SHADES OF BILL LOCKYER: Having fun with prison rape.

SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS A MONSTER: Hillary Clinton is not.

UPDATE: Voyage to the Bottom of the Barrel.

ANOTHER UPDATE: An Obama apology. More here.

PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: Earmark Nation:

With all the talk about how Mr. McCain needs to unify his party, lost has been the question of whether some people will let him. Washington Republicans know he’s their best shot at retaining the White House. Yet many remain ambivalent about him — not because they question his conservatism, but out of resentment that he may get in the way of their earmarks.

This has resulted in a behind-the-scenes brawl, as spend-happy Republicans resist efforts by wiser heads to fall in behind Mr. McCain’s anti-earmark message. At best, the spenders risk an embarrassing pummeling by their own nominee that could hurt them in their own re-election campaigns. At worst, they could undercut one of Mr. McCain’s more persuasive messages. . . . Republicans have a choice. They can unite behind the feisty Mr. McCain, and take a position that is true to their small-government principles, popular with the public and a smart political move. Or they can hurt themselves, and possibly their nominee, by sticking with the lard.

The GOP delegation has shown that it would rather stuff its pockets than retain the majority in Congress. It’s quite likely that it would rather stuff its pockets than see the GOP take the Presidency, too.

THE ESCALATING WAR against military recruiters. But don’t question their patriotism!

I don’t know why some people seem so anxious to reenact 1968. It wasn’t a good year for anybody, except maybe Richard Nixon. And even that worked out badly in the end . . . .

RUBY TUESDAY’S IS IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE, and if you’ll read the comments you’ll see a lot of people saying it’s because of their menu changes, complained about on InstaPundit here and here. And I agree with the guy who says that the decline began when they ditched the french onion soup.

FRIENDS OF THE COMMON MAN.

CBS: Obama’s Rezko Ties Escape National Radar.

PROBLEMS IN PENNSYLVANIA: “The way I see it, Hillary is going to win this state, and the forces of Rush Limbaugh are going to do their damnedest to increase her margin of victory. This, it is believed, will help John McCain. Not only do I disagree with this approach, but I distrust it. Almost without exception, Limbaugh and the other major Hillary promoters hate John McCain and make no secret of it. So I am deeply suspicious of their claim that they are ‘helping’ John McCain by helping Hillary at the polls.”

DOUG WEINSTEIN TAKES ON “the forces of darkness.”

SOME THOUGHTS on the Rebecca Aguilar firing.

FONDLY REMEMBERING THE ORIGINAL S.U.V. — the Jeep Grand Wagoneer. “It was so tough that my parents skipped out of their high school homecoming dance to go snowdrift-busting during a blizzard in one of my grandfather’s early Wagoneers. Evidently this is what passed for fun in 1968 South Dakota.”

IS OBAMA THE MESSIAH? Heck, some people say he’s the Kwisatz Haderach.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT ON XM SATELLITE RADIO TONIGHT, you can listen to the latest edition of PJM Political online now.

PROBLEMS with the Texas caucus procedures.

THE MEDIA’S BUNKER MENTALITY: Amusingly, All in the Family is older now than the square acts that Archie and Edith Bunker sang about in the theme song were when the show was new.

REZKORAMA: It’s Rezkorriffic!

IT’S ALWAYS COMFORTING WHEN CRITICS can’t even spell your name correctly.

HMM: “Eight House Democrats were mailed a letter and photo of a Times Square recruiting station in Manhattan before it was bombed this morning, according to House insiders. The letter did not contain any specific threats against the lawmakers or the site, but the U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI are now investigating the matter.” If I had to guess, I’d say this means we’ll probably see more of these bombings until they catch whoever’s behind it.

UPDATE: Much more here. “The content of the letters is now known, and it is an anti-war rant.”

JACOB SULLUM ON guns on campus. “Instead of an increase in violence, adoption of Florida-style concealed carry policies has been followed by a decline in violence. The extent to which that decline can be attributed to more guns in the hands of law-abiding people in public places remains a matter of much controversy. But one thing seems pretty clear: The fears stoked by opponents of concealed carry liberalization were unjustified. Are there good reasons to think their dark predictions about guns on campus will be any more accurate? “

WILL THE REAL FREE TRADERS please stand up?

A U.S. CITIZEN we should be proud to have. He’s in favor of peace!

AN ARMY OF EXPERTS? Well, perhaps a bit.

MORE CRUSHING OF DISSENT in Canada.

RICK MORAN on Obama-Rezko and media ignorance of “the Chicago Way.”

ALI ETERAZ on Harvard’s gym-closing mistake. Meanwhile, some readers wonder if Harvard will close its gyms to openly gay men at certain hours, so that straight men who are made uncomfortable by gays can work out without being uncomfortable. It appears that they’re in sync with Islamic thought . . . .