NATALIE SOLENT: What about people who bomb abortion clinics in America? “When reading on the internet about Islamic terrorism, commenters often mention that there is also terrorism by Christian fundamentalists in America, where there have been bombings of abortion clinics and shootings of abortion providers. . . . The last such murder was ten years ago today. When I first found out this fact I was surprised. Again and again I have read comments that assumed that this type of terrorism was less deadly than Islamic terrorism but was nonetheless a steadily lethal undercurrent of American life – a death here, a death there.”

Not so much.

L.A. TIMES: VP candidate kept from media and no crowd questions. Not Palin. It’s Biden!

BRINGING BACK supersonic transatlantic flights?

HMM: Remember Those 1.3 Million New Voters? Uh, Never Mind.

MAKING PAPER THAT’S STRONGER THAN STEEL, with nanotechnology.

CHARGES OF OBAMA FUNDRAISING FRAUD: “He may now be running the biggest underground finance operation since Nixon deployed the plumbers.”

PITTSBURGH MUTILATION INCIDENT A FAKE, according to police. Advantage: Ann Althouse and Michelle Malkin!

HOW TO MAKE smart toy choices for kids. Good advice as far as it goes, but how about toy guns to build shooting skills?

73-YEAR OLD BECOMES INTERNET PHENOMENON: Backstory from Jack Lail.

A LOOK AT the technology of keyboard-spying.

MORE ON THE TIM MAHONEY SCANDAL:New Allegations in Mahoney Sex Scandal Document: Rep. Allegedly Used Mistress as “Tease” for Big Donors.

WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT, ALGAE? UK Starts World’s Largest Algae Biofuel Initiative.

TURNING SOCIAL SECURITY into a welfare program? Since FDR, the belief has always been that you have to make Social Security a social-insurance scheme to sustain political support. Has that changed?

A.C. KLEINHEIDER: You’re A Racist All Day.

TAXPROF: Blue States Lose More Than Red States Under Obama Tax Plan.

PATTERICO’S domain has been hijacked.

HEH: “So let’s get this straight: we are going to see more than $4 trillion in new spending, have a big tax increase, and defund our military — while certain to face international challenges where ‘it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.’ And this is what Democrats are saying?”

PUTTING TERMITES TO WORK making ethanol. “Researchers at the University of Florida are reporting that the enzymes in the guts of termites could provide a powerful tool for making ethanol from non-food woody plants.”

A LARGE, GASOLINE-POWERED MERCEDES that gets 28 miles per gallon.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Are investor concerns about an Obama presidency influencing the stock market? “Investors might not be worrying so much about a Democratic president, given the current one-way state of the polls, as they are about the combo of Obama + Nancy Pelosi + Harry Reid. And you can toss Charlie Rangel and Barney Frank into the mix as well.” Well, look at the recent history.