I THINK THIS MEANS “ANOTHER BADLY-CHOSEN NOMINEE.” Roll Call: Next Nasty Nomination Fight for Obama: Michael Boggs on the Hot Seat. Also, gun rights activists are gearing up to oppose Surgeon General nominee — and anti-gunner — Vivek Murthy.

THE HILL: Europe calls for more US natural gas exports.

So, basically, now it’s the Europeans echoing Sarah Palin’s “drill, baby, drill?”

THIS IS PROBABLY WHY HARRY REID’S BEEN GOING AFTER THE KOCHS SO MUCH: Democratic Donor Pleads Guilty to Illegal Campaign Donations: Jeffrey Thompson financed multi-million dollar ‘shadow campaigns.’

GOVERNORS FACE SPECIAL PERILS IN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT: “Christie may not have this problem, but governors who’ve never run for president underestimate what a national vetting is like. Issues they thought were aired and dismissed at the state level reappear, with more reporters and oppo teams combing through the archives for nuggets. The candidate who does not vet himself and is not prepared to respond to hordes of challenges, reveal taxes, satisfy voters on health concerns and have past writings and speeches flyspecked is making a huge mistake.”

I DON’T THINK OF THINKPROGRESS AS A “THINK” TANK: When Think Tanks Are In The Tank: A blogger claims ThinkProgress toned down its positions at White House request, and suggests this is business-as-usual in Washington. But if they were really coordinating messaging at White House direction, their tax exemption would be questionable. And note the non-denial-denial from ThinkProgress’s Judd Legum.

Oh, who am I kidding? The IRS doesn’t go after people who do Obama’s bidding.

MORE OBAMACARE LIES: Enroll America told reporter ‘no truth’ to Kathleen Sebelius fundraising claims.

A Fox News reporter was told by Enroll America that “there was no truth” to a tip that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was fundraising for the group, ending an early investigation into her activities.

Emails obtained by the Washington Examiner through a Freedom of Information Act request show officials scrambling to decide how to respond to the Fox inquiry.

Two days after the Fox reporter, Joe Weber, was waived off by the denial, the Washington Post on May 10 would go on to break the story that Sebelius had asked private companies and nonprofits to donate to Enroll America, a group with close White House ties formed to promote Obamacare enrollment.

This whole “Enroll America” thing sounds fishy anyway.

WITCH HUNT? Judge in general’s court-martial dismisses jury after e-mails emerge.

A military judge dismissed the jury Monday in Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair’s court-martial after e-mails emerged over the weekend that could point to alleged Pentagon interference in the proceedings.

Among the 22 pages of e-mails are a January communication in which a senior military lawyer writes Fort Bragg’s chief of military justice casting doubt on SInclair’s accuser’s credibility, and a February correspondence in which a lieutenant colonel with the Judge Advocate General’s Corps asked for a colonel’s “thoughts/opinion” on Sinclair’s offer to enter a plea.

According to CNN affiliate WTVD, Col. James Pohl, the presiding judge in the court-martial, granted a motion to reconsider whether unlawful command influence has marred the proceedings. The judge ruled Army prosecutors failed to meet their burden of proof in denying that the court-martial had been unduly influenced.

The command authority certainly seems to have been going after a lot of generals and admirals lately.

KANSAS TEA PARTY SENATE CANDIDATE MILT WOLF IS running a Money Bomb campaign today and tomorrow.

AT AMAZON, deals galore in the March DVD Sale.

Also, huge savings in the Spring Sportsman’s Event.

LESSONS ON PRIVACY from a porn star. “You cannot expect your legal name to remain a secret, and a stage name will not fool people who recognize you. . . . But this same lack of context is something any of us can experience. It’s what happens when any ill-advised tweet or embarrassing Facebook picture goes viral. Ten years ago, I would have judged people over the course of several conversations. Now I evaluate them based on a few snippets of their social media presence.” We’re all porn stars now, except for the paychecks.

IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: Top House Republican: We Already Caught White House Lying About IRS Targeting Scandal (Video).

CURRENT RESULTS IN THE INSTAPUNDIT STRAW POLL: Rand Paul 26%, Scott Walker 21%, Ted Cruz 20%. Rick Perry & Sarah Palin 5% each, Marco Rubio & Chris Christie 2% each. Total votes cast: 12,948. You can vote here.

VIDEO: Dolphin Comes Out Of Nowhere And Asks Diver For Help. I generally dive with EMT shears. This guy looks like he’s got a Leatherman.

BUY FOR YOURSELF, OR FOR THAT SPECIAL PRESIDENT IN YOUR LIFE: Deals on new 2014 Golf Gear.

Also, Award-Winning Titles in Movies & TV.

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A QUEST TO KILL GATORADE:

Lim says that Gatorade, Powerade, and their ilk rely so much on artificial and excessive ingredients that their effects are actually the opposite of what’s intended—making athletes not lean and mean but sick and sluggish. With Skratch Labs, his company based in nearby Boulder, he’s dreaming up products that change the way those athletes fuel themselves. At the Skratch Labs kitchen trailer in the parking lot, folks are jockey­ing for free samples of the company’s signature Exercise Hydration Mix powder. “I haven’t touched Gatorade since I tried your mix!” a fan gushes. “Taking Gatorade out!” Lim cries with his typical giddiness, slapping the guy a high five.

Water is also good.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Roommate Effects: “Imagine you are a college freshman living (at substantial expense to your parents) in a relatively small space with someone who has been assigned to you in the interest of broadening your horizons and building strong peer relationships … or something to that effect.. . . ‘The bottom line was we found that when you’re matched with a roommate who drinks alcohol, your grades are likely to go down.’”

HEALTH: The Perils of Toughing It Out. “Too often, elderly patients sabotage effective treatment by waiting too long to take a prescribed drug — pain is best headed off at the pass, before it becomes severe — or by stopping the medication abruptly when they feel better. Pain medication is best taken on a consistent schedule, especially if the pain is chronic.”

WAR ON SCIENCE: Florida Today: Obama shortchanges space science; President’s budget cuts into the study of space and planets. Insufficient opportunities for graft.

RICK MORAN: Sharyl Attkisson, ‘Fast and Furious’ Investigative Reporter, Resigns from CBS.

UPDATE: Flashback: CBS News President Is Brother of Obama National Security Official. “CBS News president David Rhoades is not only the brother of President Obama’s national security advisor, Ben Rhodes, but ABC News reports that Ben Rhodes was very much involved in the editing of the now-infamous CIA talking points.”

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

PROBLEMS WITH the Apple Lighning Cable. Like the MagSafe2 power adapter, this seems to have been a misstep.

SCIENCE: When Studies Are Wrong.

All scientific results are, of course, subject to revision and refutation by later experiments. The problem comes when these replications don’t occur and the information keeps spreading unchecked.

Dr. Ioannidis’s analysis took into account several factors — things like noisy data, a small sample size or relatively lenient standards for deciding if a finding is statistically significant. His model could be applied to any area of science that met his criteria. But most attention to the reproducibility problem has been in the life sciences, particularly in medical laboratory research and epidemiology. Based on the number of papers in major journals, Dr. Ioannidis estimates that the field accounts for some 50 percent of published research.

Another area of concern has been the social sciences, including psychology, which make up about 25 percent of publications. Together that constitutes most of scientific research. The remaining slice is physical science — everything from geology and climatology to cosmology and particle physics. These fields have not received the same kind of scrutiny as the others. Is that because they are less prone to the problems Dr. Ioannides described?

I predict that the physical sciences will have their share of fraud too. As Thomas Ray has said, every successful system accumulates parasites, and science has been successful long enough to pick up a substantial load.

READER BOOK PLUG: From Davis Ashura, A Warrior’s Path.

HEALTH: An Activity Tracker for Seniors: By tracking an older person’s movements at home, a new wearable device could help predict serious changes in health.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: What The Color Of Your Urine Says About You.