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HMM: It’s CounterPunch, but this story on Shirley Sherrod doesn’t fit the narrative. I wonder if the mainstream media folks will look into it? Ah, who am I kidding?

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: The Roots Of Pakistani Rage.

VIDEO: Breitbart On JournoList: “If they go after Dave Weigel and Ezra Klein, they are going to have to go after the whole list because it is not just the sins of commission . . . it is the sins of omission of the rest of the people on the group to watch that strategy play itself out. These people aided in that crime.”

MY COLLEAGUE MICHAEL HIGDON IS QUOTED IN TIME about what professors can learn about classroom presentation from Project Runway. Plus, an article on What Reality Television Can Teach Us About How to Critique Our Students’ Work Effectively.

BIG JOURNALISM: JournoList, Shame of a Nation: Ripping the Veil from ‘Objectivity’ to Reveal the Partisan Hacks Beneath.

POLITICO: Ethics office details charges against Maxine Waters.

THE INSTA-WIFE: What Is Courage?

ED DRISCOLL: WaPo Unloads Newsweek for $1; Buyer Clearly Overpaid. The buyer is the husband of Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA).

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Ethics charges against Maxine Waters add to Democrats’ woes.

PETRAEUS MAKES HIS MARK as we get more aggressive in Afghanistan.

ROGER KIMBALL: Laffer vs. Zakaria — Who’s Right? “I do not expect that argument to make much of an impression on Fareed Zakaria or anyone else carrying water for the Democratic establishment. Why not? Because the economic effect of reducing taxes is for them a secondary consideration. What matters most to them is the political effect of raising taxes. . . . I believe the primary motivation was touched upon by Alexis de Tocqueville when he observed that the passion for equality was such in America that many people would ‘rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.’ And here we touch upon the toxic core of Obama’s economic policy: the admixture of economics, which is a pragmatic art or science, with the idea of ‘fairness,’ which is a moral or (more accurately) a moralistic issue.”

Personally, I believe that “fairness” consists in the fruits of my labor not being taken by corrupt hacks to redistribute to their cronies in exchange for votes.

KENNETH ANDERSON: Search And Rescue And the Spread of UAVs Through Civilian Uses. “I raise this because there is a meme that still circulates with some velocity in the international law community, journalists, and others, that the US is risking setting off some kind of UAV arms race by its increasing roboticization of conflict — not just UAVs, but ground vehicles, and so on. I don’t think that’s right; the meme fundamentally misunderstands the technology and its application. Rather, UAVs are going to spread across a very wide range of aviation in any case, in which military uses will just be one of them. The same technology, cost, safety, efficiency, and so on, drivers that push for fire surveillance in the Sierra Nevada will be exactly the same ones that drive the military to use the technology. One can call it an arms race, I suppose, but only if one imagines that it is all about military use, otherwise it is a misleading way of thinking about the technology.”

It is, at any rate, ethnocentric to assume that things will only happen if the United States does them first, a common element in the “arms race” thinking.

BETTER SOFTWARE FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY. “Camera-phone owners can use new software to reprogram these devices–and capture images that would previously have been impossible to get.”

ZAP: The sun sends a charged cloud hurtling our way.

AMAZON IS SELLING TEXTBOOKS AT A DISCOUNT. Plus, free Amazon Prime for students. This is brilliant — students often lack cars, so delivery is especially useful to them, and once you get used to Amazon Prime you’re hooked. . . . .

PJTV: From Stephen Green, it’s Tea Party Coast To Coast.

TEA PARTY UPDATE: Breitbart Joins Tea Partiers At Philadelphia Rally.

FEDERAL JUDGE refuses to dismiss Virginia challenge to ObamaCare.

Ilya Somin has some thoughts.

ROBIN HANSON: Talk Of Immortality Distracts. “But finite increases in lifespan really have little to do with immortality. Immortality means you never die, ever. But forever is a really really long time! In fact, nothing you can imagine is remotely as long. . . . A thousand year lifespan would be fantastic, relative to our lifespan. I want it! But it is nothing like immortality.”

A TEA PARTY on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

PHILLIPSON AND POSNER on causes of obesity.

LOOKING AT THE PAST in color.

CHANGE: House Ethics Committee announces charges against Maxine Waters.

MARKDOWNS ON sports and outdoor equipment.