You know that awkward moment when someone asks you if you’ve read a certain book or seen a certain movie and you reflexively say “yes,” even though it’s not true? And then, when there’s a follow-up question, you cop out with something like “Well, it was a long time ago. I don’t remember it very well.”? Yeah. Your president, ladies and gentlemen:

Barack Obama has a well-documented history of shooting, but until now his target list has been confined to election night “hoops” with his basketball buddies, the odd frame of eight-ball pool, and a record number of rounds of golf at Andrews Air Force base.

Academic elites are getting their knickers in a knot in North Carolina because the new Republican governor says when it comes to higher eduction, the state should focus on careers for graduates and not on academic studies “that have no chance of getting people jobs.”

Gov. Pat McCrory said on Bill Bennett’s radio program that “educational elites” offer courses that have little chance of getting jobs and that this is a problem. To push against this, he told his staff to draft legislation that will allot money to universities “not based on how many butts are in seats but how many of those butts can get jobs.”

The Chinese have been hacking into the New York Times, according to the New York Times:

Security experts hired by The Times to detect and block the computer attacks gathered digital evidence that Chinese hackers, using methods that some consultants have associated with the Chinese military in the past, breached The Times’s network. They broke into the e-mail accounts of its Shanghai bureau chief, David Barboza, who wrote the reports on Mr. Wen’s relatives, and Jim Yardley, The Times’s South Asia bureau chief in India, who previously worked as bureau chief in Beijing.

Just today, I put my name on a letter–along with well over 50 other distinguished constitutional law professors–to support the proposition that some of the major gun control initiatives being considered in Washington are constitutionally permissible under the current legal regime established in the 2008 Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller.

The Heller decision speaks, of course, with a split tongue. On the one hand, it makes it clear that a low form of rational basis review is not high enough to meet the constitutional standards for gun regulation. Yet, on the other hand, the case does not make clear just how high the bar should be set before the Second Amendment blocks the passage of regulations on constitutional grounds.