APPLE DISAPPROVES OF ridiculing public figures. How stodgy. I’ll bet the Droid Apps don’t suffer from that sort of handicap.

ANN ALTHOUSE: “Good religion.”

JACOB SULLUM ON FORT HOOD’S GUN-FREE ZONE. “Neither Smith nor the other victims of Hasan’s assault had guns because soldiers on military bases within the United States generally are not supposed to carry them. Last week’s shootings, which killed 13 people and wounded more than 30, demonstrated once again the folly of ‘gun-free zones,’ which attract and assist people bent on mass murder instead of deterring them.”

I’M GETTING MY GULAG TOGETHER AND TAKING IT ON THE ROAD: Conservative Student Group Announces National Campus Gulag Campaign.

IS CHINA HEADING TOWARD economic collapse?

READER JOHN MARCOUX sends these pictures from the Tea Party in Beaufort, South Carolina today.

DUBIOUS PROGRESS: Internet Virus Frames Users For Child Porn.

ABC NEWS: Senior Official: More Hasan Ties to People Under Investigation by FBI.

THE HILL: What lessons can we learn from the Fort Hood attack?

DON’T ASK, DON’T GIVE: Gay Activists Boycotting the DNC. “Joe and I are launching today a donor boycott of the DNC. The boycott is cosponsored by Daily Kos, Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake, Dan Savage, Michelangelo Signorile, David Mixner, Andy Towle and Michael Goff of Towle Road, Paul Sousa (Founder of Equal Rep in Boston), Pam Spaulding, Robin Tyler (ED of the Equality Campaign, Inc.), Bil Browning for the Bilerico Project, and soon others.”

REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from all over.

INSPECTOR-GENERAL-GATE UPDATE: Walpin cleared.

Gerald Walpin, the AmeriCorps inspector general fired by the White House in July during his probe of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, has been cleared of a complaint by the acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento that he had acted improperly.

Now, he says, he wants his job back.

“It takes away any basis belatedly set forth by the White House as a reason for my termination,” Walpin said this morning in an interview from his home in New York. “So I am certainly looking forward to a final determination by the court and to be reinstated.”

Walpin filed suit in federal court in Washington, D.C., in July alleging that he was fired improperly while investigating whether Johnson had misused federal grant funds. The government is trying to have the case dismissed, but Walpin filed documents in court late Monday opposing that.

This could be fun.

A NEW CONSTITUTION for the Cayman Islands.

RICHARD DALEY BECLOWNS HIMSELF: Chicago Mayor Daley Blames Fort Hood On America’s Love Of Guns! They’ll talk about anything but what’s actually going on . . . .

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the Marine Corps.

You could observe it by heping out Project Valour-IT.

THE VATICAN JOINS the search for extraterrestrial life.

CHANGE: Fannie And Freddie Fire Their Own Inspector General.

HOPE AND CHANGE: Unemployment Skyrockets: “U.S. now beating European unemployment rates”.

WALTER SHAPIRO WONDERS why so little attention to winning the Cold War.

D.C. SNIPER JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD has been executed.

DRONE WARS: “Biden? He had his chance.” Heh.

BREITBART HAS SOURCES EVERYWHERE: Exclusive: Audio From ACORN Claims Jerry Brown Will Whitewash Investigation. “On October 15th, local ACORN spokesman David Lagstein was the special guest of the East County Democrat Club in El Cajon, CA. Lagstein is ACORN’s chief organizer in the San Diego area. The meeting was held at Coco’s Restaurant, a very public venue. Because of ACORN’s close ties to the Democrat party, Mr. Lagstein clearly felt he was among friends. These two clips suggest the investigation of ACORN announced by California Attorney General Jerry Brown already has a pre-determined outcome.”

More background here and here.

IOWAHAWK: Troubled American Psychiatrist Allegedly Turns Gun on Warmongers at Ft. Hood.

HARVARD YARD, home of American heroes.

INSTAVISION: I talk to the CEI’s Fred Smith about the economy, the grassroots, and what the GOP needs to do.