Washington Examiner columnist Timothy Carney looks at the new Obama plan for college funding here and draws the analogy between the federal government and crack dealers. Your first hit is free, but it lures you into a trap.

The new “rating” scheme would have been troubling enough back in the days when the rule of law still prevailed. Now that we seem to have slid into the notion that the law means whatever the White House wants it to mean, everyone should fear the consequences, from religious right colleges to secular left ones.