TIM PAWLENTY: Son of McCain?

RANDY BARNETT: “I just received another urgent message from the Democratic National Committee, which continues its civil discourse on the merits of health care reform. It seems that someone else is a lying liar who is telling lies but the DNC does not identify what exactly is being misrepresented. Neither does the video to which it links.” They’ve outsource identifying liars to Rachel Maddow, and Rachel Maddow has outsourced identifying the lies to . . . nobody.

DOES THE WHITE HOUSE CONTROL YOUR TELEVISION SET?

And steer people interested in “service” to left-wing advocacy groups?

GLENN BECK HOSTING SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE? “Actually, it’s a brilliant idea.”

JOBS LOST: It looks like some sort of nuclear-war animation toward the end.

THE NEW-AND-IMPROVED second-generation Flip Mino HD. Looks like it’s meant to compete with the excellent Kodak Zi8, which I sort-of-reviewed here. Being able to connect directly to the big-screen TV via HDMI is a very nice touch. Don’t know if the Flip comes with an included HDMI cable, as the Kodak does, but that was a nice touch, too.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Confronting Big Cereal, unregulated garage sales, and other evils.

GOOD GRIEF: “Oh, did I mention I won the Nobel Prize?”

BRIAN MOCKENHAUPT, with the drone pilots.

VIDEO: Obama to negotiate with raging fire.

STIMULUS FAIL? The Hill: First Hard Stimulus Data Finds Only 30,000 Jobs Saved or Created.

FIVE COMPANIES that are making fuel from algae now.

A LIST OF THE National Book Award Nominees.

REASON TV: John Mackey’s Conscious Capitalism: The Whole Foods CEO on health care, veganism, and free markets.

This is an excerpt. Full-length interview is here.

CLAYTON CRAMER on the Supreme Court, gun control, and the Fourteenth Amendment.

OUR DOGS WILL GET new cancer drugs before we do. Plus this: “I’d like to see a change in US Food and Drug Administration policy where people with just a few months left to live should be free to try drugs that are currently in stage I trials or even drugs which have only been tried on other animals. If you are going to die then you should be free to try anything. If I had several months left to live due to cancer I’d rather try experimental drugs even if they might kill me sooner. If the result was simply to rule out the further use of an otherwise promising drug as least I’d die for some constructive purpose.”

CAN YOU TELL IF SOMEONE IS DANGEROUS by looking at their face?

INTERESTING: Why Texas Will Resist the Call for a Unified Grid.

MERIT-BASED PAY CUTS for academics? Well, for me to be overpaid is definitionally impossible, but that’s not true for others . . . .

SCIENTISTS MAKE DESKTOP BLACK HOLE.

IN THE MAIL: Richard Epstein on “card check:” The Case Against The Employee Free Choice Act.

STEVE CHAPMAN: Mortgage Madness, Again: The trouble with the Federal Housing Authority’s easy-money policies.

THE BAUCUS BILL: “A Fiscal Fantasyland.”

JENNIFER HENDRICKS: Body and Soul: Equality, Pregnancy, and the Unitary Right to Abortion.

ERIC SCHEIE: Certain Opinions Are Worse Than Torturing Dogs To Death.