TWITTER FEED OF THE DAY: 50 Sheds Of Grey. It’s about sheds.

THE PROBLEM IS, THE WAY WE DID IT PROVIDED INSUFFICIENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRAFT: US Carbon Output Forecasts Shrink Again.

Much to the surprise (and, one suspects, the chagrin) of the deranged doomsaying wing of the environmental movement, new forecasts of US CO2 emission are out and they point to an even steeper drop than the last set of predictions.

No cap and trade, no huge new taxes on oil, no draconian driver restrictions, no air conditioning bans, no rationing — and the US is on track to cut its CO2 emissions 17 percent below the 2005 levels by 2020 — and to keep cutting our emissions levels beyond that.

And this news doesn’t come from embattled climate skeptics banished to the fringes of the scientific community; these numbers come from the Obama administration and are sitting right up on Don Lashof’s well respected blog at the National Resource Defense Council website. Take a look for yourselves.

So, to summarize, the United States of America basically blew the global greens off completely, trampling all over their carbon tax and cap and trade agendas, and earning wails and shrieks of hatred at the Rio+20 Summit — while making huge strides toward reducing CO2 emission levels.

It’s almost as if there is no connection between the green policy agenda and environmental progress.

Next you’ll be telling me that Solyndra was a scam.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: EPA official who quit over ‘crucify’ remarks hired by green group. Revolving doors and mutual back-scratching.

MOVIES & TV: New Stuff on Blu-Ray.

BILL WHITTLE: Afterburner: Fast and Furious: Follow The Ideology.

ZIMMERMAN’S ATTORNEY: Trayvon Martin killed ‘because of his own doing.’

THE SUPREME COURT SAYS “YOU LIE:” White House Already Denying That Mandate Is A Tax. If you deny that it’s a tax, you admit that it’s unconstitutional. . . .

ECO-HYPOCRISY from Nanny Bloomberg.

A POSSIBLE NEW LOGO FOR THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN — artwork by Zombie.

RIC LOCKE SAYS THANK YOU: “My normal response to donations is to reply to each one with a ‘thank you’. In this case, that won’t be very practical — several thousand such replies would be necessary, and having to wade through them one at a time (the only way I can do it with my email program) would sort of cancel the good effects.”

IS THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE A “TAX” UNDER THE ORIGINAL MEANING?

REPAIR SQUAD: Randy Barnett says Roberts’ tax power argument is “lame” but “easily fixed.”

SHOCKER: Eric Holder’s Justice Department Won’t Prosecute Eric Holder for Contempt.

UPDATE: Related: Obama Contributor, Who Helped Enact Assault-Weapons Ban, Ran ‘Fast and Furious.’

DAVID BERNSTEIN: Is This 1936?

ED RENDELL: ObamaCare’s “an albatross around our neck.”

ADVICE: Save The ObamaCare Adrenalin for Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts.

BUT OF COURSE: “You were just held in criminal contempt of Congress, Eric Holder. What are you going to do next?” “I’m goin’ to Disney World!”

SO, AM I REALLY the Paul Harvey of the Internet?

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WHAT TO DO when your Twitter account gets compromised.

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FIRST FEMALE TAIKONAUT: It’s Good To Stand On Earth.

In other space news: World’s most powerful rocket launches secret US satellite.

ANDREW MCCARTHY: Fast And Furious Noose Tightens Around Justice Department. “Explosive reports are now surfacing that Justice Department officials clearly knew about the Fast and Furious ‘gunwalking’ tactic, in which the federal government — actually, a task force comprised of Justice Department agencies and led by ATF, a Justice Department agency — allowed upwards of 1400 illegally purchased firearms to be routed to violent Mexican drug gangs. This recklessness led, quite foreseeably, to the murder of at least one federal agent, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, and probably a second, Homeland Security Agent Jaime Zapata. There are reportedly also scores of victims in Mexico.”

UPDATE: Darrell Issa Puts Details of Secret Wiretap Applications in Congressional Record.

RALLYING AGAINST OBAMACARE TOMORROW at the Utah State Capitol.

I AM A LIMITED RESOURCE: Reader Doug Martin emails:

I’ve been reading your blog for something like 12 years. I’ve sent you about 4 email with comments on your posts during this time. None got any play on your site, while they seemed (to me) to be pertinent to the conversation. Can you tell me, are my comments just lame, or is the volume just too much to focus? On the blog will be fine… Others might have had the same experience, and it would be nice to set expectations for others who are fans of your commentary. Keep it up.

Yeah, sorry. The problem is that I get more email than I can read. I do my best, but I miss a lot. I hope that I don’t miss anything too important, but that’s not always true either. (Somebody sent me on-the-scene pics of the Deepwater Horizon explosion but I didn’t see them until days later when he complained.) I could pay someone to read my email — I think Andrew Sullivan does that — but I’d rather miss stuff un-systematically than have things filtered in ways I might not even fully understand. I do read more email than I have time to post or reply to, but by no means all of it. Sorry, there’s just one of me.

UPDATE: Reader Rob Ritchie writes: “Have we reached Peak Instapundit?” Yeah, pretty much.