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AUSTIN BAY: “Today, I put a note on a bomb. To be specific, I took a jet black marking pen and inscribed a 500-pound Joint Direct Attack Munition — JDAM, in the jargon.”

MICHAEL YON POSTS another dispatch from Iraq. He emails: “This must have been the best day I have had in Iraq. Our soldiers were happy, Iraqi soldiers were very happy, and the Iraqi civilians were happiest. Truly this was a great day.” May there be many more like it.

NUMBERS: “The Congressional Research Service, which compiled war casualty statistics from the Revolutionary War to present day conflicts, reported that 4,699 members of the U.S. military died in 1981 and ’82 — a period when the U.S. had only limited troop deployments to conflicts in the Mideast. That number of deaths is nearly 900 more than the 3,800 deaths during 2005 and ’06, when the U.S. was fully committed to large-scale military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

A U.S. COMMANDER RESPONDS TO inaccurate reporting in The Guardian.

I CALL THIS PROGRESS: “A U.N.-sponsored Internet conference ended Thursday with little to show in closing the issue of U.S. control over how people around the world access e-mail and Web sites.”

International resentment about U.S. control of the domain name system is sure to grow, and I can understand that. But on the other hand, while my trust in the U.S. government is not extensive, it’s infinitely greater than my trust of the Russians, the Chinese, or the United Nations. And the longer that the internet remains relatively open and uncensored, the harder it will be for them to put the genie back in the bottle later. Some related thoughts can be found here.

PAPERS FROM THE HARVARD BLOGGERSHIP CONFERENCE have now been published in the Washington University Law Review.

OBAMA FALTERS over illegal immigrants.

UPDATE: Roger Simon thinks that Obama doesn’t really want the job.

FEDERAL AGENTS RAID LIBERTY DOLLARS. Exact reason unclear.

MICKEY KAUS: Triangulation vs. bridge-building.

A ROUNDUP on last night’s Democratic debate.

CONGRATULATIONS! Four years of blogging for Omar and Mohammed Fadhil.

NINETEEN thwarted terrorist attacks against the U.S.

THE NETROOTS ARE STILL going after Rahm Emanuel on immigration.

USING AND ABUSING THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE: Jennifer Hendricks has thoughts on the “Agreement Among the States,” in which states pledge their electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote.

HEY, I WROTE A SONG ABOUT THAT: “Back up your brain.”

STEPHEN GREEN IS liveblogging the Democratic debate. (“Three out of four undecided voters on CNN are pear-shaped middle-aged women with a tendency to ramble, and who want things from the government. Don’t blame me if you think that’s cruel–I’m just reporting what I see.”)

UPDATE: More here. I’ll just add that the lighting seems awfully unflattering. Who was in charge of that?

ANOTHER UPDATE: Winner unclear, loser identified.

Big comment thread here.

More from Dave Weigel.

MORE: Spotting a planted question?

STILL MORE: Video of Obama on driver’s licenses for illegal aliens.

Last word goes to Stephen Green: “Lots of fireworks, yet still the worst debate I’ve seen all season. The blame rests squarely with CNN. They ran a bad debate on a bad stage with stupid questions from insipid people in a format that was neither fish nor fowl but spoiled meat nonetheless. Horrible, even by the low standards set by Fox News and MSNBC. Horrible, horrible.” Yeah, that’s pretty much what I thought. I haven’t seen all the debates, but of the ones I’ve seen this was far and away the worst.

THOUGHTS ON inequality and prosperity, from Josh Hendrickson.

ED MORRISSEY: “Has anti-Americanism gone out of vogue on the Continent?”

BLOGS THAT AREN’T, at The Washington Post.

HOW TO save the space station from disaster.

A RECIPE FOR turkey breast with oyster stuffing.

ER, YES: Music boss: we were wrong to go to war with consumers.

Some of us even warned them.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The new debate over Iraq.

PUTTING AN END TO BUDGET TRANSPARENCY? We need much more transparency, not less. This is shameful.