IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID: Video: Obama Confronted at Pep Rally By Disgruntled Unemployed Worker.

A REPORT FROM THE SAN ANTONIO TEA PARTY:

I would like to tell you about what happened to a small and orderly group of private citizens when we tried to visit the local office of Rep. Cuellar. We were bringing over 300 letters that were urging the congressman to vote NO to the healthcare bill now under consideration in the House. The staff closed the office and left the building in order to avoid meeting with us. In order to make certain that the staff had the letters we had to slide them under the door. I have attached a photo of one of the citizens sliding the letters under the door. . . Notice how this “Radical” is cleverly disguised as middle-aged business man!

They’re tricky that way.

AT AMAZON, it’s the Friday Sale.

IBD: Teague To Vote No; Pelosi’s Margin Now Zero.

WAR AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY UPDATE: Photographers and Police: A First Amendment Clash.

SHOCKER: Federal Employees Bombarded With Obamacare Email Pitches. Is this legal?

HEATH SHULER WILL VOTE NO ON OBAMACARE.

UPDATE: Also Joseph Cao, according to this report.

BOEING COMPLETES DESIGN of shipboard superlaser.

JOE HICKS: An ObamaCare Surprise: Racial Preferences?

More from John Leo.

MEGAN MCARDLE: BUY NOW, PAY LATER:

If we pass this thing, no American politician, left or right, is going to cut any of these programs, or raise the broad-based taxes necessary to pay for them, without any compensating goodies to offer the public . . . until the crisis is almost upon us. I can think of no situation, other than impending crisis, in which such a thing has been done–and usually, as with Social Security, they have done just little enough to kick the problem down the road. The idea that you pass a program of dubious sustainability because you can always make it sustainable later, seems borderline insane. I can’t think of a single major entitlement that has become more sustainable over time. Why is this one supposed to be different?

Because they really, really want it.

TURF WAR: Best Lawnmowers of the Year: Comparison Test.

YOU TALKING TO ME?

COMING SOON: The Augmented Reality Windshield? “The enhanced vision system would monitor a driver’s eye and head movements via sensors located both inside and outside the vehicle. The display would then overlay enhanced views of the road on top of the actual scene visible through the windshield. GM hopes that the augmented reality (AR) windshield display can allow drivers to view GPS directions without looking away from the road, and cope with difficult driving conditions in fog or at night.”

OUT OF STEP WITH THE TIMES: Legislation to ban assault weapons passes Illinois House committee.

ORIN KERR: Is the Supreme Court too conservative? Not according to the public, it seems.

BOEHNER: Make this a roll-call vote.

OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE SPEECH IN FAIRFAX: “If the Washington Post’s report is correct, and 8,000 people turned out, the real news is that two days before the big health care vote, Obama couldn’t fill a 10,000 seat arena at a university with 30,000 students (albeit many part-time), in a state and county Obama won, with many of the seats undoubtedly taken up by Democratic activists from the D.C. area.”

STIMULUS: Caterpillar: ObamaCare Will Cost Us $100 Million In The First Year.

MATT WELCH: David Brooks Surveys Economic Wreckage, Redoubles Patriotic Battle Against the “surge in vehement libertarianism.” Sorry, but whatever’s wrong with this country doesn’t stem from a surplus of libertarianism . . . .

And if we face a “devastating crisis of authority,” it’s because the many authority figures Brooks has been sucking up to haven’t been up to the job.

UPDATE: A reader emails: “So David Brooks is worried that libertarians are going to take over and……leave him alone?” Yeah. Where’s the percentage in sucking up to people like that?

PENNSYLVANIA REP. JASON ALTMIRE SAYS HE WILL VOTE NO.