UNDIPLOMATIC: Hundreds of Pakistanis Rally to Honor Bin Laden.

RAND SIMBERG: Bin Laden’s Burial at Sea: Are We Undermining ‘Moderate’ Muslims? “CAIR and other ‘moderates’ continually remind us that Osama bin Laden was not what Islam is all about. Then why bury him as a devout Muslim?”

BIN LADEN DEAD: A ‘Shot in the Arm’ for America, but No Effect on the Economy. “Around the globe, people are reacting to the news of the death of Osama bin Laden. For the markets, a muted impact.”

SURE, WHO NEEDS ENERGY? EPA to Use New Regulations to Prohibit Hydraulic Fracturing?

TIM BLAIR: Depends Whose Side You’re On.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Let’s Hear It For “Cheney’s Assassination Squad.”

Next the lefties will be cheering “enhanced interrogation.” Andrew Sullivan, are you ready for your closeup?

NANCY PELOSI, 2006: KILLING OSAMA DOESN’T MATTER.

Nancy Pelosi 2011: Killing Osama is Huge!

PJTV: Seal Team 6: Who Are They And How Did They Get To Osama Bin Laden?

UH OH: Lower Mississippi River flooding could set records.

THAT WAS THEN. NOW ASSASSINATION IS GOOD: New Yorker Mag called the special ops team today hailed by Obama, VP Cheney’s “personal assassination team.”

Related: Indian media reporting on Pakistan protecting bin Laden.

And, from Bryan Preston:

On a more serious note, the raid in Pakistan that ended Osama bin Laden’s war crime spree is very good not only for American morale, but for American credibility. The kinetic military action in Libya has been doing a bang-up job of sapping both, and fracturing NATO, for weeks. This unambiguous success helps end that skid, and might just turn President Obama into an actual president. As others have said elsewhere, for the first time in my adult life I’m actually proud of him. I still won’t vote for him and I encourage others to oppose his re-election too, but at least when it was time to make a serious decision, he made the right one.

The Abbottabad raid also tells the world one more time that America is not to be messed with. That’s always a useful message to send.

Particularly at this moment, when doubts on that subject were accumulating.

UPDATE: Flashback: Stephen Colbert blasts Cheney’s Secret Assassination Squad.

Likewise, Seymour Hersh and Keith Olbermann.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Mel Kreitzer writes on Colbert: “They’re going to have to change that title now. Why should Cheney get all the credit?”

L.A. TIMES: Oh-oh! What if the dead guy wasn’t Osama bin Laden? “Even as American jubiliation continues over presumably nailing the mastermind of 9/11, as Obama celebrated the achievement at a bipartisan White House dinner tonight and as the Democrat plans a Thursday trip to Ground Zero as part of a political victory lap, the National Journal’s Maggie Fox writes a disturbing article this evening.”

I dunno, but if I were Osama, I would have left a series of semi-custom tapes to be released as appropriate after my death: “Bwahahaha, you Americans missed me with your cruise missile/drone attack/special forces raid/sniper/exploding cigar. . . . ” Just to keep the FUD going for a while. I don’t know if Osama did that, but I would keep the possibility in mind.

AMERICANS TEND NOT TO NOTICE THESE THINGS, but they’re having a big election in Canada today. Canadian readers: Please send me links to any particularly interesting news. Meanwhile, Colby Cosh is blogging them.

UPDATE: Tories retain power, Layton opposition leader, CBC projects. Reader Michael Hanley writes: “I’m in Calgary, an American expat, and hoping that the lessons of the massive defeat of the Liberal party here in CA is a harbinger of the permanent rise of the Conservatives. Looks like the Tories will be close to their own majority outright. They are 13 away from a majority. The worry is the NDP and their good showing. They are enthusiastic, but plan to spend their way into power.”

And more Canadian election-blogging at The Surly Beaver.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Maneuvering? CBC Breaks Results Embargo. “In an apparent mistake — and clear contravention of Elections Canada laws — CBC News Network briefly broadcast results from Atlantic Canada to viewers in other parts of the country that were still voting.”

MORE: Reader Matt Corbett writes: “A big taxing, big spending, corrupt Liberal political party led by an ex-Harvard ‘intellectual’ with little practical experience has just been obliterated by market friendly and fiscally conservative leadership. In Canada. America are you watching?”

ERIC OLSEN: 9/11 Nightmare Finally Concludes with Death of bin Laden. Well, it is a sort of closure. But there’s still the TSA to deal with.

UPDATE: Reader Robert Sykes writes: “While many of us will feel a sense of closure, I think the real message is to the Pakistanis: We can go anywhere in your country, anywhere, and we can kill anyone, anyone.” It’ll be interesting to see what comes next.

PLEASE SIR, MAY I HAVE SOME MORE? Libya rebels: Gaddafi should face Bin Laden’s fate. He should. Our policy on him has been a bit less straightforward, however.

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SCOTT BROWN VOLUNTEERS FOR AFGHANISTAN.

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CNBC: Pakistan’s Bin Laden Bungle to Lift India’s US Ties, Economy. “The extent of Pakistani cooperation in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden is still unclear, but because the al Qaeda leader was found just 35 miles north of the country’s capital, the killing will be symbolic of Pakistan’s reluctant and tense political and military relationship with America. In fact, investors said, it may put an end to this relationship, turning the focus on the U.S. to build further political and economic ties with India.” Obama has not seemed especially warm toward India up to now, but this would be a reason to rethink, wouldn’t it?

FASTER, PLEASE: ‘Good Cholesterol’ nanoparticles silence cancer-promoting genes and destroy cancer cells.

SQUEEZING A LOT MORE POWER out of rooftop solar cells.

MARKDOWNS AND MOTHER’S DAY GIFT IDEAS in cellphones and accessories.

SECOND AMENDMENT THOUGHTS: If you missed it over the weekend, here’s my Wayne LaPierre interview from the NRA convention, where he talks about the Second Amendment, the 2012 elections, and the importance of alternative media.

Plus, it’s true: I’m the Greg Gutfeld of the Internet. Photographs don’t lie!

EUROPEAN COMMISSION paints itself into ACTA corner.

ANN ALTHOUSE: Information from Guantanamo detainees made it possible to locate bin Laden. “How was this information extracted from the detainees? Obama scores the success of killing bin Laden, but did that success depend on interrogation methods that he has long condemned?” I rather doubt we’ll be told any time soon. But hey, I could be wrong. The “detainee” thing might even be a cover story to protect other sources of information. Hey, maybe it was really RFID tags implanted in those Taliban escapees that led us there . . . .

UPDATE: The Irony Grows Deeper – Key Intel Came From Enhanced Interrogations In Secret Prisons. I’m gobsmacked! But the original gobsmackee, Andrew Sullivan, is now celebrating Obama’s martial might. You go, guy. Glad you’ve found another warlike President you can love.

Related: Ed Morrissey: We can get the rest of Al Qaeda, too.

ANOTHER UPDATE: They told me that if I voted for McCain, we’d get a continuation of Bush’s wartime policies. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! And it’s a good thing.

KID-TESTED: Projectile Weapons For Indoor Warfare.