JAMES LILEKS PAYS ATTENTION TO WOODY ALLEN, so that you don’t have to.

REDSTATE has coverage of the FEC hearings on blogs and internet political speech.

JUST HAVING IT ON IN THE BACKGROUND was almost a sort of Gitmo-level torture for me, but the Insta-Wife and Insta-Daughter — who came with me on this trip — watched this on pay-per-view in the hotel and liked it. More proof that you can love people whose taste differs from yours!

UPDATE: Lorie Byrd says I’m wrong. Maybe it’s a woman thing.

43 FAKED SOURCES BY ONE COLUMNIST at the Sacramento Bee?

A newspaper investigation of a former columnist for The Sacramento Bee could not verify 43 sources she used in a sampling of 12 years of her work.

Diana Griego Erwin resigned May 11 as she came under scrutiny about the existence of people she quoted. She has denied making up information, but Executive Editor Rick Rodriguez said the Bee should have been able to locate the people named in the stories.

As Neverdock observes:

Main stream media sneer at bloggers, claiming that we are unregulated, out of control and no one checks our work like their editors do theirs. Yet time and time again we find it is MSM who are faking it.

The whole high-horse act needs to be given a rest.

GREG DJEREJIAN: “There is an obsession with ‘deadlines,’ isn’t there, among the Democrat camp of late?”

He thinks that Kerry is giving bad advice to Bush. Kerry’s advice is unlikely to do any harm, but it does provide a useful diagnostic.

UPDATE: Arthur Chrenkoff: “Who said that politics is a cynical game?”

MICHAEL YON has more interesting war reporting posted. Don’t miss it.

UPDATE: Yon sends this email:

It’s apparent that the insurgents are getting better and better at what they do. It’s becoming a race between getting the ISF/government on its own steam faster than the insurgents are able to improve. It’s imperative to keep people at home from running out and leaving unfinished business. Otherwise, we will simply be teaching terrorists that terrorism pays.

I agree. I also think we need to be tightening the screws on Syria and Saudi Arabia. who are funding and supporting the insurgency.

NANOTECHNOLOGY, CHINA, AND UNOCAL: Some thoughts from Mike Treder.

GERHARD SCHROEDER was met by demonstrators protesting his anti-American rhetoric in Washington, D.C. yesterday.

MICKEY KAUS says a stiff judicial confirmation battle is just what Bush needs.

ROGER SIMON OFFERS PERSPECTIVE.

MIKE GODWIN has comments on the Grokster decision:

As a technical matter the content companies won MGM v. Grokster; the decision remands the case to a trial court for further factfinding as to whether defendants “induced” infringement. But it’s clear that they didn’t win anything like what they had been asking the Supremes for—a rule that would penalize any company that made money off a product widely used for infringement, regardless of what the company intended. And though the technical companies and consumer groups are troubled by the outcome in this case, there’s still much to encourage them.

Forget piracy. I think that Big Entertainment will try to use this to shut down anything that looks as if it might become an alternative distribution system. Meanwhile Chris Nolan observes: “If Hollywood’s lawsuits are persistent and ugly enough – if it keeps going after 20-year-olds – consumers could quickly and easily be brought to the tech community’s side. The iPod is a cherished device. So is TiVo. It’s not that hard to think of ways to use those innovations in smart consumer-oriented campaigns to change the law to protect inventors and innovators.”

Here’s the SlashDot discussion.

UPDATE: Ernest Miller has much more on Grokster.

KELO BLOWBACK: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has introduced eminent-domain reform legislation.

I’m kind of surprised to hear that Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. is endorsing the decision.

Meanwhile, here’s a liberal objection to the decision.

THREATENING MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL to hurt George Soros? Doesn’t this seem a bit petty, even by Washington standards?

EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN says that the New York Times violated its own ethical rules to run an anonymous-sourced piece attacking Peter Jackson.

Meanwhile Tom Maguire looks at efforts to fix the Times.

UPDATE: Tim Blair: “The New York Times has a ‘Credibility Committee’?”

JOE GANDELMAN has a roundup of reactions to the Ten Commandments decisions. He thinks that the Court has inflamed the political battle. Meanwhile, Mark Daniels offers a Christian perspective:

The cause to which every Christian is called to be committed–sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection and their power to give new life to all who follow Him–is not something that we are to “farm out” to the government. Each follower of Christ is to embrace this as part of their personal mission.

For we Christians to insist that tax dollars be used in what often is an act of proselytization not only violates constitutional principles, but Biblical ones as well.

Read the whole thing.

ANDREW SULLIVAN SUPPORTS Karl Rove!

UPDATE: Richard Posner weighs in.

So does Michael Barone: “One reason that the Democrats are squawking so much about Rove’s attack on ‘liberals’ is that he has put the focus on a fundamental split in the Democratic Party — a split among its politicians and its voters.”

(Somewhat) related item here.

FINISHED THE LECTURE, had lunch with some colleagues, now I’m headed out of town to give another one tomorrow. I’ll try to hit the blog later this afternoon or evening. In the meantime, visit SCOTUSblog and Volokh for more on the Supreme Court’s decisions. And I got a phone call from Austin Bay, who’s back in the States after a 51-hour airborne marathon starting in Delhi. He’ll be updating his blog later, but since he said he only got 5 hours of sleep on that trip, he may nap for a bit first.

The final word on the Supreme Court, however, may be this one: “Court Allows 10 Commandments on Seized Land.” But of course!

EVAN COYNE MALONEY’S NEW FILM got a mention in the New York Times this weekend.

IN THE MAIL: Truth: A Guide, by Simon Blackburn.

THIS WEEK’S CARNIVAL OF THE CAPITALISTS is up! And so is the Carnival of Revolutions. And last week I forgot to link to the Red Ensign Standard carnival of Canadians.

ARTHUR CHRENKOFF has his usual roundup of under-reported news from Iraq.

GREG DJEREJIAN DISCOVERS that even philosophers are not immune to lucre. Or to rationalization.

I’LL BE GIVING A LECTURE this morning but SCOTUSblog will be on top of Supreme Court events.