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.

IN THE MAIL: Norman Podhoretz’s World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism. Now in paperback, and with a 30-page postscript on where things stand now.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: “Contrarian that I am, I’m voting for John McCain. I’m not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it’s over before it’s over. I’m talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they’re left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years. . . . Today’s economic crisis, like every other in our history, will in time pass. But the barbarians will still be at the gates.”

UPDATE: A Fred Thompson election message: Thompson sounds a similar theme.

I THOUGHT THAT WAS BEN & JERRY’S NICHE: Baskin-Robbins doing its part for Obama.

UPDATE: Reader Jeff Schultz says Kaus is wrong:

Yes, They’ve got “Whirl of Change,” or whatever – but they’ve also got, IIRC, “Straight Talk Crunch.” At least I think that was what it was – each label very clearly identified it with its candidate.

Saw them both last Saturday.

We’re more a TCBY kind of household.

GO EAST, YOUNG MAN: “Occasionally, whenever one of us Samizdata scribes writes about events in the UK, such as loss of civil liberties, or the latest financial disasters perpetrated by the government, or crime, or whatnot, there is sometimes a comment from an expatriate writer, or US citizen in particular, suggesting that we moaners should pack our bags, cancel the mail and come on over to America. . . . But considering what might happen if Obama wins the White House and the Dems increase or retain their hold on Congress, I also wonder whether we might encounter the example of enterprising Americans coming to Britain, not the other way round.” Hmm. I just turned down an offer to teach at Cambridge this summer — maybe I should reconsider, as at least I could reconnoiter a bit . . . .

UPDATE: Rand Simberg says don’t go East, go Up. And James Bennett emails:

If Stephen Harper carries out his tax-cutting plans, and the Canadian Supreme Court decision permitting private provision of medical services is implemented, and Obama carries out his likely agenda in taxation and health care, Canada (Alberta, anyway) may end up having lower taxes and freer health care than the USA. Also, the “Human Rights” Tribunals have gone on the defensive, whereas who knows what Obama-Pelosi-Reid may bring in terms of “Fairness” Doctrine, internet regulation, etc.

Personally, I think I’ll stay in Tennessee.

SEEMS LIKE THINGS ALWAYS RUN DOWN UNDER SOCIALISM: “Despite having some of the world’s largest energy reserves, Venezuela is increasingly struggling to maintain basic electrical service, a growing challenge for leftist President Hugo Chavez. . . . Shoddy electrical service is now one of Venezuelans’ top concerns, according to a recent poll, and may be a factor in elections next month for governors and mayors in which Chavez allies are expected to lose key posts, in part on complaints of poor services. . . . Experts say Venezuela for years has skimped billions of dollars in electrical investments, leaving generation 20 percent below the level necessary for a stable power grid and increasing the risk of national outages.” Too much wealth-spreading, not enough wealth-creation and maintenance.