LANDSPEEDER U.A.V. completes first liftoff.

COAKLEY REPORTER ASSAULT UPDATE: Dem Staffer Apologizes For Shoving Weekly Standard Staffer.

CAR LUST: “The Chariot” from Lost In Space.

PETER SUDERMAN: “Remember in the campaign when Obama promised that, as president, he’d ‘finally challenge the special interests’ on health care? Turns out that just as he was promising to challenge them, he was also piling up donations from the health care industry.” He meant, “I’ll challenge them to dig deeper in their wallets.”

STILL MORE ON THE COAKLEY REPORTER ASSAULT, from Mike Flynn.

PANIC IN MASSACHUSETTS? Or Massachussettes, whatever.

POLITICO: President Obama’s Political Arm Under Fire. Does he have a non-political arm?

CATO: Obama’s Prescription for Low-Wage Workers: High Implicit Taxes, Higher Premiums.

TELEVISION WATCHERS DIE SOONER? Perhaps sitting for extended periods is bad for you — I can believe that. On the other hand, perhaps people who just don’t feel very good are more likely to watch a lot of TV. In which case the TV-watching is a marker, not a cause, of underlying problems.

UPDATE: Reader Barry Krakow, a physician who heads a sleep-disorder clinic, writes:

TV is a marker. Patients with more severe sleep problems watch more tv because they lack the energy to trigger their natural motivation to do something more active. We see this problem all the time in sleep medical centers, and as you would expect for lots of reasons, sleep disorders decrease longevity. One of the most remarkable things to see in our clinical practice is the patient, who after less than two months of treatment, abandons the boob tube and heads for the gym, golf course or a run around the neighborhood. Sleep medicine is a very rewarding field, almost a form of near instant gratification!

Sleep deprivation is an underappreciated problem.

MOTOR CITY MAIDENS: A gallery of Detroit Auto Show booth babes.

TIME FOR A CHANGE? IRS Commissioner Does Not Do His Own Taxes Because of Complexity of Code.

MORE ON THE COAKLEY REPORTER ASSAULT, from Dana Loesch.

UPDATE: More here. “The fact that people who work either for or with the state’s Attorney General feel free to commit assault and battery on a reporter should tell Massachusetts voters all they need to know about Coakley and her views on public accountability. . . . You know, a state Attorney General should be the person to enforce the law — especially, as this photo shows, she witnessed the assault and battery . . . .”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Two questions for Coakley.

MORE: Coakley blames phantom “stalkers.” And I love this: “Coakley said she is not ‘privy’ to the facts surrounding the incident involving reporter John McCormack last night, who wrote about the episode outside the Sonoma restaurant in Washington, D.C. in an online dispatch titled: “We Report, We Get Pushed.” The Wall Street Journal reported the Coakley fund-raiser at the Sonoma restaurant in Washington, D.C. was put on by health care industry lobbyists.”

Not privy to the facts? There’s a picture of her standing right over McCormack. This kind of talk puts me in mind of an entirely different sort of privy . . . .

STILL MORE: Assailant Was a Coakley Staffer on Loan from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee?

MORE ON RELIEF EFFORTS FOR HAITI, where things seem to be looking worse the more news filters out.

UPDATE: Haiti: How To Help.

THE “DEATH STAR:” Somewhat overrated.

WHITE HOUSE THREATENS another Inspector General?

MICHAEL TOTTEN: An Interview With Christopher Hitchens, Part II.

WHY IT’S WORSE THAN THE ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS SCANDAL: How The White House Used Gruber’s Work To Create The Appearance of a Broad Healthcare Consensus.

UPDATE: Reader Matthew Tanner writes: “That Gruber piece you linked to is quite compelling, all the more so coming from Jane Hamsher. She’s not ordinarily my cup of tea, but she’s really done her homework here and shown, beyond any real doubt, that the Administration willfully portrayed a ‘hired gun’ as a disinterested expert. To be sure, Gruber may genuinely believe everything he has said or written, and I presume he is a very smart guy. But for him — and the Administration — to so clearly conceal the very relevant fact that he is a retained consultant for the Administration — cannot be chalked up to an innocent oversight. And if these guys will hoodwink us on that, what won’t they try to hoodwink us on?”

IN THE MAIL: From David Walker, Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility.

“PROGRESSIVE PRICING:” Coming Soon To A Nation Near You.

QUINNIPIAC: Obama’s Approval drops to 45%. Rasmussen was just a bit ahead of the others, as I suggested.

Related: “When voters were asked in a CNN/Opinion Research survey published on Tuesday to rate Obama’s performance since taking office, 48 percent judged it a failure, and 47 percent saw a success.”

CHUCK SIMMINS HAS CONTINUING UPDATES ON HAITI, including places you can donate to support relief. And here’s more from Tyler Cowen.

BILL WHITTLE INVESTIGATES: Islamist Infiltration into the U.S. Government, Part II. Intelligence agencies fearing DOJ prosecution more than terrorists?

FROM MARTHA COAKLEY, a non-reaction to thuggery.

MICHAEL BARONE: Obama’s Rapturous Style vs. Tea Party Substance.

A BRITISH PERSPECTIVE ON AMERICA. (Via John Bohstedt on Facebook).