MEIR JAVEDANFAR: “The assassination of Imad Mughniyeh, Iran’s top man in Syria and Lebanon, should set off alarm bells in Tehran.”

HELL, WHEN I WAS THERE, EVERY WEEK WAS Sex Week at Yale.

NORM GERAS RESPONDS to revisionist history on the Iraq war. Which won’t stop people from lying, alas . . . .

REMEMBERING THE ORIGINAL CAPRI, before it became “a subservient ugly cousin of the Mustang.”

FAUSTA: “If you are a billionaire, or a foreigner, and don’t want it known that you are donating millions to a US presidential campaign, here’s how.”

ZERO-G Alka-Seltzer.

UNVEILING THE OBAMA “SPENDOMETER.” That this has appeared is itself a bad sign for Hilary.

JOHN DERBYSHIRE: “Ben Stein’s piece illustrates quite exceptionally well the close intellectual kinship between creationism and leftist postmodernism.”

MICHAEL CROWLEY: “The press’s failure to closely examine Obama’s Iraq record is a source of perpetual frustration for the Clinton camp–and a fair gripe. . . . This may not be quite the Obama of the popular imagination, and it is certainly not the Obama of his own campaign ads.”

EXALTING NON-WESTERN CULTURES: An ancient Western tradition.

MARK PENN: “Why Hillary, Not Obama, is the Democrat to Beat McCain.”

But is she the Democrat to beat Obama? . . . .

APPRECIATING JOHN HOWARD, now that he’s gone.

FIFTY YEARS OF teaching math.

PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: Henry Waxman swears off earmarks this year:

This pesky earmark issue just won’t go away.

After members of the majority had all but ignored Republican calls for a one-year moratorium on lawmaker-requested projects, one prominent Demorcrat stoked those dying embers on Tuesday; Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry A. Waxman (Calif.) issued a released pledging not to request special projects in any of the upcoming spending bills this year. And he recommended his colleagues to do the same.

“We have a problem in Congress,” Waxman said. “Congressional spending through earmarks is out of control.”

He’s right. And this puts pressure on the G.O.P. to stay serious on this issue.

HELLER V. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Here’s a roundup of commentary on many of the amicus briefs filed in the Heller case. Note that we have pro-individual rights briefs representing both a majority of Congress and a majority of state attorneys general.

Plus, pro-gun-rights briefs from gay rights and women’s groups.

A REVOLUTION: Andrew Marcus has video from the Chicago auto show.

PROGRESS IN BERKELEY:

After a day of enraged confrontation outside Berkeley City Hall between anti-war and pro-military demonstrators, the City Council appeared ready late Tuesday night to rescind its controversial decision to tell the U.S. Marines they are “unwelcome intruders” for operating a downtown recruiting center.

A majority of the nine-member council also leaned toward issuing a statement declaring that it is opposed to the war in Iraq but supports U.S. troops.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. So let’s accept that tribute in this case. And congrats to the “pro-military demonstrators.” It’s not 1969 any more, even in Berkeley.

IMAD MUGHNIYAH is dead.

More background on this happy event here. Plus this:

“Bin Laden is a schoolboy in comparison with Mughniyeh,” says an Israeli who knows Mughniyeh . “The guy is a genius, someone who refined the art of terrorism to its utmost level. We studied him and reached the conclusion that he is a clinical psychopath motivated by uncontrollable psychological reasons, which we have given up trying to understand. The killing of his two brothers by the Americans only inflamed his strong motivation.”

Well, being blown up should dampen that motivation quite a bit.

NOW HIRING at Penney’s.

THE MESSIAH COMES TO MADISON: Uncle Jimbo reports from an Obama rally.

KISSINGER MEETS THE BLOGGERS: “The country cannot try to escape the battle with Islam by withdrawing from Afghanistan and Iraq, he said, for such a withdrawal would have ‘not just long-term consequences, but immediate consequences.'” Plus this: “Mr. Kissinger noted that he had been asked to limit his remarks about Mr. Podhoretz to 10 minutes. ‘If I do, you can all say you were present at a historical event,’ he said. Indeed he made the cutoff.” Sounds like the Power Line Book Award was a big event. Sorry I couldn’t make it.

JONATHAN ADLER: “I understand why conservatives have misgivings about McCain — I share many of them — but what I do not understand is how some find Huckabee to be a more acceptable ‘conservative’ candidate. McCain has his share of heresies, to be sure, but they pale in comparison to those of the Huckster — and Huckabee’s foreign policy experience is scarcely greater than Barack Obama’s.”

TIM BLAIR: “This is more about smug white folks feeling nice about themselves.”

OBAMA AND MCCAIN WIN IN D.C., TOO, making it a clean sweep for them.

UPDATE: More here: “Mike Huckabee was already in John McCain’s rear view mirror. After tonight, he’ll barely be worth a backward glance.”

PENN JILLETTE EXPLAINS WHY HILLARY DOESN’T HAVE A CHANCE.