#MATH: “The left’s real enemy isn’t Republicans, it is arithmetic.”

CHANGE: America: The Next Energy Superpower?

From previously challenging the “tyranny of oil,” newly inaugurated U.S. President Barack Obama enters his second term in office as leader of a potential oil and gas superpower.

According to BP’s Energy Outlook 2030, unconventional sources will make the United States virtually energy self-sufficient by 2030, largely thanks to the shale gas revolution.

Quick, pay off some Greens to throw a monkey-wrench into the works!

A PROFESSOR ON how it feels to be stalked. “I, as an Anglo-American Jew, a family man, a published author, a middle-aged male in a position of power (at least from her perspective), was the axis of, shall we say, ‘virtue,’ while she, in her own mind at least, was the lone jihadi . . . Over the next few weeks, murkily, but with steadily growing conviction, Nasreen began to elaborate a theory in which various Jewish cohorts and I were guilty of deliberately preventing her from finishing her book so that we could steal her idea.”

KURT SCHLICHTER: On Gun Control, Encourage Democrats To Show “Courage.”

WAR ON WITH WOMEN: Panetta To End Ban On Women In Combat.

BRYAN PRESTON ON THE BENGHAZI HEARINGS: The Day Accountability Died. “The timeline of who decided to blame a movie, when and why, is at the center of the Benghazi cover-up. But very few Republicans and no Democrats bothered to ask her about it.”

Meanwhile, a reader emails:

Hillary, to paraphrase:

“Don’t ask me how and why these things happened. What difference does it make? Our job is to find out how and why these things happened!”

Do these people even listen to themselves? Does the press?

Of course, fewer and fewer are listening to them.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Controlled stepwise rotation on a single atom bearing.

HOW DARE YOU “SMEAR” HILLARY by quoting her accurately! “These unfair ‘tactics’ include (a) direct quotes, (b) facts and (c) math.”

WELL, THAT’S KIND OF DISAPPOINTING: Scientist: I’m NOT seeking a mom for a Neanderthal.

AT AMAZON, Valentine’s Day deals on jewelry.

MIKE BLOOMBERG: ABSENTEE MAYOR.

Remember the time Mike Bloomberg jetted off to sunny Bermuda as a monster snowstorm bore down on the five boroughs? Never again, he said afterward, woefully, while the city ever-so-slowly dug itself out of the drifts.

Well, some tigers just can’t change their stripes.

For there he was last week, down in Maryland giving America a firearms intervention while the United Federation of Teachers and his own crack Department of Education negotiators pulled his pants down on teacher-quality reform.

Transforming the city’s public-school system into a national model for quality and effectiveness was once right at the top of Mayor Mike’s personal legacy.

He seems more interested in governing the rest of the country now. Oh, and when he jets off to Bermuda, he takes armed New York City detectives as bodyguards. “The mayor also takes along a police detail when he travels, flying two officers on his private plane and paying as much as $400 a night to put them up at a hotel near his house. . . . Guns are largely forbidden in Bermuda — even most police officers do not use them — but the mayor’s guards have special permission to carry weapons. A spokesman for the Police Department declined to comment.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY: A New Fleet Of Robot Asteroid Prospectors Will Launch By 2015.

FIVE UNUSUAL THINGS to make with duct tape.

MEDICAL SCIENCE: Injectable Foam Expands in the Belly, Stops the Bleeding. “Two liquids that turn into a solid foam after being injected into the body may one day save the lives of injured soldiers and wounded civilians by slowing internal bleeding so that they can make it to a hospital. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Arsenal Medical a $15.5 million grant in December to further develop the foam technology, which would be delivered to a wounded soldier through the belly button.”

RAND PAUL TO HILLARY: Let’s face it, you should have been fired over Benghazi.

MORE ON THE NEW CORVETTE. The other day, David Kirkham emailed with praise: “They really are great cars–and this coming from a die hard Ford guy.”

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: IS THE “REYNOLDS SURTAX” PIGOUVIAN? Obviously, yes.

HASN’T THAT ALREADY HAPPENED? The Danger Of Making Science Political.

I NEVER USED ‘EM ANYWAY. EVEN LESS LIKELY TO NOW. Groupon Suspends All Gun-Related Deals.

Just remember: Amazon carries shooting supplies.

People on the right rely on a lot of lefty-run sites for basic utility. That’s getting harder to do as things get more politicized, which probably opens up some business opportunities for some people.

Of course, if you’re looking for things like libertarian Realtors, you can always go to Helen’s Page.

SEXISM AT MICHIGAN STATE: Is this legal? No men are allowed in MSU’s Women’s Lounge. To be clear, this isn’t a restroom. It’s a real lounge, in the Student Union.

PAUL RAHE: What Occasions Revolutions? “One key indicator is that those with access to the levers of power within the ruling order cease to believe in the religion or ideology that legitimizes the regime. Another is that their underlings also gradually abandon the beliefs that render respectable the rule of their masters. This happened some time ago in China, and there very nearly was a revolution at the time of Tiananmen Square. Tellingly, the key players among the young at that time were often the children of party officials. . . . The Tocquevillian account of revolution fits the Arab Spring, the eruptions in eastern Europe in the 1980s, and the collapse of the Soviet Union to a ‘T.'”

WHO WAS ASKING THAT ABOUT BARACK OBAMA IN 2007? ABC Reporter: But What Does Rand Paul Know About Foreign Policy?

Related: Hillary Testifies About Benghazi Attacks.

KORI SCHAKE: The Problem With Jared Diamond.

JUDGE ORDERS ANTI-OBAMA PROTESTER to stay out of D.C. “Rives Miller Grogan has something to say. The way he says it keeps getting him in trouble at the U.S. Capitol. Now, after the 47-year-old Californian allegedly climbed 40 feet up a tree near the Capitol reflecting pool and tried to shout down President Obama’s inaugural address on Monday, a judge has ordered him to stay away not only from Capitol building but from the District entirely.”