POLICE CHASE, EXPLOSIONS REPORTED NEAR MIT SHOOTING: As of 2:45 AM Eastern, the Boston Globe is claiming, “A Marathon Bombing Suspect is in Custody: One suspect in custody, another remains on the loose.” We’ll see if that headline holds up as Friday progresses.

SILENCED: ICE union head Chris Crane ejected from Gang of 8 press event. “Chris Crane, head of the immigration officers union, was pulled out of a Senate press conference today when he tried to question Sen. Chuck Schumer the during the televised roll-out of the 844-page immigration rewrite. . . . ‘Will you take a question from law enforcement?’ Crane asked, repeating the question twice before being removed. . . . Schumer and the other Senators have struggled to control the debate about the bill, which was released this week after months of closed-door drafting.”

I’M SURE THE PRESS WILL BE ALL OVER THIS: Alleged Ricin Terrorist is a Democrat.

NOBODY CARES ABOUT DEAD FLYOVER PEOPLE: New York Times: Fox News Skips The President’s Gun-Defeat Ordeal In Order to Focus on Some Trivial Deaths of Texans in Nowhweresville.

Related: On The Second Amendment And Presidential Anger.

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO PRE-ORDERED THE INSTA-WIFE’S BOOK. As you can see, it had an impact:

Not bad for a book that won’t be out for two months. There’ll be Kindle and Nook versions, too. I appreciate the orders — preorders help tweak the algorithms that get a book ordered by more bookstores, and stocked more heavily at the online sellers.

UPDATE: Now in Movers And Shakers.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Pro-Obama group will go after Democrats on guns. “The nonprofit advocacy group backing President Obama’s second-term agenda plans to mobilize constituents against the U.S. senators who on Wednesday helped defeat a measure to expand background checks – including four members of the president’s own party.”

HONEYMOON OVER: America’s Just Not That Into Obama. “Ironically, the only populist mass movement on domestic-policy issues Obama can claim credit for creating is the Tea Party, which I think we can all agree isn’t what he had in mind.”

THEY CAN’T PASS GUN CONTROL IN ILLINOIS? IL Dems Revolt Against Gun Control Law. “Democrats enjoy a supermajority in the Illinois House of Representatives, holding 71 seats to the GOP’s 47. On Wednesday, the same day the US Senate voted down gun control legislation, powerful Democrat Speaker Michael Madigan tried to push a restrictive gun control measure through his chamber. The result was an open revolt by downstate Democrats, with almost half the Democrat caucus joining the GOP to kill the measure. The bill went down 31-76, a rare defeat for the legendary Madigan.”

GOOD IDEA: The IRS Should Report on Tax Returns Filed by Members of Congress.

JACK DUNPHY: Run, Hide, Fight? When seconds count, the police are typically minutes away. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a Beretta or a Glock to protect yourself? I favor a Sig myself, but yeah: “A close examination of mass shooting incidents revealed that the chances of survival increased when potential victims took steps to resist an attack by a gunman.”

DR. MERCURY AT MAGGIE’S FARM COULD USE SOME HELP. I just sent him a hundred bucks.

LUCK: Runner survives Boston bombing, returns home to Texas in time for fertilizer plant explosion. Wife’s comment: “We need to keep him moving. Maybe he just needs to stand in an open field.”

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Ab-solutely Fabulous: Women’s expectations of the opposite sex are at least as unrealistic as men’s. Love the accompanying Charles Atlas photo. He wouldn’t even be considered especially buff today. . . .

But note this important caveat: “Other factors—such as social status, for instance—may, in the real world, override the physical preferences that the researchers were measuring.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: As Cupcake Bubble Pops, Will College Education Be The Next Craze To Collapse?

AT AMAZON, markdowns on Spring-Cleaning Products & Supplies.

SHOCKER: President Readying Executive Orders On Gun Control. Swing-state Dems will love him for this.

PETER INGEMI: The Rage Of The Media On The Failure Of Manchin/Toomey.

Related: Joe Biden Invents Phony Gun Statistics.

THE INSTA-WIFE EXPLAINS why you should pre-order her book. I’d account it a personal favor if you did, and I don’t think you’ll be disappointed, either. Here’s the link.

UPDATE: For those asking, there will be a Kindle version, too, but it’s not up yet. (Bumped).

IMAGES AND VIDEO OF the guys the FBI is looking for from the Boston Marathon bombing.

CHANGE: The Boy Scouts of America: Then and Now — A Comparison of the 1911 and Modern Handbooks and Merit Badges.

GLOBAL WARMING NEWS: Climate scientists struggle to explain warming slowdown. “Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.”

Well, it’s not because of carbon markets: Economist: Carbon Trading: Below Junk Status.

Also: Carbon price collapse could hit Australian budget.

PER WEHNER: Obama’s Lear-like Rage. “Mr. Obama’s effort at emotional blackmail has failed, and in bitterly lashing out at those who called him out on his demagoguery, he went some distance toward confirming that he is, in fact, a demagogue. Three months into his second term, Mr. Obama is becoming an increasingly bitter and powerless figure. When a man who views himself as a world-historic figure and our Moral Superior commands things to happen and they don’t, it isn’t a pretty sight. See yesterday’s Rose Garden statement for more.”

Meanwhile, a reader emails: “I wonder how all those wringing their hands over the failure of the gun bills would feel…if the nation’s abortion policies were based on the Kermit Gosnell atrocities?”

Yes, the emotional-blackmail thing only goes one way, apparently. But it’s interesting that it was such a colossal failure this time. Putting forward people to promote your cause, and then maintaining that no one is allowed to argue with or criticize them because of their victim status must have looked like a sure winner to the White House, but they overplayed their hand and it backfired.

UPDATE: More backfire. This emotional bullying stuff just doesn’t seem to intimidate people on the right anymore. I guess when you’ve been called a racist every time you disagreed with Obama’s healthcare policy, such things lose their power.

And reader Drew Kelley emails: “Remember how we joked about Obama’s first, and second, terms being – in a best case scenario – another term of Carter? Today, it seems that this term is turning into a reprise of Nixon, but with a President even more bitter.”

CHANGE: Darpa Finally Shrinks Massive Thermal Cameras Into Handheld Devices.

HOW 1980S TECHNOLOGY created the modern world.

DUDE, JUST BECAUSE YOU BOUGHT IT DOESN’T MEAN IT’S YOURS: Google will brick Google Glasses if owners resell or loan them out: Terms of service warn users that their $1,500 high-tech specs will be deactivated if they try to resell or loan them to another person. Well, that certainly adds to the appeal.

UPDATE: Steven den Beste emails that there’s less to this story than meets the eye: “These are developer packages, pre-release. It is common for developer units to have these kind of limitations.”