IT DOES KINDA LOOK LIKE IT: Is The IRS Obstructing Justice?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College Enrollment Falls as Economy Recovers. “Hardest hit are likely to be colleges that do not rank among the wealthiest or most prestigious, and are heavily dependent on tuition revenue, raising questions about their financial health — even their survival.”

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.

WELL, A BUNCH OF ‘EM WERE DOING IT WITH WEINER, YOU KNOW? Chris Matthews thoughts: Do we have any evidence women sext, too? What a schlemiel.

WELL, HE’S A DEMOCRAT POL: Lisa Bloom: Weiner’s Treatment Of Huma Is Spousal Abuse.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords: Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in encrypted form. “If the government is able to determine a person’s password, which is typically stored in encrypted form, the credential could be used to log in to an account to peruse confidential correspondence or even impersonate the user.”

BRYAN PRESTON: Obama’s Pernicious Week. “Barack Obama is gaslighting America. He is striving to make any focus on his real scandals appear nutty, out of bounds, insane, and illegitimate.”

INDEED: The Lies Americans Were Sold In 2012 Are Exploding In 2013.

DAVE WEIGEL: The Overrated Huma Abedin. “No one who’s profiled Abedin has really bothered to tell why we should like her, only that other people really like her. This current round of Humamania is surfeited with praise that sounds sort of crazy when you actually read it.”

He’s a man. He can’t judge a woman. This inter-gender judging stuff only goes one way.

A SLUSH FUND FOR DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL CANVASSING: Obama to Hire Thousands of Community Organizers at $20-$48 Per Hour to Help With Obamacare Enrollment.

LIFE IN OBAMALAND: Where Opposing An Increase In The Debt Makes You A “Deadbeat.”

I remember when Obama called increasing the debt limit “unpatriotic.”

TITLES OF NOBILITY: Budding lawyer ‘too privileged’ for jail.

DAVID FRENCH: Our Pathetic Support For Muslim Oppression.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, BRITISH PUNDITS WOULD BE MOCKING OUR PRESIDENT’S CLUMSY SPEECHES. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Nile Gardiner: Barack Obama flops in Knox: the president’s speech was a disaster.

UPDATE: Related: Poll: Only 33% Rate Obama’s Zimmerman Response as Good or Excellent.

BLEAH. LET IT VEER NORTH AND FADE OUT. Tropical Storm Dorian a “survivor” thus far; East Coast impact possible in 7-10 days.

THANKS TO SPYWARE, even powering down a cellphone can’t keep NSA from tracking its location. “According to Gallagher, the NSA may be using mass updates to infect phones of targets overseas (and presumably, any ‘non-targets’ applying the same faux update).”

THREE MEN, THREE AGES, and the bias against older men. “It turns out that a young Max and a middle-aged Max can get away with saying things that an old Max cannot. . . . For those who saw the 25- or 45-year-old Max, it made no difference whether he was compliant or assertive. But students who saw the 75-year-old actor gave the assertive Max a high negative rating.”

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LAW ENFORCEMENT: Cop Fired for Speaking Out Against Ticket and Arrest Quotas.

Here’s a tip for lawyers: FOIA a whole bunch of DUI police reports. Odds are good you’ll find that the language in them is near-identical and has been cut-and-pasted.

“WHY DID YOU STEAL MY NAME?” Anthony Weiner confronted by “Carlos Danger.”

ROGER KIMBALL: Mile-High Thoughts About Culture And Higher Ed. “By some strange process of moral entropy, those institutions which had been the bearers and preservers of our cultural inheritance have mutated into its deadly enemies. . . . It costs $59,712 per year to attend Williams. For what? Politically correct hysteria, buckets of medical waste that are mistaken as art works, and conferences like ‘The Queerness of Childhood.'”

DIVING: “Must Talk. Terrible News… Audrey is Dead.”

PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING THAT I HAVEN’T BEEN POSTING ENOUGH RECIPES. They’re right. Here’s one I haven’t tried making, but it looks good: Spanish meatballs in tomato sauce, extremely tender and juicy Tapas recipe!

Also: How to make Cuban Fried Potatoes with Mayonaise (Papas Fritas con Mayonesa).

Plus: Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken.

If you make ’em, let me know how they turn out.

BEWARE OF ICU-Induced PTSD.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: If Issuing Hundreds Of Phony Degrees Doesn’t Lose You Accreditation, What Good Is Accreditation?