MATT LEWIS: Who are the swing votes for ObamaCare?

VACANT: “The Federal Reserve has quite a few vacancies – indeed, it appears that Obama will soon be able to name a majority of its seven governors.”

THE WORLD’S FIRST commercial brain/computer interface.

MARKDOWNS ON HP Printers.

REASON TV: Pork Party House: Where DC Insiders Go For Taxpayer-Subsidized Fun.

MICHAEL TOTTEN: Romania, Twenty Years After The Fall of the Tyrant. Note that Totten’s supported by reader donations, so if you like his work, consider hitting the tipjar.

Which is pretty good advice for bloggers generally, really! (Bumped).

LAW ENFORCEMENT PRIORITIES IN PHILADELPHIA: Troopers raid popular bars for unlicensed beers: Dozens of gallons seized after ‘citizen complaint.’

More than a dozen armed State Police officers conducted simultaneous raids last week on three popular Philadelphia bars known for their wide beer selections. The cops confiscated hundreds of bottles of expensive ales and lagers, now in State Police custody at an undisclosed location.

The alleged offense: Although the bar owners had bought the beer legally from licensed Pennsylvania distributors and had paid all the necessary taxes, the police claimed that nobody had registered the precise names of the beers with the state Liquor Control Board – a process that requires the brewers or their importers to pay a $75 registration fee for each product they want to sell in Pennsylvania.

Based on a complaint from someone the State Police refuse to identify, three teams of officers converged last Thursday on the three bars.

I’ll bet we’ll learn that this anonymous complainant is more than just a “concerned citizen.” And, really, this is ridiculous.

REASSESSING FHA Risk. “As the Federal Housing Administration edges closer to a taxpayer bailout due to the large number of risky mortgage loans it has insured, it continues to insist that no such bailout will be required. However, a new study from a group of economists at New York University finds that the FHA’s assurances might not be based in reality.”

HAS OBAMA LOST BOB HERBERT? “The Obama administration and Democrats in general are in trouble because they are not urgently and effectively addressing the issue that most Americans want them to: the frightening economic insecurity that has put a chokehold on millions of American families. . . . Instead of focusing with unwavering intensity on this increasingly tragic situation, making it their top domestic priority, President Obama and the Democrats on Capitol Hill have spent astonishing amounts of time and energy, and most of their political capital, on an obsessive quest to pass a health care bill.”

ACCREDITATION: Unwelcome “Help” From The Feds.

RAHM EMANUEL: The Fall Guy?

TOYOTA: Electronics Don’t Rewire Themselves.

REALLY, WORKING WITH CHRIS DODD ISN’T A GOOD IDEA: Dodd-Corker Fed Bill May Contain Left-Wing “Shareholder” Power Grab.

UPDATE: More questions from Erick Erickson at RedState. “Senator Corker, this is bad stuff. Cut it out.”

GOOD: Fresh Evidence of More Water On Moon.

DAVID ZARING CALLS FOR a “reasonable agency” standard.

IN THE MAIL: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls.

JAMES LEWIS: ObamaCare Means A Two-Tier System. “As is true in all socialist countries, there will be one standard of health care for you and me — and then a higher standard for the ruling class.” Yep. The more they go on about equality, the more they produce a system that’s run for the benefit of the nomenklatura.

SOMETIMES A WATERMELON IS JUST A WATERMELON: “So I’ll give Dan Rather a pass. But if we give Dan Rather a pass for the accidental appearance of racism, will anyone who isn’t liberal be given a pass? I know they won’t. That’s the way it is.”

CALIFORNIA tumbles into the sea.

FED AUDIT BITTERLY OPPOSED BY TREASURY.

But supported by Nashville Tea Party protesters!

CUTENESS AND GLAMOUR: Can they coexist?

TIM CAVANAUGH: Kollege Kockup: Something Is Not Right In Higher Ed.

Student loan defaults are up. Graduate performance in the job market is down. Bankrupt states are unable to keep public university employees in the style to which they’ve grown accustomed. Harvard’s endowment got wiped out by future White House economic advisor Larry Summers.

Yet for-profit colleges are booming, and their students are pulling down ever greater sums in federal grants and guaranteed loans.

Read the whole thing, but note this: “The higher education bubble is even more inflated than it was a year ago. . . . The pain of deflating this bubble is being felt most acutely in the California public university system, where an impossible mandate (to provide a free, quality college education to everybody) can no longer be sustained, but where the consumers have been so completely shielded from actual costs for so long that the only real solution is for the system to collapse. But the whole country is headed in that direction.” Uh oh.

A TOYOTA TAKEDOWN timeline.

DO-IT-YOURSELF HOMELAND SECURITY: Flight attendants press for hand-to-hand combat training as anti-terror measure.

A BUNCH OF Blu-Ray markdowns.