Breaking: Senate votes to cut off federal funding for ACORN; Update: Child-Whoring Pimp Assistance 7 identified; Update: Brooklyn DA “taking a look”; Update: ACORN disappointed  —  Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) introduced an amendment to the HUD and Transportation appropriation bill to strip ACORN of all federal funding.

Ad Boycott Costs Glenn Beck Over 50% of Ad Dollars  —  62 Companies Refusing to Advertise with Beck Cost Fox  —  Nearly $600k Per Week  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — The advertising boycott of Glenn Beck has cost the controversial host over half of his estimated advertising revenue since it was launched by ColorOfChange.org a month ago.

Wait a Second.  Why Shouldn't We Insure Illegals?  —  Insuring undocumented immigrants might be unpopular, but it would be good for the economy.  —  Call it the shout heard round the world.  Since last Wednesday, when Rep. Joe Wilson, Republican of South Carolina, interrupted Barack Obama's big speech …

Obama May Do Back-to-Back TV Interviews Sunday  —  It's going to be awfully hard to avoid President Obama on television this Sunday.  —  The president is going to appear on five Sunday talk shows - five - to press his case for health care, White House officials disclosed.  That is a presidential record.

CNN Poll: Americans divided on President's health care plans  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — In the wake of President Barack Obama's nationally televised speech to Congress last week, a new national poll indicates that the president's approval rating is on the rise.

Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession  —  The biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history lies at anchor east of Singapore.  Never before photographed, it is bigger than the U.S. and British navies combined but has no crew, no cargo and no destination …

House Dems: We Will Condemn Wilson For “Breach Of Decorum,” Not For “Speech”  —  The House Dem leadership has decided that it must condemn Joe Wilson for his “you lie,” outburst, and is likely to decry his “conduct” and his “breach of decorum” as early as tomorrow, rather than censure him for …

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON FINANCIAL RESCUE AND REFORM  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much.  It is wonderful to be back in New York after having just been here last week.  It is a beautiful day and we have some extraordinary guests here in the Hall today.  I just want to mention a few.

OBAMA CALLS KANYE ‘JACKASS’  —  ABC's Terry Moran set the Twitter-sphere all aflutter when he wrote:  —  We've reached out to Moran and will update this post when we learn more.  —  Now, an ABC spokesperson explains to POLITICO what happened:  —  “In the process of reporting on remarks …

RIP, Jody Powell  —  ABC News has learned that former White House press secretary Jody Powell has died.  —  This afternoon at his house on the Eastern Shore in Maryland, Powell had an apparent heart attack, a family friend said.  —  The former press secretary for President Jimmy Carter was the CEO of the PR firm Powell Tate.

Murtha to Obama: No more troops  —  House defense spending cardinal John Murtha, an early bellwether of congressional opposition to the Iraq war, has made his strongest comments yet opposing more U.S. troops for the war in Afghanistan.  —  The Pennsylvania lawmaker and Vietnam veteran …

Who are the undeserving “others” benefiting from expanded government actions?  —  The New York Times' Ross Douthat argues, uncontroversially, that the tea-party protests, townhall outbursts and related appendages aren't about specific health care proposals but, instead, are motivated …

Some fear GOP is being carried to the extreme  —  The Republican establishment hopes cooler heads will prevail over strongly anti-Obama parts of the conservative base.  —  Reporting from Washington - Amid a rebirth of conservative activism that could help Republicans win elections next year …

Wealthcare  —  Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right  —  I.  —  The current era of Democratic governance has provoked a florid response on the right, ranging from the prosaic (routine denunciations of big spending and debt) to the overheated (fears of socialism) …

Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low  —  Public Evaluations of the News Media: 1985-2009  —  The public's assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans' views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.

Boortz compares President Obama to a child molester.  —  Today, on the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, President Obama will speak on Wall Street to “try to breathe new life into efforts to overhaul the financial regulatory system.”  Hate radio host Neal Boortz used …

VARIOUS READERS hope that the Boob Czar will become a fixture at Tea Party protests, the way the Debt Star already has.  We'll see!

SONIC WEAPONS USED IN IRAQ POSITIONED AT CONGRESSIONAL TOWNHALL MEETINGS IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY  —  A Joint Investigative Report by East County Magazine and Liberty One Radio  —  “Long-range acoustic devices [LRADs] for crowd control can be extremely dangerous.  These are used in Iraq to control insurgents.

A Destructive Toy Story Made in Washington  —  A dubious safety law is hammering small business, but Congress refuses to fix the mess it created in 2008.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Last Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee finally held a hearing on the highly controversial …

Unamplified, Beck's Voice Still Carries  —  Establishment Outlets Missed Van Jones Story  —  It has become a familiar chain reaction: Talk-show hosts whip up a noisy controversy, which hits higher decibels as it spreads to the establishment media, which costs some unfortunate soul his job.

Patrick Swayze was the ultimate romantic lead  —  In ‘Dirty Dancing’ and ‘Ghost,’ he projected vulnerability and strength  —  Patrick Swayze did action movies and historical drama.  He even hosted a well-regarded episode of “Saturday Night Live.”  But he will be best remembered …

Freshwater rage  —  I'm still on the road, with only sporadic internet access.  So I've missed out on much of the outpouring of rage over my magazine article.  I gather, though, that the usual suspects are utterly outraged at my suggestion that freshwater macro has spent several decades heading down the wrong path.