NEWS YOU CAN USE: Clayton Cramer: Take It from Me: Heart Surgery Is Best Avoided.

ALL IS PROCEEDING AS SARAH PALIN HAS FORESEEN: Investor’s Business Daily: More Dems Ditch IPAB Death Panels.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, JOURNALISM EDITION: The J-School Bubble. “Journalism instructors assign much more value to a degree in the discipline than do practicing journalists, according to a new Poynter study.”

REPORT FROM PLANET LANDRIEU: We Do Not Have An Increasing National Debt! Er, yes we do. Is it possible that Sen. Landrieu doesn’t understand the difference between the annual deficit, and the national debt?

IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: Eliana Johnson: Sixth Senior IRS Official Departs in Wake of Targeting Scandal.

ROGER SIMON: Richard Dawkins’ Islam Problem, and Ours.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Matt Damon Questions Obama’s Manhood.

Related: Matt Damon and Charles Krauthammer Agree: Obama Is No Good. Plus: “Barack Obama’s administration is unmoored from the institutions that have long kept the imperial tendencies of the American presidency in check. That is partly the fault of Congress, which has punted too many of its legislative responsibilities to the president’s army of faceless regulators, but it is in no small part the result of an intentional strategy on the part of the administration. He has spent the past five years methodically testing the limits of what he can get away with.”

IT’S HARD OUT THERE FOR A LAWYER: An attorney who had sex in exchange for office supplies for her legal practice and later pleaded guilty to prostitution charges has agreed to have her law license suspended for three years, state records show.

SMARTEST MAN IN THE WORLD, FORMER LAW PROFESSOR, MAKES ELEMENTARY LEGAL BLUNDER: In Misstep, Obama Discusses Sealed Indictment on Benghazi. “President Barack Obama was a lawyer before he became a politician, but on Friday he broke one of the most basic legal rules: He publicly discussed a sealed indictment. . . . While the president of the United States can declassify top secret intelligence information on his own say-so, disclosing secret grand jury material is a different matter. Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure clearly states: ‘… no person may disclose the indictment’s existence except as necessary to issue or execute a warrant or summons.'”

Meh. Laws are for the little people. Though it would be amusing to see him held in contempt.

“SMART DIPLOMACY:” Obama, Putin, and Rouhani: The Sources of War.

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JOHN FUND: Norway’s Right Turn: A political shift as the country ponders the future of its welfare state.

IT’S KIRSTEN POWERS VS. “THE DEMOCRATIC LADIES.”

PUTTING 14 ROUNDS THROUGH A 3D-Printed Rifle.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Competency-Based Transcripts.

Students who enroll in a new competency-based program at Northern Arizona University will earn a second transcript, which will describe their proficiency in the online bachelor degree’s required concepts. The university will also teach students how to share their “competency report” transcripts with potential employers.

The university shared a sample version of a competency report. The document looks nothing like its traditional counterpart, and lacks courses or grades.

Northern Arizona’s first crack at a transcript grounded in competencies gives an early glimpse of how credentialing in higher education might be shifting.

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.

BRYAN PRESTON: Obama’s Presser: What the Media Did and Didn’t Ask.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Cameron’s iconic house from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is for sale. Again.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: GreenTech Automotive Under Investigation by SEC and Senate Committee.

THE END OF LOCKSMITHS? Photograph Your House Key With This App, Then Print A Copy Anywhere. Or the end of locks?

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TEST-DRIVING the 2013 Volkswagen Scirocco R.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: GM’s got a new 1-liter, 3-cylinder engine. Should you care?

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“SMART DIPLOMACY” UPDATE: Things Not Looking So Good In Libya, Either.

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