A BIG Father’s Day DVD and Blu-Ray sale.

Plus, Levi’s Jeans with 30% off and free shipping.

THE OBAMA ECONOMY: Unspinnable?

More here. And we might as well run this graphic one more time, though in fact over the coming years the actual deficits are likely to outrun the estimates at current rates.

Related: Tensions grip Obama economic advisers.

A.P.: Lebanon’s pro-Western majority declares victory.

NOEMIE EMERY ON MEDIA DOUBLE STANDARDS.

RAND SIMBERG on blogging pseudonymity / anonymity.

CAYMAN ISLANDS UPDATE: Here’s some news gleaned on my trip this week, on various topics.

Diving: Conditions are good. The West Bay sites are showing signs of over-diving, but the North End sites were terrific — I saw two turtles that were both gigantic — well over four feet, as far as I could tell, and much bigger than I’ve seen before — and there were lots of eagle rays, lobsters, etc. Lots of tarpon, too. Water temps were nice, a consistent 82 degrees. A bit of murkiness, especially on the West side: People attribute that to runoff from the rather widespread construction. (Earlier discussion, for comparison, here. Also here.) Overall, I feel that the Caymans have done a pretty good job of balancing development against the environment, but that lately they seem to have leaned too far in the direction of development and short-term moneymaking. Which brings us to. . .

Economics. It’s the slow season, of course, but by all accounts business is off compared to recent years, and restaurants, bars, etc. all seemed kind of empty. (Waiters/waitresses seemed especially grateful for tips, too). A couple of hotels are actually closed. The level of cruise-ship traffic was the lowest I’ve ever seen. I don’t know how the banking business is going, but the recession has definitely hit the parts of the island economy that you can see.

Interestingly, the Cayman government is trying to reduce dependency on foreign energy. They’re looking at possibly setting up wind-power farms on the East End (least-settled, most windy). Cayman is kind of marginal for wind power, as Cuba blocks the trades to a degree, but with electrical generating costs — using imported natural gas — at 20 cents per kilowatt, it’s probably still viable. They’re looking at solar, too. Power is very important there, since all their water comes from desalination.

A top priority (other than immigration — see below) in the elections last month was getting Cayman off the OECD gray list for “tax havens.” The whole tax-haven kerfuffle is silly (here’s one discussion, and see more here) but the Caymanians are upset about being on the list. Part of this is national pride, but more of it is economics.

Immigration: As I think I’ve noted here before, the Cayman Islands have a rather restrictive immigration policy. Most of their economy is run by immigrants, mostly from the U.S. and Britain, and a lot of Commonwealth countries. (The Islands have a population of just over 50,000 people, only about half of whom are actually Caymanians). The rule is that you can get a work visa for seven years, but that after that, except in rare cases, you have to leave. I’m actually somewhat sympathetic with that — I can see why the Cayman natives feel they could easily be swamped by outsiders in their own country, and why they don’t want a huge class of permanent non-citizen residents, either. On the other hand, it’s pretty hard on a lot of people who come there and settle in, for whom a move is an uprooting. Last months’ elections saw the incumbent People’s Progressive Movement — which had been pretty hardline on immigration — ousted by the United Democratic Party, which is expected to take a softer line. It’s a tough issue. Much of the tourist industry is run by outsiders — you seldom see a native Caymanian in the dive operations or other water sport businesses — and so is most of the banking industry. Between them, they account for most of the Caymans’ GDP. I was told that enough immigrants have become citizens that their votes probably swung the election against the PPM. The Cayman labor market is interesting: Lots of Jamaicans come over to do the jobs Caymanians won’t do at the bottom end (hotel maids, security guards, etc.) while expats come in for the high-end banking, accounting, and legal jobs that Caymanians mostly can’t do, because a country with a native population roughly equivalent to that of Maryville, Tennessee just isn’t going to produce that much top executive talent.

Dolphins: A big issue over the past few years was the opening of dolphin attractions, and now — despite a lot of local opposition — they have two. The dolphins are imported (you don’t generally find them in the waters around Grand Cayman) and are there basically to squeeze money from the cruise-ship crowd. Many locals think that it’s inhumane to keep them in captivity (one facility keeps them in something not much better than a swimming pool) and think that they shouldn’t be a marine attraction when they’re not really native to the waters anyway. Despite a campaign, however, they’re there now.

The Caymans have the highest standard of living in the Caribbean, and they do a pretty good job of running the place. I’ve been going there since 1986 and I’ve always been impressed with them. My own sense, though, is that they’re overdeveloping (especially since Hurricane Ivan, when I think the post-disaster need for cash led to a lot of stuff being permitted all at once) and that a more measured approach over the past few years might have been better.

And to see what it’s all about, check out these photos.

MEN MARRIED TO MUCH YOUNGER WOMEN LIVE LONGER. But it’s likely that older men who still look good enough to attract younger women are just aging better all along . . . .

WELL, GOOD: Hezbollah loses Lebanon elections.

REVIEWING THE CRYSTAL METHOD, live in concert. Never seen ‘em live, but I love the Crystal Method, even though loving them is not entirely cool in techno/electronica circles.

TISH TOSH, IT’S JUST A HIGHER FORM OF PATRIOTISM: Disdain for U.S. Policies May Have Led to Alleged Spying for Cuba. “He was a courtly State Department intelligence analyst from a prominent family who loved to sail and peruse the London Review of Books. Occasionally, he would voice frustration with U.S. policies, but to his liberal neighbors in Northwest D.C. it was nothing out of the ordinary. ‘We were all appalled by the Bush years,’ one said.”

MICHAEL SILENCE: ABC News’ clear conflict of interest this morning. “U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is currently being interviewed by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, a former employee of former President Bill Clinton. So far, ABC has not disclosed that conflict. I guess he’s just continuing his role as a spokesman for Clinton. In my world, that would be a firing offense.”

COMPUTER MODELS HAVE THEIR LIMITS: Models’ Projections for Flu Miss Mark by Wide Margin.

In the waning days of April, as federal officials were declaring a public health emergency and the world seemed gripped by swine flu panic, two rival supercomputer teams made projections about the epidemic that were surprisingly similar — and surprisingly reassuring. By the end of May, they said, there would be only 2,000 to 2,500 cases in the United States.

May’s over. They were a bit off. On May 15, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that there were “upwards of 100,000” cases in the country, even though only 7,415 had been confirmed at that point. . . . What went wrong?

The leaders of both the Northwestern University and Indiana University teams seemed a bit abashed when they were asked that last week.

This is why it’s a bad idea to make policy based on computer models, unless they’ve been proved out by extensive experience.

BUSTING THE ECONOMIC BODY COUNT GAME:

Watching Fox News Sunday, I caught a panel on which Obama economic advisor Austin Goolsbee conceded that the administration had previously predicted unemployment would top out at around 8%, that it was now up to 9.4%, and that double-digit unemployment was a distinct possibility in the near future. Goolsbee didn’t resort to the administrations’s blather about “saving or creating jobs,” but he did repeat its fustian about how last month’s loss of 345,000 jobs (resulting in a half percentage point jump in the jobless rate) is somehow good news because it beat predictions (I don’t recall him sayind whose) of even more dire loss numbers. It made me wonder why, if those predictions either existed or were serious, the Obama administration would have previously predicted that unemployment would top out at 8%?

I’m waiting for the press comparisons with McNamara’s Vietnam number-juggling. . . . .

WELL, GOOD: Tomato Pill “Beats Heart Disease.”

Scientists say a natural supplement made from tomatoes, taken daily, can stave off heart disease and strokes.

The tomato pill contains an active ingredient from the Mediterranean diet – lycopene – that blocks “bad” LDL cholesterol that can clog the arteries.

I’ve written about Lycopene before. But there’s this tip that this may still be a bit overhyped at present: “Experts said more trials were needed to see how effective the treatment is.”

THE TATA NANO: Coming to the U.S. in two years.

LOOKING BACK AT the technology of D-Day.

PRIVATE SPACE INDUSTRY TO THE GOVERNMENT: “Get out of the way!”

UPDATE: A response from Moe Lane.

WELL, IT’S NICE THAT SOMEONE FEELS THAT WAY: 65 years after D-day, Normandy’s gratitude toward US has not faded.

EXTREME MAKEOVER: Federal Reserve Edition. “Talk about your public beautification projects. The Fed’s getting a makeover and image-softening advice from an Enron lobbyist.” Enron was probably more solvent . . . .

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Court Docs Reveal Govt. Likely Forced Chrysler Deal With Minimal Knowledge of Fiat. Plus, government lawyers call Tom Lauria a “terrorist.”

MARK STEYN: Obama’s Message Of Weakness.

IN THE MAIL: Where to Put Your Money NOW: How to Make Super-Safe Investments and Secure Your Future.

IS IT WRONG TO “OUT” ANONYMOUS BLOGGERS? I think blogging anonymity is fine — though in the absence of a track record I tend to trust anonymous bloggers less — but is it a “despicable” act to identify an anonymous blogger? I’d say it depends. Certainly the political operative who leaked the Foleygate story via an anonymous blog had no right to anonymity. On the other hand, what about people who blog in a non-hitjob fashion but just want to avoid job repercussions? I’m more sympathetic there. But if you appoint yourself someone’s anonymous blogging nemesis, you can probably expect to be outed.

This whole kerfuffle has a familiar feel, and in fact I remember this 2006 post from Eric Scheie: Outing Closeted Gays Is Good, But Outing Anonymous Bloggers Is Despicable!

UPDATE: Outer Objects To Outing.

ANOTHER UPDATE: More comments from Dan Riehl and Stacy McCain.

MORE: Ed Whelan responds.

Plus, more from Ed Morrissey, Ron Coleman, and Joe Gandelman. Plus, Michael Krauss and Walter Olson.

STILL MORE: Further thoughts at The Mudville Gazette. And Ann Althouse comments, and corrects me in her own comment section — it’s pseudonymous, not anonymous here. Good point. But one of her commenters weighs in:

Why should we feel sorry for him? If I was ever outed, I doubt that any liberals would raise their voices in my defense, except in a perfunctory “say it now so they can’t call me a hypocrite later” kind of way. And by then it would be too late. I would be outed and I would lose my job.

The same liberals who worked to get Prop 8 donors fired are now sobbing, sobbing, heartbroken, because this formerly-pseudonymous cyberbully is now on equal footing with the target of his bizarre obsession.

The same liberals who out closeted gays who have sex in private insist that they have a right to publicly harangue people with complete anonymity.

Lots of other discussion — mostly, but not always, taking the opposite angle — there, too. Meanwhile, Mike Hendrix isn’t shedding a tear. Plus, further thoughts from the formerly pseudonymous Jonathan Adler.

BAILOUT UPDATE: Probe clouds star turn for auto negotiator Rattner:

Back home in New York, Rattner has emerged as a player in an influence peddling scandal involving a giant state pension fund that provides retirement benefits for more than 1 million government employees.

The case has already led to criminal charges against six people, including the retirement system’s former top investment official.

Authorities say Rattner is unlikely to face charges, but the probe has raised unanswered questions. Among them: Did the banker cross an ethical or legal line in the winter of 2004-2005 as he tried to persuade state officials to make a major investment with his private equity firm?

Read the whole thing.

MICKEY KAUS: Detroit’s new “green” delusion. “I could have saved him the 10 years, as could about 85% of the readers of Car and Driver, because it’s obvious why Saturn flopped: The company had built a popular brand as a sort of feel-good anti-car–vaguely tractor-like, noisy, but made of semi-indestructible plastic by dedicated Tennessee workers and–unique in nearly all of GM–actually reliable. GM threw all this away and filled Saturn showrooms with cars designed to appeal to totally different buyers: rebadged mainstream Opels. They were OK, but creepily overstyled and not so reliable. End of explanation. . . . Detroit cars will sell when they’re bulletproof, not when they’re green (or, in Lutz’s new spin, when they’re made by a company that also sells something ‘green’). But only one of the Big Three U.S. car manufacturers has made dramatic progress catching up to Japan on the bulletproof front–and it’s not Chrysler or GM. It’s the one that hasn’t gone broke.”

A NON-OUTRAGE OUTRAGE: “The NY Times covers a trial balloon that would provoke outrage from the left if Bush-Cheney had proposed it. However, as the Times tells it, the proposal has no sponsorship at all – apparently it just fell from the sky, or something.” Meet the new boss, yada yada.

AND SHE DIDN’T FALL UNDER THE WEIGHT OF HER STONE: I Was A Caryatid For Frank Lloyd Wright.

DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF CONGRESS EXPRESS “growing concern” over Obama closures of Chrysler and GM dealerships.

ILYA SOMIN: “The advantages of life in the US over life in Russia are perhaps too obvious to dwell on. Less often appreciated are the ways in which life for immigrants in America is much better than in most other affluent liberal democracies. Although the US is not free of racism and nativist xenophobia, on the whole immigrants are much better accepted by natives than in almost all of the many other countries I have seen. We take it for granted that a person born in Russia or China or India can become as much a ‘real American’ as the descendants of the Founding Fathers. Yet such ready acceptance is far less common elsewhere.”

BAILOUT UPDATE: Supreme Court Asked to Block Chrysler Sale to Fiat.

BITES FROM THE APPLE: A roundup of news from around the Apple Empire.

ANOTHER TEA PARTY PROTEST, in Winston-Salem.

Several hundred people turned out Saturday for a Tea Party at Winston-Square Park. It was a follow-up to an April 15 gathering that was part of a nationwide protest against taxes. According to media reports, more than 1,000 people turned out for that rally, but organizers said the turnout was more than 2,000. . . . Some protestors stood on Marshall Street holding up signs with slogans such as “Free Markets Not Free Loaders” and “Revolution is Brewing” while waving at passing motorists. . . . “Conservatives typically don’t do protests, but we’re learning,” said Fred Benson, an electrical contractor from Clemmons who was one of the organizers of the rally. He said that members of the North Carolina Tea Party group at ncteaparty.com wanted to have another rally and decided to focus on the health care debate this time. Benson said that more tea parties are planned, with the next one possibly on July 4.

These keep popping up, below the national-media radar. Plus, grassroots protests vs. interest-group press conferences.

I’M BACK: Actually, got back last night. U.S. Air did a great job — I was early on every single leg of this trip, both down and back. (They did, however, lose my dive-gear bag, but it’s already shown up.) Thanks very much to my guestbloggers, Ann Althouse, Megan McArdle, and Michael Totten for making it possible for me to have a few days of blog-decompression. I saw where somebody asked if I was in blog addiction rehab, but not really: It was more like Keith Richards getting his blood changed before going on tour. But hey, that worked . . .

GOOD NEWS: They found the hockey-stick graph. Bad news: It’s about U.S. unemployment.

UPDATE: More graphics here.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Obama Versus the Way of the Universe. “In short, Obama reminds me a little of myself–at 26.”

GRAND CAYMAN, BWI. The blonde blur in the foreground is a waitress named Fiona from New Zealand; after seven years her Cayman work visa is about to run out (more on that topic later) and she’ll be moving to Sydney to be a personal trainer.

A NEW AWARD for Harrison Ford. “Harrison Ford was maybe the best thing about Star Wars (all six films) and terrific in the Indiana Jones films. Today, though, I’ll cast him as Captain Louis Renault in Casablanca for his shock, shock! that a redistributionist Democratic Party might tax his industry into default.”

THE NEW KINDLE DX will be shipping next week. I’ve had my regular-size Kindle with me on the trip and it’s performed admirably; it seems to me that a bigger one would be less useful for travel. Better for reading newspapers, though.

TOM MAGUIRE: “Republicans leak vague generalities about a classified briefing on the efficacy of the enhanced interrogation program and Dems burst into tears. . . . I understand the political importance to the Dems of keeping the results of the 2002/2003 era enhanced interrogations secret; the actual national security significance eludes me, since the techniques have been well publicized by Obama.”

ABC LISTS the Top 100 Political Blogs.

AN IMPORTANT DISCUSSION about low-rise pants. Personally, I think the Insta-Wife looks very good in them.

REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from all over.

RASMUSSEN: 26% Applaud GM Bailout But 17% Favor Boycott.

FASTER, PLEASE: Protein stimulates stem cells to repair muscles.

MICKEY KAUS: So how’s that auto bailout thing going?

CURING THE BLIND, with stem-cell-coated contact lenses. Note that these are adult stem cells.

IN THE MAIL: From Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence, and other stories.

SAN FRANCISCO: Making sure the homeless stay homeless. “The mafia is kinder than the City of San Francisco.”

GRAND CAYMAN, BWI. Georgetown Harbor. The sleek white boat is the Cayman Aggressor, a live-aboard dive boat.

CHARGES OF MEDIA MANIPULATION at General Electric / NBC / Universal.

CAN MITCH DANIELS SAVE THE GOP?

I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED: EU turns blind eye to corruption in eastern gas trade.

MEET THE NEW BOSS, YADA, YADA:

I’m sure it’s only a matter of time until the ABA denounces as “contrary to the rule of law and our constitutional system of separation of powers” President Obama’s use of signing statements to voice constitutional concerns about legislation he signs into law. See ABA Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements and the Separation of Powers Doctrine, Report at 5 (July 24, 2006) (“ABA Task Force Report”). The President quietly issued another such signing statement on Tuesday, the fourth constitutional signing statement of his young presidency. . . . President Obama has issued more constitutional signing statements than President Bush had at this point in his presidency.

When Bush did it, it was a lawless practice, giving rise to the fierce moral urgency of replacing him with a Democrat . . . who’d do the same thing.

COMPARING THE MAY UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS with predictions.

A CHEERFUL PERSPECTIVE: “Remember the stress tests? The baseline scenario had unemployment in 2009 at 8.4%, rising to 8.9% under the more adverse scenario. Well, we’re only up to May, and already it’s at 9.4%.”

Related: Unemployment Compared to Stress Test Scenarios, and Diffusion Index.

A FUN RANT FROM HARLAN ELLISON: Pay the writer! (Thanks to Max Boot at Commentary.)

CONSEQUENCES OF CHINA’S MALE SURPLUS, with bonus Heinlein reference.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: “Crunch Berries” aren’t real berries. In other news, Captain Crunch not an actual captain. . . .

SOUTH CAROLINA, THE STIMULUS, AND fake state “spending crunches.”

MURTHA UPDATE: 2 former drug dealers tied to Murtha-backed firm.

Related: Defense firm, a Murtha backer, got money from drug dealer. “A Johnstown-area defense firm under investigation for possible contract fraud received an infusion of cash during its start-up years from a narcotics trafficker with whom one of the company’s founders admitted engaging in the drug trade.” Funny how all this is coming out after the election.

HEH: You Bought It, You Own It: “Senator Lamar Alexander introduced the ‘Auto Stock for Every Taxpayer Act’ today, which would ‘require the Treasury to distribute to individual taxpayers all its stock in General Motors (GM) and Chrysler within one year following the emergence of the companies from bankruptcy proceedings.’”

ADVICE TO MEN from Frank Miniter, author of The Ultimate Man’s Survival Guide.

“ALL IS PROCEEDING AS I HAVE FORESEEN:” Lack Of Coherent Dem Response On Torture Taking Toll, Helping Cheney. “Some striking new polling from Gallup suggests that the lack of a coherent response to Dick Cheney’s torture offensive is taking its toll on at least one high-profile Democrat while simultaneously helping Cheney begin to salvage his reputation. The Gallup poll finds that two of the leading officials on either side of the torture argument — Cheney and Nancy Pelosi — have equally poor favorability ratings. But here’s the key point: They are at parity because Cheney’s ratings have gone up and Pelosi’s have dropped during the period that both were heavily identified with the torture issue. Pelosi’s favorability rating is at 34%, down eight points from six months ago. Cheney’s is at 37%, up seven points in the same time period. Cheney’s rating is actually higher than Pelosi’s.”

ANOTHER BUSTED APPOINTMENT: Mudd Withdraws as DHS Intelligence Chief. “Phil Mudd, a career CIA employee who is President Obama’s nominee to be the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence chief, has asked that his name be withdrawn from consideration, according to an authoritative source.” No word as to why. Taxes? Based on past experience, that’s the way to bet, but it could easily be something else.

TREASURIES: Exit The Safe Haven. “The 10-year Treasury bond paid a 3.83% yield Friday afternoon, up from 3.6% in the last week of May and a 52-week low of 2.07%. One worry is that higher yields on benchmark government bonds will translate into steeper borrowing costs for home buyers and businesses, besides making the U.S. government’s deficit spending more expensive.”

Related: Interest rates soar on jobs data, putting housing at risk. “The Treasury bond market is in cardiac arrest today over the May employment report: Yields are soaring, dealing another blow to investors who’ve been hiding out in government bonds — and threatening another big jump in mortgage rates.”

HEH: Obama taps anti-abortion activist to faith-based health post. “President Barack Obama has tapped an anti-abortion activist to a senior Health and Human Services ‘faith-based’ position just a week after the murder of prominent abortion doctor George Tiller.” And it sounds like another round of Who Are The Rubes? is underway.

HIGH-SPEED RAIL rarely turns a profit.

UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE: Peter Robinson interviews Andew Breitbart.

TIANANMEN, 20 years on.

MICHAEL S. MALONE: “One of the most frustrating features of the current era in high tech – that is, the years since the bursting of the dot.com bubble and 9/11 – has been comparative lack of competition.”

ISRAELI REACTIONS to Obama’s speech in Cairo.

IN THE MAIL: From Kevin Price, The Successful Retirement Guide: Hundreds of Suggestions on How to Stay Intellectually, Socially and Physically Engaged for the Best Years of Your Life.

McDONALD’S, INTERSTATE 74, Illinois.

(Blogging from the road, yesterday.)

DO BRAS PREVENT SAGGY BREASTS? “There is, so far as [The Straight Dope] can discover, zero evidence that bras prevent saggy breasts.” I recommend bralessness. At least don’t let fear of drooping breasts stop you.

Grand Cayman, BWI. Morgan’s Harbor.

FRAUDULENT CRUNCHBERRIES. The failed lawsuit. AND: Did anyone ever sue Grape-Nuts?

ADDED: Eugene Volokh tells us about a 1912 case in which Coca Cola was challenged over the lack of coca leaves.

MORE DAVID CARRADINE CLIPS.

AND: I suppose it’s good to know he wasn’t suicidal (so it seems).

TAXPROF: Obama Tax Plan Would Increase Progressivity, Decrease Economic Growth.

IAN McKELLEN’S “KING LEAR.” On line.

FLAUNTING FRUGALITY.

BITTER WOMAN. Not what I was. What I had, last night.

4 TIPS TO OBAMA. How to modulate the abortion debate.

MICKEY KAUS JOINS THE Fix Medicare First chorus.

UPDATE: Mickey emails with a clarification:

I actually don’t think I’m in the Fix Medicare First camp. I’m in the “Enact Health Care But Don’t Expect It Not to be Wildly Expensive On the Basis or Orszag’s Theories” Camp. Orszag himself apparently claims not to be relying on Orszagism: We’ll see!

Indeed. And happy to clarify.

ROGER SIMON: Burning Down the New York Times in Three Acts: Act One.

I WOULD HOPE THAT A WISE WOMAN would not keep recycling the same speech year after year.

CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRESS: “Guns in restaurants” bill in Tennessee gets veto override, and Tam comments from Indiana:

Now Tennesseans can look forward to the same kind of blood-soaked carnage I have to face every time I go to the Broad Ripple Brew Pub. Which is to say “none at all”. (And Indiana doesn’t even care if you tip back a few wet ones while you’re packing, so long as you don’t go ventilating passersby with your hogleg.)

Tennessee hasn’t achieved Indiana’s level of liberality yet.

CHRIS DODD UPDATE: Feds Charge Countrywide Execs.

Or, if you prefer, SEC Busts Dodd’s Friend.

HERE’S A REPORT FROM THE RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA “tea party” tax protest.

SELF-TAUGHT: How I Learned Geography.

MICHAEL GREENSPAN WRITES THAT Flip video cameras have been marked down to 49 bucks at Amazon, from $149. While they last.

RISK-TAKING and “the golden third.” “Fugu (tiger pufferfish) sushi in Yokohama – Golden. Boiling up a pot of pufferfish soup at home – stupid.”

FROM GATES TO GALT: Microsoft will move jobs overseas if Obama tax plan passes. “We’re better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S. as opposed to keeping them inside the U.S.”

STEVE JOBS WAS, ESSENTIALLY, STARVING TO DEATH.

“GAY MEN HAD SYMMETRICAL BRAINS like those of straight women, and homosexual women had slightly asymmetrical brains like those of heterosexual men.”

DR. BOLI INVITES YOU TO test your own IQ.  But I guarantee you are not smarter than Dr. Boli.

ELIZABETH WARREN PRODUCES ANOTHER MISLEADING BANKRUPTCY STUDY, along with her friends at Physicians for a National Health Program.  Quel surprise.

ADVICE ON traveling with preschoolers.

HUFFINGTON POST: Let Women Wear the Hijab: The Emptiness of Obama’s Cairo Speech. “It betrays a naiveté, perhaps feigned, about how the Arab world works.”

Hot Air: Obama’s Cairo speech: Surprisingly good. They told me that if I voted for McCain, we’d get a President whose speeches on Islam were praised at Hot Air and criticized at the HuffPo. And they were right!

Full text here, so you can make up your own mind.

KEITH OLBERMANN SMACKS DOWN PJTV commentator Steven Crowder.

DOES A VALUE-ADDED TAX mean Big Government?

Plus, IRS Files Notice of $800k Tax Lien Against John Kerry’s 2004 Campaign.