PROF. JACOBSON: More on the bad economics of Elizabeth Warren’s student loan proposal.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: 11 school staffers found with rap sheets. “Boston Public Schools officials have no idea how many of their 9,000-plus employees may have criminal records — a shocking revelation that has triggered a sweeping round of background checks that already has found nearly a dozen workers with rap sheets.”

Hey, it’s not like they published bikini photos or anything.

JAMES INHOFE: Obama Can’t Wish Away Syrian Crisis.

“STRONG-ARMED STORM TROOPER TYPE OF TACTICS:” School System Tries To Out Anonymous Blogger.

Sigh. These people never learn. I predict the same result as in the Cooley Law School case.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Is The White House Outsourcing Its Kill And Capture Operations Against Certain Terror Groups?

DAVID ANDELMAN: Why Was Benghazi Left Unguarded?

REGRETS OF a skyjacker.

WITHDRAWAL: U.S. Kicks Drug-War Habit, Makes Peace With Afghan Poppies.

People have been talking about this issue for years.

IN VILLARAIGOSA’S LOS ANGELES, TAXPAYER-FINANCED RACISM: City Of LA Department Of Public Works Under Fire For Producing Controversial Video Mocking Asians.

HOMELAND SECURITY NOT WORKING OUT SO WELL: Boston officials say FBI failed to warn them about bombers.

As I warned over a decade ago, the post 9/11 bureaucratization of homeland security hasn’t made things function more smoothly. Adding layers of bureaucracy seldom does.

HOW DID THAT WORK OUT? Romney Scrapped Benghazi Ad In Final Weeks of Campaign. Too many pulled punches in that operation.

WASHINGTON POST: President Obama: Mr. Fix-it no longer.

IN GREECE, THE UPSIDE OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE: Real Housewives Of Athens Get Work Done As Cosmetic Surgery Costs Plunge.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: A Future Without Tenure?

Florida Polytechnic University’s re-envisioning of a public research institution is making some radical departures from the norm, including scrapping the idea of tenure. The state’s union leaders, however, say that decision should be reversed if administrators are serious about their aspirations for the university.

Instead of tenure, faculty members “will be offered fixed term, multi-year contracts that will be renewed based on performance,” the university-to-be announced on Tuesday.

“We want to be a leading university, and we wanted to attract faculty who think out of the box, and who are ambitious and creative,” said Ghazi Darkazalli, vice president of academic affairs. “We don’t want them to be worrying within the first five or six years whether they’re going to be tenured or not.”

The faculty contracts will last for one, three or five years, and will be renewed based on merit “rather than on a set rule within the boundaries of tenure,” Darkazalli said. He said that abandoning the tenure model means that faculty members will be less inclined to pursue the kind of “trivial publication and research” professors on the tenure track sometimes feel is required of them to succeed, and instead focus on teaching and research beneficial to their students.

Stay tuned.

FOX BUTTERFIELD, IS THAT YOU? With gun violence down, is America arming against an imagined threat? “A Pew study released Tuesday finds that Americans think gun violence has escalated when in reality it’s way down from two decades ago. The violence has dropped, meanwhile, even as gun ownership has increased.”

UPDATE: Reader Roland Hess writes: “Wouldn’t it be ironic if the imagined threat that Americans were arming themselves against had its roots in a creeping sense of insecurity perpetuated by the gun grabbers as they preach about the epidemic of gun crime? If you keep telling a free people there is a wave of violence just over the horizon, they are likely to take appropriate measures, and those may not square with the solutions preferred by the mandarins.” That would explain the Pew poll showing that most people think gun crime is up when it’s really down. . . .

PEW: GOP now running even with Obama on issues.

DO THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE WHO CAN HANDLE COMPETITION? Prof. Jacobson: Why is Daily Kos so afraid of some speech competition from the Koch Brothers?

“I can’t believe people will pay for Politico or that Politico would want to restrict access.”

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS: Why Cops Bust Down Doors of Medical Pot Growers, But Ignore Men Who Keep Naked Girls on Leashes.

FEATURING ANDREW KLAVAN: Benghazi Scandal!

KEN AT POPEHAT THINKS THE NAKOULA IMPRISONMENT IS NO BIG DEAL. I dunno, Hillary was promising to put the filmmaker in jail before she even knew who it was.

PAY THROUGH THE NOSE FOR A BLOOMBERG TERMINAL, GET SNOOPED ON BY BLOOMBERG REPORTERS?

Talk about a nanny state.

Irked Goldman Sachs brass recently confronted Bloomberg LP over concerns reporters at the business news service have been using the company’s ubiquitous terminals to keep tabs on some employees of the Wall Street bank, The Post has learned.

The ability to snoop on Bloomberg terminal users came to light recently when Goldman officials learned that at least one reporter at the news service had access to a wide array of information about customer usage, sources said.

In one instance, a Bloomberg reporter asked a Goldman executive if a partner at the bank had recently left the firm — noting casually that he hadn’t logged into his Bloomberg terminal in some time, sources added.

Goldman later learned that Bloomberg staffers could determine not only which of its employees had logged into Bloomberg’s proprietary terminals but how many times they had used particular functions, insiders said.

The matter raised serious concerns for the firm about how secure information exchanged through the terminals within the firm actually was — and if the privacy of their business strategy had been compromised.

“You can basically see how many times someone has looked up news stories or if they used their messaging functions,” said one Goldman insider.

“It made us think, ‘Well, what else does [Bloomberg] have access to?,’ ” the insider said.

I wonder if this will hurt their business. It seems like a major security problem. But at least there’s accountability: “No reporters have lost their jobs as a result of the snooping issues.”

This raises serious insider-trading concerns. With this kind of security problem, it would seem like a breach of fiduciary duty to use these terminals.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

I’ve been using the Bloomberg system for over 25 years, at 3 firms now. I’m as close to a user expert as you get. I can tell you that my Bloomberg rep told me that they can ( and do) routinely monitor or look up individual user activity and have been doing this since at least 10 years ago. They told me the information is summarized and given to the reps when they head into the field so that they will better know what customer interests are, and can customize training and advice to each user. I actually found it a refreshing and welcome customer service.

The infuriating thing about this story is that Bloomberg’s customer service would seem to a porous broken vessel of information. Bloomberg’s reporters have no business accessing sensitive customer data – which by the way also includes user portfolio holdings and trading information. If I was a hedge fund manager, I’d be on the phone blistering my Bloomie rep about about just how much of my propretary research and trading strategy was blowing around their Newsroom. I’m a pension fund manager for a $7Billion fund, and I know I’ll at least be grilling them slowly over the spit tomorrow.

I’m guessing there will be many doing that.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, RELIGIOUS SCRUPLES WOULD SHACKLE SCIENCE: Feds force Defense Distributed to remove 3-D gun blueprints. Trying to regulate CAD files as munitions. They did this with cryptography, too.

UPDATE: More here.

ADVICE TO GRADUATES: It’s Not Okay To Show Up Late, Or Text During A Job Interview. “What happened in college, then? The survey by York College’s Center for Professional Excellence assigns colleges part of the blame, observing that letting students miss deadlines without penalty and assigning good grades for middling work only make them form the wrong expectations.”

I’m happy to say that I see none of this kind of behavior among my law students, but then they’re several cuts above the average undergraduage.

WHEN WORKPLACES ARE WUSSIFIED.