RUTH WEDGWOOD: Peter Galbraith’s $100 Million Oil Patch: A glimpse at globe-trotting diplomats and conflicting interests. Galbraith’s brother James plays defense in the comments.

CATO’S BRIEF FILED in McDonald v. Chicago.

UPDATE: It’s also the Pacific Legal Foundation’s brief, I should note.

BLOOMBERG: Cuomo Took Campaign Cash From Lawyers With Matters Before Him.

FROM HACKERS TO HACKS. NEW YORK TIMES: We won’t publish on illegally acquired documents. You know, unless doing so would hurt national security, or something.

UPDATE: Related: All The News That’s Fit to Bury.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Wear these to the NYT offices!

I’m thinking “Hide The Decline” could be a slogan for a lot of folks, right about now.

MORE: It’s especially hypocritical of Revkin since some of the emails are his.

SHOCKING NEWS: ‘Useless stay-at-home men’ a female myth: Working women who claim partners don’t pull their weight do so to feel more feminine and in charge in the home. “Meisenbach said the trend of the female high achiever and the male slacker is a tall story that women tell each other to compensate for the fact that most career-orientated women feel an ‘overwhelming sense of guilt’ over their role and less of a mother and a wife.”

Somebody tell George Lopez and Joy Behar.

THREATSWATCH: Whispers Of Surrender In Afghanistan?

A.P.: Newspaper circulation may be worse than it looks: “Here’s why: Since April 1, new auditing rules have made it easier for newspapers to count a reader as a paying customer.” Amusing start date.

STAR TRIBUNE: At U, future teachers may be reeducated.

Do you believe in the American dream — the idea that in this country, hardworking people of every race, color and creed can get ahead on their own merits? If so, that belief may soon bar you from getting a license to teach in Minnesota public schools — at least if you plan to get your teaching degree at the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus.

In a report compiled last summer, the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the U’s College of Education and Human Development recommended that aspiring teachers there must repudiate the notion of “the American Dream” in order to obtain the recommendation for licensure required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching. Instead, teacher candidates must embrace — and be prepared to teach our state’s kids — the task force’s own vision of America as an oppressive hellhole: racist, sexist and homophobic.

I thought loyalty oaths were out.

MINORITY WOMAN criticizes MSNBC’s “indelible whiteness.” Hey, it’s the Stuff White People Like network. . . .

L.A. TIMES: Sarah Palin vs Barack Obama: The approval gap silently shrinks to a few points. So does this mean that she’s doing well, or that he’s doing badly?

INSPECTOR-GENERAL-GATE UPDATE: Byron York: New documents: White House scrambled to justify AmeriCorps firing after the fact.

UPDATE: Reader C.J. Burch emails: “Just like Nixon, except without the press coverage.”

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: America The Jobless: Ron Paul Wins, Timothy Geithner Loses? “A lot of Democrats are ‘upset and nervous’ with the administration’s handling of the economy.”

CHANGE: On the changing relationship between doctor and patient and that element of distrust.

RASMUSSEN: Support for Health Care Plan Falls to New Low. 56% against, only 38% for.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Where Has The Obama Thrill Gone?

THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS WEEKEND:

The Insta-Wife On New Trends Among College Women.

Ann Althouse on Health Care Cost Containment. “Although women tend to love the notion of government control more than men do, it is women who will be told they’ll have to cut back. On treatments. And years. You know we’ve been taking more than our share.”

Reposting my recipe for Thanksgiving Leg Of Lamb.

Andrew Breitbart smacks the Columbia Journalism Review.

My love for the Universal Package Opener and the handy light-bulb changer.

Chris Dodd slips through the back door to avoid protesters.

Political advice from Robert Heinlein.

Rewards for prosecutors who do wrong.

Charlie Martin explains the unfolding ClimateGate scandal.

And Saturday Night Live parodies Obama in China.

UH OH: Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government. “The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true. But that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, may not last much longer. . . . Even as Treasury officials are racing to lock in today’s low rates by exchanging short-term borrowings for long-term bonds, the government faces a payment shock similar to those that sent legions of overstretched homeowners into default on their mortgages.”

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE ON What to drink at Thanksgiving.

Perhaps I’ll serve Reynolds Merlot, though in deference to the improvement represented by Sarkozy over Chirac, I might go back to our tradition of Beaujolais Nouveau.

REASON TV: Would ObamaCare Kill Medical Innovation?

A STORY FROM LAST WEEK THAT DIDN’T GET ENOUGH ATTENTION: Lynne Stewart, Radical Lawyer Who Aided Terrorist, Is Jailed. A betrayal not only of America, but of the legal profession.

MICKEY KAUS: Doomsday Orszagism. Sorry, but claims that Obamacare will save money are unlikely enough that they can be fairly characterized as “lies.” As SNL’s Hu Jintao said, all their schemes to save money somehow seem to involve spending enormous sums.

CANADIAN REX MURPHY on Barack Obama and Sarah Palin. “They are, in the way fate or the mysteries of politics sometimes offers such things, curiously equivalent or parallel figures, polar opposites but equals. Ms. Palin connects: Mr. Obama inspires. She’s a latter-day frontier figure, impulsive, instinctive; he’s pure urban cool, highly deliberate, even detached.”

OUCH: Iraq Confronts Syria Over Terrorism As U.S. Dithers.

DAVID BOAZ on elite hostility to the business world.

The elite hostility to business — a holdover from Europe, perhaps, where aristocrats looked down on “trade,” or an unconscious echo of Marxism — is unseemly and harmful to both general prosperity and the individuals who are influenced by it to avoid productive enterprise. It crops up in President Obama’s commencement addresses sneering at students who want to “take your diploma, walk off this stage, and chase only after the big house and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should buy” and in Michelle Obama’s urging hard-pressed women in Ohio, “Don’t go into corporate America.” It’s nice that some people, like senators’ wives, can make $300,000 a year in “the helping industry,” but it’s business that produces the wealth that allows such nonprofit generosity.

Read the whole thing.

OH, GOODY: Bets Rise On Rich Country Bond Defaults.