David Harris files a video report from Harvard Square: Protesters protest bailout, foreclosures and Jeff Jacoby.

Jeff Jacoby repeats the canard about Sarah Palin that "she pulled the plug on her state's notorious $400 million 'bridge to nowhere.'" A few minutes of web research would have revealed that Palin was a big proponent and only reluctantly "pulled the plug" on state funding when it was clear the federal pork wasn't coming through.

Of course, now she's saying:

I championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. In fact, I told Congress — I told Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that bridge to nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, I said we'd build it ourselves.

That doesn't make her a maverick. That makes her a liar.

Jacoby concludes his column today: "That government is best that governs least." Aaron Weber wonders:

I hope this means that he's headed immediately for Somalia, where nongovernance has turned the nation into a libertarian paradise.

He adds:

If the Globe is so hard up for cash, why not drop the waste of space and put the savings into articles on items of actual local interest by decent writers with worthwhile opinions, like Joel Brown?

Actually, that's the nicest thing Elias says about Jeff Jacoby.

First it was Ted Kennedy and the made-up story about the college student and Homeland Security. Now Lis and Dan team up to suggest that a recent Jeff Jacoby column included a bogus story about a black Maryland Republican allegedly pelted with Oreos.

Disclosure? I got yer disclosure right here!