FROM KEVIN WILLIAMSON: Red-Pill Economics.

SHIKHA DALMIA: Progressives Need To Prepare For A Post-Affirmative Action America.

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MICHAEL BELFIORE ON SpaceX’s Reusable-Launch Success.

HAVE I MENTIONED THAT Bill Quick has a new book out?

And so does Sarah Hoyt.

PATCH DELAY: Apple users left exposed to serious threats for weeks, former employee says. Is it just me, or has Apple seemed less together since Steve Jobs died?

GALLERY: Creepy Abandoned Military Sites From Around the World.

VIDEO: Andrew Klavan celebrates International Men’s Day. Recognizing an underappreciated minority: “Because whether you’re looking at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or watching a Shakespeare play or utilizing the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution, you’re enjoying the work of someone male.”

REPORT: How Democrats Skirt The Law To Coordinate Messages.

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CAMILLE PAGLIA: Repeal The 21-year-old Drinking Age.

Learning how to drink responsibly is a basic lesson in growing up — as it is in wine-drinking France or in Germany, with its family-oriented beer gardens and festivals. Wine was built into my own Italian-American upbringing, where children were given sips of my grandfather’s home-made wine. This civilized practice descends from antiquity. Beer was a nourishing food in Egypt and Mesopotamia, and wine was identified with the life force in Greece and Rome: In vino veritas (in wine, truth). Wine as a sacred symbol of unity and regeneration remains in the Christian Communion service. Virginia Woolf wrote that wine with a fine meal lights a “subtle and subterranean glow, which is the rich yellow flame of rational intercourse.”

What this cruel 1984 law did is deprive young people of safe spaces where they could happily drink cheap beer, socialize, chat, and flirt in a free but controlled public environment. Hence in the 1980s we immediately got the scourge of crude binge drinking at campus fraternity keg parties, cut off from the adult world. Women in that boorish free-for-all were suddenly fighting off date rape. Club drugs — Ecstasy, methamphetamine, ketamine (a veterinary tranquilizer) — surged at raves for teenagers and on the gay male circuit scene.

Lowering the drinking age is the right thing to do. It would also be a very smart political move for Republicans.

THIS COULD BE DEADLY: Due to license plate reader error, cop approaches innocent man, weapon in hand.

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HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Wealthiest Americans Outpace World as Middle Class Lags Behind. They told me if I voted for Mitt Romney the richest would get richer while everyone else suffered. And they were right!

JAMES TARANTO: ‘A Lot of Misinformation:’ Defending ObamaCare, Sen. Shaheen gets defensive. Well, wouldn’t you?

Jeanne Shaheen, the senior senator from New Hampshire, won her seat by defeating a Republican incumbent in 2008. She was thought to have a safe seat this year, and most polls and observers still give her an edge, if a tenuous one, over likely GOP challenger Scott Brown.

But she has a problem. Like every other Democrat who was in the Senate in 2009, she cast the deciding vote that caused the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to become law. The Granite State is nobody’s idea of an ObamaCare success story. It is one of only two states (with West Virginia) in which only one insurance company sells medical policies on the ObamaCare exchange.

As The Wall Street Journal reported in February, premiums tend to be higher in jurisdictions–a total of 515 counties in 15 of the 36 states on the federal exchange–with a lone insurer. As we noted in January, the absence of alternatives in New Hampshire means that some policyholders in some parts of the state have to drive long distances to get to a hospital that is on the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield coverage network.

Not surprisingly, Shaheen–whose first name is pronounced “gene,” not “genie”–is facing hard questions from constituents suffering under the new health-care regime. Her approach to answering them seems an unpromising one. It is to suggest that they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Yeah, that’s especially weak coming from a Senator. And even weaker coming from one who voted for ObamaCare. Plus:

It is true that there’s been a lot of deliberate misinformation about ObamaCare. Example: “If you have insurance that you like, then you will be able to keep that insurance. If you’ve got a doctor that you like, you will be able to keep your doctor.” That was Barack Obama in July 2009.

Here’s another example:

My understanding . . . is that–and I know this is true of the bill that has come out of the committee in the Senate–if you have health coverage that you like you can keep it. As I said, you may have missed my remarks at the beginning of the call, but one of the things I that I said as a requirement that I have for supporting a bill is that if you have health coverage that you like you should be able to keep that. . . . Under ever [sic] scenario that I’ve seen, if you have health coverage that you like, you get to keep it.

A lot of misinformation indeed. That was Jeanne Shaheen in August 2009, responding to a constituent named Emil in another telephone town hall. The Washington Examiner’s Byron York noted it (along with similar comments from 26 other then or future Senate Democrats) in November, and via a Google search we found it on Shaheen’s official Senate website.

So Shaheen was an active participant, if perhaps an unwitting one, in a massive consumer fraud at the expense of many of her own constituents. No wonder she’s so defensive.

If we lie to the government, it’s a felony. If the government lies to us, it’s politics as usual.

FROM AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY, a new ad targeting Jeanne Shaheen.

POLICE CHIEF: If you don’t want to talk to police officers, you’re probably a criminal.

Related: Jonathan Chait: If you’re suspicious of the government, you’re probably a racist.

OF COURSE HE DOES: Eric Holder says Sotomayor’s affirmative action dissent was ‘courageous.’

It was brave, but in the same sense as “A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he’s not afraid of anything.” Damn straight.

PRESSURE: NRSC challenges red-state Democrats to Obamacare townhall debates.

They don’t want to talk about ObamaCare. They don’t even want to talk about the “recovery.”

SHOCKER: California’s Carbon Spending Rush: Sacramento proves that cap and trade is about income redistribution.

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HISTORY: The SS Doctor Who Converted to Islam and Escaped the Nazi Hunters. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t the only one.

Plus: “One thing that surprised me was how many real Inglourious Basterds stories there were. Groups with names like Vengeance and the Avengers tracked down and killed former SS and Gestapo members. . . . The SS captain known as the Hangman of Riga was found in a trunk in the bedroom of his beach house in Uruguay, executed for his part in the Holocaust.”

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