NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Smallest-Ever Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon.

PHOTOS: Tea Partiers In Arizona Greet Obama’s Limousine.

Well, that’s how it all started, back in 2009.

HMM: Scrubbing the “Protocols of the Elders of Ron Paul.”

DOWNGRADE-O-RAMA: FITCH GOES ON RAMPAGE: CUTS SPAIN, ITALY, BELGIUM, CYPRUS, AND SLOVENIA.

SPENCER ACKERMAN: Note to some of my fellow progressives: If we can’t argue about Israel without using anti-Semitic tropes, then the debate is lost before it even begins. Well, then. . . .

“SMART DIPLOMACY?” “Each day that goes by gives the White House more reason to regret its Libyan adventure. The overthrow of Gaddafi was a good thing, but from both the humanitarian and strategic points of view, nothing has changed. The war continues to look at best like a diversion, at worst as if the US fell for a cynical French ploy to get oil in a way that damaged our long term strategic interests.”

UPDATE: Related: Investors Flee Egyptian Treasury Bills As Radical Islamists Take Over Parliament.

TECHNOLOGY: Vehicles To Start Warning Each Other Of Collision Risk.

THE WORLD’S FASTEST HYBRID.

TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: Natural Gas: The Next Presidential Transportation Fad.

Related: Prof. Mark Perry: Obama Deserves No Credit For Oil and Gas Boom. No kidding.

ALEX LONG: Professionalism and Matthew Shardlake. “This Essay/Book Review examines the Matthew Shardlake series by C.J. Sansom. In particular, it examines the question of whether the sixteenth-century fictional lawyer Shardlake can serve as a role model for twenty-first-century lawyers, both in terms of his ethics and his professionalism.”

GOVERNMENT MOTORS: From The White House To The Statehouse.

THE ECONOMIC CASE AGAINST OBAMA, All In One Chart. Bottom line: He made things worse.

MORE ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: Democratic lawmaker likens GOP to terrorists for legislative tactics. Does Dave Neiwert know about this?

SHOCKER: Soros May Benefit From White House’s Natural Gas Proposal. And we already know that Warren Buffett benefited from the Keystone decision. It’s a billionaire-crony-capitalism-fest!

“PATHETIC:” GDP Up Only 1.7% for Year.

Related: Household Wealth Falls For Second Straight Quarter.

HMM: AT&T presses Congress to pass spectrum bill that restricts FCC.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE “HOPE?” Bloomberg View: The Words Not Spoken In Obama’s Speech Speak Volumes.

TALK RADIO: Now In Spanish.

LOWER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Picture of Snoozing Teacher Gets 9th-Grader Suspended. “A ninth grader who snapped a picture of a snoozing substitute teacher with his cell phone camera and posted it on a social network is in hot water with his school district.”

One argument in favor of public education is that it teaches students lessons about government early. That certainly happened here.

K.C. JOHNSON: The Times Vilifies Another Athlete, Presenting No Evidence. “But, of course, this is the New York Times. And if the Duke lacrosse case left no other legacy, it’s that the paper frames its coverage of campus allegations of sexual assault in such a way that ignores issues of due process.”

On the other hand, they know how to send the desired message.

AT AMAZON, markdowns and ideas on Valentine’s Day gifts.

And, today only, a sale on Popchips.

BILL WHITTLE: Firewall: The Vote Pump.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: CNN TRIES TO WHITEWASH OBAMA’S ALINSKY TIES.

SOTU SNAFU: “Remember that 23-year-old cancer patient sitting in Michelle Obama’s box at the State of the Union? The one who the White House said got covered under the young adult dependent provisions of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law? Well, Adam Rapp may have actually been covered by a similar law from his home state of Illinois. Or maybe not.”