Over on the Member Feed, Hartmann von Aue raises an interesting question: should taxpayers foot the bill for the lawyers provided to IRS agents who are being sued over the harassment of conservative groups?

I don’t think it is wrong for the federal government to pay for lawyers to represent federal officials who are sued for actions that they undertook in office. Think about how many times the President, the Attorney General, and cabinet officers are sued every year. To require them to pay for their own defense would make government service prohibitively expensive.

Earlier this week, Pejman noted the self-congratulation going around liberal circles over claims that California would actually see premiums go down upon implementing Obamacare’s insurance exchanges (Paul Krugman could barely keep his pants on). Writing at Forbes today, the perpetually stellar Avik Roy looks to shake the left from their golden slumbers:

Here’s what happened. Last week, Covered California—the name for the state’s Obamacare-compatible insurance exchange—released the rates that Californians will have to pay to enroll in the exchange.

Well, they’ve done it again. Chinese hackers have been raiding the Pentagon cookie jar, the Department of Defense announced this week, stealing classified data about some of our most sensitive defense weapons systems.

The list of “systems designs and technologies compromised via cyber exploitation” is staggering. It includes the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (maybe the Chinese engineers who will get this information can let us know how to finally get it up and flying), the V-22 Osprey helicopter, the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, AMRAAM or Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile system, the unmanned reconnaissance drone Global Hawk, the Littoral Combat Ship, the Navy’s Standard Missile and its Mk 54 Light Weight Torpedo, plus Electronic Warfare systems and Advanced Signal Processing technologies for radars–it goes on and on.