EUGENE VOLOKH ON enjoining a mosque as a harmful public nuisance.

It’s less of a stretch than he might think — the Tennessee Supreme Court upheld an injunction against a church that practiced snake handling, despite no evidence of risk to third parties, in Tennessee ex rel. Swann v. Pack, 527 S. W. 2d 99 (Tenn. 1975) and the Supreme Court denied cert. I think that Swann was wrongly decided, but hey, I think a lot of cases are wrongly decided . . . .

FRANK J. SCORES A famous guestblogger.

POLITICO:

African-American superdelegates said Thursday that they’ll stand up against threats, intimidation and “Uncle Tom” smears rather than switch their support from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to Sen. Barack Obama.

“African-American superdelegates are being targeted, harassed and threatened,” said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.), a superdelegate who has supported Clinton since August. Cleaver said black superdelegates are receiving “nasty letters, phone calls, threats they’ll get an opponent, being called an Uncle Tom.

“This is the politics of the 1950s,” he complained. “A lot of members are experiencing a lot of ugly stuff. They’re not going to talk about it, but it’s happening.”

Interestingly, the original Politico headline was Black superdelegates stand up against “Uncle Tom” smears, but it now reads Black backers steadfast for Clinton.

VROOM, VROOM: Remembering the Chevy Cavalier Z24: “I fully expect to get hammered for this choice, but I sincerely can’t help it.”

UPDATE: Mike Krempasky emails: “That kicks a surprising amount of ass. Thanks for linking to carlust so much. What a great blog. Z-24? My first car. Hell yes.”

ROYAL NAVY TRAINS Russian yacht crews.

AT LAST, A CHE POSTER I CAN feel good about!

BOB GELDOF TO George W. Bush. “‘It’s called marketing. Something you obviously have no clue about or else I wouldn’t have to be here telling people your Africa story’. . . . You forget that Bush has an M.B.A. He thinks like a businessman in terms of the bottom line. Results. Profit and loss. There is an empiricism to a lot of his furthest-reaching policies on Africa. Correctly, he’s big on trade.”

MAYBE THERE’S NO REAL CONTRADICTION HERE:

The Obama campaign is rife with academic economists, according to the latest issue of The New Republic . . . . Meanwhile, according to a new L.A. Times/Bloomberg poll, people think McCain will do a better job handling the economy than Obama.

No, that’s not a knock on Obama’s economists — just on the fact that he doesn’t seem to be listening to them. When it comes to things like NAFTA, there seem to be only two possibilities. Either Obama’s anti-NAFTA talk is a ruse to fool the rubes, or his coterie of distinguished economic experts is a ruse to fool a different batch of rubes.

UPDATE: More on the NAFTA front: “The Canadian television station that reported that Obama’s campaign had assured the Canadian ambassdor that their anti-NAFTA rhetoric wasn’t serious stands by its story in the face of denials from Team Obama and the Canadian Embassy. Obama’s in a tough spot here.”

YANKEE go home.

TOM MAGUIRE ON Josh Marshall and new media standards.

OBAMA AND WITHDRAWAL: Thoughts from IraqPundit.

BOB OWENS NOTES something smelly in Iraq.

HEH: “When Hillary tells you that she has lots of experience, she doesn’t really tell you what the experience is, but you’re supposed to imagine what it must have been. She must have been sitting in the Situation Room when the Joint Chiefs of Staff were making their judgments about how to proceed in Iraq and elsewhere. . . . she’s talking about sleeping with the president for eight years as if that’s prepared her to run the country.”

PRINCE HARRY, FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN? Good for him, but it would have been better for him if Drudge hadn’t broken the story.

RICH KARLGAARD: Stagflation’s supply-side cure. “Is stagflation a greater concern to you than recession?”

THOUGHTS ON OBAMA, WHITE SUPREMACISTS, and the “Bradley Effect,” with a bonus report on David Duke.

LEFTY SKEPTICISM about Obama’s record.

IS THERE ANY OTHER KIND? How to set up a politicized ethnic studies department.

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE: “For somebody who taught Constitutional law for years, Barack Obama has an awfully odd conception of the judicial role.”

JONAH GOLDBERG’S Liberal Fascism hits number one on the New York Times bestseller list.

MEGAN MCARDLE: “I’m fascinated by the comment section to this Brad DeLong post, in which many of the commenters struggle to redefine poverty so that it excludes Cuba.”

REBUILDING AMERICA’S IMAGE IN THE WORLD (CONT’D): “Mexico and Canada yesterday voiced concerns about calls by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, as the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete to adopt the most sceptical stance towards free trade before next week’s Ohio primary.”

Related item from Cafe Hayek: “Also distressing is the fact that Austan Goolsbee, the fine economist who is a close adviser to Obama, apparently is ignored by the would-be President of the USA on this front. Of course, I have no knowledge of what Goolsbee says and doesn’t say to Obama, but I presume that Goolsbee isn’t in the anti-trade camp.”

UPDATE: More here. “Team Obama and the Canadian Embassy are denying the report that Obama had privately assured Canada’s ambassador that his comments on NAFTA were not to be taken seriously.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: More here.

A VICTOR DAVIS HANSON INTERVIEW that’s worth reading.

STEVE CHAPMAN: Why Are These People So Ashamed of NAFTA?

THOSE LAYERS OF FACT-CHECKERS AND EDITORS AT WORK: “Maxim magazine has apologized for publishing a negative review of the Black Crowes’ new album by a writer who hadn’t listened to the whole CD. . . . A spokeswoman for the magazine contacted by The Associated Press declined to say whether the writer would face disciplinary action.” (Via Daring Fireball).