IN PENNSYLVANIA: With Obama Underwater, Toomey Leads Specter.

WHY DON’T PRO-TAX TAXPAYERS pay more taxes?

SOMEBODY SHOULD PUT ONE OF THESE IN FRONT OF THE CAPITOL: Or maybe MSNBC’s offices. Nah, that’s not fair. At MSNBC, they do it for love.

STEPHEN GREEN: Obama’s Nuclear Policy: What, Me Worry?

MAXINE WATERS: “Riot is the voice of the unheard.” Remember this . . . if there’s ever a Tea Party riot.

THE SURPRISING POPULARITY of Trial By Ordeal.

TUNKU VARADARAJAN: How Obama Is Weakening America. Jimmy Carter is invoked. “So one wonders—as Putin embraces Chavez and Karzai plays host to Ahmadinejad; as Russia asserts the right to repudiate any nuclear-arms reduction treaty and China gives us the bird on the yuan; as the alliance with India languishes and the one with Britain experiences unprecedented atrophy; as Israel expresses acrid disagreement with us and Japan seeks to rip pages out of its postwar rulebook—what all the pragmatism has really, truly accomplished… …other than give our delighted adversaries a free pass and our friends a very rude wakeup call.”

BYRON YORK: Dems dread Supreme Court fight after elections. “Democrats have only themselves to blame for any nervousness they are now feeling. They are the ones who, as the minority party in 2003, brought the filibuster foursquare into the judicial nomination process.” Of course, while a Supreme Court fight after the elections poses one sort of problem, a Supreme Court fight before November — or even a Supreme Court vacancy — would cause others. . . .

WELL, NOW THAT HE’S ADMITTED IT, LET THE LAWSUITS BEGIN: Chopra Blames Own Meditation for Baja Quake.

IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IT YET, take 4 1/2 minutes to watch this video from Bill Whittle. Then send it to some friends. (Bumped).

“FAKE MACHO.” Not around here. I don’t even pretend to care about sports. Except for women’s beach volleyball, and no one doubts the sincerity of my interest there.

More here.

UPDATE: Reader Michael Brendzel writes: “The weirdest thing about his ChiSox filibuster was how he defaulted to non-sensical, class-warfare divisiveness (e.g., White Sox fans are blue collar and Cubs fans are over at Wrigley sipping wine). It may be that Obama defaults to that tactic whenever he wants to distract from the fact that he doesn’t know a thing about the subject at hand.” Yeah, that was kind of odd.

STOP ME before I steal again.

TELL ME ABOUT IT: Knoxville is Number One! — for allergies.

MICKEY KAUS: Backlash Against Big Labor: If It’s Happening in New Jersey …

NEW YORK TIMES: You know, those “death panel” things aren’t such a bad idea. Well, kinda. (Via Reliapundit).

TRIFECTA: 17: The Number of Minutes it Took Obama to Answer Whether or Not We’re Taxed Too Much. Without, you know, answering.

OOPS: Video: Unprompted Huffington attack on Giuliani fails epically.

FAILED STATE: California’s $500 Billion Pension Time Bomb.

SUCKERS: Foreign Ownership of U.S. Debt Continues to Grow.

AP: Black Tea Partiers Take Heat — from black Democrats.

But I love Hot Air’s headline: AP discovers that black tea party members exist. Heh.

And if you missed it before, here’s Zo responding to lefty hatemail.

UPDATE: Related, from Clarence Page: “President Barack Obama’s election has inspired a record number of African-American candidates to run for Congress this year. What’s surprising is that they’re running as Republicans.”

ANN ALTHOUSE POSTS PICS from the Tea Party Express’s stop in Madison, Wisconsin. “There were about 300 people there, with various flags and signs. No violence. No epithets. Just a lot of people opposed to socialism.”

And Laurence Meade sends this pic.

SOME ADVICE ON iPad etiquette.

A SEX TOY STORE for Muslims.

MARKDOWNS ON outdoor watches.

I WIN OVER ANOTHER ONE: Dodd Harris emails:

Your most recent post over the weekend about portable video finally pushed me to order that Flip MiniHD I’ve been considering. I got this one (2nd Gen 120 min model) for $178.00.

It arrived this afternoon (ah, Amazon Prime, how I love thee!). 5 minutes out of the box it had installed and upgraded its own software and was charging. Once I’ve played with it some (i.e., April 15) I’ll send an update, but if its other functionality is half as elegant as getting it setup, I know I’m going to be very, very pleased with it. And, as a 40+ type who remembers the bulky, heavy, hugely expensive video cameras of the 80s, the size, price, and storage is nothing short of astonishing.

Indeed. And small video cameras are essential Tea Party equipment, necessary to beat back bogus charges from dishonest critics . . . .

UPDATE: Reader John Kranz emails:

Professor Reynolds

I laughed at your “I win over another one” post.

I bought a Flip on your good counsel last year and used it to film the first tea party I attended.

Then I got to thinking… I started using it for short music videos, and started a “virtual coffeehouse” with some old band members.

I have MS and had stopped playing both because my playing was off and I could no longer really navigate gigs. The virtual coffeehouse is low-rent and non-lucrative even by the standards of my career. Yet I have had a blast and started playing again which has really picked up my mood.

It has almost been a year since I started posting (I just embed on YouTube and use blog software). I have not made my goal of every week, but almost.

You don’t even sense your own powers, do you?

I get a vague idea, now and then. . .