OH, GOODY: Air Traffic System Vulnerable To Cyber Attack. “ADS-B transmits information in unencrypted 112-bit bursts – a measure intended to make the system simple and cheap to implement. It’s this that researchers from the US air force’s Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio are unhappy with. Donald McCallie, Jonathan Butts and Robert Mills warn that the unencrypted signals could be intercepted and spoofed by hackers, or simply jammed.”

JONATHAN ADLER: Bachmann Embraces Irresponsible Anti-Vaccine Views. What, she’s going for the Jenny McCarthy vote? Good luck with that.

YOU KNOW, THE GULLWINGS LOOK COOL, but I wouldn’t be able to open the doors in my garage. Which is, of course, the only reason I wouldn’t be rushing out to buy one.

SPENGLER: Endgame For Egypt. “The misnamed ‘Arab Spring,’ really a convulsion of a dying society, began with food shortages. Egypt imports half its caloric consumption, 45% of its people are illiterate, its university graduates are unemployable, its $10 billion a year tourism industry is shuttered for the duration, and its foreign exchange reserves are gradually disappearing.”

RICHARD EPSTEIN: A Decade Of Legal Blunders.

A PACK, NOT A HERD: Amazing Video: Bystanders Lift Burning Car Off Injured Motorcyclist. “Bystanders stopped to help police lift a burning car that hit and dragged a motorcyclist in Logan, Utah. The cyclist was rescued by a group who picked up the car and pulled the man out from under the wreckage.”

LET THEM EAT CARP: Asian carp promoted in anti-hunger campaign. The reader who sent this was offended, but I actually favor eating invasive species. It’s the topic of my latest Popular Mechanics column, which is already out in the magazine, though not yet online.

ROSS DOUTHAT: Alice Rivlin as Cassandra. “With these three warnings, Rivlin anticipated everything that the Obama White House and the Democratic Congress would do wrong over the next two years.”

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: “Jobs Bill” is just Stimulus II.

The Jobs Act, which is best described as Obama’s Stimulus II, will cost somewhere around $450 billion — more than half as big as Obama’s first failed stimulus. . . . Pressed to explain how Obama could use the same tax hikes to both meet the debt deal’s deficit reduction targets and pay for his new stimulus plan, Lew admitted that even Obama can’t count the same tax increases for two separate purposes. Instead, Lew said that Obama would be introducing a whole new slate of tax hikes next week, when he plans to give yet another deficit reduction speech.

Obama again insisted Monday that his second stimulus will be “fully paid for.” This is problematic on several levels. If Stimulus II is fully paid for with immediate tax hikes, then it isn’t the kind of deficit spending that Obama’s Keynesian logic demands. If it is only paid for later, at the end of the 10-year horizon, then this amounts to a budget gimmick, because Obama will be long gone from office by then.

So which is it? Is Obama’s Stimulus II really just a complicated wealth redistribution scheme accomplished through the tax code? Or does it leave difficult tax hikes to be implemented by future presidents? Whatever the answer, do not expect to hear it from Obama during his next two stimulus speeches.

Should be dead on arrival. But if the Republicans want to be really sneaky, I’ve got some tax increases they can use in place of Obama’s. . . .

OKAY, IT CAME OUT ON AMAZON A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, but this is the official launch week for Teaching America: The Case for Civic Education. I’ve got a chapter in it, along with such others as Sandra Day O’Connor, Alan Dershowitz, Juan Williams, Jon Kyl, etc.

JACOB SULLUM: Barack Obama turns out to be just another drug warrior.

AT AMAZON, Top Deals In Electronics. Including a 60″ HDTV for under 1000 bucks.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Revolving door of employment between Congress, lobbying firms, study shows. “Nearly 5,400 former congressional staffers have left Capitol Hill to become federal lobbyists in the past 10 years, according to a new study that documents the extent of the revolving door between Congress and K Street.”

Just another argument for my proposed 50% surtax on “excess” post-government earnings.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Small Business Confidence Falls to 13-month low. “The National Federation of Independent Business’s optimism index decreased to 88.1, the weakest reading since July 2010 and the sixth-consecutive decline, from 89.9 in July. The number of small-business owners saying they expected the economy will improve six months from now fell to the lowest level since 1980.”

ORRIN HATCH TO NLRB MEMBER CRAIG BECKER: Did You Write The SEIU Intimidation Manual? “U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today wrote to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member and former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) official Craig Becker to inquire about his involvement in union intimidation efforts. The letter sent to Becker comes after the SEIU’s ‘Contract Campaign Manual’ was made public. The handbook tells union members to purposefully try to damage their employers’ reputations by coming up with allegations against their employers and managers and to even break the law to gain leverage in contract negotiations.”

WHERE THE JOBS ARE: Canada’s Oil Sands Are A Jobs Gusher. “Canada has recovered all the jobs it lost in the 2009 recession, and Alberta’s oil sands are no small part of that. The province is on track to become the world’s second-largest oil producer, after Saudi Arabia, within 10 years. Meanwhile Mr. Obama clings to his subsidies for solar panels and his religious faith in green jobs. . . . The Bakken region of North Dakota, where private land ownership gives drillers relief from federal obstructionism, shares a similar, if smaller, story. Oil production there is booming, and North Dakota unemployment is 3.3%.” Generally, sectors the feds can’t touch tend to do better.

Plus this: “A serious jobs proposal would address these issues. Mr. Obama doesn’t have one.”

DIVERSITY: “Two reports released today allege the University of Wisconsin discriminates against whites and Asian applicants and have electrified both UW administration and some student leaders.”

Plus, from the comments: “I’m astonished that these reports could seem like news to people who profess erudition.”

RECOVERY BUMMER: Face of unemployment changes as thousands of Knoxvillians hunt for long-term work. “Even though he has two years of college from The Citadel, eight years in the U.S. Army during which he worked on helicopters and had top-secret clearance, and owned his own business, Lyke said he couldn’t even get a job at Taco Bell.”

Plus this:

“There is such a broad range of people who are unemployed,” Arthur said. “It’s not what people have thought of as the stereotypical long-term unemployed. We have one lady with three master’s degrees, some with PhDs.”

And unemployment is “only” 7.5% in Knox County, which is substantially better than the national average. Meanwhile, Barack Obama is only interested in saving one job at the moment.

DARRELL ISSA: ‘Only way’ Eric Holder ‘didn’t know’ about Fast and Furious is if ‘he made sure he didn’t want to know.’

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): U.S. motorists may spend a record $491 billion for gasoline this year. “The average U.S. price for a gallon of regular gasoline reached $3.661 on Monday, according to the U.S. Energy Department’s weekly survey of service stations. That was down 1.3 cents a gallon from a week earlier but up 94 cents from a year earlier.”

You’d think we’d have a policy aimed at increasing domestic production, and at increasing imports from countries like Canada. Instead, we’re sending money to hostile and unstable countries in record amounts.

MEGAN MCARDLE: “I was tentatively in favor of the jobs plan that Obama proposed last week. But that’s before I realized that he has no intention of trying to get it passed. . . . I really wish that Obama hadn’t wasted my Thursday evening, and that of 31 million other Americans, listening to a jobs plan that was only designed to produce one job–a second term for Barack Obama.”

PAYBACK: The Hill: “A liberal advocacy group is filing an ethics complaint against Rep. Darrell Issa, alleging that the California Republican has repeatedly used his public office for personal gain.” A cynic might think this is some sort of spoiling-attack designed to blunt the impact of Issa’s relentless investigation into the ATF’s gun-smuggling scandal.

UPDATE: Questioning the timing: “Issa’s obviously getting too close to the White House in the Gun Walker investigation. Just watch: This bogus complaint will get more news focus than Gun Walker.”

JAMES TARANTO ON PAUL KRUGMAN: History’s Smallest Monster.

ROGER SIMON: Rick Perry and the Seven Dwarfs.