CHANGE: When Greens Endorse Nuclear Power. “It takes Robert Stone’s controversial new documentary Pandora’s Promise 30 minutes and five apostate environmentalists, but it finally gets to the point: Nuclear power, the energy source many people fear most, is the best and currently only way to satisfy the world’s voracious demand for electricity without producing carbon dioxide and other emissions that contribute to climate change.”

Yep. If you don’t support nuclear power, you’re not serious about limiting carbon emissions.

KIRSTEN POWERS: It’s appalling to hear the Washington bureaucrats and their media allies trash Edward Snowden as a traitor, when it’s our leaders and the NSA who have betrayed us. Strong words from a Democrat.

Plus this: “It says something about the lack of a positive case for keeping the NSA spying programs secret that the main line of defense is to attack Snowden for lacking the proper credentials to speak out against the government.” Well, our credentialed-but-not-educated elites place a lot of importance on credentials. What else have they got?

SINCE I DON’T HAVE A REAL SPLEEN, THIS INTERESTS ME: Artificial Spleen Offers Hope for Faster Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why Are People Still Lying About Their Number Of Sex Partners?

A NEWLY-DISCOVERED AFFLICTION: The Scourge Of “Bitchy Resting Face.”

MICHAEL S. MALONE: The All-Seeing Eye. “The other day, my college age son quietly went around the house and put electricians tape over the camera lenses on the displays of all our home computers. I laughed when I discovered what he had done. . .then paused: after all, it wouldn’t be that hard for someone to remotely turn that camera on and secretly watch me and my family. I left the tape on. This is what it has come to. The revelations of recent days about the NSA being able to spy on the phone calls of millions of everyday Americans, without warrant, in search of a few possible terrorists has made everyone just a little more paranoid – and a little less trusting of the benign nature of our Federal government. The reality is that we may not yet be paranoid enough.”

J.R. DUNN: The Sheep Look Up: The nightmare of political modernism. “It is the latest scandal involving the National Security Agency that has truly focused public attention. Benghazi had death under terrifying circumstances, the IRS scandal had the most feared federal agency on the rampage against innocent citizens, the Justice Department scandal had reporters targeted for doing their jobs. But it is the NSA scandal that has provided the context for all the others, that has brought them together as a bleak and brooding menace threatening American life as it has always been lived.”

TIMES OF INDIA: Google, Facebook and others have betrayed their global users. “The foreigner angle is aimed at pacifying the US media and their public. Unfortunately, as an Indian national, who uses Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft services and products all the time, this is a poor consolation to me – in fact, these revelations of the last week would unnerve and alarm every single individual who is not a citizen of the US.”

Glenn Derene warned about this.

21ST CENTURY WATERGATE? CBS News confirms multiple breaches of Sharyl Attkisson’s computer. “A cyber security firm hired by CBS News has determined through forensic analysis that Sharyl Attkisson’s computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions late in 2012. Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson’s accounts. While no malicious code was found, forensic analysis revealed an intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data. This party also used sophisticated methods to remove all possible indications of unauthorized activity, and alter system times to cause further confusion.”

Say, if they can do that, couldn’t they plant incriminating stuff on your computer, too? More undermining of trust. . . .

REMY: Tap It: Slow Jam. Surveillance never sounded so smooth!

SCANDAL BLOWBACK: Obama faces a Redditors Rebellion, at least for now. “Reddit, usually known for comedic memes about cats and Nicholas Cage, has become, at least temporarily, a place of hostility. It was actually difficult to find anything purely comical this past weekend. While the bulk of the anger seems to have dissipated since the weekend, the majority of the political links being submitted even today are about the NSA scandal.”

BUREAUCRACY: How Do You Overlook 3000 Datacenters? “While the attention has been focused on the new NSA datacenter in Utah, a re-evaluation, 3 years into the Federal Datacenter closure program, identifies an additional 3,000 facilities that fall under the closure consolidation mandate. Granted, under the loose definition of datacenter that the government is using that could mean 3,000 racks hidden in 3,000 utility closets throughout the country, but how can any organization not know where its data processing and storage facilities actually reside?”

BRUCE SCHNEIER ON THE FEUDAL ONLINE WORLD: “If you’ve started to think of yourself as a hapless peasant in a Game of Thrones power struggle, you’re more right than you may realize. These are not traditional companies, and we are not traditional customers. These are feudal lords, and we are their vassals, peasants, and serfs.”

IS THERE A TIPOFF IN THIS SOMEWHERE? Supreme Court Bans Protests On Its Grounds. “The Supreme Court has come up with a new regulation banning demonstrations on its grounds, two days after a broader anti-demonstration law was declared unconstitutional. The regulation bans activities on the court’s grounds or building such as picketing, speech-making, marching, vigils or religious services ‘that involve the communication or expression of views or grievances, engaged in by one or more persons, the conduct of which is reasonably likely to draw a crowd or onlookers.'”

THE IRANIAN RESISTANCE SHOULD BE BUMPING OFF REVOLUTIONARY GUARD OFFICERS. At least, that’s what I’d do if I were them. Iran sets up secret prisons ahead of presidential election.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR., crazed conspiracy nut.

JONAH GOLDBERG ON FREEDOM: The libertarian idea is the only truly new political idea in the last couple thousand years.

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IF YOU STRIKE ME DOWN . . . John Fund: A Tea Party Revival In Virginia.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 36.

HOPEY-CHANGEY: FBI’s use of Patriot Act to collect US citizens’ records up 1,000 percent.

ED DRISCOLL: The Scowling Face of the State, Illustrated.

THE HILL: State Department watchdog blasted for keeping hooker claims from Congress. “In a letter to the department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.) blasts the agency over a February report that was scrubbed of specific references to misconduct allegations that included eight cases of State Department officials sleeping with prostitutes and other misconduct.”

The Walpin firing, early in Obama’s first term, was intended to intimidate Inspectors General. It appears to have succeeded.

IT’S LIKE IN L.A. LAW, WHEN THE HEAD TAX PARTNER DIES AND ARNIE BECKER SAYS “DIBS ON HIS OFFICE!” Roll Call: Democrats Spar Over Markey’s Committee Slot.