DOES SPACE EXPLORATION take too long for democracies?

INSTAVISION: Mobilizing The Midwest with the Cincinnati Tea Party.

JACOB SULLUM ON those disappearing “stimulus jobs.”

GERMANY:

The director Claude Lanzmann told Der Spiegel that he was “shocked” to hear that a violent left-wing mob had intervened to stop his film “Why Israel” from being shown in a Hamburg cinema on 25 October. Cinema-goers were prevented from entering the building, some were even beaten and spat at, amid shouts of “Jewish pigs”. The cinema was eventually forced to cancel the screening. “Claude Lanzmann is amazed that the scandal was not picked up by the media: ‘How can it be that the Germans essentially ignored a thing like this?”

It appears that Europe is returning to its traditional anti-semitism. Obviously, Jews should have been setting off truck bombs and sawing off heads, which induces an entirely different set of behaviors. At your throat or at your feet, indeed.

MEGAN MCARDLE: The Real Problem With the Climate Science Emails. “I think most people–including me–missed the biggest part of the climate emails story. Sexing up a graph is at best a misdemeanor. But a Declan McCullough story suggests a more disturbing possibility: the CRU’s main computer model may be, to put it bluntly, complete rubbish. . . . That is a big problem. The IPCC report, which is the most widely relied upon in policy circles, uses this model to estimate the costs of global warming. If those costs are unreliable, then any cost-benefit analysis is totally worthless. Obviously, this also casts their reluctance to conform with FOI requests in a slightly different light.”

JOYCE FOUNDATION-FUNDED SECOND AMENDMENT CENTER AT OHIO STATE EXPIRES:

his “scholarly” center was one of the initiatives funded by the Joyce Foundation to support writings that opposed the academic consensus that had previously arisen that the original meaning of the Second Amendment protected an individual right. Readers of this blog will remember the infamous Joyce Foundation funded symposium at Chicago Kent from which any dissenting scholars were excluded in the interest of “balancing” all the rest of Second Amendment scholarship. Apparently, its scholarly purpose having been exhausted by the decision in Heller, it has ceased its scholarly mission. It is no more.

I’m sure they’ll be missed by some. Background on the Joyce Foundation and gun control scholarship here.

MORE OBNOXIOUS BLOG COMMENTING from the New York Times IP address. Not a big deal (and it’s not like plenty of people don’t tell me to STFU), but in some sense revealing, I guess. I mean, aren’t these the people looking down their noses at bloggers for insufficient refinement? . . .

WHERE TO FIND BLACK FRIDAY DEALS.

THIS SATURDAY, they’ll be having a St. Louis Tea Party.

A VERY SPECIAL THANKSGIVING MESSAGE FROM REASON TV.

DANIEL DREZNER: When satire beats scholarship.

VIDEO: Knoxvillian Jessica Paxson Putnam — mentioned here before — in her latest Flex Magazine photoshoot.

RARE PHOTO: Inside a can of whoop-ass.

EMILY BAZELON reviews Joan Biskupic’s biography of Justice Scalia.

ANDREW BREITBART: Study: Has Editor & Publisher ‘Falsely Framed’ Peter Dreier as an Objective ACORN Critic?

BOB OWENS: Gun Control Advocates Trying to Capitalize on Fort Hood.

CHANGE: NY, NJ Dems Cut And Run On Gay Marriage.

NIELSEN: Consumers Rush The Web Early For Black Friday Deals.

PHOTOGRAPHY: India’s New Middle Class.

ROMAN POLANSKI to get out on bail?

IN THE MAIL: From Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around The Room.

STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT breasts and politics.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Candid-Camera Moments.

ILYA SOMIN: “Climategate” and the Social Validation of Knowledge.

BIG GOVERNMENT: Still hot on the ACORN trail.