The International House of Bacon

* So the FLDS tipster? Apparently, just some woman from Colorado. This sort of thing really pisses me off. In retrospect so much didn’t add up and now look what’s happening. Are the one or two hits they might make on this enough to justify the situation in reality? I dunno. Interesting aside - the accused hoaxer? Pledged Obama delegate.

* This article at Reason was a little eye-opening to me, and might explain why Obama’s connections to Wright/Rezko/Ayers don’t seem to matter to Democrats. Makes sense in a way, even if I disagree.

* Damn Interesting on Operation Pastorius. Cool history story of the day.

* A couple interesting posts at Volokh about a recent overturn of a sex offender registry law that was based in post-New Deal jurisprudence on interstate commerce. The law, which required sex offenders to register when they crossed state lines, was overturned as it had nothing to do with interstate commerce. If there’s anything I’d love to see, it’d be that we go back to a basic concept of what interstate commerce actually means as opposed to the whole “if X crosses state lines, it’s commerce” concept we currently deal with.

* Obama taking nods from Jay-Z. I’ll give Obama credit - he is “with it.”

* The story of a Wisconsin town, an anonymous blogger, and the police attempting to harass him. Really crazy stuff.

* Global warming? Voters don’t care. Meanwhile, another huge oil field is discovered, this time in Brazil, and I paid $3.29/gallon yesterday.

* A great piece on the debate last week:

Debates are held not just to learn the details of the candidates’ health care plans — which given the complexity of the issue will probably be considerably altered if they are ever actually put on the table — but also to learn who the candidates are. And that includes learning about which guys who live in their neighborhood they chose to befriend.

* Jimmy Carter: “When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” While I know what he was getting at here…

* I’m not a big Karl Rove fan, but he absolutely destroyed MSNBC and 60 Minutes over the weekend.

* Barack Obama’s costly Senate bill. It’d be nice for someone in power to stand up against this…

* It’s been 10 years since El Salvador moved to a private social security system, to excellent results. Why can’t we have that here?

Happy Patriots Day! Go Bruins!