THREE WORDS ANDREA MITCHELL CANNOT SAY: Washington Free Beacon.

More on Mitchell’s aphasia, here.

POLITICIZING THE IRS, AGAIN: Companies Must Now Swear — to the IRS — That None of Their Layoffs are Because of Obamacare.

TRANSPARENCY: Issa, Cummings Feud Over Investigation Into Navy Yard Security Clearances. “Do you Google the person?”

ROLL CALL: Senate Finance’s New Chairman, Most Liberal Ever, Looks to Start Slow. “The book on Ron Wyden is that he’s one of the Capitol’s grandest thinkers, with a sprawling range of policy interests matched with wonkish expertise, and eager to work outside the box to put a bipartisan stamp on his many big ideas. All of that may be true, but so is this: On Thursday the Oregon Democrat will become the most liberal chairman in the modern history of the Finance Committee, the most powerful panel in the Senate.”

THE HILL: Why The Speaker Capitulated To Obama. My answer: Obama had air superiority in the form of a media that would slant everything against the GOP. Also, he didn’t want to provide a conveniently-timed distraction from the ongoing unraveling of ObamaCare.

THE JUDICIARY STRIKES BACK: Obama, legislator-in-chief, suffers setback on illegal IRS rules.

“The IRS may not unilaterally expand its authority through such an expansive, atextual, and ahistorical reading of” the law. The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit used these words in a Feb. 11 ruling that struck down an Obama administration regulation on tax preparers.

Federal judges should copy this phrase and be ready to paste it into rulings — sometimes replacing “IRS” with “Health and Human Services” — as President Obama continues to act as legislator in chief, making and amending laws as he sees fit, separation of powers be damned.

n the same week Obama illegally delayed the employer mandate and out of thin air created a bizarre loyalty oath to administer to companies suffering from Obamacare, a federal court unanimously smacked down his IRS for executive overreach.

The latest IRS case wraps in a tight ball all of the defects of Obama’s governing style — the constantly revolving door between private and public sectors, a rogue IRS, skirted ethics rules, burdensome regulations that crush Mom and Pop and favor big business, and, above all, the usurpation of Congressional prerogatives by the executive branch.

Indeed.

ER, NOT SO MUCH, REALLY: Rand Paul: ‘Do we no longer have a Fourth Amendment?’

DAVID STEINBERG: The Atlantic’s Philip Bump Smears James Taranto. Generally, if you have to totally misrepresent what someone says in order to refute them, you can’t refute them.

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ROGER SIMON: The Democrats’ War On Work. “You don’t have to be a Freudian to see the truth in the father of psychoanalysis’ oft-quoted pronouncement that ‘love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness,’ really the keys to our daily sanity. If you undermine our ability to work, to be gainfully and fully employed, you undermine our self-respect, virtually no matter what our occupation. . . . People on the dole are almost always a depressed lot, sometimes terminally.”

They’ll turn us all into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please.

FROM CAPTAIN CAPITALISM, a nice review of my book, The New School. “Glenn Reynolds has something the vast majority of his professor, dean, chancellors, and K-12 peers don’t – a soul.” That’s better than most compliments I get. . . .

RAND PAUL SUING PRESIDENT OBAMA OVER SPYING. “The class-action lawsuit will be filed against Obama, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Director of the National Security Agency Keith Alexander and FBI Director James Comey.”

A NEW SITE FROM ANDREA SEE: The Beta Parent. “Parenting is like a website — it’s never finished, and you’re always testing out new ideas.”

STATE CONTROL: The FCC Wades Into the Newsroom: Why is the agency studying ‘perceived station bias’ and asking about coverage choices? You might say they’ll regret this when a Republican is in the White House, but I think this is about making sure that never happens.

YEAH, I DON’T THINK THAT legal scholarship is the problem with legal education, either. Right now, the single biggest underperforming expense in law school budgets is libraries, which are typically upwards of 30% of the budget but which have been almost entirely replaced by online resources.

SO A “SEX ADDICT” IS A MAN WHO wants to keep having as much sex as when you were first married. Why do I think that if he wanted less sex than his wife, that would be a sign of something wrong with him, too. Because in the solipsistic world of women’s media, it’s always some man’s fault.

ASTRONOMY: Archaeology Of The Stars. “Traditionally, astronomers study the early universe by looking back in time — peering deeper and deeper into space for vestiges of light from billions of years ago. But in the last decade, Dr. Frebel and others have used powerful telescopes and high-resolution spectroscopes to study the chemical composition of very old stars closer to home, in the Milky Way’s halo, producing a wealth of information about the creation of elements and the formation of the first stars and galaxies.”

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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.

SPYING: This malware is frighteningly sophisticated, and we don’t know who created it.

HEALTH CARE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: Shortages Of Critical Drugs Continue To Vex Doctors. “In recent years, drug shortages have become an all but permanent part of the American medical landscape. The most common ones are for generic versions of sterile injectable drugs, partly because factories that make them are aging and prone to quality problems, causing temporary closings of production lines or even entire factories.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Reform Starts With Good Data.

Related: Marco Rubio offers up possibilities for overhauling higher education.

NEWS FROM AN ALTERNATE REALITY: Democrats, Media Slam President Romney Over Health Care Law Changes: Worst abuse of executive power since Bush admin, Dems say.

KNOW YOUR PLACE, PEASANT! Frenchman Fined For ‘Theft’ And ‘Fraudulent Retention’ For Finding Health Docs Via A Google Search.