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Nation

Why there is no left-populist movement: Moe Lane
Fringe Extremist Obama Sues to Block Alabama Immigration Law: JWF
SCOTUSblog Tackles Obamacare: Cato

Courage to Stand, Courage to Sacrifice: NoisyRm
Tea Party Will Tour WI In Support Of GOP Facing Recalls: NiceDeb
Beware The 'Supercommittee': IBD

Economy

This Chart Says It All: P&F
Union Member Fined $300K Just for Finding Work!: STACLU
Obama Dedicates Another $95M To 'Social Equity' Program: JW

The Evil of Benevolence: PJM
Food Fascists: Hot Dogs Are Just as Bad as Cigarettes: RWN
Gird Your Coins: QE3 On the Way?: Malkin

Economic destruction by Commerce Clause – farm equipment edition: LI
Fiscal Conservatives Barred from Supercommittee: WS
A Modest Proposal for a Series of New Taxes: Wizbang

Climate & Energy

White House budget office raised risk on big solar loan guarantee: iWatch
Climate Thuggery: WUWT
More Mother****ing Child Abuse From The Dept. Of Edu.: Soylent Green

Media

Obama presser, summarized: Protein
Hey, President Obama: Where have all the civility police gone?: Malkin
Obsessed Much? Chaz Has Written 10 Posts Attacking Pam Geller Since the Norway Massacre: AmPower

Will ObamaCare Cover What Krugman's Smoking?: Reason
If Liberals Are Going To Call Us Terrorists….: RWN
HuffPo Smears Breitbart, Fails, Owes Apology *UPDATE: HuffPo Retracts, Apologizes: Loesch

Jonah Goldberg, In Fine Form: RSM
Heh: 'Million Teacher March' Falls 992,000 People Short: BlogProf
Fox News Continues to Dominate Cable Ratings: Glob

Paul Ryan Slams Obama in Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: WS
From “Astro Turf” to “Terrorists”: A timeline of Obama Administration hatred of the tea party movement: ATR
Ayn Rand Was Right: Wealthy Are on Strike Against Obama:BG

World

China Boldly Goes (Again) Where Moody's Has Never Gone Before, Downgrades US From A+ To A: ZH
Bin Laden Family To Be Key Partner In Building World's Tallest Skyscraper: Rhymes
Egyptians Turn Against Liberal Protesters: WSJ

Politicized Obama DOJ Finally Sues Alabama Over Illegal Immigration Law: RWN
Illinois' Bad Dream: IBD
Red, Delicious, and Rotten: How Apple conquered China and learned to think like the Communist Party: Foreign Policy

Sci-Tech

Is Amazon.com the Most Innovative Company in Tech?: Fool
Why Google is Winning the Smartphone Wars: Forbes
Florida Sea Turtle With Shattered Shell Saved by Orthodontist, Veterinarians, Biotech Firms: ABC

Crony Capitalists Back Monopoly: House members voice support for proposed AT&T, T-Mobile merger: Hill
700 MHz opportunity down the toilet (no, make that stolen): Cringely
Step Right Up: It's HFT Whack-A-Mole Time: ZH

Cornucopia

Your brain - with lips: C&S
Democrat!: American Digest
History Repeats Itself: A Kingly Proclamation By Joe Biden: SHN

I'll Gladly Pay You...: MOTUS
$145 Trillion - $100 Million/Pallet: C&S
Wednesday: Tea Party "Jobs Bash" one block away from Obama's Chicago fundraiser: Marathon

Image: Curmudgeonly & Skeptical
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Michele Bachmann for President

QOTD: "Included in the BEA's first ... estimate of second quarter 2011 GDP were significant downward revisions to previously published data, some of it dating back to 2003. Astonishingly, the BEA even substantially cut their annualized GDP growth rate for the quarter that they "finalized" just 35 days ago -- from an already disappointing 1.92% to only 0.36%, lopping over 81% off of the month-old published growth rate before the ink had completely dried on the "final" in their headline number....

This begs two simple questions: (1) At what point in time can we trust any of the data contained in these reports? (2) How can any of the current data be used to create meaningful Federal monetary or fiscal decisions?

We wonder what Mr. Bernanke thought when told that 80% of his "relatively slow recovery" during the first quarter had just vaporized ..." Richard Davis