HMM: Lavabit, email service Snowden reportedly used, abruptly shuts down. “Lavabit’s owner has shut down the service, and posted a message on the lavabit.com home page today about wanting to avoid ‘being complicit in crimes against the American people.’ According to the statement, it appears he rejected a US court order to cooperate with the government in spying on users.”

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HEY, THERE’S AN ELECTION COMING NEXT YEAR: IRS agent: Tax agency is still targeting Tea Party groups. “In a remarkable admission that is likely to rock the Internal Revenue Service again, testimony released Thursday by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp reveals that an agent involved in reviewing tax exempt applications from conservative groups told a committee investigator that the agency is still targeting Tea Party groups, three months after the IRS scandal erupted.”

I’M SURE THEY DID THIS FOR BUSH, TOO: Lapdogs fess up: AP admits ‘wrongly’ inserting words to fix Obama gaffe.

ED DRISCOLL: When You Stare into the Fiscal Abyss, the Fiscal Abyss Stares Into You — And Your Wallet.

JUDGE: Bitcoin is a functional form of value exchange that is subject to regulation.

RHETORIC: Disgusting: Democrat Anti-Gun Nuts Now Lumping in Trayvon Martin with Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tucson and Aurora Shootings.

THEY COULD HARDLY HAVE DONE LESS: Academics Agree MIT Should Have Done More for Aaron Swartz. “A failure to act ethically, and a failure to show compassion.”

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CULTURE OF CORRUPTION? “Booker’s stake is a bribe.” “He gets money, the bribers er ‘donors’ or ‘partners’ get control and access over public policy, at the expense of the voters. This is blatant graft and of a type that used to be common in the late 19th century, which in so many ways our politics and economy seem to be moving back to.” Interestingly via the influence of the “progressive” party.

IN THE CORNELL LAW REVIEW: The IRS Tea Party Controversy and Administrative Discretion.

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WELL, OPRAH SACRIFICED HER CAREER FOR HIM, SO IT’S ONLY FAIR: Obama Giving Presidential Medals of Freedom to President Clinton, Steinem, Oprah.

Best commentary: If I got the presidential medal of freedom from a guy who got a Nobel Peace Prize for nothing, I’d probably phone that ceremony in.

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A CONNECTION BETWEEN SLEEP-DEPRIVATION AND OVEREATING? Poor Sleep Makes Food More Appealing.

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CHANGE: Will the Millennial generation have the lowest marriage rate in history?

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REASON TV: Cameras vs. LAPD: Was A Photographer Interfering or Just Taking Pictures?

LAW ENFORCEMENT: One In 25 Americans Was Arrested In 2011.

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Cunningham, Rodriguez on the ABA Legal Education Task Force Working Paper.

Related: Tenured Prof Retires His ‘Boomer Butt,’ Leaves ‘Authoritarian Hellhole’ of Penn State.

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