TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OPEN WIFI: Feds: Child porn accessed via neighbors, church.

Special agents said Chandler was able to access the Internet from more than 30 locations, including one belonging to the Higher Ground Baptist Church.

“Chandler’s residence … is uniquely positioned such that numerous wireless networks from adjacent streets appear to be accessible,” according to the warrant.

You know, maintaining open wifi is kind of neighborly, but the problem is that you don’t always have such great neighbors. Meanwhile, give the law-enforcement folks credit for not going off half-cocked with a mistaken SWAT raid, as happened in Buffalo, New York.

MICKEY KAUS: “Innovations in bias technology are coming at an increasingly rapid pace in the New York Times-–it’s a regular Singularity of self-reinforcement over there.” Plus this: “I used to think the paper’s editors were also deluding themselves along with everyone else. Now I’m not so sure.”

ROGER SIMON: Agnostics For Rick Perry. “Frankly, I prefer honesty. So I respect Perry for his faith. And, again as we all know, this country was founded on bedrock principles of religious tolerance, which some modern liberals tend to forget includes people who actually believe in God. Personally, I admire Perry’s belief, even envy it to some extent, because I am reaching the point in life at which I would be delighted if someone could convince me of an afterlife.”

DAVID BOAZ: The Hayek Surge Continues.

Hey, The Road To Serfdom is still in the top 500 at Amazon.

BARRY RUBIN: The Left’s Very Anti-PC Strategy: Hate, Fear, Stereotype, and Treat Diversity as Evil.

When one talks to supporters of President Barack Obama, one quickly learns that his actual policies and their relative success or failure are of no importance for many of them. Some have defected, many more are worried (even if they won’t admit it publicly) but might overcome their doubts and vote for him again.

The significant factor shaping their views is one of self-image. . . . To support Obama makes them smart, sophisticated, anti-racist, modern, members of an intellectual and social elite standing against the yahoos with the pitchforks out in the provinces. From the defenders of the downtrodden, the left has transformed itself into the well-financed aristocracy sneering at the peasantry.

That’s why the theme of portraying the opposition as greedy, rich, fat-cat, corporate chieftains and simultaneously hillbilly, gun-toting, religious fanatic racists who think Obama is a Muslim-born in Kenya and want to reinstitute slavery is so incredibly effective in shoring up its base of support.

Even the simplest points of fact — that the Tea Party is a group of people opposed to big government, high taxes, tight regulation, and large deficits — barely appear amidst the propaganda aimed at discrediting any opposition as illegitimate.

If you can persuade people that anyone is insane if they want to cut economically unproductive government spending and not raise taxes at a time of massive depression and growing deficits, then you have a pretty good propaganda machine.

I don’t think it will be good enough, this time.

CBS NEWS: With Dismal Approval Polls, Obama Hits The Road. The headlines are looking a bit less hopey-changey lately, aren’t they?

GERMAN LEFT NOSTALGIC FOR COMMUNIST TYRANNY: “A group of leftwing politicians in Germany have been criticised for refusing to observe a minute’s silence on Saturday to commemorate the 136-plus people who died trying to breach the Berlin Wall. A far-left newspaper added to the controversy by printing a front page saying ‘thank you’ to the wall for ’28 years of keeping the peace in Europe’ and ’28 years of plentiful crèche and kindergarten places’.”

Nostalgia for communism is morally equivalent to nostalgia for Nazism, and the nostalgists should be treated the same way.