FORGETTING TO RIOT.

EUGENE VOLOKH AND I were on Hugh Hewitt’s show last night talking about the Northern Illinois shootings. The transcript is here. And, of course, this piece remains relevant. And this one.

Also — especially if you’re a college administrator — you might want to check out this article on campus violence. (Bumped).

WAS OBAMA A LOUSY PRESIDENT — of the Harvard Law Review? The evidence presented is unpersuasive.

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: “First Umad Mughniyeh takes the 72-virgin ride with a Bashar Assad Special. Now Ayman Atallah Fayed gets blasted in the most literal sense of the word. Both men were high-ranking members of terrorist groups arrayed against Israel. Coincidence?”

MORE ON BRZEZINSKI IN DAMASCUS, which got surprisingly little press coverage.

ANN ALTHOUSE CORRECTS THE IGNORANT AND NAIVE:

I had to laugh at the idea that mocking the President began in the year 2001. Bill Clinton was not a figure of fun? The first Bush? Reagan? Carter? Ford? Nixon? LBJ? JFK? Eisenhower? That’s as far back as I personally can remember. I won’t say most people my age have never felt proud of our President. But I never have. And I don’t think that’s so terrible. Don’t worship leaders. Let the mockery flow on. Even if a guy you like who seems pretty good makes it to the White House.

Indeed.

UPDATE: From the comments: “I think the need for Messianic Presidents began when people turned away from God and the church. . . . So many people are looking for a President that they can be excited about. I am looking for a President I can feel calm about.”

MEETING WITH TERRORISTS, on the taxpayer’s dime.

BRRR! Snow and ice in . . . San Diego?

CELEBRATING THE SURGE ANNIVERSARY IN BAGHDAD: Gateway Pundit has a roundup.

MORE DISSING OF HILLARY: “‘At a minimum, a head of state should have a head,’ Putin said.” She’s just losing one superdelegate after another . . . .

UPDATE: A reminder that Putin isn’t the first world leader to call Hillary an ignoramus.

A ROUNDUP OF NEW, OPEN-ACCESS online law libraries.

MAYBE BLAIR SHOULD’VE HAD ‘EM KILLED OR SOMETHING: “Saudi Arabia’s rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted, according to court documents revealed yesterday.” Or at least gone public with the story and frozen all Saudi assets in Britain. Then again, that’s kind of what’s happening anyway, albeit in slow motion.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO Charles Darwin.

A DANISH CARTOONIST ON THE RUN. In a better world, it would be the people who openly supported terrorism who had to worry.

IN TENNESSEE, LEGISLATION RESPONDING TO CAMPUS SHOOTINGS by legalizing gun carry on campus by faculty and staff. Direct bill link here (PDF). Seems like a good idea to me, though as I’ve noted elsewhere, I’m okay with permit-holding students carrying too.

THAT’S NOT A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS: Obama imitates Olmert.

RUSH LIMBAUGH begs Steve Jobs for Apple bug fixes. Good luck!

ROWAN WILLIAMS UPDATE: Canadian Women’s Rights Activist Homa Arjomand says Rowan Williams should quit!

RAND SIMBERG: “I frankly don’t get all the Obamamania. . . . His speeches remind me of Gertrude Stein’s comment about Oakland–there’s no there there.”

HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO JOHN SHADEGG: Baby, please don’t go!

SUPERDELEGATE UPDATE: “In an ironic twist to the historic Democratic nominating contest between an African-American and a woman, the balance of power may be held by a more familiar face: the white male. . . . One Obama superdelegate, a House member, had sharp criticism for the superdelegate racial and gender makeup, a reaction that reflects the sensitivities surrounding the issue.”

JOHN WEIDNER DISCOVERS THE LATEST LOW-DOWN CAMPAIGN TRICK: Campaigning on the issues and facts!

IT’S NOT EASY to be Hillary.

I MENTIONED STEVEN TELES’ The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement a while back. Now Orin Kerr has posted a review. He likes it.

PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: The Bonner appointment blowback makes the Washington Post:

Anti-earmark crusader Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) lost his bid for a seat on the House Appropriations Committee Thursday, and the conservative blogosphere is not happy about it.

This Red State post was typical of the reaction. Under the heading, “House Republicans Aren’t Serious About Earmark Reform,” blogger Bluey wrote, “Just when it appeared House Republicans had turned the corner on earmark reform, party leaders did the unthinkable.”

The seat instead went to Alabama Rep. Jo Bonner (R), a former Appropriations staffer who beat a field that included Flake, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (Okla.) and a host of other aspirants that included one genuinely vulnerable GOP member, Rep. Dave Reichert (Wash.). . . .

Republican leaders know that Flake is a cause célèbre in the blogosphere. They knew passing him over would prompt a backlash. But while they want to keep hammering away on the earmarks issue, they simply were not going to reward Flake for what they perceive to be insufficient loyalty to the team.

House Republicans’ unwillingness to commit to a party-wide moratorium on earmarks demonstrated that their crusade does have its limits, and yesterday’s move reaffirmed that fact.

Indeed it did.

UPDATE: The Hill: Booted from the PorkBusters list:

Angered by the decision of Republican leaders to not give earmark foe Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) a coveted seat on the Appropriations Committee, a coalition of fiscal conservative groups is kicking the GOP leadership’s representative off its mailing list.

“At the request of several key groups in the porkbusting coalition, I have decided to eject the House GOP leadership’s representative, Bill Greene, from the Coalition mailing list,” said blogger Rob Neppell. The Porkbusters coalition is made up of conservative groups, such as the Club for Growth, the Heritage Foundation and the National Taxpayer’s Union, and bloggers.

The Porkbusters coalition also includes the Sunlight Foundation, and a bunch of lefties associated therewith.