MICKEY KAUS looks at Kristof’s correction.

HERE’S A TRANSCRIPT OF MARK STEYN, talking about the riots in Paris on Hugh Hewitt’s show last night.

MESSAGE TO DERBYSHIRE: No, we don’t all believe this.

A MONROE DOCTRINE for the Internet. I like that.

THE THREE MILLION DOLLAR MOUSE: A prize like that may spur some serious work in aging research.

ZELL MILLER WRITES on the advantages of marriage.

(Via Bill Quick).

UPDATE: More here.

I’LL BE ON HUGH HEWITT’S SHOW at about 7:30, talking about avian flu. Listen online here.

UPDATE: Here’s a link to my book on Amazon, as promised on the show.

EGYPTIAN BLOGGER ARRESTED: The Big Pharaoh reports:

Egyptian blogger Abdolkarim Nabil Seliman who runs the blog Kareem Amer was arrested on October 26h from his home. According to his family, his arrest might be a result of his writings. His brother said that Abdolkarim has a tense relation with Islamists in his hometown of Alexandria. He added that the Islamists might be the ones behind filing a complaint against his brother.

The webpage for the Egyptian Embassy in the United States is here.

More here.

MILBLOGGERS OFFER ADVICE TO THE SENATE:Here, and here.

UPDATE: At IMAO, a declaration of quagmire amid mounting casualties.

WHO SAYS BLOGS DON’T AFFECT ELECTIONS:

A blogger’s depiction of Lt. Gov. Michael Steele in minstrel makeup has brought to surface issues of race — and fidelity to one’s race — as the Republican seeks to become Maryland’s first black senator.

A black man in New York who runs a left-leaning news commentary site created the image and condemned Steele last week as “Simple Sambo.”

It’s interesting that “race-loyalty” has become an important campaign issue.

ABORTION, PATERNITY AND ALITO: Jeff Goldstein responds to Kevin Drum, and reminds us of the difference between judges and legislators.

DANIEL GLOVER: 47 references to “blogs” in yesterday’s campaign-finance debate.

MICHAEL MALONE looks at the future of the blogosphere, through the lens of journalistic criticism:

Let me make a prediction. Five years from now, the blogosphere will have developed into a powerful economic engine that has all but driven newspapers into oblivion, has morphed (thanks to cell phone cameras) into a video medium that challenges television news, and has created a whole new group of major companies and media superstars. Billions of dollars will be made by those prescient enough to either get on board or invest in these companies. At this point, the industry will then undergo its first shakeout, with the loss of perhaps several million blogs — though the overall industry will continue to grow at a steady pace.

And, at about that moment, Forbes will announce that the blogosphere is the Next Big Thing for investors. Maybe they’ll even invite me back to Forbes on Fox.

Heh.

ROGER SIMON has a firsthand account on happenings in Paris.

TOM MAGUIRE is parsing Nicholas Kristof’s response to Jack Shafer.

HERE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF LAW, we’re looking to hire a new Dean and a new faculty member for next year. Descriptions for both positions are here.

IN THE MAIL: Robert Sherrill’s First Amendment Felon : The Story of Frank Wilkinson, His 132,000 Page FBI File and His Epic Fight for Civil Rights and Liberties.

What’s sad is that campaign finance “reform” threatens to create a whole new generation of “First Amendment felons” whose only crime is writing about things that Congress would rather they didn’t.

MEDIA MATTERS RESPONDS to the Jake Tapper item I posted yesterday.

PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: Alaska’s Congressional delegation is getting bad press in Alaska:

Sen. Ted Stevens rails on the Senate floor against Sen. Coburn’s assault on Alaska spending. The response? From nationally syndicated conservative writers such as Cal Thomas and John Stossel comes word that Stevens’ departure would be welcome. They don’t see him as Alaskan of the Century. They see him as a poster-senator for runaway spending and skewed national priorities.

How would Alaskans feel about sending a big share of their federal taxes to another state whose residents keep taking more than they give to the federal treasury, insist on paying no state income or sales tax and receive hundreds of millions every year in payments from their state government for individual shares of their state’s resource wealth?

In Illinois and Louisiana and West Virginia and elsewhere, it’s logical to ask: More than $31 billion in the Alaska Permanent Fund, generating interest and dividends, and you want the rest of America to bankroll your bridges? Death grip on your state dividends and a zealot’s passion against taxes, and yet you demand the taxes of others to pay for things you won’t pay for yourself? How long do you think you can play this game?

We’re getting closer to the day when the rest of the country says: “You want the goodies? Pay for them yourselves.”

Could be. Though I doubt West Virginia will be taking a lead role in denouncing pork . . .

LARRY KUDLOW has a new website, and he’s podcasting now.

THIS SEEMS LIKE A WORTHY CAUSE: Laptops for wounded soldiers. (Via TTLB).

CATHY YOUNG WRITES on abortion, fathers’ rights, and equality.

MICHAEL TOTTEN REPORTS from a ghost city in Cyprus.

THE INSTA-WIFE has a review of James Lileks’ new book, Mommy Knows Worst.

KOS JOINS IN CONDEMNING CONGRESS: Along with some interest groups.