STEPHEN GREEN’S HAIR OF THE DOG: Putin the Plumber, Clinton’s Leaky Diplomacy and the Other Clinton’s New Nuke News.

TEST-DRIVING THE 1948 Frazer Manhattan.

FROM THE PJTV DOCUMENTARY UNIT: Obama and Chavez and Castro, Oh My. The Truth About the Honduran Coup & Our President’s Wrong Move.

OBAMACARE MIGHT GET TO 50% APPROVAL WITH this approach to preventive medicine: “A study by German scientists showed that 10 minutes a day of ogling women’s breasts by men was as good at warding off heart disease, high blood pressure and stress as 30 minutes of aerobic exercise.”

UPDATE: The story appears to be a hoax. But I say, why take chances? If breast-ogling saves just one life, it’s worth it. . . .

LIZ CHENEY: “Red-state rock star?”

17 NUCLEAR REACTORS, saved by Germany’s election. That’s good news for the planet!

TOP TEN “GREEN” CARS that met their fate during Cash for Clunkers.

REMEMBERING William Safire.

FROM MY COLLEAGUE DEAN RIVKIN: Decriminalizing Students with Disabilities.

SELF-REGULATED MORPHINE DELIVERY FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS: “DARPA-funded nanotech drug automatically regulates its morphine dose on the battlefield.”

MICHAEL SILENCE: The NYT’s anti-social social media editor. “Doesn’t this seem just a wee bit of a contradiction? You assign someone to following a group of people, or movement, whose fundamental plank is transparency, but then you won’t be transparent as to who that is? . . . I’ve never heard of a newspaper having a Private Editor.”

RADLEY BALKO: Should absolute immunity protect prosecutors who manufacture evidence? “Believe it or not, it’s still an open question. In November, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on Pottawattamie v. McGhee in order to resolve it.”

GIVE US BACK OUR BULLETS: “One year after the Supreme Court struck down D.C.’s gun ban, big-city mayors are still working to keep citizens defenseless.”

DAVIS POLK PUBLISHES financial crisis manual.

FOR WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING DIFFERENT: A ride on a jet-powered carousel.

DON’T I KNOW IT: Most of us have a finite supply of willpower.

A NEW WEBSITE for the Michigan Law Review.

IN THE MAIL: From Harry Maclean, The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi’s Struggle for Redemption.

BILL WHITTLE: The Destruction of ACORN, the Strategy of Breitbart & Why We Must All Remain Vigilant.

FORGET NEIL YOUNG. I thought it was a play on this picture.

ROGER SIMON on Roman Polanski’s arrest.

Some Polanski background here.

THE GUANTANAMO DECISION: what went wrong.

JAMES TARANTO: Secret Agent Editors. “The Obama administration, as we noted Wednesday, was supposed to usher in a new era of transparency in government, Instead we find ourselves in a new era of opacity, not only in government but in the media. The New York Times now employs secret agent editors.”

A.C. KLEINHEIDER: Leave Jim Cooper Alone!

SILENCING DISSENT: Something is rotten in the state of Egypt.