WELL, THEN, THERE’S NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT: Eurozone leaders vow to tighten fiscal discipline.

QUOTE OF THE YEAR: “Do we really want to live in a country where when someone busts into your house at night you’re supposed to assume they might be cops?”

I’d rather live in a country where you get a bounty for shooting people who bust into your house illegally — one that’s doubled if they’re cops. Apparently, though, I’m more likely to get the former. And to those who want to criticize my approach to illegal breakins: Why are you so soft on criminals?

UPDATE: Reader J.A. Lyons thinks a bounty is rather drastic. Well, yes. I’d be happy with stripping official immunity in no-knock raids, so that police — and, more significantly, supervising officials — would become liable for anything that goes wrong. No-knock raids should be extraordinary measures, only used when there is imminent threat of death or great bodily harm. That’s not the case in the vast, vast majority of no-knock raids. And illegal breakins are . . . illegal. They don’t become less so, somehow, when engaged in by those sworn to uphold the law.

Meanwhile, to see what I’m talking about, watch this video.

DO YOU HAVE TO BE A KID to have a Nerf party?

GIMMICKS: Obama Seeks Line-Item Veto. Leaving aside the constitutionality question, does anybody actually think this will be used to slash spending, as opposed to simply being another way to punish political opponents through abuse of Presidential authority? After the tax-audit joke, among many, many other examples, my confidence is limited.

WHY NEWSWEEK FAILED:

Newsweek’s chief competitor wasn’t The Economist.

Newsweek’s chief competitor was actually People Magazine.

People won.

Ouch. The truth can be cruel.

ANDY KESSLER: The Markets Have Good Reasons To Be Nervous.

BAD OPTICS: Hispanic students marching against the display of the American flag.

DEFENDING ELENA KAGAN: Ilya Somin: A Great Law School Dean Doesn’t Have to be a Great Scholar. “In sum, Kagan’s record as dean is highly impressive, and it is not undermined by her relatively lesser success as a scholar. Whether that record justifies an appointment to the Supreme Court (which requires skills somewhat different from either a dean or a scholar) is a different question.”

“GET IN THEIR FACE.”

JIM GERAGHTY: 9.9 Percent Unemployment, 99 Vulnerable House Democrats — I See a Connection!

CNN: Tea Party vs. Sen. Bob Bennett.

JAN BREWER PUNCHES BACK TWICE AS HARD.

THE TEA PARTY MENACE SPREADS TO EUROPE! Not fast enough.

GERMANY TORN Over Role In Europe.

MAJOR MEDIA FAIL: Note this poll on Arizona:

The new poll finds 61 percent of voters nationally think Arizona was right to take action instead of waiting for the federal government to do something on immigration. That’s more than twice as many as the 27 percent who think securing the border is a federal responsibility and Arizona should have waited for Washington to act. . . . Significantly more voters think the Obama administration should wait and see how the new law works (64 percent) than think the administration should try to stop it (15 percent).

Forget the Arizona bill itself. What this poll says is that despite weeks of national-media coverage that was unrelentingly negative, calling the bill racist, drawing Nazi analogies, etc. — only 15 percent are really against it. Sorry guys — you’re still talking, but people aren’t listening.

UPDATE: A reader asks why I didn’t just use the favor/oppose numbers, which support the bill but in a less lopsided way. Because if the bill is really a racist, Nazi enactment, people should want to actually do something about it, not just register opposition. Right?

ANOTHER UPDATE: L.A. Times: New poll: Now, even Democrats oppose repealing Arizona’s illegal immigrant law. “By a two to one margin (52-26), Democrats said the law should be left alone to ‘see how it works.'” I had missed that. It underscores the point, though. . . .

HUTTAREE UPDATE: Keystone Prosecutors? “In a development described as ‘unprecedented,’ a federal court official in Detroit filed an affidavit today with the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, saying he wanted to correct claims made by prosecutors in the Hutaree militia case. ‘This affidavit is being submitted to correct the record, and any misunderstanding (Assistant U.S. Attorney) Mr. (Ronald) Waterstreet had about our conversation,’ Chief Pretrial Services Officer Alan Murray said in a court filing.”

PERCENTAGE OF UNMARRIED MOTHERS explodes.

CAR LUST: A Minivan Is Better Than What You’re Driving. Well, what I mostly drive — a Toyota Highlander Hybrid — is pretty much a minivan-with-plausible-deniability.

PJTV: Public Service Announcement: Big Government Has You in Its Crosshairs. With Bill Whittle, Scott Ott, and Stephen Green.

THEME SONG OF THE OBAMA ERA: ‘Just Because We Didn’t Have a Lobbyist, Why Should We Have to Suffer?’

CHOCOLATE COMPOUND OFFERS protection against strokes.

SCOTT JOHNSON: Send This Reporter To Jail. Well, if the Obama Administration jails journalists for revealing national security secrets, it’ll be just deserts, as opposed to a Big-Brotherish nightmare, the way it would be under a Republican Administration.

YES YOU CAN! Can you build a particle accelerator at home?

THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE is not dead.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, fearmongers would push civil rights restrictions in the name of a war on terror. And they were right! NY Times, Seizing on Fear, Pushes Civil Rights Restrictions.