MORE ON space-based solar power. Bring it on!

BAND OF BLOGGERS: Video here.

OUCH: “Sen. Joe Lieberman on Thursday painted a dim picture of his party, saying Democrats have given up their moral authority on foreign policy because they are more concerned with opposing Republicans than doing what is right.”

UPDATE: Remembering the pro-war John Edwards. What could have changed?

IN A CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY ARTICLE — sorry, subscription-only — David Obey explains what members of Congress want most — earmarks!:

House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey, D-Wis., challenged House Republicans to join Democrats in supporting the bill despite the veto threat.

Obey made clear that lawmakers who support the president risk losing what many members most want out of spending bills: earmarks, or funding for local projects.

“I would ask every serious-minded person in this body if they really think there’s a chance of a snowball in Hades that members’ earmarks on either side of the aisle will survive if we wind up at the president’s level of funding,” he said.

Thanks for making those priorities clear, sir.

DANNY GLOVER ON Karl Rove’s love-hate affair with blogs.

A LOOK AT politicians and the current U.S. economy.

WELL, I WON’T SEE HIM, since I’m in Las Vegas, but my brother informs me that Jason Ricci & New Blood will be playing in Knoxville at Sassy Ann’s tonight. Dang.

IN THE MAIL: The publication issue of Kenneth Timmerman’s Shadow Warriors. And now that it’s officially on sale it seems to be doing very well on Amazon.

PUT A BUNCH OF BLOGGERS TOGETHER AND WHAT DO THEY DO? Mostly, they interview each other.

But there are trad-media folks, too:

And here you see the New Media decision-making process in action:

PREHISTORIC ZOMBIE ATTACKS!

THOUGHTS ON BARNEY FRANK’S SUB-PRIME MORTGAGE REFORM, and on Barney Frank’s anti-discrimination legislation.

THE THRILL OF VICTORY.

The agony of defeat.

ELIZABETH STEPHAN, from Breitbart TV. Sophisticated? Yes. Too sophisticated for free t-shirts? No.

OKAY, FARK CRUSHED ALL OPPOSITION, but it’s interesting that Little Green Footballs outscored the much larger Kos community by a significant margin. Though Kos is reportedly larger, they don’t seem to be as good as sending people offsite.

THE ENGLISH SYSTEM OF MEASURES, explained.

NEW MEDIA ARE AT BLOGWORLD, old media are in a less happy place.

AL QAEDA PLANNING shopping mall attacks? I don’t know how well-founded these reports are, but I’ve been expecting something like that since 2001.

From the comments: “Just another reason to shop online.” Maybe these rumors are being spread by Amazon stock-pumpers!

ADVANCING CANCER RESEARCH, with grid computing.

WANT MY URL? A lot of people seemed to be asking.

MARY KATHARINE HAM, on what’s been happening at Blog World Expo:

I’LL BE ON HUGH HEWITT’S SHOW at 5 pm Pacific, 8 pm Eastern.

A LOOK AT neo-McCarthyism in the academy.

THIS VIDEO illustrates, through its, er, spontaneity, that there’s a writer’s strike! Or at least that there was no scabbing going on . . .

SO FAR, BLOGWORLD EXPO is mostly a class reunion or something. Here’s me with Stephen Green and Ed Driscoll. I just heard that Bill Roggio is a couple of booths over.

The big news is just how big the place is and how many people are here. As Stephen Green noted, a few years ago you could hardly have filled the Pajamas Media booth with bloggers, much less a huge exhibit hall.,

JAMES KIRCHICK LOOKS AT THE ANTI-NEOCON FERVOR:

Not long ago, while visiting a friend at Oxford University, I found myself in a heated political discussion with a Scotsman. The subject of our dispute was the Iraq war, but the conversation turned toward the rise of latent anti-Semitism in once-respectable quarters of British opinion. Two years earlier, a story entitled “A Kosher Conspiracy?,” illustrated by a gold Star of David plunged into the heart of the Union Jack, graced the cover of Britain’s most prominent left-wing magazine, The New Statesman. Since then, the intellectual climate had only worsened. In response to my remark that many use the epithet “neocon” to describe Jews, my interlocutor replied, “I’d rather be an anti-Semite than a neocon.”

Sometimes, wishes do come true. Kirchick concludes: “Welcome to the new political discourse.”