ORIN KERR: Do Users of Wi-Fi Networks Have Fourth Amendment Rights Against Government Interception? “The answer turns out to be surprisingly murky. Because the Wiretap Act has been thought to protect wireless networks, the Fourth Amendment issue has not come up: There’s a surprising lack of caselaw on it. Second, there are plausible arguments on either side of the debate both for encrypted and unencrypted transmissions. So I wanted to run through the arguments and then ask which side readers find more persuasive. I’ll start with unencrypted communications and then turn to encrypted communications.”

BOMBSHELL:  OBAMA’S POSSIBLE TIES TO ARAB WORLD DEEPENS:  A reporter for a paper called the Daily Interlake, Frank Miele, recently discovered a 1979 op-ed by Vernon Jarrett (the father-in-law to Obama Senior Advisor, confidant, Iranian-born Valerie Jarrett) in the St. Petersburg (FL) Evening Independent.  Miele reports the column addressed:

“rumored billions of dollars the oil-rich Arab nations are supposed to unload on American black leaders and minority institutions.” The columnist quoted a black San Francisco lawyer who said, “It’s not just a rumor. Aid will come from some of the Arab states.”

Well, if anyone would know, it would have been this lawyer — Donald Warden, who had helped defend OPEC in an antitrust suit that year and had developed significant ties with the Saudi royal family since becoming a Muslim and taking the name Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour.”

A-Mansour is a black nationalist, Muslim, and a lawyer to Saudi princes who has publicly professed his hatred of the U.S.  In a television interview in 2008, Percy Sutton (a prominent black political leader and former Manhattan borough president) told a reporter that Sutton was introduced to Obama by al-Mansour, who “was raising money for him [Obama]” and asked Sutton to write a letter in support of Obama’s application to Harvard Law School.  Sutton wrote the letter in support of Obama, and the rest is history.

So let’s get this straight:  Our President may have deep ties (personal and financial) not only to black nationalist extremists, but also wealthy Arabs who publicly floated the idea of financing, among other projects, the top-flight education of young black Americans who might (hopefully) one day share their hatred of America?

MIA LOVE pulls into the lead.

Some Democrats seem not to be taking it that well: Police investigating racist pictures sent to Mia Love. “Christensen said the envelope contained fliers, pictures and pages printed from the Internet. He said the city has received mail aimed at Love four or five times before, but the latest envelope caused enough concern to involve police.”

THE EMIR OF QATAR calls for armed intervention in Syria.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: No European Homage To Catalonia? “The effects of the euro crisis on European finances are well-documented, but now it is stirring up longstanding ethnic crises as well. In Spain, more than 600,000 Catalan protesters have taken to the streets calling for more autonomy for their region, which has long been the economic powerhouse of Spain. Catalonian separatism has a long history, but many Catalans are flocking to the movement in response to government programs that effectively transfer funds from wealthy Catalonia to more profligate regions of Spain. Catalan President Artur Mas has called for regional elections to be held two years early, which doesn’t bode well for national unity. He had some particularly strong words for the government in Madrid. . . . In Europe, it seems, things just keep getting worse.”

Finally, a weight loss plan I can get behind!

READER PAUL MUSIC SUGGESTS THAT these Amazon reviews are fake. But I wonder what tipped him off.

WHEN A BABY PANDA DIES, how do you tell the kids?

OBVIOUSLY, THE ANSWER IS MORE GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES: Toyota Scales Back Electric Vehicle Plans.

SOMETIMES, ASK A MAN: Las Vegas comedian, Shecky magazine co-founder and fellow Delaware Valley expatriate Brian McKim emails about his wife Traci Skene’s new Kindle Single:

My lovely wife (a professional comedian (“Last Comic Standing”), blogger and writer (USWeekly’s “Fashion Police”) was born in 1965– on a feminist fault line between Betty Friedan and Arlene Dahl!  She’s written a Kindle Single, “Sometimes Ask A Man,” a hilarious fisking of Arlene Dahl’s self-help book “Always Ask A Man” and a humorous  examination of the confusing relationship between modern man and modern woman.  Your readers may enjoy it!  Male or female!

Sounds like fun — click here to check it out.

ALAN DERSHOWITZ: The Message Obama Should Have Sent.

DEADBEAT WRITERS: Book Publisher Goes To Court To Recoup Hefty Advances From Prominent Writers.

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Should I Tell MY Fiance That I Once Had Four “Sugar Daddies” At The Same Time? “I don’t want him to think of me as a gold digger!”

CNN’S SHOCK QUESTION TO OBAMA: If you somehow win reelection, how would you assure whites you’d be their president also?

Nahh, just kidding — Time-Warner-CNN-HBO is far too in the tank to have the balls to ask Obama that,  but they’re thrilled to ask a truly loaded similar question to Romney, as Noel Sheppard notes at Newsbusters:

JIM ACOSTA, CNN: African-Americans have a tremendous sense of pride that there is the first African-American president in the White House. If you were to somehow beat the first African-American president, what would you say to the black community to assure them that you would be their president also?

The first thing that should grab your eye is the word “somehow.”

Somehow?

The economy stinks, the right-track/wrong-track numbers are upside-down, and the polls show a very tight race.

As such, how does Acosta think Romney winning is a long shot?

As Noel goes on to note, “Romney answered the question with aplomb,” but this is one time where you’d wish the even-tempered Romney would reject the premise of the question and throw it back at the “reporter,” Gingrich-style.

WORKING FROM DIFFERENT SCRIPTS: Bill: We can’t live in shame-based world; Hillary: We must use peer pressure and shaming of Islamophobes.

WE’VE SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE: Shock video: Kuster gone wild! Attacks camera man, steals camera. “In a shocking video obtained by NH Journal, Democrat Congressional candidate Ann McLane Kuster (NH-02) is seen attacking an amateur cameraman, stealing his camera, blaming it all on her opponent Rep. Charlie Bass and cursing ‘F him’ as she walks away. The video is shot in a wide open public location, not a private event.”

Press charges.

IS THE INTERNET MAKING US DUMBER?

If you have a choice, work for the capitalist

MONA ELTAHAWY was arrested by New York subway police for spray-painting over an incendiary ad. I’ve been tempted to pull down offensive posters in my own neighborhood, but I resist because it’s wrong. Some people have to learn things the hard way, I guess.

STACY MCCAIN: Free @NiceDeb !!! The WordPress folks need to look into this.

THE MEN WHO PLANNED BEYOND TOMORROW: The Lileksian Ultra Swank Website takes a  look back at a series of Seagram V.O. ads from right around the conclusion of World War II depicting the coming wonders of the bold postwar future – where Captains of Industry would drink V.O. while watching hockey games in bars on big screen 16X9 HDTV sets! (In other words: Hooters.) Not to mention pouring a tall cool highball of V.O. while getting the bulldog edition of their local newspaper, from a fax machine built into their TV.

Think of it as Syd Mead: The Early Years, an optimistic technocratic vision of the American near future, which would be DOA in the minds of most liberals by 1968.

IT’S DIRTY JOB, but Mike Rowe Campaigns with Mitt Romney in Ohio.

FINAL DEADLINE PASSES: Todd Akin now officially on the ballot in Missouri.

THE COMING BACON APOCALYPSE:  Yes, it’s true.  Brace yourself for the coming world bacon shortage.  Apparently pigs aren’t like rabbits, and they just ain’t havin’ enough babies no more.  But hey, there’s always Bac-O’-Bits, right?  Mmmmmm…. a nice filet, wrapped in Bac-O-Bits.  :)

THE HORROR OF Working With Someone You Don’t Like.