POLL: Most Americans Still Angry At Washington. “Anybody in Washington who thought the 2010 election would be sufficient to vent a significant portion of voter anger away from Washington had better think again because the latest Rasmussen Reports survey finds nearly three-fourths of those questioned still hot under the collar.”

No surprise there. What have they done that would give people reason to be less angry?

UPDATE: Prof. Stephen Clark writes:

Nothing surprising in Rasmussen to me either. However, folks should not lose sight of the fact that the road to Washington runs through local and statewide elections. As you’ve noted earlier, one of the underreported stories of the 2010 elections was the realignment that took place in many statehouses: Wisconsin to name one. To have a lasting impact on national politics, those changes need to be held and reinforced.

Indeed.

WHAT’S AT STAKE, if Assad’s regime falls.

BRITAIN: The Tory Party’s Secret Weapon.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Obama’s dilemma: Is Libya mission a success if Qaddafi stays?

No. Next question?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Obama Still Murky On Libya.

OBAMA’S relentless hand gestures.

SO I KEEP SEEING SURIVIVAL BLOGS saying that freeze-dried foods are in short supply. But there seem to be plenty available here. So is there really a shortage?

UPDATE: Reader Brian Zachary writes:

After seeing your link to Mountain House foods on Amazon, I browsed to mountainhouse.com, and sure enough the top of the home page is a notice regarding overwhelming demand for their #10 cans, and that they are only selling them through certain dealers at this point. They’re all listed as out of stock on mountainhouse.com. Just throwing my 2 cents in.

Huh. But reader Paul Lindsey emails: “I’d say there is still plenty available. Here is a 40 person-year supply from Sam’s Club.” Good grief. My pantry isn’t that big. I’m not sure my house is. . . .

STACY MCCAIN on epistemic closure.

C.J. BURCH SAYS THANKS to everyone who bought his books.

A BREAK IN Japan’s supply chain.

INDIANA: Fleebagger Democrats Return To Statehouse.

JENNIFER RUBIN: “President Obama’s speech offered more for neo-conservatives to cheer than it did for liberals. But at the heart of his speech and of his Libya policy is a fundamental and unresolved contradiction.”

UPDATE: Speaking of contradictions.

FOOD PRICES ARE skyrocketing in Syria. Plus this: “What might emerge from the Arab world two or three generations from now is beyond anyone’s capacity to foresee. As individuals, Arabs are as talented and productive as anyone on earth. For the time being they are caught in the maelstrom of a failing culture.”

UPDATE: A look at the world food situation. “Anybody following the current unrest in North Africa and the Middle East will immediately note that the area is bathed in red. Add in the percentage of a person’s income spent on food and the picture looks even worse. For example, both Spain and Algeria are dark red, yet the Spanish spend only 14.6% of their incomes on food, while Algerians spend a whopping 44% on food. That means that if world food prices go up they’ll cut into the discretionary spending of the Spanish, while they’ll cut to the bone in places like Algeria.”

FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS work in Finance. “An analysis of MIT’s graduate-employment data shows that the financial sector increased its hiring from 18 percent of its graduates in 2003 to 25 percent in 2006. So not only are the investment banks siphoning off hundreds of billions of dollars from our economy with financial gimmicks like CDOs; they are using our best engineering graduates to help them do it.”

I had some related thoughts here.

MARKDOWNS ON emergency jumpstarters and power supplies. I’ve got one of these with a builtin air compressor, and it’s proven quite handy.

WHY WOMEN don’t like nice guys.

LIVE COVERAGE AND FOLLOWUP OF OBAMA’S LIBYA SPEECH, at PJTV.

Also, Stephen Green is drunkblogging.

UPDATE: My take: Eerily like a Bush speech, but without the conviction.

Full text of speech here.

And Jody Green emails: “Am watching the speech on PJTV and Direct TV and PJTV is about 2 seconds faster. Well I guess PJTV does not have to go to geostationary orbit and back but still, nice technology.”

Plus, an Obama speech word cloud.

And Ann Althouse comments: “Isn’t that what the United States said to the Iraqi people after the Gulf War?”

INSTAVISION: I interview Andrew Breitbart, about life, politics, and his new book. (Bumped).

MEDIA MATTERS IS really bad at what it does. “I mean, as a professional journalist, I’m not sure how I feel about James O’Keefe’s methodology. But with a few hidden cameras and next to no money, he’s taking a wrecking ball to some of liberal America’s biggest institutions. MMFA blows $10 million a year and what do they have to show for it?”

JOHN MCCAIN is attacking the Goldwater Institute. That seems unwise.

MICHAEL WALSH: Barbarians Within: Why Brit-Style Riots Could Spread To The U.S.

We’ve already seen it, on a smaller scale, in Wisconsin, during the recent battle over Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to rein in the public-employee unions. In Madison, the capitol was occupied by hordes of protesters and the lives of some Republican state legislators were threatened.

This is no way to run a democracy. Peaceful protests are one thing, but massed force and ominous warnings about dire consequences are another. Throw into the mix the free-floating anarchists who routinely show up at such events — most recently at the G-20 summit last year in Toronto — and you have a prescription for serious trouble.

Yet, all too often, any attempt to open a civil discussion about the future is met with the same dreary charges that “hateful” conservatives want to kill old people and steal candy from babies.

For some on the left, too much is never enough — because, by definition, it can’t be. They operate on a modified version of the old Brezhnev Doctrine, which stated that once a country went communist, it could never go back: Once a government program is in place, it can never be cut or rescinded, only fattened. It doesn’t even matter whether it’s effective. The self-interested and the self-deluded have too much to lose to give up the fantasy of the perfect nanny state.

It’s LePetomaine Syndrome.

WHY EXERCISE WON’T MAKE YOU THIN: Well, I think it helps, though possibly just because you look at the Italian Cream Cake and think that if you eat it, all that suffering at the gym was wasted . . . .

SAVING MONEY with a freezer: “I think it’s time to defrost our attitude towards frozen foods and get in the game when it comes to sensible culinary resource management! If foods are frozen properly, they can be a great resource for budget-strapped cooks.”

THE WORLD’S WORST environmental villain?

MARKDOWNS ON office supplies and electronic equipment.