AN OIL-FOR-FOOD CONVICTION.

And another chance to play Name That Party! Don Surber mentions what some news accounts don’t.

A ROUGH DAY FOR Apple’s PR department.

OBAMA quotes Bill against Hillary.

IN THE MAIL: The latest installment in Eric Flint’s alt-history series that began with the excellent 1632.

VANITY FAIR: Clinton vs. Gore. “Bill’s personal agendas created complications for Gore that grew worse over time and led to a nasty range war between the Clinton White House and the Gore campaign. The tensions centered on the Lewinsky scandal and Bill’s past womanizing, which Gore and his advisers believed had alienated independent voters—especially the soccer moms, who stood for traditional values. . . . Gore’s defeat helped set the stage for Hillary’s own presidential campaign. As irony would have it, he had to preside over her swearing-in at the Capitol, and then, four days later, he gamely re-enacted her oath-of-office ceremony in front of what The Washington Post described as nearly 3,000 ‘swinging, swaying, celebrity-studded’ Hillary supporters in Madison Square Garden. “

THE “BABY BOND” PLAN isn’t polling well.

JONATHAN ADLER looks at the new Supreme Court term. I took a look of my own here. Happily, our views don’t seem to diverge all that much — if they did, I’d figure I’d missed something somewhere.

ANOTHER FISHY EARMARK DEAL: “Roll Call reports that a few months after Silvestre Reyes became chair of the House Intelligence Committee, he asked his brother to create a political action committee called BEST PAC. That committee received tens of thousands in donations from employees and clients of a lobbying firm. Those clients subsequently received millions in earmarks from Chairman Reyes.”

It’s almost as if there’s a quid pro quo on these things. And boy do those guys come cheap.

MASS MURDER IN BURMA: Where is the “international community” on this?

UPDATE: Rand Simberg describes a lesson in Gandhism.

THE PEACE CORPS WITH MUSCLES: Another Iraq report from Michael Totten.

DUMB AND DUMBER.

A LOOK AT the money race for 2008.

LOTS MORE ANALYSIS of casualties — civilian and military — in Iraq, from John Wixted. Just keep scrolling.

STANLEY KURTZ:

Friday I attended the world premiere of Evan Coyne Maloney’s film, Indoctrinate U, before a packed house of 500 at the Kennedy Center. There were many students, and a number of professors as well. I’d seen the film a couple of times at press screenings, but was totally unprepared for the raucous audience reception.

The press screenings were quiet, with the main response being horror at the nightmarish incidents of political correctness chronicled by Maloney. This time, however, the audience roared with laughter through the first two-thirds of the film–to the point where lines were drowned out by the audience roar. The laughter abated toward the end, from sheer exhaustion. The latter part of the film brought a major applause line–when the topic turned to bans on military recruitment and the Supreme Court Solomon Amendment case. One line about half-way through the film–about what really motivates professors who indoctrinate their students–brought the house down.

Yes, this movie tells a series of heart-breaking tales. But the political correctness on display is ludicrous and laughable–and I can assure you that laugh is exactly what this audience did.

Charles Black liked to call laughter “the sovereign prerogative of philosophers.” And, sometimes, of those who watch their antics . . . . Visit the Indoctrinate U. website for more information, an online trailer, and a chance to pre-order a DVD. I’m fortunate enough to have already seen a DVD, and I think it’s worth your time and money. I hope it’s shown on many campuses.

GOOD NEWS on the iPhone unbricking front.

ALTERNATE HISTORY: Roger Simon writes: “If Al Gore had been elected president in 2000, he’d be in Iraq now, just like Bush, and suffering the same opprobrium.”

A VIDEO: Women of the Israeli Army.

OOPS: “The September 6 Israeli air raid in Syria has been a major setback for Russian arms sales. The Syrians had invested heavily in new Russian air defense systems, and the Israelis apparently brushed right by them. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russians have been trying to rehabilitate the reputation of their weapons. Throughout the Cold War, whenever Russian and Western (especially American) weapons met on the battlefield, the Russians lost. The Soviets tried to compete on price, but even ‘free’ was not low enough for many countries. Using Soviet weapons came to be seen as a sure ticket to battlefield defeat.”

It’s as if the whole thing is a clever scam engineered by the CIA.