FOR HALLOWEEN, build your own Surveillance Pumpkin.

MESSAGE CONTROL: Attorney General Eric Holder Tries to Kill a TV ad for School Vouchers. (Via NewsAlert.)

THE MUDVILLE GAZETTE: Saluting the Camera at Dover.

CAN THE UNIVERSITIES BE SAVED? A debate.

REASON TV ANNOUNCES October’s Nanny Of The Month.

FIGHTING BRAIN TUMORS with chemotherapy and electric fields.

ANN ALTHOUSE: “The word ‘dithering’ has really attached itself to Obama.”

TESTOSTERONE: The enforcer of justice?

THE POLITICS OF vaccine shortages.

WHY RUSHING CARS TO MARKET is usually a mistake.

“YOU ARE THE ESTABLISHMENT.” Heh. Somebody send a link to Valerie Jarrett.

JIM GERAGHTY: Democrats Ask New Jersey Secretary of State to Ignore Mismatched Signatures on Absentee Ballot Requests. “Those ballots, could, presumably, be used to overcome any narrow lead by Republican Chris Christie over Democrat Jon Corzine on Election Day.”

Call it the “ACORN Rule.”

TAKE THAT, SENATE: The House Nationalized Healthcare Bill is 1,990 pages long. That’s roughly 33% longer than the Senate bill.

UPDATE: Access Denied. Plus this: “This is a public space on the steps of the Capitol and the Mall.” But as with “public healthcare,” some members of the public turn out to be more equal than others.

IN THE MAIL: Strip Mauled. From the creator of Chicks in Chainmail.

TWO SHOT AT L.A. SYNAGOGUE: “Officer Rosario Herrera says a black man with a handgun entered the synagogue at about 6:20 a.m. Thursday and shot two people. Police are investigating the shooting as a hate crime.”

I remarked last night that we seem to have had a lot of counterterror activity lately. No particular reason to think this is connected, but note this. Also this. But most likely it’s just a coincidence.

YOUR ANALYSIS IS FLAWED; IT DOESN’T REACH OUR DESIRED CONCLUSION: Kerry wants Law Library report on Honduras retracted. “A month ago, the Law Library of Congress reviewed the removal of Manuel Zelaya from his post as President of Honduras, an act that the Obama administration called a ‘coup’ and demanded reversed for its illegality. To the embarrassment of the White House and State Department, the Congressional body determined that Honduras acted lawfully in removing Zelaya for his crimes against their constitution, although they determined that his exile broke Honduran law. Now John Kerry wants the Law Library to retract its findings, apparently trying to rewrite history to hide the facts of the case.”

Knoxville, Tennessee. Krutch Park reflected in the window of the S&W Grand Restaurant on Gay Street.

IF FOX ISN’T A “LEGITIMATE NEWS OUTLET,” does that mean the Obama Administration will go after them using Campaign Finance laws? Not until the second term, probably.

KENNETH ANDERSON: UN Special Rapporteur Criticizes US Predator Program in UN Speech.

If it’s working, it must violate some international law somehow.

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Obama unhappy with criticism of his NYC date night.

STEPHEN LANDSBURG IS tackling the big questions.

Oh, okay, and also promoting his book.

NOT-SO-GOOD NEWS: First-time jobless claims drop less than expected. “The report comes the same day the Commerce Department said the economy grew at a 3.5 percent pace in the July-September quarter, snapping a streak of four straight quarters of decline. But the economy isn’t growing quickly enough to spur much hiring.”

LARRY KUDLOW: Economic Freedom Fighters Must Unite.

INSTAVISION: I talk with Sen. Lamar Alexander about the Obama White House, enemies lists and modern politics.

POLITICO: Nervous W.H. intervened in N.J. race; top Obama adviser now in charge. “One of President Barack Obama’s key political advisers has become the central strategist in New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine’s bruising campaign for re-election, a race the White House desperately wants to win to avert the consequences for its own agenda of a Republican winning in a traditionally Democratic state.”