OUCH! GOP leader Boehner: Democrats are as bad at running Congress as we were. That’s gotta hurt.

THERE’S ANOTHER DEBATE? I didn’t know that, but John Podhoretz is liveblogging.

THEY’RE GIVING AWAY FREE STUFF at Autoblog.

MICHAEL NOVAK endorses Mitt Romney.

THINGS THAT HILLARY has never done with Bill.

UPDATE: Bill’s planning a coup?

MORE ON THE N.I.E.: “I’m told that recent polling data shows that Americans—sensibly enough—think that Israeli intelligence on this subject is more reliable than the CIA’s.” The Israelis face consequences when they get things wrong. The CIA — as recent history has made clear — does not.

FROM PLANTED QUESTIONS, to planted outraged readers?

IN MUSIC, business plans are the new punk rock: “Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want move — which was an undeniable success, if only for the amount of free publicity it garnered the group — is just one of many innovative ideas being tried out by bands, record labels and others in the music biz. Some are hopelessly mired in last-century thinking, but smart concepts are bubbling up as the music industry struggles with the death of the CD and the increasing irrelevance of old ways of doing business.”

COBURN: Skunk at the appropriations porkfest.

MARC AMBINDER: “Rethink Iowa.”

THE CARNIVAL OF EDUCATION IS UP!

IN THE MAIL: M. Stanton Evans’ Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies.

THE SARAH PALIN JUGGERNAUT is gathering steam!

ONLINE SEX OFFENDER LIST leads to murder.

CONDI RICE: Not building confidence. Nope. Her turn as Secretary of State hasn’t been great, though to be fair I don’t think much of value can be done in that position, with the State Department as it is.

ORIN KERR picks up on the “in the mail” trope. I expect that the writers’ strike will cause DVD sales to boom, and I don’t think I’m the only one to think so — I noticed that Target has a big display of TV shows on DVD right up front.

LONGEVITY UPDATE: Pledges to the Methuselah Foundation top $10 Million.

COMPUSA PACKS IT IN: I don’t go there too much, but I’m still sorry. It was a good place to pick up a power supply or a fan when you needed one.

HUGO CHAVEZ’S CRUDE POLITICS. And those who collaborate in it.

MARS UPDATE: “The lame wheel on the NASA Mars rover Spirit has proved an invaluable science tool, turning up evidence of a once habitable environment, scientists said Monday.”

MEGAN MCARDLE: How can markets be efficient if people are such morons?

ANOTHER PR SNAFU from the U.S. Army.

FACEBOOK MAY HAVE broken the law. By making users’ video rentals public.

AT POLIPUNDIT, a big roundup of immigration news. (Via Mickey Kaus).

THE A.P. GETS IT WRONG ON KYOTO AGAIN: “The U.S. is the only major industrial nation to reject Kyoto. President Bush contended the emissions cuts would harm the U.S. economy, and should have been imposed on China, India and other fast-growing poorer economies.”

We’ve been over this whole thing before, and more than once: “On July 25, 1997, before the Kyoto Protocol was finalized (although it had been fully negotiated, and a penultimate draft was finished), the U.S. Senate unanimously passed by a 95–0 vote the Byrd-Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98),[40] which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol that did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations or “would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States”. On November 12, 1998, Vice President Al Gore symbolically signed the protocol. Both Gore and Senator Joseph Lieberman indicated that the protocol would not be acted upon in the Senate until there was participation by the developing nations.[41] The Clinton Administration never submitted the protocol to the Senate for ratification.”

You have to wonder, though, why people bother to listen to the Associated Press when it can’t get basic bits of recent history right.

UPDATE: The link above no longer works. Here’s a link to what appears to be the same story.