BOB OWENS: The New Republic Re-Interviewed Beauchamp… Over a Month Ago.

IN THE MAIL: Matt Welch’s book, McCain: The Myth of a Maverick.

MICHAEL YON HAS POSTED another dispatch from Iraq.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: “From a snippet of a patient’s skin, researchers have grown blood vessels in a laboratory and then implanted them to restore blood flow around the patient’s damaged arteries and veins.”

JOHN TIERNEY: Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus. “The notion that fatty foods shorten your life began as a hypothesis based on dubious assumptions and data; when scientists tried to confirm it they failed repeatedly. The evidence against Häagen-Dazs was nothing like the evidence against Marlboros.”

TURN THE BEAT AROUND: Some questions the GOP candidates should ask Chris Matthews.

ANOTHER INTELLIGENCE BLUNDER? “Al Qaeda’s Internet communications system has suddenly gone dark to American intelligence after the leak of Osama bin Laden’s September 11 speech inadvertently disclosed the fact that we had penetrated the enemy’s system.” Let’s hope things aren’t as bad as this report makes them sound. This constant leaking is a real problem.

MICHAEL BARONE: “I am old enough to remember when America’s colleges and universities seemed to be the most open-minded and intellectually rigorous institutions in our society. Today, something very much like the opposite is true.”

THE BEARS are back.

PETER WALLISON: A lesson for our time.

Particularly apt in light of this.

A CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS WIKI: You’re invited to participate.

PRIVATE LIVES, PUBLIC DISCLOSURES: Thoughts on Martha Stewart and more.

A PORK PROBLEM for Hillary?

ARMED LIBERAL: “It’s just so damn much fun to read Yglesias again.”

TEACHER MOVES TO carry her firearm at school. “We’re going to see more of this.”

DR. ROBERT BUSSARD has died.

AN UNUSUAL spy ring in San Diego.

MICHAEL YON POINTS TO THIS REPORT and emails: “Basra is not in chaos. In fact, crime and violence are way down and there has not been a British combat death in over a month. The report below is false.” False reports from Iraq? Say it isn’t so!

UPDATE: Thoughts from Bob Krumm.

And, via the comments in this post, an article from The Telegraph that supports Yon’s version more than the other: “Indeed, wherever one looks in the British sector, there are grounds to believe that, far from degenerating into all-out civil war, the Iraqis are finally coming to terms with their post-Saddam condition and are starting to acquire the confidence and the institutions necessary for running their affairs.”

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: Feminist hero!

IS IRAQ FADING AS AN ISSUE for the Democrats?

If so, T.M. Lutas will be patting himself on the back. And probably Kjell Hagen, too . . . .

THE TEN LEAST EXPENSIVE 2007 cars.

A BLEAK FINANCIAL FORECAST for newspapers.

TYLER COWEN REVIEWS NAOMI KLEIN: He is not impressed. “If nothing else, Ms. Klein’s book provides an interesting litmus test as to who is willing to condemn its shoddy reasoning. . . . With ‘The Shock Doctrine,’ Ms. Klein has become the kind of brand she lamented in ‘No Logo.'”

POSTER-CHILD ABUSE: “The newspapers don’t want to do their jobs. The vacuum is being filled. If you don’t want questions, don’t foist these children onto the public stage.”

More here: “So executive vice-presidents’ families are now the new new poor? I support lower taxes for the Frosts, increased child credits for the Frosts, an end to the ‘death tax’ and other encroachments on transgenerational wealth transfer, and even severe catastrophic medical-emergency aid of one form or other. But there is no reason to put more and more middle-class families on the government teat, and doing so is deeply corrosive of liberty.” Maybe that is the reason. And hey, it might sell. (Via Danny Glover).

IRANIAN STUDENTS PROTEST AHMADINEJAD.