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And de-clutter for spring by trading in your old stuff.

LIFE BEYOND PARODY IN OBAMA’S AMERICA (CONT’D): Income Inequality Institute Will Pay Paul Krugman $25,000 Per Month. For unclear, but “modest,” efforts.

FOOD INFLATION: Beef, Pork And Shrimp Prices Soar To Record Highs.

IS ANYBODY HOME? “A new study has found that PET scans may help answer these wrenching questions. It found that a significant number of people labeled vegetative had received an incorrect diagnosis and actually had some degree of consciousness and the potential to improve. Previous studies using electroencephalogram machines and M.R.I. scanners have also found signs of consciousness in supposedly vegetative patients. . . . Too often, he and Dr. Laureys said, patients are labeled vegetative and sent to nursing homes where no effort is made to rehabilitate them, and where emerging consciousness might not even be recognized.”

TRUST: Google Apparently Chose Not To Tell The NSA About Heartbleed.

MEN ON SIX-MONTH MURDER SPREE were wearing GPS ankle bracelets the whole time.

INFRASTRUCTURE: Security holes in power grid have federal officials scrambling: In Congress, the vulnerability of the power grid has emerged as among the most pressing domestic security concerns.

Say, did I mention that Bill Quick has a new disaster novel out?

GOING NUCLEAR: The Global Picture. If you’re not serious about nuclear power — and fracking! — you’re not serious about global warming.

PROF. JACOBSON: If Kathleen Sebelius runs for Senate, isn’t Dr. Milton Wolf better positioned to put Obamacare on trial? Pat Roberts voted to confirm Sebelius.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What Happens If You Open A Plane Door at 30,000 Feet? The good news is that air pressure makes that basically impossible.

Also, “D.B. Cooper” is Don Draper.

WAR ON WOMEN: Did Mara Liasson Demean Women’s Intelligence? She certainly suggested that they’re gullible low-information voters.

FRACKING: NOT SO RISKY. “The data on hydraulic fracturing suggest that its risks are rare, but even rare risks need to be addressed. Addressing them, however, does not require oppressive regulation or production moratoriums.”

COMING ON MAY 7: The Federalist Society’s Second Executive Branch Review Conference. There’s a lot to review. It’s free and open to the public, and lawyers can get CLE credit.

ABUSE OF POWER: Breaking: New Emails Show Lois Lerner Contacted DOJ About Prosecuting Conservative Groups. Of course she did. And of course the DOJ is involved.

“These new emails show that the day before she broke the news of the IRS scandal, Lois Lerner was talking to a top Obama Justice Department official about whether the DOJ could prosecute the very same organizations that the IRS had already improperly targeted,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “The IRS emails show Eric Holder’s Department of Justice is now implicated and conflicted in the IRS scandal. No wonder we had to sue in federal court to get these documents.”

Muzzling political opponents is an across-the-board priority for this administration.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 342.

THEY’VE BEEN BINGE-WATCHING MAD MEN TOO MUCH: How Does The White House Think Women Dress for Work?

WELL, WHAT BOOKS HAVEN’T THEY COOKED? Is Obama Cooking the Census Books for Obamacare?

For several months now, whenever the topic of enrollment in the Affordable Care Act came up, I’ve been saying that it was too soon to tell its ultimate effects. We don’t know how many people have paid for their new insurance policies, or how many of those who bought policies were previously uninsured. For that, I said, we will have to wait for Census Bureau data, which offer the best assessment of the insurance status of the whole population. Other surveys are available, but the samples are smaller, so they’re not as good; the census is the gold standard. Unfortunately, as I invariably noted, these data won’t be available until 2015.

I stand corrected: These data won’t be available at all. Ever.

No, I’m not kidding. I wish I was. The New York Times reports that the Barack Obama administration has changed the survey so that we cannot directly compare the numbers on the uninsured over time.

If the numbers were good, we’d know about it.

Reminder: Obama moved Census control to the White House early in his first term.

WELL, THAT’S COMFORTING: France lost 2,300 tubes of a deadly virus. “A routine inventory turned up the disappearance of the tubes. The institute suspects they’ve been missing since January, and as of Wednesday morning, no one knows what happened to them.” But top men assure us that there is no danger.

AND THIS SUPRISES WHO? Study finds more immigrants equals more Democrats — and more losses for GOP. I mean, if more immigrants meant more Republicans, the Dems would be calling for a border fence.

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AN IDEA SO CRAZY THAT IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Fight federal abuse of property rights by making the government obey its own rules.

IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: True the Vote Attorney: IRS Did The Bidding of Democrats Who Demanded Conservatives Be Silenced.

DONALD RUMSFELD TO IRS: My Taxes Are A Known Unknown.

ROSS DOUTHAT: The Case Against Higher Taxes. Taxes are a drag on economic growth. Regulation, and especially cronyized redistributionist regulation — of which we have a lot more than we had in past decades — is a much, much bigger drag.

Related: How Much Are You Willing To Pay In Taxes. Considerably less than I do.