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IN THE MAIL: From Stephen Moore, How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting The U.S. Economy.

JOIN THE COFFEE ACHIEVERS!

HOPE: Obama Rejects International Convention Banning Land Mines.

“HE TALKS TOO MUCH:” The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding Obama.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: HUD Must Cut Off ACORN.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Killing cancer with “nanodiscs.” “Laboratory tests found the so-called “nanodiscs”, around 60 billionths of a metre thick, could be used to disrupt the membranes of cancer cells, causing them to self-destruct. The discs are made from an iron-nickel alloy, which move when subjected to a magnetic field, damaging the cancer cells, the report published in Nature Materials said.”

CREATING SCULPTURE from duct tape.

PROF. JACOBSON: 10,000 Unnecessary Cancer Deaths (In Britain). “Since Britain’s population is less than one-fifth that of the U.S., the equivalent number of unnecessary deaths in the U.S. would exceed 50,000. The U.S. has cancer survival rates which exceed even the better European countries, so that number may be higher. Keep that in mind the next time you hear Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) and others throw around fictitious numbers about how many people die in the U.S. from lack of insurance.”

FIRST IT WAS MAMMOGRAMS, then it was pap smears, now flu shots for old people? I don’t ever remember so much concern with health-care rationing before . . . .

SHANNON LOVE: No One Peer-Reviews Scientific Software.

THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST: Harvard Ignored Warnings About Investments. But don’t worry, now Larry Summers is playing with your money.

SO NOW THAT MOST PEOPLE HAVE HIGH-SPEED INTERNET AT HOME, is “Cyber Monday” really such a big deal? In the old days, you might have waited to shop online using your high-speed work connection rather than futz with dialup at home over the weekend, but that seems kinda 2002 to me. However, Amazon’s not taking any chances.

PROF. KENNETH ANDERSON: How Are the Copenhagen Talks Supposed to Overcome Collective Action Problems?

GALLUP: Gallup: Opposition to ObamaCare almost at majority … of adults. “Without leaners, the picture looks just as grim for ObamaCare advocates. Only 35% of adults — not registered or likely voters — support the bill, while 42% oppose it. Not only is the latter the highest level of opposition so far this year, it’s higher than support ever reached this year, too.”

HMM: Lawmakers Probe Science Czar Holdren’s Links to Climategate.

AT COMPUTATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES, Visualizing the East Anglia Climate Research Unit Leaked Email Network. (Via Andrew Revkin). Related item here.

THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS WEEKEND:

The return of coffeemaker blogging.

Dubai and Islamic Finance.

The continuing gender gap in unemployment.

Disillusionment in Britain.

A double standard on Tiger Woods?

A huge St. Louis Tea Party.

Box Office Poison.

ClimateGate discouraging young scientists.

A bad Black Friday at Williams-Sonoma for the InstaDaughter.

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE: Nicholas Kristof, Obamacare, and the Broken Window Fallacy.

Sure, it would be great if John had health care insurance. But at what cost to everybody else? Should women under 50 be denied mammograms so as to hold down health costs so that John can have government-subsidized insurance? How about men over 70 with slow acting prostate cancer? Should we deny them treatment on the assumption that something else will kill them first, so that the government can afford to insure John?

The point is that Kristof and his ilk are basically running a con. They want you to focus on the most sympathetic cases, while ignoring the large and amorphous mass of individuals who will be adversely affected.

Read the whole thing.

MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY: In Elections, Honduras Defeats Chavez.

NIALL FERGUSON ON FINANCIAL WEAKNESS:

The deficit for the fiscal year 2009 came in at more than $1.4 trillion—about 11.2 percent of GDP, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). That’s a bigger deficit than any seen in the past 60 years—only slightly larger in relative terms than the deficit in 1942. We are, it seems, having the fiscal policy of a world war, without the war. Yes, I know, the United States is at war in Afghanistan and still has a significant contingent of troops in Iraq. But these are trivial conflicts compared with the world wars, and their contribution to the gathering fiscal storm has in fact been quite modest (little more than 1.8 percent of GDP, even if you accept the estimated cumulative cost of $3.2 trillion published by Columbia economist Joseph Stiglitz in February 2008).

Like World War II, only with ACORN instead of the Manhattan Project. What could go wrong? Plus, Paul Krugman re-spins the deficit. But where Ferguson worries about a decline in U.S. military power as a result, I think some people in the Administration regard that as a feature, not a bug.

NEW JERSEY BLOGGER was on FBI payroll. “He used his website to establish his credibility, often posting content to incite those same groups. The FBI is said to have had concerns over his content even as he was being paid.”

INTERACTIVE MAP: food stamp usage across the country.

ROGER KIMBALL on humor from Jacob Weisberg.