BLOB THREATENS TO Engulf BP.

UPDATE: Related: How the White House Is Making Oil Recovery Harder.

REPORTS FROM THE Chicago police torture trial. Full report here. I suspect this would be getting a lot more attention if it had happened at Guantanamo instead of in Chicago.

UPDATE: Reader Matthew Heiman writes: “It would get a lot more play if it was Mayor Bush, Deputy Mayor Cheney, and Police Commissioner Rumsfeld. Otherwise, there is no grand dereliction of duty by the political establishment, it’s just bad cops.”

STUDY: Young Men More Vulnerable to Relationship Ups and Downs Than Women.

SHOULD STUDENT LOANS BE dischargeable in bankruptcy?

THE ROAD TO SERFDOM as a comic book. I’ve linked this before, but it’s not as if it’s gotten less relevant . . . .

OH, GOODIE: The Housing-Market Recession Is Not Over.

A NEW KIND OF POLITICS: S.C. Dems ask Senate nominee to withdraw after felony charge. I mean, usually the felony charges don’t come until after they’re in office. . . .

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, WE’D SEE NEWS CHOKED OFF TO PROTECT THE REGIME: And they were right! “Journalists struggling to document the impact of the oil rig explosion have repeatedly found themselves turned away from public areas affected by the spill, and not only by BP and its contractors, but by local law enforcement, the Coast Guard and government officials. To some critics of the response effort by BP and the government, instances of news media being kept at bay are just another example of a broader problem of officials’ filtering what images of the spill the public sees.”

ZOMBIE: Dinosaurs vs. Zillionaires: Four Depressing Candidates Win in California.

Roger Simon: What Happened to Feminism? Republican Women on the Rise. Plus, a question for Mickey Kaus.

UPDATE: Related thoughts from Cathy Young.

BYRON YORK: AmeriCorps Scandal Figure Invited To AmeriCorps Conference. “Kevin Johnson is a former NBA star, the mayor of Sacramento, California, and a friend and political ally of Barack and Michelle Obama. He also misused hundreds of thousands of federal dollars at a non-profit educational organization he founded called St. HOPE.”

Related: Obama team honors Walpin-gate transgressor. “Only in the Obama administration would a public official sanctioned for a form of malfeasance be honored as a speaker by the same organization that sanctioned him. It helps, of course, when he is a self-proclaimed Friend of the First Couple. It also doesn’t hurt that the administration already found it politically convenient to fire the inspector general, Gerald Walpin, who blew the whistle on his misdeeds.”

TRYING TO predict solar weather.

LET’S HOPE WE’RE DOING BETTER WITH THE ANTI-TERRORISM: FBI Financed Van der Sloot Trip, Where He Murdered Stephany Flores Ramirez. “I realize they were trying to solve the Holloway case. But, can you say botched? Imagine if this had happened during the Bush administration?”

IMPOSSIBLE. That would blow the narrative. MEMO TO MSM: Rush & Elton John Agree on Same-Sex Marriage. “Here we have two incredibly different people with two wildly different worldviews actually agreeing on something! How can that be construed as anything other than a thing of beauty? Where’s the ‘We Are the World’ choir?” Did I mention the narrative?

DRUG PATENTS: Prescription for problems?

RAND PAUL distances himself from libertarianism.

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH? McConnell Charges That ‘Major Part’ of Democrats’ Cap-Trade Bill ‘Essentially Written by BP’.

THE GROWING POWER of government unions.

CLUELESS about Gaza.

SOME POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES of China’s woman shortage.

LOYALTY! Hezbollah stands by disgraced US reporter Helen Thomas.

THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER introduces The Examiner Opinion Zone.

MARKDOWNS ON fitness equipment.

IS OBAMA at a tipping point?

8 REASONS WHY College Tuition Is The Next Bubble To Burst.

DON’T SLEEP LONGER, sleep smarter.