YOU KNOW, THEY DON’T ACTUALLY HAVE ANY LEGAL AUTHORITY TO DO THAT: Golfers frisked as Obama arrives at Martha’s Vineyard club. How come nobody ever tells them to buzz off, and that if the President wants to play golf he can damn well respect the rights of others? The response to the ominous “So, you’re not cooperating?” should be “No, are you assaulting me?”

If the President wants to go out in public, fine. If he can’t do it without assaulting the rights of citizens, then he should stay home. But hey, most of these folks probably voted for him. So: Enjoy!

UPDATE: From the comments:

Think of it this way…

There are probably two Republicans on MV and they are incognito.

Obama is pissing off all the right people.

Well, that part is fun.

CHICKS DIG BAD BOYS: I am Charles Manson’s “Wife.”

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Where the wild things are: Big beasts return to Europe: It’s a feel-good conservation story but can Europe’s human inhabitants really coexist peacefully with wolves, bears and lynx? No. Next question?

JONAH GOLDBERG: The West’s Gaza. “The hawks (including me) were wrong about a lot, but some got one thing right. It’s going to be a long war. . . . No one in the West wants a generational struggle with jihadism any more than Israel wants perpetual war with Hamas in Gaza. The problem is the enemy always gets a vote. It just may be that the Middle East will become the West’s Gaza. And, so far, nobody has a good answer for what to do about it.” Try thinking outside of the box.

FASTER, PLEASE: ‘Trojan horse’ gold nanoparticles treatment could beat brain tumors.

REMEMBER, IN THE MEDIA THEY’RE PRETTY MUCH ALL VOLUNTEER OPERATIVES FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Report: Simon & Schuster imprint rejected book about Bergdahl because it might hurt Obama.

ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR: NASA’s Asteroid Mission Is Dumb, Says NASA Assessment Committee.

CHANGE: What we know, and think we know, about the 2016 Chevy Volt.

WHAT NOT TO DO when your basement is flooded.

DON’T WORRY, THE EPA HAS MADE SURE THERE WILL BE FEWER WORKING POWER PLANTS TO PROVIDE HEAT: Video: This Year’s Winter Shaping Up to Be Colder, Snowier.

ASHE SCHOW: No, 1 in 5 women have not been raped on college campuses. “It has been debunked multiple times, but apparently the paranoia it causes is just too good to let facts get in the way, so I am going to debunk it again.”

To get universities to debunk it, start running ads telling women not to go to college because they have a 1-in-5 chance of being raped if they do. With pictures of university campuses labeled “rape factory” and pictures of university presidents labeled “rape-factory president.”

SO SHE’S A T-1000? Huh. I thought she was a T-888. Hillary Clinton, expert shape-shifter.

WHEN GOP LEGISLATORS USE STATE POWER TO PROTECT CRONIES: Three Congressmen Are Using Red Tape to Bind SpaceX to Earth. “Hey, remember Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the guy who threw needless layers of bureaucracy at SpaceX because the private space company was doing its job of launching rockets into space a little too well? Well, it looks like he’s being joined by gentlemen from the other side of the Capitol: Three congressmen are trying to do the same thing. . . . Three House members—Mike Coffman (R-Colo.), Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.)—have sent a memo to NASA demanding that the agency investigate what they call ‘an epidemic of anomalies’ with SpaceX missions. . . . I’ll note that Boeing (the major SLS contractor) has a big plant in Alabama, Brooks’ (and Shelby’s) home state, and United Launch Alliance has its HQ in Colorado, home to Gardner and Coffman (it’s even in Coffman’s district). This sounds more like they’re trying to protect their own turf more than honestly wanting transparency from SpaceX.”

I’M PLEASED TO SEE THAT THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF LAW MADE THE LIST: Top 20 Best Value Law Schools.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 461.

POLICE IMMUNITY IS A JUDICIAL INVENTION WITHOUT WARRANT IN THE CONSTITUTION: Mike Brown death, Ferguson riots raise questions about police immunity. “The shooting death of Mike Brown, a black teenager, by a police officer in Ferguson. Mo., comes as the public, courts, and lawmakers have started debating limits to immunity and arguing about policies to recalibrate the role of police.”

Also, why all police should wear cameras: “The validity of the differing accounts, especially in the absence of video, is now the point of two investigations: one by St. Louis County police, the other by the Department of Justice.”

CHANGE: Democrats Embracing Shale Boom Ahead of Midterms.

In the run-up to this fall’s midterm elections, Democrats seem to be stifling some of their green sensibilities and embracing the recent U.S. energy revolution. Fracking has completely transformed the American energy landscape in just a few short years, and environmentalists, a key component of the Democratic base, aren’t happy. As the WSJ reports, many on the left seem willing to weather the criticism of this increasingly out of touch interest group as they tout the numerous benefits of the shale boom. . . .

But politicians on either side of the aisle would be remiss if they saw economic growth and environmental stewardship as mutually exclusive pursuits. True, fracking has unlocked a new bounty of fossil fuels, and greens are quick to remind the public that neither oil nor gas is renewable, at least on a human time scale. But the natural gas being drilled out of shale across America is green. Shale gas is displacing coal as a baseload power source (a type of power production renewables cannot yet provide), and it emits roughly half the greenhouse gases that coal does. As a result, shale gas is actually helping the U.S. lower emissions.

Moreover, natural gas plants are cheaper to bring on- and offline, which makes them a perfect fit to complement wind and solar energy, typical green favorites (when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing, gas plants can provide necessary power, and then have their output curtailed when the skies clear and turbines start spinning again).

Fracking is opening up new oil and gas plays all across the country, and Democrats who previously might have vocally criticized fossil fuel production are finding plenty of reasons to hop on the shale bandwagon.

At least for the next few months.

A VICTORY IN THE WAR ON PHOTOGRAPHY: NYPD Sends Out Official Memo Telling Officers They’re Allowed to Be Photographed.

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN if someone got Ebola in America.

Related: The CDC’s controversial quarantine powers. “In some cases, this includes the power to isolate people, and hold a healthy person against his will. The CDC’s quarantine authority has been strengthened in recent years. But we haven’t had sufficient debate about how to balance individual rights against public health in these circumstances. And when quarantine is even effective. We should revisit these issues before we find ourselves invoking these tools. . . . The attempt during the Bush Administration to draft specific regulations interpreting the CDC’s vast quarantine provisions failed precisely because the mechanisms for exercising that authority, once articulated clearly, concerned a lot of observers both in and out of government. That should provide no comfort to those who opposed the Bush era provisions, since the same powers still reside with CDC.” My National Security Law students were always surprised at how much power the federal government — and states — have in these circumstances.

UPDATE: Related: Liberty In The Time Of Ebola.

AT AMAZON, it’s the big Labor Day sale. Labor Day just around the corner? How did that happen?

Also, shop the Amazon Backpack Shop.

ANOTHER PRO-FRACKING AD: A LITTLE DEPENDENCE IS A GOOD THING!

UNWRITTEN, BUT PRETTY DAMN OBVIOUS: Hide ‘D,’ Showcase ‘R’: It’s the media’s unwritten rule for covering political scandals.

JIM TREACHER ON OBAMA’S “HORSESHIT” MOMENT: “Comity and civility are very important in politics. Except, of course, when people make you angry by disagreeing with you.”

HEH: Josh Marshall Goes Alex Jones: Left-Wing Blogger Sounds Like Tea Party Supporter Concerning The Militarization of Local Police.

Welcome to the party, Josh. I was writing about this many years ago.