MICAH SIFRY: Why Obama is Sagging Online.

UPDATE: Howard Kurtz: On The Air, But Off His Game.

MARKDOWNS ON athletic shoes.

JOHN HINDERAKER: NEA’s Artists-for-Obamacare probably illegal.

CRITICIZE OBAMACARE, get attacked by HHS?

ACORN UPDATE: Justice Department Inspector General Launches Internal ACORN Probe.

Plus, in U.S. News: The Case For Acorn As A Criminal Enterprise.

BREAKING NEWS: National Endowment for the Arts Renamed National Endowment for Propaganda. Stay Tuned. “This is Only the Beginning.” “There is a German word for what we are witnessing at the NEA and elsewhere in the Obama administration’s effort to push its agenda. It is Gleichschaltung. It means two things: first, bringing all aspects of life into conformity with a given political line. And second, as a prerequisite for realizing that goal, the obliteration or at least marginalization of all opposition.”

UPDATE: Hmm.

QUESTION: When Could GM Have Turned It Around?

SOME KINDA SAD dating video. The hairstyles are the saddest part, though . . .

PJTV: Roger Simon and Norman Podhoretz: Why Are Jews Liberals?

A GUIDE TO home geothermal energy.

THE BLACK PANTHER VOTER INTIMIDATION STORY makes Mother Jones.

ANOTHER BREITBART SCOOP: EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda. The National Endowment for the Arts isn’t looking good here, and neither is the White House. Er, or the press that missed the story. Audio and transcripts at the link.

Plus, Nick Gillespie: How to Corrupt Artists in One Quick and Easy Telecon. “It’s ironic that official attempts to use artists have come to light only weeks before the 20th anniversary of the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the German Democratic Republic, a regime that spent an enormous amount of time, energy, and resources creating fake culture to bolster its political agenda. ‘Official’ culture is always unseemly, especially when the connections between officials and the ostensible creators are hidden from the audience.”

TAX LAWYER FIGHTS RULINGS barring deductions for prostitutes. I wonder if the rules are different for android sex dolls?

TIGHTWADS AND SPENDTHRIFTS are attracted to each other, then fight over money.

THE GIRL BELOW IS AN ANDROID SEX DOLL. The proper term is “prosthetute.”

REMEMBERING Jody Powell.

MORE ON THE CALL to make electric cars louder. I want that Jetsons-style bleebling sound.

IN THE MAIL: From Paul Rahe, Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory Under the English Republic.

ANNOUNCING PJTV’S Generational Theft contest winners.

JACOB WEISBERG: The hazards of Michael Bloomberg’s paternalist utopia. “Both left and right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals.” Perhaps some mild tar-and-feathering is an appropriate response, then? . . . .