TECHNOLOGY: iPad gives boy a voice at his bar mitzvah.

CATHY YOUNG: Islam, Free Speech, and Democracy: What really happened in the Pennsylvania “zombie Mohammed” case? “In fact, there was no ‘Sharia court,’ and the judge is not a Muslim. But, however egregious the misreporting of the story and the vilification of the judge—Cumberland Country, Pennsylvania magistrate Mark W. Martin, who graciously answered my queries in an email exchange—the actual facts of the story are troubling. Judge Martin’s intent may have been entirely benign, but his handling of the case sends a bad message not only about freedom of speech, but about the place of Islam in American culture. . . . American religious practice, overall, is strongly tied to a hard-won tradition of freedom of religion—and irreligion. Judge Martin’s comments seem to suggest that Muslims are far less capable than Christians of dealing sensibly with insults or challenges to their faith. That does a serious disservice both to American democracy and to American Muslims.”

AT AMAZON, it’s the Kindle Deal of the Day.

Also, today only: Netgear Wireless-N router for $30.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT YESTERDAY, my Sunday Washington Examiner column: The future will be better than we think, if politicians don’t ruin it.

Inspired by Diamandis and Kotler.

JIM TREACHER: Overwhelmingly peaceful Occupiers assault and rob woman while screaming homophobic epithets, overwhelmingly peacefully.

LAW SCHOOL UPDATE: 2011 Moot Court Rankings.

IN WOLCOTT’S DEFENSE, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING THIS QUESTION SINCE THE EARLIEST DAYS OF THE BLOGOSPHERE: Who Is James Wolcott? And Why Would Anybody Want to Know? Or Care? So he’s got longevity in his irrelevance, or something.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Obama’s Iran Dilemma: Threats of War As Means To Keep the Peace.

FOLLOW THE NUMBERS: Who Do You Believe? HBO or Gallup?

REVOLVING DOOR? FTC Attorney Joins Microsoft.

PRESCIENCE: This McCain Ad from 2008 predicted $4.00/gallon gas if Obama became President.

POLITICO: White House to Congress Dems: Expect no money.

President Barack Obama has a bleak message for House and Senate Democrats this year when it comes to campaign cash: You’re on your own.

Democratic congressional leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, have privately sought as much as $30 million combined from Obama for America and the Democratic National Committee — a replay of the financial help they received from Obama in 2008 and 2010.

But that’s not going to happen, top Obama aides Jim Messina and David Plouffe told Reid and Pelosi in back-to-back meetings on Capitol Hill on Thursday, according to sources familiar with the high-level talks. It was a stark admission from a presidential campaign once expected to rake in as much as $1 billion of just how closely it is watching its own bottom line.

The press has been, naturally, focusing on the GOP’s problems. But things aren’t so rosy in Obamaville either.

MATH TEXTBOOKS a textbook example of bad textbooks.

BREITBART IS HERE. Love the pics.

IRS POLITICIZATION UPDATE: District Court Refuses to Dismiss Claim That IRS Ties Tax-Exempt Status to Agreement With Administration’s Israel Policy.

THE HILL: Polls show Romney gaining nationally, pulling ahead in Ohio.

MICHAEL BARONE: James Q. Wilson’s insight improved America. It did. I didn’t know Wilson well — he was an InstaPundit reader and occasional email correspondent — but I did know his work. He will be missed.

POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED: Andrew Breitbart: The Vetting, Part I: Barack’s Love Song To Alinsky. (Bumped).

THUGGISHNESS: A Broad-Based IRS Assault On The Tea Party? “In the last 24 hours, my colleagues at the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) have been in contact with literally dozens of tea-party organizations that have received intrusive information demands from the IRS, demands that seriously implicate their First Amendment rights.”

OUCH.

THE HILL: Lawmakers Aim To Assert More Control Over The Federal Reserve. “On Monday, the Fed will again face congressional scrutiny, as Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) unveils a sweeping bill aimed at limiting what actions the Fed can take. The legislation from Brady, the vice chairman of the Joint Economic Committee who also holds a top spot on the Ways and Means Committee, is the latest in a series of bills in the 112th Congress aimed at reworking the central bank.”

ROGER SIMON ON seeing Obama live for the first time at AIPAC:

This is one strange dude — part narcissist, part Chicago ward heeler, part neo-Alinskyite marxist, part talk show host smoothie, part nowhere man. The ideas might be there, traceable back to Ayers, Dohrn, and Reverend Wright, but he has pushed them far away, almost as if he were trying to forget them. They were no longer functional and had to go, but he is left with… what?

It’s hard to tell what he really thinks now because I suspect even he doesn’t know what that is. He is a kind of moving target, not just to us, but to himself. You expect to hate him, then you start to like him, then you start to hate him again. At the end, you don’t really know what you think, although in my case you revert to your previous view — extreme distaste.

I think this odd personality of the president’s accentuated the ambivalent manner in which his speech on Israel was received by the AIPAC audience.

Read the whole thing.

WHAT KIND OF CAR does Susan Estrich drive? “Susan Estrich – well paid by Fox I’m sure as a liberal contributor – made her ritual attack on Romney on the network tonight, dissing the candidate because his wife has two Cadillacs. What hypocrisy. Estrich, a citizen of LaLaLand where my other car used to be a Porsche but is now a $70K luxury Lexus hybrid, probably wouldn’t be caught dead in such a vehicle. Cadillac? That crappy GM domestic vehicle. That’s your grandfather’s luxury car. When I hear phony palaver like that from Estrich, I know why I abandoned liberalism. Hope she got a good check for it.”

UNTIL YOU GET TO THE “ABOUT” IT’S JUST DOG-BITES-MAN: Debbie Wasserman Schultz utters a bizarre sentence about Obama’s position on the Keystone Pipeline.

A HEALTH-CARE PROGRAM I CAN ENDORSE: Make Sebelius Pay For Our Red Wine. “We all know that the medical community has recognized the benefits of red wine for the human heart. Resveratrol is found in the tannins apparently. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Therefore I think it is high time that insurance policies cover red wine. Does the Obama administration have any idea what a good bottle of cabernet sauvignon costs? I spend at least $3000 a year on red wine and it’s breaking the bank. So please Kathleen Sebelius, include free red wine in the HHS mandate. Let’s eradicate heart disease once and for all!”