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INSTAVISION: I talk with Michael Barone about Scott Brown’s victory, about the future of the Tea Party movement, and about who’s next to face voters’ wrath. Even Barney Frank is looking vulnerable. And note that I’m wearing a brown coat . . . .

UPDATE: Reader C.J. Burch writes: “This was very good. But you know the really interesting thing here? The tea party basically told the RNC you will not run Dede What’s her name. In the end, they didn’t. The tea party told the RNC you will support Scott Brown, and in the end they had to. That is very significant, I think. I’m betting that Florida is going to turn out the same way.”

NICK GILLESPIE AND MATT WELCH: Three Reasons Why The Dems Are in Big, Big Trouble. And One Reason Why They’re Not.

IN POPULAR MECHANICS, I WRITE ABOUT Lessons for U.S. Preparedness From Haiti Relief Efforts. (Bumped, because this stuff is important).

SEEING PAST one’s nose.

MICKEY KAUS: “It’s a Mini-festival of bitter excuses over at Ezra Klein’s Twitter feed.”

SHOCKING NEW DATA: Housing industry takes two “unexpected” hits in December.

A GRAPHIC LOOK AT media priorities.

JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Fairly definitive proof of media bias.

I actually think “bias” is the wrong word, now. It’s more like “deliberate lying.” The term “bias” suggests that they report things based on their prejudices. But while that’s often true, I think it’s become clear that they report things based on political calculation, and an effort to deceive.

CATO: “This is like Ted Kennedy being elected in Utah.” Lessons from the Brown victory in Massachusetts.

SISSY WILLIS: Social Networking Key To Brown’s Success.

BEST PICTURE BOOKS of the past ten years.

MARY KATHARINE HAM: Press suddenly changing tune on Tea Party Movement. “As of last night, the media have finally started to change their tune on the Tea Party movement. I was shocked to hear Chris Matthews concede that Democrats had not learned to talk to those critical of the administration, to assuage their worries. Perhaps that was partly because their picture of those critics was painted by…Chris Matthews, who called 60-something veterans ‘terrorists,’ and compared peaceful protesters to aspiring Timothy McVeighs. Maybe that had something to do with the lack of engagement.”

SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM: Obama Inexcusable on Gay Rights.

WELL, IT’S NOT A FLYING CAR, but a Stealthy, Personal Tilt-Rotor Aircraft is at least getting close.

HAITI RELIEF? Soldiers told to stop handing out food. “Food handouts were shut off Tuesday to thousands of people at a tent city here when the main U.S. aid agency said the Army should not be distributing the packages. It was not known whether the action reflected a high-level policy decision at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) or confusion in a city where dozens of entities are involved in aid efforts.”

UPDATE: A reader emails that this is common:

The “aid” agencies did the same thing in Afghanistan. Being a logistics specialist, I volunteered to help an American NGO with rebuilding schools, and was on the ground in Kabul in January of ’02. (I later ended up in charge of UNICEF’s warehouse/distribution operation for all of the new school supplies…leaving me with a complete and total disdain for all things UN-related.)

For the NGO community, to be seen co-operating with the US military was the kiss of death. NGO co-ordination meetings specifically warned against co-operation with the US military, as opposed to UN agencies. The supposed reason was that they wanted a clear line between the “killers” and those that were “there to help”. They would actually COMPLAIN that the military was out doing things like rehabilitating wells and such, whining that these were things that should be left to the aid agencies. The irony of the fact that we were all sitting in a meeting, DISCUSSING it, while the US military had already been out DOING it, was completely lost on them.

Sounds like it’s same-old, same-old. Nothing but tools, the lot of them.

Sounds rather unimpressive.

WHO’S NEXT? Obama’s old Senate seat now at risk.

UH OH: FBI Director: I wasn’t consulted on how to charge Abdulmutallab. The country’s in the very best of hands.

PHARMA: Glaxo Offers Free Access to Potential Malaria Cures.

GLUM: “White House: No Events to Mark 1st Year in Office.”

UPDATE: Related: “Obama doesn’t have much experience with political rejection.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Politico: Dazed Democrats Rethink Entire Strategy. “They are in denial no more: If Democrats can lose in Massachusetts, they can lose anywhere. That is the mind-set that will shape the next nine months for Democrats. It will affect who runs for reelection, who bolts on big votes, who gives money and who speaks out against Obama.”

ERIK SOFGE: Why Hyper-Realistic Robots Aren’t Creepy.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Democratic Reaction Richter Scale.

UPDATE: Heh.

BIG BROTHER in the backcountry?

AND NOW FOR THE REALLY IMPORTANT NEWS: The 2009 Law Prof Blog Traffic Rankings.

WITH THE MASSACHUSETTS MIRACLE, remembering Dean Barnett.