ARNOLD KLING: “How can the Democrats implement policy changes without large spending increases? The answer is regulation. The business sector is going to be increasingly told what to sell and how to sell it. Particularly in health care and energy, firms are going to be accountable to bureaucrats, not to customers.”

THOUGHTS ON the inkjet refill racket.

AN ARCHIBISHOP OF CANTERBURY TALE, from IowaHawk. Chaucer would approve.

MCCAIN WINS VIRGINIA, according to Fox.

UPDATE: McCain wins Maryland, too. So does Obama. Not close in either case, apparently.

NATURE: Too boring for modern kids?

MORE TROUBLE FOR RON PAUL in his own Congressional primary.

ED RENDELL: Pennsylvania whites won’t vote for Obama.

OBAMA BEATS CLINTON in Virginia.

VIDEO: Colorado students protest ban on guns on campus. See Dave Kopel talk to students, too. (Via Reason TV).

STEPHEN GREEN IS drunkblogging the primary results.

OBAMA-GASMIC!

FISA UPDATE: “After more than a year of heated political wrangling, the Senate handed the White House a major victory Tuesday by voting to broaden the government’s spy powers after giving legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program.”

VIDEO: Aubrey de Grey on The Colbert Report.

IS OBAMA REALLY THE liberal Ronald Reagan? James Pethokoukis makes the case, though he says he’s not entirely convinced himself. Reagan certainly had a lot more executive experience . . . .

DINNER WITH GENERAL DUBIK: A new dispatch from Michael Yon. As always, it’s a must-read.

VIDEOGAME EXERCISING the Wii Fit way!

ONELESSDESK: Looks kinda cool.

A LOOK AT DARWIN’S 199th birthday.

And a suitable observance.

HEH: “All this emoting over Barack Obama’s wonderful, wonderful personality is starting to trigger my gag reflex. What are we electing here, a faith healer?”

Plus, Obama unplugged.

WHY REPUBLICANS ARE happier. Or are happier people Republicans?

SOME NEAT NANOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS, from Derek Lowe.

Plus, the world’s best microscope, with images of individual atoms.

THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED, people would want the government to start rewarding and punishing companies based on how “patriotic” those companies were. And they were right!

MORE THOUGHTS ON BRITAIN AND SHARIA, from Ali Eteraz.

REINVENTING date night for married couples.

GENE NICHOL HAS RESIGNED as President of William & Mary.

UPDATE: More here. Also, here’s Nichol’s statement. And here’s a statement from the Board of Visitors.