PJTV: Stem Cell Myths And Facts.

Quincy, Illinois.

POLITICAL INTERFERENCE? Senior House Democrat questions role of White House in EPA chemical testing. “A senior House Democrat has voiced concerns that the White House is interfering in tests of potentially harmful commercial chemicals. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has flagged an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) decision urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use test data from companies and other existing data in judging whether chemicals found in pesticides and plastics could disrupt the human endocrine system, which releases hormones. Markey argued that the EPA should be allowed to conduct its own tests to determine the safe exposure levels of chemicals, such as pesticides and contaminants in the environment.”

RICH GALEN: Turn Your Head And Cough. Or bend over, whatever.

GAY PATRIOT endorses Doug Hoffman.

NICHOLAS JOHNSON: Supply Restrictions at the Margins of Heller and the Abortion Analogue: Stenberg Principles, Assault Weapons, and the Attitudinalist Critique.

DEMOCRAT DEFENDS FOX NEWS: “They actually put more women on as experts during the day than MSNBC or CNN.”

DOUG MATACONIS: Virginia GOP Poised For Big Comeback.

DAVID BERNSTEIN: “The mystery of just what JStreet is, or intends to be, is growing deeper.”

MICHAEL MCCONNELL: The Pay Czar Is Unconstitutional. You know, if a Republican President were doing this many bizarre things, public-interest lawyers would be suing right and left to stop them. Where are the lawsuits now?

AN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION “TRIUMPH:” Honduran Government Caves to U.S. Pressure.

HOW’S THE ECONOMY? The “Distress Index” says not so great.

NOBODY TELL STEPHEN GREEN: An Electric Martini Shaker. (Via the skeptical Megan McArdle).

PATRICK RUFFINI: NY-23 Across America? “The key fact that sticks out in my mind about Doug Hoffman’s incredible momentum in NY-23 is that his election would not have been possible had he been the Republican nominee.”

WANT AN ACADEMIC JOB? Surrender your DNA. “Many colleges now require criminal background checks of all new employees. But the University of Akron — in what some experts believe is a first — is not only requiring a criminal background check, but is stating that new employees must be willing to submit a DNA sample.”

HEH: “Reason 2 is reasonable but boring; but reason 1 is why I blogged about this.”

MYCONGRESSMANISNUTS.COM.

SEA CHANGE: Pataki Endorses Hoffman.

OH, GOOD GRIEF: “The House health care bill unveiled Thursday clocks in at 1,990 pages and about 400,000 words. With an estimated 10-year cost of $894 billion, that comes out to about $2.24 million per word.”

Here’s the really scary part, though: “And for some members, that may not be enough.”

UH OH: Actually, Case-Shiller Shows That The Housing Crash Has Already Resumed. I hope not.

KILL THOSE INCONVENIENT IDEAS: George Soros launches a $50 million effort to purge economics of its free-market zeal.

If I had money, I’d endow a chair in currency-market manipulation.