ANDREW KLAVAN: We Report, You Obey: The MSM’s Dirty Tea Party Fetish.

CHANGE: Pentagon Tries Making DADT ”Fairer.” I thought they were going to get rid of this entirely . . . .

WALKBACK: Stunner. Politico Changes Their Bogus Coffin Story …Update: Democratic Underground Retracts Story.

UPDATE: Moe Lane to Politico: “Guys? Unquestionably and uncritically reprinting Democratic party press releases like this is not going to be a viable business model, come January 2011. Russ Carnahan and his people can’t help themselves – in more ways than one – but you over at the Politico can.”

GREG SARGENT on the Tea Party smears:

The Dem party committees have been working hard to pin the scattered intimidation on GOP leaders, with party officials even scouring the local papers for ways of blaming violence on Republican officials. GOP leaders such as John Boehner, Eric Cantor, and now Brown have already condemned the violence.

The whole thing is reminiscent of the summer, when Dem officials worked hard to elevate the town hall “mobs” in order to blame the unruly behavior on GOP rhetoric. It’s unclear, however, whether that effort did anything more than create a general sense in the public mind that the health care bill was deeply unpopular, and it’s equally unclear whether the current effort will accomplish anything more than that this time around.

Still waiting for the Dems to condemn Courtland Milloy’s violent rhetoric. (Via Ben Cunningham).

UPDATE: A reader emails:

Professor Reynolds, I just read the story you posted about Rep. Cantor’s office being shot at, and I noticed something in the story:

A senior Senate Democratic leadership aide told Fox News that threats also have been made against Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin.

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., called that odd, given that Frumin just sided against the Democrats on a GOP challenge over the package of fixes being considered in the Senate, in effect sending it back to the House for an extra vote.

“The irony here is that he has people threatening him, but here’s a guy who’s held against us,” Conrad said.

It’s like it doesn’t dawn on Senator Conrad that the reason the Parliamentatian is being “threatened” because he has voted against health care. It’s like it never crosses his mind that Democrats could threaten someone.

Yeah, tell it to Jean Schmidt. Or, heck, Eddie Adams.

TAXPROF: Is the tanning tax racially discriminatory?

FACEBOOK LINKED TO rise in syphilis.

MARRIAGE: Single Women Still Feel Spinster Stigma, Study Finds.

DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: Jim Lehrer gets it wrong on civil rights history. It’s all about the narrative.

EUGENE VOLOKH: A Second Circuit Due Process Victory for Connecticut Carry Permit Holders.

I BLAME COURTLAND MILLOY’S INFLAMMATORY RHETORIC: G.O.P. Rep. Jean Schmidt threatened over healthcare stance.

DAMON ROOT: Repeal The Davis-Bacon Act.

DEREK LOWE: Nanoparticles and RNA — Now In Humans.

MICHAEL YON: The Scent Of Weakness.

JOHN BOLTON: What the President Can Learn From Google.

VIRGINIA POSTREL, the deeper meaning of glamour.

ERIC CANTOR’S DISTRICT OFFICE SHOT AT LAST NIGHT. I blame Courtland Milloy’s inflammatory rhetoric.

FREEDOM: New Jersey drivers under 21 required to affix red sticker to cars.

UPDATE: Eugene Volokh writes:

Just FYI — I followed the link and saw this update, which I suspect wasn’t there when you put up the original post.

UPDATE: Drivers who have completed the 12-month provisional-license period will not have to display the decal even if younger than 21. Only those with provisional licenses or learner’s permits will be required to display the red sticker. Once the driver obtains a regular driver’s license, the sticker can be removed.

I haven’t read the underlying law, so I can’t independently vouch for the accuracy of this; but it seems to me that if the update is accurate, it would be worth noting, since it changes the law from warning people that a driver is simply young (even though he might have been driving for years) to warning people that the driver is indeed not very experienced.

Yes, that wasn’t there when I scheduled the post, and it does render it somewhat less objectionable.

DOUG BANDOW: Social Security In the Red.

IN THE MAIL: From Alan Abramowitz, The Disappearing Center: Engaged Citizens, Polarization, and American Democracy. The interesting thesis is that American politics are more polarized because more people are paying attention.

RASMUSSEN: 55% of likely voters favor repeal of ObamaCare.

VIDEO: Obama’s opposition to the individual mandate. “He was so sensible and pragmatic, considering all the details, so carefully and intelligently. He wasn’t an ideologue. Where is the guy I voted for?”

Note where the applause comes in.

SETH PORGES: What Sprint’s New HTC Evo Says About The Post-iPhone World.

ROGER KIMBALL: What It Means.

MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: Saved! The Precious and Impressionable Dears of the University of Ottawa. “It is good to see that the University of Ottawa, which provides a salary to mad 9/11 truthers like Michel Chossudovsky, is teaching its students that to resolve conflicts and agitate for human rights, one only needs to prevent speech they deem ‘discriminatory.'”

KEITH HENNESSEY: What Is A Vote-A-Rama?