ORIN KERR ON THE FOURTH AMENDMENT, JOHN YOO, and “domestic military operations.”

ED MORRISSEY: “Life on the road covering a confirmed presidential nominee apparently bores reporters to tears. Instead of covering news, they literally make up controversy to keep themselves from falling asleep.”

POLL: McCain erases Obama lead. It’s a long time until fall, but this probably indicates the extent of the continuing damage from Rev. Wright.

Meanwhile, advice to McCain — don’t get cocky! “But herein lies a trap for the McCain team: the temptation to run on biography alone. Biographical campaigns did not treat Bob Dole or John Kerry well.”

CYBER-SLAPP.

EXTREME MORTMAN: “When Joe Biden lives vicariously through Dick Cheney, we really ought to be concerned.”

THE CHURCH OF OPRAH?

CALIBRATING YOUR HDTV.

FABRICATING OLEDs with nanotechnology.

THE BAKKEN OIL FIELD ESTIMATE is out, and the number is 3.65 billion barrels. That’s not chopped liver, but it’s not the 200 billion figure that was floating around the blogosphere, either. Report here.

ORWELLIAN CONCERNS about a robo-restaurant. But isn’t this just the old automat revisited?

NAACP INVITES Jeremiah Wright to speak. There must have been a Hillary operative or two behind that decision.

ROGER SIMON: “Reverend Eric Lee of the Southern Christian Leadership Council has responded to accusations of anti-Semitism by Daphna Ziman of Children Uniting Nations. But has he raised more questions than he answered?”

UPDATE: Hey, somebody should ask top antisemitism crusader Barack Obama to weigh in!

NATIONAL HEALTH IS NOT POLLING WELL: “Twenty-nine percent (29%) of American adults favor a national health insurance program overseen by the Federal Government. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 39% oppose such a government-led initiative while 31% are not sure.” This is particularly interesting given the media’s general friendliness to the idea.

I KNOW THE YAHOO/AOL STORY IS BIG, but this picture is just plain creepy.

THE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS ASSOCIATION is going on the offensive for free trade. Note the Castro/Chavez ad on Colombia, also available in PDF here.

UPDATE: Related item here, including strong words from USTR on the Colombia agreement and Congress’s action.

Plus, Cuba si, Colombia no?

STATES OF NATURE. Jonathan Adler is unimpressed.

THE BRIDGES TO THE FUTURE WEBCAST on infrastructure, etc., can be watched by going here and hitting Play. Background here.

ADVICE TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHERS: When you get back from a picture-taking expedition, immediately copy the photos to your computer and then burn a CD or DVD of the files. Label the disk and file it. I needed a picture I took four years ago, and was able to go straight to the disk and pull it up in about two minutes from scratch. That’s despite a hard drive crash and a couple of computer changes.

I don’t do this quite as regularly with the family snapshots, but I do it there, too, whenever the camera starts to fill up.

BARACK OBAMA: Our leading warrior against anti-Semitism? Jake Tapper is unimpressed. (Via Hot Air, where it’s noted that Palestinians have a different view. So who are the rubes this time?).

QUIET ELECTRIC CARS: Murderers of the blind? Don’t worry. Decisive action has been taken.

JULES CRITTENDEN: Reality Checks.

IN THE MAIL: Terry Heaton’s new book, Reinventing Local Media: Ideas for Thriving in a Postmodern World.

And I notice that Michael Yon’s new book is now shipping from Amazon, though it doesn’t officially come out for a few more days.

MORE ON THAT Canadian blogger lawsuit.

“SURRENDER OR THE PUPPY DIES!”

I’m thinking, I’m thinking!