A LITTLE LIGHT IN HIS CONSTITUTIONAL LOAFERS: Lindsey Graham Isn’t Sure If Bloggers Deserve ‘First Amendment Protection.’

THAT’S ALMOST AS BIG AS SOME HURRICANE EYEWALLS — AND STRONGER: Last Week’s Oklahoma Tornado Was The Widest Tornado Ever Recorded.

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: JD Job Prospects as Predicted by JD Degrees Per Capita.

PROGRESS: Autonomy in Cars Progresses, But Regulators Struggle to Keep Up.

NATIONAL JOURNAL: In Scandal’s Wake, Obama’s Hardball Tactics Could Backfire. “By appointing loyalists and dismissing GOP criticisms, the White House is cocooning itself — just as voters are growing critical.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: So, You Really Can Have An Orgasm When You Give Birth.

PAUL MIRENGOFF: It still looks like Holder lied to Congress.

UPDATE: Related: Stephanie Cutter’s defense of former IRS commissioner undermines WH talking point.

PROFESSIONALISM: Politico: Leon Panetta revealed classified SEAL unit info. “The disclosure of the IG report could complicate the Obama administration’s claims that senior officials have not leaked classified information. Last spring, Republicans publicly attacked President Barack Obama and his top aides, alleging that the administration leaked national security secrets to burnish Obama’s standing for his reelection bid. The release of the findings in the draft report also raises questions about why the findings have been under wraps for so long and which of the document’s conclusions were known to White House officials prior to last November’s election.”

Just more embarrassing news they managed to keep under wraps until it was too late to matter.

A PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY REVIEW of Radley Balko’s forthcoming book, Rise Of The Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Telling Women They Don’t Need to Lose Weight Doesn’t Do Them Any Favors. “What I’m finding is a puzzling combination of the ‘fat acceptance’ or ‘body acceptance’ and politeness being used against women who are really trying to do something good for themselves. . . . Body acceptance is not about trapping someone in any one particular body.”

Related: Woman Claims Marriage Made Her Fat & What She Did Is Shocking.

PAUL RAHE: An IRS Smoking Gun. “Congressman Issa should call in Ms. Cutter and recall Mr. Shulman to testify under oath about these meetings. I, for one, would like to watch them squirm as they commit perjury.”

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Secret Man Caves Found In EPA Warehouse. “’The warehouse contained multiple unauthorized and hidden personal spaces created by and for the workers that included televisions, refrigerators, radios, microwaves, chairs and couches,’ the IG report said. ‘These spaces contained personal items, including photos, pin ups, calendars, clothing, books, magazines and videos.’”

SECOND AMENDMENT UPDATE: My Texas Law Review piece (written with Brannon Denning), How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Second Amendment: a Reply to Professor Magarian, is now up to #1 on SSRN.

RECRUITING VICTIMS for the campus sexual-harassment industry. Remember guys, if you go to online school, you don’t have to worry about bogus sex charges.

And here’s a piece of research I’d like to see: What’s the racial/gender makeup of the campus student-conduct offices regulating this sort of thing? I’ll bet it’s not representative of the student body.

THEY’LL PROBABLY BLAME GEORGE W. BUSH: Obamacare will raise insurance costs, not lower them, for a lot of young, childless adults. What will happen when they find out?

FREEDOM: Capitol Police to Tea Party: Show Us Your Websites or Forget Your Rally.

FROM THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY NEXT WEEK: The First Annual Executive Branch Review Conference.

I’M GOING TO GO WITH A COMBINATION OF DEEP, ABIDING IGNORANCE COMBINED WITH INTENSE AND UNREFLECTIVE POLITICAL AND CULTURAL BIAS. Why Does the American Media Get Big Stories Wrong? When you’re dumb, but smug, you make a lot of mistakes. And you don’t learn from them.

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AUSTIN BAY: Protests Change Turkey’s Political Landscape: A Report From Istanbul. One of the causes of the riots was Erdogan’s new restrictions on alcohol consumption: Molson Labe!

And it’s worth a mention of Austin’s recent book on Kemal Ataturk, too.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 27.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, OUR SCHOOLS WOULD BE TAKEN OVER BY HEAVYHANDED PRUDES. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Teen says she was turned away from prom for having large breasts.

“HORRIFYING” YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE. Plus this: “Europe’s youth unemployment is strange, because we’ve never seen a generation *this educated* also be this unemployed.”