SOME PHOTOS FROM TONIGHT’S DENVER TEA PARTY RALLY.

IS IT FEAR, OR EMBARRASSMENT? Dem Rep Tim Ryan Cancels Town Hall Over Fears of Being Alone With Constituents. No, it’s got to be fear. These guys lost all shame long ago. . . .

Related: Tim Ryan: Profile In Courage.

CONGRESSMAN: If Guam Gets Too Overpopulated It Might Tip Over. The country’s in the very best of hands.

UPDATE: Reader Rob Crawford writes:

In the PJTV interview with Jonah Goldberg, you expressed the belief that one of our problems is that the elite really isn’t all that elite. I realize Hank Johnson is ill, but that doesn’t excuse his continued occupation of one of the highest offices in the land, if his mental function is as impaired as the recent video suggests. And, I think, it confirms your thesis — if Congress actually *CARED* if he could do his job, if the voters *CARED*, he’d have been asked to resign. Heck, Kennedy would have been asked to resign years before his death, and Byrd would also be shown the door.

Indeed.

DALLAS NEWS: The Dubious Logic Linking Tea Parties to Racism.

AT LEAST THIS NOT-SO-SMART DIPLOMACY comes from somebody else for a change. Sometimes you prove a point by trying to refute it, and this is one of those times . . . .

“NUDGE” APPROACH TO ENERGY SAVING vetoed in Utah.

XENI JARDIN IS hands-on with the Apple iPad.

WHEN APRIL FOOL’S DAY PRANKS backfire.

REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from all over.

INSTAVISION: I talk with Prof. Randy Barnett about the constitutionality of ObamaCare, and what to do about it.

IS CANADA KICKING SAND IN OUR FACE?

I don’t blame any American diplomat for seizing the opportunity to criticize Canada for its lack of sensitivity and inclusiveness; they do it to us all the time and I don’t see why the Canadians should have all the fun. Let’s criticize them for riding roughshod over the rights of small countries and native peoples now and then just to let them know how pointless and infuriating that kind of self-righteous and empty posturing can be. Even so, lecturing one day and begging in vain on the morrow isn’t the most dignified diplomatic posture an American secretary of state can assume. And the pattern of poor relations with close allies is disturbing. Currently embroiled in a quarrel with Israel over Jewish housing construction in East Jerusalem, the administration recently angered the EU by refusing to attend a summit in Madrid, embarrassed Britain by seeming to side with Argentina over negotiations over the Falklands Islands, canceled an invitation to Afghanistan’s President Karzai, and cheesed off Brazil when President Obama made his last minute, ill-fated dash to Copenhagen to snatch the 2016 Olympics from Rio. And where the administration hasn’t figured out a way to insult an old ally, Congress steps in — this time by passing another version of the Armenian genocide resolution through a key House committee.

Where’s that “smart diplomacy” we were promised? Plus, this advice: “Beating up on our few remaining friends isn’t going to fix things. What the President really needs is a victory over an adversary.”

MORE ON FIGHTING CASTRO WITH ANDY GARCIA from Roger Simon.

A CLOSE LOOK AT Saturn’s “Death Star” moon.

AT AMAZON, markdowns on baby supplies.

“GREAT JOB CLEARING THE CRIME SCENE, GUYS.” As between law enforcement bumbling and reportorial ignorance about firearms, it’s hard to know how to bet . . . .

MARCH 31: A day that, happily, turned out not to live in infamy.

“GREEN FOOD” LIES? You mean it’s mostly marketing hype? Who’d’a thunk it?

FIGHTING CASTRO IN L.A. with Andy Garcia and . . . Perez Hilton?

COLA-DRINKING can lower sperm counts. “A Danish study suggests drinking a lot of cola regularly could men’s lower sperm count by almost 30 percent. The culprit does not appear to be caffeine, since coffee did not have the same effect, even though it contains even more caffeine than cola.”

WITH EASTER COMING, reader Rich Brichcy asks for my recipe for roast leg of lamb. Here it is.

DAVID LETTERMAN GIVES THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT “the best showcase it’s ever had?”

OOPS: FBI Sees Little Chance of Militia Outbreak, Olbermann Hardest Hit.

WEAPONS-GRADE CONDIMENT: Most Dangerous Object in the Office: Pure Cap Hot Sauce.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Jamie Gorelick Helping Rewrite Privacy Laws.

YES: Debt Now A Foreign Policy Problem.