VITAL PERSPECTIVES has the full text of the embargoed IAEA report on Iran. (Via Michelle Malkin).

GOT A HEART QUESTION? The Insta-Wife is soliciting questions for an upcoming cardiological podcast.

DOC SEARLS HAS THOUGHTS on the two-tier Internet and the naked conversation. Eric S. Raymond has thoughts in response.

JIM GERAGHTY says there’s “an organized disinformation campaign” on the ports deal.

ROGER SIMON joins those with questions about Yale’s admissions policies.

THE MUDVILLE GAZETTE notes an overlooked third party in the ports imbroglio.

ARMY OF DAVIDS ARRIVES: Reader Dusty Loy emails: “Arrived from Barnes and Noble 15 minutes ago, can’t wait to read it!” I guess those other reports were right.

Meanwhile my publisher emails: “Army of Davids is Amazon’s no. 1 business preorder.” Cool.

JAMES JOYNER thinks there may be an upside to Iraqi civil war. Hmm. Mickey Kaus said the same thing a while back, but as I’ve noted here before, I think it’s better off avoided. This kind of thinking reminds me of Josh Marshall’s worries in 2003 that we didn’t kill enough Iraqis to ensure stable government postwar. Of course, some people today might say he was right about that, though I haven’t noticed any I-told-you-sos on this account from Josh.

ANN ALTHOUSE: “Someone needs to do a Gender Studies seminar on Don Knotts.”

A TIPPING POINT on the Muslim world? I worry, over at GlennReynolds.com.

AUSTIN BAY writes on the uncomfortable overlap between Bush’s military strategy and his political posture.

UPDATE: Maybe there’s a psychological explanation.

MICHAEL TOTTEN has more blog-reporting from Iraq.

IF YOU WERE OFFLINE OVER THE WEEKEND, don’t miss our podcast interview with John Scalzi, author of Old Man’s War and Ghost Brigades, and Tim Minear, of Firefly, and Wonderfalls.

FORGET THE PORTS: “Never has an article made me blink with astonishment as much as when I read in yesterday’s New York Times magazine that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban, is now studying at Yale on a U.S. student visa. This is taking the obsession that U.S. universities have with promoting diversity a bit too far. . . . ‘In some ways,’ Mr. Rahmatullah told the New York Times. ‘I’m the luckiest person in the world. I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale.'”

Unless things have improved since I was there, however, the food will be inferior to Guantanamo’s. I wonder if he attends Yale’s famous naked parties. If so, someone should save pictures.

IT’S NOT OFFICIALLY OUT FOR A WEEK, but An Army of Davids is apparently starting to ship from Amazon. At least, several readers have gotten emails from Amazon saying that their copies have shipped.

UPDATE: Another reader writes: “FYI, it’s also shipping from Barnes & Noble if I’m to believe their E-mail.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Stephen Keating emails: “It’s in Books a Million in Reston already.”

Ask for it at your bookstore! Maybe I should do like Scalzi and ask for people to send in photos. . . .

“UNITY PROTESTS” break out in Iraq. Strangely, they’re getting less attention.

MARC COOPER was at Restoration Weekend and reports that Republicans are worried about the midterm elections. Well, they should be.

UPDATE: More thoughts from The Bull Moose. Related post here.

CAFE HAYEK:

Proponents of single-payer health care reform in the United States have long pointed toward Canada as a model for the US to emulate.

The New York Times reports that the Canadian system is imploding. A recent Candian Supreme Court decision allowed private health care (oh, the shame, the horror) and as a result, Canadians tired of waiting for radiation therapy, eye surgery and hip replacements have turned toward private alternatives springing up under the new legal environment.

Read the whole thing. Evan Coyne Maloney and Stuart Browning had better finish their film on the Canadian health system fast.

JEFF JARVIS goes from a BBC reporter’s thoughts on American politics to some thoughts on the impact of different media:

But perhaps it’s not the use or control of the media but, instead, the appropriateness of the message for the medium of the time. Cue McLuhan.

Broadcasting — sermonizing — to the masses was, then, inherently liberal.

Narrowcasting — ranting — on cable is better for the conservatives.

But what about the internet? It’s tailor-made for the libertarians. The internet is the embodiment of individual liberty, the great product and celebration of freedom.

When blogs started, I wondered why so many bloggers seemed to be libertarian, why they gathered in this medium in apparently disproportionate numbers. That’s obvious to me now. They have found their home. They have the message and the medium for it. But they’re just as disorganized as the Democrats and the Republicans. It’s not just about Democratic disarray. It’s about a benign anarchy sweeping the politics of the land.

There’s an old joke: “How many libertarians does it take to change a lightbulb? Only one, but you’ve got to get him to show up.”

IAN SCHWARTZ has posted some video highlights of my C-SPAN interview.

UPDATE: Now C-SPAN has posted video and a transcript of the whole thing.

HERE’S AN INTERESTING BIT from the transcript I just got in the mail from CNN. It’s the Iraqi National Security Adviser, on “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.”

On who is responsible for the recent bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra
MOWAFFAK AL-RUBAIE: The blueprint of that unfortunate event, the blueprints of al Qaeda in Iraq is that. It’s the same design, the same methods, the same objectives they want to achieve, which is a civil war. They wanted to drive a wedge between the two communities in Iraq, between the Shia and Sunnis. And they’ve been trying this for the last two and a half years. And they failed miserably in this.

And I think also this is one of the most horrible, really terrible attacks on the doctrine, on the belief of the largest community in Iraq. And still, Iraqi people have proven that they’ve gone through this difficulty, yet again, and they have shown the al Qaeda and the outside world that they will never be driven to the civil war.

BLITZER: So when you saw al Qaeda in Iraq, you mean Abu Musab al- Zarqawi? Is that right?

AL-RUBAIE: That’s absolutely right. It’s the same organization of al Qaeda, this international terrorist organization, and one — the branch office in Iraq is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi leading this — this terrible attack, terrorist attack against our people.

On whether any individuals have been arrested for the bombing
AL-RUBAIE: We have arrested 10 people. Four from the guards of the Golden Tomb shrine. And six — there were in the city of Samarra, just moved in and rented a place. Six young people there. So we are investigating then. We are very — there are two leads, and these leads are very, very good in our investigations. And we will reveal this in the very near future at Jala (ph).

I wonder if the trail will lead back to Iran.

RIOTS IN DUBLIN were covered by Irish bloggers, here, here and here. Lots of photos and firsthand reportage.

AS I SUSPECTED, the “ricin” found in Texas turned out not to be ricin. The Texans seem to have kept their sense of humor, though.

UPDATE: Not quite so happy at Generation Why?

DESPITE the Mark Steyn column linked below, here’s some good news from France:

Tens of thousands of people have marched through Paris to protest against racism and anti-Semitism after the kidnap and murder of a young Jew. Ilan Halimi, 23, was found naked with horrific injuries, three weeks after he was kidnapped by an extortion gang. . . .

Among those at Sunday’s rally were members of the government and the opposition, Jewish and anti-racism campaigners, and leaders of the Jewish and other religious communities.

Worried as I am, I haven’t written Europe off yet. As Roger Simon observes: “This may not equal the crowds they muster for a transit workers strike, but let’s hope this marks a new resistance to racism and anti-Semitism in France.”

AUSTIN BAY continues his look at captured Al Qaeda documents.