REWRITING HERSTORY?

MORE FROM ROGER SIMON on why Hollywood’s antiwar movies are bombs.

JOE KLEIN AND THE LEFTOSPHERE: I’ve been sort of vaguely aware of this dust-up, but haven’t really been paying attention.

ED DRISCOLL INTERVIEWS Liz Stephans and Scott Baker of Breitbart TV.

IN THE MAIL: Richard Epstein’s Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property.

THE FINAL VERSION OF MY Libel in the Blogosphere piece is now available online, as it appeared in the Washington University Law Review.

WHY VIOLENCE DROPPED IN IRAQ: Noah Shachtman writes that it turned out the critical networks were social, not electronic.

UPDATE: A predictable response to the good news.

A CLINTON flipflop on Iraq.

ANOTHER GRIM MILESTONE: Bank of America drops the New York Times to a “sell” rating. It’s an investor quagmire, with no exit plan. Er, except maybe for “Pinch” Sulzberger. . . .

A MOOD SURGE ON IRAQ, as public opinion shifts dramatically: “To put it in perspective, because MSNBC doesn’t, that’s … let’s see … 18 points. Double-digit increase.”

UPDATE: More: “In other words, what too many have yet to grasp is that when the U.S. loses a war, we leave lock, stock and barrel (e.g. Vietnam) but when we win, (or at least don’t lose) we remain to support our alliies (e.g. Bosnia, South Korea, Japan and Germany).”

THOUGHTS ON ABU DHABI, CITIGROUP, and the recycling of petrodollars: “Frankly, I’d rather that those dollars be spent and invested in the United States directly than wait around for them to be laundered through the economies of Japan, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom who knows how many times before they make it home again.”

DUANE PATTERSON: “Should We Trust CNN And YouTube In The Debate Wednesday Night?”

OFFICE MATE OR BAD DATE: The Insta-Wife reviews Office Mate: The Employee Handbook for Finding–and Managing–Romance on the Job.

NEWS FROM THE global war on germs.

TRYING TIMES: “Let me get this straight – Democratic aides to a Democratic Governor in a Democratic state were talking to Nick Confessore of the Times (and formerly of The American Prospect, so presumably a Democrat), and they chose to liken Spitzer favorably to Reagan and Giuliani? Are they really unable to come up with any no-nonsense Democrats?”

INSTAPUNK ON STEPHEN KING. But, really, this stands on its own:

STEPHEN KING: So who’s going to be TIME Person of the Year?

TIME: I really don’t know, there’s a very small group of people who make that decision.

[KING:] I was thinking, I think it should be Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.

But read the whole thing.

THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT looks at the Second Amendment as involving an individual right.

SCAREDY SQUIRREL gets a lesson about risk. Preparation is good. Worry is not.

DAVID BROOKS: Lou Dobbs is winning. (Via Taylor Owen).

JAPAN, 1947: Lou Minatti is posting a lot of photos, and would like some captioning help on some of them.

A HUGO CHAVEZ meltdown?

MARINES bring aid to Bangladesh.

MORE ON THE PARIS INTIFADA: “More than 100 officers have been wounded, several of them seriously, according to the police. Thirty of them were hit with buckshot and pellets from shotguns, and one of the wounded was hit with a type of bullet used to kill large game, Patrice Ribeiro, a police spokesman, said in a telephone interview. One of the officers lost an eye; another’s shoulder was shattered by gunfire.”

The French haven’t taken this seriously enough. Perhaps they should ask this guy for advice.

UPDATE: Somewhat belatedly, Clive Davis mocks my suggestion that the French could learn something useful from Lieutenant Colonel Chris Dowling in Fallujah. Based on his comments, I doubt that Davis actually read the pieces I linked.

LEFT HOOK.

“PISS CHRIST” is for wussies. You want subversive art, here it is.