IT’S NOW HURRICANE ISAAC: Much more at Weather Nerd.

THREE CONTENDERS to replace the Humvee.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Richard Feynman 1984 Talk On “Tiny Machines” On YouTube.

KATRINA REDUX: Gov. Jindal slams FEMA and Obama administration over slow response to Hurricane Isaac requests.

UPDATE: Charlie Martin emails:

So what we have is this comparison:

Katrina — Bush begs Democrat Governor for days to allow him to call
out the National Guard, Delay is Bush’s fault.

Isaac — Republican Governor Jindal begs Obama to call out National Guard.

I wonder who the media will report is at fault this time?

Duh. Bush!

TAMPA: Romney Camp Removing Rules Committee Members. Yeah, I know, inside baseball. But if they piss off the Tea Party, it’s going to really suppress turnout.

TRANSPARENCY: Judicial Watch Obtains Stack of ‘Overlooked’ CIA Records Detailing Meetings with bin Laden Filmmakers.

ROBOTS YOU CAN LIVE WITH.

WHY THE DNC CHANGED ITS MIND AND INVITED CARDINAL DOLAN AFTER ALL, in two images.

PROF. JACOBSON: Warren hides ties to “cab driver” who assaulted media.

DOUG LEVENE: Credit Default Swaps and Insider Trading.

ROGER KIMBALL: What Counts As Failure? “High up along one wall at the Forum is a huge digital display on which the federal debt ticks its way toward $16 trillion. That by itself ought to be enough to assure the defeat of Barack Obama, but in really it is merely one data point in a litany of failure. Last night at dinner, I expressed my surprise to a friend that the polls were as close as they were. By any factual measure, I said, Obama’s administration had been an extraordinary failure. Median household income had plummeted nearly 5 percent since 2009, the year Obama promised that, if only Congress would approve the stimulus package, he would have the unemployment rate down to 5.6 percent by now, the summer of 2012, by which time he would also have halved the annual deficit. Et very much cetera. The only promise I can think of that Obama has kept is to make energy prices ‘skyrocket.’ That he has well and truly accomplished. But otherwise, I asked as I made my way through the Caprese Salad, hasn’t his record been abysmal? And doesn’t this mean the polls should point to an overwhelming victory for Romney?”

UPDATE: Another fake Obama ad? “We suspect much like Joe Soptic that Olive Chase won’t be available for interviews.”

RICHARD EPSTEIN: Paul Ryan’s Intellectual Muse: The wisdom of Hayek is exactly what this country needs right now.

I’VE GOT A COLUMN IN TODAY’S NEW YORK POST: Dead Voters and Dying Democracy: Vote Fraud And Its Beneficiaries.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Socialism Kills, Venezuela Edition. “It is clear that the Chávez regime has been squeezing every last penny out of the oil sector, but despite the ‘Bolivarian’ socialist rhetoric promising equal distribution of this wealth, the money hasn’t just been used for social programs, but also to fund Venezuela’s expensive foreign policy, as well as its efforts to cover up the results of poor policy, rampant cronyism, and the general mismanagement of the public sector. When things go wrong, Venezuelan citizens are the ones who pay the price for the state’s poor choices. Three things seem likely at this juncture: first, no one will be able to trust whatever ‘investigation’ the Chavez government undertakes. It will be an obvious whitewash. Second, conditions for oil workers are unlikely to improve. Third, the usual crew of Chavez defenders in the United States, desperate after all these decades of misery and failure to point to some place some where, where authoritarian socialism isn’t a dreary charnel house and economic failure zone, will struggle to convince themselves that things are just fine in Bolivarian Venezuela.”

Venezuela is doing fine.

UPDATE: Reader John Steakley writes: “Based on how things are going, I would estimate that Hugo Chavez is about halfway through reading Atlas Shrugged.”

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Consumer Confidence Tumbles to 9-Month Low. Unexpectedly!

ALWAYS GLAD TO BE OF HELP: InstaPundit reader Jim Warren writes:

Your recent posts on the excessive build-up of iron in organs has answered a question that has been puzzling my doctors (multiple ones, but they don’t seem very much like Dr. House on TV) for quite a while now. I had pale skin on my legs upon which no hair grew, heart palpitations, thyroid problems, and just about every other symptom that is listed for excessive iron in my system. And what is the free (free!) treatment for excessive iron build-up? A simple trip to the Red Cross to donate my (apparently rare) A-Negative blood which is good for little babies for some reason.

Good for little babies and my hair grows back on my legs? Now that’s what I’d call a Win-Win!

Indeed.

SWITCHERS: A video featuring disappointed Obama voters. Those shouldn’t be hard to find.

AN “ANARCHIST MILITIA?”

AT AMAZON, Blu-Ray and DVD Deals.

Also, today only: “Grand Theft Auto IV” and “Max Payne 3” PC Download Bundle for $24.99.

EVERYTHING OBAMA TOUCHES TURNS TO VOLT: Another Obama Success Story: GM Suspends Volt Output Due to Slow Sales. Again.

CHRIS CHRISTIE: Enough Chicago Ward Politics!

MICKEY KAUS: Likeability Ain’t What It Used To Be.

EVEN AT THE NEW YORK TIMES, A BREATH OF OBAMA-DISENCHANTMENT: There is only one star in the galaxy at this White House and his name is Barack Obama. Everyone in the Sun King’s court has drunk the Kool-Aid. “In the end the trust of a cool man who had sublimated abandonment into a singular willfulness was limited. The sense of a controlling leader, unable to provide connective tissue to fire the economy, lies behind the fact that many Obama voters will cast their ballot in November with more grudging respect than enthusiasm.”

Or, you know, just stay home. The Sun King didn’t have to bother energizing voters.

FEMINISM’S TRIUMPH: So, women have finally succeeded in becoming all they hate? “Don Draper hasn’t gone away. He’s just changed his name to Donna.”

Related: “These women are the men their mothers divorced.”