RON PAUL: Jews love him! Nazis love him! He’s a uniter, not a divider!

A BIOFUELS SCAM? “The government has picked the winner–even as senior policy makers issue bland pronouncements about finding new technologies to help break our energy dependence on foreign oil. Between now and 2012, biofuel subsidies will total more than $92 billion, according to a recent report conducted under the auspices of the Global Subsidiaries Initiative.”

GOVERNOR BON JOVI? New Jersey is unlikely to do better. It’s certainly done worse . . . .

CAMILLE PAGLIA shows the love for Hillary.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Was the Iraq war cheaper than doing nothing?

Factoring in all those contingencies, the authors find that a containment policy would cost anywhere from $350 billion to $700 billon. Now when you further factor in that 1) a containment policy might also have led to a higher risk premium in the oil markets if Iraq was seen to be gaining in military power despite our efforts to box it in, and 2) money not borrowed and spent on Iraq might well have been spent on something else given the White House’s free-spending ways, it’s easy to see that doing a cost-benefit analysis on “war vs. containment” might have left administration officials with no clear-cut economic answer.

Plus, the appeal of Canadian tar sands!

VIDEO: Richard Miniter interviews Vaclav Havel and Havel is talking pretty tough regarding Russia and Iran.

More reason to wish he had become Secretary General of the U.N.

FROM CHEVROLET, a full-size hybrid pickup.

THOUGHTS ON BUSH-HATRED from Peter Berkowitz.

ANOTHER AMUSING car commercial.

PATTERICO: “If we (and the Iraqi people) win the Iraq war, the next Democratic talking point will be that we didn’t win the war the right way.”

That’s one. Here’s another. Meanwhile, Tony Blankley thinks it’s victory.

ELLIOT SPITZER wants to collect taxes on Internet sales. “The policy, based on a novel legal theory, could hasten the end of the Internet’s era as a duty-free marketplace if other states follow New York’s lead.” He’s going to be Mr. Popularity at this rate! But, for reasons briefly spelled out in this article, it seems unlikely that Spitzer’s “novel legal theory” will withstand Dormant Commerce Clause analysis.

A REVERSE-HUNGER -STRIKE AT COLUMBIA? Count me in!

AMY ALKON WRITES on the unfairness of forced fatherhood.

BUSINESS OWNER OPENS FIRE on armed robber.

STUDENTS BOYCOTT U. Wisconsin’s bias reporting system. Or maybe — and this has to hurt more — the correct word is “ignore.”

IN THE MAIL: Roberto Unger’s new book, Free Trade Reimagined: The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics. To me, time stopped for Roberto Unger when he received a memorandum from the Devil, but in reality, of course, his career has continued on.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY on Fred Thompson’s Social Security plan.

EUGENE VOLOKH LOOKS AT official Democratic Party theology.

DANNY GLOVER: Newsweek puts a big Democratic fundraiser on the payroll.

BRINGING BACK THE 1990s: John Hawkins has an interview with Kathleen Willey, who’s got a new book out.

MARY JO WHITE, on Mukasey.

ROBERT LEVY: Unholster the Second Amendment.

VETERANS, SUICIDES, and math problems at CBS.

“It was my understanding that there would be no math.”

AN AIRLINE “FAT TAX:” “A leading Australian nutritionist has urged airlines to charge obese passengers more for their seats.”

RON BAILEY LOOKS AT alternative fuels.