REVEALED: The Mount Vernon Statement. Notice that it’s heavy on small-government stuff, and light on social-issue meddling. I think this supports the notion of a libertarian shift on the right — which I, of course, am happy to see.

HEH:

“The tasters were surprised,” he writes, “when the results were unblinded at the end of the meal and they learned that in a number of instances they had adamantly preferred Walmart produce. And they weren’t entirely happy.”

Of course not.

DEEP-FRYING FOODS without oil.

MEGAN MCARDLE: “I’m watching Obama claim that it is ‘largely thanks to the Recovery Act’ that the recession didn’t become a depression. I supported the stimulus, and still do. But this claim is ludicrous.”

My days of not taking him seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

IN THE MAIL: From Orson Scott Card, Hidden Empire.

POLITICO: Blue States Reverting To Red. “While off-year and down-ballot elections are inherently different than presidential contests, the rapid reversal in Democratic fortunes in the very places where Obama’s success brought so much attention suggests that predictions of a lasting realignment were premature. And it’s raising the question of whether the president’s 2008 win was the result of a unique set of circumstances that will be difficult for him to replicate again and perhaps downright impossible for other Democrats on the ballot to reprise.”

TEA PARTY HISTORY: PROTESTING IN DENVER, A YEAR AGO. This was the second Tea Party protest, before they were even called Tea Party protests.

VIDEO: Obama on nuclear power, before and after. I like the new position better, so I’m not complaining.

A REMINDER: The enemy always has problems of his own of which you are unaware.

JONATHAN ADLER: The EPA’s Carbon Footprint.

LLOYD MARCUS: The Tea Party Movement Untamed.

MEGAN MCARDLE: “I hadn’t realized, when I wrote yesterday’s post, how many people are emotionally invested in first dollar coverage. To the extent that we’re worried about health insurance coverage, I thought that most of us were agreed that we were talking about the benefits of catastrophic coverage, not this insane scheme we have in the US where catastrophic insurance for the kinds of risks most people can’t finance comes bundled with first-dollar coverage for ordinary treatment of the sort that most people used to pay for out of pocket.” Think of it as a religious belief and it’s easier to understand.

DAVID HARSANYI: So, who doesn’t trust science now?

UPDATE: Tom Friedman prefers his science to be non-falsifiable.

SISSY WILLIS: Susan Bayh and the appearance of impropriety.

ED MORRISSEY: Did Nature misreport the fraud issue with Phil Jones?

THOUGHTS ON film scores and figure skating.

JONATHAN CHAIT CALLS EVAN BAYH A “WUSS,” but Ann Althouse is unimpressed: “Ooh. Chait is angry. Bayh is angry. The Democrats are an angry, angry party now. They won, and then they all got so angry with each other. It’s hard being a liberal. You want so much for so many people, and then you don’t get it. It hurts. It hurts a lot.”

NASA GOES AFTER CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It’s unusual for NASA to attack a critic by name.

TAKING THE BOEING: Hot Air Acquired By Salem Communications. Wow. Hope Ed Morrissey and Allahpundit are getting a raise . . . .

UPDATE: Is InstaPundit for sale, you ask? A better question: Who would buy it?

MY BIG FAT GREEK RESTRUCTURING: Nicole Gelinas: Greece can help itself, and the West, by resisting a bailout.

THE ANCHORESS: Palin blew it on Family Guy. “I think it was simply a trap, and it worked.”

TAXPROF: The Geithner Effect On Taxpayer Attitudes. It’s not pretty.

PAUL MIRENGOFF: “I’ve always kind of liked Evan Bayh, but his hand-wringing about the lack of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill rings hollow.”

CLIMATEGATE UPDATE: The NASA Files. “Chris Horner filed the FOIA request that NASA didn’t comply with for two years. Now we know what took so long.”

WARNING: Federal Reserve Faces Debt Threat.