MICHAEL BARONE: Sen. Bayh in Danger: A Look At The Numbers.

RAPE VICTIMS VS. PRISON-RAPE VICTIMS. Bill Lockyer was unavailable for comment.

HEH: “Maybe they should have taken the money spent on the plaque and used it instead to pay someone’s rent.”

MICHAEL SILENCE: “Unfortunately, the whole Tea Party thing is victim of the age-old tactic of when you can’t attack the message, attack the messenger. I’m still waiting for the ‘Dog bites Tea Party’ headline.”

JON STEWART MOCKS OBAMA FOR USING A TELEPROMPTER in a sixth-grade classroom.

NICK GILLESPIE: Obama’s Empty Cost-Containment Rhetoric: Should We Call Him Out on It? “To talk about possibly trimming $15 billion (and that’s only in foregone increases to whatever is already being spent) on a budget this size is like an already-broke dinner companion foregoing his third appetizer. It’s not gonna help much when the bill comes due.” But read the whole thing.

And where’s that “Net Spending Cut” we were promised?

THE TRUTH BEHIND THE TEA PARTIES.

I’M LOOKING AT THE MAN IN THE MIRROR.

Krauthammer: Obama Forgot Option 3 – “Mediocre 1-Term President, & That’s What He’s Been Thus Far.”

My favorite of these photoshops, though, is this one.

FARHAD MANJOO: Why hasn’t the Obama administration lived up to its webby promises?

I KINDA HOPE NOT: “Could Harrison Bergeron be to 2010 what John Galt was to 2009?”

RADLEY BALKO: Ruining Kids In Order To Save Them? The boneheaded logic behind treating “sexting” teens as child pornographers.

THE “ELLIE LIGHT” LETTERS and some recent history.

SO WHERE WAS THE GAME CHANGE DIRT WHEN IT MATTERED? Real Journalism Isn’t About Selling A Book.

ED DRISCOLL: Event Horizon.

IRA STOLL: Kudlow For Senate?

PAUL CASSELL: Mirandizing the Christmas Day Bomber — Why?

ENJOY: “Fear the Boom and Bust” — a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem.

WELL, GOOD: Study: Seniors Have Rewarding Sex Lives. “Senior citizens often have rewarding sex lives, according to new research aimed at revealing the nuances of sexuality in the elderly. The findings from a set of studies showed that older men between the ages of 57 and 85 are more likely than older women to be sexually active and open. The intimacy of sex, however, was found to be important to both men and women across all ages.”

THE EMERGING free market consensus.

RACIAL VIOLENCE? 30 Asian Students Beaten at South Philadelphia High School.

AT SCOTUSBLOG, an interview with Barry Friedman, author of The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution.

PETER SUDERMAN: The Democrats’ Five Stages of Grief Over Health Care.

CINDY MCCAIN experiences gratitude for her tolerance.

PATTERICO: Newspaper Editors Begin To Address Pro-Obama Astroturfing.

MARCHING FOR religious freedom in Egypt.