RISING WHOLESALE PRICES spur inflation concerns.

JUST WONDERING: “BTW…in no MSM coverage I have seen is there ANY note that the crowd is ‘predominantly white’…. Why is that?” Actually, if you look at this Wall Street Journal slideshow, I think the correct term is “overwhelmingly white.”

AT AMAZON, up to 70% off of men’s, women’s, and children’s shoes.

POLL: Vast majority of Americans oppose public-employee unions. “That includes 42% of Democrats, and an overwhelming majority of Republicans. Only 49% of Democrats think public workers should be in unions at all. That’s on the fundamental right to organize, before you get to wages and benefits. And that puts Scott Walker in a pretty good political place.”

UPDATE: A reader emails:

Long time reader, enjoy your posts. On the Wisconsin matter, forget polls: look at comments section for this editorial in the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Sentinel Journal (http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/116434554.html?page=1 ). The paper is left-leaning but the article is uncharacteristically rough on the unions. Regardless, the comments section is so revealing. Comments in favor of Walker are getting about 75% “thumbs up” rating, while comments in favor of unions are getting around 30% “thumbs up” rating. I think it is instructive since it taps into the anonymous reader; someone who is vested enough in the area to sign up for the site, read it online, then actually comment. While far from scientific, I’d argue it is likely the same voter who will go to the booth and pull the lever in total privacy. Walker is in really good standing with them.

Yeah, I think this is a major miscalculation on the Dems’ part.

ERIC SCHEIE: Chickens Just Won’t Stop Coming Home To Roost.

MIKE FLYNN: Winning The Future Means Winning In Madison.

Andrew Breitbart, Jim Hoft, and Herman Cain will be rallying at the Capitol at noon tomorrow in Madison. If any InstaPundit readers are there, please send me a report, and pics. (Bumped).

WANT TO ESCAPE BLAME? Be a victim!

HARDBALL: Wisconsin governor: If the fugitive Dems don’t come back, I might have to cut funding for their staffs. Hey, if they’re gone, who needs a staff?

Related: Wisconsin Education Association Council publishes home addresses of Wisconsin legislators. Oh, this’ll win friends. Or at least influence people. Now can we see a list of union officials’ home addresses?

UPDATE: Average Milwaukee Public School teacher earns over $100K/year.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Bill Marcy emails:

I took the list that the WEAC provided of the home addresses, which conveniently had the phone numbers also (As I am in NY), and made calls to all the Democrats on the list and was able to get through to 7 of the families and I asked them politely why their fathers/husbands would not go to work and do what they were being paid to do. Hilarity ensued.

I think, turn about is always fair play.

Heh.

POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN WISCONSIN: Assembly forced to recess due to threats.

Plus, recall petitions against absent Democrats?

BLOGGER DEAN PETERS has launched Hymnopedia, “A semi-definitive wiki of Christian hymns.”

FRANK LUNTZ: Wisconsin Union Action Is Backfiring. Really? A bunch of tax-paid people walk off their tax-paid jobs to demand more money from taxpayers, and that might play badly with . . . taxpayers?

Even Joe Klein thinks this is dumb. “An election was held in Wisconsin last November. The Republicans won. In a democracy, there are consequences to elections and no one, not even the public employees unions, are exempt from that. . . . The events in Wisconsin are a rebalancing of power that, after decades of flush times and lax negotiating, had become imbalanced. That is also something that, from time to time, happens in a democracy.”

UPDATE: Professor Jacobson: Obama Acted Stupidly In Picking Sides Against The Taxpayers.

POLIWOOD: An interview with Raphael Shore, the producer of Iranium.

BUT OF COURSE: FBI Pushes For Surveillance Backdoors In Web 2.0 Tools.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Obama’s Louis XV Budget.

A more cynical budget is hard to imagine. This one ignores the looming debt crisis, shifts all responsibility for serious budget-cutting to the Republicans – for which Democrats are ready with a two-year, full-artillery demagogic assault – and sets Obama up perfectly for reelection in 2012.

Obama fancies his happy talk, debt-denial optimism to be Reaganesque. It’s more Louis XV. Reagan begat a quarter-century of prosperity; Louis, the deluge.

Moreover, unlike Obama, Louis had the decency to admit he was forfeiting the future. He never pretended to be winning it.

Whether it’s a win depends on what you’re trying to accomplish.

UPDATE: Reader Mark Fitzgerald writes:

In Wisconsin we couldn’t have a better sample of what that full-artillery demagogic assault will look like: Public sector unions, MoveOn and Organizing for America rushing the breach, DNC and legacy media providing tactical support and Obama behind the lines, pretending to be above it all but deeply involved in every aspect of the attack…

Ohio and Indiana are the next fronts…

I don’t think it’s going to work very well for them. The secret to lefty success has always been concealing what they’re really about. This is revealing it.

AT AMAZON, it’s the Friday Sale.

FIGHTING INTERNET CENSORSHIP with the Freedom Box server.

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE: ObamaCare Repeal Would Save $1.4 Trillion.

TEA PARTY GUERRILLAS STRIKE, with an Improvised Expressive Device. Lazy Protesters Straight Ahead.

61-YEAR-OLD gives birth to grandchild.

STATE-CONTROLLED MEDIA, INDEED: Did an FCC official do work for PBS simultaneously? “Did Genachowski know of Kwon’s activities? Did anyone wonder where Kwon was doing during what looks like copious time away from the office? Perhaps someone in an Oversight Committee might like to ask Genachowski a few of these questions. Given the propensity for PBS’ puppets to show up in Congress to testify for funding, it seems like perhaps we should find out what other puppets may still be working at the FCC.”

WISCONSIN LEGISLATORS reported hiding out in Chicago now. How appropriate.

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: On The Wrong Side Of History.

HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: Tuition protests resume at University of Puerto Rico.

HEALTH BENEFITS OF HAVING SEX.

NEW ADVICE FOR preventing falls in older people. I think that things that involve practicing balance are very valuable. I’ve always had excellent balance, but I no longer do the stuff I did as a kid and when I did a balance-intensive routine at the gym a while back — involving standing on balls and the like — the two things that struck me were how much worse my balance was when I started than it was when I was a kid, and how rapidly it improved. I could almost feel the neural networks recalibrating between sets.