A COMIC-CON PREVIEW.

IF YOU MISSED IT EARLIER, check out the PJTV Congressional Forum on Health Care. (To get to my part, just click the tab for The Big Show.)

RAND SIMBERG: A Space Program For The Rest of Us. A must-read. (Bumped. Because it’s a must-read.)

VIDEO: 4-500 PROTEST OBAMACARE IN CLEVELAND.

UPDATE: Organizers say 700, not four to five hundred as claimed in the news report.

ANOTHER UPDATE: The Hill: Healthcare Talks Break Down In Anger. “House healthcare negotiations dissolved in acrimony on Friday, with Blue Dog Democrats saying they were ‘lied’ to by their Democratic leaders.” Really, not a very good week for Obama.

DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: It wasn’t Hirohito.

UPDATE: But John McCain was there. Heh.

FOR BACK TO SCHOOL: Offering 20% off on laptops.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Why ObamaCare is sinking.

It’s all about him. Health care is his signature reform. And he knows that if he produces nothing, he forfeits the mystique that both propelled him to the presidency and has sustained him through a difficult first six months. Which is why Obama’s red lines are constantly shifting. Universal coverage? Maybe not. No middle-class tax hit? Well, perhaps, but only if they don’t “primarily” bear the burden. Because it’s about him, Obama is quite prepared to sign anything as long as it is titled “health-care reform.”

I think he’ll declare victory and get out.

“I COULD HAVE CALIBRATED THOSE WORDS DIFFERENTLY.” AN OBAMA SORT-OF APOLOGY to Sergeant Crowley.

UPDATE: Black officer at Gates home during arrest said scholar acted strange, supports arrest.

HAPPY TENTH ANNIVERSARY to StrategyPage!

PUBLIC HOUSING: Oceanic may cut TV service at Kuhio Park Terrace over assaults. “Oceanic Time Warner Cable is threatening to cut service to Kuhio Park Terrace, saying its employees have faced continuous harassment at the public housing project and in several cases have been spit on or urinated on and had objects thrown at them from upper floors. . . . The Oceanic concerns represent another black eye to the housing authority over its management of Kuhio Park Terrace, the largest public housing project in the Islands with 614 units in two 16-story high-rises. Residents of the project, along with their neighbors have long raised concerns about security, vandalism and backlogged repairs.” But don’t worry. Public health care won’t be anything like public housing.

PJTV EXPOSES SHODDY REPORTING IN HONDURAS.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Billions To Stimulate Criminality. I don’t know why — it seems to be doing pretty well already . . . .

AT THE NEW YORK TIMES, a health-care pre-mortem? For Public, Obama Didn’t Fill in Health Blanks.

JOSHUA CLAYBOURN: “Stupid” Disorderly Conduct Laws.

ANN ALTHOUSE: “What’s missing from this NYT article about Henry Louis Gates?”

NICK GILLESPIE: The Shame of Unions: Massively Underfunded Pensions. Loot ’em now, get the government to bail ’em out later. What’s not to like?

GOOD GRIEF: Plus, Prez Blames Media for Cops Remark Dustup. Hey, it couldn’t be his fault.

And Tom Maguire is cutting no slack: “With two wars and a faltering health care reform effort, maybe President Stupidly should not be bloviating about local police matters, especially when he does not have the facts.”

ROBERT GIBBS: Twitter is blocked on White House computers.

TEACH TEENAGERS how to drink?

AUTOBLOG: VIDEO: Tiff Needell and actor John Barrowman crash Subaru rally car on Fifth Gear. “A stark reminder that enthusiasm and ego aren’t a suitable replacement for talent.”

RASMUSSEN: 51% disapprove of Obama.

So he’s in a statistical tie with Sarah Palin. Doubly astounding given the disparate press treatment they’ve gotten. I doubt the media coverage will emphasize that . . . .

FASTER, PLEASE: Protein Treatment Repairs Heart Damage.

A “TERRIBLE TIME” to raise the minimum wage.

IN THE MAIL: By Blood We Live, a collection of vampire tales by all sorts of writers including Tanith Lee, Anne Rice, and Harry Turtledove. For my money, though, the single best vampire book is Fred Saberhagen’s retelling of Bram Stoker’s tale from Dracula’s point of view, The Dracula Tape.

ANDREW KLAVAN activates the Crap-O-Meter. And applies it where it will do the most good . . . .