THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED, THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND:

My Washington Examiner column on Tea Party history. Plus, 18,000 at Cincinnati tea party, and 10,000 in Joliet/New Lenox, and thousands in Austin and Louisville. And Morristown, N.J.

A pattern of incompetence? And, certainly, a pattern of unemployment.

State government finances are a wreck.

Creating a storyline by misquoting Mark Steyn.

Sweet deals for Charles Rangel. Plus, “Ethics for sale?”

My liking for the iPod Touch.

Let My People Go-Go.

Repeating Depression-era mistakes?

Stories the press isn’t reporting. The cover-up is worse than the crime!

A Saul Alinsky boom on the right?

Something to mail your Congressman!

Pizza! On a stick!

And if you don’t think Elvis is Number One, you’re full of Number Two!

UPDATE: This blog report disputes the 18,000 number for Cincinnati. Well, who knows? It was a sheriff’s estimate, but all crowd estimates are iffy.