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? . . . .

AMAZON’S GROWTH IS SHAKING UP RETAIL: “Fifteen years after Jeffrey P. Bezos founded the company as an online bookstore, Amazon is set to cross a significant threshold. Sometime later this year, if current trends continue, worldwide sales of media products – the books, movies, and music that Amazon started with – will be surpassed by sales of other merchandise on the site. (That already occurred this year in its North American business.) In other words, in an increasingly digital age, Amazon is quickly becoming the world’s general store.”

MICKEY KAUS: It’s Not That He’s Black. It’s That He’s An Enigma. “It makes paranoia more rational, if you will. . . . asking 21st century Americans to rely on the assurances of elites is a good way to produce a populist revolt.”

BRITISH GOVERNMENT condescending to Muslims?

Meanwhile, should Christians start sawing off heads to gain some respect? Perverse incentives . . . .

CHRISTIAN/NEWSOM UPDATE: Jury selection begins today in 2nd torture-slaying trial.

ERIC SCHEIE: A Dog Is A Rat Is A Doctor Is A Vet.