JOHN PHILLIPS: Ominous Warning: Hear What CNN’s Jake Tapper Told Obama Supporters.

GREG POLLOWITZ: The problem with Noonan isn’t what she writes today — it’s if Palin had said it in ’08, Noonan would have ridiculed it. Here’s the column.

TAXPROF: Roundup: IRS Scandal, Day 15.

Also, Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert on the IRS Scandals.

MAYBE THEY’RE JUST GOING FOR SCANDAL-SATURATION: Sebelius Defends another Administration Misstep.

BYRON YORK: House-Senate showdown coming over border security.

IT’S FUN TO PLAY THE RACE CARD ON JOAN WALSH, and God knows she’s earned it. But I need, once again, to correct an improper use of the “some of my best friends” bit. As I’ve noted before:

The classic example was the white bigot who said he couldn’t be a racist because some of his best friends were black — only to have it turn out that those “friends” were his caddy and his shoeshine guy.

When some of your best friends really are black or Jewish, the import is different. People tend to lose this distinction, but I think that’s a combination of laziness and attempt to take unfair rhetorical advantage. As I said earlier, “it’s been morphed into an all-purpose way to ensure that white guys can’t bring up counterexamples when charged with racism.” That’s not fair.

Not even when it’s done to Joan Walsh.

BARACK OBAMA: World’s Greatest Gun Salesman! A lot of the guns sold during Obama’s presidency will still be around 50 or 100 years from now.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Intimidation: Now The Gibson Guitar Raids Make Sense.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): The Hill: Poll: Two-thirds say economy in bad shape.

WELCOME TO THE MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY: Commerce Nominee Sails Through Confirmation Hearing Despite Not Reporting $80 Million Income, Offshore Tax Shelters. That stuff’s only bad during an election cycle, and then only when it’s done by Republicans.

THE HILL: IRS Targeting Scandal: Latest News.

IT’S THE KNOWLEDGE PROBLEM AGAIN: Did Financial Services Reform Inadvertently Put a Kink In Obamacare? “The unbanked may have a hard time buying insurance on the exchanges. Too bad we just created more of them.”

JAMES TARANTO: Obama is not a Nixon, says a Crook.

BENJAMIN WITTES: “Obama’s comments about Guantanamo were pretty lame.”

THE HILL: Judiciary Leaders Take On Patent Abuse.

ED DRISCOLL: The Return of the Primitive.

A GLIMMER OF HOPE FOR THE ILLINOIS GOP?

CHANGE: Homeland Security bulletin warns 3D-printed guns may be ‘impossible’ to stop.

IN LIGHT OF OBAMA’S “BULWORTH MOMENT” TALK, somebody on Twitter — I think it was Matt Welch — was referencing this 1998 essay from Suck. “A powerful man casts off his whiteness, and becomes authentic and direct. Take a moment with that one.”

Given Obama’s actual upbringing, he — and his relationship to black America — may be more Bulworth-like than not.

BOB KRUMM: Peggy Noonan Gets It Almost Right.

JIM TREACHER: GOOGLE ACTUALLY DOES SOMETHING PATRIOTIC. “This has to be some sort of mistake.”

ZIMMERMAN TRIAL UPDATE: Gun, drug texts feature in new Trayvon Martin shooting evidence. “The evidence, George Zimmerman’s attorneys say, paints a different picture of the 17-year-old than the one portrayed by his family and supporters. Lead defense attorney Mark O’Mara says he will try to use the evidence if prosecutors attempt to attack Zimmerman’s character during his trial on second-degree murder charges, set to begin next month. Also Thursday, O’Mara filed motions in court. One asks for sanctions against the state for withholding evidence and for saying it didn’t have more evidence when asked. The second requests that his client’s trial be delayed. Much of the new evidence disclosed Thursday in filings by Zimmerman’s attorneys comes from Martin’s cell phone, including photos showing a semiautomatic pistol and ammunition and small marijuana plants growing in pots. In other pictures, Martin is pictured making obscene gestures in an apparent self-portrait.”

JOE PAPPALARDO: How Obama Criticized—and Defended—His Own Drone War.

YOU DON’T NEED A WEATHERMAN TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE WIND IS BLOWING: Poland Set for Biggest-Ever Increase in Military Spending.

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