DUTCH GOVERNMENT WANTS TO tax online media to fund print.

HEALTHCARE: Sauce for the People is Sauce for the Politicians. “We should create a legal requirement that political elites have to use the same system they foist on everyone else. They should have to wait for hours in doctors offices. They should have to wait weeks or months for test. They should be fobbed off on emergency rooms if they get sick over the weekend. They should be denied any hail-mary test , medications and procedures. They should get the entire politically-managed health care experience. This standard should extend to all elected officials, political appointees and their immediate family. Such a law would create a built-in feedback loop that would prevent politicians from ignoring the health of the people.” And special treatment should be a felony, enforceable by private prosecution . . .

HMM: Researchers Expand Clinical Study of Brain Implant.

IT NEEDS TO BE RESILIENT AND RESISTANT TO HACKING: The Plan to Build the Next Electric Grid.

HMM: Treasuries Decline After Fed Keeps Size of Purchases Unchanged.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES. Well, I guess this sort of thing was inevitable.

OH, GOOD GRIEF: Sanford admits affair, apologizes to family. “Gov. Mark Sanford admitted today that his secret trip to Argentina over Father’s Day weekend was to visit a woman he is having an affair with.” With that sort of judgment, I guess we should be glad he didn’t get any closer to the White House. . . .

UPDATE: Priorities.

ANOTHER UPDATE: The Anchoress is not amused. “I am not without compassion, but Gov. Sanford just handed the whole nation a crap sandwich that the press will chew on for weeks and weeks, while they ignore other – much more pressing and meaningful – stories. And in that way, we are all injured.”

More here, including press conference video.

MORE: Advice to the Republicans.

SAYUNCLE corrects Lamar Alexander.

MORE PROTESTERS SHOT IN IRAN: Gateway Pundit has a roundup.

JOE HICKS: Sotomayor and Holder: Racists or Racialists?

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Dodd Flu Pork Puts Vaccine Development In Hands of Financially Risky Firm. “Dodd’s strong support for the Protein Sciences Corporation should lead to serious questions about how the company received the contract considering its financial troubles, and more importantly, whether this huge investment is simply the government dropping more taxpayer money into another distressed company that won’t be able to produce. Only difference, this time, our lives and those of children could be at risk.”

ERIK SOFGE: Six Future Mods For Our Minds and Bodies.

IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR HUMANITY: Get Smarter.

OUR FRIENDS, THE SAUDIS: “Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family, but the material may never find its way into court because of legal and diplomatic obstacles. . . . Kristen Breitweiser, an advocate for Sept. 11 families, whose husband was killed in the World Trade Center, said in an interview that during a White House meeting in February between President Obama and victims’ families, the president told her that he was willing to make the pages public. But she said she had not heard from the White House since then.”

WIRED: Consumers Boycott Nokia, Siemens for Selling To Iran. “According to the Journal, a system installed in Iran by Nokia Siemens Networks — a Finland-based joint venture between Nokia and Seimens — provides Iranian authorities with the ability to conduct deep-packet inspection of online communications to monitor the contents and track the source of e-mail, VoIP calls, and posts to social networking sites such as Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. The newspaper also said authorities had the ability to alter content as it intercepted the traffic from a state-owned internet choke point.”

THE SENATE ETHICS COMMITTEE: A black hole where investigations go to die.

The committee never took action in the case of former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), despite abundant evidence that an oil contractor rebuilt his house and gave him other gifts never reported on his financial disclosure forms. The overturning of Stevens’ guilty verdict — owing to prosecutorial misconduct — does not erase the Ethics Committee’s dismal failure to police what seems an obvious violation of Senate rules.

More than a year ago, the committee got a complaint from CREW concerning unusually favorable mortgage terms accorded Sens. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) by the now-defunct Countrywide Financial. Not a word has been heard about that probe.

Dodd is also the subject of a complaint, filed in April by yet another watchdog group, Judicial Watch, growing out of his purchase of — and apparent profit on — property in Ireland from the business partner of a person convicted of stock fraud for whom Dodd secured a pardon.

I’m not expecting much.

THE FUTURIST: Eight Ways to Supercharge the US Economy. My favorite: “6) Make Tax Day One Day Before Election Day.”

SHANNON LOVE: The Illusion of Government Competence.

AUSTIN BAY: Ballistic Missile Defense Dependence Day. “Call this coming July Fourth Dependence Day — the day marking prudent and responsible America’s realization that we do indeed depend on the diplomatic power and technological capability of anti-missile defensive systems. . . . North Korea’s July Fourth ‘test’ is an overt threat to the United States and, in the context of Pyongyang’s threat to end the Korean War armistice, is arguably an act of ‘renewed war.’ That means we must prepare for offensive action. But defensive capability gives us other options, and in that light is a remarkably useful tool for protecting peace.”

CHEERY ECONOMIC NEWS: Warren Buffett to CNBC: U.S. Economy In “Shambles” .. No Signs of Recovery Yet. Guess that stimulus didn’t save us as promised.

SO IS THIS A BUG, OR A FEATURE? Galactic Colonization Limited By The Inability To Expand Exponentially.

FROM MITSUBISHI: An all-electric car and a plug-in hybrid.

DANNY GLOVER: Fiscal Leaders Don’t Fire Inspectors General. “The federal government needs aggressive and independent watchdogs to hold bureaucrats accountable for how they spend money. If Obama wants to be a fiscal leader, he needs to stop making empty gestures and protecting political allies like Kevin Johnson. He also needs to get out of the way of the watchdogs who serve as the best check against waste, fraud, and abuse.”

TAX REFORM IN MAINE: “A new law rids the state of its progressive tax system, which carried a top rate of 8.5 percent, to be replaced with a 6.5 percent rate applying to just about everyone. Those making above $250,000 will still have to pay slightly more—6.85 percent.”

SEA LAUNCH FILES CHAPTER 11. “Sea Launch is owned by Boeing and partners in Russia, Norway and Ukraine. The company launches satellites from a seagoing rocket platform that sails from its home port in Long Beach to the equator. It also offers land-launches from Kazakhstan.”