JOHN KASS: Obama To Deliver Health Care The Chicago Way.

CALIFORNIA UPDATE: Hearing Probes CalPERS Investments In Iran. “California’s giant public pension funds remain invested – and have even increased investments – in companies doing business in Iran despite a 2-year-old law mandating that the state sell its holdings in those companies.”

THOUGHTS ON THE RECESSION from Eric S. Raymond.

NICOLE GELINAS: Eminent Domain, Abuse, and Central Planning.

JOE PAPPALARDO: How Israel’s Biggest Drone Could Take Out Iranian Nukes.

ACORN UPDATE: ACORN Leaders Attempting Stealth Consolidation?

HARRY REID MAY BE RIGHT ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Maybe he was thinking about John Edwards.

HEH: The Polls Are Unanimous: Americans Want ObamaCare Like They Want a Raging Case of Herpes… Hopefully it’ll be easier to get rid of, if acquired.

SOMEBODY TELL KEITH OLBERMANN: Photo Emerges Of Murderous Killer Whale At Tea Party Rally.

ANTHONY WEINER sets a bipartisan tone. Really, if you wrote a novel with this bit, you’d have to change his name or it would look too heavyhanded.

CLOSE ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK? HOMELAND SECURITY LOSES OVER 1,000 COMPUTERS IN ONE FISCAL YEAR.

UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!

ANOTHER UPDATE: A reader emails: “I once worked for a school district where a large number of laptops were reported stolen. It was later discovered that a good portion of these were instances of teachers viewing porn and not knowing how to remove it from the computer. Instead of facing the embarrassment of admitting it, they just reported their laptop as stolen.”

THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: The taint in the Toyota probe.

UPDATE: Related? FBI Raids Toyota Supplier Denso in Antitrust Probe. It might be a coincidence, and not a coordinated attack on a Government Motors competitor and non-UAW shop. But in an era of state-crony capitalism, all motives become suspect . . . .

GALLUP: Support for Israel in U.S. at 63%, Near Record High.

JUSTICE: “A young mother who falsely cried rape, sending an innocent man to prison for nearly four years, will experience firsthand what he suffered — she’ll spend one to three years behind bars for perjury.”

JWF: It’s Official: Paterson Needs To Resign.

ROGER KIMBALL: “The President’s Plan”: All you need to know. “No one should be surprised at the aroma of coercion that is such a prominent feature of Obama’s various proposals to remake this country.”

TOUGH CROWD: Harold Ford receives less-than-loving reception in NYC at Stonewall Dems function.

BEWARE THE DREADED Bloggerazi.

SWORDS OF FIRE: C.J. Burch recommends it, but then, he’s in it!

THOUGHTS ON marriage and earnings.

BARBARA BOXER’S REELECTION PROSPECTS downgraded by Rothenberg.

A LIST OF SWING CONGRESSMEN WHO CAN BE REACHED ON HEALTH CARE. According to Dick Morris, anyway.

JAMES TARANTO ON SCOTT BROWN: In Defense Of RINOs. He was better than Martha Coakley, and it was good that he got elected. Half a loaf, and all that.

APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR THE KOCH ASSOCIATE PROGRAM: I don’t know much about it, but Ilya Somin says it’s worth thinking about.

SCOTT JOHNSON ON RECONCILIATION HYPOCRISY: “Watching this video assembling the vehement pronouncements of prominent Democrats inveighing against circumvention of the filibuster, It would be easy for a citizen to become cynical about politics. It would be easy, but it would be right.”