DON SURBER: Who's right? " Times of London: Muslim radicals are giving up on terrorism. Washington Post: A new generation of terrorists rises."

RASMUSSEN: "Just 17% of voters nationwide believe that most reporters try to offer unbiased coverage of election campaigns."

WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE MOON ONCE WE GET (BACK) THERE? Mark Whittington has thoughts. Meanwhile, at Slashdot they're taking suggestions. The starter: "I'd like to see it used as the set to film The Moon is a Harsh Mistress ."

A LOOK AT LAW PROFESSORS and SSRN rankings. You can make too much of those things, but overall I think it's a good thing, for the reason quoted in the piece: "To the extent that people do start chasing download numbers, it is an incentive to careerist legal scholars to write in a way that is accessible. In the past, the incentive has been to write in a way that is impenetrable."

Some (much) earlier thoughts on this general subject here.

FIGHTING FOR FREE SPEECH: It will require a hands-on effort to keep our government's hands off the Internet — but it is a battle worth waging.

NATALIE SOLENT: Canada is no longer a free country.

JOHN TIERNEY: Expense-account science.

OBAMA WEBSITE: How the Jewish Lobby Works.

UPDATE: Airbrushed.

(Note: Added "website" to make clear it's not Obama himself who said this stuff. But note that this is his official website.)

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Martin Shoemaker emails:

The Community Blogs at Obama 08 are no more “official” than the rantings of BDS sufferers at an Obama rally. I have a blog there, just to prove how easy it is to get one, and Senator Obama has ZERO chance of getting my vote. You could have one. It’s as simple as signing up. There’s no vetting process of any kind.

Any nut with an axe to grind can post any offensive material on the Community Blogs, and the Obama campaign will be unaware unless someone raises a stink. In fact, it’s entirely possible that a McCain operative could go on the site, create a blog, post offensive material, and then leak the URL to LGF to “prove” how disreputable the Senator’s supporters are. Shades of Dan Rather!

Or of Canadian "Human Rights" investigators. But the Kos-style open diary thing seems like a highly unwise approach for a Presidential campaign, even one that expects Big Media outfits to protect them on issues like this, as isn't done for others.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: "Why is the U.N. holding conferences about rising food prices, but not spiraling oil prices that in various ways account for them? Somehow in the globalist mindset the agricultural producing world is more culpable than the non-productive OPEC world." Probably a differential in bribery rather than in philosophy, accounts for this . . . .

THOUGHTS ON RICHARD CLARKE, TRIBALISM, and revenge fantasies.

PHOTOS: On the northern Martian plains.

OBAMA THE TROPHY WIFE? "It seems as if Hillary Clinton is just the latest mature, dependable, experienced woman to be unceremoniously dumped for a younger, prettier doe-eyed companion. No wonder many women are mad."

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