REDISCOVERS, REWRITES, WHATEVER: E.J. Dionne Rediscovers The Constitution.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Bled dry by the new class: Bureaucrats push pencils at the expense of real workers.

JIM TREACHER: Easy Choice: Read Hillary’s Book, Or Do ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING ELSE? Even those people who’ve bought it, apparently, are choosing option #2. “It almost makes you wonder what dark secrets are lurking inside Hillary’s book, just waiting for someone to do the unthinkable and actually read it.”

INCOMPETENCE, INEPTITUDE, AND A MYOPIC FOCUS ON POLLS? Why the White House Ignored All Those Warnings About ISIS. “Team Obama was told, over and over, that the Iraqi army couldn’t stop a terror group that was ready to pounce. But Washington was a prisoner to its paradox of an Iraq policy.”

JOEL KOTKIN: ONE-PARTY RULE IS BAD FOR CALIFORNIA. “Forty years ago, Mexico was a one-party dictatorship under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, hobbled by slow growth, soaring inequality, endemic corruption and dead politics. California, in contrast, was considered a model American state, with a highly regarded Legislature, relatively clean politics, a competitive political process and a soaring economy. Today these roles are somewhat reversed, and not in a good way for the Golden State.”

The Political Class will ruin everything, given the chance.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Sliced Bread Made its Debut. Americans Loved It! The Government Banned It.

ESPECIALLY AT CERTAIN RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES IN FLORIDA, I HEAR: Just because you’re over 50, doesn’t mean you can’t get an STD. Not sure I’d take advice, though, from someone who doesn’t know the difference between herpes and genital warts.

AT AMAZON, dorm supplies, electronics, and more at the Back To College Sale.

Plus, Top Deals on School Supplies.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: How To Be Cool On A Sex Date.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Law School Enrollment Fails To Rebound After Recession. Maybe the recession never really ended? But this article makes it sound like the stuff I was predicting five years ago has come to pass.

PUSHBACK: Breaking: Students Sue Ohio State University Over Crazy Illegal Campus Gun Ban.

JONATHAN TURLEY: Obama’s irresponsible taunt: President increasingly willing to go at it alone. “The renewed promise to go it alone is a familiar refrain from this President. He even pledged to take unilateral action to circumvent Congress in front of both Houses, in his State of the Union address this year — to the curious delight of half of Congress, which applauded wildly at the notion of being made irrelevant. . . . The fact that the administration decided to force a confrontation on such a weak case shows not just a lack of judgment but a cavalier attitude towards the costs of such losses. While he clearly has authority to set enforcement priorities in areas like immigration law, Obama has repeatedly stepped well over the line of separation. . . . In our system, there is no license to go it alone. Rather, the Republic’s democratic architecture requires compromise. The process is designed to moderate legislation and create a broader consensus in support of these laws. Nor is congressional refusal to act on a particular prescription of how to fix the economy or repair immigration laws an excuse. Sometimes the country (and by extension Congress) is divided. When that happens, less gets done. The Framers understood such times. They lived in such a time.”

IT’S GOOD TO FOCUS ON THE BASICS. Showers and Socks Credited With Improved Health of Russian Army. “Respiratory illnesses and skin diseases in the Russian army have declined considerably after the military installed showers and washing machines, built warmer barracks and replaced tsarist-era foot wraps with socks, military officials say.”

DAVID ADESNIK: The Lesson of Task Force Smith: When America draws down its defenses, threats multiply.

PUSHBACK: Conservative Groups Take The IRS To Court.

BRYAN PRESTON: Obama Skips Border Visit to Fundraise with Violent Revenge Fantasy Film Director.

I THINK IT’S ABOUT STATUS/INCOME DISEQUILIBRIUM: Is the intellectual class “naturally hostile” to the market economy? “The growth of the intellectual class is not a response to consumer demand, but to the expansion of higher education. Passing through the higher education system does not necessarily confer valuable skills, but it often does convince graduates that work in the market is beneath them.”

MICKEY KAUS: The President is “Pissed”!

SPYING: The NSA Is Targeting Users of Privacy Services, Leaked Code Shows. “If you use Tor or any of a number of other privacy services online or even visit their web sites to read about the services, there’s a good chance your IP address has been collected and stored by the NSA, according to top-secret source code for a program the NSA uses to conduct internet surveillance. There’s also a good chance you’ve been tagged for simply reading news articles about these services published by Wired and other sites.” So I guess that includes InstaPundit readers, too. Meh. All by themselves, InstaPundit readers have them outnumbered, and probably outgunned. . . .

I AGREE WITH MEGAN MCARDLE THAT THIS SEEMS LIKE BAD PUBLIC RELATIONS STRATEGY: Little Sisters Of The Poor make National Organization For Women’s “Dirty 100” List.

PUBLISHING: One-Percent Authors Want To End Destructive Conflict, Bring Order to the Galaxy. “The prices of Hachette’s books are set by Hachette. If the authors of this letter think those prices are too high — and apparently, they do — it’s bizarre that they’re blaming Amazon.”

TOUR WESTERN CIVILIZATION with Victor Davis Hanson. Hurry before it’s all gone! Er, the civilization, not the video.

BUT DON’T WORRY, INFLATION IS NO THREAT: As Food Prices Rise, Fed Keeps a Watchful Eye.

THE RETURN OF CREEPY UNCLE SAM.

GOOD ADVICE: The opposite of fat isn’t thin. It’s strong.