HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW ATTACKS ON WALKER SEEM TO REBOUND ON THE ATTACKER? Media tries to smear Walker on campus sex assault reporting, gets it horribly wrong.

Members of the media were quick to report that, included in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget, was a removal of the requirements that colleges report campus sexual assault statistics to the state.

The Daily Beast, Huffington Post and others all jumped on a report in Jezebel that tried to paint Walker as being unsympathetic to sexual assault victims. Daily Beast writer Brian Weidy went so far as to claim that Walker’s proposal was “just short of explicitly violating Title IX regulations” and possible even “crossing a legal line.”

So not only is Walker a terrible person who hates victims, but he’s also maybe breaking the law. Or so they said. But for all their eagerness to pile on a leading GOP candidate for president (note the contrast to reporting on Obama in 2008), they were just plain wrong. The outlets involved had to retract the story, although a simple Google News search could have spared them the humiliation.

Walker had actually included these changes in his budget at the request of the University of Wisconsin. The school had requested that the governor remove the requirements because they were duplicative.

What I really liked was that, yet again, lots of folks on twitter — including plenty of right-leaning journos who used to hold themselves above the fray — got involved in directly challenging these journalists by name, in public. Name and shame. It’s the only way they’ll learn.

And it all started here.

Related: Daily Beast Retracts Scott Walker Story. “Another major media outlet has apologized after getting a story about Scott Walker wrong. Last week, it was the New York Times; now, it’s The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast has retracted an article from one of its college columnists that claimed that the Wisconsin governor’s budget would cut sexual assault reporting from the state’s universities.”

Plus: “The most impressive thing about Walker’s Throne of Skulls: every single skull beheaded itself.”

THE HILL: GOP urges Obama to sign college savings bill.

President Obama should get on board with House Republican legislation passed this week expanding college savings plans, Rep. Jim Renacci (R-Ohio) said in the weekly Republican address.

“Why would we make saving for college even harder? We talk all the time about rewarding people who work hard and play by the rules — well, that’s what 529 plans are,” said Renacci, who touted his upbringing in a working-class union family.

“They empower families to set up accounts for their children, right from when they’re born, and then down the line, they can use that money tax-free on books, fees, tuition and room-and-board,” he added.

This week, the House passed a bill 401-20 loosening restrictions on tax incentives and expanding the college savings plan program, after Obama scuttled a proposal to eliminate tax breaks for the plan in his annual budget.

If I were in Congress, I’d introduce legislation capping tuition at tax-exempt institutions to the equivalent of the average family income. To prevent profiteering.

FLASHBACK: Russian Money Suspected Behind Fracking Protests.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: John McGinnis: Those missing law school applicants? They aren’t coming back. “The most important cause of the decline in demand for legal services is technological shock. Technological change has reduced the demand for lawyers, at least at the price point law schools were delivering.”

I SUPPOSE MISCHIEVOUS REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS MIGHT AGREE AND AMPLIFY THESE SENTIMENTS, INTRODUCING ALL SORTS OF ABSURD LAWS GOVERNING SEX ON CAMPUS UNTIL HIGHER EDUCATION IS CRUSHED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF its own sexual paranoia. “It’s the fiction of the all-powerful professor embedded in the new campus codes that appalls me. And the kowtowing to the fiction—kowtowing wrapped in a vaguely feminist air of rectitude. If this is feminism, it’s feminism hijacked by melodrama. The melodramatic imagination’s obsession with helpless victims and powerful predators is what’s shaping the conversation of the moment, to the detriment of those whose interests are supposedly being protected, namely students. The result? Students’ sense of vulnerability is skyrocketing.”

NOW OUT FROM STACY MCCAIN: Sex Trouble: Essays on Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature.

ANTI-SEMITISM at UCLA. “In the video below, UCLA’s student council deliberates over the application of Rachel Beyda for a position on the university’s judicial board. Ms. Beyda is acknowledged to be ‘qualified, for sure’ and ‘a great candidate, obviously.’ Yet there is a problem. ‘I just worry about her affiliations.’ She is ‘a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish community.’ The student council voted not to appoint Ms. Beyda to the judicial board.”

CARLY FIORINA ON SYRIAN REFUGEES: ‘Why Would We Think We Could Distinguish Good from Bad?’

SARAH HOYT ON LEONARD NIMOY: A Death In The Family.

MICHAEL WALSH: Why Do Democrats Hate Asian-Americans? Because They’re Smart And Successful.

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FROM STEVE CALABRESI, some inside dirt on Supreme Court appointments.

JOHN HINDERAKER: The Obama Administration’s AR-15 Ammo Ban: What’s It All About? “Critics of the ban suggest that the Obama administration is trying to achieve a ban on AR-15 rifles through the back door. This ATF standard won’t achieve that result by itself, of course, as most AR-15 ammunition will remain legal. But the fear is not irrational; liberals have openly argued for attacks on ammunition as an indirect means of achieving gun control.”

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THE RIDICULOUS HISTORY OF WIND CHILL.

WHY DO SO MANY MIDDLE-AGED MEN feel lost? You won’t be surprised to find that, according to Lucy Cavendish, it’s mostly their fault. Well, and that of “outdated masculinity.”

There may be some other answers. Me, I predict a return of “outdated masculinity” in one form or another.

JOHN FUND: Comrades for Net Neutrality: The powers behind the FCC’s muscling of the Internet. “Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism.”

BETTER LIVING THROUGH engineered nanomaterials.

FOUND: Biomarkers For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 660.

WHAT I’M DOING THIS MORNING:

Little-known fact: The first law review article ever published on the Third Amendment, in 1949, appeared in the Tennessee Law Review.