“OTHERING:” Documents from an Ohio National Guard (ONG) training drill conducted last January reveal the details of a mock disaster where Second Amendment supporters with “anti-government” opinions were portrayed as domestic terrorists.

ED DRISCOLL: Is Peak Orwell Sustainable?

NEW FRONTIERS IN SEXISM: The Misguided Campaign to Protect Women.

An unusual article appears in the Education Life section of Sunday’s New York Times. The headline is disturbing: “If She Can’t Stop Him, YOU CAN. Bystander intervention may be the best hope to reduce sexual assault on campus.”

The strong implication here, and in the article, is 1) that rape is out of control on our campuses, and 2) that women, confronted by so many would-be rapists, can’t do much about it, or shouldn’t have to. So, 3) bystanders appear to be the best hope of intervening to save women from rape.

The article lists a few possible rape-averting interventions: turning on the lights or the music off at parties, spilling a drink on the guy, or perhaps saying to the potential rapist, “This woman doesn’t want to talk to you, but there’s another woman downstairs who likes you.” (There would be no other woman downstairs). According to the article a female friend might say to the rape target, “Here’s the tampon you asked for,” thus decreasing the sexual ardor of the nearby rapist-to-be.

This a very bleak view of men and not a very positive one of women either.

Women are depicted as fragile flowers, so passive and unable to cope with campus parties that they need outside protectors playing weird tricks to ward off sexual assault. The article, like the feminist campaign behind it–from college skits to an advertising effort–has nothing to say about how women might take action themselves, such as not getting blind drunk in the company of solo males they don’t know well.

Even raising that point makes you some sort of sexist troglodyte, I think. But hey, when women on campus can’t even deal with a semi-nude statue, maybe they really are fragile flowers. Probably they should just get married after high school and stay home with kids, where it’s safe.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Sen. Mike Lee Pitches Higher Ed Reform Plan.

Plus: “Lee will introduce welfare reform this week and Head Start reform after recess, and . . . his office also has an anti-cronyism agenda in the works for this spring.” I hope he includes my anti-revolving-door surtax. Hey, it’s got bipartisan support already.

TOO BAD HE DIDN’T LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO SEE IT: Richard Jewell May Finally Get The Recognition He Deserves.

THE LAW IS WHAT WE SAY IT IS, NOT SOME DUMB PAPER THAT PASSED CONGRESS: ObamaCare’s employer mandate pushed back for the second time.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Create the Perfect Online Dating Profile, in 25 Infographics.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: NSA spying undermines separation of powers: The program makes it easy for the president to spy on and blackmail his enemies.

STEPHEN GREEN ON THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: It Sucks To Be An American: Welcome to the New Normal, comrades. “Gallup reported late last week that their estimate of the country’s unemployment rate in January is far more dire than Washington’s rosy 6.6% figure. That’s up four tenths of a point since December. Worse, though, is Gallup’s estimate of the underemployment rate, which now stands at 18.6%. The payroll to population rate fell almost a full point from December, to 42.0% from 42.9%. That’s the lowest ratio of Americans with paychecks to those without since March of 2011. Nice work if you can get it, but increasingly we can’t. And for all those without, it does indeed suck to be an American. What might be most remarkable of all is that in this era of hope and change, we consider 6.6% unemployment to be pretty good. Welcome to the New Normal, comrades. . . . Washington, I might add, continues to do just fine. The politicians vote for their own perks and pay raises. The lobbyists get their fat paychecks for getting the politicians to write the loopholes benefitting America’s ‘connected class’ of big banks, financiers, particular tech companies, Hollywood, and of course the legal profession. For them, it’s pretty good to be an American — if we can still really call them that.”

WHAT REPUBLICANS WANT, explained: “To answer the writer’s question, we don’t want you to work all the time, we don’t give a flying shlt what you do. We just don’t want to have to pay for your life of leisure. Do what you want, leave me alone.”

NICK GILLESPIE: Are Social Cons Saving Liberalism? Roger L. Simon Thinks So, Sees Libertarian Shift as Future of Conservatives, GOP. “In terms of politics, Simon looks toward libertarianism as the ideology of the future. Not because it stops discussion over any issue, but because libertarianism removes many of those issues from politics and put them back in places better suited to hashing out differences. It’s a stark – and I think convincing – message to conservatives and one they should heed when considering political alliances. Any energy coming from Republicans these days is because of the large failure of Barack Obama and liberal Democrats’ political agenda and because of the libertarian wing of the GOP and its focus on civil liberties, foreign policy, and fiscal rectitude.”

WELL, RACISM, REAL AND IMAGINED, IS THE SOURCE OF THEIR POWER — AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, THEIR FREEDOM FROM ACCOUNTABILITY: Clinging To Racism In The Age Of Obama.

BOB LUTZ: Regretting The 2004 Pontiac GTO.

RECIPE: Slow-Cooker Balsamic Roast Beef.

AT AMAZON, Deals On Denim, for men and women.

Plus, 25% or more off at The Dockers Store.

PILOT SHORTAGE: Small aviation businesses say pilot shortage could drive industry into the ground. “In the past several decades, the number of private and recreational pilots across the country has plummeted, as has the number of small aircraft being manufactured — trends that some say have been accelerated by increasingly strict federal regulations.”

GALLERY: 5 Extremely Dumb Military Designs from G.I. Joe.

PEER REVIEW: If Harry Potter Was An Academic Work.

And since I’m mentioning the book, let me repeat a plug for my colleague Ben Barton’s excellent piece from the Michigan Law Review, Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy. “This partial list of activities brings home just how bleak Rowling’s portrait of government is. The critique is even more devastating because the governmental actors and actions in the book look and feel so authentic and familiar. . . . Lastly, Rowling even eliminates the free press as a check on government power. The wizarding newspaper, The Daily Prophet, is depicted as a puppet to the whims of the Ministry of Magic.”

Well worth the read.

SHOCKING NEWS: Find an under-served niche and you can build a successful business. Well, I suppose that’s what InstaPundit does, in a small way.

SPACE: NASA is now accepting applications from companies that want to mine the moon.

TAMMY BRUCE AT PRAGER UNIVERSITY: Feminism 2.0.

TIM WU: Beware of “comfort-seeking missiles.”

MICHAEL TOTTEN: The Truth About Che Guevara.

JOAN HEMINWAY: Willful Blindness, Plausible Deniability and Tippee Liability: SAC, Steven Cohen, and the Court’s Opinion in Dirks.