NOW ON YOUTUBE: My InstaVision interview with Mark Levin, on his new book, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring The American Republic.

TOUGH PROJECT: A documentary on the Channon Christian / Christopher Newsom murders.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: U.S. Warships Close In On Syria.

UPDATE: New U.N. Ambassador Skips Emergency Syria Meeting for Personal Trip.

POLITICIANS NEED TO REMEMBER THAT the Internet is forever.

ROGER SIMON: Mr. Netanyahu’s Dilemma.

ROLL CALL: The Air Force’s $40 Billion Space Push. “America’s civilian space program may be on life support, now that the Space Shuttle’s gone. But its military space program is very much alive — and about to get much, much bigger. In the coming decades, the U.S. Air Force plans to pour an additional $36 to $40 billion into its effort to put military and spy satellites in orbit using commercial rocket services.”

PETER INGEMI: Salon and the Dishonorable Dim Witted Left. Well, every publication has its target market.

PAUL MIRENGOFF: The sources of Obama’s tragic Syria policy.

Related: Of Rice And Men.

FILNER RESIGNS — but he’s the victim.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): ‘A Nation of Sullen Paranoids:’ Too much security can produce a kind of madness.

If you believe the information will never be used wrongly or recklessly, you are touchingly innocent. If you assume you can trust the administration on this issue you are not following the bouncing ball, from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who told Congress under oath the NSA didn’t gather “any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans” (he later had to apologize) to President Obama, who told Jay Leno: “We don’t have a domestic program.” What we do have, the president said, is “some mechanism that can track a phone number or an email address that is connected to a terrorist attack.”

Oh, we have more than that.

Indeed we do.

I DUNNO. DO WE REALLY WANT TO TAKE THE CHANCE THAT THIS IS WRONG? No, Sex Won’t Make You Rich: Don’t believe the study that says otherwise.

NUTHIN’ CREEPY HERE: Facial Scanning Is Making Gains in Surveillance.

The federal government is making progress on developing a surveillance system that would pair computers with video cameras to scan crowds and automatically identify people by their faces, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with researchers working on the project.

The Department of Homeland Security tested a crowd-scanning project called the Biometric Optical Surveillance System — or BOSS — last fall after two years of government-financed development. Although the system is not ready for use, researchers say they are making significant advances. That alarms privacy advocates, who say that now is the time for the government to establish oversight rules and limits on how it will someday be used.

BOSS, huh? Kinda says a lot.

JAMES TARANTO: Is Green The New Black?

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How Exercise Can Help Us Sleep Better.

The preliminary message of these findings is heartening. If you habitually experience insomnia and don’t currently exercise, Dr. Baron said, start. Don’t, however, expect that you will enjoy or even complete workouts that occur on the day after a broken night’s sleep, or that you will sleep better hours after you’ve exercised.

The process is more gradual and less immediately gratifying than the sleep-deprived might wish. But the benefits do develop. “It took four months” in the original study, Dr. Baron said, but at that point the exercising volunteers “were sleeping at least 45 minutes more a night.” “That’s huge, as good as or better” than most current treatment options for sleep disturbances, including drugs, she said.

Not a quick fix, then.

I’M GUESSING SOMETIME IN LATE NOVEMBER OF THAT YEAR: The Hill: The State Department’s decision on the Keystone XL pipeline is in danger of being pushed into 2014.

FRANK MUNGER: A Manhattan Project predecessor in Tennessee.

ENTIRELY RANDOM, NON-RACE-BASED ACTS OF VIOLENCE: James Woods leads call for justice for slain World War II vet Delbert Belton.

JIM TREACHER: Gender deniers insist Bradley Manning is a woman. Why do they hate science?

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D):

Only 1 in 4 African-Americans say the situation of black people is better now than five years ago, down from 39 percent in 2009. Among whites, it fell from 49 percent to 35 percent.

The Obama Administration’s policy of deliberate racial division hasn’t helped things for anyone, of any race — except, I guess the Obama Administration and its hangers-on.

FASTER, PLEASE: NASA developing Star Trek-like warp drive for future space travel. A lot faster, I guess. . . .