EDWARD VOORHEES: So how’s the Federal Reserve doing? “In other words, the value of the dollar remained extremely stable for 150 years, the Fed was created in order to ‘stabilize the value of the dollar,’ and the result has been a 95% devaluation of the dollar in less than 100 years following its creation.”

BRUCE BARTLETT ON THE REPUBLICANS: “I will know that the party is on the path to recovery when someone in a position of influence reaches out to former Republicans like me.”

PHIL BOWERMASTER: The Coupon Queen, the Safety Net, and the Future of Free.

POLITICO: Chris Dodd Says Obama Needs to “Step Up.”

“THAT WAS A GOOD ONE.”

CAROL SHEA-PORTER DOESN’T KNOW HOW MANY CZARS THERE ARE. Well, it’s hard to keep track. Maybe this will help.

HMM: Obamacare Fuels Surge of Grassroots Bucks for GOPers.

AMERICAN ROYALTY: A tale of two newspapers. “Glenn Greenwald is right. This nation might as well embrace royalty and be done with it. The only part I don’t get, is how he can get snarky about the fact that Jenna Bush just got a part-time TV gig, without once mentioning the colossal royal funeral we just witnessed or the subsequent succession struggle now starting to play out in the party of the little guy. Kennedy succession tea-leaf reading follows.”

APPARENTLY, HIS LAST WORDS WERE TWEETED: R.I.P., DJ AM.

ANDREW BREITBART: The End to Two Grim Fairy Tales.

IS “TEABAGGER” THE NEW “N-WORD?” No, but when I hear someone use it, I know that nothing they say on the subject is worth taking seriously. Either they’re deliberately using it as a sexual slur, or they’re too ignorant to be worth listening to.

UPDATE: Okay, there was supposed to be a link in this, but there’s not and now I can’t find the post it was supposed to link to. D’oh.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Ah, here it is.

THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS WEEKEND: Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter has constituent arrested for disrespect.

Thoughts on the Singularity.

Next California Governor: Tom Campbell?

Poll: 57% would replace entire Congress.

Feds looking forward to de-suburbanizing America?

Dems moving to cover for Charlie Rangel. But their patience is running out.

1,000 show up for Tucson Tea Party town hall meeting.

Heath Shuler says healthcare bill should start over from scratch.

Dog abuse that would chill Michael Vick’s blood. Or William Shatner’s.

Stephen Green visits Bikini Bottom.

MICKEY KAUS: “Is Christopher Hitchens really offering up the most ancient, cliched rationalization of infidelity in defense of his friends, Elizabeth and John Edwards?”

WSJ: Raft of Deals for Failed Banks Puts U.S. on Hook for Billions.

TED KENNEDY SPENT HIS LIFE LOOKING OUT FOR OTHERS? Uh huh. That’s the ticket.

YOUR MORNING ROUNDUP of gloomy economic news.

THE TALIBAN PUSH BACK: Noah Shachtman is reporting from Afghanistan.

Plus, A close fight and a couple of miracles.

THE LATEST RASMUSSEN RESULTS: “If Barack Obama hoped to gain some breathing room with his vacation, or perhaps even pick up some sympathetic vibe for eulogizing Ted Kennedy on Friday, Rasmussen’s latest poll shows that nothing has changed in the direction of his approval ratings. With one of the three days in Rasmussen’s presidential tracking poll after the wake, Obama has hit his highest level of strong disapproval yet, at 42%. . . . The polling on ObamaCare has frozen at 53%-43% disapproval. That’s unchanged from two weeks ago, which indicates that the big push from unions, AARP, and other advocates in the wake of the town-hall meetings has had little effect. They may have arrested the free-fall, but they’re not changing any minds.”

A ONE-WOMAN STREETCORNER PROTEST AGAINST OBAMACARE gets a lot bigger.

L.A. FIRES: Jerry Pournelle had to cancel a book-signing. Plus, a threat to Mt. Wilson. Here’s a link to the Mt. Wilson Webcam. And below is what it’s showing at the moment.