IN THE MAIL: Stretching Anatomy. The Insta-Wife has been doing some of these stretches and says that they help.

MY SUNDAY WASHINGTON EXAMINER COLUMN IS UP: Tea Party dominance was inevitable — and I told you so.

MORE MOMENTUM FOR the “Repeal Amendment.”

IF YOU MISSED IT ON SIRIUS/XM SATELLITE RADIO, the latest PJM Political is now online.

SWEDEN: The Newest Red State?

IF YOU MISSED IT BEFORE, you might want to check out Bill Quick’s disaster-prep discussion forum.

Related: Post-Apocalyptic Survival Gear.

HMM: Newspaper: Feds investigating W.Va. Democratic chairman.

FETISHIZING THE SUPREME COURT: It’s a natural tendency for people who worship centralized authority.

OBSCURANTISM:

Kate Zernike of the New York Times describes how tea-party activists explore “dusty bookshelves for long-dormant ideas” and study “once-obscure texts” by “long-dead authors.” She is of course referring to Friedrich Hayek, whose book The Road to Serfdom was excerpted in Reader’s Digest and never has been out of print, whose Nobel Prize for economics in 1972 celebrated the importance and mainstream acceptance of his thinking, and whose death in 1992 isn’t exactly ancient history.

If they didn’t learn it in college, it’s “obscure.” Which, alas, merely highlights the inadequacy of their educations. (I, on the other hand, took a semester-long seminar on Hayek in college.) At any rate, the “obscure” Road to Serfdom is currently #56 on Amazon.

Related: Stuart Schneiderman: Who’s Smarter Now?

UPDATE: Reader Michael Costello writes: “How long has Karl Marx been dead? And Friedrich Hayek outlived Saul Alinsky by 20 years.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: OUCH:

If I had said a day ago that your typical New York Times reporter doesn’t have the vaguest sense of what the rule of law means, I would have heard from all sorts of earnest liberal readers — and probably some conservative ones too – about how I was setting up a straw man. But now we know it’s true. It’s not just that she doesn’t know what it is, it’s that even after (presumably) looking it up, she still couldn’t describe it and none of her editors raised an eyebrow when she buttered it.

The claims of superior intellect on the part of the legacy media seem unfounded.

MORE: Reader Jim Bass writes:

Since Kate is so clueless about Hayek, she can take a remedial course by watching “Commanding Heights.” The full series is here for her enlightenment on PBS’s website safely away from dusty bookshelves.

Learning through TV may work best here, though no doubt it would be more persuasive if it came from Jon Stewart . . . .

PROFILES IN COURAGE: Rendell: Dems were ‘too scared’ to hold tax cut vote before campaign recess.

BITES FROM THE APPLE: First impressions of the new Apple TV.

NOT FOLLOWING THE TALKING POINTS: New York’s Democratic Governor Paterson Praises Tea Party, Says It Rejects Extremism.

CROWD ESTIMATE: ‘One Nation’ Rally: Liberal Media Concludes Size Doesn’t Matter. A.P. says it was significantly smaller than the Beck rally, and the pictures certainly seem to agree. Other outlets, however, are less . . . rigorous.

UPDATE: Here’s a crowd estimate of 50,000.

KENNETH ANDERSON: Drone Warfare as Force Protection, and Drones as Strategic Air Power. “The long-term question of drones is whether they are going to remain a remarkably useful weapon in support of a large variety of missions in different ways, or whether instead the US decides to try and leverage them into something much more strategically radical — the new strategic air power. In other words, the latest iteration of a very old dream, the ability to win wars from the air. But this time with a twist.”

HOW TO tax the millionaires and billionaires away. And once they’re gone, the rest of us will be rich!

WELL, YES: Earth to Beltway: It’s the uncertainty, stupid. “The real problem, however, is that people don’t know what the rules will be in the future. So, they don’t know whether to have confidence or not.” But the uncertainty is what makes it fun to the waterbugs flitting around our government.

SEXUAL DOUBLE STANDARD: “There’s no doubt that she made a huge, gigantic mistake by actually even going near a computer with this stuff, but we can’t help but think what would’ve happened if it was a guy who wrote this about the college girls he slept with. Lawsuits? Oh, you betcha. That boy would be paying for it for the rest of his life.”

UPDATE: Reader John Richardson writes:

Regarding the author of the F thesis, I wonder if her parents now think the $50,000 a year that they spent on her Duke education was worth it. If all she wanted out of college was to sleep with a bunch of jocks, wouldn’t it have been cheaper to have been a minor league baseball team groupie a’la Bull Durham (also set in Durham, NC)?

Or at least attend a state school. I hadn’t thought of the higher education bubble connection here!

JEFFREY ANDERSON: A Constitutional Amendment To Limit Spending. “To regain control over our government and its reach, we must limit its spending. And to limit its spending over the long-haul, we need a Limited Government Amendment. Would such an amendment really make that much of a difference? It would make a colossal difference.”

MARKDOWNS ON Men’s Shirts.

CHANGE CAN BE SLOW.

CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: In Partisan Hearing, Democrats Attack Proprietary Colleges for Profiting While Students Fail. Stupid for-profit colleges. It’s not like traditional nonprofit schools do anything like that.

GREENWALD VS. SULLIVAN: Who’s an apologist for torture and assassination? Ah, remember the fierce moral urgency of change?

VIDEO: The One Nation March in DC.

UPDATE: Religious Zealots March on DC, Nostalgic for Long Forgotten Past.

THOUGHTS ON “DIRTY JOBS” FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TECHNICAL SCHOOL whose enrollment is “overflowing.”

WE’VE BEEN WARNED: “Unfortunately, there is no indication that the Administration is listening.”