REPUGNANT RIDES: The 10 Ugliest Cars at SEMA 2009.

VIDEO: Moby Grape live, on the Mike Douglas show.

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW BLOWS IT: “Some obscure tea-bagging operation”?

Columbia Journalism Review goes after a fellow non-profit news organization, ProPublica, for a ProPublica article on wasteful stimulus spending. Columbia Journalism Review criticizes ProPublica for using a quotation from a spokeswoman for Citizens Against Government Waste, which Columbia Journalism Review sneeringly and condescendingly and dismissively and, well, offensively, characterizes as “some obscure tea-bagging operation.” Citizens Against Government Waste has been around since 1984, and its 2007 IRS Form 990 indicates it had revenue and expenses of about $4.4 million, more if you include an affiliated 501(c)4 group. It claims “more than one million members and supporters.” Its directors as of the 2007 Form 990 included Vin Weber, who is a big deal. Its annual “pig book” report is widely covered.

I’m on the CJR spam list, and it seems to me that the quality of work there has fallen notably over the past several years, while the CJR has grown progressively more politicized. That they’ve reached the point of attacking ProPublica — hardly a right-leaning organization itself — is indicative.

RALPH PETERS: Fort Hood’s 9/11.

UPDATE: More from Bob Owens.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Ann Althouse: “There are a lot of questions here, and we need to be brave about asking them.”

MORE: Thomas Kenniff at the Washington Post.

Plus, in praise of decisiveness.

TALKING LAW AND ROBOTICS at Stanford Law School next week.

OVER AT THE HILL, talking about how Congress should address rising unemployment. I’m pretty sure a bloated healthcare “reform” bill isn’t going to help . . . .

ASKING THE TOUGH QUESTIONS, getting the squishy answers.

TAPPER: Kind of a — a theoretical question, but what — at what point does an attack become considered a terrorist attack, even — even if it’s a domestic terrorist attack?

GIBBS: I don’t know that I would have the theoretical background to — to answer that. I would pose that to somebody at — at the FBI. But, again, I don’t know that we’re at a point yet where we fully understand motive.

I think the answer is, “if we can tie it to Fox News.” . . .

DOUG MATACONIS: Remember, Nidal Hasan Isn’t The Only Muslim In The United States Military. “Some of them have died for their country.”

TAXPROF: How to Audit-Proof Your Tax Return: Don’t e-File.

HOT AIR: The woman who stopped a mass murderer.

BAD NEWS FOR LAW STUDENTS: Associate Pay May Need to Return to 1998 Levels, Consultant Says.

WANT TO HELP WOUNDED WARRIORS? Support Project Valour-IT.

COPYCAT? At least 2 dead, 6 injured in shooting at office building in Orlando.

UPDATE: More here.

ANOTHER UPDATE: More from the Orlando Sentinel.

IT NEVER STOPS: Baguette Dropped From Bird’s Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really).

SO HOW’S THAT STIMULUS THING WORKING FOR YOU? I think the graphic would be stronger without the editorializing; the numbers are stark enough on their own.

THEY NEED A SEXIER NAME THAN “ALGAE FUEL.” HOW ABOUT “HYPERFUEL?” BP prepares output of new biofuels – algae diesel and butanol – starting in 2010.

IN THE MAIL: Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age.

ROBERT REICH: Forget healthcare, focus on employment. “Obama’s focus on health care rather than jobs, when the economy is still so fragile and unemployment moving toward double digits, could make it appear that the administration has its priorities confused. While affordable health care is critically important to Americans, making a living is more urgent. Yet the administration’s efforts to date on this more basic concern have been neither particularly visible nor coherent.”

BYRON YORK: Democrat Trap: Pelosi’s Wrath Or Voter Backlash. Sounds like a pretty easy choice to me . . . .

THOMAS SOWELL ON HOW organ-transplant restrictions are killing people.

NEW AD: “If the government can’t run a flu program, can we trust it to run America’s entire health care system?”

I don’t know about that, but charges of favoritism are already appearing.

RETURN OF THE INFLATION TAX: “All of those twentysomethings who voted for Barack Obama last year are about to experience the change they haven’t been waiting for: the return of income tax bracket creep. Buried in Nancy Pelosi’s health-care bill is a provision that will partially repeal tax indexing for inflation, meaning that as their earnings rise over a lifetime these youngsters can look forward to paying higher rates even if their income gains aren’t real.”

Good grief, these people really are trying to bring back the Carter era. Or worse.

SQUASHING THE MODERATES, but not in the GOP.

OBAMA’S “My Pet Goat” Moment?

IS UNEMPLOYMENT NOW a leading, rather than a lagging, indicator? “Unemployment may now be something of a leading indicator because business executives make decisions about whether to invest in new jobs much quicker and based on more accurate data.”

And reader James Doherty writes: “It seems we have passed a grim milestone.”