KEVIN WILLIAMSON: Deficits vs. Unemployment: You’re Wrong, America. “The either/or structure of this question includes an unspoken assumption: that these are competing goods, rather than complementary goods. It is as likely that our stimulus efforts are making unemployment worse as it is that they are making it better.”

TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE (CONT’D): Sen. John Kerry Docks Luxury Yacht In Rhode Island To Avoid High Massachusetts Taxes. A reader calls it “not-so-swift” boating. Yeah, you have to be grateful for John Kerry, who illustrates the problems with his class so well, and who isn’t bright enough to hide it.

UPDATE: Check out the Boston Herald front page, which is giving it the full Thurston Howell treatment.

MEGAN MCARDLE: Considering Elizabeth Warren, the Scholar. “Warren kind of waves her hands and mumbles about social programs and more supportive work environments. There is no possible solution outside of a more left-wing government. But the deeper problem is that some of her evidence doesn’t really support her thesis, and can be made to appear to support her thesis only by making some very weird choices about what metrics to use.”

POST-RACIAL? Sen. James Webb (D-VA): Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege: America still owes a debt to its black citizens, but government programs to help all ‘people of color’ are unfair. They should end. “Forty years ago, as the United States experienced the civil rights movement, the supposed monolith of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance served as the whipping post for almost every debate about power and status in America. After a full generation of such debate, WASP elites have fallen by the wayside and a plethora of government-enforced diversity policies have marginalized many white workers. The time has come to cease the false arguments and allow every American the benefit of a fair chance at the future. . . . In an odd historical twist that all Americans see but few can understand, many programs allow recently arrived immigrants to move ahead of similarly situated whites whose families have been in the country for generations. These programs have damaged racial harmony. And the more they have grown, the less they have actually helped African-Americans, the intended beneficiaries of affirmative action as it was originally conceived.” Somebody should ask Obama and Holder what they think about this.

OVER AT THE CONGLOMERATE, a forum on Dodd-Frank.

SUING BLOGGERS: This seems like a poor business plan to me. On the other hand, if your real goal is to silence the blogosphere . . . .

UPDATE: Reader Joseph Dorsett writes:

The main way that Righthaven can be finding these blogs is through analyzing traffic sources. The solution for that is to not use any media generated by Stephens Media. No links at all. No links to AP generated content either. There is so much material on the web that there is no need to link (and send traffic) to any organization inimical to the blogosphere.

Clearly these people have no idea on how consumers find their website and how traffic affects their ad revenue. As circulation of Dead Tree News declines it will be interesting to see if rags like The Review-Journal survive by biting the hand that feeds it.

Yeah, don’t look for me to send ’em much traffic in the future.

UPDATE: Some thoughts from copyright lawyer Ron Coleman.

AT AMAZON, it’s the Friday Sale.

SAME AS IT EVER WAS.

HOW WEAK IS OBAMA? “Sherrod may be the only official ever dismissed because of the *fear* that Fox host Glenn Beck might go after her.”

TIM CAVANAUGH: Do Public Sector Unions Drive States Into Bankruptcy?

CZAR OF THE OBVIOUS: Obama’s Economics Czar: Tax Increases Significantly Contract the Economy.

JIM TREACHER FINDS evidence of Spencer Ackerman’s presence.

POWER LINE: From Buckley To Breitbart. “With the hounds baying, Andrew deserves the support of conservatives in his struggle with the Democrat-Media complex.” In covering this story, Andrew’s journalistic fairness exceeded that of the New York Times, the Washington Post, or MSNBC. Perhaps that’s damning with faint praise, but the criticism of him is pretty weak, really.

OBAMA ON SHERROD: Vilsack Acted Stupidly.

Funny, the way some people are talking, you’d think Andrew Breitbart personally fired her his own self. Plus this: “A lingering mystery to this fading story: How did Sherrod find out in advance that the tape was about to be made public?”

WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS: A Netroots Meltdown? “It appears if the progressive-leftist activists of the Netroots have their way, what happens in Vegas is not going to stay in Vegas. They want it to play out at ballot boxes across the country in November, resulting in the Democrats losing seats in Congress. Obama has never been that openly kind to the Lefty bloggers. Rahm being in the WH hasn’t helped. Actually, the Netroots was more powerful in 2007, than it is today. The Democrats can only have one deliverer, after all. And it’s now Obama, not Markos Moulitsas.”

This, by the way, should be a lesson to the Tea Party folks on why taking over the party from the ground up is important. If you control the state committee, they can’t just ignore you they way they can if you’re solely a bunch of outsiders.

ED DRISCOLL on JournoList and Obama’s “Non-Official Campaign:” “A commenter notes another Obama official who was on the JournoList. Reader ‘Hydrangea’ wonders why ‘people keep forgetting that Peter Orszag was also a Journolister.’ Orszag is President Obama’s Office of Management and Budget Director.”

This does raise still more of those pesky coordination issues.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

Every talking head that goes on TV needs to be asked if they were part of JournoList.

Every university professor needs to be asked if they were on the JournoList. (Tucker needs to publish the list of names of all public employees that were members.)

For the record, I was not one of the professors on JournoList . . . .

MORE: Reader Brian Torrez writes: “Not one mention of JournoList on TPM this morning. Gee I thought these guys were so cutting edge. Makes you wonder what they are hiding?” Hey, they call it Talking Points Memo for a reason.

SHOCKER: More Muslim Riots In France.

THE SPIRIT OF JOURNOLIST LIVES ON ELSEWHERE: Typical: Obama’s ambush on Pete Hoekstra in Michigan was coordinated with the media.

QUESTION: “Did I Get JournoListed?”

BUDGET PRIORITIES IN ANN ARBOR: Lay off police and firefighters, put up an $850,000 water sculpture.

STUDENT SUES LAW SCHOOL in bankruptcy proceeding. Well, as the higher education bubble collapses, will we see more of this kind of thing?

UPDATE: Reader J.R. Ott sees this as a hopeful sign:

A surfeit of young underemployed/unemployed Law grads may be Americas answer to Washington,They can all practice suing the “Gummit” and bring the DOJ to a halt. Sort of what the Scientoligists did to the IRS. They just need a good Law Prof as leader/chief agitator.

Where would you find somebody like that, though?

SWAMP NOT YET DRAINED: Breaking: House committee charges Rangel with multiple ethical violations.

TEA PARTY IMPORTANT OR SOMETHING? Newt Gingrich Endorsing Cincinnati Tea Party Founder Mike Wilson. At least, I don’t think that Newt issues many endorsements in state legislative races.

HOPE AND CHANGE: Women’s Breasts Growing Much Larger.

COORDINATION: Obama Campaign Advisor Participated On JournoList. “One question that has arisen in the last week is how closely JournoList members, not only discussed how to shape the news to advance the fortunes of Barack Obama, but coordinated with the Obama campaign. Jared Bernstein’s position as an unpaid adviser and surrogate shows that there was at least one direct link between JournoList and the Obama campaign.”

UPDATE: Reader Matt Miller writes:

It would appear that the behavior of the JournoList group supports the arguments against the most recent attempts to regulate campaign finances. Why should media organizations have special privileges to participate in campaigns when they clearly are acting in a partisan manner. How much money would it cost to purchase equivalent advertising to match the columns and “news” stories that these journalists provide for their favorite candidate.

A lot.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Barry Dauphin writes:

It is interesting that a list of left wing journalists discusses creating a “line” on Palin (or anything for that matter). Even if the members mostly agreed on something like who they would vote for president, they were still competing with each other for readers or viewers. In a funny way, by operating on a party line, they reduce originality and the need for people to read more than one of them. It was a lousy business strategy, as the marketplace has shown.

When competitors collude this way, it’s also an antitrust violation.