ALI ETERAZ WRITES opposing Sharia arbitration courts in the U.K. Rowan Williams probably should have touched base with him prior to mouthing off . . . .

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE: “What is it lately with Democrats and the Marine Corps?” But follow the link for the story he finds really disturbing.

ERIC SCHEIE: “I’m a bit concerned about the new president of Bryn Mawr College.”

“OR, YOU KNOW, there’s just more of us.”

POLAROID GETS OUT OF THE INSTANT FILM BUSINESS. (Via Eye of the Heretic.)

DOING RIGHT BY our newest veterans.

SOME MOVING ADVICE from the Great White North: “Don’t ship things in plastic when it might be -40 outside. It cracks.” Brr.

CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED PRIMARY NEWS, here.

HOW TO blend an egg. Everything’s better when it’s blended!

A NEW MIDDLE EAST, after all. What hath Bush wrought?

MORE ON TOLEDO AND THE MARINES, from Roger Kimball. And a reader from Toledo emails: “The really rich part of this is that our downtown still has many vacant buildings. One of Carty’s ‘arts’ initiatives was to get artists to paint scenes that would be put up inside the windows of the vacant buildings so they wouldn’t look so ‘vacant’. Oh, and did I mention that the City and County were pleading with the Feds a couple of years ago not to move the local Air National Guard Base (and its jobs/payroll taxes) out of Toledo Express Airport? Pray for us.” This won’t help with that.

Meanwhile, at BlackFive they are not amused.

I.R.S. GETS PUSHBACK FROM COURTS over special treatment for Scientology.

UH OH: “Turns out the punishment might hurt DNC more than it hurt Michigan and Florida. In stripping those states of their delegates for moving up their primaries, the DNC has created a crisis.”

UPDATE: Much more here.

BIOFUELS WORSE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT? That’s the gist of this report, and it’s no doubt correct as far as crop-based biofuels go. It doesn’t seem to address ethanol or methanol from waste biomass, though. Those should have a considerably more benign profile. Also, there are advantages to weakening OPEC even if there’s no environmental benefit from doing so.

HAS THE ARCHIBISHOP gone bonkers? That would be the kindest assessment. But . . . “gone?”

UPDATE: More here. And note this followup comment. It’s more of that Gramscian damage, I guess.

GLOBAL WARMING JUJITSU.

PLOTTING IN the Internet age.

MORE ON SHUSTER’S GROVELLING: It’s the Clintons’ network. You just broadcast there.

UPDATE: From the comments: “This incident is a tool the Clinton machine is using to remind the media that, when they cover the Clintons, they are covering people who can destroy their careers. These reporters may as well be covering their bosses.” [LATER: Point expanded upon here.]

ANOTHER UPDATE: James Joyner: “I’m no fan of Shuster. Indeed, he’s a total and utter hack and MSNBC should be ashamed they can’t find a more serious journalist to put on their air. But these remarks aren’t worthy of tut-tutting, let alone firing.”

MORE: A roundup at TV Newser includes this: “An NBC insider close to the situation is outraged at the suspension. ‘This is the second time in a month we’ve caved to a political campaign, kowtowing under pressure for what were basically legitimate observations,’ the insider tells TVNewser. ‘We’re not even pretending to be journalists anymore.'” It’s the Clintons’ network. You just broadcast there.

MARK TAPSCOTT:

George Will delivered a powerful argument at last night’s CPAC banquet on behalf of conservatives sucking it up and being “happy warriors” on behalf of John McCain and the Republican presidential ticket. I listened and for the most part found myelf nodding, reluctantly, in agreement.

But I noted that Will did not talk about the one issue on which the Washington Post columnist might be expected to be most concerned: Would President McCain be as aggressive an advocate of campaign finance reform regulation as Senator McCain was? There are four things to consider on this issue.

Read the whole thing.

WELL, IT’S A DUMB LAW: National Parks gun ban under fire.

BILL QUICK’S AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE PARTY SITE is up and running in fullbore Drupal mode.

SETTLING FOR Mr. Good Enough.

UPDATE: Several readers were amused that the item linked above isn’t about the G.O.P. and John McCain. Meanwhile, Eugene Volokh has thoughts.

YES, THERE ARE MORE PRIMARIES TODAY: Roundup here.

HEH: “Some things aren’t in the news because — unexciting as it may be to the mind of the conspiracy buff — they didn’t happen.”

PFIZER, TURNABOUT, AND FAIR PLAY: Pfizer, which played an unfortunate role in the Kelo case, is now finding itself bitten by dubious eminent-domain practices. Ilya Somin cautions that two wrongs don’t make a right — which is true, but on the other hand sometimes they make the practitioner of the first wrong more aware of its wrongness. . . .