PAUL MIRENGOFF: Whatever Happened To The Obamacons?

JUSTICE: DOJ STIFLES NEW BLACK PANTHER PROBE, RIGHTS SUBPOENAS BLOCKED. “The Justice Department has told the federal attorneys who filed a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party for disrupting a Philadelphia polling place last year not to cooperate with an investigation of the incident by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. “

NGO AID ORGANIZATIONS AND ARMS MERCHANTS using the same planes?

THIS KIND OF THING JUST KEEPS HAPPENING: DNA clears man jailed 25 years for rape, murder.

OH, GOOD GRIEF: Unwitting tourists attend White House breakfast. “The White House is once again explaining how uninvited guests wound up shaking hands with President Barack Obama.”

The country’s in the very best of hands.

POLITICO: Tea Partiers rally: ‘Kill the bill’. “I’ve never seen so many attractive domestic terrorists in all my life!”

RON BAILEY: Battle Between U.S. and China Threatens Climate Conference.

PAPER: San Francisco The Worst Run City in the U.S. “It’s time to face facts: San Francisco is spectacularly mismanaged and arguably the worst-run big city in America. This year’s city budget is an astonishing $6.6 billion — more than twice the budget for the entire state of Idaho — for roughly 800,000 residents. Yet despite that stratospheric amount, San Francisco can’t point to progress on many of the social issues it spends liberally to tackle — and no one is made to answer when the city comes up short.”

MARKDOWNS ON grills and outdoor stuff.

STIMULUS: Shocker: Pork boondoggle costlier, less useful than first presumed.

A REPORT FROM TODAY’S Code Red ObamaCare protest.

PJTV: Roger Simon on The Real Copenhagen: Hippies, Goofballs and Climate, Inc.

WAR AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY (CONT’D): Photographer arrested at mall after taking holiday photos. Judging from this report, he should sue the Town Center Mall in Charleston, whose behavior was obviously unreasonable, and he should seek discipline regarding officer R.C. Basford. Perhaps he settle for a written apology, and a promise to train personnel to respect photographers’ rights.

IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME: Media Matters Morphs Into One-Stop Fisting Information Clearinghouse.

BRUCE BAWER ON HOMOPHOBIA IN “LIBERAL” NORWAY: “One thing I have learned in my ten years here is that the so-called liberality of this part of the world is skin-deep. There is a big difference between the official acceptance of gay people and the treatment gay people receive when they dare to wander out of a very tiny urban area. I have never experienced this kind of treatment in the United States, not even in the Southern states, which so many of my gay friends here in Norway are so scared to visit, because they think those states are so dangerous for gay people.”

GHOST-BLOGGING AT ANDREW SULLIVAN’S? When I have guestbloggers, they get their own bylines — and I don’t have any regular “staff” checking emails, running down links, etc. It’s just me and the readers and scheduled posts. I do ask Stacy Tabb and Aaron Hanscom to watch for typos when I’m going to be offline for a while, but that’s it. From now on I’ll wonder what on Andrew’s blog is Andrew’s. I’m pretty sure all the Trig-truther stuff, anyway . . . .

IT’S REALITY, IT’S JUST NOT REALITY-REALITY.

JONAH GOLDBERG IS REMINISCING ABOUT Crack in the World. The screenplay was by my University of Tennessee colleague John Manchip White, who also coauthored a book with Robert Conquest, What To Do When The Russians Come: A Survivor’s Guide. It was about how to survive the transformation of America into a communist state, based on experiences in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Can you imagine worrying about America going communist? Those were scary times. Fortunately, that chapter in our history is over for good.

BILL WHITTLE, SCOTT OTT, STEPHEN GREEN: The B+ President.

INSULATION IS “SEXY:” “Eh. Ugh. I don’t know whether to be bored or indignant.”

GIFT RECOMMENDATIONS for everyone on your list.

TEST-DRIVING A plug-in Prius.

DAN MITCHELL: Deficits Are Bad, But The Real Problem Is Spending.

AL GORE: Wrong about mosquitoes?

A REPORT FROM TODAY’S anti-Obamacare protest outside Claire McCaskill’s offices.