ROGER KIMBALL: A spoke in the news cycle: slow down and join a freedom brigade near you. “Really what is needed is not a 12-step support group for damaged souls but a network of back-stiffening resource groups equipped to sound the alarm over the government’s astonishing encroachments upon prosperity of the United States and the freedoms of its citizens.”

Plus, TigerHawk on the mistaken but understandable desire to keep your head down. On this day of all days, perhaps people need to start showing a bit more backbone.

UPDATE: Protesting “corrupt media” at MSNBC headquarters. Why not send busloads of protesters to executives’ homes? It’s a tactic that’s ACORN-approved! But will it get the same boffo press coverage? Don’t count on it!

More here.