A NEW GLOBAL WARMING STRATEGY: Where do I purchase “sirloin offsets?”

MORE CRITICISM OF “THE JEWISH LOBBY.”

PICKING A FAIR USE FIGHT with C-SPAN.

ANOTHER BIG-MEDIA plagiarism scandal. But it’s no big deal, because . . . er, just because.

A SWINDLE? Surely not.

MICKEY KAUS: “I come down somewhere in between the 2001 Sullivan and the 2007 Sullivan. Maybe 2003. … But there’s always 2008!”

IT’S NEVER TOO SOON to get ready for Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Plus, board books for babies.

RON BAILEY:

You Wonder What Universal Government Health Care Might Look Like….

Well, look no further than the scandalous mess at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Crappy hospitals, endless waits, mountains of paperwork and, at the end of the day, no real accountability from the people who run the joint. Folks, if the government can’t or won’t take good care of our injured soldiers, what makes you think that it will take good care of little Sally or Uncle Bill?

Health care in the United States is screwed up. This is largely due to bad government policies, e.g., third party payment encouraged through the tax code and multiplying state insurance mandates that unnecessarily boost costs. As the example of Walter Reed is warning us, putting total control of all health care in the hands of those who wrecked it in first place–Congress, states and federal agencies–is the wrong way to go.

Indeed.

THE WEATHER STORY that’s not topping the news.

COMPUTER PROGRAM BUSTED FOR practicing law without a license. Well, sort of.

IN RESPONSE TO MY POST ON BRIAN WILLIAMS, BELOW, Michael Yon emails: “Here’s a photo that’s not been published. Brian Williams, Richard Engle and GEN(R) Wayne Downing. They are staying a few tents down from me.”

If you haven’t been checking out Yon’s site, be sure to do so.

UPDATE: Sissy Willis emails: “Surfing last night, I caught the tail end of a fascinating bit of the unwatchable O’Reilly Factor. They were showing clips of the Brian Williams report and saying NBC had been driven by market forces to send him over there to get something original. Won’t it be grand if the bottom line forces the MSM to get the other half of the story?” Ah, the power of those market forces. . . . .

ANOTHER UPDATE: Readers are suspicious. Shirley Nelson emails: “Isn’t it quite a coincidence that now when Democrats are obviously not going to be pulling the plug on the war until after 2008 elections that we see the MSM reporting some ‘good news’ over there about the surge? I don’t buy the free market argument for why they are reporting there since that pressure has existed for quite some time. It gives the Democrats some breathing room when things aren’t so ‘bad.’ We won’t hear MSM utter a good word about Bush for the next two years regarding the war, that’s for sure. Just wait until the 2008 elections get nearer, we’ll hear nothing but doom.”

And John Eddy looks at the bright side of cynicism: “The cynic inside me says NBC is starting the process of slowing down the ‘pull out now'” meme to save the Democrats from themselves. The optimist in me says the cynic is right, but who cares? It’s time the MSM took a stab at actual reporting.” They can’t leave it all to Michael Yon, I guess.

ANOTHER radio payola scandal.

ERNEST GALLO DIES AT 97. Maybe wine-drinking does extend life! I’m not going to take any chances . . . .

But beware the counterfeit wines!

MICKEY KAUS: “Impeach Cheney or impeach Russert? Arianna must choose!”

PROTESTS in Iran.

THE NIKON 18-200 VR LENS: I wrote about it a while ago. Since then I got one, and I’ve reviewed it for Popular Mechanics, with some sample photos. You can read the whole thing here.

THOUGHTS ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, and Love.

BRIAN WILLIAMS’ REPORTING FROM IRAQ GETS HIGH MARKS FROM THE MUDVILLE GAZETTE:

Kudos to Brian Williams and NBC.

Read the whole thing. Also note this from Williams on Hardball, and this report from ABC on good news about the surge.

JEFF JARVIS LOOKS AT 18 DOUGHTY STREET:

On 18 Doughty Street, the network, Dale is making at least five hours of live TV a night, five nights a week from 7p to midnight and he’s about to expand into America with a deal to use the Arlington, Virginia, studios of the Leadership Institute, and an offer to use the Heritage Foundation’s satellites. So they will feature more American guests and will rebroadcast their shows so East-Coast Americans can watch from 7p-midnight local time. Dale is amazed — as am I — that no one has done this in America and if he weren’t busy in London, he’d make that American network. Someone surely will.

18 Doughty has nightly news updates, talk shows (one with bloggers), and hour-long interviews with politicians (even they are surprised they get to talk for so long). They are about to enable viewers — 100 of whom (including a deputy assistant secretary of state in the U.S.) were given video cameras — to upload pieces; the best will be aired each night.

Very cool.

CAROL PLATT LIEBAU WENT TO LAW SCHOOL WITH BARACK OBAMA, and has nice things to say about him.

GIULIANI ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: A report from Austin Bay.

THE ALTHOUSE VORTEX claims another victim. What’s with Campos going after one lawprof after another? I imagine him thumbing through the Directory of American Law Teachers every week in search of a column topic . . . .

JEFF GOLDSTEIN ON free speech, political identity, and the post-Coulter debate.

I continue to think that ignoring Coulter is probably the best policy, but alas that’s not always possible, which is why I signed the letter suggesting that she not be invited back to CPAC. Related thoughts here.

UPDATE: Goldstein’s also having a fundraising drive.

ZUMBO IS BACK, and SayUncle is convinced.

MORE RUMORS of a Fred Thompson candidacy.