HUGH HEWITT: Common Core is the dynamite that could blow up Jeb Bush’s presidential ambitions.

“BIG TENT:” On notice: Mitch McConnell is ready to “crush” the Tea Party.

LESSONS IN SELF-PUBLISHING.

JOHN KERRY JOKES ABOUT CHARLIE CRIST’S FAKE TAN, but he had his own Florida fake-tan moment, which is seared, seared in my memory.

SARAH HOYT: 20 Things You Might Not Know About Robert A. Heinlein, Part 3: His Eccentric Education.

DEAL KILLER: Here’s why Dana Loesch can’t support a Ben Carson campaign. Me neither. An anti-gun GOP candidate for President?

STEALING A MARCH ON REPUBLICANS, lefties go after the Higher Education Bubble.

Marco Rubio and Mike Lee have been on this, but overall the GOP hasn’t picked up on an issue — involving elitism, the failure of the Blue Model, and direct pain to young voters — that should naturally be theirs.

I HAVE TO SAY, I kind of want this sandwich.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: If a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state, are we insecure? Or unfree?

THE DETROIT NEWS on Obama’s endless ObamaCare delays:

The serial delays of Obamacare are coming so rapidly and for such obviously political reasons that the White House is barely even trying to mask its real mission of protecting vulnerable Democrats in the mid-term elections.

In announcing the latest postponement this week — this one allowing individuals to keep their existing health insurance policies through 2016 — the Obama administration carefully credited Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Mark Udall of Colorado, Ron Barber of Arizona and 10 other vulnerable Democratic lawmakers.

All face tough reelection fights in the fall in races in which Obamacare is a key issue.

While it may be politically expedient, rewriting a law passed by Congress simply to avoid ballot box consequences is an outrageous abuse of executive power.

Yes, and it’s illegal and unconstitutional. So where are the lawsuits?

AN ILLEGAL ARREST FOR RECORDING A COP IN MASSACHUSETTS:

George Thompson says last January he was just sitting on his front porch, watching a Fall River police officer working a paid detail. Thompson says the officer was on his phone and was swearing very loud.

That’s when Thompson pulled out his phone. Thompson says Officer Tom Barboza then rushed him and arrested him, charging him with unlawful wiretapping.

But in Massachusetts it’s perfectly legal to record video and audio of a public official, including police, as long as they are performing their duties and the recording isn’t hidden. Barboza’s own police report shows that Thompson acknowledged he was recording the officer.

“I think we all have our basic rights and I think people should not record others secretly or surreptitiously,” Fall River Police Chief Daniel Racine told WPRI.

Yes, well, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, citizens have the right to record the police, and that right is so clear that qualified immunity doesn’t attach to officers who violate it. I hope he sues them for a lot. And the folks of Fall River may want to ask why they have a Police Chief who doesn’t know the law.

FEW ARE IMPROVED BY THE CHANGE: Iconic Celebrities With Photoshopped Tattoos. Though I kind of like tattooed Spock.

A LOOK AT HOW the East German Stasi used friendship-network tracking.

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THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE: NASA can now forecast sinkholes: But probably couldn’t have saved the Corvettes in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

WHY HIGH-IMPACT EXERCISE IS GOOD FOR YOUR BONES. So are squats, but the effects are different. This is why I run stairs for interval training.

VIRTUAL REALITY IS the Next Big Thing again.

SPACE: Joe Pappalardo: Can Cape Canaveral Rise Again?

JOURNALISM: It’s “A Rand Paul rout in CPAC straw poll” says Politico, but the only report in the NYT is a Ross Douthat column titled “Four Factions, No Favorite.” “Douthat’s column, dated yesterday, may very well have gone up before the poll, but still, if a rout was in the works, why is Douthat in the dark, and why is there no NYT article about Rand’s rout?” Wouldn’t fit the Narrative.

ED MORRISSEY: Ukraine: Another 3 AM wake-up call going unheeded. “Suddenly we’re discovering the consequences of the return to moral relativism in US foreign policy. It’s eerily similar to the Carter years, where an American President scolded his countrymen over their ‘inordinate fear of communism’ in an attempt to ‘reset’ the Cold War.”

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 304.

TIM CAVANAUGH: Tea Party Less Dead Than Advertised at CPAC.

Among presidential hopefuls and prospects, the straw poll delivered wins for Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who took first place with 31 percent, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who placed with 11 percent; and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a long shot with no political experience who showed with 9 percent. . . .

After reports that this conference would show a Republican Party establishment back in control amid a general fading of Tea Party energy, the conference followed a pattern that has characterized GOP events since at least 2008: When the small-government zealots are not aro