NEWS YOU CAN USE: What women want on the dance floor, according to science. “Going beyond the dance floor, these findings could demonstrate that mens’ dance moves could carry ‘honest signals of traits such as health, fitness, genetic quality and developmental history,’ although the authors stress that more research is needed to be sure. It would be particularly instructive to see whether similar findings hold true for mens’ assessments of womens’ dancing ability.”

JIMMY WALES IS NOT AMUSED: Wikipedia founder calls alt-medicine practitioners “lunatic charlatans.”

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OBAMA’S FOREIGN POLICY: Remain calm! All is well! Plus: “One way to preserve presidential self-esteem in the face of failure is to surround himself in ever more lavish trappings.”

UPDATE: Imperial Trappings For An Empty Suit. “It was, I suspect, the jarring juxtaposition of the two phenomena — a president who travels like Julius Caesar but negotiates like Neville Chamberlain — that most amused Russia’s oligarchs.”

FIXED IT FOR YOU: Hate group blamed for inspiring Family Research Council gun attack dumped by FBI.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has labeled several Washington, D.C.-based family organizations as “hate groups” for favoring traditional marriage, has been dumped as a “resource” on the FBI’s Hate Crime Web page, a significant rejection of the influential legal group.

The Web page scrubbing, which also included eliminating the Anti-Defamation League, was not announced and came in the last month after 15 family groups pressed Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director James Comey to stop endorsing a group — SPLC — that inspired a recent case of domestic terrorism at the Family Research Council.

I guess the SPLC’s targeting of pickup artists was a bridge too far.

TURKISH COURT temporarily blocks Twitter ban.

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A BRAIN PACEMAKER: Easing Epilepsy With Battery Power.

AND RIGHTLY SO: Illinois Supreme Court Overturns Insane Recording Laws. “It’s an immensely satisfying decision that turns the country’s most draconian anti-recording law on its head. Illinois politics being what they are, there may be no place in the country that needs recordings of public officials more than this state I call home. Attempts to criminalize such recordings in a way that went so far beyond privacy concerns were clearly an attempt to keep the local population at bay while corruption and illegality raged on.”

Note also that you have a due process right to record the police.

FREE MINDS AND FREE MARKETS: Governor Rick Perry backs bid for Tesla Stores in Texas. I saw my first local-plates Tesla in Knoxville yesterday. Judging by the vanity plates, it was one of the Petro’s folks.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Build A Bicycle-Powered Generator.

REMINDER: Kathleen Sebelius lied about not extending the Obamacare enrollment deadline past March 31. And she did it less than two weeks ago. There’s video at the link.

THE INSTA-WIFE: Over 600 People Walk By Two Lost Girls: Can You Blame Them?

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal. Day 321.

YESTERDAY WOULD HAVE BEEN NORMAN BORLAUG’S 100TH BIRTHDAY. This piece by Gregg Easterbrook is worth a read.

He received the Nobel in 1970, primarily for his work in reversing the food shortages that haunted India and Pakistan in the 1960s. Perhaps more than anyone else, Borlaug is responsible for the fact that throughout the postwar era, except in sub-Saharan Africa, global food production has expanded faster than the human population, averting the mass starvations that were widely predicted — for example, in the 1967 best seller Famine — 1975! The form of agriculture that Borlaug preaches may have prevented a billion deaths.

Yet although he has led one of the century’s most accomplished lives, and done so in a meritorious cause, Borlaug has never received much public recognition in the United States, where it is often said that the young lack heroes to look up to. One reason is that Borlaug’s deeds are done in nations remote from the media spotlight: the Western press covers tragedy and strife in poor countries, but has little to say about progress there. Another reason is that Borlaug’s mission — to cause the environment to produce significantly more food—has come to be seen, at least by some securely affluent commentators, as perhaps better left undone. More food sustains human population growth, which they see as antithetical to the natural world.

The Ford and Rockefeller Foundations and the World Bank, once sponsors of his work, have recently given Borlaug the cold shoulder.

Plus, note this from Borlaug: “(Most Western environmentalists) have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for 50 years, they’d be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists in wealthy nations were trying to deny them these things.”

SPIES LIKE THEM: The NSA Is Intrusive And Incompetent. We do seem to get blindsided a lot, in spite of all that spying.

BILL QUICK: “We like to console ourselves that things generally work out for the best, that our leaders usually make intelligent, rational decisions, and that tomorrow will be a better day. Unfortunately, history teaches us this is not always, or even usually, the case.”

He’s talking about his new book, Lightning Fall.

PHILIP KLEIN: It’s time for White House to start sweating over legal challenge to Obamacare subsidies.

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INSTAVISION: Recovery? What Recovery?!? Hear Why the Next Housing Bubble Could Be Ready to Burst. With Andrew Malcolm and Terry Jones of Investor’s Business Daily.

MORE FRUIT OF DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY NEGLIGENCE: Decades of U.S. dominance kept stability in the South China Sea. Now, China is making waves to claim its ‘blue national soil.’

Related: Deep Thoughts By Barack Obama. “ABC’s Jonathan Karl touched a nerve when he asked President Obama whether Mitt Romney might have been on to something with his observation that Russia is our number one geopolitical foe. The question came in Obama’s press conference at the Hague yesterday. Obama went into epic BS mode.”

From the comments: “The 80’s called…they’d like their president back.” Ouch.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Secret Service agents on Obama detail sent home from Netherlands after night of drinking. “Three Secret Service agents responsible for protecting President Obama in Amsterdam this week were sent home and put on administrative leave Sunday after going out for a night of drinking, according to three people familiar with the incident. One of the agents was found drunk and passed out in a hotel hallway, the people said. . . . The alleged behavior would violate Secret Service rules ­adopted in the wake of a damaging scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, in April 2012, when a dozen agents and officers had been drinking heavily and had brought prostitutes back to their hotel rooms before the president’s arrival for an economic summit.”

Remember, only trained law enforcement officers can be trusted with guns. Plus, from the comments: “It’s time for serious look at how the culture of government employment could get to a place where people in a life and death professional job could get so bombed that they are lying in a hallway.” A fish rots from the head.

I’LL BET THERE’S NOT MUCH ABOUT THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE PAYING FEMALE WORKERS LESS THAN MEN: New White House report focuses on women and tipped wage jobs.

ROGER SIMON: The Democratic Party’s War on Black People and How to Counter It.