THESE PEOPLE CAN DISH IT OUT, BUT. . . Maddow Can’t Take Criticism During Interview with Republican Candidate.

CHANGE: “The good news is that it’s apparently not racist to call Obama arrogant anymore.”

TRYING TO FEND OFF “a nation of slackers.”

UPDATE: Reader C.J. Burch writes: “I don’t mind slackers. I mind having to support slackers. There is a difference.” Good point.

MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: Reluctantly Defending Paladino.

UIGHURS THROWN UNDER THE SILK ROAD EXPRESS BUS: “The Uighurs should be able to understand that they are the unlucky bunch: They are not Palestinians, they don’t have an ‘audience’ among Turkish voters, and their feud is merely with the Chinese who are, sadly, not Jews.”

TALKING ABOUT CARS with the Car Lust guys.

QUESTIONS ABOUT terror finance.

SCOTT JOHNSON: The Stanford Daily’s Two-Minute Hate. Plus, the first use of “diversity” as an argument.

FIRST MESOTHELIOMA, NOW THIS: Just saw a TV commercial saying “If you or a loved one took Avandia and suffered a heart-related death, call . . . .” Um, if I suffer a heart-related death, I’m calling you buddy . . . .

FROM RICK MOORE ON FACEBOOK: “I think we should call crackpots who think the Chamber of Commerce is flooding the election with foreign money ‘Chamberpots'”

UPDATE: Moore writes: “Thanks for the mention on Instapundit, but the ‘Chamberpots’ comment was Erick Erickson’s. I’d love to take credit for it, but he came up with it first.” It’s still funny.

HEH: Obama’s McCarthyite Moment: Is it possible to be post-American and xenophobic at the same time? “Obama has become a master at the art of self-diminishment. He’s working his way down the food chain of targets for shrill attacks. He started at George W. Bush (who is out of office but at least a former president), descended to John Boehner (the House minority leader people have barely heard of), and finally alighted on Karl Rove (who is a political operative and pundit). . . . It should be taken as an axiom of political life that if your argument is about the other side’s advertisements, you’re losing. If your argument is about who’s funding the other side’s advertisements, you’re losing badly. And if your argument is about how foreigners might — lack of evidence notwithstanding — be secretly funneling cash into the other side’s advertisements, you’re losing in a historic landslide.”

JAMES TARANTO: DEATH PANELS FOR DEMOCRATS: “They voted for ObamaCare, and now their party is putting them out of their misery. . . . Driehaus, Kosmas and Dahlkemper might not need the help the party is denying them had they not been bullied into voting for that agenda. For that matter, had ObamaCare not been enacted, the Democratic Party would not be as widely loathed as it is today, and might be on its way to retaining its majority. It’s no exaggeration to say that ObamaCare turned Van Hollen’s DCCC into the Democratic House Death Panel.”

UPDATE: Just like with ObamaCare, if your politics are wrong you’re in trouble: Dem candidate: DCCC canceled ads because I won’t support Pelosi. Today, your campaign ads. Tomorrow, your liver transplant.

Am I joking? No. You can take that prediction to the bank. That’s who these people are, and this is how they think.

DON’T PAY sticker price for college. You know, in one of my higher education bubble posts, somebody pointed out that college is the only place where they demand a complete financial statement from you before they tell you what it’s going to cost. . . .

IT’S THE 43D ANNIVERSARY OF THE OUTER SPACE TREATY, and the end of the space race.

WANT TO LEARN HOW TO COOK? Reader David Dallow writes:

I’ve been an avid reader of your site for a decade. In addition to the political content I love the forays into cooking, recipes and cooking tools.

I have a website (www.westchesterfoodieonline.com) where I discuss food related issues as well as giving recipes/techniques. I would be happy to answer any basic questions on how to prepare pretty much anything from any interested reader. Most people can’t cook because they haven’t tried. (My wife being an exception. When she enters the kitchen light bulbs blow) But, starting with a base of what someone wants to make there are pretty simple preparations that are hard to ruin.

An offer for Instapundit readers who could use a hand….

Just FYI.

SMALLER EARTHQUAKES CAN STILL SET OFF TSUNAMIS.

CHANGE: Obama Administration defense of Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell fails. “But what damnable luck for the Democrats to have this thrown at them 2 weeks before the election! It’s such a bad issue for Obama. He hasn’t done what he promised, and he’s fought against constitutional rights that he ought to be actively pursuing, whether he’d made promises or not. He’s going to have to rest on the argument that he was always all about Congress making the change. But why hasn’t his Congress gone his way? And do Democrats in Congress want this issue forefronted now?”

RELATED: Justice Department appeals Defense Of Marriage rulings. “The news comes on a day when an injunction has been placed on the dismissal of all lesbian and gay servicemembers. The ruling by Judge Virginia Philips declared Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell unconstitutional. This brings up the probability that President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder plan on appealing Judge Philips’ ruling as well meaning that the end of DADT may be a long time in coming.”

UPDATE: On Facebook, Joy McCann comments: “All the liabilities of a liberal President, with . . . all the liabilities of a socially conservative President. Worst of both worlds! Hoorah!”

STUDYING HORMONE REPLACEMENT FOR MEN. I suspect the answer will be that it provides a shorter life, but a merrier one. I think people should be able to choose that approach if they want.

PROSECUTORS: Wilders not guilty of group defamation.

FRESHMEN WITH DRUGGED DRINKS: Hey, if they were able to drink in bars, it would be a lot safer. But the bluenoses — yes, I’m talking about you, Liddy Dole, and your enablers — made that impossible. How’s that workin’ out for you?

QUESTION OF THE MONTH: Will the ‘Ruling Class Right’ Rescue Vulnerable Dems?

DAVE HARDY: Brady Campaign can’t make up its mind. “What’s interesting is that the Heller dissent argues that the Second Amendment had nothing to do with a right of self defense, it was all concerned with enabling States to resist a Federal tyranny. So the Heller dissent itself took an insurrectionist view.”

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

HANAH VOLOKH: A Read-The-Bill Rule For Congress. (Bumped).

ON THE UPSIDE, THEY PRODUCED VASTLY MORE INTRUSION INTO FAMILIES: Child Abuse Investigations Didn’t Reduce Risk, a Study Finds. “Child Protective Services investigated more than three million cases of suspected child abuse in 2007, but a new study suggests that the investigations did little or nothing to improve the lives of those children.” Also, this employed lots of people in “helping” professions, who tend to vote Democratic. So you’ve got to score this as a win, even if children weren’t any better off. And the study authors suggest that since what we’re doing doesn’t work, we should redouble our efforts! See above. . . .