HE’S AIMING KIND OF LOW FOR SKEET, AND IS THAT A SEMI-AUTOMATIC ASSAULT SHOTGUN HE’S USING? White House Photo Shows Obama Engaged in Sport Shooting. Okay, maybe it’s sporting clays.

UPDATE: A cruel comparison with a picture of Richard Nixon.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Seen on Facebook, another cruel comparision:

MORE: Hilarity ensues as Twitter users caption and Photoshop Obama’s shooting photo.

CLAYTON CRAMER: The outrageous rhetoric and threats coming from some Democrats demonstrate the necessity of the Second Amendment.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WOULD LOOK LIKE MAD MEN. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Fashion Advice At The Defense Intelligence Agency: ‘Makeup Makes You More Attractive.’

A week after women were cleared to serve in combat, Defense Intelligence Agency employees got a different message. “Makeup makes you more attractive.” “Don’t be a plain Jane.” “A sweater with a skirt is better than a sweater with slacks.” “No flats.” “Paint your nails.” “Don’t be afraid of color.” And, “brunettes have more leeway with vibrant colors than blondes or redheads.”

Can we replace Susan Rice with Christina Hendricks?

HOW CONGRESS is not like America.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Nanotechnology Didn’t Shrink And Disappear: In Fact, It’s Everywhere.

AT AMAZON, Outlet Deals in Computers, Office Supplies, and Software.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Something rotten at UNC. “To expose the fake classes, surely these athletic department officials sent an email to the chairman of the Faculty Committee on Athletics? Or wrote a memo to the chancellor? No such paper trail exists. Because there’s little evidence a serious warning was sounded.”

INSTANTLY IMPROVE YOUR DAY, with this magical baby tapir.

WHY WE TOOK COCAINE out of soda.

NICK GILLESPIE ON BOY SCOUTS AND GAYS. Wait, Nick Gillespie is an Eagle Scout?

JIM TREACHER ON FACEBOOK: “The same people who claimed Mitt Romney was waging a ‘War on Women’ are doing everything they can to avoid talking about Bob Menendez.”

THE CARNIVAL OF CARS is up!

HIRAM BINGHAM: The Real Indiana Jones. A Yale man, natch.

GLAD TO HELP: Reader Cassandra Stajduhar writes: “Downloaded Brandy Engler’s book, The Men On My Couch from Amazon via a link on instapundit. It was an interesting read–she seems like a smart cookie. Thanks for the link.” Amy Alkon is a big fan of hers.

PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: A fed up Antigua opens its doors to Megavideo. They’re tired of the U.S. government screwing with them in violation of the WTO.

RATHER A LOT, REALLY: Audit report: 3.7 million nuclear weapon components in storage at Pantex.

LYING LIARS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: Changing “shotgun” into “assault rifle” to fit the narrative — and then changing it back when caught. I suppose it might have been an honest mistake, but this kind of thing happens so often that there’s not a lot of doubt to give them the benefit of anymore.

ATF UPDATE: Jones pick as ATF chief is in deeper trouble. “Earlier this week, Donald Oswald, a former Minneapolis FBI director and self-described Democrat, wrote to alert the Senate Judiciary Committee to Jones’ ‘atrocious professional reputation within the federal law enforcement community.’ . . . The newest flashpoint involves operation ‘Fearless Distributing,’ a Milwaukee sting operation in which the ATF set up a phony storefront targeting gun traffickers. A recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation found what it called a string of mistakes, including a military-style machine gun that ended up on the streets, and a robbery of the agency store that netted $35,000 in merchandise.”

This agency doesn’t seem to be ready for primetime.

I’M QUOTED IN THIS BOSTON GLOBE PIECE ON PROSECUTORS AND JURIES. “What we really have is a plea bargain system with a thin froth of showy trials floating on top.”

The reporter on this story, Leon Neyfakh, has brought together a lot of really interesting observations and proposals from a lot of people, some of which overlap with my Due Process When Everything Is A Crime piece and most of which go well beyond it.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Obama’s Jobless Recovery Continues Unabated. “So the economy created 157,000 new payroll jobs in January. Wow. At this rate, we might actually get back down to Bush-era unemployment rates sometime, oh, within the next 100 years.”

EDUCATION: Milton Friedman for kids? Absolutely! An economic adventure book series for kids (ages 6-12). (Bumped).

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Underperforming Investments Squeeze Higher-Ed. “American colleges may be going broke faster than we thought. According to a recent New York Times report, investment returns on university endowments fell by 0.3 percent last year. This could be the beginning of a major funding crisis at many universities. . . . Given that, as one person quoted in the piece said, the average rate of return over the past ten years has been about 6.2 percent, this poses a major problem for schools already facing steep declines in philanthropic giving, alumni donations and government funding. Ordinarily, schools would raise tuition, but students and parents are beginning to balk at higher fees and annual tuition hikes. There’s no way out: Schools should be looking for ways to cut costs. Fortunately, there’s plenty of low-hanging fruit.”

WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: Biden Tells Merkel Our ‘So-Called’ Fiscal Crisis Ain’t That Bad.

JOURNALISM: Sadly, 2013 begins with CBS destroying its reputation for editorial integrity in an attempt to eliminate an innovative competitor. Well, to be fair, since Dan Rather there wasn’t that much to destroy.