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NEWS YOU CAN USE: Insecure About Your Vagina? Sharing a Photo on the Internet Won’t Fix That.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Avoid An Inquisition. “Emory University’s president has blundered into censure over a remark that shouldn’t offend anyone.”

THEODORE DALRYMPLE: WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF I CONSUME TOO MUCH CALCIUM? “It is tempting for people to suppose that if a little of something is good for them, then a lot of it must be better. Unfortunately this is not always or even usually the case. . . . What the Swedish researchers found was that the graph of the relationship between calcium intake and death rates was a U-shaped curve. People with a low consumption of calcium had a higher mortality than those with a moderate consumption, but so did people with a high consumption.”

ART: A Bedazzled Drone Replica Asks Us To Ponder Deadly Strikes At Home.

UNMASKED, BUT UNFAZED: Chinese Hacking Group Is Still Active.

KATHLEEN PARKER: Why the ‘threat’ on Bob Woodward matters. “Drip by drip, the Obama administration has demonstrated its intolerance for dissent and its contempt for any who stray from the White House script. Yes, all administrations are sensitive to criticism, and all push back when such criticism is deemed unfair or inaccurate. But no president since Richard Nixon has demonstrated such overt contempt for the messenger.”

Some of us saw this coming. Remember the Obama Truth Squad, composed of prosecutors and law enforcement officials in Missouri intimidating Obama critics in 2008?

And note this Michael Barone piece from 2008, too.

UPDATE: More from 2008.

SOME OF US WERE WARNING ABOUT THIS A DECADE AGO: Dangerous Times: How Euro-socialism Set off a Fascist Bomb.

GUN CONTROL AS RATINGS CONTROL: Piers Morgan’s Ratings Plummet. Soon to join Keith Olbermann?

TEST-DRIVING THE 2014 Mercedes E-Class.

SPACE COLONIES OF THE 1970S.

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: Bunglers flush away 18,000 litres of Scotch. “The guys responsible will be lucky to keep their jobs.”

SCIENCE: Bring Back Cocktail Hour for Working Parents. You can’t argue with science. You don’t want to be a science-denier, do you?

THIS WAS ALL COVERED BY SEINFELD: The Allure Of The Catfight.

HONESTY PAYS for homeless man.

THE CARNIVAL OF CARS IS UP!

JONAH GOLDBERG ON CPAC, Christie, and Gays.

The sociology of CPAC is hard to describe to people outside the conservative movement. In a sense, it’s the Comic-Con of conservatism, overflowing with stalls and barkers like a Middle Eastern bazaar. It also serves as a de facto political convention for the ideological base of the Republican Party.

And that’s why CPAC’s decision to not invite Christie was probably a mistake. I’ve enjoyed my visits to CPAC. (Heck, I was named its conservative journalist of the year in 2011.)

The problem is that CPAC is the first bottleneck in the Republican presidential pipeline, and at precisely the moment the party should be making every effort to be — or at least seem! — as open as possible to differing points of view, it’s chosen to exclude the most popular governor in the country. (He has a 74 percent approval rating in deep-blue New Jersey.) Why? Because, a source familiar with CPAC’s internal deliberations told National Review Online, Christie has a “limited future” in the Republican party because of his position on gun control.

C’mon, really? The man is going to be reelected as a Republican. That’s a little future right there. Also, CPAC is chockablock with speakers who have a limited future — or even a limited past — in the Republican party.

Read the whole thing.

THOUGHTCRIME: Pop-Tart Pistol?: 7-Year-Old Gets Suspended for Gun-Shaped Pastry. Putting your kid — especially if he’s a boy — in public school is looking more and more like parental malpractice.

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CLAIM THAT “MORE BLACK MEN ARE IN JAIL THAN IN COLLEGE:” Not actually true. It’s not even close.

CONN CARROLL: California in Crisis: Green state chokes off its middle class.

GOVERNANCE: Republicans warn Obama has ‘poisoned’ relations with campaign-style attacks. It’s all he knows, so it’s all he does.

HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: DePaul Punishes Student for Exposing Vandals of Pro-Life Display. “DePaul University has punished a student for publicizing the names of fellow students who admitted to vandalizing his organization’s pro-life display. The student, Kristopher Del Campo, has been placed on probation after being found responsible for multiple conduct violations, including one that absurdly brands the publication of the names as ‘disorderly, violent, intimidating or dangerous.’ The Foundation for Individual Rights In Education (FIRE) has intervened in his case.”

University administrators like to characterize anything they don’t like as a threat.

Related: UNC Student Charged With Honor Code Violation For Discussing Rape Allegation. Remember when universities were supposed to be about the search for truth?