IN THE MAIL: The Religion of Money: Dialogues in Economic Controversy.

THE WASHINGTON POST calls for a rehearing in Kennedy v. Louisiana. This term saw some slipshod work from the Court, but I’m still surprised at this.

“WHY WOULD ANYONE die for the Celtics?”

THEY’RE MAKIN’ NOISE, WE’RE MAKIN’ HISTORY:

PHOTOS FROM FARRAGUT’S Fourth of July Parade. More Fourth of July photos here.

IRAQ’S OIL SURGE: And note this conclusion:

What the U.S. should promote in Iraq is some kind of oil trust, or stock or revenue dispersal, that would give individual Iraqis a share of their oil wealth. This would be both a tool to build national unity and to prevent any one political group from dominating Iraq’s main revenue source. If Mr. Schumer wants to help on that score, he might do some good.

I don’t place much faith in Charles Schumer, but I’d love to be wrong. And I’ve been pushing the oil trust idea since 2003. Had it gone into place then, I suspect we’d have seen things go much more smoothly. However despite support for the idea from Hillary Clinton, Milton Friedman, and Vernon Smith, as well as Michael Barone, it never really took hold.

A ROUNDUP OF NEWS ON resveratrol and life extension. I’m still taking resveratrol supplements, since I tested ’em for this Popular Mechanics column. I switched from the Longevinex to the Biotivia Transmax. Are they working? Ask me in 30 years . . . .

JOURNALISM AND the power of Google. Plus, possible ethanol politics!

SADDAM’S NON EXISTENT NUCLEAR PROGRAM HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN:

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program _ a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium _ reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.

The removal of 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” _ the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment _ was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam’s nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.

Read the whole thing.

WELL, GOOD: Al-Qaeda is driven from Mosul bastion after bloody last stand. Plus, Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki is declaring victory over the terrorists in Baghdad. “Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday that the country’s security forces have managed to save Baghdad from a ‘siege by terrorists’ backed by foreign nations.”

OH, GOODY: ‘Germ warfare’ fear over African monkeys taken to Iran.

MCCAIN HAS PROBLEMS with a teleprompter. Meanwhile, Obama can hardly speak without one. They’re like yin and yang.

AS WEB TRAFFIC GROWS, CRASHES TAKE A BIGGER TOLL. True. And seem more often, sometimes — Technorati, for example, has been unreliable for months. Plus, a solution for one kind of question: “In March, Mr. Payne created downforeveryoneorjustme.com, as in, ‘Down for everyone, or just me?’ It lets visitors type in a Web address and see whether a site is generally inaccessible or whether the problem is with their own connection.”

INTERESTING: “In the six-and-a-half years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials said. They have criminal arrest records in the United States.”

THE WORST ECONOMIST ARTICLE of all time?

STEPHEN BAINBRIDGE has a lengthy post on drinking chilled red wine in the summer.

OBAMA AND ABORTION: Backtracking on the backtracking on late-term abortion. “Does he think we are idiots?” Thinks, hopes, whatever. And the above quote comes from someone who voted for Obama.

ERIC SCHEIE is disappointed in John McCain. “I am sorry to see that John McCain has denied roughing up the Sandinistas . . . . Frankly, I’m a bit disappointed. I’d love to see a video of McCain grabbing an Ortega associate by his shirt collar and lifting him out of his chair.”

MORE ON the politics of ethanol.

BACKTRACKING on the Iraq backtrack backtracking. Or something like that. I can’t keep track.

KNIFEBLOGGING, CONT’D: A sale on camp knives, good for outdoor enthusiasts or disaster-prep types. I didn’t realize that Ken Onion did “tactical” knives as well as kitchenware.

A PREDICTION: “The media will spend the summer establishing their faux credibility by tsk-tsking about a handful of Obama issues. Come September, there will be an tidal wave of aggressive Obama campaigning by the media that will make the work of the North Korean press look tame by comparison.”

PANDEMIC! A look at future disease threats.

A RECIPE FOR WATERMELON LEMONADE. Just beware — watermelon can reportedly have “Viagra-like effects!”