INCENTIVES: “The company that owns Chicago’s two largest futures exchanges is thinking about moving operations out of state to flee oppressive business taxes. Worried about climate change? How about the business climate?”

COMPARE WITH SARAH PALIN: Deval Patrick’s Records Under Lock And Key.

WHERE THE JOBS ARE: South Texas enjoys major boom from oil fracking.

WALL STREET JOURNAL: The EPA’s War On Jobs. “President Obama’s jobs council will make its first recommendations today on lifting hiring and strengthening the economy. Too bad the message doesn’t seem to be reaching the Administration’s regulators, in particular the Environmental Protection Agency.”

FINALLY: ABA Reforms Law School Placement Data Reporting.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD on the Conservative Revolutionary.

PREDICTION: Stocks Face Rocky Week.

UPDATE: Related: Shiller Says U.S. Home-Price Declines of 10% to 25% ‘Wouldn’t Surprise Me.’

UNEXPECTEDLY! “Lots of ‘Obama faithful,’ who were quick to embrace his economic rhetoric as the 2008 crisis unfolded, are now genuinely shocked that things haven’t worked out.”

WE CAN HOPE: Shale Oil to Set-off US Oil Boom?

MICKEY KAUS: Weiner not the only one heading for rehab:

Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos, said he would request a leave of absence from his popular group blog to learn what he called “partisan aggression management.” ”Twice now–with John Edwards and Anthony Weiner–I’ve defended pretty obviously guilty Democrats by approving nasty arguments attacking their critics–arguments that turned out to be wrong. I thought I was fighting back, but I brought nothing but humiliation and disgrace to myself and my party. The truth comes out eventually. I hadn’t taken that into account. I have departed this morning to seek professional treatment to focus on becoming a better blogger and healthier person.”

More rehabbers at the link. Plus this observation: “The ‘it’s only sex’ Weiner defense and the ‘he’s seeking therapy for his illness’ defense sit uncomfortably together, no? I think maybe you have to pick one or the other!”

UPDATE: Reader John Mitchell emails: “Understanding that Mickey Kaus’ piece was entirely satirical and sarcastic, I would have thought for sure that Kos would also admit he needs counseling for nearly trampling other lefty bloggers in the race to pin the Giffords shooting on Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and everyone who voted Republican in 2010. It’s one thing to stand up for louts like Edwards and Weiner, but quite another to implicate millions of Americans in an attempted assassination.”

Let’s not dwell on the past. The important thing is that he’s getting satirical help now.

SHOCKING: Corruption in Florida politics.

TRAVELS in The Shire.

HOW TO PROFIT from “death panels.”

TELEGRAPH: Police ‘covered up’ violent campaign to turn London area ‘Islamic.’ “If that happened in a football stadium, arrests would have taken place. I have complained, twice, to the police, and have heard nothing. A Labour colleague waited three hours at the police station before being told that nothing would be done. The police are afraid of being accused of Islamophobia.”