IT’S COME TO THIS: Oh-oh, even California’s turning on Obama.

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A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY: Remembering Pearl Harbor: UT Center Helps Preserve Veterans’ Stories.

JAMES TARANTO: Indemnity! Whiskey! Sexy! Will young adults greet ObamaCare insurance salesmen as liberators?

This column has made the point before that there are three phases of the ObamaCare catastrophe. Phase 1, the technical failure, might have been avoided had the administration had some basic standards of competence. But Phases 2 and 3 are inherent in the law.

Phase 2 was the revelation that the ObamaCare enterprise is the most massive consumer fraud in American history–that the “if you like your plan, you can keep it” sales pitch was not only false but deliberately deceptive, and also that ObamaCare forces insurance companies to engage in dishonest practices such as selling maternity coverage to men and postmenopausal women.

Politico notes that the combination of Phases 1 and 2 has created a new way for ObamaCare to fail: “Health care experts say, it’s not out of the question that the Obama administration could face the worst-case scenario on Jan. 1: the number of uninsured Americans actually goes up.” (This columnist is not an expert, but we raised the possibility a month ago.)

Assuming that the politics of ObamaCare remain static–that is, assuming Senate Democrats continue to fear the president more than they fear their constituents–Phase 3 will develop over the coming months. Phase 3 is the demonstration that even if the system is technically functional and the fraud impervious to redress, ObamaCare is economically unviable because of adverse selection: Americans who stand to benefit from the law’s price controls, the old and the sick, will buy insurance in large numbers, while those who get hit by them, the young and the healthy, will not.

The shrunken but still substantial subset of the press corps that remains servile to the Obama agenda has been devoting a lot of attention of late to denying Phases 1 and 2–assuring that the “website” is working fine and that all those fraud victims will find satisfactory recompense in ObamaCare policies. But Ryan Cooper, a protegé of the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent, is getting out ahead of the story. He’s already denying Phase 3.

Read the whole thing.

WHAT THEY TELL YOU: Top prosecutor faces ethics case over racial remarks that derailed murder trial.

The top prosecutor in a southern Illinois county is facing a legal ethics case because of racial remarks he made that derailed a murder trial.

Williamson County State’s Attorney Charles Garnati violated four legal ethics rules and “tends to defeat the administration of justice or to bring the courts or legal profession into disrepute,” contends the the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission in a Nov. 6 complaint (PDF) that was made public on Wednesday. The defendant, who is black, was tried before an all-white jury in July 2011 and sentenced to 85 years before his conviction was reversed on appeal, reports the Chicago Tribune.

What they don’t tell you: Prosecutor Garnati is a Democrat.

IRS: Audits of ObamaCare Critics Just a Coincidence. Uh huh.

Reminder: In 2009, President Obama “joked” about auditing his enemies. See, after you do that sort of thing, the “coincidence” explanation is less believable. . . .

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: A ‘New Normal’ November jobs report: The long emergency for US workers continues. “There are still 1.1 million fewer employed Americans today than right before the recession started, despite a potential labor force that’s 14 million larger. And there are 3.6 million fewer full-time workers than back in 2007. . . . If the labor force participation rate were where it was a year ago, the jobless rate would be 7.9%, not 7% (and 11.3% if the LFPR were at prerecession levels, though closer to 9% if demographics-adjusted).”

Note the graphic.

THE HILL: Patriot Act author: Obama’s intel czar should be prosecuted.

CHANGE: Charlie Cook: This is one of the most dramatic shifts in a generic congressional ballot I’ve ever seen. But don’t get cocky: “Republicans should not allow their present advantage in the generic ballot to spur them to purchase food and beer for a victory party, the 2014 mid-terms are a long time away and there is much that can happen.”

Related: X Marks The Spot.

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LIKE PEELING AN ONION OF FAIL: And Now, For News of Fresh Obamacare Disaster.

LIGHTBULB UPDATE: So as promised, I got and installed some CREE LED bulbs. I put ’em in a fixture in the media room that’s kind of hard to access, in the hopes that their long life will spare me some ladder work. (My previous hope in that department, CFL bulbs, didn’t pan out). The light looks good — Helen (who hates all CFLs) thought it looked great. I also installed a 60-watt equivalent GE LED bulb over our breakfast table. I liked the light from it a bit better, but Helen liked it less.

I’ll let you know how they turn out. Or you can just stock up on incandescents. I’ve done that, too . . . .

SUZANNE VENKER ON FOX & FRIENDS: Yes, women still need husbands.

DOES HAVING SEX COUNT AS EXERCISE? It depends on how you do it. Upside: “The risk for sex-related cardiac arrest is, in fact, vanishingly small, statistics show.”

WELL, DUH: Why Southern Men Make The Best Boyfriends.

I AGREE: Big Automakers Won’t Build The Car Of The Future — Small Innovators Will.

Why do major leaps forward come so rarely in the auto industry? There are of course the usual suspects: crash test standards, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requirements, European pedestrian safety protections; entrenched capital investment in infrastructure and manufacturing methods; long vehicle development cycles — the whole legacy kaboodle of a mature and highly regulated industry. But I spent four years researching, interviewing, and writing about inventors who aren’t limited to thinking like the auto companies, and who made cars that are drastic departures from the ones we’re driving now. They did this as part of a grand-challenges approach to innovation — a $10 million X Prize that pushed inventors to build the super-efficient car of the future.

Auto companies like to sneer at legitimately futuristic cars, calling them “science projects” and saying consumers will never buy them. I believe this is a mistake. Because ultimately, they don’t really know. They’ve never tried to make and sell cars like the ones that ended up excelling in the X Prize contest. And they’re awfully good at blaming consumer timidity for their own engineering fears and failures.

Indeed.

GALLERY: 50 Years of Gas Station Photos Pump Out Premium Americana.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): U.S. pregnancy rate falls to 12-year low. “It has been suggested that the declining economy, beginning in 2007, has likely played a role in the decreased rates for women under age 40.”

AND YOU THOUGHT THIS WAS JUST AN OLD WIVES’ TALE — OH, WAIT: Vaginally administered ED medication may alleviate menstrual cramping. “Women with moderate to severe menstrual cramps may find relief in a class of erectile dysfunction drugs, according to a team of researchers led by Penn State College of Medicines Richard Legro. . . . Sildenafil citrate, sold under the brand name Viagra, may help with pelvic pain because it can lead to dilation of the blood vessels.”

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EMPHASIS ON “FOR NOW:” Politico: Improving economy defies Washington, for now.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Iowa Regents Reject Law School’s Proposed Tuition Increase on Iowa Residents, Order Same 16.4% Tuition Reduction Given to Non-Residents.

HIGHER EDUCATION: Racism Talk Leads To Reprimand.

LIFE IN LATE BLOOMBERGISTAN: Unarmed Man Goes On Shooting Rampage. “A mentally disturbed man is wandering through traffic outside New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal. Naturally, the NYPD open fire. They miss the guy. However, the sidewalks being full of people, they manage to hit two female pedestrians, one of them already using a walker, which comes in handy when the coppers shoot you in the leg. So the DA charges the guy with assaulting the women. . . . The defendant is looking at 25 years in jail for the crime of provoking law enforcement into shooting random citizens. If this flies in New York, then there is no law.”

THUG NATION: Elizabeth Warren Launches War On Critical Think Tanks. “As you read the rest of this post, please keep in mind that Elizabeth Warren never has authorized release of her hiring files at Harvard Law School or other employers to see whether her phony Native American and Cherokee status was known at the time of hiring.”