MATT WELCH AND ANN ALTHOUSE on Bloggingheads TV.

BIG GOVERNMENT: Canadian border guards to check iPods for infringment.

L.A. TIMES: Polls: Americans’ verdict: Obama’s healthcare debate was not really about their health at all.

DAVE KOPEL: Is the tax power infinite? “Americans today are not bound to meekly accept the most far-ranging assertions of congressional power based on large extrapolations from Supreme Court cases that themselves come from a short period (the late 1930s and early 1940s) when the Court was more supine and submissive to claims about centralized power than was any other Supreme Court before or after in our history. American citizens, in the political process and in their personal lives, will ultimately have the final word on the Constitution.”

JONAH GOLDBERG: The Reality of ObamaCare. “Insurance companies are now heavily regulated government contractors. Way to get big business out of Washington! They will clear a small, government-approved profit on top of their government-approved fees. Then, when healthcare costs rise — and they will — Democrats will insist, yet again, that the profit motive is to blame and out from this Obamacare Trojan horse will pour another army of liberals demanding a more honest version of single-payer. The Obama administration has turned the insurance industry into the Blackwater of socialized medicine.” I think that’s unfair to Blackwater . . .

MATT WELCH: Bailing Out Big Brother. “Media criticism goes from rebelling against media oligarchs to handing them a lifeline.”

MICHAEL GRAHAM’S That’s No Angry Mob, That’s My Mom: Team Obama’s Assault on Tea-Party, Talk-Radio Americans hits bookstores this week. Very timely.

RASMUSSEN: Obama enjoys “modest bounce” from passing healthcare, but is still underwater: “Overall, 48% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) disapprove.” That’s pretty close to what this CNN poll shows, for whatever that’s worth. All pretty much as I predicted.

WHEN YOU BLOG, SOMETIMES YOU SAY THINGS YOU DON’T REALLY MEAN. AND THEN YOU SHOULD APOLOGIZE.

So, yes, I apologize to prostitutes everywhere for comparing them to Congress. It was a hideously unfair slur, and I never should have said it . . . .

NEWS FROM L.A.: What Politics Looks Like in a Union-Run World That Has Run Out of Money.

THE PERFECT lemon tart.

PJTV: Descending On DC: What the protest looked like from Capitol Hill.

PROBLEMS FOR DOJ: Why Holder’s Congressional appearance is being delayed.

MICHAEL GRAHAM: Pal, calling this mess “ugly” is like saying Tiger Woods has marital problems.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: ObamaCare is “Faith-based Deficit Reduction.”

JIM TREACHER trolls his own readers. Well, some of them. . . .

POLITICAL HUMOR in the Roosevelt era.

A LOOK AT ObamaCare’s Immediate Impact.

WASHINGTON POST HIRES DAVID WEIGEL to cover the right.

ILYA SOMIN: Legal Action and Political Action as a Two-Track Strategy for Opposing Obamacare.

ROGER SIMON: Healthcare: The House Votes Itself A New Credit Card.

YOU THINK? Jay Cost: ObamaCare Is Politically Vulnerable.

A TALE OF TWO TEA PARTIES: Prof. Chris Kobus writes:

Glenn – people here are ticked off and rather than tucking tail, came out fighting today. First up was a tea party right in front of Gary Peters’ office at noon:

Then another in front of a hospital in Royal Oak where a petition drive was begun to put a ballot proposal together for a Constitutional amendment to exempt Michigan from ObamaCare.

Incidentally and appropriately, signatures are due July 5th – right after independence day.

I think we’ll see more of these.

JONAH GOLDBERG: “Culture wars as far as the eye can see.”

REIHAN SALAM: PREPARED FOR FAILURE. “The Democrats already have their excuse ready when their health-care reform falls short. The solution, of course, will involve more spending.”

UPDATE: Reader C.J. Burch writes: “All the really professional con jobs work this way.”