MARKDOWNS ON Makita power tools.

SCIENCE: Videogames May Not Boost Teenage Obesity After All.

CHANGE: There Are Now 27 States Challenging ObamaCare. “More than half the state governments have taken legal action against it. More of the public disapproves of the law than approves of it. And a majority in one chamber of Congress has voted to repeal it.”

KEVIN WILLIAMSON: “In general, I think we put too much weight on things like Chinese dollar reserves, or the fact that the global oil trade is conducted in dollars, and the like. Our real economic problems are far simpler: We spend too much, borrow too much, carry too much debt, have a poorly structured tax system and an overextended national-defense presence, are governed by a Congress of children, and refuse to believe that the laws of supply and demand apply to U.S. dollars and U.S. Treasury bonds.”

KEEPING BLOOD PRESSURE DOWN with blueberries?

DON SURBER WONDERS IF PolitiFact will weigh in on Steve Cohen’s charges.

MICKEY KAUS: Aaron Sorkin’s suggestive Web past.

COMING FROM CHRYSLER: a hydraulic hybrid minivan?

JIM DEMINT: No bailouts for states.

RAND SIMBERG, BOB ZUBRIN, AND JEFF FOUST TALK ABOUT SPACE POLICY in The New Atlantis.

YOU DON’T SAY: This ‘new tone’ sounds suspiciously like the old tone.

IN THE MAIL: From Gary Taubes, Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It.

COMING NEXT WEEK: Sons Of Guns, a new reality show about . . . guns, and those who make them. Background here.

BIG FIGHT BREWING: Administration Split Over Fannie/Freddie Strategy. “The Obama administration is sorely divided over how to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the controversial mortgage giants. Sources familiar with the discussions raise the possibility that the White House will miss its statutory deadline for submitting recommendations to Congress. The dispute pits White House economic advisers, who favor merely offering lawmakers a menu of possible next steps without committing to a specific direction, against officials at the Treasury and Department of Housing and Urban Development, who want to endorse an explicit federal guarantee for the mortgage companies and throw the administration’s support behind it, the sources said.”

JIM TREACHER: NRA lifetime member Michael Moore thinks you’re a racist for owning a gun.

THE POLITICAL CLASS: Bail Them Out, Regulate Them, Then Work For Them. At inflated salaries!

NICK SCHULZ: Lamest Rap Since Biz Markie’s ‘Just a Friend’.

CALLING THEM STUPID IS RACIST — SAVE IT FOR SARAH PALIN AND OTHER SAFE TARGETS: Video: Rep. John Lewis matches Sheila Jackon Lee’s Constitutional scholarship.

JENNIFER RUBIN: Do the GOP debt-limit schemes make sense?

FOOD INFLATION LEADING TO dinner without onions in India?

Plus, what are the best canned tomatoes? Sounds like I’d better stock up . . . .