The International House of Bacon

* The big news since Wednesday/Thursday was the Guantanamo decision. I was actually fairly pleased with the ruling until I read Scalia’s dissent, which really brought home a few thoughts regarding Kennedy’s overreliance on internationalism and the basic points about how we’ve essentially always done things in regards to foriegn fighters. While Scalia’s dissent isn’t quite as biting to me given his appeals to emotion on this issue, the point remains that we’re again faced with a decision that is proper as a matter of policy, but maybe not as much in terms of Constitutionalism - that yes, as a matter of policy and logic, we should treat foriegn fighters the way we’d want to be treated, but finding that in the Constitution in a situation like this is less clear, and notably wasn’t 2 years ago when the Court essentially instructed the Congress as to how to proceed. Of course, now an amendment is being floated, which is also the wrong idea, but that’s the kind of messes you get into when it comes to a poor judiciary. Ah well.

* Part 3 of Cato’s series on the relative importance of climate change is up.

* Ireland says no to the latest European Union treaty. I still can’t quite convince myself that the EU can work long term.

* Power Line goes to town on Obama’s Social Security plan. A must read for today.

* Another fun Obama story: Obama blames the government for high gas prices, repeating the allegation that the energy policy was “written by and for the big oil and gas companies.” This didn’t stop Obama from voting in favor of it. Also of note - McCain voted against it. I’m sure the bill wasn’t what he thought it was, or perhaps he was actually referencing a different bill, right?

* FivethirtyEight notes historically recent polling trends. Interestingly, the polling front-runner in June usually loses some significant support by the time the actual vote comes around.

* Take the windfall profits quiz.

* Introducing the new genetically-modified bug that poops oil.

* The MPAA? Still doesn’t get it. I’m a pretty big copyright booster, I could actually stand for broader expansion of it, but that doesn’t mean that the copyright holders shouldn’t embrace reality, either.

* Finally, two fun movie-related links: popcorn economics and Norton and The Incredible Hulk.

Interestingly enough, that’s all I’ve got.