CHANGE: Administration’s Guantanamo Panel Backs Indefinite Detention.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Internet Generation At Risk Of Rickets.

The condition is linked mainly with extreme poverty and the 19th-century Victorian England of Charles Dickens, and can be easily avoided through a balanced diet and exposure to sunlight. But doctors reported this month that cases of the debilitating disease have once again become “disconcertingly common” in Britain.

“Kids tend to stay indoors more these days and play on their computers instead of enjoying the fresh air,” said Simon Pearce, a professor at Newcastle University in northeast England and lead author of a new study on Vitamin D deficiency.

“This means their vitamin D levels are worse than in previous years,” he said in a press release.

Half of all adults in Britain — especially in the north — have Vitamin D deficiency in winter and spring, with one-in-six having severe deficiency. The condition has been linked to cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, several kinds of cancer and a soft-bone condition in adults called osteomalacia. While the study focused on Britain, the same trend is likely elsewhere in the industrialised world, the researchers suggested.

Fresh air and sunshine are good for you — your grandmother was right.

HONDA’S HYBRID CR-Z: Inspired by Lotus, Volkswagen and the MINI Cooper.

WHY THE “NORWAY SPIRAL” has the Russian government spooked.

DR. RALPH STANLEY: A Legend of Bluegrass.

FIVE MEMES destroyed by Scott Brown’s victory.

SPECIAL HOV-ACCESS RULES FOR PRIUS OWNERS coming to an end.

IN THE MAIL: From 14-year-old pundit Jonathan Krohn, Defining Conservatism: The Principles That Will Bring Our Country Back.

OOPS: ‘Head Start’: The $166 Billion Fed Ed Failure.

“Head Start,” the flagship pre-kindergarten program introduced in 1965, has been a $166 billion failure. That’s the upshot of a sophisticated multi-year study just released by the Department of Health and Human Services.

An earlier iteration of the study, published in 2005, had found a few modest improvements in the language skills of participating students while they were enrolled in the program. But by the end of the first grade, even those few effects have disappeared, according to the follow-up released this month. Out of 44 separate cognitive tests given to former Head Start students at the end of the first grade, only two showed even marginally significant effects. The other 42 showed no statistically significant effect at all.

This study has gotten surprisingly little attention.

HANDLING THE DEAD in Haiti.

A HAWAIIAN HOLIDAY on the taxpayers’ dime?

IT’S COME TO THIS: Scott Baio Receives Death Threats For Posting Unflattering Photo of Michelle O on Twitter.

UPDATE: A reader emails: “I thought death threats only came from Janet Napolitano’s list of right-wing bogey-men?”

NEW YORK TIMES: Corporations shouldn’t have free speech rights, unless they’re us.

Meanwhile, some more sensible thoughts from Matt Welch:

Free speech really does mean free speech, and the laws that the “Citizens” ruling overturned directly and heinously restricted the stuff. Forget for the moment the broad characterization of the ruling — such as The New York Times claim that it “sweep[s] aside a century-old understanding” — and drill down to the individual case in question.

Citizens United, a conservative 501(c)(4) nonprofit that has funded a dozen political documentaries over the years, produced a critical documentary about Hillary Clinton in 2008 entitled “Hillary: The Movie.” By a decision of the federal government, which was enforcing the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (known more broadly as McCain-Feingold), this piece of political speech was banned from television.

Let’s boil it down to the essential words: Political documentary, banned, government.

You don’t have to be a First Amendment purist to intuit that political speech was, if anything, the most urgent subcategory covered by the First Amendment’s “Congress shall pass no law” restrictions. And you don’t have to be a Hillary-hater to imagine the shoe on the other foot. What if MoveOn.org’s 501(c)(4), Campaign to Defend America, had been blocked by George W. Bush’s Federal Elections Commission from broadcasting “McCain: The Movie”? Wouldn’t that stink, too?

That would be completely different. Or, at least, the NYT editorial would be. . . .

Meanwhile, Ann Althouse notes an ironic action by Hillary. “A forceful response to a Supreme Court decision recognizing the importance of free speech. It would have been even more painfully funny if Hillary Clinton had also, in her speech yesterday, promoted the American values of separation of powers and an independent judiciary.”

KUDLOW FOR SENATE? CNBC host Larry Kudlow declines to rule out bid to unseat Schumer.

There’s a Draft Kudlow website.

U.S. NEWS: Why Stop At Banks? 13 Other Great Taxes. Two points: (1) These are, at best, only moderately amusing; and (2) Don’t give them any ideas!

JAMES TARANTO: “Have any of the people who are still complaining about John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running-mate expressed any regret at having supported John Kerry*, whose selection was, by any imaginable standard, much, much worse?”

ANN ALTHOUSE on what was wrong with ObamaCare. “I don’t think Americans really like to see aggressive economic experiments that displace the private sector. . . . It’s a crazy concoction that no one understands.”

GALLUP: In U.S., Majority Favors Suspending Work on Healthcare Bill.

ATF: Fighting crimes by committing them? “Undercover ATF agents in Virginia have funneled more than 250 million cigarettes onto the nation’s streets in the past three years through black market sales targeting smugglers, an Associated Press review has found.”

SCOTT BROWN’S WIFE IN 1984: “As you watch it, remember: Somehow this is supposed to make you like him and his family less.” Yeah, those stupid uptight repressed Republicans.