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Eugene Volokh has some thoughts on that Ninth Circuit decision. Not bad; this is more of a start. However, he fails to recognize that the states prrrrobably have the right to change their definition of militia with the times. He also doesn't touch the question of what "bear arms" means. I'd really like to see someone quoting a contemporary usage of "bear arms" outside the military context.

While I'm on the subject, here's a Volokh article in the National Review. It doesn't really address the Ninth Circuit decision, but it does have intelligent things to say about evolving standards. How Appealing comments on the article, somewhat snidely. Well, OK, it's just a comment on the timeline.

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While I'm thinking about Volokh, here's another National Review article he wrote recently. Executive summary: we shouldn't worry about military discrimination based on sexual preference, because the military does so much good for us.

Well. There you go.

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Possibly that New York Times article on the economies of China and India wasn't so great after all. The New Republic has more. I'm going to take credit for wondering how much foreign investment has to do with the differences anyhow; NRO suggests that a lot of the apparent Chinese economic growth is simply due to the amount of foreign investment flowing into China. (Link via Electrolite.)

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Daily Kos has an excellent summary of Trent Lott's recent comments on Strom Thurmond. I, of course, have Cliffs Notes:

Trent Lott is our Senate Majority Leader. Strom Thurmond is the guy who ran for President in 1948 on a segregationist platform. Senator Lott's comments include "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."