CNN POLL: Harry Reid Down to 40.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 24% of saving-for-college parents risk their financial future by using retirement accounts to save for college.

BOB ZUBRIN: Oppose “1099 Tyranny.”

WHAT IS IT WITH ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS AND KILLING KIDS? Remember, these are the images they choose to represent their position. . . .

SMALLER, SLEEKER, AND OFTEN FRUSTRATING: A review of the new Apple TV.

WHY DID THE LAWPROF cross the road?

NEVER BET against a hacker.

REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from all over.

TRIFECTA: MALL RATS.

PENSION CHICANERY in Washington, D.C. “This is just plain plundering.”

CHANGE: Things are going badly for Obama’s prosecutors in their first effort at trying a Guantanamo detainee in federal court.

UPDATE: Tom Maguire comments:

Well, if it is a surprise then maybe our Attorney General and former Constitutional Law lecturer look imprudent rather than ignorant. I’m feeling better already!

And speaking of feeling better, we learn that the streets will remain safe regardless of the outcome of this show trial:

Judge Kaplan added that Mr. Ghailani’s status as an “ ‘enemy combatant’ probably would permit his detention as something akin to a prisoner of war until hostilities between the United States and Al Qaeda and the Taliban end, even if he were found not guilty.

So “Not Guilty” won’t equal freedom for Ghalani,who is headed back to detention regardless of what twelve good men and true decide. I am surprised that libs consider this sort of show the way to enhance America’s stature in the world, but then, I have never claimed to be smart enough to be a lib.

The war on terror is in the very best of hands.

THIS DOESN’T SURPRISE ME: Light drinking during pregnancy ‘does children no harm’: Study reporting on group now aged five says none suffered as a result of their mothers having an occasional drink while pregnant. The extrapolation of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome — which occurs in alcoholic women who drink a lot — to the notion that any alcohol consumption is harmful never had any real science behind it.

REINTRODUCING THE BOEING 737 with 70% greater efficiency.

CHANGE: Will the US Be Jealous of Japan’s ‘Lost Decade’? Well, I still think that the Carter years are now a best-case scenario.

PSYCHOLOGY: Threat to free speech?

RICHARD FLORIDA: The military’s deepening geographic divide.

RAND SIMBERG IN POPULAR MECHANICS: Who needs rockets? “There have been plenty of alternative means of getting into space proposed over the years that don’t employ traditional chemical rocket engines. The list presented here isn’t exhaustive but representative, and they fall into four broad categories—cannons, external-energy vehicles, static structures and dynamic structures.”

JOAN HEMINWAY: Reframing and Reforming the Securities and Exchange Commission: Lessons from Literature on Change Leadership. The SEC certainly needs reform, and Joan Heminway is always worth reading.

SOME HISTORY for Jill Lepore and Ron Chernow.

CHANGE: Rasmussen moves West Virginia race from “toss up” to “leans GOP.”