MRS. MADOFF exonerates Michael Mann. Sad, but true.

NEVADA IGNORES ACORN PR HEAD FAKE, proceeds with vote fraud prosecution. Good.

CAR WARS: the empire strikes again. “[W]e’ve got the government making decisions - perhaps rash decisions - about dealership closings in the wake of the GM and Chrysler nationalizations.... [I]s anyone surprised that such decisions are being made based on politics?”

ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER: Obama era makes Clinton, Bush look better.

MEET CABALIST: a newer, more exclusive JournoList.

Don't these guys ever learn? They just hung themselves with JournoList, and now they're buying another length of rope, forming a noose, tieing the other end to a high branch in a tree, climbing up on a stool, sticking their heads in the noose, and smiling.

Link from the Washington Examiner.

RISING SPECULATION ABOUT BOMBING IRAN’S NUKES: It would be ironic if the professorial Barack Obama launches a military attack when his supposedly cowboy predecessor George W. Bush declined to do so.

MORE LIBERAL HYPOCRISY: Kerry docks luxury yacht in Rhode Island to avoid Massachusetts taxes.

The more things “change” the more they stay the same get worse.

Link from Instapundit.

DOES HARRY REID know what time it is?

No. Don’t tell him.

NOT PART OF THE DODD-FRANK FINANCIAL BILL: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “The public-private mortgage buyers were the underwriters of the housing bubble ... and have already soaked taxpayers to the tune of $150 billion for unwise loans. These ‘government subsidized entities’ are on the hook for $5.4 trillion and the taxpayer commitment is unlimited. But there is no plan to spin down the taxpayer commitment or to set new rules for the disastrously mismanaged firms -- perhaps because so many of those who did the mismanaging are friends, associates and employees of the president and the primary authors of the bill.”

GOP TO FOCUS ON POLICY, not Pelosi: House Republicans, after failing to win recent elections by attacking Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are vowing to concentrate more on policy and less on personalities this time around. They’d better. Just not being a Democrat won’t work this year.

FROM TOWNHALL:

ANN COULTER: Obama's Poll Numbers Down, Imaginary Racism Up.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The New Racial Mess.

MIKE ADAMS: Professors and Pharisees.

Read them all.

JOURNOLIST: THE MANHATTAN-BELTWAY MEDIA ELITE is once again stripped of its pretense. Just as they all rallied around Dan Rather when he manufactured the news in 2004, now they appear ready to remain silent even in the aftermath of publication of record evidence that many in their number have the "journalistic ethics" of a Pravda lifer in the '60s.

TEA PARTY CAUCUS forms in Congress (third item). “So far, the Tea Party Caucus has these 28 Republican members from the House: Trent Franks of Arizona; Gary G. Miller of California; Doug Lamborn of Colorado; Gus Bilirakis and Cliff Stearns of Florida; Paul Broun, Phil Gingrey and Tom Price of Georgia; Dan Burton and Mr. Pence of Indiana; Steve King of Iowa; Jerry Moran and Todd Tiahrt of Kansas; John Fleming of Louisiana; Roscoe G. Bartlett of Maryland; Peter Hoekstra of Michigan; Ms. Bachmann of Minnesota; Todd Akin of Missouri; Walter B. Jones of North Carolina; Joe Wilson of South Carolina; Joe L. Barton, John Carter, Michael C. Burgess, John Culberson, Louie Gohmert, Pete Sessions and Lamar Smith of Texas; and Cynthia M. Lummis of Wyoming.”

My congressman, Frank Wolf, isn’t a member yet. He’d better be – soon.

LIBERAL JOURNALISTS suggest government shut down Fox News. The rationale for this censorship was that America was teetering on the brink of a fascist uprising (seriously) and the government needed to use extraordinary measures.

In the summer of 2009, agitated citizens from across the country flocked to town hall meetings to berate lawmakers who had declared support for President Obama’s health care bill. For most people, the protests seemed like an exercise in participatory democracy, rowdy as some of them became.

On Journolist, the question was whether the protestors were garden-variety fascists or actual Nazis.

The Daily Caller post is here.

DUDE IN 17-VEHICLE MOTORCADE tells federal workers to drive less.

To paraphrase Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit): “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people telling me it’s a crisis act like it’s a crisis.”

EVEN KARZAI IS DISSING OBAMA: "‘I remain determined that our Afghan national security forces will be responsible for all military and law enforcement operations throughout our country by 2014’ — more than three years after President Obama's date for the start of an American troop drawdown, [Afghan President Hamid] Karzai said.”

CAP AND TRADE is finally dead! About time.

A COMEDY OF ERRORS STUPIDITY: follow the links embedded in this Instapundit post.

UPDATE: More here.

EAT HEALTHIER, say the Obamas -- as the president scarfs pastry and cheeseburgers. Vacation in the Gulf States, they say as they head off to Maine. Drive less and reduce pollution, they say as the 17-car motorcade travels four blocks to a speech.

Do as we say, not as we do ....

DOES THE PRESS deserve a bailout? Not only "no," but "hell, no!"