ONE DAY TO STOP HILLARY? You can substitute Obama if you’d rather.

FOLLOWING UP YESTERDAY’S BACON POST, Jennifer from Mellow-Drama emails:

I laughed when I read your bacon candy blurb, because I remember writing about a Women Lawyer’s Association event I went to when I was newly licensed, and they served a giant platter of sweet-glazed crispy bacon at the reception. I marveled over it at the time, but since then I’ve been to a lot more events and judged all of them inferior due to a distinct lack of bacon. I’m so glad I’m not the only one with the bacon obsession!

So how about some delicious Bacon Peanut Brittle? Yum, yum.

BOB KRUMM: John McCain really could win . . . maybe that’s why some Republicans are so scared!

MITT ROMNEY’S swift and graceful exit.

JAMES LILEKS: “Love of country must always be qualified these days, lest anyone think you are unaware of slavery, insufficiently regulated railroad stock offerings, Lester Maddox or the attempt by Philip Morris to conceal the addictive nature of cigarettes.”

THOUGHTS ON JUNO, from Kyle Smith.

T.M. LUTAS: “Why are the generals getting restless all over NATO? . . . I can see no other explanation than a profound, international vote of no-confidence in the political class of the West by heavily experienced military minds that live, breathe, eat, and sleep the problem of defending us all from violent threats to our liberties and very existence.”

RON BAILEY ON techno-optimistic environmentalism.

JOHNATHAN PEARCE: “The Archibishop of Canterbury is an ass.”

MORE ANIMAL-RIGHTS TERRORISM: “The house of a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles was damaged by a firebomb left at the front door early Tuesday, the university said in a news release, and an animal-rights extremist group has claimed responsibility for the attack. “

THOUGHTS ON FISA RENEWAL from Jacob Sullum.

A contrary view here.

POWER LINE’S LUCRATIVE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD goes to Norman Podhoretz for World War IV. “The biggest cash prize in American letters isn’t the Pulitzer or the National Book Award–prizes which are unlikely ever to go to a conservative writer. It’s the Power Line Book of the Year Award.” And there’s a swell event in NYC, too.

ROMNEY suspends his campaign.

UPDATE: Mark Hemingway: “Just finished watching Romney’s terrific speech, and I bet a lot of people are wishing that he displayed more of that inspirational quality and verve in the campaign.”

Also here: “He’s giving an amazing speech. A really, really good speech – unlike any that I’ve seen him give during the course of this campaign. . . . He’s speaking with passion and conviction. Now that it’s over. For some reason, it seems like Romney seemed free only to be himself once it was over.” Video here.

FROM N.Z. BEAR’S KITHBRIDGE, a CPAC blog feed.

DO YOU MIND IF I check your badge again? They told me that if George W. Bush were re-elected, clueless cops would be confiscating computers willy-nilly. And they were right!

IN THE MAIL: A.J. Rossmiller’s Still Broken: A Recruit’s Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, From Baghdad to the Pentagon. There have certainly been plenty of those.

BOB OWENS ISSUES A ringing endorsement of John McCain. Plus, at the end, a slogan that belongs on bumper stickers everywhere!

CORRECTING THE C.I.A.

MOMENTUM: “A controversial idea to require colleges and universities to pay out more from their endowment assets annually seems to be gaining traction among both Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives.”

WHY MEN WON’T GET MARRIED: The latest Ask Dr. Helen column is up! Plus, we hear back from the 47-year-old virgin.

BOB KRUMM on weather vs. climate.

BYPASSING SECURITY with cloned trucks.

WHAT BURKLE BOUGHT? “The Clintons always seem to live at the nexus of questions regarding cash and politics.”

AN IDEA FOR A NOVEL, from Charles Stross. I like it.

“BE NICE. BE POLITE. HAVE A PLAN TO KILL EVERYONE YOU SEE.” Bob Owens reports on weapons training.