CHARLIE CRIST SUED for return of donations.

MOCKING Al Gore’s reported taste in make-out music.

DAN RIEHL SAYS THE GOP IS BLOWING IT: “The DNC gets new media in ways the GOP still refuses to embrace. It’s intent on controlling the narrative, while the DNC is more interested in fueling constituent and blog-based activism from the Left. Democrat-aligned parties have also funded the mechanisms to accomplish it. You can go to even deeply Red districts and find an activist infrastructure on the Left, often blog-based. Meanwhile, GOP campaigns pay consultants to send out annoying spam emails to every blogger under the sun.” That does sound right to me.

UPDATE: Reader Matthew Bowdish writes:

I completely agree. I am a physician incensed about ObamaCare and I have given more money to Republican candidates this year than ever before. I have also repeatedly offered to personally help two Congressional campaigns here in Colorado, without even a peep back from either campaign. One of my colleagues in Michigan told me that she had the same experience. Yes, they are perfectly happy to send us fundraising emails every two days…But why not take advantage of people who are very educated on the health bill and motivated to assist them in fighting those who voted for ObamaCare?

They’re afraid of losing control.

RADLEY BALKO: Confirmation Theater: Elena Kagan is set to participate in a confirmation process she once dismissed as a charade.

CRITICIZE A KLANSMAN, get attacked from the “left.” Well, a lot of “blue Texans” were Klansmen, back in the day, so it makes sense. . . .

ANN ALTHOUSE IS blogging the Kagan hearings.

UPDATE: From the comments:

Interestingly enough in the last several years there have been four big SCOTUS cases which IMHO, really define our freedoms and personal liberty Kelo property rights; Citizens United free speech; Heller 2nd amendment and now McDonald.

I hear a lot from liberals about how the right wants to curtail freedoms, we’re fascists yet when I look at where the liberal Justices ruled or dissented in those aforementioned cases I think it’s pretty clear who are the real curtailers of freedom and liberty.

After all when the State can take your property, restrict your political speech and disarm the populace, you really don’t have much left in the way of freedom.

I’d like to know what Kagan’s opinions are on those cases.

Me too, though I think I can guess.

SHOCKER: Who Pays The Taxes.

MARKDOWNS ON ice cream machines.

STEPHEN GREEN’S HAIR OF THE DOG: A Nightmare On Libertarian Street.

POLITICS: Obama Postpones Tax Talk Until After Election.

MEGAN MCARDLE is back from her honeymoon and blogging up a storm.

THE SECOND PHASE OF the great American disillusionment.

CRAZED SEX POODLE DUCKS MEDIA IN SAN DIEGO: And the real story: “If Al Gore were a Republican he’d have an army of media tailing his every move. But since he’s a hero to the left he gets to avoid even having to respond to allegations he’s an out of control crazed sex poodle.” I guess the word’s gone out on Journolist to give him a pass. Plus, you don’t want to lose the big game.

TUNKU VARADARAJAN PREDICTS: Kagan Will Sail Through.

HOPE: “Americans socked away more savings in May than at any time since September, as they continued to be cautious spenders, according to government data released Monday. According to the Commerce Department, the personal savings rate in May — the part of every paycheck that goes unspent — rose to 4 percent, the highest amount in nearly a year, as worried consumers saw stocks tumble in the United States and debt problems spread across Europe.”

Plus this: “Personal income in May rose by only 0.4 percent, which was less than expected. More worrisome is the fact that almost all the wage growth is coming either from the government — via temporary census jobs, which will end when the decennial count concludes in the fall — or from businesses that have received government stimulus funds. In short, very little growth is coming from the private sector.”

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MCCAIN-PALIN, we’d have women who were okay with book bans in high office. And they were right.

REPORT: Scott Brown “has listened to his constituents” and will definitely vote “no” on financial reform.

JIM TREACHER on what Al Gore is raising.

CALLING VOTERS NAZIS IS USUALLY A BAD ELECTION MOVE: Claire McCaskill Forced to Apologize for Aide’s “Brownshirt” Comments. Note the ubiquitous video camera angle. But I’m pretty sure that picture of McCaskill has been photoshopped. . . .

WHY ARE HIGHER ED COSTS SO HIGH? Retired, then rehired: How college workers use loophole to boost pay. “Greg Royer ranks among the state’s top-paid employees, with a salary of $304,000. But that’s just part of his income. For nearly seven years, he’s also collected an annual pension of $105,000. Royer, the vice president for business and finance at Washington State University, tops a long list of college administrative staff members who’ve been able to boost their incomes by up to 60 percent by exploiting a loophole in state retirement laws.”

Note that he’s an administrator . . . .

CONVENIENT AMNESIA: Shocker! Obama Political Director ‘Forgot’ He Was on SEIU Payroll Last Year.

I’LL BET MARK STEYN HAS ALREADY SEEN THIS: U.S. Childlessness Up Amid Demographic Shift.

TOM SMITH: “This is really bad. I know it’s a cliche by now, but if anything remotely like this had happened in the Bush administration, every legal worthy you can think of would be on about it, and rightly, until no one could stand it anymore.”

I guess the lesson is, if you want scrutiny of Executive Branch actions, vote Republican. . . .

RICK SANTELLI GOES NUCLEAR: “Stop spending, stop spending, stop spending!”

CHICAGO COP likes the McDonald decision, mocks Daley Administration. “Give it up Shanks – we can’t protect everyone all the time and you are actively seeking to create more casualties as the city spirals into Detroit II. Give law abiding citizens a fair chance to defend themselves, their loved ones and their property.”