OBAMA: How the Jewish Lobby Works.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: “Why is the U.N. holding conferences about rising food prices, but not spiraling oil prices that in various ways account for them? Somehow in the globalist mindset the agricultural producing world is more culpable than the non-productive OPEC world.” Probably a differential in bribery rather than in philosophy, accounts for this . . . .

Local reaction has been less than enthusiastic to a bill introduced last week by Gov. David Paterson that would cap school property tax increases.

LOL, how about asking the Tax payers, instead of the people looking forward to spending those taxes?

Idiots.

FRED KAGAN:

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

The two men brought different backgrounds to the test, of course. In January 2007, McCain had been a senator for 10 years and had served in the military for 23 years. Obama had been a senator for 2 years and before that was a state legislator, lawyer, and community organizer. But neither presidential candidates nor the commander in chief gets to choose the tests that history brings. Once in office, the one elected must

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EFFORTS TO PREPARE THE MEDIA BATTLESPACE:

The Left is very invested in both preemptively delegitimizing criticism of Obama and framing opponents as de facto bigots.

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.

THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN ON HILLARY’S WITHDRAWAL: “And so it was interesting that she barely touched on foreign policy in her concession speech today. She mentioned Iraq only twice, she mentioned terrorism only once, and she didn’t mention Iran at all. After all, her serious approach to each of these issues proved liability in the Democratic primary. She spent years building a strong record on national security, and in the end her party opted for a candidate with no national security experience at all.”

SOON TO BE A PRIORITY FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Ban “assault knives”!

On a more serious note, a look at Obama and gun control.

RICHARD POSNER ON the costs of infrastructure deterioration. With a followup from Gary Becker.

IN THE MAIL: David J. Williams’ The Mirrored Heavens. It’s blurbed by a bunch of bigshot science fiction writers, including Stephen Baxter and L.E. Modesitt, Jr., it’s about space elevators, and the cover looks like one of Richard Morgan’s Takeshi Kovacs novels. That’s enough to get my attention, anyway.