3D PRINTER MAKER MARKFORGED refuses to sell to Defense Distributed, the 3D-gun-printing design shop. And then lies about it, it seems: “In a statement to WIRED, MarkForged cited terms of service that ‘limit experimentation with ordnance to the United States Government and its authorized contractors.’ In fact, the company’s terms of service page doesn’t include that statement. But it does reserve the right for the company to refuse sale to anyone, even after an order is placed.”

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OBAMA’S KEYSTONE VETO NOT OVERRIDDEN.

SUFFERING FROM GOUT? At least you may be at lower risk for Alzheimer’s. “Those with gout, whether they were being treated for the condition or not, had a 24 percent lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The reason for the connection is unclear. But gout is caused by excessive levels of uric acid in the blood, and previous studies have suggested that uric acid protects against oxidative stress. This may play a role in limiting neuron degeneration.”

SPACEWAR: China Could Target U.S. Comm Satellites, Disrupt Military Communication: The country wants to become the number one space power. Of course they do.

TAR. FEATHERS. Parents held responsible for ‘unsubstantiated’ neglect. “‘Free-range’ parents have been found ‘responsible’ for ‘unsubstantiated’ child neglect because they let their kids — ages 10 and 6 — walk home from a park near their Maryland home, reports the Washington Post. Montgomery County Child Protective Services investigated Danielle and Alexander Meitiv’s parenting for two months before reaching that Orwellian verdict.”

I would rather live in a world where bureaucrats who behaved this way faced tarring and feathering on a regular basis, than a world in which they feel free to perpetrate such outrages without consequence.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Cocaine, sex charges filed against Calif. teachers who took 5 male students on ‘camping’ trip. “Melody Lippert, 38, and Michelle Ghirelli, 30, have been charged with unlawful sexual intercourse and giving controlled substances to minors. The pair also gave alcohol to the minors during a two-day camping trip in December, according to a statement from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. Ghirelli faces an additional charge of orally copulating a minor.”

I blame our pervasive culture of female sexual entitlement.

OF COURSE, JEB BUSH ISN’T A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, SUBJECT TO OPEN RECORDS LAWS. AND HE’S RELEASED ALL HIS OFFICIAL EMAILS. But what Heidi’s trying to do here (or help MSNBC do here) is to muddy the waters and make it look like “everybody does it,” or at least to provide a talking point for Democrats. This is what the Democratic Operatives With Bylines do. Even at Bloomberg, where the standards are supposed to be higher.

Jeb Bush owns his own email server http://t.co/6EEPZbeL0q via @msnbc

— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiPrzybyla) March 4, 2015

IT’S AS IF THE ONLY SECURITY SHE CARED ABOUT WAS SECURITY FROM FOIA REQUESTS: Associated Press: Hillary’s emails are on a homebrew server registered to a pseudonym.

ONCE WHEN I REFERRED TO PRO PUBLICA AS A LEFTY OUTLET THEY GOT MAD, BUT DUMB CONSPIRACIST STUFF LIKE THIS PROVES THE CASE: Behind Supreme Court’s Obamacare Case, A Secretive Society’s Hidden Hand. The “Secretive Society” is the Federalist Society, which isn’t at all secretive, and which isn’t behind the ObamaCare case. This is all just part of the lefty Court-bullying press, and for Pro Publica to take part in it makes clear just what team they’re on, despite any protestations.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 664.

FORMER OBAMA MIDDLE EAST ADVISER DENNIS ROSS throws Obama under the bus. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a strong case to the Congress about why he thinks the potential agreement with Iran on its nuclear program is a ‘very bad deal.'”

COMPARED TO THE TRAINWRECK WE’VE GOT, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE AN IMPROVEMENT: Cruz unveils ObamaCare alternative.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Tuesday offered the latest in a series of Republican ObamaCare alternatives ahead of a Supreme Court ruling that could gut the law.

Cruz’s bill, called the Health Care Choices Act, would allow people to buy health insurance across state lines, long a Republican health policy goal. It would also repeal Title I of ObamaCare, which would undo much of the law, including the mandate to buy insurance, the insurance marketplaces and subsidies to help people afford coverage.

Republicans are looking to show that they have a plan ready if the Court strikes down subsidies for around 7.5 million people in the roughly three dozen states using federally-run marketplaces. The Court will hear arguments in the case, King v. Burwell, on Wednesday.

The Obama administration insists that it does not have a contingency plan and that it will prevail in Court.

“The administration has done absolutely nothing to prepare for an upcoming Supreme Court decision that could leave millions of Americans unable to afford insurance thanks to this failed law,” Cruz said in a statement. “Republicans must offer the American people alternatives that lower costs and break the status quo that favors big government and big health care business over hardworking Americans.”

Everybody’s working the ref here, but I say: Fiat Iustitia, Ruat Caelum.

THE FDA GOES AFTER TESTOSTERONE: “The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that manufacturers of testosterone drugs used by millions of Americans will be required to change labels for the drugs to warn that they could increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes and should not be prescribed to treat symptoms in men brought on by age, such as declining sexual drive.”

Why is treating symptoms of aging bad? Aging, contra the FDA, is a terrible, fatal disease.

MICHAEL BARONE: The worst colleges and universities for free speech. “It’s a list with a lot of diversity — something that is valued seemingly above all else in American colleges and universities these days. The list includes highly respected flagship state universities (the University of Illinois, the University of Iowa), universities founded to nurture ancient religious traditions (Georgetown, Marquette, Brandeis), an urban college under severe stress (Chicago State), a suburban second-line college (Cal State at Fullerton) and a small city two-year institution (Modesto Junior College).”

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IT’S COME TO THIS: Hillary fallout: Josh Earnest now basically arguing that official government e-mail accounts are optional; Update: For aides too?

Related: Uh oh: Even without media hand-wringing, Democrats worry Hillary is imploding. “The political press seems loathe to draw unfaltering conclusions about Clinton’s ability to serve as an effective campaigner, but Democrats with skin in this game are not displaying the same nonchalance.”

It’s sad when actual Democratic operatives don’t shill as hard as their counterparts in the press.

LIZ PEEK: Netanyahu Shows Obama’s Deal with Iran Is Lose-Lose.

OUR RULING CLASS, IN A NUTSHELL:

At @emilyslist event, Sen. Mikulski gives thanks for "little bundles of joy." She's talking about campaign checks.

— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) March 4, 2015

ASHE SCHOW: Sexual assault bill is back, and not much better than before.

Last week, a bipartisan group of senators reintroduced a campus sexual assault bill which, as I wrote last year, has some serious problems.

The Campus Accountability and Safety Act, which picked up two additional sponsors from last year’s version, purports to combat sexual violence. In reality, the bill fosters a campus climate where accused students are guilty until proven innocent.

The first bone of contention: The continued insistence by bill sponsors to call complainants “victims” before any evidence is compiled. At least they use the appropriate term “accused” (instead of “rapist”) for those on the other side, but the phrasing still shows bias toward a “guilty until proven innocent” mentality that has currently resulted in some 60 accused students suing their universities for unfair treatment.

This year’s version of the bill at least pays lip service to the notion of due process for what is actually a felony being adjudicated by campus administrators. The bill now includes the term “due process” three times, a 300 percent increase from last year’s bill, which included the term exactly zero times.

On page 31 of the bill’s 51 pages, due process gets its moment to flicker under a dark bridge.

The rest of it is basically hatred and fearful stereotyping of males. Plus:

Another troubling aspect included in the section about “support services” for the accuser is a requirement for schools to provide legal counseling. This would be a perfectly reasonable resource for schools to provide — if they were also provided to the accused student. This hints at further bias against students accused.

Remember, these students are being accused of felonies. This isn’t a disciplinary hearing for plagiarism, which can get a student expelled but not imprisoned. Documents and “evidence” included these proceedings can and will be turned over to prosecutors, should that be the next step. Universities, under political pressure, often ignore or explain away evidence provided by accused students and then find them guilty based solely on an accusation.

Note that Republicans Marco Rubio, Chuck Grassley, and Kelly Ayotte are on board with this, but are unable or unwilling to answer Schow’s questions.

GEORGE WILL: Stopping The IRS:

n 2013, Roskam, in a televised committee hearing, told the story of Al Salvi, who in 1996 was the Republican’s Senate candidate against then congressman, now senator, Dick Durbin. Democrats filed charges with the Federal Election Commission against Salvi’s campaign, charges that threatened to dominate the campaign’s final weeks. Salvi telephoned the head of the FEC’s Enforcement Division, who he says told him: “Promise me you will never run for office again, and we’ll drop this case.” So said Lois Lerner. After Salvi lost, FBI agents visited his elderly mother, demanding to know, concerning her $2,000 contribution to her son’s campaign, where she got “that kind of money.” When a federal court held that the charges against Salvi were spurious, the FEC’s losing lawyer was Lois Lerner.

Roskam’s telling of Salvi’s story elicited no denial from Lerner. Neither did the retelling of it in this column (June 13, 2013). No wonder: The story had not been deemed newsworthy by the three broadcast networks’ evening news programs, by The New York Times or The Washington Post. With most of the media uninterested in the use of government institutions to handicap conservatives, stonewalling would work.

It still is working through dilatory and incomplete responses to subpoenas, and unresponsive answers to congressional questions. Lerner’s name now has an indelible Nixonian stain, but there probably will be no prosecution. If the administration’s stonewalling continues as the statute of limitations’ clock ticks, Roskam says, “She will get away with it.”

Now in his fifth House term, Roskam, 53, says, “The advantage in this town is always with the entity that doesn’t want to do anything.” Many thousands of Lerner’s emails that supposedly were irretrievably lost have been found, but not released. The Justice Department’s investigation, which was entrusted to a political appointee who was a generous contributor to Barack Obama’s campaign, is a stone in the stone wall.

It’s a culture of corruption. Remember this, and act accordingly in all things. But wait, it gets worse:

Roskam says the task now is “to see that Lois Lerner 2.0 is impossible.” One place to begin is with the evidence — anecdotal but, in the context of proven IRS corruption, convincing — of other possibly punitive IRS behavior toward Republican contributors and other conservative activists. This justifies examining the IRS’ audit selection process. This would produce interesting hearings for most of the media to ignore.

Next, there should be hearings into the illegal disclosure of taxpayer information about conservative individuals and groups to the media and to liberal officials and groups. Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer for some groups abused by the IRS (and for this columnist on different matters), also suggests prohibiting IRS employees from joining a union.

“The National Treasury Employees Union,” she says, “provides no protection to IRS employees that federal statutes and the civil service system do not already provide. It already takes an act of God to hold an IRS employee accountable for his or her actions. But it is worse than merely redundant for IRS employees to belong to the NTEU. Because it adds nothing to its members’ protections, it is a purely political organization. In 2014, fully 95 percent of its contributions went to Democrats, including 11 Democratic members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. So, the IRS employees’ union dues finance the election of people who are supposed to scrutinize IRS’ behavior.”

The nice thing is, if Obama has to veto an IRS reform bill, it would be unpopular and would bring all this back up.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UC to freeze California enrollment, cap UCLA, Berkeley non-residents. “In recent years, UC sharply increased the numbers of students from outside the state because they pay about $23,000 more in tuition than Californians do. But the rising presence of non-Californians is a hot political item, and legislative proposals to increase state funding to the UC require a freeze on their ranks. . . . An unprecedented 20% of this year’s freshman class across UC is from outside California and about 30% at UCLA and UC Berkeley. Though UC officials insist that Californians are not being excluded to make room for non-residents, many parents and legislators believe that UC has admitted far too many students from outside the state and are concerned that the practice hurts in-state students’ chances for admission.”

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Billionaire Trying to Force Costly Green Mandate on New York: John Catsimatidis pushing biofuel mandate as he finishes construction on Brooklyn biofuel plant. He has a face that should appear in a thousand political ads. Thomas Nast couldn’t have done better.

DIVIDED DEMOCRATS: Centrist New Democrats Want Bigger Role in Party’s Message.

The New Democrat Coalition members have long bemoaned their exclusion from the leadership table that’s typically — especially now — skewed to the left.

But with Democrats of all stripes evaluating what went wrong in the 2014 midterms and wondering how to win back seats in 2016, members of the group see an opening to really be heard — and hopefully taken seriously.

That’s why, for the first time in its nearly 18-year history, the group is putting out a comprehensive legislative agenda.

Good luck, guys.