IT’S AN IVY LEAGUE UPDATE, from Tom Smith.

ARTHUR BROOKS: Free People Are Happy People.

Yeah, go figure.

A REPORT ON THE MEXICAN DRUG WAR, which is getting pretty warlike.

NORM GERAS: Seven types of defection from the Left.

STUDENTS FOR CONCEALED CARRY come to Knoxville: “If you notice students sporting empty holsters on the University of Tennessee campus today, it’s likely the sign of a protest, not a lost handgun. The students wearing the empty holsters are protesting state laws and campus policies that prohibit concealed handgun carry license holders from carrying on campus, said Nathan Robinson, a UT senior.”

BILL BRADLEY on the Pennsylvania Push.

SOME OBAMA FANS ARE CROWING that they caught McCain without a flag pin. Perhaps he should oblige them by wearing one of these.

MICKEY KAUS: Help! I’m A Snob Like Obama!

HMM: “Soaring food prices and global grain shortages are bringing new pressures on governments, food companies and consumers to relax their longstanding resistance to genetically engineered crops.” Good news, though it would have been better if they had adopted them sooner. Best line: “Their hearts may be on the left, but their pockets are on the right.”

ROBERT NOVAK: What’s the matter with Obama?