NILE GARDINER: The Obama Administration knifes Britain yet again over the Falklands.

MICHAEL WALSH: “Solyndra! Solyndra!” “Axelrod is a charter member of Obama’s Chicago mafia, the man behind the curtain, and to send him out where he could be humiliated was a dreadful blunder. What, Bill Clinton wasn’t available? Oh, wait . . . The Romney camp has already shown itself to be an adept counter-puncher, but now seems to be moving toward a more aggressive, offensive posture. Yesterday was a series of Doolittle Raids, to test the enemy’s reactions.”

AT AMAZON, warehouse deals in kitchen tools, gadgets, and barware.

IS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF, or just stuttering?

JEREMY LOTT: Yes, that dress does make you look fat.

PHOTOS: A Tea Party Rally in Wisconsin This Evening.

“PRESUMED” BEING THE KEY WORD: Radicals Justify Their Evil by Invoking Their Presumed Moral Superiority.

UPDATE: Bill Quick is not impressed.

A FREE KINDLE BOOK TODAY: NOLS Wilderness Medicine: 4th Edition. Thanks to reader Mike Puckett for the tip.

IS THIS A GOOD THING? SAYING GOODBYE TO CASH.

HEY, I CAN’T CATCH ‘EM ALL: Reader Drew Cloutier writes:

All the Amazon links but not one to today’s MP3 special? It is “Music for the Zombie Apocalypse” for just $2.99.

I can’t think of a “They told me that if I voted for McCain…” joke to insert, but it still seems to perfect for the blog.

Heh.

THOUGHTS ON THE JOHN EDWARDS CASE:

Edwards is, of course, a skunk. But he isn’t only a skunk; he was the Democratic Party’s vice-presidential nominee in 2004 and the party’s third-leading presidential contender in 2008. Edwards is a young man, and it was not at all unreasonable to think that he could be president someday, even after Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton finished ahead of him that year. When Edwards went to the seemingly-insane length of persuading a campaign aide to claim that he was the father of Edwards’ illegitimate child, it was not just because he was afraid of his wife’s wrath. This, after all, is not Italy in the 1950s; divorce is a realistic option. No, Edwards was trying to preserve his viability as a presidential candidate or, failing that, a nominee for Attorney General.

And, as crazy as his stashing of his mistress and child now seems, if it had been up to the Washington Post and the New York Times, he would have gotten away with it.

With an assist from the L.A. Times. Keep Rockin!

FASTER, PLEASE: Paralyzed Rats Walk Again.

REPLACING $100K DEVICES WITH $1K DEVICES: Microfluidic Device Detects Leukemia Or HIV. I actually think — as Andy Kessler has argued — that we may be approaching the point where technology drives costs down, not up. That’s another reason I opposed ObamaCare, since it would likely freeze things in place by drastically slowing the pace of medical innovation.

SPACE CASES: The Weirdest Legal Claims In Outer Space:

“Every now and then, someone thinks no one has claimed the moon before, and then rushes to claim it,” wrote Virgiliu Pop, a space law researcher at the Romanian Space Agency, in an email to Wired. “Humankind has a short collective memory, so the claimant is able to create some buzz before the story dies out — to be followed by a similar story, years later.”

As we enter an era when people are seriously advocating that the U.S. establish property rights on the moon and scholars debate the legality of mining asteroids, it’s interesting (and relevant) to look back at the people who have tried to assert ownership of the moon, Mars, other planets, and stars throughout history.

In 2006, Pop literally wrote the book on this matter, titled Unreal Estate: The Men Who Sold The Moon, which he describes as “a serious analysis of a trivial subject.” The compendium offers plenty of outrageous stories, and here we look at some of the book’s most spurious and strange space cases.

Pop’s a smart guy. If you’re seriously interested in space property rights, you should check out his Who Owns the Moon?: Extraterrestrial Aspects of Land and Mineral Resources.

Meanwhile, here’s an interesting argument for treating asteroids as chattels instead of real property, which would take them outside the Outer Space Treaty’s non-appropriation rule.

RESPONDING TO ANTI-MORMON BIGOTRY.

THOUGHTS ON HAPPINESS.

WHEN THE LAW IS A SERIOUS BUSINESS.

PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: “Mitt Romney Wins Over The Right By Confronting Obama.” Key bit: “This is right out of Breitbart’s playbook.”

Yes. And also my “hammer and tongs” advice.

THE DEWEY & LEBOEUF COLLAPSE: Lessons learned? I’d start with “don’t borrow money to pay partners,” a lesson that should have been retained from Finley, Kumble’s demise. Didn’t anyone read Shark Tank?

DATING: Same Woman, Two Years Apart. This is kind of sad.

AT AMAZON, markdowns on bestselling notebook computers.

INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: Caveman Blogger Fights for Free Speech and Internet Freedom.

More background on the case here.

CHANGE: What Happens When A State No Longer Forces Workers Into A Union? They Quit Paying The Dues. “That’s the reason that the PEUs hit the panic button in February 2011. They knew that the law would severely cut into their membership once the state refused to force dues payments as a condition of employment. This also undermines the credibility of union leaders who claim to speak for public-sector workers, as it shows a significant number of them don’t support the union at all, especially in the literal sense now.” Not enough value-added, apparently.

CANDLEPOWER EQUALS AUTHORITY — AN UPDATE. Reader Mike Cullison writes:

I took your advice and went with the 1000 lumen LifeGear model. What a beast. I can light up every square foot of our 3 acres from the house. Sure is a big monster, though. Weight isn’t terrible since it uses 6 C cells instead of Ds, but it’s exactly 18″ long.

Seems to be as well made as a Maglite, which used to be my go-to light.

Yeah, I meant to blog a followup, as I swapped my 700-lumen model for the 1000-lumen model. I took the latter outside the other night, and the beam is noticeably brighter — not only does it reach farther, but it seems wider. It’s quite a flashlight.

THE ART OF TATTOOING BANANAS. The video’s cool, but the autoplay soundtrack is annoying.