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DETROIT FREE PRESS EXPOSES Democrats’ Fake Tea Party Scheme In Michigan. They’re desperate, and they’ll try anything. They’re also not very bright, apparently . . . .

RUSS FEINGOLD IS dodging Obama in Wisconsin.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: 10 REASONS WHY PEOPLE ARE MISSING BUSH. Excerpt:

We naturally compare Bush to his chief critic and successor Barack Obama — and find the latter increasingly wanting as time goes by. Obama turned Bush’s misdemeanor deficits into felonious trillion-dollar annual shortfalls. He will pile up more debt than any other prior president. . . . Bush was tarred in 2004 for a ‘jobless recovery’ when unemployment hovered near 6%. It is now almost 10% and Obama still harps about ‘jobs saved.’ Scott McClellan may have been singularly inept; we are not so sure after Robert Gibbs.

Read the whole thing.

MATH VS. BILL GATES: Advantage: Math! Math usually wins.

BEDBUG UPDATE: TripAdvisor reviews: Bedbug mentions soar 11% this year.

More here: “The bedbug infestation has reached epidemic proportions – taking over not only private homes and hotels, but stores and movie theaters.”

IT’S COME TO THIS: A “Personal Activity Monitor” to remind you to get up and move around. “If you’ve been still for too long, the monitor vibrates gently to remind you to get up and get moving.” Sadly, this may be a good idea . . . .

IN H+ MAGAZINE, The New Era of Health and Medicine as an Information Technology is Broader than Individual Genes.

JOHN NOLTE: Today’s Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore Lied, James J. Lee Died. But, luckily, no one else.

DINO ROSSI LEADS PATTY MURRAY in new Rasmussen poll. It’s basically a tossup, but he’s now polling slightly ahead.

MICHAEL MOYNIHAN:

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who once denounced homosexual Cubans as “faggots” (maricones) who served the interests of imperialism, has “taken blame” for his revolution’s “excesses” against gay Cubans, which once included sending sexual counterrevolutionaries to prison camps. After offering a string of lame excuses—he was too busy thwarting American plots to stop sending his citizens to prison for being gay—Castro stopped short of actually apologizing.

How progressive the Massa is.

CHANGE: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Defaulting On Its Bonds.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE dwarfs housing bubble.

BYRON YORK: New evidence undermines feds’ case against Arizona.

IT’S AN HONOR just to be nominated.

FINANCIAL TIMES: Fears grow over global food supply. “Russia announced a 12-month extension of its grain export ban on Thursday, raising fears about a return to the food shortages and riots of 2007-08 which spread through developing countries dependent on imports. . . . The 2007-08 food shortages, the most severe in 30 years, set off riots in countries from Bangladesh to Mexico, and helped to trigger the collapse of governments in Haiti and Madagascar.”

Then there’s the whole wheat rust problem to worry about. . . .

HMM: ‘This Election Is Not About Obama. It Is About What Democrats Have Been Since 1972.’

Plus, advice for Republicans: “Just tell the people that the White House and Democrats will try and control the media dynamic and narrative. This is what they do. They don’t really know how to govern for the public good; if they could do that, they would be in better shape. What they do know to do is use media events to hold onto power, to go on television and blab. . . . Republicans ought to be using the words ‘October Surprise’ endlessly. Hold a contest to see who comes up with the most creative suggestion for what the Dems might do.”

GET THE POPCORN: Former Car Czar Rattner Rats on Obama. “Former Obama administration car czar Steven Rattner is coming out with a new book that depicts him swashbuckling through the financial crisis and also shows Obama as ‘out to get’ the car companies and the administration making political decisions about how to deal with bankrupt automakers GM and Chrysler.”

TIMOTHY DALRYMPLE: Have we squandered our cultural inheritance? “Believe it or not, Glenn Beck gets it. Whatever else Beck has right or wrong — and I confess I have never watched or listened to him much — it seems to me that he is correctly interpreting the present moment.”

CHRISTINA ROMER, MYSTIFIED. “Yes, we’ve noticed that every damned thing that happens is declared ‘unexpected.’ . . . The act is broadly on track is a helpful thing to believe if you want to experience every bit of bad news as a surprise. . . . Well, if you did the quantitative analysis in order to support the policy preference you put first, then it’s not… surprising that that your quantitative analysis was second-rate.”

AL SHARPTON channels Rod Blagojevich.