VIDEO: ANDREW BREITBART FORCES PRESIDENT OBAMA’S PROTESTERS TO FOLD UP SHOP. “Breitbart brings the protest to a complete halt by cleverly asking sign holders to do the impossible: explain the placards they were carrying. In the end, the frustrated organizers abruptly end their protest and leave.”

THE CONSENSUS WAS WRONG: ULCER TRUTH WAS HARD TO STOMACH. “Back in 1984, a young Australian doctor called Barry Marshall swallowed a nasty-tasting solution of bacteria. This was no accident. He did it to convince his peers that his suspicions about a highly prevalent disease were not as far-fetched as they thought. . . . Yet we now know that Marshall was right. After downing his bacterial concoction, he soon became far more ill than he had expected, vomiting and developing stomach inflammation. Later studies confirmed the theory. His discovery made it possible for millions of people to be cured of their ulcers with antibiotics, instead of having to take acid-reducing drugs every day.”

WHEN IN PARIS, BE SURE TO EAT AT . . . the Courtyard by Marriott?

FOUND: Genes That Make Kids Smart.

UH OH: Proof: New Records Show DOJ Lied About New Black Panther Dismissal. “A FOIA request reveals contradictions in statements made to Congress, the Civil Rights Commission, and to the public. Some of these statements were made under oath.” (Bumped).

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Carnahan brother gets $100 million in stimulus cash.

DEMOCRATS PLAN TO ATTACK THE TEA PARTY? Yeah, that’ll work. Heck, with the Tea Party outpolling Dems and Republicans — and with even the often-vilified Sarah Palin outpolling Obama 52-40 — that’s almost as good as being attacked by a millionaire who dodges taxes on his yacht. . . .

TOWN HALL QUESTIONER TO OBAMA: “I’m Exhausted Of Defending You.” “I’m one of your middle class Americans. And quite frankly, I’m exhausted. Exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for.”

Video at the link.

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey comments:

She’s hardly alone in worrying about a return to the “hot dogs and beans” days for middle-class Americans, because many people have begun to realize that this is indeed the new reality under this administration’s economic policies. Apparently, that’s not the change for which she voted in 2008, but as many of us predicted, it’s the change Obamanomics delivers every time it has been tried. Instead of defending Obama, perhaps she should spend her time looking for alternatives in 2010.

Indeed.

TOYOTA DROPS, BUT STILL TOP AUTO BRAND.

RAND SIMBERG: Gillespie Versus Chait, On Deficits. “And it’s Nick in a knockout. . . . How can federal revenue increase when we cut taxes? The answer is that we didn’t cut taxes. We increased taxes. What we cut was the tax rate.”

COLLEGE RANKINGS from Newsweek.

FEDS WANT YOUR INPUT in creating new fuel economy labels.

MAKING ICELAND a nation of plug-in vehicles. Well, if the levelheaded people of Iceland are interested in this, it can’t be some sort of speculative bubble.

UPDATE: Rand Simberg emails: “While your sarcasm about their immunity to bubbles is well taken, Iceland is probably one of the few places where this makes sense, given their abundant cheap electricity from geothermal.”

AT OVERLAWYERED, A ROUNDUP: The Continuing Exploits of RightHaven.

AVOIDING the many hazards of junkyards.

IN THE MAIL: Rules for Radical Conservatives: Beating the Left at Its Own Game to Take Back America. Helen read this and says that it’s very good.

BRUCE BAWER: Whatever Happened To Camille Paglia? She was never the same after crossing swords with Ann Althouse. . . . .

UPDATE: Bored with it:

The problem is that the whole sexual identity thing is worn out and trite.

How long can you beat on that shit?

Feminist and gays have been pounding on that bullshit for 40 years.

Wasn’t that interesting to begin with.

In other words, hipsterism is dead and exhausted. Time for something new. Like, maybe, traditional John Wayne values.

Now that would be radical, in ways that go beyond the obvious.

CHEERY NEWS FROM TIM CAVANAUGH: “Next Time Somebody Says ‘This is the worst meltdown since the Great Depression’ and You Think ‘That’s bullshit’…”

MICHAEL BARONE: Dems At War: Public Unions vs. Gentry Liberals. “Gentry liberals and public employee unions were allies in the Obama campaign in 2008. But now they’re in a civil war in city and state politics. This raises the question of whether the Democratic Party favors public employee unions that want more money and less accountability, or gentry liberals and others who care about the quality of public services. Right now the unions are winning.”

UPDATE: Related: A Monumental Contest.

ARTHUR BROOKS: The Anti-Government Straw Man. “I resist the conflation of the free enterprise agenda with the GOP. I would like to see the free enterprise culture embodied in the philosophy of both parties. Sadly, I see a lot of statist impulses on both sides of the aisle. . . . Congressman Ryan and I are not anti-government. On the contrary, we are looking for ways to stop the rapidly expanding state from destroying its own legitimacy.” Greedy politicians will ruin anything, if they’re given a free hand.

ERIC SCHEIE: Dowdifying Asimov is bad enough, but kitschifying him goes too far.

THE HILL: Tea Party primary wins give boost to ‘fair tax’ reform proposal. “Primary victories by Tea Party candidates have given a boost to the so-called fair tax, a reform proposal that abolishes incomes taxes — and the IRS — and levies a tax on spending instead.”

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Beyond racism: lessons from the South on racial discrimination and prejudice. “The worst form of insidious racism in America is the institutionalized elite view where they treat African-Americans, including the president, with a patronizing attitude and condescension; where the press so blatantly expresses that the black guy can’t do it on his own, we have to protect him.”

THE FOOD PROCESSOR as savings tool. I’ve never tried making my own mayonnaise. I’m afraid I’d like it too much, and then even Crossfit wouldn’t save me . . . .

THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS WEEKEND:

Troops too flabby for CrossFit?

Does Christine O’Donnell weigh more than a duck?

Victor Davis Hanson: Everything Is A Choice.

Growing calls for a Constitutional Convention.

Walter Russell Mead on why everyone should read science fiction. Plus, some recommendations.

Shades of Evan Thomas’s 15%: Ambinder: Media Will Help Dems Against Tea Party.

Lisa Murkowski: The Face of The Combine.

Why Green And Clean Don’t Go Together.

Some campaigns you might want to get involved in.