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May 4, 2011

EDWARD TENNER IN THE ATLANTIC: Why Society Is Running Out Of Vital Medications.

We need to shift from Just-In-Time to Just-In-Case.

Posted at 8:35 am by Glenn Reynolds

REPORT: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY GUN OWNER FIRED OVER GUN IN CAR? “All this, despite the fact that Mitchell had a Kentucky concealed carry permit, believed he had fully complied with Kentucky law governing concealed carry, and therefore cooperated fully with police and university authorities. . . . So……. What’s up with the University of Kentucky?” Oddly, in a time of constricting budgets, they seem to be going out of their way to do things that will play badly with Kentucky voters. But I’m seeing this at other universities as well.

Posted at 8:34 am by Glenn Reynolds

JIM TREACHER: If you’re determined to believe waterboarding had nothing to do with tracking down Bin Laden, don’t listen to Leon Panetta.

Plus: “The Daily Mail is reporting that it took Obama 16 hours to decide to kill Bin Laden. I don’t know whether that’s true, but if it is, I’m reluctant to judge him too harshly. After all, he was very busy writing Trump jokes.”

Posted at 8:28 am by Glenn Reynolds

CHANGE: ‘Before we give you that contract, we’ll just need to see how much you’ve spent to re-elect the President’.

Posted at 8:26 am by Glenn Reynolds

MEMPHIS FLOOD UPDATE: A musician friend emails: “I’m currently doing some seasonal work for the Memphis in May International Festival which takes place all month in Tom Lee Park on the river’s edge downtown. Just this week it was announced that the World Championship Barbecue Competition next weekend (which is one of the festival’s biggest events) would be moved to a new location, for the first time ever, because the river will be in the park itself very soon. This week we are busy evacuating to the fairgrounds. I’ve personally never seen a river look like the Mississippi does now. I had to run an errand in West Memphis, AR a couple of days ago and from I-40 across the bridge, you could see that the water covered what once were fields for over two miles west. Working in Tom Lee Park, every time a barge goes by, waves come up over what once was the river bank and deposit debris in the park. Pretty soon, barges will not have enough height clearance to pass under the I-55 bridge. I saw one yesterday that looked like it had about 2 or 3 feet of clearance. It is amazing.”

Of course, a shutdown in Mississippi barge traffic would have supply-chain consequences of all sorts.

Posted at 8:22 am by Glenn Reynolds

SALLY PIPES: Obama’s attempt to fix the deficit will wreak havoc on health care.

Posted at 8:09 am by Glenn Reynolds

ROGER SIMON ON his new film, A Better Life.

Posted at 8:08 am by Glenn Reynolds

SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION: We need better disclosure in the White House visitor logs.

Posted at 7:57 am by Glenn Reynolds

TOP GREEN COMES CLEAN about intellectual bankruptcy of the environmental movement.

Posted at 7:51 am by Glenn Reynolds

MICKEY KAUS: “Attention, Republicans: Looking for a theory that will allow you to reconcile Obama’s Abbottabad success with the unfavorable portrait of him that before Sunday was just beginning to come together and burn itself into the collective mediamind–that’ he’s an inexperienced, indecisive leader, constantly debating with himself, who fatally hedges every bet? Well, you’ve come to the right place.”

Posted at 7:50 am by Glenn Reynolds

BOOK-COOKING FAIL: New rules don’t stop newspaper circulation fall: Most big newspapers still lose circulation despite new rules counting more copies. “The figures released Tuesday, for the six months ending in March, mark the first time that newspapers have calculated circulation under the looser guidelines from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Among other things, the changes allow publishers to include free copies given to newspaper employees and local schools; before copies had to be bought to be counted. The changes also make it easier for newspapers to lump separate editions under different titles into one total.”

Posted at 7:38 am by Glenn Reynolds

AIRBRUSH: New York Times “De-Gays” Assassin.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

JAMES TARANTO: Why the Left needs racism. “Baselessly accusing their political foes of racism is a way in which today’s liberals attempt to incite fear and loathing of ‘the other.’ As we argued last year, this serves a political purpose in that it helps persuade blacks not to consider voting Republican. But it serves a psychological purpose as well. It reinforces white liberals’ sense of their own superiority.” Yes, calling other white people racist is Stuff White People Like.

Posted at 3:32 am by Glenn Reynolds
May 3, 2011

JERUSALEM IMAM: Obama Will Soon Hang For Killing Bin Laden. Okay, first, any talk of hanging is just plain racist. Stupid racist imam.

Second, what’s this about how dogs should not rejoice after killing a lion? If I were a dog, and I killed a lion, I’d damn sure rejoice.

But Osama was more of a jackal, you know? And if this dumbass keeps talking, people might get the idea that we’re at war with Islam or something. And trust me, your Imam-ness, you don’t want Americans to decide that.

Posted at 11:46 pm by Glenn Reynolds

TRAITOR: Somebody explain to Rashard Mendenhall that since Bush isn’t President any more, these sentiments are no longer acceptable. . . .

Posted at 11:38 pm by Glenn Reynolds

AN “HONOR KILLING” IN WARREN, MICHIGAN. “”Every time he would call her, it would just seem like he had just like some sick obsession. It wasn’t just like a stepfather-daughter relationship. It was something else.” Not much “honor” to be seen. But if convicted the penalty should involve public humiliation, just to make that clear.

Posted at 11:36 pm by Glenn Reynolds

LEON PANETTA, NOT OBAMA, ORDERED HIT ON BIN LADEN? Let me just say that I find the sourcing on this not too believable. The story might be true, but I’ll need a lot more convincing. This is telling too many people what they want to hear. And I’ve been following “White House Insider” for a while, but, well, I’m not convinced — and I really hope he’s bogus, because if he’s for real, God help us.

Posted at 11:33 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THE SITUATION ROOM: The Shortest Route From Bin Laden to Lulz.

Posted at 11:32 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ACE: Seven Minutes vs. Sixteen Hours.

Posted at 11:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

YA THINK? Van Houtte attorney says motion for mistrial is possible. So the prosecutor who put a guy in jail for sex with a minor was found to be providing the same minor with alcohol and engaging in an “inappropriate relationship” with her? It’s Illinois, of course . . ..

Posted at 11:01 pm by Glenn Reynolds

AT AMAZON, it’s the Office Electronics Outlet.

Posted at 11:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THOUGHTS ON JUSTICE AND REVENGE:

Contemplating a “balls[y]” liberal president confidently throwing his weight around in foreign affairs is a strange sensation for conservatives and liberals alike. But it’s an especially welcome sensation for liberals. Admit it, isn’t it a relief not having to come up with a tortuous explanation of how real patriotism is a matter of having the moral fortitude to preside intelligently over the country’s relative decline by “leading from behind.” Yet liberals should be self-conscious enough to admit that the rush of satisfaction they’re getting contemplating Obama’s newfound bellicosity is a guilty pleasure. . . .

Liberals can bask in their newfound admiration for Obama or uphold their vision of the international system. But it’s hard to see how, in good conscience, they can do both of those things.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

I can’t believe the same crowd that wanted Abu Ghraib pictures endlessly published find a photo confirming Osama bin Laden’s demise to be possibly inflammatory.

After all the horrors we have had to witness. Unbelievable. Show us.

Indeed. Heck, even false Newsweek stories about Koran-flushing weren’t held back.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Ron Radosh: The Left and the Liberals’ Hypocrisy over the Death of Osama Bin Laden.

Posted at 10:43 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SCOTT OTT, BILL WHITTLE, STEPHEN GREEN: Trifecta: Muslim Burial at Sea: How Obama Baptized Bin Laden Into the Religion We’re Not at War With.

Posted at 10:39 pm by Glenn Reynolds

FIRST THE QUEEN, NOW THIS: Bush declines Obama invite to Thursday’s Ground Zero event. “Only two possibilities. One: Bush recognizes that this is, more or less, an Obama campaign commercial and would rather not be part of it. Two: Bush doesn’t want to encroach on the singular role that Obama, as president, should rightly have in leading the ceremonies marking Bin Laden’s demise. Given how gracious Dubya has been in retirement, does anyone doubt that the second explanation is correct? Needless to say, it was also gracious of The One to invite him.”

UPDATE: A reader emails: “Maybe Bush didn’t want to be dissed in person, the way Obama sandbagged the Supremes last year and Ryan this year.”

Posted at 10:39 pm by Glenn Reynolds

IN TENNESSEE, A CIVIL RIGHTS DEFEAT: “A bill to allow faculty and staff of Tennessee colleges and universities to carry guns on campus was effectively killed for the year in a state House committee today.”

Posted at 10:26 pm by Glenn Reynolds

UH OH: Mississippi River flooding: After levee blast, threat shifts to Memphis.

Posted at 10:03 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WHAT? LIBYA? OH, RIGHT: Libyan refugees flee fighting by land and sea.

Also: Explosion Rocks Rebel Stronghold In Libya.

Posted at 9:54 pm by Glenn Reynolds

MESSAGE CONTROL: White House asked California paper to take out unflattering remark about first lady. The White House denies this. Paper says it happened.

Posted at 9:53 pm by Glenn Reynolds

NEW THREAT TO CORAL REEFS: Competition Among Sponges?

UPDATE: Reader Chuck Cobleigh writes: “I thought for a second that was another public-sector union story.”

Posted at 9:26 pm by Glenn Reynolds

TEST-DRIVING THE 2012 Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4.

Posted at 8:24 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OKAY, HELEN’S STILL ON HER RESERVE SUPPLY OF TIKOSYN, AND THE WALGREEN’S PHARMACIST HASN’T EVEN CALLED BACK AS PROMISED: You’d think that a business people rely on for drugs they need to live would be more reliable, wouldn’t you?

UPDATE: Reader Chris Link, M.D., writes: “For God’s sake, it’s for cardiac arrhythmia. No urgency there.” Yeah, what’s wrong with these people?

Posted at 7:53 pm by Glenn Reynolds

PJTV: Rep. Allen West: Obama’s Order to Kill Osama Bin Laden and What Did Pakistan Really Know?

Posted at 6:59 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THE OLD NARRATIVE IS NO LONGER OPERATIVE: Eric Holder is asked but won’t answer whether he’d have opposed a military trial for bin Laden if bin Laden had been taken alive. “So… was bin Laden shot because he resisted — the official story — or because a live, captured bin Laden would have torn the Obama administration apart?”

UPDATE: The Atlantic: The Slippery Story Of The Bin Laden Kill.

Posted at 6:52 pm by Glenn Reynolds

MEGAN MCARDLE: “They say that revenge is a dish that’s best served cold. We’ve been waiting a long time for this particular dish to cool, and now that I’ve eaten it, I’m surprised to find that it’s pretty tasteless and unsatisfying.”

Posted at 6:49 pm by Glenn Reynolds

BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro’s Corruption-Fighting Blogger Is Gunned Down in Copacabana.

Posted at 6:47 pm by Glenn Reynolds

“DEMONSTRABLY FALSE” AND “THINKPROGRESS” – A species of redundancy? “Think Progress is pulling a bait and switch trying to claim that Andrew Breitbart is ‘pushing the theory that Bin Laden is not dead’. This is demonstrably false.” And note Breitbart’s fearless response.

Also note that whenever anyone is effective, the lefty apparatchiks try to spread the idea that it’s somehow impolite to associate with them, rather than attack them on substance. That’s been their MO forever, but it’s become quite obvious and thus far less effective lately.

Posted at 6:41 pm by Glenn Reynolds

CHUCK SIMMINS ON the benefits of temporary jobs. Good to know, now that so many Americans are stuck in them.

Posted at 6:27 pm by Glenn Reynolds

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The University System Has No Clothes. Plus, the birth of the UnCollege.

Posted at 6:17 pm by Glenn Reynolds

INDEED: “What attracts people to a Sarah Palin or Andrew Breitbart or dare I say Donald Trump is first and foremost a style that comes across as fearlessness. . . . Whoever is going to be the 2011 candidate is going to have to tap into that in a responsible, presidential way. Not pander. Not be reckless. But get it.” What’s wrong with most of the GOP Presidential field is that the rest of them aren’t showing that.

UPDATE: Herb Saunders points out Herman Cain. Good point.

Posted at 6:02 pm by Glenn Reynolds

AT AMAZON, Mother’s Day camera deals.

Posted at 6:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

PJTV: Ted, White and Blue: Nugent Slams ‘Pantywaist’ Politicians and the Nanny State at NRA.

Posted at 5:59 pm by Glenn Reynolds

KEVIN WILLIAMSON: “If I were the head of something called the George W. Bush institute, I would not make fiscal policy my opening gambit.”

Posted at 5:27 pm by Glenn Reynolds

FRANK J. FLEMING: Don’t Worry: Osama Was Shot in Accordance with Islamic Tradition. “I think in these situations, the most important thing to us is showing religious respect.”

Meanwhile, reader Michael Od writes: “Can we nominate the president for another Nobel peace prize?” Well, as someone eligible to nominate for the Nobel — a privilege I last exercised in nominating Arthur C. Clarke, who lost out (no kidding) to Yasser Arafat — perhaps I should pen a nomination letter citing Obama’s willingness to kill Osama bin Laden and bomb Khaddafy’s house as evidence of his suitability for a second award.

Posted at 4:37 pm by Glenn Reynolds

HEH: Bumper sticker on a car that nudged into a crosswalk full of pedestrians… twice.

Posted at 4:23 pm by Glenn Reynolds

JOE PAPPALARDO: Four Questions After the Death of Osama Bin Laden.

Posted at 2:54 pm by Glenn Reynolds

“BIN LADEN BUMP?” A roundup of Obama early polls.

Posted at 2:52 pm by Glenn Reynolds

MICKEY KAUS: “So WikiLeaks publishes a name. The raid happens the very next weekend. Just saying. …”

Posted at 2:44 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WILL “DESTABILIZING” INFLATION IN CHINA drag the U.S. down?

Posted at 2:42 pm by Glenn Reynolds

PROGRESS: Robotic Tongue Lets You French-Kiss Over The Internet.

Posted at 2:32 pm by Glenn Reynolds

IN THE NAME OF “FAIRNESS!” Let’s have a tax on political power. “The wildly ambitious career of President Obama shows that power is more valuable than money. Taxes, by their nature, are levied on things of value. If we want to close the budget gap, we should let the millionaires and billionaires have their tax breaks. Their private property fortunes are comparatively worthless. It’s that treasure beyond the dreams of avarice, public political power, which needs an excise.” Read the whole thing.

Posted at 2:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

YOUR KIND AIN’T WELCOME HERE. Given what I know about past Case Western deanships, it’s not clear who really came out ahead . . . .

Posted at 2:06 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THE CULT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, REVISITED. “And I had to laugh when I read this: ‘What is just about killing a feared terrorist in his home in the middle of Pakistan?’ Only everything.”

Posted at 2:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OUT OF OSAMA’S DEATH, a fake quotation is born. And believe me, because I am Caesar.

Posted at 2:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

TIMELINE: How We Got Bin Laden.

Posted at 1:59 pm by Glenn Reynolds

CLAIM: Having Tonsil Surgery Leads To Weight Gain. “No one knows how to explain it, but studies show a link between the surgery and weight gain. . . . But so far only an association has been confirmed, not a direct causal effect. For now, experts say parents should simply keep an eye on a child’s weight after the surgery.” Hmm. On the other hand, tonsillectomies used to be routine, and kids used to be a lot skinnier.

Posted at 1:56 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WHAT DO THEY TEACH THEM IN SCHOOL NOWADAYS? How to put non-union companies out of business.

UPDATE: Election fraud?

Posted at 1:55 pm by Glenn Reynolds

DUE TO SOME SERVER ISSUES AT PJTV, Helen’s Dark Side Of Altruism show wasn’t working for some people. It’s fixed now. Enjoy!

Posted at 1:38 pm by Glenn Reynolds

MICHAEL BARONE on the Canadian elections.

Posted at 1:37 pm by Glenn Reynolds

IOWAHAWK: American Pride is Back Out of the Closet! “Who is to credit for this rebirth in American national unity? First and foremost, we must cite the leadership of President Obama. Like many Americans – and the Nobel Peace Prize committee – I naively feared he was actually serious when he initially proposed shutting down Guantanamo, trying detainees in American civilian courts, and prior consultation with the international community. Little did I know that this untested young Commander-in-Chief would muster the courage to read his weekly Gallup numbers and, in one daring unilateral extra-judicial targeted hit job, toss aside every single idiotic foreign policy principle of his election campaign. Perhaps most satisfyingly, it was a mission made possible thanks to information extracted by methods he previously banned as ‘illegal torture.’”

Posted at 1:35 pm by Glenn Reynolds

COMPETITION: “A UCLA geography class predicted in 2009 that there was an 88.9% chance that Osama bin Laden was hiding out in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he was killed on Sunday, Science Insider reports.”

UPDATE: Note the correction.

Posted at 1:33 pm by Glenn Reynolds

FORGET PEAK OIL? Peak Everything?

Posted at 1:31 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WHAT IT’S LIKE to live with the Nissan Leaf. “Speaking of charging: We have just now received our first PG&E bill and it looks like the Leaf is responsible for between $90-110 of this past month’s electrical bill. Given that we have covered approximately 1,400 miles in that time, it is fair to say that our operating cost on the car is somewhere in the neighborhood of $0.07/mile. So, at $4.50/gallon, that gives us an equivalency of around 64 mpg. This is not quite the 99 mpg estimated on the EPA sticker, but not bad so far either.”

Posted at 1:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED REPUBLICAN, we’d have a President who killed people around the world and got praised by Dick Cheney. And they were right! “‘I mean, it’s not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden,’ Cheney said.”

Posted at 12:59 pm by Glenn Reynolds

5 THINGS TO KNOW about the NFL lockout.

Posted at 12:04 pm by Glenn Reynolds

IN THE MAIL: Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform.

Posted at 11:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

CHANGE: Inflation’s Sticker Shock Is Back.

Posted at 10:51 am by Glenn Reynolds

JIM TREACHER: Team Six: From Cheney’s Secret Assassination Squad to Obama’s Super-Awesome Cleanup Crew. “Ha ha ha! Mmmm, that’s good irony.”

Posted at 10:46 am by Glenn Reynolds

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD ON OSAMA: Bad Man Down.

President Obama has been able to announce the news that Americans have longed to hear for the last ten years: Osama bin Laden is dead, his corpse flung into the sea.

Better, he is dead at America’s hands.

Better yet, he died a beaten man. His bid for the leadership of global Islam had failed, and Osama lived long enough to see other movements and other ideas shoulder his perverted synthesis aside. Osama was yesterday’s man, and he knew it.

And he knew we got him at the end, too. Plus this:

Above all, this is good for the United States. Presidents Bush and Obama have not gotten everything right since 9/11, but on this matter they both did pretty well. The United States was relentless and determined in hunting him down, pursuing tens of thousands of leads all over the world. We left no doubt in anyone’s mind that getting Osama Bin Laden was a priority, but we did a pretty reasonable job (except when demagogic politicians were out on the stumps) of keeping our eyes open and our mouths shut.

Indeed.

Posted at 10:36 am by Glenn Reynolds

VIDEO: World’s Biggest Gathering Of Whale Sharks.

Posted at 10:31 am by Glenn Reynolds

GOING TO THE MAT, OR THE MATTRESSES: “McConnell is the first District Court nominee ever opposed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Ever. That should tell you something.”

Posted at 10:05 am by Glenn Reynolds

2011 LAW SCHOOL moot court rankings.

Posted at 10:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

ABC NEWS: Source: US Government Believes Pakistan Compound was Built Specifically for Bin Laden. “That this compound was constructed in the neighborhood of former Pakistani military officials and a local military academy is of course calling into question the participation of the local – if not national – government.”

Posted at 9:51 am by Glenn Reynolds

MARKDOWNS ON Mother’s Day Gifts.

Posted at 9:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

ASK DR. HELEN: The Dark Side of Altruism: Is The Road To Hell Paved With Good Intentions?

Posted at 8:59 am by Glenn Reynolds

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Posted at 8:58 am by Glenn Reynolds

REASON TV: Bollywood vs. Bin Laden: Why radical Islam fears pop culture.

Posted at 8:55 am by Glenn Reynolds

INDEPENDENT AGENCY: U.S. Debt Rating Should Be “C.”

Posted at 8:39 am by Glenn Reynolds

IN CANADA, A CIVIL RIGHTS VICTORY? Jeff Soyer says Harper’s big win will mean an end to Canada’s controversial Long Gun Registry. Well, good.

Plus, more on the Canadian elections. “Harper’s winning campaign was centered on taxes. . . now that he’s won the tax cuts will proceed.”

Posted at 8:32 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE HILL: Pakistan faces questions on Osama bin Laden’s conspicuous hideout. “Washington placed Pakistani officials in the rhetorical crosshairs Monday, questioning how they could be ignorant of Osama bin Laden’s hiding place just miles from Islamabad.”

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

HMM: Politico: White House Quietly Changing Story On Bin Laden: “The White House backed away Monday evening from key details in its narrative about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including claims by senior U.S. officials that the Al Qaeda leader had a weapon and may have fired it during a gun battle with U.S. forces. . . . In another discrepancy, Brennan said during his on-the-record briefing that bin Laden’s son Khalid was killed in the attack. However, the official White House transcript had the counterterrorism adviser saying it was another son, Hamza, who perished in the raid.” Fog of war and all that, I suppose.

Posted at 8:28 am by Glenn Reynolds

LIBYA: We’re Fighting A War, But We Really Don’t Want To Hurt Anyone, And If We Do, We Are So Sorry.

Posted at 8:26 am by Glenn Reynolds

WAPO: Congress Agrees On Bin Laden Action But Not Much Else.

Posted at 8:25 am by Glenn Reynolds

SARAH HOYT: Do Not Go Back To Sleep, America.

Posted at 8:23 am by Glenn Reynolds

TODAY ONLY: Law and Order: SVU — any season for $18.99.

Posted at 8:19 am by Glenn Reynolds

EUGENE VOLOKH: Sex-Based Inheritance Rules, Islamic Law, and the Old Testament.

Posted at 7:59 am by Glenn Reynolds

NEVER ONE TO UNDERDO THINGS: Glenn Beck celebrates bin Laden killing with cookies, confetti and a marching band.

On the other hand, Rush Limbaugh “underdripped.”

Posted at 7:25 am by Glenn Reynolds

UNDIPLOMATIC: Hundreds of Pakistanis Rally to Honor Bin Laden.

Posted at 7:04 am by Glenn Reynolds

RAND SIMBERG: Bin Laden’s Burial at Sea: Are We Undermining ‘Moderate’ Muslims? “CAIR and other ‘moderates’ continually remind us that Osama bin Laden was not what Islam is all about. Then why bury him as a devout Muslim?”

Posted at 7:03 am by Glenn Reynolds

BIN LADEN DEAD: A ‘Shot in the Arm’ for America, but No Effect on the Economy. “Around the globe, people are reacting to the news of the death of Osama bin Laden. For the markets, a muted impact.”

Posted at 3:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

SURE, WHO NEEDS ENERGY? EPA to Use New Regulations to Prohibit Hydraulic Fracturing?

Posted at 2:54 am by Glenn Reynolds

TIM BLAIR: Depends Whose Side You’re On.

Posted at 12:20 am by Glenn Reynolds
May 2, 2011

JOHN HINDERAKER: Let’s Hear It For “Cheney’s Assassination Squad.”

Next the lefties will be cheering “enhanced interrogation.” Andrew Sullivan, are you ready for your closeup?

Posted at 11:49 pm by Glenn Reynolds

NANCY PELOSI, 2006: KILLING OSAMA DOESN’T MATTER.

Nancy Pelosi 2011: Killing Osama is Huge!

Posted at 11:38 pm by Glenn Reynolds

PJTV: Seal Team 6: Who Are They And How Did They Get To Osama Bin Laden?

Posted at 10:52 pm by Glenn Reynolds

UH OH: Lower Mississippi River flooding could set records.

Posted at 10:23 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THAT WAS THEN. NOW ASSASSINATION IS GOOD: New Yorker Mag called the special ops team today hailed by Obama, VP Cheney’s “personal assassination team.”

Related: Indian media reporting on Pakistan protecting bin Laden.

And, from Bryan Preston:

On a more serious note, the raid in Pakistan that ended Osama bin Laden’s war crime spree is very good not only for American morale, but for American credibility. The kinetic military action in Libya has been doing a bang-up job of sapping both, and fracturing NATO, for weeks. This unambiguous success helps end that skid, and might just turn President Obama into an actual president. As others have said elsewhere, for the first time in my adult life I’m actually proud of him. I still won’t vote for him and I encourage others to oppose his re-election too, but at least when it was time to make a serious decision, he made the right one.

The Abbottabad raid also tells the world one more time that America is not to be messed with. That’s always a useful message to send.

Particularly at this moment, when doubts on that subject were accumulating.

UPDATE: Flashback: Stephen Colbert blasts Cheney’s Secret Assassination Squad.

Likewise, Seymour Hersh and Keith Olbermann.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Mel Kreitzer writes on Colbert: “They’re going to have to change that title now. Why should Cheney get all the credit?”

Posted at 10:09 pm by Glenn Reynolds

L.A. TIMES: Oh-oh! What if the dead guy wasn’t Osama bin Laden? “Even as American jubiliation continues over presumably nailing the mastermind of 9/11, as Obama celebrated the achievement at a bipartisan White House dinner tonight and as the Democrat plans a Thursday trip to Ground Zero as part of a political victory lap, the National Journal’s Maggie Fox writes a disturbing article this evening.”

I dunno, but if I were Osama, I would have left a series of semi-custom tapes to be released as appropriate after my death: “Bwahahaha, you Americans missed me with your cruise missile/drone attack/special forces raid/sniper/exploding cigar. . . . ” Just to keep the FUD going for a while. I don’t know if Osama did that, but I would keep the possibility in mind.

Posted at 9:58 pm by Glenn Reynolds

AMERICANS TEND NOT TO NOTICE THESE THINGS, but they’re having a big election in Canada today. Canadian readers: Please send me links to any particularly interesting news. Meanwhile, Colby Cosh is blogging them.

UPDATE: Tories retain power, Layton opposition leader, CBC projects. Reader Michael Hanley writes: “I’m in Calgary, an American expat, and hoping that the lessons of the massive defeat of the Liberal party here in CA is a harbinger of the permanent rise of the Conservatives. Looks like the Tories will be close to their own majority outright. They are 13 away from a majority. The worry is the NDP and their good showing. They are enthusiastic, but plan to spend their way into power.”

And more Canadian election-blogging at The Surly Beaver.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Maneuvering? CBC Breaks Results Embargo. “In an apparent mistake — and clear contravention of Elections Canada laws — CBC News Network briefly broadcast results from Atlantic Canada to viewers in other parts of the country that were still voting.”

MORE: Reader Matt Corbett writes: “A big taxing, big spending, corrupt Liberal political party led by an ex-Harvard ‘intellectual’ with little practical experience has just been obliterated by market friendly and fiscally conservative leadership. In Canada. America are you watching?”

Posted at 9:49 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ERIC OLSEN: 9/11 Nightmare Finally Concludes with Death of bin Laden. Well, it is a sort of closure. But there’s still the TSA to deal with.

UPDATE: Reader Robert Sykes writes: “While many of us will feel a sense of closure, I think the real message is to the Pakistanis: We can go anywhere in your country, anywhere, and we can kill anyone, anyone.” It’ll be interesting to see what comes next.

Posted at 9:37 pm by Glenn Reynolds

PLEASE SIR, MAY I HAVE SOME MORE? Libya rebels: Gaddafi should face Bin Laden’s fate. He should. Our policy on him has been a bit less straightforward, however.

Posted at 9:36 pm by Glenn Reynolds
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