PAUL RAHE: Truths You Cannot Utter.

ANNIVERSARY THOUGHTS ON THE BAY OF PIGS. It is, of course, one of the great human tragedies that this failed.

SUSPICIOUS: FBI shuts down top online poker sites immediately after DC OKs its own site. “Coincidence? Or Chicago-style strong arming by the Federal Government? Or both?”

PALM SUNDAY THOUGHTS from Walter Russell Mead. “To read world history — as I’ve been doing this semester in the grand strategy seminar at Bard — is to see just how strong the quest for certainty is, and to what strange lengths it drives the finest minds.”

FRITZ MONDALE: Hey, Obama’s Tax Approach Is Kinda Like Mine.

TEACHERS UNION PROTESTS WASHINGTON POST: “For reasons that are, frankly, hard to understand. According to the Post, which gamely reported on the event, the protesters claimed that the Post’s parent company’s reliance on Kaplan was affecting its editorial page coverage by making it skew anti-teacher.” This would seem to support my theory that the left apparat is trying to use Kaplan as a lever to pressure the Post.

DYING FOR DIVERSITY.

WHY THE FEDERAL RESERVE is so reluctant to act against inflation.

DECAF: Coffee Party Protest In Chicago Draws 20 People.

JEFF JACOBY: There’s No Fairness In Taxing E-Sales.

THAT SEEMS RATIONAL: U.S. Public Fears A Bad Sunburn More Than Nanotechnology.

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HIDE THE DECLINE (CONT’D): The UN ‘disappears’ 50 million climate refugees, then botches the cover-up. “Apparently, they’ve never heard of Google Cache at the UN.”

AUSTERITY, here and there.

VIDEO MASHUP: Atlas Is Shrugging Already. “It occurred to me last night that this film wouldn’t have resonated nearly as well three years ago, or ten years ago, or perhaps not any time in the 54 years since Rand published the novel. The sense of crisis in the movie would have seemed too far from the experience of most Americans; likewise, the sense of aggressive, populist redistributionism would have looked hyperbolic and contrived. If this isn’t the perfect moment for this film, then it’s as close as I’d like to see it in my lifetime.”

BUT OF COURSE: “Do not challenge leadership in times of crisis” became Assange’s favorite slogan.

YET ANOTHER REASON WHY men are increasingly reluctant to marry?

“MERIT” SELECTION OF JUDICIAL NOMINEES, the Illinois way.

BYRON YORK: White House: When Obama said Paul Ryan is ‘not on the level,’ he meant Ryan is ‘absolutely sincere.’ Need to work on the messaging. . . .

DAVID BRIN: Our Worst Frailty: An Electro Magnetic “Hit.” “The EMP-vulnerability of our electric grid, our machines, transportation systems, tools, and homes is probably the most glaring ‘acute-impact’ threat on our horizon. . . . The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.”

HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: The Adjunct Economy. It’s interesting that Marxist class analysis applies better to the goings-on within universities than anywhere else. Perhaps that’s why it’s so popular there . . . .

JONATHAN LAST: Go ahead, have another kid. A review of Bryan Caplan’s new book, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think.

TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE (CONT’D): IRS Allowed $500m of First-Time Homeowner Credits to Ineligible Taxpayers (Including 128 IRS Employees).

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MARGERY EAGAN IN THE BOSTON HERALD: The drinking age should be 18, period. Amen.