I GUESS THERE WAS A MILITARY SOLUTION, AFTER ALL? Putin proves Obama wrong with his ugly military solution in Syria.

FORTUNATELY WHEN AND WHERE I WAS BORN, NO ONE PUT ME IN ONE: Premature babies set back by ‘dungeon’ incubators.

IT’S TAX CONS ALL THE WAY DOWN: Revealed: the great wind farm tax ‘con’.

PAINFULLY DULL, INEPT, CLUMSY, UNDISCIPLINED, RAMBLING AND THOROUGHLY AMATEURISH: How Valley of the Dolls went from a reject to a 30-million best-seller.

YEAH, I THOUGHT THIS WAS STUPID WHEN MY KIDS WERE IN SCHOOL: Be My (Compulsory) Valentine.

THE PAST PROVIDES AMPLE GUIDANCE TO COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE: Dating in Brooklyn before Tinder and ‘Girls’.

FEELING THE BERN.  RESETTING THE 3 AM PHONE CALL: Hillary’s real Kissinger problem is spelled P-U-T-I-N.

SOMEONE WHO THINKS JUST LIKE HIM AND IS SOME PROTECTED MINORITY: What kind of Supreme Court nominee will Obama select?

OOH, OOH, TEACH, I KNOW THE ANSWER: Who dislikes Obama more — conservatives or liberals?

SOME MEN JUST WANT TO SEE THE WORLD BURN: A world aflame: Obama aides debunk the boss’s happy talk.

STEVEN CALABRESI: Scalia Reshaped A Misguided Legal Culture.

AN AMAZON WEEKEND SALE: 20% off Clothing, Shoes & More.

Plus, today’s the last day to take $20 off the Kindle Paperwhite.

FASTER, PLEASE: The pill that could stop millions getting dementia: ‘Statins for the brain’ may prevent the proteins that cause Alzheimer’s from ever forming.

In the meantime, I’m taking L-Serine. It might help, and it probably can’t hurt.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Antonin Scalia left us wisdom in dissent.

FLASHBACK: DEBATE MODERATOR JOHN DICKERSON OF CBS ADVISED OBAMA TO “DESTROY THE GOP” IN A 2013 SLATE COLUMN.

GOVERNMENT IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR THE THINGS WE CHOOSE TO DO TOGETHER: How the D.C. Government Is Targeting Its Homeless Population; A reminder that unlawful property seizure and intrusive laws hurt vulnerable members of society the most.

SCOTT OTT IS LIVEBLOGGING TONIGHT’S GOP DEBATE AT PJM.

Steve Green and his bionic liver have the night off — but since I did a GOP meets Saturday Night Live theme for last week’s debate, Saturday Night Fever seemed the next obvious inspiration for Photoshoppery.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Movement is not necessarily progress. More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly. Nobody — remember this — neither Hitler, nor Lenin, nor any despot you could name, ever came forward with a proposal that read, ‘Now, let’s create a really oppressive and evil society.’ Hitler said, ‘Let’s take the means necessary to restore our national pride and civic order.’ And Lenin said, ‘Let’s take the means necessary to assure a fair distribution of the goods of the world.’

“In short, it is your responsibility, men and women of the class of 2010, not just to be zealous in the pursuit of your ideals, but to be sure that your ideals are the right ones. That is perhaps the hardest part of being a good human being: Good intentions are not enough. Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.”

—Excerpted from Justice Antonin Scalia’s commencement address at Langley High School, in Virginia, where his granddaughter was graduating in June of 2010.

ROGER KIMBALL: RIP Antonin Scalia.

GOOD. Mitch McConnell: No new justice this year.

SCOTT OTT WILL BE LIVEBLOGGING TONIGHT’S GOP DEBATE AT PJM, where, as Glenn noted earlier, the stakes have been raised dramatically by today’s sad — and shocking — news.

UPDATE: “If Donald Trump wants to end this race tonight, he’ll vow that his first act as president will be appointing Ted Cruz to the Supreme Court,” Sean Davis of the Federalist tweets.

HMM: Disparity In Lifespans Of The Rich And Poor Is Growing. There used to be a big disparity between the lifespans of the rich and poor based on things like the ability to get enough to eat and to stay warm in winter. Now, however, it seems to be because the poor have more bad habits: “In recent decades, smoking, the single biggest cause of preventable death, has helped drive the disparity, said Andrew Fenelon, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As the rich and educated began to drop the habit, its deadly effects fell increasingly on poorer, uneducated people. Mr. Fenelon has calculated that smoking accounted for a third to a fifth of the gap in life expectancy between men with college degrees and men with only high school degrees. For women it was as much as a quarter. . . . More recently, the prescription drug epidemic has ravaged poor white communities, a problem that experts said would most likely exacerbate the trend of widening disparities. Limited access to health care accounts for surprisingly few premature deaths in America, researchers have found.”

Hypothesis: Giving the poor more money wouldn’t solve this problem, but would make it worse by subsidizing smoking, overeating, and substance abuse. The rich live longer because the habits that, on average, help them to be rich — self-discipline, etc. — also help them stay healthier. In other words, it’s another case of Reynolds’ Law.

Suggestion: Want people to live longer and be healthier? Make them work. Holding a job helps inhibit self-destructive behavior. The problem is, this approach offers insufficient opportunities for graft, or social fiddling.

SOMEBODY TELL BERNIE: Johan Norberg: How Laissez-Faire Made Sweden Rich.

WELL, THIS UPS THE STAKES: Senior U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia found dead at West Texas ranch. “Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead of apparent natural causes Saturday on a luxury resort in West Texas, federal officials said. Scalia, 79, was a guest at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, a resort in the Big Bend region south of Marfa.”

The Senate Republicans, of course, should not allow the seat to be filled until after the election. Like in 1968. Are today’s Republicans, even in the majority, as brave as the GOP minority of 1968?

UPDATE: True.

JUSTICE SCALIA HAS DIED: No indication yet as to the cause of death. He was 79 years old.

Will the Republicans in the Senate have the fortitude to resist the inevitable far-left Obama replacement nominee? The Constitution literally hangs in the balance.