REMEMBERING OBAMA AND HONDURAS: “Please compare Obama 2009 to this year’s Obama, reacting to events in Arab countries.”

TIMOTHY DALRYMPLE: An Open Letter To A College Freshman. “Appreciate your professors and learn what you can from them, but do not venerate them and do not view them as the tribunes of the truth. Sadly, the better I came to know my professors, the less their opinions swayed me.”

Having spent my childhood among professors, I came to that stage rather early . . . .

THE ANGUISH OF COFFEE. Well, give those sixties housewives a break. They didn’t have access to modern technology.

WHAT HYPERINFLATION looks like today. “All meat has gone to Russia.”

Plus this: “If only these people had known in advance what happens when a deranged Keynesian madman is in charge of it all… Oh well, they will learn now.” Good thing that can’t happen here. Stupid foreigners. When will they learn?

THE AMAZING, colossal syllabus.

LIBERTARIANS AND DEMOCRATS: Respectfully disagreeing with Will Wilkinson.

AT AMAZON, the Bedding & Bath Outlet.

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS: Hurricane Irene: Some Lessons Learned.

WHAT YOU THINK YOU LOOK LIKE, vs. what you really look like.

FIVE IMPORTANT CHILDHOOD ARCHETYPES the movies somehow overlooked.

AT AMAZON, bestselling knives.

COLLECTIVE ACTION: New Media and the People-Powered Uprisings.

CHANGE: Obama shelves EPA smog rule in huge defeat for environmental groups.

Related: White House moves to limit fallout from retreat on clean-air rule.

UPDATE: Reader Joel Mackey writes that this is Rick Perry, Winning the Future:

Have not seen this analysis yet in the articles I have read, but it is pretty obvious that not only is it a cry of UNCLE by the 0bama admin on job killing regulations, but it is a case of removing a stick with which your opponent is going to beat you.

Can you imagine next August, 107 farenheit across Texas with rolling brownouts and blackouts and Rick Perry pointing directly at Obama administration policy and its real world effects. Oops, hard to spin that.

On a side note, if they ever do carry thru with the new regulations, look to see a lot more natural gas fired generators installed as a home appliance.

Yeah. I wouldn’t mind having one of those anyway, except that my power basically never goes out.

THIS IS THE SORT OF THING WE NEED TO BE HEARING AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL: Tennessee’s state agencies told to prepare for 5 percent cuts.

FASCISM: “The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.”

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Will This ‘Major’ Jobs Speech Be Any Different Than Others?

For more than two years the president has been giving “important” jobs speeches — and no wonder. After an $830 billion stimulus and multiple “jobs” bills since, the employment picture has only deteriorated. The economy added zero jobs in August, and 2.4 million fewer people work today than when Obama took office.

Yet despite the advance billing on all those previous speeches, none was anything remotely “bold” or “imaginative,” something Democratic lawmakers and Obama’s liberal media cheerleaders are now hoping for with his next one.

Instead, in every speech, Obama simply dusted off the same crabbed list — more money for roads and “clean energy,” various temporary tax credits, more unemployment insurance, temporary payroll tax cuts — despite the fact that each has already been tried on his watch, and all proved to be expensive failures.

More at the link.

THE SHOCKING TRUTH about electric cars.

APRIL ATKINS: The World’s Strongest Teenager?

BLUE ORIGIN SPACESHIP CRASHES, but the photos are pretty cool.

FIVE WAYS TO trick out your dorm room.

FOLLOW THE MONEY: Investigators Probe White House Role in Massive Energy Loan.

THE NEWLY NEOCONSERVATIVE New York Times? Hey, if you’re not a neocon when a black Democrat is President and waging war, it’s because you’re racist.

ROGER KIMBALL: “The irritating thing about the weather reporting is that it is all hysteria, all the time.”

THE PROBLEM WITH keeping astronauts fed on a 5-year Mars mission.

HOW BAD will the jobs picture get? Worse than they’ll admit, I predict.