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Quincy, Illinois, September 11, 2009. Taken with the Panasonic Lumix LX-3.

HILLARY’S STORY DOESN’T ADD UP: Hillary said she emailed with Bill, but the thing is … Bill Clinton doesn’t use email.

Plus, a reader writes: “Hillary said that server was first made for President Clinton and that it’s being guarded by the Secret Service. That sounds like the taxpayers funded its purchase, which makes it public property, and they are certainly paying for its protection.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE: Man Cleared of Rape Charge Speaks in NC9 Exclusive. “Bradshaw said it was tough for him to be away from those family members who supported him while he was incarcerated for eight months. His attorney Brandy Spurgin said it was a good feeling to hear the evidence exonerated her client. Both said it was important for both sides of the story to be heard.” 8 months in jail on a made up charge. Plus, problems for the believe the women argument:

“We did open records requests. There was a false report conviction where she had been convicted of filing a false rape report before. There was also a tampering with evidence conviction,” said Spurgin about the woman’s convictions in Florida. “When we got the reports and talked to officials in those jurisdictions, we realized that she left a trail of chaos everywhere she went.”

For Bradshaw, it’s now about focusing on his family and moving forward.

“I would like to explore possibilities into what I could do to make sure this doesn’t happen again to somebody,” said Bradshaw. “I feel a little nervous for anyone that honestly bumps into her, simply because this isn’t a one-time thing, history has shown.”

Bradshaw said that he is now applying for jobs to help support his family, but he won’t be going back into the bar-tending business.

His attorney said they will discuss the possibility of filing charges against his accuser. The accuser said Bradshaw was impersonating a Marine, but Bradshaw said he actually served in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years.

Given this history, charges probably should never have been brought.

FASTER, PLEASE: Protection Without a Vaccine.

Last month, a team of scientists announced what could prove to be an enormous step forward in the fight against H.I.V.

Scientists at Scripps Research Institute said they had developed an artificial antibody that, once in the blood, grabbed hold of the virus and inactivated it. The molecule can eliminate H.I.V. from infected monkeys and protect them from future infections.

But this treatment is not a vaccine, not in any ordinary sense. By delivering synthetic genes into the muscles of the monkeys, the scientists are essentially re-engineering the animals to resist disease. Researchers are testing this novel approach not just against H.I.V., but also Ebola, malaria, influenza and hepatitis.

I wonder if resistance will develop?

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Liberalized Gun Laws Coming To Tennessee? I still want campus carry.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Obama Has a $100M Plan to Fill the Tech Talent Shortage.

At its core, TechHire aims to convince local governments, businesses, and individuals that a four-year degree is no longer the only way to gain valuable tech skills.

“It turns out it doesn’t matter where you learned code, it just matters how good you are at writing code,” Obama said. “If you can do the job, you should get the job.”

That’s an idea that training startups like Codecademy and General Assembly, as well as online course companies like Coursera, have been pushing for years. Now, the White House is urging businesses and local governments to embrace that concept, as well.

In Silicon Valley, the idea of non-traditional training as a viable alternative to college is a familiar concept. In the rest of corporate America, not so much.

All is proceeding as I have foreseen. And this is terrible news for four-year institutions if it takes off. Kind of ungrateful of Obama, since higher ed was his biggest source of donations and manpower, but hey, expiration dates. . . .

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IF REPUBLICANS WERE SMART, THEY’D RUN AGAINST THE MPAA AND THE RIAA: MPAA Abusing DMCA Takedowns To Attempt A Poor Man’s SOPA.

The old guard in Hollywood, so frightened of an internet they don’t understand, tends to be rather transparently buffoonish in its strategies to try to break the internet. For a few years, the MPAA was totally focused on a “three strikes” strategy — believing that if people were getting kicked off the internet, that it would lead them to stop file sharing and go back to paying large sums of money for bad movies. That plan failed miserably. The followup idea was even worse: known as full site blocking, the idea was to convince countries to pass laws that would force ISPs, search engines, domain registrars and others to completely block access not just to infringing content, but to entire sites that the legacy copyright industries deemed “bad.”

I say, repeal the Hollywood Tax Cuts, crack down on Hollywood Accounting, and force record companies to pay musicians what they owe them. Play your cards right and you can even split the talent from the money men on these issues. Is the GOP that smart? I’d have to say . . . clearly not.

ELIZABETH PRICE FOLEY AND DAVID RIVKIN: Arizona Redistricting Case Could Signal The Future Of Legislative Standing.

VIDEO: Watch The Trailer For ‘Tomorrowland.’

Related: Moe Lane: So, the new ‘Tomorrowland’ Trailer. It’s very… Bob Heinlein. “In fact, the entire thing looks pretty damned Heinleinian, mid-Campbell era: heroic engineers, technophilia, and the primacy of competence. Whether it also shares in Heinlein’s characteristic optimism remains to be seen. I certainly hope that they can manage the trick. Also: giant fighting robots. They really should have put that in the first trailer.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Emory Provost: Law Schools Are in a Death Spiral. Well, we’re having a good year at the University of Tennessee College of Law. But that’s not reflective of the general trend.

ROBERT SHIBLEY: Censorship can’t cure racism of Oklahoma frat: OU must rely on marketplace of ideas over mandates for addressing race, religious issues.

Related: Two Oklahoma Students Expelled For Racist Chant. Well, to be fair, OU President David Boren is a former Democratic Senator, so you can’t expect him to understand the Constitution.

DO NOT RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE. EMBRACE THE MACHINE: Philip K. Dick’s Androids: The blurry line between men and machines.

I SUSPECT THE REAL QUESTIONS WILL BE SOFTBALLS, CAREFULLY PRE-WRITTEN BY HILLARY’S STAFF: Ashe Schow: 18 questions for Hillary Clinton at her press conference. But these will provide a good comparison.

Related: Ron Fournier: ‘What are you hiding? What are you hiding? What are you hiding?’ And other questions for Hillary’s news conference.

UPDATE: Politico: Clinton press conference threatens to be a media fiasco.

RICHARD EPSTEIN: ObamaCare’s Tangled Web. “The hard question is whether it is the job of a court to ratify the sins of a government agency, given the dreadful precedent it would create for all future cases. The better choice, on balance, seems for the Court to strike down the IRS regulation and for Congress to work out some fix.”

EUGENE VOLOKH ON THE OKLAHOMA FRATERNITY SCANDAL: No, a public university may not expel students for racist speech. This should be obvious, but I’ve been surprised how few people have been pointing it out.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 670.

IN THE WASHINGTON POST, some thoughts on my USA Today column on prosecutors from Radley Balko.

SOCIALISM ALWAYS STARTS WITH THE SAME PROMISES, AND ENDS WITH THE SAME EXCUSES AND ACCUSATIONS: Kevin Williamson: The Left’s Mess In Venezuela:

Venezuela had a good run of it for about five minutes there, at least in public-relations terms. When petroleum prices were booming, all it took was a few gallons of heating oil from Hugo Chávez to buy the extravagant praise of House members, with Representative Chaka Fattah (D., Philadelphia) issuing statements praising Venezuela’s state-run oil company “and the Venezuelan people for their benevolence.”

Lest anybody feel creeped out by running political errands for a brutal and repressive caudillo, Joseph Kennedy — son of Senator Robert Kennedy — proclaimed that refusing the strongman’s patronage would be “a crime against humanity.” Kennedy was at the time the director of Citizens Energy, which had a contract to help distribute that Venezuelan heating oil — Boss Hugo was a brute, but he understood American politics.

Celebrities came to sit at his feet, with Sean Penn calling him a “champion” of the world’s poor, Oliver Stone celebrating him as “a great hero,” Antonio Banderas citing his seizure of private businesses as a model to be emulated in the rest of the world, Michael Moore praising his use of oil for political purposes, Danny Glover celebrating him as a “champion of democracy.” His successor, Nicolás Maduro, continued in the Chávez vein, and even as basics such as food and toilet paper disappeared the American Left hailed him as a hero, with Jesse Myerson, Rolling Stone’s fashionable uptown communist, calling his economic program “basically terrific.”

Some of the more old-fashioned liberals at The New Republic voiced concern about Venezuela’s sham democracy, its unlimited executive authority, political repression, the hunting down of government critics, the stacking of elections and the government’s perpetrating violence inside polling places — but Myerson insisted that Venezuela’s “electoral system’s integrity puts the U.S.’s to abject shame.” Never mind that opposition leaders there are hauled off to military prison after midnight raids. Vice President Biden, who can always be counted on to cut straight to the heart of any political question, ran into Maduro in Brazil and, noting the potentate’s thick mane, commented: “If I had your hair, I’d be president of the United States.” Tragically for the Sage of Delaware, hair transplants don’t work that way.

That is all going down the memory hole. The Obama administration has announced economic sanctions on Venezuela’s rulers and its intelligence agents, citing the “erosion of human-rights guarantees” – erosion, as though this were something new, as though Hugo Chávez hadn’t been a tyrant back when President Obama’s ally Representative Fattah was carrying his political water all over the eastern seaboard. In the New York Times’ account of Venezuela’s woes and Maduro’s misrule, there is no mention at all of the critical role the American Left played in lending legitimacy to Chavismo, of the so-called liberals and progressives who denounced legitimate protests against Maduro’s brutality as nefarious U.S.-backed coup attempts, who remained — and remain — silent on the regime’s censorship, political repression, torture, and economic incompetence.

Memory holes go with leftism, too.

TRUESBURY: Regrets, I’ve Had A Few. . .

CAROLINE GLICK: Why It’s Foolish To Trust The US Security Umbrella. It’s more like one of those gauzy parasol-things nowadays.

SOME GOOD NEWS: Tennessee shoots up 20 places in U.S. News law school rankings. Honestly, I think the main difference is that they’ve cracked down on cheating by other schools. When they started cheating, we dropped, relatively. Now that they’ve (mostly) stopped, we’ve rebounded.

Still, together with our explosive increase in applicants, this is good news.

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