BEFORE MY TIME, BUT STILL COOL: Great Cars Of Song: “Hot Rod Lincoln.” Plus, IowaHawk is invoked.

RACISTS: Hey, Rhode Island Already Checks Immigration Status At Traffic Stops. “Step up to the plate, Messrs. Obama and Holder, sue Rhode Island. Because we don’t have enough problems.”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Ministries Of Truth Weigh In. “What is going on here? The President is setting the tone, and a host of truth departments are his choruses.”

Related: Huffington Post: Mr. President, You Are Sick With Self Love. “While Mr. Obama may be a citizen of the world, his voters are citizens of America. It’s because of this that, try as he might, he cannot ignore the domestic interest: dwindling quality of life in America.”

CUBA NEWS: Spain and the Catholic Church negotiate forced exile for political prisoners.

REASON TV: Katrina’s Silver Lining: The School Choice Revolution in New Orleans.

MATT WELCH: Schumer’s Campaign-Finance Chutzpah.

MITCH DANIELS ON FIVEBOOKS.COM. With plugs for The Road To Serfdom and Free to Choose. Plus two more of my favorites, The Rise And Decline of Nations, and The Future And Its Enemies.

JIM TREACHER: Stopping a black guy from intimidating voters is racist, you racist.

GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE: Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment Delays In Ontario. “If your situation is described in this report consider a trip south of the border along with some cash or credit card to see an American specialist.”

UNEMPLOYMENT: From lagging to leading indicator?

PROGRESS: Award Wallet Tracks Your Frequent Flier Miles, Credit Card Points, and Other Rewards Programs.

BLACK PANTHER CASE UPDATE: A Third Former DOJ Official Steps Forward to Support J. Christian Adams.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? The Government Has An Online Identity Plan For You.

RASMUSSEN: Most Americans Not Willing To Pay Higher Taxes For Public Employees, Entitlement Programs. By big margins: “The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Adults shows that only 19% would be willing to pay higher taxes to avoid layoffs of state employees. Sixty-nine percent (69%) say they would not be willing to pay more in taxes for this reason. Another 11% are undecided. Adults feel similarly when it comes to funding entitlement programs.”

“UNDERWATER, I DON’T THINK HE EXPERIENCES ANY STRESS:” A scuba-diving dachshund.

NEW LAWPROF BLOG RANKINGS.

OOPS: Tesla Shares Not Doing So Well, Post-IPO.

GIVE PETRAEUS five stars?

MICHAEL YON: Getting Hit To Get The Shot.

IN THE MAIL: House Justice: A Joe DeMarco Thriller.

POLITZOID: Talking Feds: Same As It Ever Was.

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FRANK TIPLER: Writing for PJM Helped Make Me Enemy of the State #38.

The National Academy of Sciences, in its official journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has just published a list of scientists whom it claims should not be believed on the subject of global warming. I am number 38 on the list. The list of 496 is in descending order of scientific credentials.

Professor Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society, is number 3 on the list. Dyson is a friend of mine and is one of the creators of relativistic quantum field theory; most physicists think he should have shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Richard Feynman. MIT professor Richard Lindzen, a meteorologist who is also a member of the National Academy, is number 4. Princeton physics professor William Happer, once again a member of the National Academy of Sciences, is number 6.

I’m in good company.

Indeed. Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Reader William Jamieson writes:

Wouldn’t the fact that they, the NAS, can list almost 500 experts in a very specialized field prove the case against them?

500 is a lot of people to disparage, in any field, I think.

Indeed. And Freeman Dyson and Frank Tipler are pretty potent names compared to, say, Phil Jones.

TECHDIRT: Not Reading Ticketmaster’s Terms Of Service Shouldn’t Make You A Criminal.

THE PELTZMAN EFFECT: “After she praised the ability of the car to self-correct when she drifted from her lane, she noted that she would love to have this feature in her own car. Then, after a night of drinking in the city, she would not have to sleep at a friend’s house before returning to her rural home.”

WHAT IT’S LIKE, to suddenly lose your hair.