DETROIT NEWS: Climategate panel: Are green auto rules based on flawed science?

BACKING OFF ON THAT 2007 NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE: “U.S. intelligence agencies are quietly revising their widely disputed assertion that Iran has no active program to design or build a nuclear bomb. Three U.S. and two foreign counterproliferation officials tell NEWSWEEK that, as soon as next month, the intel agencies are expected to complete an ‘update’ to their controversial 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, which concluded that Tehran ‘halted its nuclear weapons program’ in 2003 and ‘had not restarted’ it as of mid-2007. The officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss sensitive information, say the revised report will bring U.S. intel agencies more in line with other countries’ spy agencies (such as Britain’s MI6, Germany’s BND, and Israel’s Mossad), which have maintained that Iran has been pursuing a nuclear weapon.”

As I noted before, the purpose of the National Intelligence Estimate was to paralyze us until after the elections. It worked. Some . . . searching inquiry into how that came about, however, might be worthwhile.

Meanwhile, Ron Rosenbaum’s demand for pundit apologies is likely to remain unanswered.

MICHAEL GRAHAM: Brown Supporters: The Most Motivated Voters Ever? “I’ve never seen anything like it. . . . People are begging for stuff to do, and the campaign can’t keep up with the demand. On Saturday, driving between Ashland and Littleton, I saw more people displaying home made signs than printed ones.”

REPORT: An Anti-ObamaCare Protest in Troy, Michigan.

And reader Martha Philipp writes (well, actually, she wrote last night) from Wisconsin:

I just got back from a tea party in Racine, WI. I am not good at judging numbers but I heard estimates of between 2000 and 3000. It was about 25 degrees and cloudy. The crowd and the speakers were cold but fired up. Massachusetts is carrying the torch but Wisconsin has their back. It was cold enough that I had some trouble with my camera. Here is a shot that turned out.

Just in case you thought all the action was in Massachusetts.

UPDATE: But there’s a lot of action in Massachusetts, too. Synnove Bakke posts on Facebook: “Scott Brown had 6000 volunteers from out of state show!! Atmosphere is amazing and the people are so fired up!!”

INDEED: “If only the media had as much contempt for lying, thieving, corrupt politicians as they do for sports stars who use steroids.”

NO TRIAL BY JEWRY.

PREDICTING THE GOLDEN GLOBES with Google.

COLBERT KING: Peter Orszag strays from President Obama’s prescription for responsible fatherhood.

If it became known that a Cabinet-level official in George W. Bush’s administration — a divorced father of two — was the father of a baby born out of wedlock to an ex-girlfriend, and that the official had announced his engagement to a woman he met while the ex-girlfriend was pregnant, do you believe for one second that reporters, and not just gossip columnists, wouldn’t be having a field day?

Of course they would. Especially if Bush had moralized about family and the need for men to be present in the lives of their children. Opinion writers would be all over Bush if they thought he was deliberately ignoring the aide’s behavior.

Let, however, the absentee daddy of a love child turn out to be an Obama administration official with close ties to Washington’s political and intellectual elite and the media, and the affair is treated as a source of brief amusement and no big deal.

Read the whole thing. And note this:

On that Father’s Day, Obama was in a black church talking to men in the African American community.

Do those views also apply to Peter Orszag, I asked?

Reader reaction varied, but I was struck by the apologists for Orszag.

See, “moral” issues are only for beating up on Republicans. That’s all there is to it. “This week, I contacted the White House for Obama’s views. I’m still waiting for a response.”

MEDIA HYPOCRISY MATTERS FOR AMERICA.

FROM STEVEN BARNES, a review of Daybreakers.

I’m pretty tired of vampire stuff. But I’d really like to see someone make a movie out of Fred Saberhagen’s The Dracula Tape. Not sure Hollywood could pull it off, though. Too bad.

UH OH: Hotline: MA SEN Shows Similarities To ’09 VA GOV.

SCOTT BROWN FOR SENATE is calling for volunteer attorneys.

RECESSION? Sears.com is trying awfully hard.

“GLACIERGATE?” IPCC Claims That Himalayan Glaciers Will Disappear By 2035 Are Melting Away. Another “Emily Litella moment.”

HAROLD FORD, JR. starts a “listening tour” in New York. Hmm. That sounds kinda familiar . . . .

QUOTE OF THE DAY, JOHN YOO EDITION: “I’ve spent my whole career learning to settle down unruly college students who have not done the reading.”

ANN ALTHOUSE: Let’s take a careful look at what Martha Coakley said about abortion and religious freedom. “She’s a lawyer, and she ought to know that Roe v. Wade — along with other abortion cases — does not require services. There is a world of difference between having a right to do something and having the power to make other people do things for you as you try to exercise that right. If you don’t know the difference between those two things, you don’t understand how rights work. Other people have rights too. Refusing to perform an abortion is not a violation of the constitutional right to privacy.”

Plus this: “Tomorrow, the (purportedly) honey-tongued Barack Obama comes to Massachusetts to promote Coakley. I hope he submits to questioning and is asked what Pittman asked Coakley. Presumably, his position is the same, and presumably, he can say it in a less ‘wow’-eliciting way. But the truth is out, and his words — however elegant — can be distilled into the straight, stinging You can have religious freedom. You probably shouldn’t work in an emergency room.”

I wonder if anybody will ask him about this?

BURYING THE LEDE: “So I’m a Mac guy now.”

CHAOS: Anger at US builds at Port-au-Prince airport. Where’s Gen. Honore when you need him?

AT AMAZON, up to 45% off small appliances.

ALFONZO RACHEL REPORTS FROM MASSACHUSETTS: The Coakley-Brown Race Has Surprises the MSM Won’t Show You.

MOE LANE:

The White House press pool is being given the mushroom treatment; and they know that they’re being given the mushroom treatment. But they don’t want to respond appropriately – which is to say, stop letting Robert Gibbs define what are or are not appropriate questions to ask. Until that happens – and the press corps internalizes the notion that Gibbs and the administration needs them a hell of a lot more than they need Gibbs and the administration – they’ll keep getting the mushroom treatment.

I’d be sympathetic, except that elections have consequences.

They expected to be lied to. They just expected the lies to be . . . better.

UPDATE: Much more from Ed Driscoll.

WALTER SHAPIRO HAS OVERDOSED ON CABLE NEWS. But don’t worry. It was for science.

MILES O’BRIEN: This Week In Space.

MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: The Incredible Incompetence of Martha Coakley: The race for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat gets weirder—and tighter—by the hour.

Ah, just more grumbling from a Yankee fan.