“DEEP FRUSTRATION” in Britain.

ARNOLD KLING: “The Acton Institute has produced the most subversive movie I have ever seen. The Call of the Entrepreneur, which is being released on an agonizingly slow schedule, is a threat to tyranny everywhere, including here at home.”

I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED: “In the final poll of a series measuring perceptions of media bias, the Associated Press, local television stations, MSNBC, and CNBC are all perceived as tilting to the left when reporting the news.”

NOW, MORE THAN EVER: A relaunch for The Victory Caucus.

Check out the new site, which has a lot of useful news-aggregation features.

RAND SIMBERG reports on a discussion of space and the next President.

THE LONDON TIMES REPORTS ON DISSENSION IN THE AL QAEDA RANKS:

Fed up with being part of a group that cuts off a person’s face with piano wire to teach others a lesson, dozens of low-level members of al-Qaeda in Iraq are daring to become informants for the US military in a hostile Baghdad neighbourhood.

The ground-breaking move in Doura is part of a wider trend that has started in other al-Qaeda hotspots across the country and in which Sunni insurgent groups and tribal sheikhs have stood together with the coalition against the extremist movement.

“They are turning. We are talking to people who we believe have worked for al-Qaeda in Iraq and want to reconcile and have peace,” said Colonel Ricky Gibbs, commander of the 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, which oversees the area.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Shawn Levasseur emails:

Hmm.. Looks like Al Queda hasn’t read the “If I were the evil overlord” list.

Brutalizing henchmen who are then motivated to turn on you has been a classic error of Batman villains.

And many others. But maybe we should try Rule 100.

WILL SALETAN: “Anecdotal evidence suggests healthy teenage pitchers and their parents are seeking reconstructive elbow surgery to improve their throwing speed.”