MORE BILL MEANS MORE SAVINGS! Byron York: That 1,990-page Democratic health care bill? It’s longer now; includes new government controls.

JON HENKE: What Did NY-23 Mean?

NEWS FROM FLORIDA: What happened when Florida instituted a government-run insurance option in response to rising property insurance premiums? The public option wound up “displacing private insurance.” No surprise.

KENNETH ANDERSON ON politically biased international law. No surprise, of course, but disturbing anyway. And, also of course, what goes around tends to come around . . . .

I HAVE A PIECE IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL TODAY: Media Criticism: Chicago Style. On The Innocence Project, Chicago prosecutors, and the Obama White House.

CHRIS DODD UPDATE: A bumpy ride for Democrats. “Five-term Sen. Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut remains on the toss-up list as a result of the sweetheart mortgage loans he received from Countrywide Financial. The Senate ethics panel cleared him of wrongdoing, but the Countrywide investigation has been reopened by the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, which keeps the damaging issue alive. Former Republican Rep. Rob Simmons is leading him in the polls by five points.”

MORE ON NY-23, from Roger Kimball.

RICH KARLGAARD: Will The Entrepreneur Boom Miss The U.S.?

A NEW POLITICAL MOVEMENT? David Harsanyi: Free-market populism is a political movement with staying power.

IS IT 1993? Or 1938?

GATEWAY PUNDIT: Rallying The Troops In DC. I’m interested to see how this turns out.

WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE: But congrats on their ten-year anniversary.

TOM MAGUIRE: Are there manly virtues? I loved this bit: “Manned up? So is the White House saying that Weiner is acting like a woman or a gay? And which one does our White House find worse?”

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION.

L.A. TIMES: So much Obama damage control, that David Axelrod even talks to Fox News. So I guess they really are desperate — it’s not even a “real” news channel!

SARAH PALIN’S BOOK IS BACK UP TO NUMBER ONE. Interesting.

ANNIE JACOBSEN: Federal Air Marshal on Trial for Rape in UK.

MICKEY KAUS on ObamaCare and “Spiritual Health.”

OH, GOOD GRIEF: 11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama.

“DRAINING THE SWAMP” — With a $6 billion slush fund.

TALKING ABOUT THE ELECTIONS over at The Hill.

WARREN BUFFETT: Tax Hypocrite?

AT AMAZON, a sale on science fiction and fantasy DVDs.

GATEWAY PUNDIT: Team Obama Opens New Organizing for America St. Louis Office… Tea Party Breaks Out. That keeps happening.

MEGAN MCARDLE ON NORTH AND SOUTH IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY: “As long as social issues dominate the Republican Party, they will continue losing their north–I had a lot of relatives who at least considered voting for Obama. Ironically, I wonder if the tea parties won’t help bring the two wings of the Republican party together: guns and lower government spending are the two things all members can agree on.” Sounds almost . . . libertarian!