LEE STRANAHAN: Friday, May 25th Is “Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day.”

Related: Who Is Brett Kimberlin? “He’s a terrorist turned leftwing activist. I’ll let Stacy McCain catch you up on the details. Right now, the terrorist turned activist — who gets money from major Democrats including Teresa Heinz Kerry and Barbra Streisand — is apparently threatening McCain’s family. Given Kimberlin’s history of bombings, harassment and thuggery, Kimberlin is unfortunately a real threat and the state of Maryland needs to step in and stop him.”

UPDATE: More evidence of the Streisand Effect at work. When I googled Brett Kimberlin this afternoon, this is what I got:

I love the “Free Stacy McCain” image that came up. . . .

SECURITY: IBM Outlaws Siri, Worried She Has Loose Lips. “The reason? Siri ships everything you say to her to a big data center in Maiden, North Carolina. And the story of what really happens to all of your Siri-launched searches, e-mail messages and inappropriate jokes is a bit of a black box. . . . How long does Apple store all of this stuff, and who gets a look at it? Well, the company doesn’t actually say.”

INDOOR MOBILITY: Honda’s Uni-Cub bringing mobility indoors. “Like the Segway, the Uni-Cub allows riders to control it simply by shifting their weight forward, backward or side to side. Unlike the Segway, it is small enough to be used indoors. A promotional video for the Uni-Cub shows thin attractive people using it to glide down office hallways, and in and out of elevators. It looks very elegant, but one wonders why these thin attractive people need a mobility device in the first place.”

ED MORRISSEY: Free speech moment: Standing with Stacy McCain, Patterico, Liberty Chick, and Aaron Walker.

PUSHBACK: In Janesville, Wisconsin, an anonymous flier lists teachers’ salaries and tells parents to ask for a “non-radical teacher” next year. I don’t think that public-employee unions are used to being on the receiving end of this sort of thing. But they will be. . . .

JOAN HEMINWAY: A Portrait of the Insider Trader as a Woman.

SHOCK POLL: 51% Want U.S. Troops Out Of Europe.

My guess is that if President Obama went to leading Democratic and Republican officials, they would join him in an effort to explain the importance of the NATO alliance and our European bases — and that this effort would turn those numbers around.

But foreign policy in a democracy isn’t a chess game for elites. If you don’t build support for your policies and your commitments, the support ebbs away. It is very natural for Americans to wonder why we still have troops in Europe almost seventy years after World War Two and a generation after the end of the Cold War. And it’s reasonable for people to ask why we should spend so much of our money to provide a security shield for countries who refuse to carry their fair share of the common burden.

These are reasonable questions — and they have reasonable answers. But this administration hasn’t done nearly enough to lay out the facts and the ideas behind America’s grand strategy in Europe to the public.

Read the whole thing.

ROSS ANDERSEN: Radical Life Extension Is Already Here, But We’re Doing it Wrong.

When you’re talking about medicines that help us live longer, it’s important to realize how much we’ve already accomplished. In the last 150 years or so, we’ve doubled our life span from 40 to 80 years, and that’s primarily through the use of things you can characterize as being medical science. In some cases it’s clear that we’re talking about medical enhancement—vaccines, for instance, or surgical hygiene and sterilization. And then more broadly there are other, non-medical things like the sanitation of the water supply and the pasteurization of milk and cheese. All of these things have saved an enormous amount of life.

It used to be that people would die of an infectious disease; they’d be struck down when they were very young or when they were older and their immune system was weak. Now almost nobody in the first world dies of infectious disease; we’ve basically managed to completely eradicate infectious disease through medical science. If, at the outset of this process, you asked people if we should develop technologies that would make us live until we’re 80 on average instead of until we’re 40, people might have expressed these same kind of misgivings that you hear today. They might have said, “Oh no that would be way too long, that would be unnatural, let’s not do that.”

So, in a way, we shouldn’t view it as being extremely strange to develop these medicines, but in another sense we’re at a new stage now, because now we’re at the forefront of having medicines that actually address the aging process. And that’s what I’m interested in talking about—the kinds of medicines that actually slow down the aging process, or at least some of the mechanisms of aging.

Faster, please.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): American Physics Dreams Deferred. “For Dr. Riess and his colleagues, this turn of events is another example of a worrying trend in which American scientists, facing budget deficits and political gridlock, have had to pull back from or delay promising projects while teams based in Europe hunt down the long-sought Higgs boson or rocket scientists in China plan a Moon landing in 2025.”

Well, Solyndra wanted the money, and they had the juice. You don’t have the juice. It’s all about the juice, these days.

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: A College Bubble So Big Even The New York Times And 60 Minutes Can See It…Sort Of.

Key bit: “Wadhwa argues that U.S. colleges and universities are the best in the world. Maybe that’s true, but so what? U.S. homes were probably the best in the world too, but that doesn’t mean that we had no bubble. U.S. tech firms in the late 90s were the best in the world, but that didn’t mean they were reasonably valued. Bubble-ness is a factor of quality AND PRICE. The point is that there is no asset of such great quality that it is a good buy no matter how high the price goes. A college diploma is no exception to that rule.”

Yes. I make that very point myself.

WHAT’S NEXT on SpaceX’s ISS mission.

ANDREW MALCOLM: 40% of Dem Primary Voters Reject Obama.

If this was Chicago, John Wolfe would find a surprising number of building inspectors thoroughly checking the quite obviously faulty wiring in his law offices this morning. Most cars parked near his door would display parking citations on their windshields. And the city sanitation crews swinging by that building might accidentally overlook the overflowing bins out back.

That’s because John Wolfe has just severely embarrassed Barack Obama, a proud product of the Chicago Democrat machine that’s run the Windy City for about eight decades now. Obama’s former White House chief of staff and campaign finance chair is the mayor there now and his dutiful precinct captains don’t need instructions to know how to treat political troublemakers like Wolfe.

Fortunately for Wolfe, he’s in Tennessee. He’s a perennial political candidate and, just as often, a loser. But he’s also a disgruntled Obama supporter who says, “I think the president campaigned one way and then governed another.”

It’s pretty much always fortunate to be in Tennessee, especially compared with barbarous districts like Chicagoland.

CHRIS MATTHEWS’ HUMILIATING FAILURE ON JEOPARDY! isn’t stopping him from mocking Sarah Palin’s intelligence. As I said before, Palin-mockery tends to come from people with a deep — and, in Matthews’ case, well-founded — sense of intellectual insecurity.

ROLL CALL: Rand Paul Tests Political Influence.

GREEK POLITICS SPREADS TO ITALY: “Few in Europe are happy to admit it, but Italy is looking disturbingly similar to Greece these days. Mass youth unemployment, an over-regulated bureaucratic economy and a shaky financial sector have crippled the fiscal health of both countries; both now face a future of austerity and stagnation.”

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Grassley: White House catered to lobbyists on LightSquared review.

ROSSLYN SMITH ON Stacy McCain, Brett Kimberlin, and the Tides Foundation. Kimberlin also got money from the Streisand Foundation, but apparently he’s never heard of the Streisand Effect. . . .

Meanwhile, Stacy gets featured on Day By Day.

UPDATE: Inevitably: Journalist Forced to Flee Home by Streisand-Funded Domestic Terrorist Bomber!

LAW SCHOOL TUITION, MONOPOLY RENTS, AND LAW PROFESSOR MORAL RESPONSIBILITY.

I’m reading an advance copy of Brian Tamanaha’s Failing Law Schools, and he’s got a pretty solid critique. In many ways it’s a much more focused and detailed (and much longer) version of my own Higher Education Bubble book, centering around law schools. I’m happy to see that he mentions Tennessee as one of the schools that are still providing a decent value, but he’s right about the systemic problems.

Some related thoughts here.

PRIMARIES: Rough Night… Obama Loses 36 Arkansas Counties to Unknown Democrat – Loses 66 Kentucky Counties to “Uncommitted.”

KATHLEEN PARKER ON THE POLITICIZATION OF THE OBAMACARE CASE: Democrats Put John Roberts on Trial. “The left’s narrative goes as follows: If the justices side with the Obama administration, they will be viewed as brilliant and nonpartisan. If the reverse occurs, why then, the justices are partisan, judicial activists who have delegitimized the court. . . . This not-so-stealth campaign to influence the Supreme Court is obnoxious, if not unethical. It is also factually challenged.”

The Dems’ trial is in a media kangaroo court, but is anyone really listening anyway? ObamaCare is deeply unpopular and getting moreso every day. The idea that striking it down will hurt the Court’s reputation is somewhere between wishful thinking and willful misrepresentation.

HOW THE OBAMA RECOVERY WENT WRONG:

President Obama, in speech after speech, proudly makes the following point: Although we inherited the worst recession since the Great Depression, we have generated net new jobs every month, and while we need to do more, we are going in the right direction.

Of course, recoveries always go in the right direction—that is, things get better over time. But merely going in the right direction is an incredibly low performance standard. Moreover, since deep recessions are generally followed by more robust recoveries, this should have been one of the strongest recoveries ever.

So what went wrong? All the available Keynesian levers for achieving economic growth have been pulled, yet the recovery is one of the weakest since World War II. The problem lies with the way the “stimulus” was carried out, the uncertainty of looming higher taxes, and the antibusiness rhetoric and regulatory strong-arming of this administration.

First, exactly how weak has this recovery been? The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis tracks economic performance for each recovery and compares gross-domestic-product growth and job growth, the two most important indicators of economic performance. Over the past 60 years, there have been 11 recessions and 11 recoveries.

Sadly, this recovery is near the bottom of all 11.

The country’s in the very best of hands.

BET YOU NEVER SAW THIS COMING: Client Says Gloria Allred Only Fought For Publicity.

DIVISION: The Hill: Democrats balk at Obama campaign’s sustained attack on Bain Capital.