Carried out by fewer than two dozen inbred, illiterate goatherd.

You didn't hear about it?  Of COURSE not.  It's an election year.  They broke into Camp Bastion (an unfortunate choice of name) in Afghanistan, killing Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Raible, and blowing up a squadron’s worth of Harriers. [emphasis mine -admin] And, even though it was the third international humiliation for the United States in as many days, it didn’t even make the papers. Because the court eunuchs at the media are too busy drooling over Obama’s appearance as what he calls “eye candy” on the couch between Barbara and Whoopi.

Do a Google search on “Camp Bastion”, and it’s all BBC, baby, all BBC! Add the word “assault” to the search and you do find a story in the New York Times…in the “world” section, under Asia Pacific, with an headline about the Taliban’s reach.

“A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.”

- Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (1915-2002)

I guess they ARE his target demographic since he's created so MANY of them:

Unemployed Workers for Obama!

he wants us to vote for him in 2012 so he can keep the promises he made in 2008 but broke over the last four years?

Obama Reveals Four Point Rehash of Unfulfilled First-Term Promises

My favorite part is the "we'll create a million new manufacturing jobs."

I'm reminded of Steve Martin when he hosted Saturday Night Live on January 21, 1978.  Martin explained how to be a millionaire and never pay taxes. Martin said, “First … get a million dollars. Now … you say, Steve … what do I say to the tax man when he comes to my door and says, ‘You … have never paid taxes.’? Two simple words. Two simple words in the English language: ‘I forgot!’ How many times do we let ourselves get into terrible situations because we don’t say ‘I forgot’?”

asked by Joseph Knippenberg:

President Obama’s generally pretty good speech at the U.N. contains this paragraph:

The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. But to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see in the images of Jesus Christ that are desecrated, or churches that are destroyed, or the Holocaust that is denied.

Is it slander, for example, to affirm that, since Jesus Christ is Lord, the prophet of Islam is a false prophet? Or are we just talking about gratuitous insults?

Does the toleration so eloquently celebrated by the President swallow (and marginalize) all truth claims, or does it leave room for my affirmation of the exclusive truth of my religion?

Just asking.

The View's Shepherd Challenges Romney: 'How Can You Handle a Country If You Can't Handle Five Women?'

I'd rather that, than the idiot that can get along with thefive women but can't handle the country.

Of course, Obama has 80% approval on The View.  If elected, Romney's will be perilously close to 50%

Dick "The Toe Sucker" Morris has an insightful article over at Newsbusters

I've ranted several times regarding the use of computer models in theBCS that aren't predictive.  Same applies to climate models.  And political polling.  I'm not alone.  Flashback: Rasmussen Most Accurate Pollster in 2008 is a good look back at who gets it right, who doesn't, and why.

And some outlest aren't even TRYING to get it right anymore. 

In its Iowa poll this week, Public Policy Polling (PPP) skewed its sample to advantage President Barack Obama and also asked respondents questions worded to shade their view of Romney negatively. 

PPP is a progressive organization that does polling for Daily Kos and the Service Employees International Union.

This week, PPP’s Iowa poll was comprised of 37% Democrats, 33% Republicans, and 30% independents. Obama led Mitt Romney by seven points, 51% to 44%, in the D+4 poll. 

PPP President Dean Debnam proclaimed Obama was “starting to pull away in Iowa” and referenced the organization’s August Iowa poll, which had Obama leading Romney by two points. This week's poll fell in step with the mainstream media narrative that Obama is pulling away from Romney in the country’s most important swing states. 

What PPP conveniently did not mention, though, was when PPP polled Iowa in August, its poll was comprised of 38% Republicans, 35% Democrats, and 27% independents. In that R+3 poll, Obama led Romney by two points, 47% to 45%. Debnam noticed Obama’s lead in Iowa was steadily declining last month and said Iowa deserved “its perceived swing state status.” 

But after swinging its sample by 7 points this month in favor of Democrats, Debnam ensured Obama would get a boost, even though Romney still received nearly the same percentage of support (Romney got 45% in the R+3 August poll and 44% in the D+4 September poll). 

One of the reasons I LOVE my Ethics class is I get to teach, reread, study, contemplate, etc., the classics.  In light of the silliness that has transpired recently regarding the savages andthe NYC Mass Transit system (and Bengazi), this passage from John Stuart Mill is appropriate.

Let us suppose, therefore, that the government is entirely at one with the people, and never thinks of exerting any power of coercion unless in agreement with what it conceives to be their voice. But I deny the right of the people to exercise such coercion, either by themselves or by their government. The power itself is illegitimate. The best government has no more title to it than the worst. It is as noxious, or more noxious, when exerted in accordance with public opinion, than when in opposition to it. If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. Were an opinion a personal possession of no value except to the owner; if to be obstructed in the enjoyment of it were simply a private injury, it would make some difference whether the injury was inflicted only on a few persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

How far we’ve gone in our understanding!

speaks.

He has been since elction night 2000.

Pat Caddell speaks truth.

“First of all, we’ve had 9 days of lies…If a president of either party…had had a terrorist incident and gotten on an airplane [after remarks] and flown off to a fundraiser in Las Vegas, they would have been crucified…it should have been, should have been, the equivalent, for Barack Obama, of George Bush’s “flying over Katrina” moment. But nothing was said at all. Nothing will be said. [...] It is [unacceptable] to specifically decide that you will not tell the American people information they have a right to know. [The MSM] has made themselves the enemy of the American people. It is a threat to the very future of the country; we’ve crossed a new and frightening line on the slippery slope, and it needs to be talked about.”

Yup.