VIDEO: Kathleen Sebelius: Constitution? What’s that?

SALENA ZITO: Romney Seizing Pennsylvania Opportunity. “The Jacksonian-Jeffersonian voters who will swing this election in key battleground states are especially plentiful in the Keystone State and are most dissatisfied with the president’s performance. . . . An interesting juxtaposition in the data shows Americans want to be optimistic (the trend line on the economy is better and people tend to think the country’s best days are ahead) but they are staring reality in the face (jobs are hard to find, children won’t do as well in the future), so they feel pessimistic.”

JENNIFER RUBIN: Obama vs. The Rule of Law.

MORE ON ELIZABETH WARREN’S CLAIM OF “MINORITY” STATUS:

My contribution to this controversy is that there seems to be some disingenuousness going on. Warren says that she could not “recall” ever listing her Native American background when applying for college or a job.

The old AALS Directory of Faculty guides are online (through academic libraries) at Hein Online. The directories starting listing minority faculty in an appendix in 1986. There’s Elizabeth Warren, listed as a professor at Texas. I spot-checked three additional directories from when she was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, including 1995-96, the year Harvard offered her a position. Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren.

So, we know one thing with almost 100% certainty: Elizabeth Warren identified herself as a minority law professor. We know something else with 90%+ certainty: (at least some) folks at Harvard were almost certainly aware that she identified as a minority law professor, though they may not have known which ethnic group she claimed to be belong to, and it may not have played any role in her hiring.

But it gets even more interesting: once Warren joined the Harvard faculty, she dropped off the list of minority law faculty. Now that’s passing strange. When the AALS directory form came around before Warren arrived at Harvard, she was proud enough of her Native American ancestry to ask that she be listed among the minority law professors. (Or, in the unlikely even that she just allowed law school administrators to fill out the forms for her without reviewing them, they were aware that she claimed such ancestry, and she didn’t object when she was listed.) Once she arrived at Harvard, however, she no longer chose to be listed as a minority law professor.

Hmmm.

It’s almost as if, once she could no longer benefit from affirmative action, she didn’t want people to realize that she might have done so.

OVERSIGHT: Energy Committee Warns EPA Official He’ll be Hauled in to Testify. “Lawmakers warned the head of the EPA’s Dallas office that he will soon be invited before a congressional committee — and warned they’ll implement all means available to ensure his appearance — to answer for a 2010 video in which he talks about ‘crucifying’ oil and gas companies.”

RETROSPECTIVE: For 22 murder victims, LA Riots leave legacy of justice eluded. “The dead for whom justice remains elusive include a 15-year-old boy shot as he stood on a corner, a Good Samaritan who tried to douse flames set by a crowd of angry looters, a hard-working immigrant who insisted on making grocery deliveries even as his neighborhood burned, a suburban man shot when he came to check on his store and John Doe No. 80, whose identity may never be known.”

PROF. JACOBSON: Er, What Race Is An Illegal Alien, Exactly?

STREET VIEW SCANDAL UPDATE: “According to the FCC report, Google’s collection of Street View data was not the unauthorized act of a rogue engineer, as Google had portrayed it, but an authorized program known to supervisors and at least seven other engineers. The original proposal contradicts Google’s claim that there was no intent to gather payload data: ‘We are logging user traffic along with sufficient data to precisely triangulate their position at a given time, along with information about what they were doing.'”

WAS THERE A MEMO ON JOURNOLIST OR SOMETHING? Miami TV Reporter Fired For Separate But Similar Edit Of Zimmerman’s 911 Call.

ANYTHING THE GOVERNMENT GIVES YOU, the government can take away. “A majority of doctors support measures to deny treatment to smokers and the obese, according to a survey that has sparked a row over the NHS‘s growing use of ‘lifestyle rationing’.” I recommend a growing use of “tar-and-feathers discipline.” It’s an Anglo-American tradition!

FLIPPER FLOPS: “Suddenly Professor Krugman has fetched up singing the praises of President Reagan.”

FRANK BRUNI: Remember When A College Diploma Meant Something? Yes. But our ruling class debased the currency, as they debase all currencies they control.

HMM: Mysterious Objects Punching Holes In Weird Saturn Ring. “The discovery comes from detailed photos taken of the Saturn system by NASA’s Cassini orbiter. In these images, researchers spotted strange objects about a half-mile (kilometer) wide tearing through Saturn’s F ring, the thin outermost discrete ring around the planet.”

It’s the aliens again. Beware.

UPDATE: Several readers point out that Footfall started this way.

DESPERATION IS THE MOTHER OF CREATIVITY: Dick Lugar to target cell phones near Mourdock events. “Dick Lugar has announced that his campaign will target cell phone users browsing the internet in zip codes where Richard Mourdock events are taking place. The targeted ads will repeat the misleading claim, already debunked by FactCheck.org, that Mourdock cheated on taxes.” Nice job, Dick.

HEY, THEY’RE ONLY TAXPAYERS AND VOTERS: DOJ Employee Shows Contempt for Mississippi Citizens on Facebook.

MORE DAN SAVAGE BACKLASH. I wonder if Obama will distance himself? Heck, I wonder if MTV will? Will Savage’s college visits be met by protesters denouncing bigotry? You never know what those bitter-clinger slopehead types might get up to . . . .

WHY YOU SHOULDN’T TRUST TWITTER.

UPDATE: On Facebook, Alex Pournelle has a suggestion:

Business plan! Escrow accounts for your Twitter followers. When your account gets suspended, and they blink, and reinstate you, it auto-adds your followers back.

Permissions based, and allows you to watch for slamming, spoofing, and abuse.

Michelle Malkin should get working on this ASAP.

Well, she should.

SOOTHING: Walker Gains in Wisconsin: NYT Shields Readers From Distressing News. “Sometimes I wonder if the Times hasn’t been infiltrated by a group of stealth conservatives, a sleeper cell dedicated to making the left stupid and ineffectual. For liberals to be basking in a dream world in which OWS is effective and unions are fighting back and winning in Wisconsin is exactly what conservatives want. Look how it worked on Obamacare: not a serious liberal in the country thought the individual mandate could possibly be thought unconstitutional until, quite horribly, the Supreme Court justices started asking all those questions that the press had done its best to ignore.”

SPRING MARKDOWNS IN Patio, Lawn & Garden.

EIGHT LESSONS from the Republican primaries.

OUR FEARLESS WATCHDOG PRESS: CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux ready to throw her panties on stage at Correspondents’ Dinner. “Pressing issue of the day for an oh-so-esteemed journalist: look at our super cute shoes! Oh, do you think Obama will notice? Notice me, The One! Notice ME.”

NOW OUT: Edward Jay Epstein on Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Three Days in May: Sex, Surveillance, and DSK. (Bumped).

CHANGE: Microsoft backs away from CISPA support, citing privacy. Good.

BERKELEY UPDATE: Are you ready for the most ridiculous and pointless Occupation ever? “Last week, on Earth Day, the Occupy movement illegally took over an entire farm and transformed it into…a farm!”

THOUGHTS ON THE SPIN, from reader Michael Brendzel: “The way the apparatus are pushing the idea that Obama is ‘cool’ reminds me of how they parroted the idea that he was ‘smart’. I guess they feel they can’t sell that bill of goods anymore.”