JEFF JACOBY: HINDSIGHT ISN’T 20-20. “The prevailing wisdom 18 months or so ago was that invading Iraq had been, in retrospect, a disastrous blunder. . . . But what if we had known then what we know now?”

Indeed. Read the whole thing.

YOU DON’T TUG ON SUPERMAN’S CAPE: But, really, even that’s safer than trying to silence Amy Alkon.

UPDATE: Some additional thoughts. (Bumped). See the comment from Francis W. Porretto. Somebody should write a book about this phenomenon!

ANN ALTHOUSE: 6 things I noticed when I rewatched the Saddleback Civil Forum. And much more on that subject here.

LIKE RICKY NELSON SAID, YOU CAN’T PLEASE EVERYBODY: Obama Facing Attacks From All Sides Over Abortion Record.

I COULDN’T GET THE VIDEO TO PLAY BEFORE, but now watching the video of Chris Collinsworth interviewing Kobe Bryant gives a different impression than the transcript. I agree with the commenters who suggest that Collinsworth was just teeing things up for Kobe.

MCCAIN CHARGED WITH PLAGIARIZING SOLZHENITSYN: Tom Maguire is unconvinced. But I agree with a commenter that it’s not “Swiftboating,” but something far less: “In order to Swift Boat John McCain you will need his fellow POWs to come out and say he is bloviating, etc. Swift Boating means someone who was there who knows you are full of hot air is on your tail. Not, I repeat not, what the left wants it to mean. The only way John McCain can be Swift Boated is if someone who was there with him causes McCain’s campaign to scramble to answer the allegations. Otherwise, this is desperation by the left who sees their guaranteed win slipping away.” It’ll get uglier before it’s over.

SIX NON-HYBRID VEHICLES that go easy on the gas.