FLYING MALWARE: The Virus Copter.

HOPEY-CHANGEY: Air Force May Be Developing Stealth Drones in Secret.

HISTORY: Amazing tale of a desperate WWII pilot’s encounter with a German flying ace.

The book is A Higher Call.

AVIK ROY: How Red States Wrestle with Obamacare: The Forbes Interview with Texas’ Rick Perry.

GORDON CROVITZ: Would-Be Internet Regulators Need Deleting: Obama has a ‘Nixon goes to China’ opportunity to take on an international group that may do authoritarians’ bidding.

JOEL KOTKIN: Obama’s Energy Dilemma: Back Energy-Fueled Growth or Please Green Lobby?

PRIVACY: Companies today are increasingly tying people’s real-life identities to their online browsing habits.

AT AMAZON, gift ideas in Home & Garden.

Also, markdowns on Christmas Decorations.

EARLIER, THIS ON HOW SABOTAGE STOPPED HITLER’S BOMB. Now this: Birger Stromsheim, Hero on Skis in an Anti-Nazi Raid, Dies at 101. “They had skis and explosives and a destination: the German-controlled Norsk Hydro facility, high on an isolated and snowy ridge. The Norwegians intended to destroy equipment inside that the Germans were using to produce what is known as heavy water, a crucial ingredient in making a nuclear weapon and one they feared the Nazis would use to build an atomic bomb. . . . Mr. Stromsheim was 31 at the time of the assault, the oldest member of the mission. He was particularly respected for his expertise in explosives and for his calm.”

YEARGH! Howard Dean: “The truth is, everybody needs to pay more taxes, not just the rich.”

CRAZY CAT LADIES EXPLAINED BY SCIENCE: Cat parasite toxoplasma uses ‘Trojan horse’ to infect human brain and may cause suicidal thoughts and risk-taking. Though I don’t think of “cat ladies” as especially thrill-seeking.

THE INSTA-WIFE: Oh, Those Compassionate Women…

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PHILIP CONTAMIN: Sinking.

FOX NEWS AND IQ: Charlie Martin Debunks A Bogus Study: “So there you have it. A four-year study sparked by the outcome of the recent election, from an institution that’s admittedly a fake, from a company that won’t identify itself, supposedly funded by a Republican PAC trying to ‘cut off’ the Tea Party like a cancer, using a sample that was chosen with a particular result in mind, with a contact number that’s an anonymous free Google Voice number.”

Plus, from the comments: “Can there be a greater irony than Yahoo being taken in by an obvious hoax that claims FNC viewers are stupid?”

EGYPT: Morsi Fails To Blunt Opposition.

UPDATE: Egyptians mock Morsi and “Merchants of Religion” and show they aren’t completely down with the concept of Islamic Pharaoh quite yet.

EGYPT: Egyptian journalist tours brutal Muslim Brotherhood torture facility.

ON FOX NOW: Fly Me To The Moon, a space documentary recommended by Virginia Postrel.

MATTHEW SWEET AND SUSANNAH HOFFS: And Your Bird Can Sing.

TEN YEARS AFTER: Sugar The Road. Awesome guitar work by Alvin Lee, but man are the lyrics dated.

UPDATE: Reader Mike Oliver writes: “This is the ultimate rock song, and my personal fav since I was 17. I haven’t met 10 people over the years who ever heard of it. Great link!”

THE CRONY CHRONICLES: Miracle On Wall Street.

SHOE PURCHASES and sexual signalling.

DANIEL HENNINGER INTERVIEWS ED FUELNER: “We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again.”

FROM THE NUCLEAR SONGBOOK: Neutron Dance.

MOBY GRAPE: Omaha.