I SAID EARLIER THAT OBAMA WAS LOSING SUPPORT EVERYWHERE BUT WITH BLACKS, BUT I WAS WRONG: African American support waning for Obama. “A Gallup poll last week found Obama’s poll numbers in the African American community down from its once stratospheric 95 percent approval early in his term, to a still-high, but notably lower 81 percent — tying his worst ever showing from earlier this year. . . . Observers say weaker support for Obama owes to a faltering economy that at 16 percent unemployment for blacks — nearly double the national average of nine percent — has hit the African American community especially hard.”

A PERFECT STORM OF HYPE: Politicians, the media and the Hurricane Irene apocalypse that never was.

Related: It Was A Cat 5 Media Event.

Plus, some history.

FOLLOW THE MONEY: Taken to Task: The Cult of Warren Buffett.

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DICK CHENEY, FIGHTING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS: Cheney tells inside story of how he bucked administration on 2nd Amendment.

FUN? FAMILY FRIENDLY? WISCONSIN? “Labor Day parade organizers confirm that no Republicans will be allowed to participate in this year’s Labor Day Parade.”

Rage, rage, against the dying of the featherbed.

RICK PERRY CALLS SOCIAL SECURITY A PONZI SCHEME.

Well, I have heard Yale Law Professor John Langbein say that if a private entity did what Social Security has done, they’d all be in jail. So Perry’s right up there with Ivy League experts on the subject.

UPDATE: Prof. Stephen Clark writes:

Rick Perry: Tribune of the young?

Haberman thinks that Perry is in a bind. I’m not convinced.

Given the indisputable fact that his accusation has merit, pressing this point puts Obama in a bit of a bind: devise a counter argument – good luck – or demagogue it. Of course, the first instinct will be to demagogue it. But the hollowness of that response without a convincing counter argument won’t go unnoticed by the young I’ve met; the very same ones so enthusiastic in support of his ’08 candidacy. And if it scares the old folks, it won’t be because Perry is saying that he opposes Social Security or Medicare in principle; rather, that their security is at risk because the programs are fundamentally flawed.

Pretty brazen on Perry’s part. But it’s a tack that could only work in the current environment where even old folks look on with shock and awe at the incredible deficits and massive increase in the public debt since Obama took office.

Indeed.

DO TELL: Seems the White House is a Bit Touchy About the Vacation Topic.

CLAIRE BERLINSKI: The Diplomat Who Drew The Short Straw.

OUT NOW: Teaching America: The Case For Civic Education. I’ve got a chapter in it; other contributors include Sandra Day O’Connor, Sen. Jon Kyl, Alan Dershowitz, Michael Kazin, and Juan Williams. If the next generation doesn’t understand America, it won’t preserve America.

THAT’S BETTER THAN USING FOOD: Converting Steel Mill Flue Gases To Ethanol.

18 SECONDS OF RAW CLASS WARFARE: “It’s coming! Get ready! All you fucking tea-party-baggers. It’s coming. Get ready.”

SHOCKER: Green Jobs Revealed As Fiscal Black Hole. “Pipe dreams eventually are revealed for what they are – unrealistic, wishful thinking. It didn’t take long for Spain’s touted green-job revolution to be revealed as a financial disaster, siphoning taxpayer subsidies and destroying 2.2 real jobs for every green job created. Domestic green-job pipe dreams similarly drain U.S. taxpayers’ money into economic sink holes. The millions of so-called green jobs promised by President Barack Obama and other champions of taxpayer-subsidized energy schemes not only haven’t materialized, many that did, already are disappearing. It’s truly a bad sign for the green-job revolution when failure becomes obvious even to acolytes.”

JUST SO LONG AS IT DOESN’T MASTER ADMINISTRATIVE LAW BEFORE I RETIRE: Robot Teaches English As A Second Language.

LIKING RICK PERRY BASED ON HIS ENEMIES. Hey, they say “sharks” like it’s a bad thing.

MARK STEYN: The West has incentivized non-productivity on an industrial scale.

CHANGE: Social Media And Biometric Software Could Make Future Undercover Policing Impossible.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Where’s The Facebook For Old People?

RAND SIMBERG: It’s not nice to anthropomorphize Mother Nature.

Twice this morning on ABC I heard the storm referred to as having emotions. “The ire of Irene,” (OK, I see the alliterary appeal) and “the wrath of the storm.”

Folks, don’t anthropomorphize rotational fluid dynamics. The storm didn’t really have it in for anyone, honest. Besides, it hates when you do that.

Indeed.

WILL THE IPHONE 5 WORK ON ANY CELLULAR NETWORK? “Combine these rumors with reports that Apple will include radios for both the major cell network technologies (i.e., CDMA and GSM) and you’ve got what looks like a major disruption in the making. Apple could be planning a smartphone that works equally well on any carrier network. I can only imagine how nervous AT&T and Verizon must be.” That would be cool.

EUGENE VOLOKH: Federal Government Prosecuting Man for Writing Many Insulting Tweets and Blog Posts About Religious Leader. They told me if I voted for John McCain, the federal government would go after people who taunted religious leaders. And they were right!

Related: Anti-”bullying” language used to attack critics of public official.

ARRESTING Uncle Omar. “I spoke to Framingham Public Information Officer Lieutenant Delaney who told me that when Onyango Obama was asked at booking if he wanted to make a telephone call to arrange for bail, the Kenyan immigrant replied: ‘I think I will call the White House.’” So he’s sort of Billy Carter to Obama’s Jimmy here?

IN THE MAIL: Shooting from the Lip: The Life of Senator Al Simpson.

CHERRY-PICKING: ESPN’s Double Standard On Its Personalities’ Political Tweets. Is it just me, or has the sports world somehow become the most wussy-PC sector of media?

MARK WARNER: $4T in debt cuts shouldn’t be an ‘ultimate heavy lift.’

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is urging the bipartisan “supercommittee” tasked with deficit cuts to pursue a deal in the $4 trillion range.

Warner, a centrist Democrat, used an interview with Bloomberg to urge the panel to “go big, go bold” when they negotiate this fall.

“We’re not going to solve the problem overnight, but, you know, a 10-year plan to reduce $4 trillion in debt should not be the kind of ultimate heavy lift. You know, if we don’t step up and do that, then I don’t think we are doing our country a service,” Warner said on the program “Political Capital” airing this weekend.

Even that’s barely a beginning.

POLITICO: Poll: Obama loses ground with white voters, women, liberals. He’s losing ground with just about everybody except blacks.

FRANK J. FLEMING: Comparing Obama’s Performance in Office with that of a Sack of Hammers. “Hint: It’s not even close. . . . This isn’t to say that Obama is dumber than a sack of hammers — a ridiculous assertion — it’s just to say that he’s much worse at being a president than one.”

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IN A HURRICANE, CASH IS KING:

Banks across New York City are making provisions so people will be able to get hard currency Sunday and Monday, even if Hurricane Irene knocks power out and floods branches.

One of the enduring lessons from the hurricanes of 2005 is that cash is crucial in a storm zone for basic staples, yet often difficult to come by. After Katrina, for example, ATMs across New Orleans simply did not work.

With that in mind, people scrambled to ATMs on Friday and Saturday morning across New York and New Jersey, often withdrawing hundreds of dollars to prepare.

Keep some cash — in small bills, mostly — in your disaster kit.

FROM MEGAN MCARDLE, a recipe for Salmon Tartare.

JAMES Q. WILSON: CRIME AND THE GREAT RECESSION. Jobs have fled, lawbreaking hasn’t risen—and criminologists are scratching their heads.

I credit Internet porn and videogames. Is there anything they can’t do?

ROGER KIMBALL: More irenic thoughts, or Obama as Dukakis.

A friend with a sense of humor sent me this reassuring story: “Obama Takes Charge at Hurricane Center.” “Now you can sleep well tonight,” he said. Hardly that. I mean really: does he look like a man who has a clue about what to do? Ponder the official NOAA name plate emblazoned with “Barack Obama President of the United States.” Why does that seem ridiculous? After all, he isthe President of the United States. Maybe it’s because it put me in mind of that iconic image of Mike Dukakis in his tank. Anyway, if it failed to be reassuring, it did introduce a welcome moment of levity.

Funny how often people with no sense of humor manage to do that.

UPDATE: From Skip Press on Facebook: “Funny how Hurricane Irene was slowing down, then Obama took over the hurricane center and it sped up.” He’s got the magic touch!

Meanwhile, I note that at least Dukakis looked like he was having fun in the tank.

IRENE SLAMS New York and New Jersey.

FOLLOWING BILL KELLER’S LEAD, Faith Questions For Keith Ellison. It was nice of Keller to open this subject up to debate.

MORE THOUGHTS ON THE GIBSON GUITAR WARS. And some crazy policy about Brazilian Rosewood: “It grows in a specific area but is threatened because most of this habitat has been converted to farmland? And the solution is to ban trade in the wood, making it of no economic value? How is this supposed to preserve the habitat? Wouldn’t that be an excellent reason to go ahead and convert the rest of the habitat to farmland, growing something that would be of economic value? I just don’t get the logic there.” Logic is not our political class’s strong suit.

COULD CLIMATE CHANGE BE killing off malaria? Environmentalists would hate that, since it would undercut the argument against global warming climate change — and undercut their long-running efforts to keep poor dark-skinned people sick and starving with bans on DDT and genetically-modified seeds.

What? That’s unfair? A person is presumed to intend the foreseeable and likely results of his actions.

POLL: Is Sex Hotter During A Hurricane? Depends on whether the roof blows off, I’d say.

IRONY: Advice on boosting your cash reserves, from Bank Of America.

Not that some of the suggestions aren’t decent ones. Flush with the Army of Davids advance, I bought the Highlander Hybrid for cash, then put “payments” into savings. That’ll pay for the next car.

But I can’t say that Bank Of America has been especially frugal in its own affairs. . . .

BUSH ERA: FEMA IS HORRIBLE AND INCOMPETENT.

OBAMA ERA: How Dare Ron Paul Criticize FEMA?

INTERESTING: UCLA Professor: Without Media Bias the Average US State Would Vote Like Texas or Tennessee. The professor is Tim Groseclose, author of Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind.

UH OH: Okay, It’s A Real Storm Now: “Sewer is now backing up into the house. Still in the sink, but rising. We’re in a lot of trouble here.” Open up the cleanout plug to relieve the pressure.

UPDATE: Sebastian emails to thank me for the cleanout-plug suggestion, which worked. I know it from first-hand experience, alas. . . .

ON FACEBOOK, ANDREW HOFER REPORTS: “I have to say, Amazon came through with a generator and D batteries shipped overnight, arrived today. Sears, Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Target were out of these items Thursday.” Yeah, they’ll get ‘em to you overnight if FedEx is still delivering. In response to an inquiry, he reported that they only charged him $3.99 to overnight the generator. Yay, Amazon Prime!

THE POLITICS of fear.

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ED DRISCOLL: Pretzel Logic.

THINGS PEOPLE BUY, BUT NEVER USE.

UPDATE: Link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!

BRENDAN LOY ON Irene’s Storm Surge.

“I WANTED THE PRETTY GIRLS COMING UP TO ME AND SAYING ‘Hi, I see that you’re good at Centipede.’”

RECIPE: Mexican Crockpot Chicken. It’s a little early for me to fire up the slow cooker — I like for temps to at least drop below 90 for a while — but it’s always good to think about recipes.

ADVICE: Canning For Klutzes.

ED DRISCOLL: LOST IN A SUPERMARKET. “How must it feel to walk out of a recording studio knowing that your group just nailed the dirtiest, nastiest, rudest heavy metal song ever recorded in the history of man, and then 20 years later hear it on the speakers of a suburban supermarket walking down the frozen food aisle? Back when I was a kid, rock and roll was something hard and bracing with a veneer of still being slightly ‘underground’ that you had to seek out; supermarket muzak was all syrupy strings and soothing melodies. At some point in the mid-1990s, I guess, that all went out the window.”

True, but speaking as an ASCAP member myself, I’m pretty sure that what they think when they hear their music, however butchered, in the frozen food aisle is mostly ka-ching! Especially 20 years later, when even rock musicians are thinking about their retirement accounts.

YEAH, BLOGGING’S BEEN A BIT LIGHT BECAUSE IT’S MY BIRTHDAY. Back to normal later.

AIR TRAVEL: Feds Sign Off On Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner.

JONAH GOLDBERG: “Conservatism is starting to have an identity-politics problem all its own. I think conservatism needs to spend less time defending candidates for who they are, and more time supporting candidates for what they intend to do.”

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QUESTION: How Long Will My Retirement Savings Last?

Depends on what you invest in.

EUGENE VOLOKH ON “GUNPOWDER LUST:” “The shooting sports aren’t Olympic sports because of ‘gunpowder lust,’ just like archery isn’t an Olympic sport because of ‘arrow lust.’ It’s an Olympic sport because it’s a highly demanding athletic event (though it demands somewhat different forms of athleticism than, say, basketball), and — secondarily — because it’s an event with a long historical link to a tradition of military service. Dismissing respect for the sport, and the desire that children have an opportunity to learn about this sport, as a manifestation of ‘gunpowder lust’ strikes me as a form of prejudice against guns that’s hard to rationally defend.”

Related: “Boris Johnson is a moron. . . . The sheer idiocy of this speaks volumes of the rot at the heart of British society and its decadent political class.”

MORE IRENE COVERAGE from Brendan Loy. Also, Roger Kimball.

Meanwhile, Gerard van der Leun spots a contradiction: “On Friday, city officials issued what they called an unprecedented order for the evacuation of about 370,000 residents of low-lying areas, warning that Hurricane Irene was such a threat that people living there simply had to get out. Officials also made what they said was another first-of-its-kind decision, announcing plans to shut down the city’s entire transit system Saturday.”

FREE SPEECH: Class action suit says Florida Highway Patrol illegally tickets motorists who warn others about speed traps. “Campbell says he felt as if the trooper thought it was a personal affront. According to Campbell, the trooper did not like the fact somebody was ratting him out.” You’re not actually supposed to ticket people for “personal affronts.”

MARKDOWNS ON pens, pencils, and markers.

FROM NANNY STATE TO GRANNY STATE: “Grandparents have become the family safety net, and I don’t see that changing any time soon.”

UPDATE: Reader Clifford Grout writes: “Grandparents were often the family safety net before the fall of extended families and the rise of the welfare state. If we’ve come full circle, then… what’s the point of continuing the welfare state? Wondering…”

Empowering politicians and employing bureaucrats, apparently.

LAPTOP-BATTERY UPDATE: No, not the lithium-ion kind. Professor Cleared of Battery Charges For Closing Laptop Lid On Student’s Hand. “A jury voted “not guilty” in the trial of an assistant professor who had been charged with battery of a student by allegedly closing a laptop lid on her hands. Frank J. Rybicki, an assistant professor of mass media at Valdosta State University, in Georgia, had been suspended while the trial was under way, but he will be teaching now that he has been cleared, according to university staff and a supporters’ page on Facebook.”

REVERSING TOOTH DECAY with peptide paint.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Sex In Restaurant Bathrooms On The Rise.

HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: College Board’s Leader Paid More Than Harvard’s. “The president of the College Board, the nonprofit owner of the SAT entrance exam, has seen his compensation triple since 1999 and now gets more than the head of the American Red Cross, which has more than five times the revenue. The value of Gaston Caperton’s compensation was $1.3 million including deferred compensation in 2009, according to tax filings, also surpassing that of the president of Harvard University.”

It’s nice to be a “nonprofit.”

MORE ON THE GIBSON RAID: “Why would the government use armed agents to attack one of the few major manufacturers of anything remaining in the United States?” It’s like they don’t want to see the economy recover or something.

UPDATE: What a coincidence! CEO of Gibson Guitar a Republican Donor. And their Democratic-donating competitor, Martin, uses the same wood but wasn’t raided. Well, when you’ve got a President who jokes about tax audits as revenge for a personal slight, it’s hard not to be suspicious, isn’t it?

ANOTHER UPDATE: More here.

MORE: On the joking-about-audits front: “This is why an astute President never jokes about such things. But this is not a very astute President.”

IN THE MAIL: Lessons from Armed America.

RON BAILEY: For Pete’s Sake, Go Get Your Kids Vaccinated Already! “Look, vaccines are not perfectly safe. Nothing is. But the scientific evidence clearly shows that the health benefits strongly outweigh the costs. Consider that up to 30 percent of people who get bacterial meningitis die. And especially note that yet another report finds no evidence for a link between vaccination and autism.”

HOW WIRELESS CARRIERS HAMSTRING YOUR SMARTPHONE: “A team at the University of Michigan and Microsoft Research has uncovered, for the first time, the frequently suboptimal network practices of more than 100 cellular carriers. By recruiting almost 400 volunteers to run an app on their phones that probes a carrier’s networks, the team discovered, for example, that one of the four major U.S. carriers is slowing its network performance by up to 50 percent. They also found carrier policies that drained users’ phone batteries at an accelerated rate, and security vulnerabilities that could leave devices open to complete takeover by hackers.”

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: The Endless Economic “Recovery:”

If you needed another metric by which to measure the failure of Obamanomics, new numbers released Friday show that two years after the recession ended the economy still hasn’t fully recovered.

* * * *

Obama likes to blame the depth of the downturn for the “painfully slow” recovery. “We didn’t get into this mess overnight, and we won’t get out of it overnight. It’s going to take time,” he said — nearly a year ago.

The claim is bogus. This recession lasted only slightly longer than the 1981-82 contraction — 18 months vs. 16 — and wasn’t as severe when measured by peak unemployment.

But the economy came screaming out of that downturn, and in three quarters was already well into an expansion. The 1973-75 recession lasted 16 months, but also took only three quarters to fully recover.

Better policies.

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A PLEA TO THE G.O.P.: Don’t Pull A Digital Nixon. New media are important, and will be more important than ever in 2012.

BUSINESS WEEK: The Slow Disappearance of the American Working Man. “The portion of men who work and their median wages have been eroding since the early 1970s. . . . The portion of men holding a job—any job, full- or part-time—fell to 63.5 percent in July—hovering stubbornly near the low point of 63.3 percent it reached in December 2009. These are the lowest numbers in statistics going back to 1948. Among the critical category of prime working-age men between 25 and 54, only 81.2 percent held jobs, a barely noticeable improvement from its low point last year—and still well below the depths of the 1982-83 recession, when employment among prime-age men never dropped below 85 percent. To put those numbers in perspective, consider that in 1969, 95 percent of men in their prime working years had a job. Men who do have jobs are getting paid less.”

UPDATE: Reader Dave Schipani writes: “You know, Glenn, between this and the eroding numbers of men in college, we must be part of the most incompetent patriarchy in history. I don’t know about you, but I’m writing an angry letter of complaint to my chapter president.” Heh.

Related: The Hill: GOP senator: White House ‘failed miserably’ on economy. Ya think?

SISSY WILLIS: “First Responders and Clergyfolk are not very important to the powerful and the enlightened.”

MORE IRENE UPDATES from Brendan Loy.

UPDATE: Thoughts on disaster-prep from The Anchoress. I was an Explorer Scout.

VIRGINIA POSTREL: How Steve Jobs Made Business Cool Again:

To understand the cultural significance of Steve Jobs, you have to go back in time: to before the iPad or iPhone or iTunes, before Apple Inc.’s comeback products made candy-colored plastics and iAnything cool, before Jobs got kicked out of Apple, even before the Macintosh hurled a sledgehammer at Big Brother.

It’s 1981. Most people have never heard of Silicon Valley. The country’s most famous businessman is Lee Iacocca, the head of Chrysler Corp. He’s famous because in 1979 he engineered a government bailout — loan guarantees — that saved the company. He’s also famous because, unlike his peers, Iacocca is colorful. He seems to believe in what he’s doing.

In 1981, business executives aren’t known for either personality or passion. The general public sees business as a boring, impersonal, possibly suspect activity. Its significance seems purely financial. . . . That was all about to change.

Read the whole thing.

HOWIE CARR ON OBAMA’S VINEYARD DEPARTURE: Prez exits on wave of ineptitude. “The first family came in separate planes, and they’re leaving, ditto. Hey, it’s only money, our money. Even before Irene, this wasn’t much of a presidential vacation compared to the earlier ones. An Obama vacation on the Vineyard has been downgraded from Cat 3 to tropical storm. It’s hard to get excited about the arrival, yet again, of the second coming of Herbert Hoover.” Ouch.

Related: Obama’s Vacation Stormy From Start. “The president’s retreat appeared doomed from the start as the stock market dove just before his arrival a week ago at the sprawling, $20 million Blue Heron Farm in the swish Chilmark section of the island paradise. The vacation only got worse as the Congressional Budget Office reported anemic economic growth, fighting erupted in Libya’s capital and a rare earthquake centered just south of the White House rocked the East Coast and cracked the Washington Monument — all while Obama hit the links, the beach and the bike paths.”

A BELKIN HOME ENERGY-USE MONITOR, for $19.99. “The Conserve Insight Energy Cost Monitor makes it easy to be smart about energy. Find out how much energy your devices use on a yearly or monthly basis.” Is it just me, or does the bit about tracking CO₂ emissions already sound hopelessly out of date? The money-saving, not so much.

LOOKING AT THE BRIGHT SIDE: How Hurricane Irene Can Help You Find A Boyfriend.

THE NEW YORK TIMES retracts Issa Hit Piece, One Correction at a Time.

DAN MITCHELL: An Amazing Indictment Of Obamanomics: Banks That Don’t Want Deposits. “Sort of like McDonald’s turning away customers because they lose money by selling Big Macs and french fries.”

HOORAY FOR “Price Gougers.” They serve a vital function.

WISCONSIN: By Any Means Necessary.

ADMIT IT — YOU SAW THIS ONE COMING: New Scandal at DoJ as Illegal Guitars End Up In Hands of Mexican Drug Lords.

ROBERT FARAGO: ATF Death Watch 64: The Gunwalker Cover-Up Continues.

ATTACKING FREE MARKETS in Chile. “Chile has 6% growth now, 60 free-trade pacts, billions in foreign investment, and top rankings as the freest, least corrupt and most open economy in the world. What it seems to lack is a leader who believes in it.”

WORDS OF WISDOM FROM SAYUNCLE: “If you’re prepared for the zombie apocalypse, a hurricane is just a storm.”

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BADASS of the week.

YOU DON’T SAY? GENERATORS, BATTERIES BIG SELLERS IN ADVANCE OF IRENE.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Earthquake, hurricane, Obamacare. When does it stop? Seven more and I vote we let the Israelites go.

UPDATE: Well, here’s one more. Sheesh.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Related thoughts.

WAR ON PHOTOGRAPHY UPDATE: Court says state law used to ban recording of police officers in public is unconstitutional.

A Boston lawyer suing the city and police officers who arrested him for using his cell phone to record a drug arrest on the Common won a victory today when a federal appeals court said the officers could not claim “qualified immunity” because they were performing their job when they arrested him under a state law that bars audio recordings without the consent of both parties.

In its ruling, which lets Simon Glik continue his lawsuit, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston said the way Glik was arrested and his phone seized under a state wiretapping law violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights.

Good. The really important part is that the court held that the right to photograph is “clearly established,” meaning that the officers are not entitled to official immunity. Full opinion here. And some useful background reading here. Key bit: “The proliferation of electronic devices with video-recording capability means that many of our images of current events come from bystanders with a ready cell phone or digital camera rather than a traditional film crew, and news stories are now just as likely to be broken by a blogger at her computer as a reporter at a major newspaper. Such developments make clear why the news-gathering protections of the First Amendment cannot turn on professional credentials or status.” Indeed.

THE IMPORTANCE OF independent bloggers.

GIBSON GUITAR CEO ON RAIDS: “We’re being persecuted.”

MAYBE THAT HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE HASN’T BURST YET: New Nashville Law School Opens With 30% More Students Than Expected.

The nation’s newest law school opened its doors on Aug. 25 to welcome its first class.

The Belmont University College of Law in Nashville has an incoming class of 130 students — 30 more than a feasibility study predicted, said Dean Jeff Kinsler. “We had a much higher yield on our offers than we thought we would,” he said.

That same feasibility study predicted that the class’ median score on the LSAT would be 152, but it ended up at 154.

On the other hand, two other new law schools haven’t done so well. Maybe it’s just the Nashville area.

THE MIDDLE GROUND BETWEEN technology and revolutions.

BUSTED: China Removes Cyberwar Video, Denies Everything.

SPECIAL TREATMENT: Isabelle Huppert Plays A Call Girl.

THEY HAVE GOOD LAWYERS: Asian Carp Win Again.

UNHAPPY WITH YOUR JOB? It may be genetic.