Summer is slowly ending up here. Carpe diem. We're kayaking on the upper Hudson River this morning.
Money Can Buy You a Baby Girl. But What About Happiness?
For self-defense: .22 beats .45, but shotgun beats all
Kodiak Bears, Up Close and Personal, in the Alaskan Wilderness A newly renovated retreat gives visitors a chance to see the Kodiaks in their element
Old Urbanist: Places That Aren't Car-free, But Should Be
Tawdry Sex and the Decline of Yale
Ten Reasons to Ignore the U.S. News College Rankings
5 Signs He's Cheating
Our friend Tom Brewton of The View From 1776 has a book out: The Liberal Jihad: The Hundred Year War Against The Constitution
Column: The sun never sets on Obama’s failures
Where are his popular successes?
Hewitt: President Chauncey Gardiner, The Press and The Collapse
Steyn:
...don’t worry, when your president’s so cool he’s doing gigs in Vegas, what happens in Tunis stays in Tunis.
As a Canadian, I’m interested to see that America has belatedly adopted the divided responsibilities of the Westminster system. Proceeding from the Pimp with the Limp show to Letterman to Beyoncé and back again, Barack Obama makes a perfectly adequate (if somewhat cheesy and downmarket) ceremonial queen.
"Ceremonial queen"? Ouch.
Knish: We're better than they are:
Our experiment at civilizing the savage failed miserably in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will go on failing as often as we keep attempting it. And at the end of the experiment, there will be burning embassies and savages crying, "There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger", the same words that the bearded bandit who was one of the first Muslims and their many times great-grandfather was crying out as he was raping the shamelessly unveiled tribal woman who would become their many times great-grandmother.
"There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger" means that the Muslim need not waste time worrying about his conscience. His conscience is a Koran and that book says that he's entitled to kill any time that an infidel offends Islam by mocking his prophet, walking in front of him or building a skyscraper that is taller than a mosque. The Muslim need not waste time pondering the ethical implications of killing another human being to know that he is better than we are. His little black book assures him that he is better than us, that he has every right to kill us and that if he fails, he will be raping demon virgins who are so anorexic that their bones can be seen through their flesh.
But, we oh what good people we are, we will apologize for having an embassy and for having free speech and for getting our embassy in the way of their mob and our free speech in the way of our religious sensibilities.
Washington Post: Hey, Obama’s Chevy Volt Is A Real Stinker
More Obama drug and homosexuality allegations (video)
Is this stuff true?
MSNBC agrees with Egyptian government. Says Jonah:
Are we really going to hold what we can say or do in our own country hostage to the passions of foreign lynch mobs?
Echoes of "Better red than dead." Cowering submission seems to be a reflex.
Speaking of dhimmitude, Obama submits to Brotherhood, asks for suppression of anti-Islam video
Can't stop bending over bowing
Al Qaeda Flag Flies Over U.S. Embassy In Tunisia
HuffPo Contributor: ‘Why Should I Care’ About Death of Ambassador Stevens
Romney is right: In embassy incidents, Obama administration's first instinct was to sympathize with attackers
Soul Brothers: The Arab Street and The Mainstream Media:
...our media, terrified that their hero would be unmasked and themselves also then revealed as shallow and unworthy, focused their ire on Mitt Romney while the world burned, hoping that Romney had made a “gaffe” even when it was clear that his analysis, if not his timing, was correct.
Meanwhile, our government and its State Department have been revealed to be criminally negligent in the protection of their own people.
The roots of this negligence are a willed ignorance of the realities of the Middle East.
Obama: The Weak Horse
Romney's not doing badly in the polls
The World from Berlin: 'Obama's Middle East Policy Is in Ruins'
