FTC VS. THE BLOGOSPHERE: More from Walter Olson.

MICKEY KAUS: “Does embattled New Jersey Gov. Corzine really want to bring up the subject of speeding?”

VIDEO ADVICE: How To Make Out.

ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT: Car Console is Legal Gun Storage. More here. I believe this is part of the Heller effect on state courts that Brannon Denning and I wrote about.

TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TROOPS deploy to Iraq.

MY COLLEAGUE JOAN HEMINWAY is guestblogging over at the Corporate Justice Blog.

FRANK J. STEPS FORWARD to take credit. “A lot of you laughed when I first unveiled my peace plan over seven years ago, but who is laughing now? This morning, America crashed a probe into the moon causing an explosion. And the result? Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize.”

What can I say — it’s totally deserved!

UPDATE: Video. “Where’s the beef?”

ANOTHER UPDATE: The Next Logical Step: Help Obama Win The Heisman Trophy.

FOIA REQUESTS on Max Baucus and Humana.

EUGENE ROBINSON: “House Democrats had better start taking the ethics allegations against Rep. Charlie Rangel seriously.”

UPDATE: Rangel’s Enablers.

THE TROUBLE WITH In-Car GPS Systems. “Portable GPS devices beat factory-installed car navigation systems almost every time in terms of price, flexibility and ease-of-use.”

Plus, the car nav systems are bossy.

IN THE MAIL: From Barry Friedman, The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution.

GALLUP POLL AGREES WITH RASMUSSEN: Support for Gun Control at New Low.

CHRIS DODD UPDATE: Dodd tops Politico’s list of Senators Who Could Lose in 2010.

WHAT MASSACHUSETTS CAN TEACH US ABOUT health care costs.

KAUSFILES: A Cesspool Of Corruption. Nobody tell the FTC!

THE TUCSON TEA PARTY FOLKS are planning a big event for tomorrow.

FAKE ART, and patronizing criticism.

Plus, from the comments, “It’s not a copy copy.” In Roman Polanski’s hometown, it’s called homage.

MESSAGE TO BLOOMBERG: Butt out.

JOHN HINDERAKER ON THE POLLS: “What is striking to me is that the Democrats seem to be doubling down: the stimulus bill on top of TARP; government medicine; cap and trade, still not dead; and now talk of Stimulus II. The Democrats are averting their eyes from the popular outcry against their policies and are hoping–somehow–to escape retribution at the polls. I liken them to a canoeist braving the rapids with his eyes closed, hoping for the best.”

NASA PROBE smacks Moon.

HEH: “Riddle: Why Didn’t Obama Win The Nobel Prize For Literature? Answer: He wrote two books.”

JACK SHAFER on the FTC’s mad power grab. “The guidelines have to be read to be believed. They are written so broadly that if you blog about a good and service in such a way that the FTC construes as an endorsement, the commission has a predicate to investigate. The only way to stay on the FTC’s good side is with a ‘clearly and conspicuously’ posted disclosure of the ‘sponsors’ who provided you with the good or service (or money) to blog about the good or service. As I read the guidelines, the FTC could investigate you if you did disclose but it was not satisfied with the disclosure.”

CHANGE: World Economic Forum ranks U.S. financial stability 38th, currency stability 50th globally.

JOHN DERBYSHIRE HAS fond memories of Transylvania. Why am I not surprised. . . .?

MEGAN MCARDLE: “A reader asks me to blog about the FTC decision on blogger disclosure. The problem is, it’s so transparently stupid that I don’t even know what to say. . . . This is of a parcel with the ongoing regulatory process, whereby every trivial thing that is wrong with the world requires a rule to correct it.”