DON SURBER: Reuters: Obama Needs Vote Fraud.

Democrats have gotten too clever for themselves in battling voter ID. Requiring people to show the same ID to vote that they must show to buy cigarettes or beer somehow disenfranchises them according to those great super-duper thinkers on the Left. It’s comical. And the British business wire service, Reuters, bought into the liberal line so much that it inadvertently makes Barack Obama seem like one big crook.

Or maybe it was a mole. Read the whole thing!

DAVID AXELROD: Yeah, I’d probably use the GSA, Solyndra, and Secret Service scandals against a Republican president. Luckily for him, the press won’t use those against his boss.

BRIT HUME ON THE OBAMA-EATS-DOGS STORY: Payback’s A Bitch. Plus, from the comments: “Payback had better run like hell. Obama eats bitches ya’ know. #ObamaEatsDog.”

A POLITICAL SCANDAL in the Cayman Islands.

HMM: Were White House Staffers Involved In Prostitution Scandal?

I don’t know where anyone might get that kind of an idea.

DOG BITES NETWORK: ABC Flip-Flops on #ObamaAteADog. “ABC went from promoting the ‘Dog Wars’ to declaring the issue dead within 24 hours. Actually, their flip-flop on the issue took about 14 hours.” Long enough for them to figure out it might actually hurt Obama.

DAN ZIMMERMAN: Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Little Old Lady Edition.

DANIEL BLATT: Congressman Adam Schiff, Democrat without solution to coming insolvency of entitlements. Like Tim Geithner, he doesn’t have a plan, he just doesn’t like yours.

ROMNEY ON OBAMA: “I think he’s a nice person. I just don’t think we can afford him any longer.”

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THEY NEVER REALLY WENT AWAY: Walter Russell Mead: Are Death Panels Making A Comeback?

Don’t worry, we’ll ease you down life’s off-ramp with medical psilocybin.

PHIL HAMBURGER responds to Einer Elhauge’s latest defense of ObamaCare. Plus, more here.

MEEP! MEEP! This Week’s Exploding Cigar: Obama The Dog-Eater.

As Don Surber notes: “Sadly, the economy still slogs along with gun sales as the lone bright spot.” Aware that this is not the kind of record you win re-election on, Obama’s crack campaign staff has — with the aid of their media lapdogs — set up a series of diversions, each of which is exploding in Obama’s face like Wile E. Coyote’s Acme exploding cigars.

Read the whole thing.

GREEN FIGHT: It’s On: Romney Campaign Takes on Fisker Over Federal Loans. “Stick with me to the end on this, and if you’re worried that Mitt Romney’s campaign will be too weak to take on Obama’s you’ll leave happy. Well, unless you’re an Obama fan.”

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: FDA proposes rules for nanotechnology in food. “The Food and Drug Administration issued tentative guidelines Friday for food and cosmetic companies interested in using nanoparticles, which are measured in billionths of a meter. Nanoscale materials are generally less than 100 nanometers in diameter. A sheet of paper, in comparison, is 100,000 nanometers thick. A human hair is 80,000 nanometers thick. The submicroscopic particles are increasingly showing up in FDA-regulated products like sunscreens, skin lotions and glare-reducing eyeglass coatings. Some scientists believe the technology will one day be used in medicine, but the FDA’s announcement did not address that use.”

WSJ: Who’s Who In The Secret Service Scandal.

CHANGE: African Social Networks Thrive in a Mobile Culture.

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REASON TV: Marion Barry Doubles Down on “Dirty Asians.”

They told me if I voted Republican, we’d see our nation’s capital taken over by outright racism. And they were right!

JENNIFER RUBIN: 5 Things We Learned About The Romney Campaign This Week.

ED DRISCOLL:

Then: Liberal journalists in the 1960s told us all to “Question Authority.”

Now: Journalists on the Left reminisce about the days when they were “The Voice of Authority.”

Van Jones wishes you would just “sit down and shut up,” and in a slightly more reserved way — and more on that in a moment — if you’re a blogger or Tea Partier, so does Joe Nocera of the New York Times.

They don’t have arguments. And increasingly, they don’t have authority, either.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: At The NYT: Clueless Blue Deer Meet Onrushing Truck. “Schadenfreude alert: readers, and especially those who don’t much like the New York Times, should make sure they are not eating soup or holding hot liquids before viewing the video below. Uncontrollable gales of laughter stemming from excessive levels of schadenfreude may cause spilling and staining. . . . The Guild is talking about a strike, and an array of Times staffers, including some famous bylines that are well known in news circles, worry aloud that the new plan could make them eat cat food and sleep in boxes on the street in old age. (Or late middle age, anyway; not one staffer talks about working past 65.)”

BAN ON SOME SEAFOOD HAS FISHERMEN FUMING.

Standing on the deck of his rusted steel trawler, Naz Sanfilippo fumed about the latest bad news for New England fishermen: a decision by Whole Foods to stop selling any seafood it does not consider sustainable.

Starting Sunday, gray sole and skate, common catches in the region, will no longer appear in the grocery chain’s artfully arranged fish cases. Atlantic cod, a New England staple, will be sold only if it is not caught by trawlers, which drag nets across the ocean floor, a much-used method here.

“It’s totally maddening,” Mr. Sanfilippo said. “They’re just doing it to make all the green people happy.”

The thing I’ve noticed is how much more expensive seafood — even formerly cheap stuff — has gotten over the last year or two. I’m not sure if this is supply-and-demand, or a function of the weak dollar, but it’s really noticeable.

GIVING THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT? Why Is HTC Choosing Phone Thinness Over Battery Life? Personally, I favor battery life over sleekness.

UPDATE: Steven Den Beste writes:

HTC and the other guys are talking about two different things. First, there’s what an experienced user thinks about their phone a year after they’ve bought it. That favors battery life.

Second, there’s what a person thinks when they’re in the showroom looking at phones trying to decide which one to buy. Physical size and
attractiveness wins there.

And what HTC has clearly decided is that the second one leads to more sales — and they’re probably right.

Good point. And reader Roger Baumgarten says that battery life matters to him and that’s why he has the Mophie Juice Pack for his iPhone.

I carry the Juice Pack Reserve in my briefcase.

ANOTHER REASON FOR GOOD DENTAL HYGIENE: Oral Bacteria That Get Into The Blood Mess Up Your Joints. And inflammatory gum disease is associated with plaque buildup in blood vessels.

UPDATE: Or not.