WHAT HAPPENS WITHOUT A TELEPROMPTER: “He then spent the next 17 minutes and 12 seconds lulling the crowd into a daze.”

UPDATE: Kerry Roberts: “I just timed myself. I can say ‘no, it was not wise’ in under two seconds. Next question, please…”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Roger Simon is worried about the President.

FROM STEPHEN GREEN, it’s The Week In Blogs. “How bad is the new healthcare law? It has politicians running away from the cameras.”

I BLAME THE VIOLENT EXTREMIST RHETORIC of Democratic politicians and press: Another GOP Office Attacked in Ohio–-Window Smashed. It’s like Kristallnacht all over again!

GOVT. HEALTHCARE: From too big to fail, to too big to nail. Well, they’re practically part of the government now, so naturally they should be above the law.

WOULD IT BE FAIR TO SAY THEY’RE NOT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, THEY’RE JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE? Well, no. But it would be less unfair than it might have been, now.

NAOMI WOLF: “Obama has done things like Hitler did.” Meanwhile, Michael Moynihan evaluates Wolf with phrases like “monumentally stupid.”

GROWTH OF UNPAID INTERNSHIPS possibly illegal?

ARIZONA: Sonoita ‘tea party’ is standing room only. Here’s a Flickr album.

IF YOU MISSED IT THE OTHER DAY, check out my interview with Georgetown Law Prof. Randy Barnett on the constitutionality of ObamaCare.

THE POLITICS OF STIMULUS SPENDING: A roundup on the Veronique de Rugy / Nate Silver debate.

Plus this: “At this point, there are precious few people who are willing to pretend that the stimulus has achieved anything other than more red ink. Indeed, my gut sense (not a regression analysis!) is that Obama’s crew of cracker-jack economists such as Christina Romer, whose academic reputation was made in part by deflating claims about previous efforts at stimulus spending, knows that the economy ain’t going up anytime soon and that when it does it’s not going to be because of weatherizing foreclosed homes in Detroit.”

CAN YOU choose to be a luckier person? Obi Wan Kenobi says, “In my experience, there is no such thing as luck.”

PROSTATE DRUG MAY WORK as a cancer preventative.

On the other hand, there may be heart risks.

IT’S ALL ABOUT CONTROL: “There’s a big epidemic, no, not of sex addiction…
… but of wives deciding their husbands are sex addicts who must get treatment.”

JOURNALISM: CNN’s Scientology reporting should look familiar to St. Petersburg Times readers.

WELL, THAT SEEMS FAIR: Jail for man who broke into woman’s home to frame husband for child porn.

CHARLIE MARTIN on Obama’s Energy Policy: “Watching the Obama administration’s energy policy is a lot like trying to learn stage magic. You have to learn to look where he doesn’t want you to look.”

MARKDOWNS ON portable speakers for iPods and MP3 players.

SO I TRIED OUT AN IPAD TODAY and I’m kinda lukewarm. The iPod touch fits very smoothly into one hand — the iPad, on the other hand, is too big for one hand, but feels a bit small for two. (At least two of mine — the (much) smaller-handed Xeni Jardin liked it fine). I’ll try it out again when there’s more time to fiddle with it, but it just seemed too big for a small device, and not big enough for a big one — I was hoping for something more like a tablet netbook, but it just didn’t come across that way. And netbooks are cheaper, too.

UPDATE: Ann Althouse bought one.

ANOTHER UPDATE: John Dvorak pours cold water on Big Media hopes: “So if you drink the Kool-Aid, you’ll be reading Newsweek and Time and all the dying print magazines and newspapers on the iPad. No matter that you are not reading these journals now. For some unexplained reason you’ll want to read them on the iPad. How does that make any sense?”

MORE: Gizmodo answers your questions.

CNN: Disgruntled Democrats Join The Tea Party. “I should’ve listened a lot closer when he talked about ‘spreading the wealth.’ . . . I feel lied to, cheated and raped.” Well, the Tea Party movement is now mainstream politics.

RASMUSSEN: 53% Now Trust Republicans More Than Democrats on Health Care. “Following the passage of the health care bill, 53% now say they trust Republicans on the issue of health care. Thirty-seven percent (37%) place their trust in Democrats. A month earlier, the two parties were essentially even on the health care issue.” So, when I predicted a “bounce” after ObamaCare passed I was right — I was just wrong as to who would get the bounce!