NEAT STUFF TO KNOW: The History Of The Jet Aircraft Engine.

THE EVER TWISTING COILS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE: You’re now a racist if you say schools need to be safer.

SIDE EFFECTS OF THE NANNY STATE: Forget the car: Young adults are opting to use their feet.

EUROPE, EUROPE, WE BARELY KNEW YOU: German army forced to lay down weapons due to ‘overtime limits’.

DAVE FREER IS: Being Cassandra about the Science Fiction Field again.

A PERSPECTIVE ON COPYRIGHT AND THE SMALL BUSINESSMAN: Don’t Pirate Indies.

BROWNSVILLE TURNAROUND ON THE TEX-MEX BORDER: New Carrizo Eradication Effort Reignites Old Debate.

BUILD A FIRE: Trump Touts Video of Colorado Supporter Burning His GOP Registration Form.

MU MU LAND: Obesity Is Now a Bigger Global Problem Than Hunger. Let them eat Ice Cream.

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3AM ETERNAL: Obama walks fine line defending Clinton.

AT LEAST THE LAWYERS WILL MAKE MONEY: 4.5B-Year-Old Meteorite Launches Bizarre Legal Fight.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Punish State A.G.’s Who Treat Disagreement As A Crime.

UPDATE: From the comments:

These AG should be met with howling crowds whenever they show their faces. The people and businesses that give them political contributions should get the same treatment. They and their supporters should be publicly shamed at every opportunity. These are the tactics that the left uses and they should receive them in return tenfold.

Plus: “Howling crowds should bring their friends ‘Tar’ and ‘Feathers’.” Yeah, we’re moving right down the Pauline Maier spectrum.

UH OH: Explosive Rage Disorder Linked to Germ Found in Cats’ Litter Boxes.

UNBREAKABLE: Genetic ‘superheroes’ survive despite devastating mutations, Seattle-led study finds.

Of the more than a half-million people included in the analysis, just 13 were found who survived to adulthood despite having genetic alterations that typically cause eight serious childhood diseases.

No one knows why they remained healthy, Friend said. But DNA from such people could one day provide insight into ways to prevent or treat such catastrophic disorders.

“Instead of looking at people with disease, you need to look at people who should have gotten sick,” said Friend.

I’ll have what the gentleman who should have gotten cirrhosis of the liver is having.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Vote to repeal Colorado’s ban on large-capacity firearms magazines expected tomorrow.

TRUE: The Burden Of Cancer Isn’t Just Cancer.

OIKOPHOBIA: “When are moonshiners in the hills and hollows of Kentucky and the Carolinas going to get some love from The New Yorker? Hint – not in a very long time.”

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Punish State A.G.’s Who Treat Disagreement As A Crime.

EXPERT LEFTWING CRYPTOGRAPHERS NOW ABLE TO DETECT RACISM DOWN TO THE FOLLICULAR LEVEL:

Shot: “In the past week and a half, the liberal blogosphere has become a virtual Bletchley Park of racial cryptographers teasing out the sinister motives and subtexts of McCain’s campaign advertising.

—“Is there sinister subtext in McCain ads?”, Michael Moynihan, The Politico, August 6, 2008.

Chaser: “Is Justin Bieber’s Hair Racist?”

—Stephen Kruiser, PJ Media, today.

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Tech Slowdown Threatens the American Dream.

In a three-month period at the end of 1879, Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric lightbulb, Karl Benz invented a workable internal-combustion engine, and a British-American inventor named David Edward Hughes transmitted a wireless signal over a few hundred meters. These were just a few of the remarkable breakthroughs that Northwestern University economist Robert J. Gordon tells us led to a “special century” between 1870 and 1970, a period of unprecedented economic growth and improvements in health and standard of living for many Americans.

Growth since 1970? “Simultaneously dazzling and disappointing.” Think the PC and the Internet are important? Compare them with the dramatic decline in infant mortality, or the effect that indoor plumbing had on living conditions. And the explosion of inventions and resulting economic progress that happened during the special century are unlikely to be seen again.

It’s probably an unrelated coincidence that 1970 marks the beginning of the “regulatory explosion” that saw the EPA, OSHA, the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, NEPA, etc.

PRESS PROTECTS OBSCENE RAPPER, SINCE HER TARGET IS SARAH PALIN. “Could it be the target in question isn’t worthy of any defense, in their eyes? Or is it plain, old media bias 101 since a conservative was in the crosshairs?”

Crosshairs? That’s proof for the MSM right there that Palin clearly had it coming.

LYIN’ BIDEN: We Found a THIRD Time He Fought Passionately for ‘Biden Rule.’

UNITEDHEALTH GROUP, NATION’S LARGEST HEALTH INSURER, MAKES GOOD ON THREAT TO PULL OUT OF OBAMACARE.