PJTV: Lord Monckton’s Complete Tax Day Tea Party Address: Al Gore, Where Are You?

READER C.J. BURCH SENDS this link and comments: “Ailes and the rest should be concerned that the tea parties are very disappointed in them. That should be their concern.” Indeed. Fox treated its fans shabbily.

BOB OWENS: ‘Left’ Behind: Tolerance and the Tea Party.

Plus, Zombie reflections from Orit Sklar.

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE: “It was inevitable that the government would go after one of the big investment banks for their conduct during the run up to the credit crisis. Someone must be thrown to the lions so that the polis are distracted from the role their government played in the fiasco.”

COPS GETTING CAUGHT ON CAMERA.

I had a column on this a while back.

DAVID BOAZ: Are Libertarians Anti-Government?

VIDEO: Most Spectacular Sun View To Date.

WHO KNOWS THEIR Batman trivia?

PJTV: Rep. Jeff Flake shares his worst earmark story.

BARACK OBAMA AS GEORGE W. BUSH: Life Imitates Art.

CLEANUP ON Gate Eleven.

BOB CORKER DOESN’T WANT TO PAY for AARP’s palace. “I’ve been by it several times. It makes the best of the embassies look like cottages.”

AMERICA’S WORST NIGHTMARE: Sexually functional men?

THE NEW CURRENCY is obedience.

Meanwhile, remember how the left went crazy over Ari Fleischer’s advice to “watch what you say?” But now Bill Clinton is comparing Tea Partiers to Tim McVeigh and proffering rather Fleischeresque advice. Maybe Clinton should watch what he says, when it comes to branding large numbers of nonviolent Americans as terrorists. But this statement serves as a useful reminder to those who have come to think of Clinton as some sort of cuddly, not-so-bad figure. He was a demagogue who would say whatever he thought might work when he was President, and he still is.

PLANS for a do-it-yourself Kegerator.

VIDEO: 5 Axis Robot Carves Metal Like Butter.

ANDREW KLAVAN: The Long Way Home For The Tea Party. Republican politicians remain “out of sync with this movement,” says Andrew.

KELLY O’DONNELL asks a dumb question, gets a simple answer.

MICHAEL YON ON GENERAL MCCHRYSTAL: “This War Is Above His Head.”

IN THE MAIL: From Charles Stross, The Trade of Queens.

INTERESTED IN FISHING? Check out The Itinerant Angler, a site run by one of my former students.

FROM THEODORE RICHARD: Reconsidering the Letter of Marque: Utilizing Private Security Providers Against Piracy.

FROM MEREDITH BRAGG, a story about cheese, and free enterprise.

THE “UNEXPECTED UNEMPLOYMENT” CHART OF THE DAY. It’s hilarious, except for, well, you know . . . .

Downside: “We’re not seeing any improvement at all after the loss of so many jobs in the crisis period. We’re seeing stagnation at high levels of unemployment, and despite a massive hiring binge at the Census Bureau, the numbers aren’t improving in the private sector at all. Maybe the media analysts should get their ducks in a row and start reporting on reality.”

A REPORT FROM THE New York Tea Party.