MORE FROM THE HYPOCRITES AT MEDIA MATTERS: WaPo: David Brock defends use of undisclosed donors after Media Matters blasted right for doing same. Well, hypocrisy is the least of their sins.

AUSTIN BAY: The Korean War Continues.

JIM TREACHER: The TSA wants you to know they’re not thugs, which is why they’re confiscating your camera. If they’re innocent, they should have nothing to hide. Right?

MICKEY KAUS THANKS ALEX PAREENE for pointing out his prescience.

JOHN PODHORETZ ON the TSA furor: “When populist issues bubble up and take government officials by surprise, it’s often a sign of how profoundly out of touch the politicians and the people who work for them are getting. It happens to every administration. Reagan had Bitburg in 1985; Bush the Elder had his note card reading, ‘Message: I Care’; Bill Clinton had midnight basketball; George W. Bush had Dubai Ports World. What happens when these things blow up is that the government is so busy talking to itself and concerning itself with its own internal deliberations on policy that it forgets how these things might look or be experienced outside the executive branch. They lose the benefit of the doubt. And once that is lost, it’s very hard to get back.”

CHANGE: Fed lowers economic expectations for 2011.

DREAM ACT SPECULATION: Much ado about nothing?

UNIVERSITY SPEECH CODES, reborn as “anti-bullying” rules?

THE DEFICIT — IT’S JUST MONEY WE OWE TO OURSELVES! As Of Today, The Biggest Holder Of US Debt Is Ben Bernanke.

I know it’s silly, but I kinda like the idea of sticking old Ben with the tab. But I’m pretty sure he’s not the sucker here . . . .

KEVIN WILLIAMSON: Should Republicans Raise The Debt Ceiling? “Advice to Republicans: You had better hold out for some real spending cuts. You can already see the outlines of a deal shaping up in Washington, one in which Republicans give in on the debt ceiling in exchange for Democrats’ agreeing to extension of all the Bush tax cuts. That’s a bad deal for Republicans, and for anybody else who cares about fiscal discipline: It’s a bad deal for Republicans because, unless they do something stupid, they’re going to get their way on the Bush tax cuts, regardless.”

READER BILL MCLANE EMAILS: “So what are we to do if Obama decides that this Korea thing could be a perfect thing with which to turn his ratings around? Like bomb them and become a war president? Like get us into a tussle with China? Do you think he is above this sort of calculation?” No, and the lefties who are criticizing my earlier post aren’t above turning on a dime and praising his “courage,” either.

UPDATE: A reader suggests that the above is too cynical. I’m not sure I’m capable of being “too cynical” these days. But a hedge-fund reader sends this:

One of the most popular parlor games on Wall Street for the last year has been to guess the where, not if, of an Obama military strike.

Naturally, Korea was on everyone’s list, along with Iran, Pakistan (loose nukes?), and Venezuela.

My favorite dark horse is Mexico: It’s a drug war/human smuggling/oil reserves trifecta!

I’m ruling out Venezuela. Mexico, alas, is in its own very depressing category. The others are all good candidates — heck, Obama talked about invading Pakistan during the campaign.

JOSHUA GREEN: White House Haplessness, Summed Up in One Sentence.

VOTER FRAUD: Milwaukee voter fraud conviction makes ACORN’s 2010 total at least 15.

WELL, THAT IS TROUBLING: Remember when you watch this… Whoopi is the smart one on “The View.” Of course, technically Arabs are white people, but that just spoils the narrative even more . . . .

TPM MUCKRAKER: Former Obama Advisor, Aide To NJ Dem, Arrested On Child Sex Charges.

JOHN HINDERAKER ON RICHARD COHEN: Who’s Ignorant? “This is one of those sentences that make you wonder whether the Washington Post has editors.”

TSA WORKERS: No Fatties, Please:

‘It is not comfortable to come to work knowing full well that my hands will be feeling another man’s private parts, their butt, their inner thigh,’ one told the BoardingArea blog.

‘Even worse is having to try and feel inside the flab rolls of obese passengers and we seem to get a lot of obese passengers!’

Hey, you can always quit. Or file a “hostile environment” claim.

WAR PRIMER: The current Korean conflict.

IT’S RAND SIMBERG VS. LOU FRIEDMAN on space exploration vs. space settlement.

IT’S BIG BANGS ALL THE WAY DOWN: Was the Big Bang Preceded by Another Universe (Which Was Preceded by Another Universe)?

REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A ROUNDUP OF BOOK REVIEWS FROM ALL OVER.

VERONIQUE DE RUGY: Here is what our future looks like if we don’t cut spending dramatically.

ALAN BOYLE: Will searches ever catch terrorists?

Related: TSA Has Met The Enemy — And They Are Us.

MEOW: “I’m picking up a real female-against-female vibe in this clip. It’s not just what the women say and how they say it, it’s the way the men sit back and maintain steely silence.”

Plus, from the comments:

If 30 years ago you had been asked “Will the US first have a black president or female president?” what would you have said?

I would have said “Female”.

And now, I know I was wrong, and the reason why is because black people really, really, wanted to vote for a black guy for president.

Indeed.

FASTER, PLEASE: Growing A Replacement Human Trachea In The Lab. “Using the cartilage of a donor trachea to form a scaffolding the stem cells from the nose and bone marrow of a 19 year old girl were grown on the cartilage scaffolding and then the new windpipe was implanted as a replacement for a cancerous trachea.” Grown from the patient’s own stem cells.