COVERING THE REALLY IMPORTANT STORIES: John Hawkins: The 20 Hottest Conservative Women In The New Media.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: “My Husband Has Been Pursuing Ads on Craigslist Casual Encounters.”

ED KRAYEWSKI: 4 Positions Obama Supporters Attribute to the President That He Doesn’t Actually Hold.

WE CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH: Pols set to block teacher ratings’ release. “The public be damned! The state Legislature is likely to pass a last ditch bill that would prevent the release of teacher evaluations, while letting parents see the ratings only of their kids’ instructors. The measure, introduced by Gov. Cuomo just before midnight Monday, could pass before lawmakers head home for the year tomorrow, sources said yesterday. The Democratic-controlled Assembly says it will pass it tomorrow.”

JOHN HINDERAKER: Obama’s Claim of Executive Privilege: It’s Frivolous.

THIS IS PRETTY COOL: So at the Insta-Daughter’s suggestion, I bought a Mophie Juicepack Air case for my iPhone. It’s pretty cool — the battery life is excellent, and I actually like the way it feels in my hand better than the iPhone alone. (You might feel different if you have small hands). Nice gadget.

UPDATE: A reader notes that some comments at the Amazon link say that they got counterfeits. Jeez.

PROF. BAINBRIDGE: Ex Parte Communications And SEC Rulemaking. “Like Keith Bishop, I find these secret communications between proponents of shareholder activism and the SEC’s top brass very worrisome. And, of course, private ex parte communications in this context are more than a bit hypocritical, since the activists claim they’re trying to promote transparency.”

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: What Happens When Computers Replace Attorneys. It’s already happening, as lower-end practitioners who a decade or two ago would have been doing wills and partnership agreements and basic incorporations are now being replaced by LegalZoom and the like. Key bit: “In the end, after you’ve stripped away their six-figure degrees, their state bar memberships, and their proclivity for capitalizing Odd Words, lawyers are just another breed of knowledge worker.”

THE THING ABOUT STACY MCCAIN IS, he’s relentless.

AND SHE’S TWEETING ABOUT IT TONIGHT: CBS’ Sharyl Attkisson Exposed Holder’s Lying To Congress In Oct. 2011.

WHO PAYS THESE HECKLERS? “But what horrified me as I looked into this is that it turns out that the protesters are being paid with my tax dollars.”

KEITH HENNESSEY: It’s not just the economy, stupid!

FAST AND FURIOUS UPDATE: Another retraction: Holder withdraws claim that Bush’s attorney general knew about gunwalking.

SCIENCE: Belief in hell, according to international data, is associated with reduced crime.

PAUL MIRENGOFF: Those Fast and Furious documents must be dynamite. “Some have speculated that Obama’s intervention means that the president himself has something to hide.”

UPDATE: More: “Let me begin by saying that if a Republican president had bypassed Congress to redraft a statute (on immigration in this administration) and cooked up fake privileges repeatedly — the Obama team did this in the Black Panther investigation and even to halt its former social secretary from testifying — there would be howls from the media and talk of impeachment. . . . Principled Democrats who may soon face a Romney administration had better pipe up. Otherwise the precedent will be there for vast expansion of executive power and squashing of Congress’s proper role in our system of government.”

PRIVACY: Advocates say a built-in “Do Not Track” setting could mean more privacy for Web surfers. Opponents say it would be a disaster for online revenues. Which should you believe?

DAVE KOPEL: Is President Obama’s assertion of executive privilege valid?

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CHANGE: House Committee Approves Sweeping, Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers.

A House committee on Tuesday reauthorized broad electronic eavesdropping powers that largely legalized the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.

The House Judiciary Committee, following the Senate Intelligence Committee’s lead last month, (.pdf) voted 23-11 to reauthorize the FISA Amendments Act. The legislation, expiring at year’s end, authorizes the government to electronically eavesdrop on Americans’ phone calls and emails without a probable-cause warrant so long as one of the parties to the communication is outside the United States. The communications may be intercepted “to acquire foreign intelligence information.”

They told me if I voted for John McCain, we’d . . . oh, hell, you know the rest.

OUCH: Top 9 Most Embarrassing Things My Kid Has Said About a Stranger Who’s Standing About Four Inches Away From Us.