IN THE MAIL: Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour.

BYRON YORK: Holder hasn’t revealed Justice Dept lawyers who defended Gitmo detainees.

JULES CRITTENDEN: Bitter Ironies.

BEST WEEK, ever?

RASMUSSEN: 61% Say It’s Time for Congress To Drop Health Care.

UPDATE: Related: Financial Times: White House Nightmare Persists.

REPORTING ON HAITI RELIEF FROM TEAM RUBICON. You want it done right, send a Milblogger. Here’s their blog. I donated a hundred bucks the other day. (Bumped).

HUFFINGTON POST: Can Harold Ford Survive New York’s ‘Angry Gays?’

SIGN OF THE TIMES? BK to open Whopper Bar to sell beer with burgers.

ASTEROID DEFENSE: Bigger, Better Telescopes Needed to Find Near-Earth Asteroids.

HEH: Deadbeat Dad Flees Country.

A ONE-DAY-ONLY treadmill markdown. Or you can just follow the Cougar Diet. Rrrowr!

TRANSPARENCY: Justice Department Refuses to Release New Black Panther Party Documents Despite FOIA Request.

Plus, the “nut” question arises.

ILYA SOMIN: Should People Acting through Corporations be Denied Constitutional Rights Because Corporations are “State-Created Entities”? “On this view, the government would be free to censor the New York Times, Fox News, the Nation, National Review, and so on. Nearly every newspaper and political journal in the country is a corporation. If the Supreme Court accepted this view, it would have to overturn decisions like New York Times v. Sullivan and the Pentagon Papers case.”

UPDATE: A victory for free speech.

HAROLD FORD UPDATE: Powerful Brooklyn Democratic Chair Thinks Harold Ford Jr. Is Smooth Like That.

A NEW BLACKLIST: Oakland Mayor to Theatre Board Member — ‘Do you now or have you ever supported traditional marriage?’ Good grief.

NEW YORK POST: “President Obama seems intent on destroying Wall Street — and, with it, New York. Amazingly, the state’s congressional delegation appears quite happy to let him.”

Plus this: “Just three years ago, Schumer was frantic about New York’s fragile position in the global marketplace: “If New York goes from being the financial capital of the world to becoming only a regional market,” he said, ‘every aspect of New York life will suffer.’ He was right, of course. But in the wake of the Massachusetts revolt, the senator stands mute while Obama suddenly waxes populist. Gillibrand? She’s in favor of Obama’s hit on New York. ‘Nuff said about her.”

Seems like a perfect opening for Harold Ford, Jr. . . . And if you vote for him, you can oppose Obama without being a racist! Some related thoughts here.

EVERYONE COMES TO KNOXVILLE: Heather “Dooce” Armstrong signs on with HGTV. Actually, I don’t think she’s moving here, but this is close enough . . .

ANDREW IAN DODGE: What Now For The Tea Parties? I think the very first comment pretty much answers the question. Key bit: “It is likely that Brown is going to be a problem in the future for conservative libertarian ideals, but for the purpose of stopping a train wreck in progress, he is doing what we need now.”

L.A. TIMES: Scott Brown’s Senate win tied to dissatisfaction with Obama, Washington and federal activism.

DOCTOR ZERO: WHY THE MIDDLE CLASS IS FRUSTRATED:

The middle class is the great enemy of collectivist politics . . . Only they have the combination of voting power, money, and economic self-interest to see the growth of government as undesirable, and provide effective resistance. They generally view their interactions with government in a negative light – they’ve all spent time in the Department of Motor Vehicles mausoleum, spent hours wrestling with tax forms, or been slapped with a traffic citation they don’t think they deserved. They understand the inefficiency and emotional instability of government, and instinctively resent its intrusion into their lives. . . . The middle class is a vast group in a capitalist society, which is one of the things collectivists really hate about capitalism. Its upper reaches include the entrepreneurs and small business owners that bring economic vitality. Virtually every aspect of Obama’s agenda is designed to injure or burden small businessmen, and this is no accident.

Read the whole thing.

AIR SAFETY: Full-body scanner catches cell phone, misses bomb on German TV.

READER JOSEPH TRISCARI WRITES: “This appeared in the Friday edition of the Tucson newspaper. Amusingly, the editors were complaining earlier this year about a lack of civility among tea party attendees.”

JIM GERAGHTY: Obama’s Train Wreck of a Town Hall in Ohio. “Today in Ohio, it seemed like the president was way off his game. But I thought he was defensive, prickly, almost indignant that he’s found himself in the tough spot that he’s in. . . . I realize he’s using it to justify a new tax on banks, but I think ‘we want our money back’ is a dangerous chant for a man who so steadily expands government spending.”

HEH: Video: GE/MSNBC political commentator pretty upset about political influence of corporations.

OUCH: Conrad Black: Incompetent Obama teeters on the edge. “He is increasingly perceived as having credibility problems and of being cold, cocksure, narcissistic and intoxicated by what he modestly called ‘the gift’ of his own articulation. And as president, he has been quite, and quite surprisingly, incompetent. . . . It has been a year of fecklessness, amateurism, and posturing. Less that is useful has been accomplished by this president in his first year than by any president since Herbert Hoover.”