JIM GERAGHTY says there’s “an organized disinformation campaign” on the ports deal.

ROGER SIMON joins those with questions about Yale’s admissions policies.

THE MUDVILLE GAZETTE notes an overlooked third party in the ports imbroglio.

ARMY OF DAVIDS ARRIVES: Reader Dusty Loy emails: “Arrived from Barnes and Noble 15 minutes ago, can’t wait to read it!” I guess those other reports were right.

Meanwhile my publisher emails: “Army of Davids is Amazon’s no. 1 business preorder.” Cool.

JAMES JOYNER thinks there may be an upside to Iraqi civil war. Hmm. Mickey Kaus said the same thing a while back, but as I’ve noted here before, I think it’s better off avoided. This kind of thinking reminds me of Josh Marshall’s worries in 2003 that we didn’t kill enough Iraqis to ensure stable government postwar. Of course, some people today might say he was right about that, though I haven’t noticed any I-told-you-sos on this account from Josh.

ANN ALTHOUSE: “Someone needs to do a Gender Studies seminar on Don Knotts.”

A TIPPING POINT on the Muslim world? I worry, over at GlennReynolds.com.

AUSTIN BAY writes on the uncomfortable overlap between Bush’s military strategy and his political posture.

UPDATE: Maybe there’s a psychological explanation.

MICHAEL TOTTEN has more blog-reporting from Iraq.

IF YOU WERE OFFLINE OVER THE WEEKEND, don’t miss our podcast interview with John Scalzi, author of Old Man’s War and Ghost Brigades, and Tim Minear, of Firefly, and Wonderfalls.

FORGET THE PORTS: “Never has an article made me blink with astonishment as much as when I read in yesterday’s New York Times magazine that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban, is now studying at Yale on a U.S. student visa. This is taking the obsession that U.S. universities have with promoting diversity a bit too far. . . . ‘In some ways,’ Mr. Rahmatullah told the New York Times. ‘I’m the luckiest person in the world. I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale.'”

Unless things have improved since I was there, however, the food will be inferior to Guantanamo’s. I wonder if he attends Yale’s famous naked parties. If so, someone should save pictures.

IT’S NOT OFFICIALLY OUT FOR A WEEK, but An Army of Davids is apparently starting to ship from Amazon. At least, several readers have gotten emails from Amazon saying that their copies have shipped.

UPDATE: Another reader writes: “FYI, it’s also shipping from Barnes & Noble if I’m to believe their E-mail.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Stephen Keating emails: “It’s in Books a Million in Reston already.”

Ask for it at your bookstore! Maybe I should do like Scalzi and ask for people to send in photos. . . .

“UNITY PROTESTS” break out in Iraq. Strangely, they’re getting less attention.

MARC COOPER was at Restoration Weekend and reports that Republicans are worried about the midterm elections. Well, they should be.

UPDATE: More thoughts from The Bull Moose. Related post here.

CAFE HAYEK:

Proponents of single-payer health care reform in the United States have long pointed toward Canada as a model for the US to emulate.

The New York Times reports that the Canadian system is imploding. A recent Candian Supreme Court decision allowed private health care (oh, the shame, the horror) and as a result, Canadians tired of waiting for radiation therapy, eye surgery and hip replacements have turned toward private alternatives springing up under the new legal environment.

Read the whole thing. Evan Coyne Maloney and Stuart Browning had better finish their film on the Canadian health system fast.