MCCARTHYISM: PJ Media’s Hans von Spakovsky Targeted by Fairfax County Democratic Committee.

WHEN COVERAGE-OF BECOMES COVERING-FOR: ABC broadcast edits out Michelle Obama claim that Chicago teen was killed by an ‘automatic weapon.’

RACIST POLITICS IN KENTUCKY: Liberal Super PAC Goes After Mitch McConnell’s ‘Chinese’ Wife. “A Democratic group is under sharp criticism for controversial online messages about Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s wife. For months, the liberal super PAC Progress Kentucky has attacked McConnell and held demonstrations at his offices and home. Recently, the group turned its attention to McConnell’s wife, former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, with a focus on her race.”

They told me if I voted for Mitt Romney we’d see the return of shameful, race-baiting politics in America. And they were right!

WHEN EVERYTHING IS A CRIME: Love hurts: Man arrested for releasing helium balloon with his girlfriend. “Brasfield was charged with polluting to harm humans, animals, plants, etc. under the Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Act.” A felony. This kind of thing shouldn’t be a felony.

READER BOOK PLUG: From reader Adam Lawson, The Five (Sword of Nalin).

SO I LINKED TO THIS JOEL KOTKIN COLUMN EARLIER, but here’s a passage I’d like to highlight:

Since 2000, the Intermountain West’s population has grown by 20%, the Third Coast’s by 14%, the long-depopulating Great Plains by over 14%, and the Southeast by 13%. Population in the rest of the U.S. has grown barely 7%. Last year, the largest net recipients of domestic migrants were Texas and Florida, which between them gained 150,000. The biggest losers? New York, New Jersey, Illinois and California.

The danger, of course, is that these immigrants will bring the same toxic blue-state politics with them that produced the disasters they’re fleeing. Someone should set up a sort of Welcome Wagon — an education program for these immigrants that will encourage them to appreciate the policy and cultural differences that led to the prosperity that’s attracted them.

TEN CAROLE KING SONGS you didn’t know were hers.

HMM: The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath.

Sounds kinda familiar.

RICHARD EPSTEIN: Is Employment A Human Right?

PAUL RAHE: Obama’s Next Move.

REMEMBER, ONLY THE POLICE CAN BE TRUSTED WITH GUNS: LAPD Officers Sold Guns to Civilians and Gun Dealers, Threatened Whistleblower Who Exposed the Scheme.

THIS IS A BIG DEAL, IF TRUE: DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz Prosecution Was Political, Based On His Copyright Activism.

More here. They told me if I voted for Mitt Romney we’d see people prosecuted because their political views threatened Big Business. And they were right!

GOVERNMENT: The Keystone XL Pipeline Has Been Under Review For More Than Twice As Long As It Would Have Taken To Build It.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Time To Emigrate To Mexico?

Fears that America will be overrun by a mass of poor workers from Latin America are looking more and more like yesterday’s news. Birthrates in Mexico are falling, and the economic situation continues to improve. At 5 percent, Mexico’s unemployment rate is nearly three points below ours. In 2012, its GDP grew by nearly 4 percent, and foreign investors, encouraged by the turnaround, poured $57 billion into stocks and bonds in the first nine months. Forthcoming reforms in the telecommunications and energy sectors may also help those industries to boom. The country’s economic forecasts are so promising that the Financial Times has dubbed it the “Aztec tiger.”

This is good news. As the Mexican economy improves, immigration pressures will continue to abate. Who knows? If the trends continue, maybe we’ll even see southbound migrants outnumbering northbound ones.

Well, some say we’re already at net negative immigration. And the powers that be are hard at work, turning America from the kind of country people want to sneak into, to the kind they want to leave.

UPDATE: Jim Bennett emails: “If Canada, Australia, or New Zealand (all of which rank higher than the US on the index of economic freedom) were to refuse to enforce US student loan debt they might see a rush of bright talented young people from the US.”

JOEL KOTKIN: America’s Red State Growth Corridors: Low-tax, energy-rich regions in the heartland charge ahead as economies on both coasts sing the blues.

AT AMAZON, big markdowns on select Samsung HDTVs.

Also, today only: 20 MP3 Albums $1.99 Each.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Do We Need A Title IX For Boys?

REASON TV: 5 Sequester Facts to Know Before Committing Suicide.

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: The Legal Profession and Legal Education: Is It Time to Burn the Ships?

DAVID FRANCIS: The Pentagon’s Incredible $1.5 Trillion Mistake.

MICHAEL TOTTEN’S NEW BOOK IS available for pre-order.

WHILE PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT TALK ABOUT THIS SORT OF THING, Warren Buffett is actually doing it. “Warren Buffett, the acquisitive new press baron, has added another title to his stable – the Tulsa World, the second-largest newspaper in Oklahoma. . . . The World becomes the group’s 28th daily newspaper, which also owns 42 other titles plus monthly publications, magazines and related online publications in nine states.”

DOJ MEMO: Gun Control Ineffective Without Forced Buybacks. It’d be ineffective with them, too, but also highly destabilizing.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Debunking The Myth That Sequester Cuts Will Cause Flight Delay.