IS IT RIGHT TO CENSOR WIKIPEDIA TO PROTECT A REPORTER? Is it right to censor reporters to protect others?

WHEN WAXING ELOQUENT ABOUT CHURCHILL, don’t get too carried away. And remember that when you support entering into a war, you inevitably are supporting something in which a lot of ugly things will happen, and it’s no fair pretending otherwise after the fact.

REPORTING FROM THE cap-and-trade Tea Party protest at Rep. Mark Kirk’s (R-IL) office.

REP. JARED POLIS ON the Administration and the DOMA brief.

OUCH: Scripps columnist: MSM eating out of Obama’s hand. I don’t think that the press is “off balance and frustrated,” though. I think it’s compliant and complicit.

ANDREW BREITBART: The Rise and Fall of Perez Hilton.

MICHAEL KINSLEY ON RATIONING: “Here is a handy-dandy way to determine whether the failure to order some exam or treatment constitutes rationing: If the patient were the president, would he get it? If he’d get it and you wouldn’t, it’s rationing.”

NEW HAVEN FIREFIGHTERS, EMILY BAZELON, and social privilege.

“TRAITORS:” I remember when calling people treasonous was wrong.

A BUNCH OF STEEP MARKDOWNS ON HEADPHONES. As I’ve mentioned here before, I like the Sennheiser PX-100s a lot. The Insta-Daughter likes ’em too — in fact, she appropriated my pair and I had to order some more.

LIVEBLOGGING the Nashville Tea Party. “Guest veteran gets huge cheers from the crowd, ‘I was offended by being called a racist redneck teabagger,’ says our veteran, who is an African-American female.”

UPDATE: More from Nashville’s Channel 5: Thousands Protest Obama Policies In Nashville.

Four thousand local protestors took over Legislative Plaza Monday to protest a new energy initiative by President Obama. The “tea party” protest also took aim at universal health care.

The event marked the third time this year protestors have held similar rallies in Nashville.

“More than half of Americans feel the way I do,” said protestor Karen Entz. “That should be represented on the national news, and it’s not.”

Protestors said they felt like their conservative voice has not been heard. They want that to change.

Yes, it’s a much higher crowd estimate than the Tennessean blog above. The Tennessee Tea Party site claims 2,500. Perhaps the folks at the Tennessean accidentally omitted a zero? . . .

COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LAWYERS LOOK AT problems dealing with the economic downturn. Meanwhile, The Blogging Prof notes some misplaced priorities.

MADOFF: Where’s the money? “So far, prosecutors have come up with very little about this case. And under the tutelage of the clever lawyer Ike Sorkin, Madoff has given almost nothing up. No singing in jail. (Maybe he should have been waterboarded.) We don’t know if his wife or two sons were part of the scam. Nor do we know where most of the money — estimated up to $65 billion — has gone. . . . The thing about a Ponzi scheme is others besides Ponzi can get rich. And there are names in circulation of people who may also have gotten rich. But where’s the money? When will these people be brought in to testify under oath? The thousands of other smaller investors and charities who were totally ripped off by Madoff could recover a lot more if these big shots are finally hammered.”

UPDATE: More commentary at the White Collar Crime Blog.

IF YOU’RE WORRIED ABOUT SWINE FLU, YOU MIGHT TRY GETTING SOME SUN.

PROGRESS: It’s Now Legal To Catch A Raindrop in Colorado.

CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS: Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship.

ADDRESSING ONE OF MY “PET PEEVES:” The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks.

Is there one for inappropriate apostrophes, too — like those signs on RVs that say “The Smith’s”?

READER LINDA WHITE SENDS THESE PICTURES FROM TODAY’S NASHVILLE TEA PARTY PROTEST.

MORE ON John and Monica Conyers.

RICHARD EPSTEIN on the Ricci case.

LESSONS OF the cookie-dough recall.

AN INTERVIEW WITH JON VOIGHT. According to The Globe (the tabloid one, not the Boston one), he’s on Michelle Obama’s enemies’ list, along with Oprah, Hillary, and Rush Limbaugh.

ADVICE TO REPUBLICANS, FROM DAN RIEHL: “Any real change has to start from the ground up. Ranting about witholding money might make you feel good. And there’s nothing wrong with doing it, provided you’re sending the right message as to what will be required to motivate you to support the GOP, again. You’d actually be better off to raise money yourself and give it to more conservative candidates, just as the Left did to some degree with politicians they liked. I believe RedState already has that type of initiative. They’re even raising money specifically for a more conservative candidate to take on Boxer – Chuck Devore. That’s the way to get what you want by channeling money, not simply withholding it because one is angry.”

PUSHING BACK against unfounded “domestic terrorism” allegations. (Via SayUncle.)

THOUGHTS ON INTERNET ADDICTION AND MARRIAGE, from the Insta-Wife.