Knoxville, Tennessee.

DON SURBER: “Oh crap, I agree with Ron Paul.”

ED DRISCOLL: The Great Airbrushing meets the Great Relearning on the Fourth.

WONDER WOMAN GETS PANTS, and, more significantly, ditches the American flag from her costume. Hey, a post-American President needs a post-American superhero.

Jim Treacher: “I like her old costume better. The new one looks stupid and dumb.” And from the comments, “Who designed this outfit? Kagan?”

SOME INDEPENDENCE DAY THOUGHTS from Walter Russell Mead in London.

THE HILL: Democrats sounding economic warnings after downplaying recession threat. “The shift in rhetoric and emphasis comes as Democrats head into tough midterm elections, in which Republicans charge the majority has failed to shore up the economy. According to a series of Pew polls, only one-third of voters believe the 2009 stimulus package helped the economy and less than half say additional spending would help a lot.”

ROGER SIMON: Happy Unbirthday, America.

WHAT LESSON DOES MCDONALD HOLD FOR THE TEA PARTY CROWD? My Sunday Washington Examiner column is up. (Bumped).

INSIDER TRADING INSIDE THE BELTWAY.

CAR LUST: More on the $2000 used car challenge.

Farragut, Tennessee.

POLITICO: Democrats In A Jam As Economy Slows.

OKAY, FINE — but what about us men who wear 14EEEs?

JIM TREACHER: Al Gore’s latest plan for reducing carbon emissions: refusing to do the Electric Slide.

YOUR DREAM CAR: Propane-Burning, Supercharged Studebaker Lark!

AT AMAZON, a 4th of July watch sale.

TERRY TEACHOUT: The Best of All Possible Marches: John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” performed by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic.

And more versions at the link.

DARK WORLDS: Burch Goes Kindles. His Kindle sales rank isn’t bad.

GIVE US the freedom intended for us.

INDEPENDENCE DAY: More on marrying for money, from Jessica Wakeman.

MARTHA RADDATZ THANKS THE TROOPS, in her own, special way. “But it is helpful to have the unfiltered biases of journalists at least occasionally on public display so that we all know what they are, particularly when it comes to the lives of American servicemen and women, as viewed by our leading foreign correspondents.”

AT THE SPECULIST, it’s a Declaration Of Singularity.

A FLAVOR OF ICE CREAM I think I’ll skip.

KNOXVILLE’S CONGRESSMAN BLASTS REVENUE CAMERAS: “I think it’s just another way for cities to try to take money from the taxpayers. I think that’s become pretty obvious. It’s more about money than about safety. If it’s not, then let everybody who is fined contribute to some private charity (instead of paying the ticket).”