The International House of Bacon

Gotta be fast:

* Hamas might not like Obama anymore following his AIPAC speech (and then possibly shifted again). What’s stunning to me is Obama’s complete incoherence on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East. At this stage of the game, I don’t think he has a clear policy to it - from having people like Samantha Power and Zbignew Brzezinski on his campaign staff to this most recent speech, I feel as if he’s taken every position possible on the area. Any explanation for this?

* The Washington, DC violence plan is to block off entire neighborhoods, do card checks, and send people away if they don’t have “legitimate business” in some areas. Say WHAT? Orin Kerr at Volokh discusses its legality.

* One of the Marines from the so-called Hathida Massacre in Iraq was acquitted on all charges yesterday. Of the eight marines originally put in the crosshairs for this, five of the cases were dropped and this one failed. There are two remaining, and the most serious one has been postponed indefinitely. Puts a bit of something against John Murtha’s allegation that the marines “killed innocent civilians in cold blood.” Interesting campaign note: Obama was questioned regarding Murtha’s statement back when he made it, and Obama’s response was that he “would never second guess John Murtha… I think he’s somebody who knows of which he speaks.” I wonder if he’ll be backtracking on that at all.

* The Next Right on demographic realities regarding Ohio for November.

* I don’t doubt that this has the best intentions for Alzheimer’s patients, but this still makes me very, very uncomfortable. I fully realize I’m way too close to this issue to even be remotely objective on it, though.

* Finally, a Facebook app to act as a clearinghouse for Wii friend codes. Yikes, did Nintendo screw the pooch on that one.