HMM: Pancreatic Cancer Develops For 20 Years Before Killing. “Pancreatic cancer has long been viewed as a rapidly developing cancer because life expectancy from day of diagnosis is usually less than 3 years with 95% of those diagnosed dead within 5 years. But use of DNA sequencing technology has enabled researchers Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue, Bert Vogelstein, and evolutionary biologist Martin Nowak to determine that most pancreatic cancers [take] almost 20 years to develop enough to kill their victims. . . . Cancerous intestinal polyps are pretty easy to discover with colonoscopy. Unfortunately the pancreas isn’t as easy to inspect as the colon. But we need the ability to remove the pancreatic equivalents of colon polyps.”

RAND SIMBERG: YOU JUST MIGHT BE A MARXIST.

WELL, THAT’S ONE CURE FOR “RANGE ANXIETY:” Nissan Leaf road tour gets help from a diesel truck with 440V chargers.

CHANGE: CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION REPORT: “High-level” political officials interfered in NBPP case, forced withdrawal.

KATIE GRANJU: Hell freezes over: I defend Christine O’Donnell. “The obnoxious first person accounting from the anonymous asshat who says he went on a single date with her three years ago – and whom Gawker admits to paying ‘in the low four figures’ for the story and photos – actually tells the tame tale of a woman who DID NOT have sexual intercourse during what Gawker describes tantalizingly as a ‘one night stand.’” Yeah, everybody’s piling on this lame hitjob, all across the partisan divide. Nick Denton is a uniter, not a divider!

ROBOTS WITH GUNS.

IN THE MAIL: The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics.

POLIWOOD: A Nightmare in Poliwood: The Best Scary Movies of All Time.

UH OH: Social Security Cash Flow Deficit Worse Than Expected.

JOE PAPPALARDO: Wikileaks Provides Another Clue That Iranian Missiles Are In Iraq.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: “Part of any trip to Georgia getting the most out of local color: the food, the scenery, the Stalin Museum. But there’s another dimension to Georgia: geopolitics. Divided, occupied in part by Russian troops, Georgia is one of the world’s most at-risk countries and the shadow of new crises with Russia hangs over everything in the country.”

A VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH: University Of Virginia Repeals Its Speech Code. “I’m pleased to read from FIRE that my law school alma mater UVA has repealed its speech code and now has a Green rating from FIRE. UVA joins William & Mary, which already had a Green rating. I’m disappointed that I cannot say the same about George Mason, which still has a Red rating.”

THE HORROR: “Margarine Is My Nemesis.”

THE NEW REPUBLIC: Four Myths About The Tea Party.

A LOOK AT faculty political donations and where they go.

THOUGHTS ON THE RAND PAUL RALLY and attempts to assassinate Gerald Ford.

A NOVEL DEFENSE: MY CLIENT DIDN’T TAKE THE WHOLE BRIBE: HE ONLY TOOK A LITTLE! “The jury sitting in judgment of City Councilor Chuck Turner began deliberations yesterday after a final bizarre twist in the trial — the accused pol’s lawyer said in his closing remarks that his client took no more than $200 of an alleged $1,000 bribe, that FBI informant Ronald Wilburn pocketed the rest and that Turner never did anything for Wilburn.”

Somehow that reminds me of this: “‘We’re not going to break them,’ he added of colleges’ endowment funds. ‘We just want a little.'” They just want to wet their beaks a little. And then a little more.

NEVER-NEVER LAND: Elizabeth Warren has office at an agency she doesn’t work at.

GOOD GRIEF: Is Tuesday looking so bad that even Dennis Kucinich is an endangered species? Yeah, I got the plaintive email from Kucinich, too.

ERIC HOLDER WAS UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT: “Remember when Arizona Governor Jan Brewer was ridiculed for saying headless bodies were being found in the desert? Well, now they’re turning up in the Phoenix area. It’s curious how the Democrats aren’t running against her this election cycle. They obviously realize what a losing issue they support. Speaking of losers, has anyone seen Eric Holder lately?”

He was sighted at an awards dinner, I think.

READER KIM SOMMER WRITES: “Poll watching. Ubiquitous cameras. Remind ’em.” Ok. Done!

Related: Voter Fraud Watch Video Exclusive: Poll Watcher Witnesses Misconduct in Houston. Plus, University of Texas at Brownsville asks faculty to end class early and walk students to vote.

And if you’re interested in reporting voting fraud, there’s an app for that.

UPDATE: Election complaint filed in Nevada.

WELL, ONE HOPES: GOP Insurgents May Disrupt Leaders’ Plans and Go Rogue.

Related item here.

TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE (CONT’D): DNC Repeatedly Delinquent On Property Taxes.

The Democratic National Committee and the party’s private club in the nation’s capitol have been delinquent with tax payments on sixteen separate occasions over the last seven years, Pajamas Media has learned.

According to District of Columbia government records, since 2004 the Democrats’ main political committee and its National Democratic Club — an exclusive restaurant and hideaway on Capitol Hill where prominent Democrats and their guests dine — have been hit with fines and interest penalties in excess of $115,000 for failure to pay their property taxes on time.

They don’t pay taxes. They spend taxes.

MAKING FOOLS OF THEMSELVES: Syracuse’s Lords of Political Correctness Hunt Down Law Student Bloggers.

SCANDAL: DOJ Voting Section Deputy Chief Misled Civil Rights Commission on Black Panthers Case.

Reader C.J. Burch writes: “Don’t normal Americans get indicted for this type of thing? Miguel Tejada, Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds did.” False statement laws, like taxes, are for the little people.