EMBRACE THE DIFFERENCES: Why Does Hanna Rosin Hate Men?

VIDEO: Armed Homeowner Scares Off Intruders.

THE HILLARY PAPERS: Archive of ‘closest friend’ paints portrait of ruthless First Lady.

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Plus, late-season markdowns on Women’s Boots. Still plenty of winter left, alas.

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LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: David Codrea: ‘Gun control’ advocates’ arrests highlight irony and hypocrisy.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Boy-Crazy Teacher Meredith Powell Raped Tacoma Teenagers, Police Say.

Remember, male teachers are rare because people think they’re likely to be sexual predators.

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IN JUST A FEW MINUTES ON AMY ALKON’S RADIO SHOW: Dr. Francesca Gino on how to make wise decisions and stick to them.

WELL, YES: U.S. Civil Rights Commission Members Warn Amnesty Will Hurt Blacks.

YEAH, THAT’S PRETTY OBVIOUS FROM THE REPORTING: Ezra Klein: ‘There Still Might Be’ a JournoList.

CHANGE: Towns Say ‘No Tanks’ to Militarized Police: Growing Unease Over Departments’ Use Of Vehicles and Gear Designed for Battle. “Peter Kraska, a professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, believes recent revelations about federal surveillance programs are helping drive the discomfort with outfitting police departments like the military. The armored vehicles are ‘a pretty visual example of overreach,’ he said.”

Would you rather live in Mayberry, or Fallujah?

SO YOU’VE HEARD IT FROM ME, YOU’VE HEARD IT FROM BARACK OBAMA, AND NOW IT’S IN THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN: Many people shouldn’t go to college.

“GAME-CHANGER:” India Opens Up Tourist Visas. “On Wednesday, India announced it sought to extend its visa-on-arrival program to tourists from 180 countries, including the U.K., U.S. and China, in a bid to accelerate slow growth in tourism. . . . This slowdown, in part, was prompted by widespread concerns over women’s safety in India, which dominated national consciousness after the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in December 2012. A series of high-profile attacks on foreigners, including the gang rape of an American last June and of a Danish tourist last month, further dented India’s image as a popular tourist destination, travel agents said.” Yeah, I think it’s going to take more than easier visas to offset that.

SALENA ZITO: Pa. House race previews Dems’ 2016.

Sometimes the smallest races tell the biggest stories.

Take Pennsylvania Democrats’ primary race to replace Allyson Schwartz in suburban Philadelphia’s 13th Congressional District. (Schwartz is campaigning for the Democrats’ nomination to challenge Gov. Tom Corbett in November.) . . .

This race is the country’s first glimpse of what a post-Obama Democratic Party could become. Despite all of its post-2012 proclamations, Organizing for America — Obama’s campaign machine — probably will not run the world, let alone a very twitchy party that is ready to break away from the Obama years and stretch out on its own.

Obama has disappointed many progressive Democrats; he’s lost the connection with many blue-collar Democrats; he’s done no favors for many establishment Democrats on a host of issues, including helping to lose their House majority. As for Democrat outsiders, his presidency only emboldens their chances to be authentic change-agents.

Keep your eye on this race: It’s a small but telling glimpse of what 2016 will look like for the party.

Read the whole thing.

ARTICLE: Why Do Republicans Want Us To Work All The Time?

Author’s bio: “Benjamin Kline Hunnicut is professor of leisure studies at the University of Iowa and author of The Forgotten American Dream.”

Related: Michael Goodwin: Obama Democrats’ troubling view on work.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Too much money is going to overhead. We need to measure where funds most help students.

SIPPICAN COTTAGE: Why We Homeschool. “We simply have an approach. It’s very simple: Every day, we just make sure our children know something they didn’t know the day before. We require measurable results — from them, and from us. That’s it. That’s all. That approach is not attempted — that approach is not allowed — at the public school.”

As I say in my new book, nobody cares about your kids as much as you do.

CHANGE: Revised NY State Assembly anti-boycott bill introduced.

WELL, IT’S A GOVERNMENT PROJECT: Now that’s a whole heck of a lot of waste.

ABUSE OF POWER: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell: Hillary Wooed Big Donors at State Dept Events.

VIDEO: “Work Is A Beautiful Thing:” Mike Rowe In An Ad For WalMart.

READER BOOK PLUG: From Reader J.C. Levengood, Letters from Adelia: Collection 1 (The Lifespan Wars).

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: So much snow has fallen this winter that cities and states are running out of rock salt. Why can’t they get more?

CHANGE: Christian Science Monitor: Same-sex marriage: New protections show how Obama’s position ‘evolved.’

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