PAUL RYAN rules out 2016 presidential run.

YA THINK? WH Press Secretary Josh Earnest: ‘We Should Have Sent Someone with a Higher Profile’ to Paris.

ALL OF THEM, EVENTUALLY: How Many Truck Drivers Will Lose Their Jobs To Automation?

SEAT-OF-THE-PANTS SCIENCE: Diaper Material Brings Nanoscale Resolution to Ordinary Microscopes.

WELL, IF YOU’RE SURE THEY’LL STAY THAT LOW, SELL SOME FUTURES CONTRACTS: Low Oil Prices Mean Keystone Pipeline Makes No Sense.

YEAH, I’M NOT SEEING A LOT OF THAT: Randy Barnett: The President’s Duty of Good Faith Performance.

According to this theory of good faith performance, “scarcity of enforcement resources” is an appropriate motive for exercising prosecutorial discretion, but disagreement with the law being enforced is not. . . . But how do you tell the difference? Here is where the President’s previous statements about the scope of his powers, about his legislative priorities, and his frustration with Congress’s “inaction” become legally relevant. His prior statements go to the President’s state of mind or motive, which is dispositive of the issue of “good faith.” If the President believed that the law precluded these actions but he was exercising the discretion he was given under the law to accomplish them nonetheless, he was abusing his discretion and acting in bad faith. Whether or not the law gave him discretion is not the answer to the question, it is the problem that a doctrine of good faith performance is devised to address.

Read the whole thing.

SHOT: Obama Calls For New Cyber Protections.

CHASER: US Centcom Twitter account ‘hacked by Islamic State.’

Everything he touches. . . .

5 COOKING TECHNIQUES you should know by now.

THEY’RE WARNING ABOUT THE DANGERS OF TANNING SALONS, and they might be right, but given how the warnings about getting natural suntans probably killed more people than they saved, well. . . .

But I blame racism, given that the primary tanners are white girls who are self-conscious about their pale skins. End Melanin Privilege!

TEACH MAGAZINES NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE! Cops Say Nothing Happened at UVA Frat Accused of Gang Rape, But Who Really Cares? Notice the complete lack of apology from UVA President Teresa Sullivan for her unconscionable sexism and rush to judgment.

UPDATE: More from Ashe Schow.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Further thoughts on Islam’s tarnished brand.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 613.

MY UT LAW COLLEAGUE ROBERT BLITT: Defending Islam from free speech: Powerful, mainstream Muslim groups must recognize they’re breeding religious intolerance.

Many have taken false comfort in blaming the cold-blooded attack of Charlie Hebdo on the fanatical action of a small minority of Muslims. But attributing the horror perpetrated in Paris to a band of Salafist radicals alone betrays a willful blindness to a longstanding campaign by broad-based Islamic groups to silence those they consider blasphemers.

The Islamic State and al-Qaeda are by no means the most powerful purveyors of the destructive idea that Islam demands unqualified protection against perceived insult. In the aftermath of the Paris attack, reputable Muslim groups around the world have denounced the violence, but important bodies such as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League, as well as many of the individual states comprising these groups, must bear responsibility for nurturing an environment that breeds violence in the name of defending Islam.

The OIC, whose member states range from moderate U.S. allies such as Jordan to adversaries such as Iran, describes itself as the world’s largest international body after the United Nations. For more than a decade, “the collective voice of the Muslim world” has spread the belief that any insult directed against the Muslim faith or its prophet demands absolute suppression. Quashing “defamation of Islam” is enshrined as a chief objective in the organization’s charter.

With countless internal resolutions, relentless lobbying of the international community and block voting on resolutions advocating a prohibition on defamation of religion at the U.N., the OIC continuously pushes to silence criticism of Islam.

Well, to be fair, you can see why. But read the whole thing.

FRENCH PRIME MINISTER: If Jews Flee, the Republic Will Be a Failure.

Valls, a Socialist who is the son of Spanish immigrants, describes the threat of a Jewish exodus from France this way: “If 100,000 French people of Spanish origin were to leave, I would never say that France is not France anymore. But if 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be France. The French Republic will be judged a failure.”

Hmm. Perhaps he reads InstaPundit. Plus:

Valls, who on Saturday declared that France was now at war with radical Islam, has become a hero to his country’s besieged Jews for speaking bluntly about the threat of Islamist anti-Semitism, a subject often discussed in euphemistic terms by the country’s political and intellectual elite. His fight, as interior minister, to ban performances of the anti-Semitic comedian Dieudonne (the innovator of the inverted Nazi salute known as the quenelle) endeared him to the country’s Jewish leadership, and he is almost alone on the European left in calling anti-Zionism a form of anti-Semitism.

“There is a new anti-Semitism in France,” he told me. “We have the old anti-Semitism, and I’m obviously not downplaying it, that comes from the extreme right, but this new anti-Semitism comes from the difficult neighborhoods, from immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa, who have turned anger about Gaza into something very dangerous. Israel and Palestine are just a pretext. There is something far more profound taking place now.”

Yes.

WORKING IN A GUN-FREE ZONE IS UNSAFE: Journalists grapple with fear and doubts about firearms after Paris attack.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Further thoughts on Islam’s tarnished brand.

RICH GALEN ON THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S FAILURE IN PARIS: “Obama sent no one. No one.”

UPDATE: Jake Tapper: I’m ashamed by U.S. leaders’ absence in Paris.

I find it hard to believe that collectively President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Attorney General Eric Holder — who was actually in France that day for a conference on counterterrorism — just had no time in their schedules on Sunday. Holder had time to do the Sunday shows via satellite but not to show the world that he stood with the people of France?

There was higher-level Obama administration representation on this season’s episodes of “The Good Wife” on CBS.

Ouch.

But there’s this: Ron Fournier: Obama’s Mistake Is No Disgrace. I take his point, but I disagree. Either the White House missed an easy PR call, or they’re happy with the message they’re sending. Either way, it’s appalling.

MORE: Dem Strategist Doug Schoen: Obama AWOL in Paris: Message to America, allies is we don’t care. “Sunday, President Obama morally abdicated his place as the leader of the free world.”

CLARICE FELDMAN: Je Suis Sick and Tired of Cant.

SHADES OF LBJ: Dempsey jokes about White House ‘micromanagement’ of Pentagon.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked in an interview whether he feels his office is being “micromanaged” by the Obama administration, a volatile question that he answered by first jokingly referring his interviewer to the White House.

His remarks came after a question from Fox News’ Chris Wallace, who cited a recent poll by the Military Times that showed only 15 percent of active-duty service members approved of President Obama’s performance. “Why do, in your opinion, so many service members have doubts about this president?” Wallace asked.

Dempsey at first responded by the book, but caught himself halfway through his answer to address longtime rumors about the White House and its supposed micromanaging of other offices: “What I tell the troops when I travel around is: The commander in chief supports their efforts, and that I can tell them with great confidence that he takes — you know, this is this issue of whether or not I’m being micromanaged, right?”

“It’s not just the troops on the ground,” Wallace said. “You have the two last secretaries of defense, [former Secretary Leon] Panetta and [former Secretary Robert] Gates both wrote searing books in which they criticized the White House for micromanaging, jumping the chain of command, and for sometimes emphasizing politics over policy. Are they right?”

“You mean, am I being micromanaged? Is that the question?” Dempsey asked, a slight smile on his face.

“That’s one of the questions,” Wallace stated.

“If you asked me if I’m being micromanaged, I don’t know, I better go ask the White House before I answer the question,” Dempsey laughed.

Ha ha.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Resignation. “Our Western leaders are on one side of the chessboard and the big kingpins of the international Jihad — the Middle Eastern billionaires and the heads of rogue state intelligence agencies — are on the other. Their foot soldiers in the lands of Islam might be starvelings fighting for a pittance. But their recruits in the West, the Lone Wolves, come from that part of the population which in each generation doesn’t want to stay on the conveyor belt. . . . It’s easy to forget how important image-identification can be. One reason the Brownshirts out-attracted the Communist youth street gangs was the Nazis’ investment in uniforms. While Communist street fighters were dressed in clothes that made them look like municipal garbagemen, the Brownshirts wore uniforms by Hugo Boss.”

MATTHEW CONTINETTI: Blasphemy for Me, but Not for Thee: Do liberals actually believe in the right to offend? Well, it depends on who’s being offended.

I’D BE INTERESTED IN SEEING WHAT THEIR INTERNAL POLLING LOOKS LIKE, BECAUSE IT MUST BE DREADFUL: Democrats, in a stark shift in messaging, to make big tax-break pitch for middle class.

The GOP should start a bidding war on this stuff, but also include a few revenue enhancements that Democrats won’t like.

GEORGE WILL: Questions for attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch.