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705P PT: Richard Epstein, University of Chicago Law School, Hoover Institution re Obama and the Supreme Court, re Chicago Law Professor Cass Sunstein's updated article "Obama: the University of Chicago Democrat."

720P: L. Gordon Crovitz WSJ Information Age columnist, "Inherently Risky Business," re the unknown unknowns of risk management, re we don't know what we don't know, re animal spirits not reason move markets; the next crisis is guaranteed to be unheard of.  Mention the sweet detail that "unknown unknowns" is short-handed as unk unks.

735P: Roundtable with John Anderson author "Follow the Money"  and Larry Johnson No Quarter, re Obama takes the money, re the FISA accomodation by Steny Hoyer and the House Majority: Feingold of Wisconsin called the deal "a capitulation," by his party.  

750P: Continued.  Re the "Certifcate of Live Birth" document produced on the Daily Kos and challenged as non authentic by the Free Republic site.  Also another Hawaiian citizen's certificate is shown alongside Obama's on the No Quarter site, revealing puzzling inconsistencies.  

805P: Roundtable with John Fund WSJ and Craig Unger Vanity Fair, re the Obamas change their minds and drop out of public financing because they can raise so much money without inconvenience, and the first humdinger "Follow the Money" story since Richard Nixon's Creep campaign of 1972 and the launch of all this campaign finance reform palaver.  Re the New Republic Noam Scheiber inquiry: Is Barack Obama more or less cynical than Bill Clinton 1992?

820P: Continued.  Mention that the sudden apperance at a Democratic Party governors' event on Friday of a highly derivative seal on the podium "Obama for America" has entertained everyone so far, and immeidately reminds of the ambition of President Nixon to upgrade and aggrandize the Secret Service uniforms of his second administration with accessories that the eminent historian Stanley Karnow once called "Ruritanian."  Linking the tyro Mr. Obama and the tyrant  Mr. Nixon is such an outlandish notion that it is impossible to resist.  Fornow, a stroll down memory lane to a snapshot of the amazing fancy dress hats of the Nixon Secret Service, designed, we were once told, by the president himself.  The Obama campaign is self-consciously stylish, and we can hope for a signature clothing line and sunglass product line soon enough, replacing the vapid Sean James with an edgy and ubiquitous  "O."  Bonaparte understood branding, too, with the very successful "N."  I have a theme.  More soon.

835P: Robert Tomsho WSJ re the Don Quixote Age and the new rise of wind power, re the prospect of wind energy from sea-based units.

850P: Ann Marlowe Weekly Standard re Afghanistan turmoil, the Taliban around Kandahar, the border dispute with Pakistan's tribal areas, re NATO to the rescue?

905P: Richard Lapper FT Latin America re the Latin government subsidies for fuel,the fear of inflation, meanwhile  Caracas swimming in oil and SUVs.

920P: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re Hubble, re Mars Phoenix Lander and no water yet.

935P: Benjamin Wittes, Brookings and Hoover, author "Law and the Long War," re Guantanomo, torture, wiretaps, warrants and the supersecret, only seen once FISA court inside the Justice Building.  The problem with FISA?  "It is overdeveloped -- or perhaps misdeveloped."

955P: Exeunt re drill, drill, drill and spot oil trading.

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705P ET: Brooke Goldstein, Middle East Forum, filmmaker,"Making of a Martyr."  "Filming Martyr, we also sat with Zachariah Zubeidi, Israel's most wanted man in the West Bank and the leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades in Jenin. At that time, Al-Aqsa had been directly linked to the recruitment of sixteen child suicide bombers. We spoke with Zachariah in the company of four of his heavily armed friends and a preschool child who sat beside him, fingering his loaded weapon during the interview, switching the safety latch on and off. Zachariah claimed that children came to him so eager to become suicide bombers, that if he 'didn't give them a bomb they would use a knife instead.'"

720P: Clive Thompson NYT Magazine.

735P: Roundtable Jake Schlesinger WSJ re Obama landslide victory indicated in the Ohio and Pa. polls, re Barack "Wanted Bin Laden Dead or Alive" Obama, or Barack Obama's likely National Security Adviser Richard Danzig's  "Winnie the Pooh" foreign policy metaphors.  (This WW1 era photo is the real Winnie of Ontario and later the London Zoo, where the epic hero bear was spied by a child named Christopher Robin Milne).  Also re Nuke McCain, oil drilling flip flop McCain, reNafta-gate and Obama.
750P: Continued re Obama drops-out of federal financing, the first candidate ever to drop-out since Nixon's presidency.

805P: Malcolm Hoenlein and hudna with Hamas will last how many rockets?  Re Hollywood style global media release of the IAF exercise of air strike against unknown enemy staged over the Mediterranean.  Looking for the comic book and the TV spinoff soon, "How We Wiped That Smile Off."

820P: Lou Ann Hammond carlist.com re America goes light on the gas, the long-term effects of $4 plus are here now.  And is there an oil bubble to burst?

835P: Matthew Green FT West African correspondent re Nigeria's new government challenges off-shore drilling contracts awarded by former President Obasanjo's government.  Also, fresh attacks against the Delta fields crimps the oil market again.

850P: August Cole WSJ defense correspondent re the epic length Air Force tanker contract dispute and theMcCain campaign.   Also, the tanker contract kerfluffle inflames turf war and trade war talk.  "There islongstanding tension in Washington between those who want to protect U.S. jobs and keep foreign weapons out of the hands of U.S. forces, and proponents of globalization in the defense markets."

905P: Stephen Power WSJ oil correspondent re Governor Charlie Crist of Florida, a major Vice President prospect,supports off-shore oil drilling.  In the same week, John McCain, the man who is searching for a vigorous youthful running mate, reversed his long standing opposition to drilling off the American coast and joined with Governor Crist.  Meanwhile, President Bush promotes drilling in most directions, while Mr. Obama hesitates.  For now, Mr. Obama opposes off-shore drilling, but this is a moving story with his campaign, as with NAFTA, FISA, Jerusalem, perhaps Iraq, taxes, and healthcare -- and then there is campaign finance reform.

920P: Fiona Harvey FT environment correspondent  re US government discovers carbon trading and emissions controls.  "Carbon trading elsewhere has been growing solidly since 2005, when the European Union started its trading system and the Kyoto protocol came into effect. Last year the market was worth about $64bn (£33bn, €41bn) according to the World Bank, more than doubling from $31bn in 2006.  Yet the value would soar to more than $3,000bn a year by 2020 if the US introduced carbon trading, Point Carbon estimates. "

935P: Arthur Herman, author, the magisterial "Gandhi and Churchill." Nightmares today across the Ummah stem from the crash of the British Empire and the catastrophe of the Partition wars that created turbulent Pakistan and semi-dysfunctional India. Where does Al Qaeda hide? Inside the unending catastrophe.  Following Herman, to the end of his life, Churchill blamed Gandhi for provoking the slaughter of the partition in order to drive the British authority into the sea.  With this formula, Gandhi is the author of the rogue state of Pakistan, along with its nuclear proliferation, naked tribal massacres and bottomless cauldron of hatred and poison such as the Taliban.  Mark Falcoff's admiring notice in Commentary observes, "Churchill's basic point of view in his imperial capacity was that 'India' was an abstraction..."  Churchill said of Gandhi, "... fanatic and an ascetic of the fakir type well known in the East..."  The argument between them continues in eternity.

955P: Exeunt re Mars no water yet, Iowa water plenty.

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705P Pacific Time: Keith Cavelle, filmmaker re the school children of devastated and under threat Sichuan Province in China, re recovery and reconciliation with California school children in Sherman Oaks.

720P: Joel Millman, WSJ, re global food security in crisis and the decades of mismanagement of crops, farming, tariffs, irrigation. For example, Haiti was once a rice bowl. Now, because of low tariffs and American intervention, Haiti is rice dependent on US handouts, and the Haitian farmers are abandoned without useful guidance to developing profitable crops.

735P: Political roundtable with Larry Johnson of No Quarter blog and Bill Whalen of the Hoover Institution, re the Obama campaign surges past the McCain campaign in the polls, and re the web smear war of the three powers, the Obamas, Clintons and McCains and their fellow travelers, re the birth of PUMA, the "dead-enders" of the Clinton supporters.  PUMA is "Party Unity My A--"
750P: Continued.

805P: Political roundtable with John Fund of Opinionjournal.com and Craig Ungerof Vanity Fair, re the hiring and firing of Jim Johnson, re the Susan Rice and John Kerry knock of how McCain confuses Iraq, re the Fight the Smears op at the Obamas, re the Rezko letter to Judge Am J. St. Eve claiming that Fitzgerald is pressuring the convicted Rezko to live about Obama and Blagojevich.
820P: Continued.

835P: Jay Solomon, WSJ, re Radio Farda, the US backed radio station broadcasting in Farsi into the rogue state or Iran, re the tension between reporting the news and taking money from a state sponsor, the the Tehran persecution of Farda reporters.

850P: Zahid Hussain, WSJ, from Islamabad, re US air strike on Taliban and Al Q in Konar Province in Afghanistan, re protest by the frail P.M. Yousef Raza Gilani Pakistani government claiming that US helicopters launched counterattack on Pakistani soldiers.

905P: Steve Diamond, Santa Clara University Law School, from his Global Labor and the Global Economy blog, re Obama and Ayers and the Ayers supported education theory of compensation to the poorly educated, called the "repayment of 400 years of the education debt to people of color." This is the second part of the conversation re "Who Sent Obama?" and "When did Obama meet Bill Ayers?"

920P: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re Mars Phoenix Lander soil sample week, re ISS and Discovery mission.

935P: Robert Patton, author, "Patriot Pirates," re the privateers empowered by the American revolution and the Continental Congress to burn, destroy and capture British vessels and coincidentally make an immodest fortune for their patriot owners. Note: Patton is the grandson of General George S. Patton.

955P: Exeunt re biofuels and the price of gasoline with Lou Ann Hammond, carlist.com.

705P ET: Introduction with regard the upcoming conversation on Afghanistan with MP Daoud Sultanzoy of Ghanzi Province and Ann Marlowe writing in the WSJ.  Also with ragrd the conversation with Douglas Feith on two critical months in the Iraq War, August 2003 and April 2004.

720P: Daniel Seaman, Director Israeli Government Press Office, re foreign media and the now demonstrably phony and staged French TV2  al-Durah blood libel, 2000.

735P: Roundtable professionals Vaughn Ververs CBS.com and Jake Schlesinger WSJ Bill re Obama sort-of takes command, re Bush in Europe, the last hurrah, the the opening polls show Obama 47, McCain 41, and should McCain be 21?

750P: Continued

805P: Larry Kudlow CNBC Kudlow & Company re the dollar vs the price of oil, re worldwide inflation, re the McCain economic plan that doesn't much exist, re drill drill drill.

820P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re Hamas continues to rocket the Negev, no Israeli answer, re the Iran threats grow and so do the IDF aims.

835P: Matthew Kaminski WSJ Europe re how NATO has prospered during the Bush Administration.

850P: Ann Marlowe and Daoud Sultanzoy of Afghanistan re Pashtun reluctance, Taliban resistance, the long war of counter-insurgency in Afghanistan.

905P: Stephen Fidler Financial Times re the decline and fall of Al Qaeda, almost.  Al Q has lost all but marginal support of Arabia and is in decline in Europe, even among the group of guys syndrome that produced the 5/05 strike in London.  A major crit is that Al Q slaughters women and children with their shahid ops in Iraq, Algiers, Morroco.  When confronted, No. 2 bump on his head Dr. Alzawahiri equivocates with routine hate-mongering moral equivalency:  "We have not killed innocents. In fact, we fight those who kill innocents: those who kill innocents are the Americans, the Jews, the Russians, the French and their agents. Were we insane killers of innocents, it would be possible for us to kill thousands of them in the crowded markets, but we are confronting the enemies of the Muslims and targeting them, and during this, an innocent might fall."

920P: Patty Kim, director, "Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story" PBS ,re the 13 year old Japanese schoolgirl abducted by North Korean ops in 1977 and kept hidden for 20 years until her parents learned her fate.

935P: Doug Feith, author, "War and Decision," re the Bush Administration and the brief, unhappy search for WMD, the blindness toward Oil for Food, and other mysteries.  Will focus on two critical months, August 2003 and April 2004, when the war turned from success to failure to catastrophe.  Studied luncheon remarks by Mr. Feith recently at a Hudson Institute event.  Exceedingly professorial, a large, friendly Wilsonian gentleman with a collegiate enthusiasm for making himself clear in animated footnotes. 

955P: Exeunt with report on Mars Phoenix Lander finding water ice, unconfirmed, and beginning sample testing of soil.

 705P PT: Thaddeus McCotter 11th Michigan (R) re Tianammen Squareanniversary, re 2008 Olympics, re Cadre Uyghur interrogate GITMO, re military tech transfer to Cadre

720P: Natasha Korecki Chicago Sun-Times re Rezko conviction blog

850P: Mei Fong Wall Street Journal from Sichuan on Chinese protests lost children in deathtraps schools of Sichuan Province

935P: David Talbott author "Brothers" re the shooting, 40 years later, unanswered questions

955P: Tale of Two Planets, Worldwide inflation and food riots, Mars Phoenix  Lander 

705P ET: A.O "Tony" Scott NYT re Hollywood dystopian architecture and themodern city, a conversation about four city fantasy movies that came true, "Metropolis," "Alphaville," "Blade Runner," and "Code 46."

720P: Andre Dubus III author "The Garden of Last Days"

735P: Vaughn Ververs CBS.com and Bill Whalen Hoover Institution roundtable re Obama vs. McCain week 1

750P: Roundtable continued

805P: Malcolm Hoenlein Conference of Presidents re Iran threat, AIPAC McCain vs AIPAC Obama

820P: Larry Kudlow CNBC "Kudlow & Company" re the dollar and oil in NRO

835P: Steve Diamond Santa Clara University Law School re blog "When Did Barack Obama Meet Bill Ayers?"

850P: Bob Zimmerman author "Universe in a Mirror" re Mars Phoenix Lander, re Discovery to ISS

905P: Aaron Klein WND re Hamas unendorses Obama, re the links between Obama and Nation of Islam, re Olmert talks war and peace simultaneously

920P: Bill Carter author "Red Summer"

935P: Eric Roston author "The Carbon Age"

955P: LA preview