NISSAN LEAF: Your Mileage May Seriously Vary.

TAXPROF: Georgia Candidate for Governor Admits He Claimed Depreciation Deductions on Home He Gave to His Daughter. He’s a Democrat who’s been attacking his Republican opponent on taxes.

BOB OWENS: Felons Can’t Own Guns. So How Did This Guy Acquire Three … Gun Companies?

THE HITS KEEP COMING: Illegal Aliens Canvassing for Patty Murray. “When Maria Gianni is knocking on voters’ doors, she’s not bashful about telling people she is in the country illegally. She knows it’s a risk to advertise to strangers that she’s here illegally — but one worth taking in what she sees as a crucial election. The 42-year-old is one of dozens of volunteers — many of them illegal immigrants — canvassing neighborhoods in the Seattle area trying to get naturalized citizens to cast a ballot for candidates like Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, who is in a neck-to-neck race with Republican Dino Rossi. Pramila Jayapal, head of OneAmerica Votes, says the campaign is about empowering immigrants who may not feel like they can contribute to a campaign because they can’t vote.”

UH OH: UK electric vehicle sales dropped to just 55 units in 2009. Downside: Looks like EVs are basically a luxury good. Upside: There’s lots of room for the market to grow!

NEWS: The Moon has double the water concentration as the Sahara desert. “It’s really wet.” Well, compared to expectations.

UNVEILED: New X-ray laser for basic research in nanotechnology.

BREAKING: Judges in Geert Wilders’ Free Speech Case Removed from Trial. Sounds like the whole thing was meant to be a frame-up from the beginning.

IN THE MAIL: Edited by Esther Friesner, Fangs for the Mammaries

PAJAMAS MEDIA POLL: Rick Perry leads in Texas, 48-37.

A “BITTER CLINGER” MOMENT for John Hickenlooper in Colorado. “Western areas” are full of “backwards thinking.”

RASMUSSEN POLL: Only 25% Prefer a Government With More Services, Higher Taxes. “Most voters (65%) say they prefer a government with fewer services and lower taxes rather than one with more services and higher taxes. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that only 25% of Likely U.S. Voters favor a government with more services and higher taxes instead. . . . As is often the case, there is a noticeable divide between the Political Class and Mainstream voters: 70% of the Political Class supports more services and higher taxes, while 78% of Mainstream voters prefer fewer services and lower taxes.”

MICHAEL BARONE: NPR’s Intolerant Firing of Juan Williams. “Reading between the lines of Juan’s statement and those of NPR officials, it’s apparent that NPR was moved to fire Juan because he irritates so many people in its audience. An interesting contrast: many NPR listeners apparently could not stomach that Williams also appeared on Fox News. But it doesn’t seem that any perceptible number of Fox News viewers had any complaints that Williams also worked for NPR. The Fox audience seems to be more tolerant of diversity than the NPR audience.” Well, Fox viewers are the open-minded, tolerant type.

ERIC SCHEIE: If you don’t like it, VOTE!

SOME GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE TEEN PARENTHOOD RATE? “Good news,” hell. I need teens to be having more kids, pronto! Legitimate, illegitimate, I don’t care — somebody’s got to pay my Social Security.

THAT’S NOT COOL: Tyra Banks Sued for Exploiting Sex-Addicted 15 Year Old.

WALTER SHAPIRO INTERVIEWS KENTUCKY VOTERS on the “Aqua Buddha” Ad Fail:

But many Paul voters already know that they will not be voting for a generic senator from Central Casting. “The ad was an effort to label Paul as off the reservation and a little weird,” said Tyler Long, the vice president of a local bank. “But we already knew that.” Yes, the 37-year-old Long (“I’m a reliable Republican with Tea Party sympathies”) is unequivocally backing Rand Paul.

Though random voter interviews are a crude barometer, it does seem telling that the only person at McKinley’s at all upset by Paul’s long-ago and immature connection with Aqua Buddha was a loyal Democrat.

Sorry, but “Aqua Buddha” just sounds like a low-rent superhero, not something scary.

SISSY WILLIS: Who Knew Barney Frank Could Be This Much Fun?

DAN MITCHELL: Republicans and Democrats Should Be Especially Concerned about the Threat of Government When Their Party Is in Charge. The thing is, it’s never really your party — especially when it’s “in charge.”

JOHN STOSSEL: How Public-Sector Unions Choke Taxpayers.

MICKEY KAUS: Should NPR’s CEO Fire Herself in the Juan Williams Debacle? “Schiller’s in trouble. Whatever her intent, she fired a black man for not abiding by his second-class speech status! Then she snarked at him. Might not play well, no matter how PC she was trying to be. When you’ve lost Howie Kurtz, you’ve lost respectable.”

UPDATE: Reader Chris Woods writes: “Am I the only person who is delighted by the discovery that NPR has a CEO? A fear-gripped, stupid-acting CEO? The most despised and villainous bogey of the liberal imagination?”

YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THE SUN when it’s angry.

HEY, BIG SPENDER: “The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is now the biggest outside spender of the 2010 elections, thanks to an 11th-hour effort to boost Democrats that has vaulted the public-sector union ahead of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO and a flock of new Republican groups in campaign spending.”

BOSTON HERALD: Sean Bielat Goes On A YouTube Ofensive.

AT AMAZON, it’s the Friday Sale.