EXECUPUNDIT’S POLITICALLY INCORRECT AUTHOR LIST: Following up on my Great Books post featuring the very politically incorrect A.A. Gill.  Why don’t you go to Execupundit and add your own names to the list?

REMEMBERING GERMAN HYPERINFLATION.

ANALYZING THE 4TH CIRCUIT ORAL ARGUMENT about the Affordable Care Act. Lots of links at ACA Litigation Blog.

GUILT — WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? Last week, Bob Owens of Confederate Yankee blogged, “Guy makes $120K in Two Days on Osama Bin Laden Tee Shirts:”

Maurice Harary, 23, set up his T-shirt website Osamadeadtees.com as soon as he heard that the former Al Qaeda leader had been shot by U.S. Navy Seals on Sunday night.The New Yorker raced home to his apartment to work on building the website on Sunday night and it was ready to go live at 3.30am on Monday morning.

Making money: Maurice Harary, 23, from New York, made $120,000 from his Osama Bin Laden merchandise website in two days.

By Tuesday evening he had already sold more than 10,000 items at $12 a time.

T-shirts bearing slogans including ‘Obama killed Osama’, ‘Osama’s back – not!’ and ‘Just dead it’ have been flying off his virtual shelves.

Sadly, a fair amount of guilt appears to have quickly set in, according to CBS:

“I will now be refunding all orders on Osama dead tees,” he says. “Celebrating over the death of someone, whoever it is, is evil in my eyes.”

“I feel it’s not a positive way to be making money,” he says. “I don’t want my success to come at the expense of anyone else.

He says he wants to make money the right way.

So, he’s launching another site, selling a wider variety of clothing.

CBS notes that “The 23-year-old is a business student at New York University.” Oh to have been a fly on the wall if his professors discussed this topic with him.

Fortunately, Confederate Yankee has a suitable T-shirt he links to, that, as Bob writes, will “honor those who made Bin Laden a room-temperature commodity.”

Incidentally, speaking of Osama T-shirts, how long before Osama as Ché T-shirts begin to appear and become the “hip” pop culture fashion accessory?

FUSION GOES FORWARD FROM THE FRINGE:

A Navy-funded effort to harness nuclear fusion power reports that its unconventional plasma device is operating as designed and generating “positive results” more than halfway through the project.

The latest quarterly update from EMC2 Fusion Development Corp. comes amid other signs that seemingly oddball approaches to fusion research may not be all that oddball after all. Just last week, General Fusion announced that Amazon.com’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, was part of a $19.5 million investment round to further the company’s plan to take advantage of a technology called magnetized target fusion. Another billionaire, Paul Allen, is an investor in Tri Alpha Energy, which is working on its own hush-hush fusion project (and occasionally publishing its research).

EMC2 Fusion doesn’t have tens of millions of venture capital to play with — but it does have a $7.9 million Navy contract to test a plasma technology known as inertial electrostatic confinement fusion, also known as Polywell fusion. The idea is to accelerate positively charged ions in an electrical cage to such an extent that they occasionally spark a fusion reaction, releasing energy and neutrons. The concept was pioneered by the late physicist Robert Bussard, and carried forward by the EMC2 Fusion team in Santa Fe, N.M.

Faster, please, to coin a phrase.

LEFT OF CENTER, OFF OF THE STRIP: Ronald Radosh explains, “Why the New York Times Gets Everything Wrong: It’s the Left-Wing Bias:”

There’s no secret anymore as to why the paper has become worse than it ever was. The editors and writers are on the political left; and they are pompous enough to think that since everyone they know thinks the same way, what they are writing is objective. This is not to say that its bias is a relatively new thing. It’s just that in the paper’s heyday, you could find relatively straightforward top-notch reporting. But even then, on certain issues, there was very little difference between the editorial side and that of the reporters.

Of course, as William McGowan has discussed in Gray Lady Down, since Pinch began running the paper, it’s become top-heavy with editorial columnists whose personalities (Modo! Krugman! Friedman! And the soon to be departed Frank Rich) define the newspaper, rather than the actual news the paper generates. But even so, every once in a blue moon, the paper grudgingly concedes its otherwise immediately obvious biases.

THE ANCHORESS ON CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS’ SINGULAR VOICE:

Faced with the loss of that resonant, bourbon-on-ice voice, what a moving yet dignified and yes, heroic piece of writing. Thank you, sir, for the lesson, and please accept this in my defiant regard: God bless you!

It will be a dreadful day when this singular voice can no longer reach us via any media but memory.

Read the whole thing.

“TRANSGRESS[ING] THE GENDER NORMS OF THEIR CONTEXT” at the doors of bathrooms marked “women” and “men,” where helpful people saying “Hey buddy—wait!” are not appreciated.

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TIME TO CORRECT OFF-COURSE LABOR BOARD:

Now, you may not work in an airplane factory and it’s even less likely that you own an aircraft company. But the federal government’s attempt to tell one company which states it can and cannot do business in is a threat to the free enterprise system that has been the fertile soil of this nation’s economic strength for decades.

So put yourself in the position of an entrepreneur. If you currently own a business or have ever thought about it, imagine if you did everything in step with every current regulation, permit, law and rule. You not only fill out massive numbers of red-tape forms, but also wait weeks — if not months — on end for the necessary government approvals. After finally navigating these hurdles, you invest heavily in property, buy expensive specialized machinery and tools, and even begin the hiring process. All the hassle and government bureaucracy is ultimately worth it, as you know you will be able to do good business, benefit the economy by adding new jobs, and make a nice profit (which, contrary to what many people in our nation’s capital believe, is not a dirty word).

But then the federal government steps in and says that you must stop because you do not have the approval of a union in a completely different state. They are, in fact, telling you where and how to run your business.

This outrageous action — while not completely unsurprising given the board’s recent blatant Big Labor activism — will send chills throughout the economy if allowed to stand. For an administration that talks so much about creating jobs and not strangling business, the NLRB’s actions speak to an opposite intent.

That’s been of the dominant themes of this administration, even before it began.

RELATED: “Fishermen Say Regulations Destroying Industry.”

STEWART BAKER SAYS THE ADMINISTRATION HAS SOLVED THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PROBLEM: But doesn’t realize it.

LESSON PLAN: “Note well, dear readers, that when fascism ever so briefly came to America, it did come with a smiley face.”

Related thoughts from the Rhetorican: “Amusingly enough, the teacher who launched the experiment wasn’t exactly a right wing extremist.”

THE GREAT BOOKS ACCORDING TO ME: Starcrossed, by AA Gill.  I do understand that it won that year’s Bad Sex Writing Award, and no doubt deserved.  Imagine the movie Notting Hill – made a good deal more gritty, nasty, cruel, really dirty, and lots, lots funnier, while still preserving Antigone and a weird bittersweet, genuine romance, at the center.  For anyone who has actually read the novel, I know that you’re cringing.  Great book?  Well. A senior editor of the Times Literary Supplement, also a dear friend,  once told me: “Ken, you have such almost exquisite taste.”  “Oh?” I inquired, all coyness and demurity.  “Yes,” he said, “marred only by your fondness for AA Gill.”  And a barely perceptible pause.  “And Mark Steyn.  But you knew that.”

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TICK-TOCK, TICK-TOCK: Lawfare’s Robert Chesney points out that the clock is rapidly running on the intersection — collision? — of the War Powers Resolution and the Libyan whatever-it-is.  Update, also from Bobby Chesney: What did Senator Kerry mean, “deferring to NATO”?  I was pretty sure, for nearly all intents and purposes, we are NATO, or at least, there is no NATO there if the US is not there.  And, if your “presence” is a drone, is that enough to trigger the WPR?

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER AIRLINER DOOR OPENING ATTEMPT:

Logan officials said they were first told of a passenger who may have attempted to open a door mid-flight. Police are now investigating the sky-high scare.

Phil Tigh from Plympton was seated next to the suspect. He said the man “screwed up” when he reached for the handle.

“He knew he messed up,” Tigh told the Herald. “He sat at the bar and had too much to drink. He screwed up.”

Indeed.™

IF A COUNTRY OF 80 MILLION PEOPLE FALLS and the media is deaf does anyone hear?