STEVE CHAPMAN: Dying People Shouldn’t Have to be Beggars: It’s time to consider the economics of organ transplants.

REASON TV: Saving Cleveland With Drew Carey: Part 2 — Fix The Schools.

INDEED: It’s Time For Republicans To Up Their Game.

HEALTH CARE NIGHTMARES:

Worst case scenario for Democrats: a wave of public outrage like the one that followed Cat Care, aka The Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 (and its step-child, the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Repeal Act of 1989). This strikes me as quite likely, actually. If this passes, yes, you will have AARP support and a wave of positive coverage from 90% liberal media. These things did not save Cat Care from a wave of angry public protest. I mean, really angry. Who knew senior citizens could be that spry?

That’s Representative Dan Rostenkowski being attacked at a town-hall meeting with his constituents. Afterwards, he plaintively asked his press officer how long it would be before the media foofaraw blew over. “Let me put it this way,” the flack is said to have replied. “When you die, they will play that clip.”

MOE LANE: TNR should just Embrace the Hate, already.

WHAT DO DETROIT, THE POSTAL SERVICE, AND HEALTH CARE “REFORM” HAVE IN COMMON? Fewer and more expensive services, corruption, and inefficiency.

FREE TRADE: A jobs program that works.

JIM TREACHER: The Science Is Settled.

SHOCKER: Obama agencies invoking secrecy provision more often than under Bush. “Major agencies cited that exemption to refuse records at least 70,779 times during the 2009 budget year, compared with 47,395 times during President George W. Bush’s final full budget year, according to annual FOIA reports filed by federal agencies.” They told me if I — oh, hell, you know the rest.

CAN RAHM RAM IT THROUGH? Stephen Green’s Hair Of The Dog.

EDITH GROSSMAN on why translation matters.

PRACTICAL LEGAL EDUCATION and the new job market.

HOW IGNORANT ARE JOURNALISTS? This ignorant.

SLATE PROFILES ANDREW BREITBART. “Breitbart is a pundit scientifically calibrated to piss off liberals. . . . For Breitbart, bringing down the mainstream media isn’t just a crusade. It’s practically a civil rights issue—only more fun.”

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE: “People should not fear their government, their government should fear the people.”

TIM CAVANAUGH isn’t seeing many green shoots.

ELITES, NEW-CLASS THEORY and the critique of the wholly-administered society.

THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY, if you can’t be in DC.

AND PURELL ISN’T ENOUGH: You’re Leaving a “Bacterial Fingerprint” On Your Keyboard.

ORIN KERR: Why The Eleventh Circuit Is Wrong About Email and the Fourth Amendment.

ARIZONA REP. GABBY GIFFORDS TO CONSTITUENTS: Drop Dead.

MARKDOWNS ON LCD flat-screen TVs.

THE HILL: Stupak: House Dem leaders at least 16 votes short on healthcare reform. I hope he’s right.

DAN RIEHL: “This Coffee Party effort has to be the first grassroots effort I’ve ever seen where just about all the organizers come right out of official Democrat, or Far Left politics.” Actually, I think that’s just because you haven’t been paying attention all along . . . .

THE $2 TRILLION HOLE: Some thoughts on that Barron’s story.