POLITICO: Strain shows as White House responds to spill.

A THUG TOO FAR, PART THREE. Plus this, from Big Journalism: As D.C. Cops Fine-Tune Their Story, Where’s the Washington Post On the SEIU Protest At the Bank Of America Exec’s Home? If he were a doctor who performed abortions or a “civil rights” leader they’d be in full-blown have-you-no-decency-sir mode. But since he’s an Enemy Of The Regime, not so much. Still, the precedent has been noted.

THE DANGERS OF easing up on terrorism in South Asia.

“SMART DIPLOMACY:” Syria: Obama has failed in peace efforts and lost influence in Mideast.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: How The Greek Debt Crisis Could Save America. “America doesn’t need a domestic debt crisis. Voters can easily track the one happening with Greece and the EU. Runaway spending. Overpaid civil servants. A loss of confidence. Trillion-dollar bailouts. Falling standards of living. National decline. That all adds up to a pretty compelling case for action in America. And Republicans (along with fiscally responsible Democrats) who want to see true spending reform — of the sort outlined in Rep. Paul Ryan’s Roadmap for America — would do well to frequently mention Greece on the campaign trail. Kind of a ‘don’t let this happen to us’ sort of thing. They should also note that lower spending plus smart tax cuts to boost growth are the best recipe for restoring fiscal order — not massive tax increases which politicians will only divert to more spending.”

RADLEY BALKO: Lessons from the Death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones: How aggressive SWAT tactics contributed to the death of a 7-year-old Detroit girl.

UT LAW STUDENT KRISTI BOGLE auditions for Oprah. If you like her pitch, vote for her.

“LITTLE NOTICED” is the new “unexpected.”

POPULAR MECHANICS: Erik Sofge: Grading the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Improvised Cleanup Tech.

THOUGHTS ON MEASURING Law Faculty quality.

IS SEX AND THE CITY 2 politically incorrect?

THEY’RE WORRIED: Libtalkers Worry Public Outrage Shifting Toward Obama.

DA TECH GUY: “What are the odds that the first person I talk to in Georgia would be from Boston?”

THE ANCHORESS ON TOM FRIEDMAN: “Every murderous totalitarian government of the 20th century began with some insulated group of faux-intellectuals congratulating each other on how smart they are, and fantasizing about how, if they could just install a dictatorship-for-a-day, they could right all the wrongs in the world. It is the ultimate fantasy of the narcissist. And we’ve got whole generations of them, in control of our media and our government, all intent on ‘remaking America.'”

L.A. TIMES: Obama White House probe of Obama White House finds no Obama White House impropriety on Sestak.

I WANT TO PARTY WITH YOU COWBOY COWGIRL!

PJTV: The Week In Blogs.

FROM JACOB SULLUM, AN IMPORTANT MEDIA MATTERS CORRECTION: Obama Is Not Beholden to Big Corporations. He Is Beholden to the Executives of Big Corporations. So there. Plus this: “The next time a Republican is accused of being excessively cozy with a major corporation, I’m sure MMA will pedantically respond that, in point of fact, Sen. Moneybags has never received a dime from that company, since all the donations came from its employees.”

Plus, from the comments: “I’m glad to see that Media Matters is coming around to the free speech point of view expressed by the majority in Citizens United v. FEC!”

OBAMA’S KATRINA (CONT’D): Gov. Bobby Jindal Rips Obama, Feds For Slowness On Oil Spill. “We’re not waiting for them.”

DEVAL PATRICK: Opposing Obama is seditious. They told me if I voted for . . . Oh, hell, this is getting too easy.

HALF-PRICE MARKDOWNS on coolers.

QUESTION: Is Chicago’s Mayor Daley guilty of ‘terroristic threats’?

COMING SOON: Electric-car ringtones. I want mine to make that bleebling sound from The Jetsons. Plus, from the comments: ‘Let’s hope for pushrod v8 burble as an option on the Nissan Leaf.” Heh.

TECH TICKER: Is Obama Getting a Free Pass on the BP Oil Disaster?

VIDEO: Professor booed at Arizona graduation for criticizing immigration law.

I think we’re seeing another preference cascade.