ED DRISCOLL: A Scalia For All Seasons.

MICKEY KAUS ON social equality and risk-taking.

THE HILL: House Democrats propose opening gun makers to civil liability. I’d respond with an amendment making people who maintain gun-free zones liable for any violence on their premises.

But this does tell you that they’re going after guns any way they think they can get away with.

SURPRISINGLY FEW: How Many Olympic-sized Swimming Pools Would It Take to Hold All of the World’s Gold?

FOREIGN POLICY: In The Time Of Cholera: How the U.N. created an epidemic — then covered it up.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Hillary Clinton Cries, Yells But Won’t Apologize for Benghazi.

THE GUN CONTROL MOVEMENT IS A MOVEMENT OF OLD WHITE PEOPLE: Why Young Women Want AR-15s. “In fact, we wouldn’t want to be stuck at home without one. . . . The AR-15 is lightweight and practical. As light as five pounds, it produces low levels of recoil, and it’s easy to shoot.”

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Keystone XL pipeline: Nebraska’s approval puts Obama in a bind.

A CHANCE TO TELL THE GOP LEADERSHIP WHAT YOU THINK OF THEM.

BLOWBACK: Democratic Senators Face “Roused” Gun Owners At Home. Obama was careful to keep gun owners un-roused until the election.

“EXIT ANOTHER FIGHTING GENERAL:” Michael Walsh on the Mattis defenestration.

THE WAGES OF JERKDOM: How Harry Reid Lost His Online Poker Bill Gamble.

CHARLES AUSTIN EMAILS: “If Republicans want to stop gun control legislation in the US Senate all they have to do is attach a budget to it and Harry Reid will ensure it never comes up for a vote.” Heh.

GATES OF VIENNA HAS MOVED. (Via Bookworm Room).

PROF. JACOBSON: Forbes is a case study on how conservatives lose institutions.

HOLLYWOOD — SICK DEN OF SEXISM: Sundance Survey: Female Directors Fare Better In Indie Films Than Hollywood. Somebody send the studios some binders full of women. Apparently, they’re in need.

J.D. JOHANNES on women in combat.

A REPORT FROM JUDICIAL WATCH: “The Benghazi Attack of September 11, 2012: Analysis and Further Questions.”

HE’S LINCOLN! HE’S REAGAN! Have You Noticed Liberals Always Compare Obama To Republican Presidents? “It’s funny how you never hear Democrats squeal with delight saying, Finally! Our generation’s Jimmy Carter! At Last! A Woodrow Wilson of our very own! There’s a reason for that.”

MORE ON GENERAL MATTIS: Report: Centcom chief ousted for differences with White House on Iran, Arab Spring.

A BETTER FLU VACCINE: “Influenza vaccines are the best weapons we’ve got against a disease that each year kills as many as a half-million people, including 3,000 to 49,000 Americans. Yet this season’s worse-than-usual flu in the U.S. underscores the limitations of the existing vaccines.”

THE WAGES OF ADHERING TO THE ENEMY: “Collapse” for the Eastern Sports And Outdoor Show, which made the mistake of giving in to gun-controllers, and encountered a massive boycott.

WOMAN FAT, MAN THIN: Relationship problems likely.

AT AMAZON, markdowns on bestselling men’s watches.

MICHELLE FIELDS: The National Debt Is Unfair To The Next Generation.