ARTHUR CHRENKOFF UNVEILS the United Nations’ secret color-coded alert system.

JOSCHKA FISCHER CLAIMS VINDICATION, but David Kaspar looks at the record and finds otherwise.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL has an interesting interview with new FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, who favors loosening up rules on broadband:

Mr. Martin’s theory is that phone and cable companies will be more inclined to expand broadband connections to consumers if they don’t have to help foot the bill for their rivals. “If you have to share your network at marginal costs with your competitors, going forward you won’t have an incentive to invest in your network,” he says. Last month, the Supreme Court deferred to the FCC on the matter, handing Mr. Martin an invitation to write new rules.

The full transcript is here, with more detail, and you can also see some disappointing comments about broadcast indecency.

WANT HEALTH-CARE BLOGGING? This week’s Grand Rounds is up!

PUBLIUS ANALYZES a leaked draft of the Iraqi Bill of Rights.

UPDATE: Meryl Yourish says that Publius was wrong.

YES, TOM TANCREDO IS SOUNDING PRETTY DUMB. But there’s plenty of idiocy to go around.

UPDATE: More from Donald Sensing and Hugh Hewitt.

RYAN SAGER: First they came for the talk-show hosts . . . .

TERROR-BOMBING EUPHEMISM OF THE DAY: “Mobile self-demolition specialists.” Coming soon to the BBC and NYT!

Meanwhile, Prof. Bainbridge has thoughts on multiculturalism and terror.

IRANIAN DISSIDENT AKBAR GANJI is near death.

TOM MAGUIRE says the press is moving the goalposts on Bush.

Meanwhile, well, just read this. And this: “Did Rove force Cooper to call him using telepathic orders, secretly controlling Cooper?”

Quite possibly. At least, superhuman telepathic powers on Rove’s part would explain a lot.

And there’s more on the goalpost-moving thing here.

MY STAY IN HILTON HEAD isn’t quite a vacation. I’m here for the Southeastern Association of Law Schools conference. Today at lunch there was an interesting panel on the Solomon Amendment and military recruitment at law schools. It was more balanced than you might expect (in fact, if the moderator hadn’t decided to weigh in, it would have leaned pro-Solomon Amendment), and interesting. My own panel was on free speech and the Internet, mostly from an international perspective. Pretty interesting discussion, with the Canadians present weighing in in favor of “hate speech” laws, but with not many others agreeing.

THIS WEEK’S CARNIVAL OF LIBERTY IS UP!

UPDATE: So is this week’s Carnival of Music.

And don’t miss the Carnival of the Revolutions, either!

For that matter, don’t miss the Carnival of Cars, which should satisfy your autoblogging needs.

FACT-CHECKING MORGAN SPURLOCK: It seems like a pretty demanding job.

THIS WEEK’S CARNIVAL OF THE CAPITALISTS is up!

CARNIVAL OF THE CANADIANS: This week’s Red Ensign Standard is up.

HARRY’S PLACE has a post on moral equivalence, now and then, comparing “pacifist” comments that a German victory in World War II would represent “justice” with similar tolerance for Islamic terror today.

Meanwhile, Mickey Kaus notes that moral equivalence extends even to Martians:

Did War of the Worlds screenwriter David Koepp really say that the Martians in the movie represent “American military forces,” while Tom Cruise and the embattled Earthlings represent Iraqi civilians? Looks like he did.

Jeez, you just can’t make this stuff up.

BELDAR: “It started with a burrito and a jalapeño last Sunday night that turned out not to have caused indigestion.” There’s lots of photo-hospiblogging, too. And note the important point: He didn’t have the classic symptoms, just something that felt odd and wrong. Keep that in mind, as it could save your life.

(When the Insta-Wife had her heart attack 6 years ago, it was diagnosed as a panic attack. They didn’t even do blood tests. That was probably because she was a young, athletic woman, but they should have done them. Hospitals are usually better with women now, but if you have shortness of breath or chest pain insist on the tests.) Meanwhile, send Beldar your prayers and good wishes.