JOHN THUNE AND NORM COLEMAN plan to block a return to the “Fairness” Doctrine in the Senate.

A LOOK AT women and domestic violence.

ANOTHER STEP FORWARD FOR PRIVATE SPACE:

The second experimental pathfinder spacecraft by Bigelow Aerospace, Genesis II, has been successfully launched and inserted into orbit. The privately-funded space station module was launched on a Dnepr rocket Thursday morning from the ISC Kosmotras Yasny Cosmodrome in the Orenburg region of Russia.

The company reports the flight and stage separation of the Dnepr performed as planned, with Genesis II separating from its rocket about 14 minutes into orbit. The company’s Mission Control in North Las Vegas, NV made first contact at 2:20 pm Thursday afternoon.

Robert T. Bigelow, Bigelow Aerospace founder and owner of the Budget Suites of America hotel chain, has committed $500 million toward building a private commercial space station by 2015, according to the International Herald-Tribune.

I wish them continued success.

RECORD INDUSTRY: How dare you give away your own music!

BRENDAN LOY is live-blogging the iPhone’s Knoxville debut.

UPDATE: James Lileks, too.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Still more iPhone reportage.

MUCH MORE ON THE LONDON CAR BOMBS, at Wired’s Danger Room.

UPDATE: Thank God?

ANOTHER UPDATE: Larry Johnson lives up to his track record.

MORE: Looking for an Iraqi?

STILL MORE: Larry Johnson on Keith Olbermann.

A SECOND CAR BOMB IN LONDON.

UPDATE: This is pretty impressive: “Sky News sources say one of the first police officers on the scene of the Haymarket car bomb may have saved dozens of lives by defusing the explosives before the bomb squad arrived. It is believed the quick-thinking cop recognised that the car was wired to blow up, jumped in and disconnected the trigger device, thought to be a mobile phone.” (Via Will Collier).

OUR FIRST COPY OF Garden & Gun Magazine just showed up in the mail. Looks pretty cool.

THREE QUESTIONS FOR AL GORE: A video interview from Popular Mechanics.

WHAT’S MORE HYPOCRITICAL THAN THE WHITE HOUSE PORK I linked earlier today?

Ron Paul pork! Full list here. But to be fair, at least he’s disclosing it.

CATCH AND RELEASE in Britain?

POSTING FROM IRAQ, at The Mudville Gazette.

PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: It seems that we’re still a long way from transparency:

When it comes to elected officials and earmarks, the policy seems to be the less said the better.

This time the cold shoulder is coming from the Senate, which, like members of the House of Representatives, don’t want the public to know which pet projects they want taxpayers to fund.

Since Monday, CNN has called — or tried to call — all 100 senators, asking them if they would release their 2008 earmark requests. More often then not, calls were immediately sent to voice mail and never returned. (Watch how senators responded to questions about earmarks Video)

Only six senators gave us their requests and five said they made no earmark requests. Nineteen said they would not give us their requests and 70 did not return calls.

It’s not like they work for us, or anything.

DOGS that didn’t bark.

DON SURBER NOTES SOME INTERESTING NEWS:

A Muslim nation, Pakistan, and the United States worked together to head the drive to stop an effort to give nukes to Arabia — most likely Saudi Arabia, you know, the home to 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11.

He wonders why it’s not getting more attention.

HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, and somber pants?

ADMITTING THE PROBLEM IS THE FIRST STEP:

I have been lying about my disinterest in the iPhone. When it was first announced I considered having my marriage annulled so I could be married to a picture of the iPhone, okay? I will be in line at the Apple Store at the Mall of America this afternoon, and will post an account tonight with pictures and video as soon as I have one in my hand. If blogging seems distracted and intermittent today, that’s why: I have a mission. I have a goal. I have a dream. I also have a contract with another cellular provider. It’s a sickness, I tell you. A sickness.

You know, I think it is.

MORE ON the London car bomb.

IN THE MAIL: Probably in response to our podcast on The Dangerous Book for Boys, a matched set: The Big Book of Girl Stuff and The Big Book of Boy Stuff.

“FLOP-SWEAT WAS EVERYWHERE.”

JOHN TAMMES EXPLAINS where to find information on operations in Afghanistan.

JOHN HINDERAKER: “The Democrats have handed conservatives a golden issue by attempting to bring down talk radio.”

MARK TAPSCOTT IS FEELING BETTER: “Winston Churchill once remarked that God takes care of drunks and the United States of America and so it seems to be as we approach the end of a remarkable week in which milestones of success for the conservative movement come one after another.”

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey: Great shooting, kid! Don’t get cocky!

BYRON YORK on the immigration deal’s collapse. Scroll down for my suggestions on how to do better next time.

And here’s Danny Glover’s roundup.

IF YOU CARE ABOUT HEALTH, THIS MATTERS: “America is the last refuge for pharmaceutical innovation. And the left wants to kill that off.”

I certainly care.