DANIEL GLOVER interviews Roy Blunt. Interviews with Shadegg and Boehner are coming.

CAM EDWARDS:

Last night, in addition to Cindy Sheehan being arrested for her anti-war t-shirt, the wife of a Florida representative was apparently asked to leave for wearing a support the troops shirt.

Who the heck wears a t-shirt to the State of the Union address anyway?

I’m sure The Manolo would send the Fashion Police after both of them.

Hey, maybe he did! It’s a fair cop.

I’VE MENTIONED JOEL MILLER’S BOOK Size Matters: How Big Government Puts the Squeeze on America’s Families, Finances, and Freedom before. (Earlier today, in fact!) He’ll be talking about it at the CATO Institute tomorrow. Drop by if you’re in DC. Or take advantage of the streaming audio and video if you’re not. (Via Hit and Run).

I also recommend his earlier book, Bad Trip : How the War Against Drugs is Destroying America, as do the Hit and Run folks. Here’s an interview with him about that book.

A LOOK AT BUSH’S SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROPOSALS from Ars Technica concludes:

Aside from the proposal to ban certain kinds of medical research, the science and technology proposals are encouraging. The alternative energy proposals are particularly promising, and they may lead to critical new technologies that will hopefully wean the US from its dependence on foreign oil. The value of the science education proposals is certainly debatable, but his proposed solutions are arguably better than doing nothing at all.

Read the whole thing.

THE BAYOSPHERE EXPERIENCE: Dan Gillmor talks with Mark Glaser about what happened, and what’s next.

AUSTIN BAY looks at why the Woodruff story has gotten so much attention.

UPDATE: Capt. Alfred Nugent emails:

The point Mr. Bay makes about “Having a personal connection to someone injured or killed on the battlefield is a relatively rare experience for journalists,” explaining the fascination with the Woodruff story is valid. I suspect that in addition, it goes a long way in explaining the Washington Post Editorial Board’s failure of to see just how inappropriate this cartoon was. You’ll have seen the attachments by now on Michelle Malkin’s Site, Link. In the JCS’s 24 star letter they ask they ask “Where do we get such men and women?” Answered rhetorically, and to themselves about the Editorial Board of the Post, I suspect it would be “probably not from your cartoonist’s family, the families of your favorite political party’s leaders and certainly not yours either”.

Indeed. The Post, of course, would never run a racially insensitive cartoon of that degree. Unless, perhaps, it targeted Condi Rice or Clarence Thomas.

AMATEUR OBSERVERS tracking spy satellites. It’s just more evidence of what individuals and small groups can do with today’s technology and communication.

Hey, somebody should write a book on that!

MORE SUPPORT FOR FREE SPEECH in Europe, from newspapers in Germany and Sweden.

Kinda sad that this is news, but still . . . .

MCCAIN to endorse Shadegg, according to a report at NRO.

JOHN SCALZI offers anecdotal evidence of the Long Tail.

BUSH: Dropping the “F-bomb”?

TOM ELIA:

To me, the most revealing moment during President Bush’s State of the Union speech came when congressional Democrats stood and cheered after Bush said,

“Congress did not act last year on my proposal to save Social Security…”

If the Republicans were smart, they should save the tape of that moment, and use it in commercials for the next 50 years.

Yeah, I noticed that too.

UPDATE: I see someone’s already thinking along these lines.

THE INSTA-WIFE goes all peer-reviewish on that political/racial bias study that’s been getting so much attention: “The first time I took the test, my results said that I had a moderate preference for European Americans to African Americans. I took the test a second time and it said I had a slight preference for African Americans over European Americans. Well, which is it?”

PIETER DORSMANN compares the controversy over the Mohammed cartoons with that over Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ.”

The lesson is that if you want your religion not to be mocked, it helps to have a reputation for senseless violence. Is this the incentive structure we want?

TOM BEVAN: “Do Conservatives owe John McCain an apology?”

FIREFLY SEASON TWO: The digital distribution season. I like the idea.

UPDATE: I emailed Tim Minear, the Firefly executive producer, and he’s not very positive about this. Sorry; I’d love to see a second season, too.

CAN’T STOP THE SIGNAL: Phil Bowermaster Stephen Gordon proposes an end run around Google’s Chinese censorship.

IT’S NOT A GLENN AND HELEN PODCAST, but I’ve got a podcast interview with Joel Miller, about his book, Size Matters. Joel’s in charge of the CurrentSpeak podcasts, and had done an interview with me about my book, but then said, a bit sheepishly, “Er, I can’t really interview myself about my book — only William F. Buckley can pull that off — so, well, would you mind . . . .”

TIM CHAPMAN reports on the House Majority Leader race:

Mike Pence (R-IN), the chairman of the RSC, said that two out of the three candidates had taken the time to fill out an extensive questionnaire issued by the RSC. The questionnaire, which was filled out by John Shadegg (R-AZ) and John Boehner (R-OH) but not by Roy Blunt (R-MO), asked a series of questions on issues of central importance to conservatives in the House of Representatives. . . .

The buzzword in Baltimore was reform. Pence says that the current political climate requires not just lobbying reforms but congressional reforms that are tied to a reform agenda. Topping the list of congressional reforms is the issue of earmarking -– the process by which lawmakers designate taxpayer dollars for specific projects (sometimes referred to as pork) in their districts. . . .

The rally cry for earmark reform has not gone unnoticed outside the ranks of the RSC. Both Boehner and Blunt (Shadegg is an RSC member) addressed earmark reform in their speeches to the group. Now, other members of the Republican caucus are beginning to talk about it as well.

The article portrays this as “conservatives” vs. “moderates,” with the “moderates” opposing earmark reform. But I’m not sure that’s the right formulation.

HOWARD DEAN appears to be a poor financial steward.

SIGNS OF RESISTANCE:

A French newspaper has reproduced a set of Danish caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad that have caused outrage in the Muslim world.

France Soir said it had published the cartoons to show that “religious dogma” had no place in a secular society.

Their publication in Denmark has led to protests in several Arab nations.

Read the whole thing.

IT’S NOT HUGE, but this is welcome news: “Two top Egyptian officials called on Hamas to recognize Israel, disarm and honor past peace deals Wednesday, the latest sign Arab governments are pushing the militant group to moderate after its surprise election victory. Separately, an Israeli Foreign Ministry official said that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has told Egyptian officials he would hold off on asking Hamas to form the next Palestinian government until Hamas renounces violence.” Mubarak is apparently behind this.

ALPHECCA’S WEEKLY ROUNDUP of media bias regarding guns is up.

HERE’S A ROUNDUP of blog reactions to the State of the Union, from PJ Media.

More comments here.

A BLOGGER IS asking for help. (Via John Stephenson).