HOWARD BASHMAN’S BLOG, “HOW APPEALING,” is now being hosted by Legal Affairs magazine, a fine publication for which I have written on a couple of occasions. Another blogger has taken the Boeing! (More on the Boeing here.)

THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING TRIAL hasn’t gotten much attention, but Clayton Cramer has been following it and he’s noticing some disturbing developments.

UPDATE: More here, in a somewhat contrary vein.

THE TAXPROF BLOG has multiple posts on Bush, Cheney, and Kerry’s tax returns. And driving in to work this morning I heard Neal Boortz talking about the Kerry Massachusetts tax issue mentioned here on Saturday and featured in the New York Post yesterday. Looks like another issue has leaped from the blogosphere to the mainstream.

THOUGH I’VE SAID IN THE PAST that the Republicans are lagging the Democrats in terms of campaign blogging, they seem to be catching up. The official Bush site is now posting morning reads: sort of their own version of The Note.

THIS IS INTERESTING:

Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, may have helped sub-Saharan African countries develop weapons in clandestine exchanges for the region’s uranium, it emerged yesterday.

Dr Khan visited Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan between 1998 and 2002 in the wake of selling nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya in a black-market trade exposed this year.

The disgraced scientist toured Africa with an entourage of aides and nuclear experts, indicating the network was wider than previously thought, according to an Associated Press investigation published yesterday.

I have a feeling that there’s more to this story than we’ve heard, so far.

WELL, EVERYONE ELSE THOUGHT THE SAME THING, AFTER ALL:

Denmark has declassified intelligence reports compiled before the Iraq war which show officials thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
In one report, Iraq was thought to have both chemical and biological weapons, as well as an active nuclear programme.

The extracts appear to contradict claims leaked to a newspaper that there was no evidence to back up the theory.

And the story’s not over yet. The chemical weapons that Al Qaeda planned to use in Jordan reportedly came from Syria, but King Abdullah says they didn’t come from Assad. So are the Debka reports of Iraqi stashes in the Bekaa Valley more credible now? Who knows?

WOW, I just noticed the new Ken Layne and the Corvids site. Ken looks so . . . rugged.

USING MRI’s to evaluate political advertising? I’m skeptical — but also a bit disturbed. . . .

A SAUDI BLOGGER with an interesting perspective, via Jeff Jarvis.

FIRE GEORGE TENET: That’s what Andrew Sullivan says in response to a passage from Bob Woodward’s new book, Plan of Attack, that portrays Tenet telling a skeptical President Bush that the case for Iraqi WMD is a “slam dunk.”

I haven’t read Woodward’s book, and I’m never sure how much credence to give some of his unsourced accounts, but I haven’t had any great confidence in Tenet anyway and this certainly doesn’t help. On the other hand, the person in the best position to judge Tenet’s work, it would seem to me, is George W. Bush, and he hasn’t shown any signs of wanting to fire him. If this story were true, wouldn’t he?

UPDATE: Reader Julia Gordon emails:

I don’t think we can infer anything about Tenet’s performance from the fact that Bush doesn’t seem to want to fire him. Bush hasn’t fired Norman Mineta either.

Here’s an idea: Bush should bring Donald Trump on board as Director of Firing. After The Donald handles Tenet and Mineta, we’ll give him the State Department phone directory–he can start with the Saudi desk…

Good idea.

PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH has a column assessing the Bush Administration’s new stance on Israel and the Palestinians.

VIRGINIA POSTREL:

Two million people a year, most of them little kids, are dying because of the West’s anti-DDT superstition. Two…million…people…a…year.

Read the whole thing. More on this subject here.

ERIC MULLER has a memorial post that’s worth reading.

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS WITH JENNIFER: A superficially ordinary, but hence quite moving, photo gallery.

WONKETTE MAKES SLASHDOT: Maybe they’ll develop a Natalie-Portman-like obsession with her.

CITIZEN-POWERED NEWS: This is really interesting.

GARY FARBER NOTES that Rush Limbaugh appears to be peddling paranoia and conspiratorial lunacy. Shame on him.

Of course, David Shaw of the L.A. Times observes:

[P]aranoia and conspiratorial idiocy would be a big improvement on what Air America has been broadcasting. . . .

In fact, I think what ultimately annoyed — and disappointed me — the most about Air America was all the false, aren’t-we-funny, aren’t-we-smart laughter that virtually all the hosts gave each other. Four of Air America’s six weekday programs have co-hosts — and two have three co-hosts apiece, liberal collectives that stand in stark contrast to the individual, every-man-for-himself approach of the conservatives. Maybe that’s one reason they don’t work as well as, say, Limbaugh’s solo effort.

It shouldn’t take a village to raise a radio program.

Ouch.

UPDATE: About a million emailers say that Farber is taking Limbaugh out of context, and that Limbaugh was obviously joking. None, however, dispute Shaw’s characterization of Air America.

JOURNALISTS IN BED WITH THEIR SUBJECTS: Another interesting discovery in South Dakota.

OIL-FOR-TERROR:

It’s time to talk about Oil-for-Terror.

Especially with the U.N.’s own investigation into Oil-for-Food now taking shape, and more congressional hearings in the works, it is high time to focus on the likelihood that Saddam may have fiddled Oil-for-Food contracts not only to pad his own pockets, buy pals, and acquire clandestine arms — but also to fund terrorist groups, quite possibly including al Qaeda.

There are at least two links documented already. Both involve oil buyers picked by Saddam and approved by the U.N. One was a firm with close ties to a Liechtenstein trust that has since been designated by the U.N. itself as “belonging to or affiliated with Al Qaeda.” The other was a Swiss-registered subsidiary of a Saudi oil firm that had close dealings with the Taliban during Osama bin Laden’s 1990’s heyday in Afghanistan. . . .

As it now appears, Oil-for-Food pretty much evolved into a BCCI with a U.N. label. The stated aim of the program, which ran from 1996-2003, was to reduce the squeeze of sanctions on ordinary Iraqis by allowing Saddam to sell oil strictly to buy food and other relief supplies. As Oil-for-Food worked in practice, however, the program gave Saddam rich opportunity not only to pad his own pockets, but to fund almost anything and anyone else he chose, while the U.N. assured the world that all was well.

Read the whole thing.

LT SMASH is back and comparing Zapatero and Zapata. Socialism ain’t what it used to be.

THIS MORNING I NOTED THE UNSAVORY HISTORY of gun control, as described by two law professors, Bob Cottrol and Ray Diamond.. Now a reader sends this unsavory history of drug prohibition, by law professor Charles Whitebread.

I’m against both, of course.

UPDATE: Michael Melton emails:

You’ve said you are in favor of legalizing drugs. Does your position extend to permitting over the counter sales of drugs which now require a prescription? It doesn’t make much sense to sell heroin and cocaine over the counter, but require a prescription for eye drops and skin cream.

Hmm. I’m sure the Drug War is a mistake; I’m not so sure exactly how to replace current drug policy. But I’m inclined to think that antibiotics ought to be more strictly controlled — since their overuse or misuse can breed resistant strains that endanger large numbers of people — than “recreational” drugs, whose users primarily endanger themselves.

BUSINESS-BLOGGING AND ECONO-BLOGGING GALORE: This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up. Enjoy!

MORE ON KERRY, over at GlennReynolds.com.

DAVID BERNSTEIN praises John Ashcroft for protecting accused terrorists’ civil rights. No, really.

MORE CALLS FOR A GORELICK RECUSAL are appearing — inspired in part by Gorelick’s own efforts to defend herself.