IN THE MAIL: From Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century. Hasn’t that been tried?

JACQUES COUSTEAU’S REAL LEGACY: I’ve got a column in the Wall Street Journal. My argument is that people are paying too much attention to his media role, and not enough to his role as an inventor, which was huge.

THE PARANOID DELUSIONS OF THE EXPERT CLASS: How To Be Your Own Nobody’s Best Friend.

HUGH HEWITT: Obama Is In Over His Head.

DDT UPDATE: Malawi going for DDT to fight malaria.

INEFFECTIVE THUGGERY.

SUSAN ESTRICH: How Obama and BP Have Both Blown It.

IMPORTANT popsicle trend predictions.

DO WE NEED A WHITE HOUSE LITERACY PROGRAM? You can bet that people would be making a big deal out of this kind of thing if it were happening under a Palin Administration.

A NEW MENACE: “Style Bullying.”

NOT-SO-SHOCKING POLL: 62% Say Politicians Want Government to Have More Power and Money. “At the same time, 58% believe that most voters want the government to have less power and money. Only 22% believe most voters hold the opposite view and want a bigger role for government.”

AT POWER LINE: Praise for Barack Obama.

OBAMA PLANS TO KEEP THE HEAT ON BARTON.

But Reihan Salam says Barton was right about “Obama’s Shameless BP Shakedown.”

If they’re smart, Republicans will respond by pointing out how Obama got record donations from BP, while BP got lax treatment from federal regulators. Of course, any sentence about the Republican leadership that beings with “if they’re smart” is probably self-finishing . . . .

FROM 2008, SOMETHING KIND OF PRESCIENT: Is Senator Obama a Rorschach Test?

And note the comments, many of which demonstrate that, as Bill Quick notes, Peggy Noonan and Mort Zuckerman are behind the curve.

CHANGE: Fannie and Freddie tab is $146B and rising. “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac took over a foreclosed home roughly every 90 seconds during the first three months of the year. They owned 163,828 houses at the end of March, a virtual city with more houses than Seattle. The mortgage finance companies, created by Congress to help Americans buy homes, have become two of the nation’s largest landlords. . . . For all the focus on the historic federal rescue of the banking industry, it is the government’s decision to seize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in September 2008 that is likely to cost taxpayers the most money. So far the tab stands at $145.9 billion, and it grows with every foreclosure of a three-bedroom home with a two-car garage one hour from Phoenix. The Congressional Budget Office has predicted that the final bill could reach $389 billion.”

SHOCKER: Sunday Talk Shows All Start With BP Hayward’s Yachting, Ignore Obama’s Golfing.

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