JAMES LILEKS: The President Said What, Now?

PEGGY NOONAN: Nine years after 9/11, a chilling complacency about WMD attacks.

L.A. TIMES: Why Obama couldn’t be bothered calling the CEO.

ANDREW BREITBART: Academia-Gate — the Nanny State & The Professors: My Brief Email Exchange With The Co-Chair of the “Cry Wolf” Project. “Call me a cartoon, professor. Call me an ideologue. But don’t claim I cry wolf. We’ve caught you red-handed twice.”

ELENA KAGAN UPDATE: Eugene Volokh on Judicial Law Clerks’ Memos To Their Bosses.

MARK TAPSCOTT: 85 percent of Americans say freedom of the press more important than saving struggling newspapers; No comment from FTC.

MOST ETHICAL CONGRESS EVER! Lawmakers seek to gut ethics office.

The Office of Congressional Ethics, a powerful symbol of Democrats’ promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington, is in danger of having its power stripped after the midterm elections.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have led the charge, airing complaints about the aggressive, independent panel in a private session with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last month, and they’ve drafted a resolution that, if approved, would severely curtail the panel’s power.

Hacktastic.

UPDATE: Some background on what’s going on.

ANDREA TANTAROS: Hollywood Hypocrites And The Oil Spill.

HOW PROGRESSIVE: Senate Votes to Let the EPA Ration Energy, Ah, Carbon.

JAMES TARANTO: American Nero: Obama parties on while reporters ask the tough question: Where should he vacation? “If the president is acting like an emperor, he surely has been encouraged to do so by the obeisance of media figures like Newsweek’s Evan Thomas, who a year ago, when his magazine was still in business, described Obama as ‘sort of God.’ Which raises an age-old question: Can God make a rock so big he can’t lift it, and when is he going to use it to plug the damn hole?”

MARKDOWNS ON Leatherman Tools.

MORE ON OBAMA’S hate speech / incitement of violence against BP.

MORE THOUGHTS ON THE higher education bubble.

JUDGE LIMITS BORDER SEARCHES OF LAPTOPS. “A federal judge has ruled that border agents cannot seize a traveler’s laptop, keep in locked up for months, and examine it for contraband files without a warrant half a year later. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in the Northern District of California rejected the Obama administration’s argument that no warrant was necessary to look through the electronic files of an American citizen who was returning home from a trip to South Korea.” That seems right to me.

Plus this: “The Justice Department invoked a novel argument–which White dubbed ‘unpersuasive’–claiming that while Hanson was able to enter the country, his laptop remained in a kind of legal limbo where the Bill of Rights did not apply.” They told me if I voted — oh, hell, it’s gotten too easy. But remember all that fierce moral urgency of change stuff we used to hear from Democrats? Well. . . .

FIVE REASONS divorce stinks.

CLASH OF THE AUTOMOTIVE TITANS: Ford Pinto and Mercury Bobcat.

REASON TV: 3 Reasons Why Obama Should Kick His Own Ass.

HEH: “Isn’t it ironic that a feminist frets that there aren’t more cheerleaders?“

WHY HAS YOUTUBE REMOVED THE VIDEO of anti-Tea Party violence in North Carolina? It’s not there anymore, claiming a terms-of-use violation. I’m skeptical . . . .

HOW TO PREVENT DEEPWATER OIL SPILLS.

SOLD OUT OF HAYEK: “I just got off the phone with Stephanie Hlywak of the U. of Chicago Press and it’s official — the U. of Chicago Press is SOLD OUT of copies of Friedrich Hayek’s classic The Road to Serfdom after selling over 13,000 copies in less than 24 hours, after the broadcast of Glenn Beck’s show on Hayek and his timeless book.”

GULF OIL SPILL may not be as bad as its size suggests.

DEFENDING YOUR BODY WITH plastic antibodies? Faster, please. “The success of the molecular imprinting process coupled with the heightened survival rate of the mice suggests researchers could tailor a variety of these nanoparticles for use in just about any case where the body relies on antibodies for to fight off threats. That’s a lot of cases, opening the door to a synthetic immune booster that could potentially be used to treat myriad allergies, illnesses and infections.” Given the growing threat of biowar and bioterrorism, along with various new or antibiotic-resistant diseases, this technology is likely to be very important.

POLITICO: Are Obama Staffers Overexposed? In that shirtless photo, at least.

WHAT GERMANY CAN LEARN FROM AMERICA about “social justice.”