DAVID BERNSTEIN: Is This 1936?

ED RENDELL: ObamaCare’s “an albatross around our neck.”

ADVICE: Save The ObamaCare Adrenalin for Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts.

BUT OF COURSE: “You were just held in criminal contempt of Congress, Eric Holder. What are you going to do next?” “I’m goin’ to Disney World!”

SO, AM I REALLY the Paul Harvey of the Internet?

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WHAT TO DO when your Twitter account gets compromised.

AT AMAZON, coupons galore in Home Improvement.

FIRST FEMALE TAIKONAUT: It’s Good To Stand On Earth.

In other space news: World’s most powerful rocket launches secret US satellite.

ANDREW MCCARTHY: Fast And Furious Noose Tightens Around Justice Department. “Explosive reports are now surfacing that Justice Department officials clearly knew about the Fast and Furious ‘gunwalking’ tactic, in which the federal government — actually, a task force comprised of Justice Department agencies and led by ATF, a Justice Department agency — allowed upwards of 1400 illegally purchased firearms to be routed to violent Mexican drug gangs. This recklessness led, quite foreseeably, to the murder of at least one federal agent, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, and probably a second, Homeland Security Agent Jaime Zapata. There are reportedly also scores of victims in Mexico.”

UPDATE: Darrell Issa Puts Details of Secret Wiretap Applications in Congressional Record.

RALLYING AGAINST OBAMACARE TOMORROW at the Utah State Capitol.

I AM A LIMITED RESOURCE: Reader Doug Martin emails:

I’ve been reading your blog for something like 12 years. I’ve sent you about 4 email with comments on your posts during this time. None got any play on your site, while they seemed (to me) to be pertinent to the conversation. Can you tell me, are my comments just lame, or is the volume just too much to focus? On the blog will be fine… Others might have had the same experience, and it would be nice to set expectations for others who are fans of your commentary. Keep it up.

Yeah, sorry. The problem is that I get more email than I can read. I do my best, but I miss a lot. I hope that I don’t miss anything too important, but that’s not always true either. (Somebody sent me on-the-scene pics of the Deepwater Horizon explosion but I didn’t see them until days later when he complained.) I could pay someone to read my email — I think Andrew Sullivan does that — but I’d rather miss stuff un-systematically than have things filtered in ways I might not even fully understand. I do read more email than I have time to post or reply to, but by no means all of it. Sorry, there’s just one of me.

UPDATE: Reader Rob Ritchie writes: “Have we reached Peak Instapundit?” Yeah, pretty much.

HMM: SideCar puts car sharing, hitchhiking, personal taxis into new app.

IN FOREIGN POLICY, A SUGGESTION THAT THE “SMART DIPLOMACY” ISN’T DOING SO WELL: Putin’s Got America Right Where He Wants It: And that’s bad news for Obama.

Last week’s G-20 summit was the first time U.S. President Barack Obama had seen his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, since 2009. An account of their long, loveless meeting on the sidelines of the conference, along with photographs of their unhappy tête-a-tête, was splashed on the front page of the New York Times. The real story belonged in the obituary section: The “reset,” Obama’s attempt to mend relations with Putin’s Russia, is dead. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad killed it.

But the two countries’ fundamental disagreement about what to do about Assad, the dictator whose bloody attempts to suppress a popular revolt has resulted in the deaths of 14,000 Syrians, was only the last straw for a policy that has been on life support since its inception. On a vast array of issues — ranging from human rights to Iran to the territorial integrity of the post-Soviet states — Russian behavior has consistently been a thorn in the side of the United States and its allies. The reset only provided Obama with a justification to cover his retreat in the face of Russia’s advance.

Can you say “Carterized?”

CHANGE: Next Gen Terror-Watchers Go Deep Into Al-Qaida, Tweet a Lot.

HMM: Science Says: Don’t Date The Muscular Guy. I’m skeptical, and the Jersey Shore references don’t help.

POLL: VOTERS DISLIKE SUPREME COURT’S OBAMACARE RULING. “Voters are reacting in broadly negative ways to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the legislation known as Obamacare, a new Newsweek/Daily Beast poll finds, with a majority disapproving of the ruling, fearing health-care costs and taxes will rise, and preferring Mitt Romney to President Obama on the issue. . . . Only 24 percent of those polled said that they believe the ruling will make the country better off.”

I wonder if this will hurt the Supreme Court’s legitimacy . . . .

WHAT COULD BE YUMMIER? Python for dinner? 3 top local chefs to cook invasive species.

I approve of this approach.

HEH: Just What The Doctor Ordered.

SECURITY: Texas Students Hijack a U.S. Government Drone in Midair. “The U.S. government, understandably, doesn’t want its drone technology to fall out of the sky and into other peoples’ laps. But being able to hijack a drone and control it? That’s even worse. And a team of researchers has done it for 1,000 bucks. The University of Texas at Austin team successfully nabbed the drone on a dare from the Department of Homeland Security. They managed to do it through spoofing, a technique where a signal from hackers pretends to be the same as one sent to the drone’s GPS.”

GOOD QUESTION: How Do We Know Smartphones Endanger Planes? “A curt reminder to power down your portable electronics has been a part of every commercial flight for years. But why do we have those rules in the first place, and should we expect them to change now that pilots have iPads in the cockpit and many airlines offer in-flight wireless Internet?”

READER BOOK PLUG: Reader James DeLong’s Ending ‘Big SIS’ (The Special Interest State) and Renewing the American Republic.

DISCUSSION: How To Live Like A King In A World Full Of Princesses.

ANOTHER BLOGGER MUZZLED BY A JUDGE. “This week, Nilan sought and obtained a ‘harassment prevention order’ from Central Berkshire District Court Bethzaida Sanabria-Vega — that is to say, from a judge in the same court where Nilan’s father is a senior official, the same court that lost the paperwork in her case previously. Judge Sanabria-Vega not only ordered Dan Valenti to stay away from Nilan — she ordered him to take down his blog posts about her case.”

Such an order is, of course, unconstitutional, but as we’ve seen many judges don’t care about that. But why should they? They enjoy absolute immunity — a doctrine created, conveniently enough, by judges.

SCIENCE: Ancient text gives clue to mysterious radiation spike. “I just did a quick Google search.”