OUCH: "Jeffery Fagan, professor at Columbia University, and Stephen D. Sugarman, professor at U.C. Berkeley, have a plan on how gun manufacturers can help curb gun-related homicides in the U.S. If their credentials alone don’t make you chuckle at this premise, reading their actual plan might."

HELLER' S KITCHEN: Dave Kopel looks at the decision's impact on New York.

WOMEN AND DEMOCRATS: "Why do they hate us?"

They hate you for your freedom.

STRONG EVIDENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING.

Well, better that than global cooling.

ERIC EGLAND VS. Bill Delahunt. I've never liked Delahunt since I read about his water-carrying for Kennedy on the Cape Wind matter. That, however, was just ordinary sleaziness, not extra ordinary sleaziness.

EXTREME MORTMAN: "Poor Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick. In a year in which Democrats are making news for heading toward a supposed bulldozing of Republicans, the six-term Detroit Congresswoman faces bad news of her own: a tough re-election battle, in the primary. Who’s to blame? Would you believe, her son?"

ROGER SIMON: Some Fact-Checking Questions For The Editors Of The New Yorker.

BUZZ ALDRIN: Beat the Chinese to Mars.

IN HONOR OF GEORGE CARLIN: 7 Words You Can’t Say in Campaign 2008.

REMEMBERING THE PORSCHE 944: "It’s nearly impossible to describe the Porsche 944 without comparing it to the Porsche 924. . . . If the 924 is a nerd, the 944 is a jock. If the 924 is technobeat, the 944 is new wave. If the 924 is punk, the 944 is goth. Where the 924 is a scientist, with an engine optimized for longevity and fuel efficiency, the 944 is an athlete." The 924S, however, was a nerd who could kick the jock's ass as often as not.

ARNOLD KLING: "My wife's pet peeve is colleges that charge $50,000 a year and wind up graduating students who take jobs for $25,000 a year, if that much. My pet peeve is the nonprofit virus that college spreads."

MORE ON OBAMA'S APPALACHIAN PROBLEM: "Newsweek discovers that hey, those dumb hillbillies may decide the 2008 race — like they did the 2000 race."

Apparently, the vote for me, you ignorant rednecks approach isn't working that well.

DANIEL GROSS on why neither McCain nor Obama will be able to do much for the economy. Nope. Presidents' don't have much of a role in the economy, except taking credit or blame. And to the extent that they have the ability to affect the economy, it's more to screw it up than to make it better.

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