YOU WANT REVENGE? KILL SOME ISIS FUNDERS IN QATAR: Change: Departing From Country’s Pacifism, Japanese Premier Vows Revenge for Killings.

SIMULTANEOUSLY INEVITABLE, AND TOO LATE: U.S. Considers Supplying Arms to Ukraine Forces, Officials Say.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Iredell teacher charged with indecent liberties with a student.

JOHN C. WRIGHT: Dinosaur-Sized Bigotry. “They used to be firmly on the side of the workingman; now they hate the workingman as a white racist oppressor. . . . They serve Sauron and have forgotten their own names.”

FROM THE WASHINGTON POST, A Rand Paul Hit Piece. It’s pretty weak tea: He fought crony-capitalist certification rules that favored incumbents! But what’s really revealing isn’t what the piece says about Rand Paul, but the way the Post’s David Fahrentold spins it. Sample: “The Kentucky doctor was so outraged that he seceded.”

Get it? Rand Paul seceded! Because he’s practically Jefferson Davis and stuff. Expect more stuff like coverage like this of all the GOP possibles, from the press that never tried to get Barack Obama’s college transcripts.

UPDATE: From the comments:

Yep. And from the press (LA Times) that’s still hiding the Khalidi tape.

Americans: “Why can’t we see the Khalidi tape?”

LA Times: “Because there’s nothing on it”

Americans: “Then why can’t we see it?”

LA Times: “Because, Shut up.”

Indeed.

MARC AMBINDER: What the 529 savings fiasco reveals about the Obama coalition.

JOHN ALTHOUSE COHEN: “Why Government Money Can’t Fix Poverty.”

RICHARD FERNANDEZ ON JORDAN’S KILL-EM-ALL APPROACH TO ISIS:

There are no more knockouts in international relations; just a bare-knuckle eye-gouging brawl that go on for 100 rounds, with the man behind on points revived by speed and dextrose so that he can answer the bell. This is the humanitarianized conflict of today.

In the process, however, the stop-and-go fighting preferred by the elites builds up a huge head of primal hatred, which like a pustule that cannot be lanced creates an unreasoning yet understandable desire for revenge. This is what we see in Jordan’s threat. The balm of hashtags and candles finally fails lose their potency only to be replaced an almost desperate desire to end the conflict, whatever the cost, however great the brutality. The idea of an eternal stalemate, so beloved by lawyers, becomes unbearable to the public until it unleashes an unstoppable monster that neither lawyers nor journalists can control.

However illegal it may be to shoot the ISIS prisoners there will be a lot of cheering among the great unwashed if Amman executes the whole kit and caboodle. There is a point when people are finally all out of sympathy for Mughniyah and his human rights. It is when populations become tired of the lawyers that the real danger begins. The question is: how far are we from not giving a damn?

I think concerns about human rights and international law are cultural imperialism. ISIS’s behavior, and the Jordanian response, reflect the culture of the Arab world. It would be as insensitive of us to impose a western culture of lawyers and human rights on the region — or even to employ one there ourselves — as it would be to serve bacon at a mosque. Because no culture is any better than any other, and who are we to say that killing everyone in an enemy held city and building a pyramid of skulls outside is wrong — for them, or for that matter, for us?

Of course, on a smaller scale, if we don’t want to reach the point at which people are “tired of lawyers,” it behooves the lawyers to be less tiresome, and bossy.

ROGER KIMBALL on Charlie Hebdo and the “but”-heads.

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SCOTT WALKER REJECTS YOUR PREMISE:

The conventional wisdom after Republicans lost two presidential elections to Barack Obama was that the GOP needed to concede the premise of certain Democratic talking points. Suddenly immigration reform became urgent enough for a prospective GOP candidate to lead the effort in the Senate. And even more suddenly, talk of inequality has emerged in conservative circles. But what if the conventional wisdom is wrong? What if, instead, Scott Walker is right?

The Wisconsin governor is enjoying a bit of a boomlet right now, as Peter Beinart notes in a sharp piece on Walker’s unapologetic conservatism. And he’s earned it. He won three statewide elections in four years, and did so with national media attention and the concerted lunatic tactics of public unions (death threats, violence, compulsive Hitler comparisons) aimed at him and his supporters. He won comfortably and with a smile on his face. Walker never lost his composure and never stooped to the level of his fanatical liberal opponents.

None of this is news. What’s changed is that Walker has, in the last week, gone national. His speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit earned rave reviews, and was followed with what appears to be the first pro-Walker presidential ad. And everyone seems to have noticed what Walker’s opponents in Wisconsin have learned the hard way, repeatedly: he’s a formidable politician. This should worry his GOP rivals not only because of Walker’s win streak, but also because Walker is doing something many of them aren’t: he’s setting the terms of the debate instead of following the terms the Democrats have set.

An idea so crazy, it just might work!

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YES, WELL, NOBODY WANTS MEASLES: As Measles Cases Spread in U.S., So Does Anxiety. “The measles outbreak tied to Disneyland continued to spread anxiety Friday as two new cases emerged overnight in Marin County in California — along with at least one in Nebraska — while Arizona officials warned that at least 1,000 people may have been exposed to the virus through seven others in that state.”

Related: Health officials: N.Y. Amtrak passenger had measles. Plus: Measles at Bard triggers effort to isolate disease.

JERRY POURNELLE: Air Power And Other Matters. “America’s foreign policy since 2009 has been a disaster. It is now getting worse.”

PHOTOS: The Freakish Tans and Surprising Friendships of Pro Bodybuilding. As I’ve mentioned before, the amount of discipline required for such competitions is astounding. Related item here.

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MARK RIPPETOE: Squat Mechanics: A Deep Analysis.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Structural DNA nanotechnology with programmed motions.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Robot Workers In New Japanese Hotel.

MICHAEL S. MALONE: The Purpose of Silicon Valley: Capital and engineering talent have been flocking to seemingly trivial mobile apps. But would we really be better off if more startups instead went directly after big problems? “This town used to think big—the integrated circuit, personal computers, the Internet. Are we really leveraging all that intellectual power and creativity creating Instagram and dating apps? Is this truly going to change the world?”

NEWS: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker wins Kansas GOP presidential straw poll.

SPACE: This is the Drone Helicopter NASA Scientists Want to Send to Mars.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 633.

BLUE MELTDOWN: Detroit Seizes Homes to Fund Corruption.

Detroit is foreclosing on tens of thousands of homes — in order to pay for an unaffordable city government that fails the essential tests of governance. The NYT reports that the city is seizing the homes of residents who failed to pay property taxes, and putting some of the houses up for public auction. . . .

This story shows just how bankrupt the Great Society model of urban governance has become. These property taxes are themselves exorbitant, and the structure they help pay for is an unsustainable system of unionized employees. Since the 1960s, Democrats have supported a model that, at its worst, is characterized by corrupt political machines that rule in de facto single-party urban enclaves. They are propped up by state and federal subsidies and show little to no interest in effective management, economically sustainable development policies, anti-corruption efforts, or school performance. . . .

This wasn’t the Great Society that Lyndon Johnson had in mind, but it is the society that Detroit and New Orleans, among others, have today. And things could get worse. The financial pressures on the city will intensify as the pension squeeze continues and as the unions fight harder to protect their privileges. Meanwhile, in too many places, single-party political machines will continue to focus on cronyism and identity politics without thinking hard about the urgent economic tasks city governments need to perform.

Which single party is that?