IN LIGHT OF MY EARLIER POST on cheap HD video cameras, here’s Ed Driscoll’s review of the Sony MHS-PM1 Webbie HD Pocket High Definition Camcorder.

BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE ANYTHING MORE IMPORTANT TO DO: FTC To Regulate Blogging. The “case by case” nature of enforcement is likely to open the FTC up to charges of bias, of course, if it’s not careful.

A REPORT ON RAY KURZWEIL’S SPEECH from the Singularity Summit.

RUNNING barefoot.

A BUNCH OF interesting food links.

TARP INSPECTOR GENERAL: Feds lied about banks being healthy last year.

THOUGHTS ON mileage taxes.

Some related thoughts of mine can be found here.

WITH VIDEO: TEA PARTY Protest Breaks Out As Barney Frank (D-Fannie Mae) Comes To Talk To Michigan Democrats.

CARS: What’s the Quietest, Most Comfortable, and Economic Long-Distance Cruiser?

MICHAEL YON: Two Firefights, One Video.

APPELLATE COURT IN CALIFORNIA strikes down red-light camera program as illegal.

GOOD: Teen’s DIY Energy Hacking Gives African Village New Hope.

THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS: Lessons from what went wrong.

IN THE MAIL: Bill Frist’s new book, A Heart To Serve.

[It’s a cookbook! — ed. I’m sure he’s heard that one already. . . ]

STEVE CHAPMAN: Losing the Olympics Is A Blessing In Disguise For Chicago.

CHANGE: “The Democrats and their cheerleaders in the punditocracy used to scream for President George W. Bush to listen to his generals. Then Bush got better generals, listened to them, and avoided defeat in Iraq. Obama, it seems, is bent on ignoring his generals. If he takes the advice of Joe Biden instead of those expert on counterinsurgency ( and with a track record of getting war strategy right), the results may be disastrous not only on the battlefield but in the court of public opinion.”

MICHAEL BARONE: Is Virginia Blocking Military Personnel From Voting?

JULIAN KU: Is the World Bank “Too Big To Fail?”

NEW JERSEY: How bad must it get? “All might have been forgiven had Corzine managed the state’s finances effectively. But New Jersey is once again leading in the wrong indicators (e.g., business unfriendliness, property taxes) and losing employers to lower taxed and less hostile surrounding states. So it is no wonder that Corzine’s approval rating is dismal. It’s hard to imagine that a governor who is regarded favorably by less than 40 percent of voters could survive. Yet the race is close, and getting closer. Democrats enjoy a 600,000-vote margin in party registration, so once again observers are left wondering just how bad things have to get and how inept an office holder must be for Blue State voters to give a Republican a try.”

GREG MANKIW on unemployment and accountability. “When the Obama stimulus plan was proposed, the president’s economic team put out a report in January 2009 that purported to show what would happen with and without the fiscal stimulus. The chart above is from page four that report, together with the actual results over the past couple months. As you can see, the actual outcome is significantly worse than the projection with the stimulus plan and is, in fact, roughly on track with what was projected without the stimulus.”

LETTERMAN’S NEXT EXCUSE: My show’s like a restaurant!

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF WORK: Choices that “all suck.” Note that this doesn’t apply so much to academic work. . . . Yay!

THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS WEEKEND:

My Washington Examiner column on Roman Polanski’s Hollywood defenders. “Technologically and market-wise, Hollywood is in the weakest position it’s ever been, and yet it is also more arrogant than it was in its Golden Age.”

World Bank running out of money?

John Holdren worries about an Ice Age.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Jewish roots.

What they promised versus what they delivered with the stimulus.

A roundup of Olympic recriminations.

Pocket video cameras for Tea Party coverage and more.

Frank Rich on hubris.

BaconFest!

Unemployment from small businesses Going Galt?

ANN ALTHOUSE SAW MICHAEL MOORE’S MOVIE: “Amusingly, Barack Obama is presented — outright — as a socialist. We see a roomful of people exulting over the election night announcement that Obama has won and, in context, we’re made to think that it’s the downtrodden people celebrating that socialism has arrived. I don’t think Obama really wants Michael Moore’s help.”

Plus this: “The most striking thing in the movie was the religion. I think Moore is seriously motivated by Christianity. He says he is (and has been since he was a boy). And he presented various priests, Biblical quotations, and movie footage from ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ to make the argument that Christianity requires socialism. With this theme, I found it unsettling that in attacking the banking system, Moore presented quite a parade of Jewish names and faces. He never says the word ‘Jewish,’ but I think the anti-Semitic theme is there. We receive long lectures about how capitalism is inconsistent with Christianity, followed a heavy-handed array of — it’s up to you to see that they are — Jewish villains.”

BIG FOUNDATIONS de-funding ACORN?