AL QAEDA PREDICTS THAT Obama will be brought down by Muslims.

HEH: “Perhaps if legislators actually had to read this, they’d make it readable.”

AT THE WASHINGTON POST, BOOK WARS. And, from the comments, this:

Why are Huttner and Salzman given a Washington Post blog to respond to criticisms from a third party website? Has Steven Levingston ever given over the keyboard to a conservative author so s/he can respond to the numerous criticisms of what s/he wrote?

Moreover, how stupid does Levingston have to be to uncritically accept the authors’ claims that “The book rises above partisanship” when its title explicitly endorses helping Obama?

Perhaps with the time Mr. Levingston saved by having these authors write a completely self-serving post, he could actually try finding someone at the Post to write just one review of the several conservative books dominating the bestseller list.

Helping Obama isn’t partisan. It’s “service.” Gleichschaltung!

PETER SUDERMAN: The Internet’s New Enforcer: The FCC chairman appoints himself top cop on the World Wide Web. “Genachowski doesn’t merely envision a Web bound by FCC rules, but one subject to the momentary whims of FCC commissioners.”

INSTAVISION: I talk with Mark Levin about Liberty and Tyranny, the Tea Party movement, Obama’s speech, and whether conservatives and libertarians need a “leader.” Plus, I offer an apology to Talk Radio.

I’M PRETTY SURE THEY’RE FALLING INTO A TRAP: ACORN Sues Hidden-Camera Filmmakers, Breitbart.com. It should be fun to do discovery on this one.

Plus, from the A.P., How the ACORN ‘pimp and hooker’ videos came to be.

UPDATE: Reid Refuses to Hold ACORN Hearings.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Politico: Barney Frank Turns Against Acorn.

MORE: Ann Althouse:

Yes, it’s almost as if the real point of the videos was to provoke a lawsuit that would open ACORN to the legal intrusions of discovery. And of course, Giles and O’Keefe will get even more publicity, and it shouldn’t be hard for them to attract aggressive legal counsel and a hefty litigation fund.

Breitbart really does seem to have planned this out like Hari Seldon. Or maybe he’s The Mule . . . .

HOW TO SLICE ANYTHING: The importance of knife skills.

HANGOVER: Young voters not so hot on Obama anymore.

DAVID POST: Should Lawmakers, Um, Read the Laws They’re Voting On?

Sounds like something you’d ask in a third-grade civics class. But an odd editorial in today’s Washington Post, takes to task “a group of well-meaning professional activists — and, so far, over nearly 60,000 online petitioners” who have demanded that members of Congress sign a pledge “never to vote on any bill unless they have read every word of it.” While the activists “have a point,” the Post concedes, their “proposal would bring government to a standstill.”

That’s not a bug, it’s a feature . . . .

ANN ALTHOUSE AND EMILY BAZELON: Lessons from the Hofstra Gang Rape Hoax.

UPDATE: Had the wrong link before. Fixed now. Sorry!

HAND-WASHING no defense against swine flu?

WORRIED ABOUT DEBT? This chart won’t make you feel better. But remember — if something can’t go on forever, it won’t.

JOE PAPPALARDO: How the Air Force is solving its three biggest problems.

WATER on the Moon.

BREAKING: I.R.S. terminating its relationship with ACORN.

WHAT GENIUS! Beer + Pizza + Music + Bike = Pub on Wheels.

INSTA-POLL: The Condi discussion had some readers ask me to run this. I’m not even sure who should be on this poll, so send suggestions and I’ll re-run it with more names later.

DAVID HARSANYI: Chu on this, you crazy kids!

I love Scott Johnson’s Steely Dan reference.

JIM GERAGHTY: Did Sen. Tom Carper Just Admit PhRMA and the White House Had a Laws-for-Ads Deal?.

SINGULARITY UPDATE: Machines could ultimately match human intelligence, says Intel CTO. “The notion of a technological ‘singularity,’ a time when machines match and surpass human intellect, has been popularized by thinkers such as inventor and author Raymond Kurzweil, who commonly cites Moore’s Law in his arguments about the exponential growth of technology. Rattner’s views on the singularity are sought after, given that he is CTO of the world’s biggest chipmaker and the head of Intel Labs, the company’s primary research arm.”

JOURNALISM and social media.

GREGG EASTERBROOK: Embrace Human Cloning.

Human clones, it is widely assumed, would be monstrous perversions of nature. Yet chances are, you already know one. Indeed, you may know several and even have dated a clone. They walk among us in the form of identical twins: people who share exact sets of DNA. Such twins almost always look alike and often have similar quirks. But their minds, experiences, and personalities are different, and no one supposes they are less than fully human. And if identical twins are fully human, wouldn’t cloned people be as well?

Suppose scientists could create a clone from an adult human: It would probably be more distinct from its predecessor than most identical twins are from each other. A clone from a grown-up would have the same DNA but would come into the world as a gurgling baby, not an instant adult, as in sci-fi. The clone would go through childhood and adolescence with the same life-shaping unpredictability as any kid.

Indeed. This takes me back to the very earliest days of InstaPundit.

THINGS ARE TOUGH ALL OVER: Recession comes to the sex-doll business.

TRANSPARENCY! Democrats nix putting pre-vote health bill online. “Senate Finance Committee Democrats have rejected a GOP amendment that would have required a health overhaul bill to be available online for 72 hours before the committee votes.”

They want to ram this stinker through before anyone knows what they’re voting on. Hey, it’s worked before! (Via JWF).

SO IT’LL ZOOM IN ON WOMEN WHEN THEY BEND OVER? Video surveillance system that reasons like a human brain. Okay, technically that’s a male human brain, but . . .