AT LEAST HE ADMITS IT:

RICHARD KAHLENBERG ON Barack Obama and Affirmative Action.

15 OF THE longest beaches in the world.

ROCKETS: A cool slide show.

IN THE MAIL: David Gunn’s Death’s Head: Maximum Offense. It’s the sequel to, you guessed it, Death’s Head.

TESTI-LYING in New York City firearms cases.

ORIN KERR: “I don’t think it’s a secret that The New York Times tends to be particularly one-sided when reporting on matters of concern to The New York Times. Given that, perhaps everyone expects that a Times story on conservative support for a federal reporter’s privilege is going to be as much a work of advocacy as a work of reporting. Still, isn’t it a bit odd that Saturday’s story on the reporters’ privilege doesn’t disclose that both of the credited authors, Eric Lichtblau and Philip Shenon, have been personally involved recently in high-profile DOJ leak investigations?”

TOM MAGURE NOTES THE NEW YORK TIMES’ soft focus on Obama.

FOOD CRISIS? As long as you can get fancy pasta at a buck a pound, I’d say there’s no need to panic.

WOULD THE MUSLIM WORLD WELCOME AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY? Edward Luttwak says no, but InstaPundit mideast reporting suggests otherwise.

I’VE GOT A REVIEW of Ron Paul’s The Revolution: A Manifesto, up over at Pajamas Media.

THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED, political access would be sold to the highest bidder. And they were right!

SOME GOOD NEWS:

Sunday was a day of celebration for the friends and families of 300 Tennessee National Guardsmen and women. The 1175th Transportation Company was away from home for a year.

The 1175th transportation company returned home Sunday after a one year tour of duty in Iraq. They left for Iraq in May of 2007. Friends, family and supporters welcomed the soldiers as they flew in to the guard’s flight facility in Smyrna. Soldiers got a hero’s welcome as they stepped off the plane, and loved ones say perhaps best of all, every member of the company returned home safely.

Good news, as I say.

CHIQUITA, COLOMBIA, and payoffs to terrorists.

J.D. JOHANNES will be on Dennis Miller’s radio show this morning, talking about Iraq and his documentary, Outside the Wire.

A BREAKTHROUGH PROCEDURE for appendectomies? “According to doctors who performed the operation in San Diego, a flexible tube is used to thread miniature surgical instruments down the patient’s throat into their stomach. At that point, the fun begins—unless you’re an appendix, of course. Once the tools are safely inserted into the patient’s gut, a tiny incision is made in the stomach wall to get at the appendix. The inflamed appendix is cut away, grabbed by one of the mini-tools, and bagged in a special mesh pouch. The organ is then pulled back into the stomach and out of the mouth.”