“ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO USED TO BE OPPOSED to the idea of unlimited executive power during the Bush administration … now seem to have embraced it during this administration.” Oh! The disillusionment, as Obama wins a case about detainees.

THE “GREEN JOBS” BOONDOGGLE.

“WAIT. HIS NAME WASN’T TRIPPY?” I’d tell you why I ran across that but I’ve sworn off self-linking for the rest of today. It has something to do with making fun of the way Reason Magazine judged its “Draw Mohammed” contest.

“STILL I AM A MARXIST,” says the Dalai Lama, conceding that capitalism has done China some good: “Millions of people’s living standards improved.” Marxism remains dear to him because it has “moral ethics, whereas capitalism is only how to make profits.” Only. Only improving the lives of millions.

IT’S NOT A RAT, it’s a vole. And a vole is not a fly. Remember the fly? UPDATE: Hours later, scientists determine that it was in fact a vole. You heard it first on Instapundit (thanks to my dear husband, Meade).

CONTEMPTIBLE. “I will give you a scaring sentence so that the public be protected from people like you, so that we are not tempted to emulate this horrendous example.” The horrendous example is you, Malawi.

DID OBAMA’S SPEECHWRITERS WRITE THE MEXICAN PRESIDENT’S SPEECH? It sure sounded like it to me… and to Rush Limbaugh. (If you want to talk about it, the comments are open chez Althouse.)

DENNIS BLAIR TAKES THE FALL. The Director of National Intelligence resigns in the wake of the Fort Hood shooting and the Christmas Day and Times Square bombing attempts.

“THE POSTRADICAL LEGAL GENERATION” and the argument that we’re not getting truly liberal Supreme Court nominees because there’s a short supply of truly liberal lawprofs. (More discussion and open comments at my home blog.)

ROBOT BASEBALL drives Nolan Ryan crazy.

8 PARADOXES OF CREATIVITY.

WHY DO FEMINISTS HATE FEMALE FLAG FOOTBALL?

IS ORGANIC FOOD BETTER? Wild birds say “no.”

DID RAND PAUL CRITICIZE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 only on federalism grounds? Allahpundit thinks so. I explain why he’s wrong here.

I’M OPPOSED TO “DRAW MOHAMMED DAY.” (You can read my blog posts here and here.)

MORE VEHICULAR HUMOR from Madison, Wisconsin:

HERE ARE THE NEW, HORRIBLE OLYMPIC MASCOTS. They’ve always got to be horrible for some reason. They’re named Wenlock and Mandeville, and Mandeville looks like he just wet his pants.

ELIE WIESEL DOES NOT WANT TO BE A CHARACTER IN YOUR PLAY, even if you meant to use him as the embodiment of “decency, morality, the struggle for human dignity and kindness.” Now, if you want to use him as the embodiment of not wanting to be turned into an abstraction and fictionalized….

KAGAN FILLS OUT THE QUESTIONNAIRE.

“THE WORD ‘VOLUNTARY’ IS A LITTLE COMPLICATED…” Yeah, maybe it is, but I think it’s complicated on the side of favoring the individual who is resisting government compulsion. Not on the side of the government imposing on an individual who is clearly saying no.

BARACK OBAMA ON CHATROULETTE. (Via Metafilter.)

RAND IN, SPECTER OUT, and a runoff for Blanche Lincoln. A dramatic night!

A LITTLE POLITICAL, VEHICULAR COMIC RELIEF on this primary night…

(Seen in Madison, Wisconsin, a couple days ago.)

“WOW, THAT WAS THE PIMPIEST PIMPING THAT WAS EVER PIMPED…” It was annoyingly obvious tonight who the “American Idol” judges want to win. Lee got the choir, the best song, the lavish praise. And poor Crystal was dragged down with all those man-lyrics: “Maybe I’m a man and maybe you’re the only woman who could ever help me….”

POLL NUMBERS ON KAGAN: 39% for. 39% against. Why so bad?