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ASTROTURF: CAUGHT ON TAPE: Obama HCAN Organizer Instructs Supporters How to Shout Down Opponents & Take Over Meetings. Remember, what they accuse their opponents of is usually what they’re planning themselves . . .

Related: Megan McArdle on the Left’s double standard for extreme speech. It’s fun to watch Michelle Goldberg’s face as Megan makes her point . . .

UPDATE: “Supreme awesomeness.”

RADLEY BALKO: Don’t Tase Me, Sis! “Police Women of Broward County takes reality cop TV to new depths.”

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Growing anger over big government. “Recent town-hall uproars weren’t just about health care. They were also eruptions of concern that the government is taking on too much at once. That suggests trouble for the president and his party, and fears of losses in next year’s midterm election are likely to shape the Democrats’ fall agenda.”

RELATED: “Americans regard themselves as citizens, not subjects.” Yeah, and the political class hates that.

JOE KLEIN VS. GLENN GREENWALD: Please, Not In Front Of The Kids (Or The Sockpuppets… Or The Editors).

ADMINISTRATORS AT DUKE DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY’RE not smart enough to learn from experience.

Three Duke University students were the victims of the highest-profile fraudulent rape claim in modern American history. That fact alone should make the University particularly sensitive to the dangers of false rape allegations, and the need for a firm commitment to due process in handling any allegation of sexual misconduct.

But Duke administrators seem to worry not about violating the due process of rights of their students but instead about running afoul of politically correct campus ideologues. So, starting this semester, the University has adopted a new “sexual misconduct” policy—a policy that even some Duke administrators fear will lead to an increase in false rape claims against Duke students.

Why would anyone pay a fortune to send their kid to a place that has demonstrated this degree of incompetence — and sheer meanness?

THE RUBBER ROOM: Steven Brill on New York City’s Schools.

HUFFINGTON POST: Obama’s Looming Health Care Disaster.

UPDATE: Media Stunned as Obamacare Unravels.

MEGAN MCARDLE: The paradox of empty storefronts. Though if you want to see empty spaces in suburban strip malls, I can arrange a tour. And this place is still empty, as is the Circuit City across the street.

My own question of economic geography — why do Chinese and Japanese buffets spring up and survive where other restaurants have failed?

JODY ROSEN: Blackface, Reconsidered.

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: A look at the new Canon 7D. And more on that here.

SOUNDS LIKE THEY’VE FORGOTTEN WHO THEY WORK FOR: Loudon board seeks control of cameras in meetings. “The Loudon County Board of Education this week will discuss enforcing a policy that might prevent members of the public and press from bringing cameras or video recorders to its meetings.”

SMALL RETAILERS FEEL SHARPER PINCH. “Although the recession has been a struggle for all U.S. retailers, there is evidence that it has been especially difficult for the nation’s smaller, independent retailers. With Americans cutting back drastically on their spending, some stores have lost business as shoppers have turned to cheaper discount chains, while others have found that their customers have simply gone without the kind of discretionary items some small retailers sell.”

GERARD VAN DER LEUN: The Strong Horse vs. My Little Pony.

OBAMA ASKS FEDERAL WORKERS TO SACRIFICE — By 0.4 percent! “Citing the current economic recession — and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks eight years ago — President Obama says he will use emergency powers to cut the programmed across-the-board January increase in federal employees’ pay from 2.4 percent to 2.0 percent, according to a letter he sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Monday.” Given that lots of people in the private sector — and even in state and municipal goverments — are facing no raise at all, or actual pay cuts, I don’t think this will impress many folks out there.

UPDATE: A federal employee reader who asks that I not use his name writes: “Also note — that 2.0% is just the base increase. Once subjected to locality adjustments (all of them adjusted upward), that 2.0% becomes more like 3.5%. Last year the 2.9% increase in the general schedule ended up being in the neighborhood of a 4.2% increase for most working in the northeast (D.C included).”

ANN ALTHOUSE: “Oh, grotesque! So-called Kennedy seat. Who calls it that? I don’t. I hope you don’t.”

STEPHEN GREEN’S HAIR OF THE DOG: Don’t Google “Secretary of State” + “Angry” Without Safe Search On.

TRAILER PARK: Trailers for Whiteout, Ninja Assassin, and The Book of Eli.

BEYOND THE BIOPSY: A tiny monitor for cancer.

The reader who sent the link writes: “Do you think Obamacare will help or hinder the funding for similar projects?” I’m pretty sure the answer is “hinder.”

IT’S LIKE THEY THINK THEY’RE ROYALTY: Note: A Seat in Congress Isn’t a Lifetime Appointment. “So the government is a bunch of Nazis when you’re one of the people, and then when you win a position in the government, it’s the people who are the Nazis. Nazi see, Nazi do!”

DOES HAWAII HAVE A RACISM PROBLEM?

Celia Padron went on a Hawaiian vacation last year, lured by the prospect of beautiful beaches and friendly people. She, her husband and two teenage daughters enjoyed the black sand beach at Makena State Park on Maui. But a Hawaiian girl accosted her two teenage daughters, saying, “Go back to the mainland” and “Take your white ass off our beaches,” says Padron, a pediatric gastroenterologist in New Jersey.

When her husband, 68 at the time, stepped between the girls, three young Hawaiian men slammed him against a vehicle, cutting his ear, and choked and punched him, Padron says. Police officers persuaded the Padrons not to press charges, saying it would be expensive for them to return for court appearances and a Hawaiian judge would side with the Hawaiian assailants, the doctor contends. . . . With no known hate groups and a much-trumpeted spirit of aloha or tolerance, few people outside Hawaii realize the state has a racism issue. One reason: The tourism-dependent state barely acknowledges hate crimes. That makes it hard to know how often racial violence is directed at Caucasians, who comprise about 25% of the ethnically diverse state’s 1.3 million residents. Those who identify themselves as Native Hawaiian — most residents are of mixed race — account for nearly 20%.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has a full report at the link. Interesting to see the SPLC taking notice.

UPDATE: Reader Bob Gailey writes:

Thanks to Clinton coming here and apologizing for the U.S.A overthrowing the Hawaiian Kingdom (there is another side to that story if one cares to look) and the subsequent movement by Senators Akaka and Inouye to push for Hawaiians getting their own government thanks to the Akaka Bill, it’s not surprisng the natives are getting bolder.

The story is also correct about the law enforcement over here. The judges and many on the police force are related to many of those who create problems here so when they were told it would be useless to press charges, they were correct. Again, thanks to Clinton for opening Pandora’s Box and Akaka keeping it from closing with the racist Akaka Bill…Hawaii will never be the same.

Another reader emails:

You betcha. The University of Hawaii had a ton of stuff posted on how Hawaii was for Natives and how non-natives should not have voting rights when I visited last year to lecture. I was warned by some freinds that lived there to be careful outside the cities and if I got into problems with a native, not to expect the police to take my side. There are lots of native only area, from what I was told, and despite the fact they are legally open to all, its not in reality. It was kinda like being a Christian in Saudi Arabia again. There is a strong secessionist movement that is very anti-white and wants the return of the old royality.

See what happens when the public schools stop pushing integration and instead push diversity. The SW next?

And SayUncle writes: “I spent my formative years there. Check out Kill Haole Day. Haole = derogatory term for whites.”

I’ve never vacationed in Hawaii — the Caribbean is closer and cheaper — but this doesn’t make me want to go anytime soon . . . .

THE FUTURE OF ENERGY: Solar panels built into roads?

GOVERNMENTS USING more political Internet filters. Luckily, that could never happen here.

A LIST OF fellowships for aspiring law professors.

MARKDOWNS ON XBOX 360 and Playstation 3.