HAPPY CANADA DAY!

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: “I have wondered lately whether a weekend in Guantanamo Bay would be all that much worse than flying in the United States.”

IN AFRICA, they miss George W. Bush.

WELCOME TO OBAMERICA: The Washingtonian: “Children Are Dying.” “Because of nationwide shortages, Washington hospitals are rationing, hoarding, and bartering critical nutrients premature babies and other patients need to survive. Doctors are reporting conditions normally seen only in developing countries, and there have been deaths. How could this be allowed to happen?”

How, indeed?

UPDATE: Reader Jim Hogue emails:

Don’t forget that most modern state-run health systems in Europe do not expend any effort to save children born prematurely.

To the best of my knowledge the U.S. health systems are alone in spending any effort trying to save “preemies.” Well, at least until the implementation of Obamacare next year. I wonder how quickly we’ll copy those “ modern European progressive attitudes” toward the helpless, regardless of age.

As quickly as Kathleen Sebelius can manage, I expect.

THE PRESS IS NOT REALLY LIVING UP TO ITS DEFENDER-OF-FREEDOM SELF-IMAGE: As Government Power Grabs Grow, Media Coverage Diminishes.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I never used Google Reader. “It reinforces my filter bubble.”

NAH, IT’S JUST THAT WOMEN GET BETTER LOOKING WHEN THEY MOVE TO THE SOUTH.

THE HILL: NSA revelations throw wrench into lawmakers’ cybersecurity push.

GOING GREEN: HERE’S HOW YOU TELEWORK.

The benefits of telework are manifest: employers attract better workers and save money on office real estate, while employees get more flexible schedules and the ability to cut out the odious daily commute. The practice is catching on, with nearly one in ten Americans and one in five of the world’s workers working from home at least once a week. But while the logic and numbers are clear, many firms might be stuck in their ways, unsure over how they ought to roll out this new way of working and unable to overcome the inertia of the status quo.

Thankfully, companies that have blazed the telework trail are willing to share their stories.

Much more at the link.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: IBD/TIPP Poll: Obama’s Approval Dives To Record Low. “Revelations about the National Security Agency’s surveillance of Americans’ phone records and Internet activity dominated headlines over the past month. Meanwhile, more news came out of the IRS’ targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.”

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: New Hampshire Teacher: Stop Penalizing Boys Who Can’t Sit Still.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 53.

ON FOX & FRIENDS, I talk about the higher education bubble and student loans.

Here’s the Wall St. Journal piece that was behind it.

CONN CARROLL: On immigration, Democrats only have Republicans’ best interests at heart. They’re givers, really.

NOW THEY TELL US: WaPo: They Said The Sequester Would Be Scary. Mostly, They Were Wrong.

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE EDITORIALIZES: Where’s the special prosecutor? The IRS scandal demands an independent investigation.

ZIMMERMAN: The Backwards Trial Resumes.

HOPEY CHANGEY: D.C. awards Obamacare IT work to offshore outsourcer; Contract details not available.

MARK TUSHNET: Our Rights, Not the Court’s: There’s no good reason to give the justices the last word on race, abortion and gay marriage.

COLORADO: Thousands attend Magpul’s ‘Free Colorado’ rally to protest upcoming gun laws.

HOW’S THAT “SMART DIPLOMACY” WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Germany Compares US Bugging to ‘Cold War.’

JUST FREAKING STOP WITH THIS CRAP, OKAY? House Immigration Bill Drafter: I Don’t Know What Everything Means in My Bill. I want short bills, regular hearings, and an open conference committee. No more big bills that even their authors don’t understand.

UPDATE: Reader Ed Lycett emails: “Wouldn’t it be funny if page 2731 of one of these big bills accidentally repealed the tax code, (or Obamacare), and nobody read it before it was passed?” You know what would be even more hilarious? If page 2732 required the Treasury to pay me the sum of $100 billion. That would be a scream!

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: ATF leader who oversaw botched sting will run Phoenix office: Move puts him in charge of office known for infamous ‘Operation Fast and Furious.’

The ATF leader who oversaw a botched undercover operation in Milwaukee will now be in charge of the agency’s embattled Phoenix office, where agents allowed more than 2,000 guns to walk into the hands of suspected criminals through the infamous “Operation Fast and Furious.”

Bernard “B.J.” Zapor will be reunited in Phoenix with Fred Milanowski, another key figure in Milwaukee’s “Operation Fearless,” where a Journal Sentinel investigation found agents lost government guns, had their storefront ripped off and arrested at least four of the wrong people.

Zapor was in charge of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ St. Paul Field Division, which covers Wisconsin and three other states. In November, shortly after the Milwaukee sting was abruptly shut down, he was promoted to a position in Washington, D.C., supervising eight field divisions.

Officials from the ATF and the U.S. Department of Justice told congressional staffers in April that disciplinary action was under way against Zapor because of the Milwaukee operation. They won’t say if Zapor’s assignment to Phoenix is punishment.

At the ATF, apparently, failure is the swiftest route to promotion.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Venerable leftist weekly demands president’s impeachment over mass surveillance. “In the pages of The Nation, the oldest continuously published weekly in the country and the self-described ‘flagship of the left,’ a former member of the House of Representatives has called for the impeachment of the president over revelations of massive government surveillance of ordinary citizens.”

Heh. Read the whole thing.