkin BLASTS Crank Juan Williams For Comparing “Poo-Flinging” #Occupy Terrorists to Tea Party. Video at the link.

NEWS FROM THE “SMART DIPLOMACY” FRONT: Activist Chen Guangcheng: Let Me Leave China on Hillary Clinton’s Plane.

JIM TREACHER: Wikipedia Doesn’t Want You To Know That Obama Eats Dogs. He names and shames the editor responsible.