DEBUNKING the top 10 energy myths.

IN THE MAIL: From Robert Anthony Waters, Jr., The A to Z of United States-Africa Relations.

BRUCE SCHNEIER: Threat of ‘cyberwar’ has been hugely hyped.

LLOYD GROVE: The Elite Turn Against Obama. “Even the Aspen Ideas Festival, an annual gathering of the country’s brightest lights, isn’t Obama country anymore.”

GOD GIVES A “THUMBS-UP.”

JOHN FUND: Who Will Investigate the Investigators? Another voter fraud scandal involving the Justice Department.

WATCHED PAUL NEWMAN’S The Verdict with the family last night. One of the great lawyer movies ever, and one of Newman’s best performances. For a project I’m working on, I’m interested in movies and TV about law and lawyers — not just stuff with a legal setting, but stuff that revolves around lawyers and what people think of them. Any suggestions?

UPDATE: Reader Mike McElravy recommends Absence of Malice, also with Paul Newman. That one’s already on my list. Also Twelve Angry Men, Judgment At Nuremberg, and The Paper Chase.

I’ve also been looking for the episode of L.A. Law that gave rise to the “Arnie Becker Rule” against lawyers sleeping with their clients, but for some reason L.A. Law is unavailable on DVD or pretty much anywhere. (Bumped — and thanks for all the suggestions that are pouring in.)

UPDATE: Some thoughts from Jonah Goldberg.

UNREST in Iran.

TRANSCRIPT: J. Christian Adams’ Full Testimony on the New Black Panther Case.

TAKING LOVE OF THE IPHONE A BIT TOO FAR.

THE PAPER GREENWALD.

THE PROBLEM with peer review. “Especially for papers that rely on empirical work with painstakingly assembled datasets, the only way for peer reviewers to do the kind of thorough vetting that many commentators seem to imagine is implied by the words ‘peer review’ would be to . . . well, go back and re-do the whole thing. Obviously, this is not what happens. . . . After all, Michael Bellesiles’ central work was all peer reviewed–and passed with flying colors even though some of the numbers in one of his most important tables did not add up correctly.” But when the scandal first broke, lots of his defenders stressed that he had published in peer-reviewed journals. No peer-reviewers, as far as I know, took responsibility when the fraud was revealed.

CHARLIE FOXTROT: “Polling data released by Rasmussen Reports today would seem to provide the GOP some ready-made script material for Congressional and state-level candidates.”

FEDS TO TAKE CONTROL of BP leak website.

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE IS UNIMPRESSED WITH FORECASTS OF ANOTHER GREAT DEPRESSION: “Repeat after me: Charting doesn’t work. Charts tell us nothing. Why? Because charting doesn’t work.”

ABC calls Obama out.

RON BAILEY: What Growing Cancer Epidemic? New cancer trend statistics being released today are heartening. Eurekalert headline announcing the new cancer stats reads: ‘Cancer Deaths Continue to Drop.’ Which is happily quite true, but actually misses the even more amazing fact that ‘Cancer Incidence Rates Continue to Drop.'”

LOOK WHO’S SINGING “Bomb, Bomb Iran.”

SAVORING MOVIES ABOUT SUMMER. Interesting list, though “Summer of ’42” is kinda obvious.

YAHOO! FINANCE: HOW THE EXPIRING BUSH TAX CUTS AFFECT YOU. “You may have been led to believe that only individuals in the top two brackets will face higher federal income taxes when the Bush cuts go bye-bye. Not true! Unless Congress takes action and President Obama goes along, rates will go up for everyone — not just a sliver of the wealthiest Americans.”

NICK GILLESPIE: “Ladies and germs, meet your new bureaucratic head of Medicare and Medicaid, Dr. Donald Berwick, Harvard’s latest train wreck of an appointee.”

THE HOTEL INDUSTRY’S credit card problems.

BOB ZUBRIN CALLS FOR an open fuel standard in the Washington Times. He has a book on this proposal, too.

HOW TO Sell A Law School In Texas. In spite of the higher education bubble.

JERRY POURNELLE: “Berwick is certainly qualified to head a national health care system (for a pro-Berwick piece see the Washington Post). He’s also a realist about what that implies. A few years ago he said that sick people tend to be poorer, and poor people tend to be sicker, and if you want an excellent, humane, and rational health care system it is going to be redistributive. It has to be. An excellent national health care system requires redistributing the wealth. Of course that’s true. It’s also the last thing Obama wants debated this summer and fall.”