IN THE MAIL: From Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe.

THOUSANDS RALLY at Milwaukee Tea Party.

Plus, Nearly 10,000 gather for ‘Tea Party’ along Milwaukee’s lakefront.

AUSTIN POLICE want identities of online critics. Because when people criticize the police, the police should know who they are. . . .

UPDATE: Mea Culpa: I should’ve read the actual story, which is much less inflammatory than the Slashdot summary.

MARK FRAUENFELDER: What could go wrong with taking an insane killer for a day out at the County Fair? Oh, yeah. . . .

HISTORY’S GREATEST MONSTER: Romney taunts Democrats with memories of Carter. A Carter-rerun is now looking like a best-case scenario. . . .

CONSUMER-BLOGGING: So a while back, I posted a bleg for information on Sleep Number beds. The reports were generally good, so I bought one. We’ve now had it for a couple of months. I like it a lot. Helen likes it less than I do, but is sleeping better. Also, I’ve stopped snoring. Overall, a good buy, I think, even if it was a bit pricey.

SO, YEAH, BLOGGING WAS KINDA LIGHT YESTERDAY: Helen and I went to Nashville Friday and Saturday to cover the Smart Girl Politics conference for PJTV, and I left the charger for my laptop behind. (I took a charger, just not the right one. Doh!) So I had to limit my online time to keep from running out of battery before I got home.

The conference looked like a good one, and we got some great interviews. I’m currently logging shots before uploading the video to the PJTV studios later today. It should be up next week.

AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT BE WORTH TRYING: Sweden Slashes Income Taxes to Promote Job Growth.

DOUG MATACONIS: “Some libertarians and advocates of limited government and federalism, such as economists Thomas DiLorenzo and Walter Williams have argued that the Confederate State of America was the last gasp of limited government on the American continent in the face of Lincoln-esqe consolidation. However, is that really the case?”

Not so much. I’ve written about this topic before, and this still stands: “One suspects that for a certain sort of infantile mind, pro-Confederacy statements provide the same sort of thrilling sense of nonconformity that Marxism has provided. This, I guess, explains the weird strain of pro-Confederate sympathy that one finds among a certain segment of libertarians.”

VIDEO: Iranian Freedom Protesters Rip Down Hezbollah Sign As Crowd Cheers.

EVAN COYNE MALONEY: ACORN, Kanye West and the Hierarchy of Multiculturalism.

STEPHEN GREEN: Keeping Abreast of the Czars.

BILL QUICK: Celebration of ACORN’s demise is premature. Keep your eye on the ball. And the bills!

GAY PATRIOT: Will Perot Voters Determine Outcome in 2010 (& 2012)?

THE CLINTON TAPES: Does anybody care about Bill Clinton any more?

PJTV: I talk with Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit about the power of organizing locally.

A ROUNDUP OF reporting on ACORN.

MICHAEL MALONE: Facebook Rules The World.

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT MAKES THE RUSSIANS WONDER how they managed to lose the Cold War.

REMINDING MEDIA MATTERS THAT Lee Harvey Oswald wasn’t a right winger.

That fact has messed with their minds ever since. You could write a book on it. . . .

Related: Media Matters’ dishonest editing in support of their “smear” argument exposed. “This editing shows the rank dishonesty and flat-out incompetence of Media Matters. Did they think that no one would check the rest of the tape?”

Remember, Media Matters’ sole reason for existence is to give journalists who are already hopelessly deep in the tank a certain degree of comfort in their already-held views. So it’s not about convincing anyone who pays actual attention. . . .

FREEDOM STILL LIVES IN THE BREAST OF EVERY AMERICAN, but some have more room for it.

CRYBABIES IN THE WHITE HOUSE:

“These guys, everything is personal. I gotta tell you, everything,” Wallace said. “They are the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington.”

Better grow a thicker skin, guys, because it’s going to get worse. Heh. A lot worse.

BROKE: “The chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says she is ‘considering all options, including borrowing from Treasury,’ to replenish the dwindling fund that insures bank deposits.”

BITES FROM THE APPLE: A roundup of news from the Apple empire.

IN BRITAIN, a call to regulate photo retouching. Bah.