ARIZONA’S PRIMARY on February 28?

ROBERT SAMUELSON: America Needs To Relearn How Jobs Get Made. America, maybe. Obama, definitely.

DID JACKIE KENNEDY really say that?

FOOD: SMALLER CORN SURPLUS COULD PUSH PRICES HIGHER. “Food prices could rise next year because an unseasonably hot summer likely damaged much of this year’s corn crop. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated Monday that a surplus of 672 million bushels of corn will be left over at the end of next summer. The estimated surplus is down from last month’s forecast and well below levels that are considered healthy. . . . A smaller surplus drove corn prices higher earlier this year. Global demand for corn, soybeans and wheat has outstripped production for the last 10 years. Surpluses, vital to a stable food supply, have shrunk.”

AT WISCONSIN, a secret threat to “our diversity efforts.” From the comments: “Emmanuel Goldstein, you better run for cover.”

RICK PERRY: “I am actually for gun control: Use both hands.”

THOUGHTS ON PAUL KRUGMAN from The Anchoress. “More than anything, Krugman and Dowd have, since 9/11, seemed utterly terrified by an event that didn’t fit their worldview and which forced them to depend upon people they hated for their safety and security. Rather like teenagers who hate that they actually need their stupid, out-of-touch parents, and must constantly howl about it to their friends, who join in because they realize they’re supposed to hate their parents, too. . . . It strikes me that Krugman is, in his own way, taking an ironic stand against the dictatorship of relativism that our pope so frequently decries. After a lifetime of suggesting that there are many kinds of truth, Krugman is now asserting that there is only ONE truth, and it is absolute. And it is his.”

AS THE BOOMERS TURN: “Since the ’80s, polls have found those who came of age in the ’60s and ’70s becoming more family oriented and conservative. If more boomers are led to embrace the GOP, it could affect the 2012 vote.”

AT AMAZON, markdowns on DVD & Blu-Ray.

“FORMER PRESIDENT AL GORE:” Layers of fact-checkers and editors at Reuters.

I DIDN’T WATCH THE DEBATE, but Prof. Jacobson did. “Great line by Newt, Obama scares seniors every day. He made a strong substantive point, which is that why should we have to live in a system where a President can threaten to withhold social security benefits. It goes to the heart of individual autonomy.”

So did Ann Althouse. “A young guys asks a classic question: ‘Out of every dollar that I earn, how much do you think I deserve to keep?'” I’d like to hear someone ask Obama that question.

UPDATE: More from Ira Stoll.

SOLARGATE UPDATE: Bloomberg: Obama Team Backed Solyndra Despite Concerns.

Solyndra LLC’s workers making solar-power panels in a California factory subsidized by U.S. taxpayers showed “the promise of clean energy isn’t just an article of faith,” President Barack Obama said on a visit to the company in May 2010.

Two months before Obama’s visit, accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP warned that Solyndra, the recipient of $535 million in federal loan guarantees, had financial troubles deep enough to “raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.”

The Obama administration stood by Solyndra through the auditor’s warning, the abandonment of a planned initial public offering and a last-ditch refinancing where taxpayers took a back seat to new investors. That unwavering commitment has come under increasing scrutiny since the company’s travails culminated in its filing for bankruptcy protection on Sept. 6 and a raid on its headquarters by the Federal Bureau of Investigation two days later.

“People including our government put blinders on and did not want to believe in the obvious,” Jonathan Dorsheimer, an analyst in Boston for Canaccord Genuity Inc. of Vancouver, said in an interview with Bloomberg Government. “The fact that the government chose Solyndra as their white horse is mind- boggling.”

Follow the money.

45 MINUTES to interrogate 9/11 plotter.

MAKING SURE YOUR NANOPARTICLES are pure.

LAWN AND GARDEN: Markdowns on outdoor cleanup gear.

POLL: Vast majority believe businesses and consumers are over-regulated. Ya think?

FORGET POLITICS: If you want reader email, blog about generators.

BLOGGINGHEADS TV: Glenn Loury & John McWhorter on what’s wrong with Paul Krugman. “He’s sneery. . . . If you sneer all the time it just becomes viscerally irritating.” Well, that’s some of what’s wrong.

Plus, Glenn Loury on why conservatives don’t trust liberal experts. “A bunch of people that have contempt for my values, but I’m just supposed to believe whatever they say because they have Ph.D’s behind their names.”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our New Cold War.

MAX BOOT: Are we losing Iraq? Wait, wasn’t Joe Biden just telling us it was their biggest victory?

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: The Middle East Is On The Boil.

MICHAEL TOTTEN: Egypt’s Botched Revolution.

KAMIKAZE ANTS protect the colony.

FASTER, PLEASE: New Implant Can Monitor Tumors Continuously. “A team of medical engineers in Germany has developed an implant to continuously monitor tumor growth in cancer patients. The device, designed to be implanted in the patient near the tumor site, uses chip sensors to measure oxygen levels in the blood, an indicator of growth. The data is then transmitted wirelessly to an external receiver carried by the patient and transferred to his or her doctor for remote monitoring and analysis.”

VIDEO: Stephen Carter on civility.