YEAH, A BUNCH OF STUDENTS AND FACULTY PROTESTING AGAINST SCOTT WALKER. THIS TIME IT’LL WORK FOR SURE!! Univ. of Wisconsin protesters pledge to shut campus down over budget cuts. “Lane Hall, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, took the microphone and told the restless, angry crowd that democracy cannot work as it currently stands. Lane went on to say there are other systems that America should use, even if history has an extremely negative view of them, prompting rowdy cheers from most in the crowd.”

I advise you not to open that door. You have no idea what awaits on the other side.

KYLE SMITH: How Jon Stewart turned lies into comedy and brainwashed a generation.

So Brian Williams goes out (for six months) humiliated and derided. Jon Stewart goes out (permanently, one hopes) the same day, but on a giant Comedy Homecoming King float, with a 21-gun salute from the media, his path strewn with roses and teardrops.

Why?

Brian Williams lied about his personal exploits a few times. Jon Stewart was unabashedly and habitually dishonest.

Though Stewart has often claimed he does a “fake news show,” “The Daily Show” isn’t that. It’s a real news show punctuated with puns, jokes, asides and the occasional moment of staged sanctimony.

It contains real, unstaged sound bites about the days’ events and interviews about important policy matters.

Stewart is a journalist: an irresponsible and unprofessional one.

He is especially beloved by others in the journo game. . . .

The hacks have a special love for Stewart because he’s their id. They don’t just think he’s funny, they thrill to his every sarcastic quip. They wish they could get away with being so one-sided, snarky and dismissive.

They wish they could skip over all the boring phone calls and the due diligence and the pretend fairness and just blurt out to their ideological enemies in Stewart style, “What the f–k is wrong with you?”

It’s worth noting that “Family Guy” reruns routinely outdrew Stewart. His big impact wasn’t on his mass audience, which wasn’t that massive, but on the journalistic and pundit classes.

Plus, speaking of comic relief: Kathleen Parker: Unlike Liberal Comedians ‘Conservatives Put Politics First.’

ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS: Westerners join Iraqi Christian militia to fight Islamic State. “Saint Michael, the archangel of battle, is tattooed across the back of a U.S. army veteran who recently returned to Iraq and joined a Christian militia fighting Islamic State in what he sees as a biblical war between good and evil.”

There are more people like this in the West than is generally appreciated. It will be interesting to see what happens if they become energized.

UPDATE: One should remember that, like Islam, Christianity comes in many flavors, not all of them peaceful. As I’ve mentioned before, my University of Tennessee colleague Rosalind Hackett thinks that militant Christianity, not Islam, will be the religious hallmark of the 21st Century. I’m in no position to predict, but it does seem plausible that conditions for such a resurgence are coming together.

KNOWN WOLF: Copenhagen Killer Was Yet Another Case of ‘Known Wolf’ Terrorism.

While the identity of the killer who attacked a free speech event and a synagogue yesterday in Copenhagen has not yet been released, media are now reporting that the suspect is “known to authorities” in what appears to be yet another case of what I have termed “Known Wolf” terrorism.

Perhaps it’s time to round up the usual suspects.

WELL, TO BE FAIR, IT PRODUCED PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRAFT: The Democrats’ green energy dream is becoming their nightmare.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College Freshmen Depression Levels At All-Time High.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: The Zombie Lawyer Apocalypse.

THE HILL: Conservatives not sweating Homeland Security shutdown. It’s a department nobody likes.

MAUREEN DOWD: “Once the Clintons had a War Room. Now they have a Slime Room.” Meanwhile, the photo of David Brock suggests that wireheading has moved out of science fiction and into 220-volt reality.

No word on whether Brock’s illegal-gun toting bodyguard was nearby. If you’re out of line, it’s your bang-pop.