MARK STEYN: The Community Is Restless.

ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS OF THE AUTO BAILOUT: GM gets out from under its polluted sites scot-free.

REMEMBERING WHEN PROTEST WAS PATRIOTIC: My column for the Sunday Washington Examiner is up.

AT THE OLD KEY LIME HOUSE in Lantana, Florida, an Osama bin Laden urinal.

TRYING OUT adjustable eyeglasses.

MORE REPORTING on SEIU, St. Louis, and the Gladney beating.

UPDATE: More at Hot Air, including this from Jim Treacher: “If Kenneth Gladney was an Obama supporter, right now he’d be more famous than Rodney King.”

Indeed.

ANDREW STUTTAFORD: Republicans still not getting it on fiscal responsibility.

VIDEO from the Tea Party protest at SEIU headquarters in St. Louis.

U.S. REP. DAVID SCOTT loses his temper and screams at a constituent.

Protest: They can dish it out, but they can’t take it.

SMILE! You’re on Government Camera.

HOW THE APPLE TABLET could ruin computing.

JOHN DINGELL’S TOWN HALL, ETC.: Citizen Video Reports coming in.

REMEMBERING NIXON’S FINAL DAYS: Paranoia, insularity, hatred of criticism, trying to get union goons to “knock their heads off” to end protests. Good thing that’s all in the past.

A BUNCH OF INTERESTING FOOD LINKS. Plus, ice-cream cookbooks.

REPORT FROM THE RECESSION: So I’ve been at a conference in Lantana, Florida, in Palm Beach County and just about a half hour down the road from Palm Beach proper. Even in tony downtown Palm Beach you see a lot of shuttered shops — and sales in the ones that are around. Restaurants are offering discount menus and specials. And there are speed traps everywhere, to the unhappiness of many locals. That’s because Palm Beach County is nearly broke:

Palm Beach County’s property tax revenue has more than doubled in the past decade.

But despite the windfall, the county faces its tightest budget year in ages. It’s proposing double-digit tax rate increases and preparing to lay off employees, slash bus service and leave some beaches without lifeguards. . . . So where did all the money from the boom years go? Much was spent in just two places: hefty debt payments and a burgeoning sheriff’s budget. Over the last eight years, the county’s yearly debt payments have ballooned by more than 75 percent, to $173.6 million. Like many homeowners, the county borrowed big-time during the boom. As the bills come due, the county’s purse strings are pulled tighter.

And the revenue-enhancing traffic policing takes on a new priority. If I were a municipal-bond rating agency, I think I’d try to devise a metric for that; it’s probably an early indicator of financial stress.

READER JIM DAVILA REMINDS ME that today is InstaPundit’s 8th anniversary. I had forgotten. Oh, well — thanks for sticking around!

BARREL ROLLS in a vintage P-51 Mustang.

PROTESTING VIOLENCE at SEIU Headquarters in St. Louis. “Although he was too weak to speak after his beating on Thursday, black conservative Kenneth Gladney attended the event. Kenneth was beaten, kicked and called racist names by SEIU Russ Carnahan supporters after a town hall meeting on Thursday.”

UPDATE: Here’s a news report.

BEACH READING: Enjoying Steve Carter’s Jericho’s Fall.

HAPTICS UNLEASHED: A roundup of cool haptic feedback devices at Singularity Hub.

JENNIFER RUBIN: Black Panther Case Draws Scrutiny. “Republicans on the Hill have teamed up with the Commission on Civil Rights to find out why the voter intimidation case was dropped.”

THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS DISSIDENT. “It feels to me, as it did during the campaign, that the art community is not meeting its duty of always questioning those in power.”

CRASH TESTS: Chevy Camaro falls short of Ford Mustang, Dodge Challenger.

IN THE MAIL: From Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis, And Less Than Kind.

PJTV: Meet The Mob: Mother, Blogger, Obamacare Protester.