NEW YORK TIMES: Obama Urgent on Warming, Public Cool.

JENNIFER RUBIN: Bipartisanship Didn’t Make It to the Weekend.

A MASSIVE ELECTRICAL SHORT CIRCUIT in a beautiful natural setting.

TOM SMITH: Atlas Shrugged wasn’t fiction.

BUT AFTER MADOFF, WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO? How To Get Invited To Secret Investing Societies.

AMY ALKON on Robert Reich’s race problem.

HOPE AND CHANGE! ABC NEWS: Obama to CIA: Bombs Away! No Let Up in US Drone Attacks.

Not that I mind, it’s just not exactly what a lot of his supporters seemed to be expecting.

MAN WHO TRIES TO STOP BURGLAR GIVEN HIGHER BAIL THAN BURGLAR. And in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Story doesn’t say who the judge was, but I’d be interested to know. . . .

THE BOOKS BEHIND the Oscar nominations.

USING REALLY FAST COMPUTERS to simulate materials.

TIM CARNEY: The Question Obama Doesn’t Want You to Ask.

Obama wants more federal spending, more federal regulation, more federal mandates, and more federal prohibitions. It means the president—like all presidents—wants more power.

And objecting that the Constitution limits his power, or that more federal or presidential power is inherently corrupting or destructive—that’s out of line. The only legitimate question to ask about the new powers the president wants is “whether it works.”

But that raises another question: Works for whom?

Probably not those doing the asking. You don’t want to ask uncomfortable questions.

HMM: America Needs To Hold a Yard Sale. Well, that’s classic Dave Ramsey advice to those overburdened with debt . . . .

WHERE THE “HATE” comes from.

U.S. NEWS: No Lobbyist in the Obama Administration … Except When There Is One. “It is important to prevent other administrations from doing business with lobbyists; but we are of such moral character that the rules need not apply to us.”

MEGAN MCARDLE on the competence of the FDIC.

SUBMISSION IN THE NETHERLANDS: Bruce Bawer on the Geert Wilders case.

THE MILITANT LEFT: “Forget extraordinary rendition or arresting Internet gambling executives, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston argues in Mother Jones that if the laws of another country conflict with those of the U.S., we should just invade them.” He says it’ll be a cakewalk! I think he needs a brush-up on current banking law, though.

I LOVE THIS QUOTE: “The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money” —Margaret Thatcher.

Seems like that process is accelerating at the moment . . . .

ARIZONA SPEED CAMERAS REMOVED, “failed miserably.”

“ENGLISH FIRST” PROPOSAL fails in Nashville.

FIVE POLICY CHANGES Obama should make now.

IN THE MAIL: Inside Gitmo: The True Story Behind the Myths of Guantanamo Bay. Send a copy to Barack Obama!

CONOR CLARKE: What would Larry Summers do?

CHARLES RANGEL UPDATE: With Rangel Probe Pending, Pelosi Names Four New Democrats to Ethics Panel.

THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG: News access issues concern those covering Obama.

Plus, frustration: “A growing media frustration with Barack Obama’s team spilled into the open at Thursday’s briefing, with reporters accusing the White House of stifling access to his oath re-do and giving Obama’s first interview as president to a multi-million dollar inauguration sponsor.” Should’ve ponied up, I guess.