MR. PRESIDENT: TAKE DOWN THIS FILM!

LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Inspector General: 88 Federal Agencies Have Not Paid Employment Taxes or Filed Returns. “Federal agencies are exempt from paying Federal income taxes; however, they are not exempt from meeting their employment tax deposits and related reporting requirements. As of December 31, 2011, 70 Federal agencies with 126 delinquent tax accounts owed approximately $14 million in unpaid taxes. In addition, 18 Federal agencies had not filed or were delinquent in filing 39 employment tax returns. Federal agencies should be held to the same filing and paying standards as all American taxpayers.”

Yeah, but nobody will go to jail, or see their bank accounts frozen for this.

BUMPER STICKER OF THE DAY.

(H/T: Headline via Doug Ross.)

ACLU: BUSH ADMINISTRATION QUADRUPLED WARRANTLESS WIRETAPS: Just kidding. It was Obama and Holder.

A COURSE FOR PROFESSIONALS interested in transitioning into nanotechnology careers.

SECOND AMENDMENT IGNORANCE:  Theresa Brown, a nurse, writes in this online op-ed at the New York Times about the “Human Cost of the Second Amendment.”  Among her pearls of wisdom:

Gun advocates say that guns don’t kill people, people kill people. The truth, though, is that people with guns kill people, often very efficiently, as we saw so clearly and so often this summer. And while there can be no argument that the right to bear arms is written into the Constitution, we cannot keep pretending that this right is somehow without limit, even as we place reasonable limits on arguably more valuable rights like the freedom of speech and due process.

No one argues that it should be legal to shout “fire” in a crowded theater; we accept this limit on our right to speak freely because of its obvious real-world consequences. Likewise, we need to stop talking about gun rights in America as if they have no wrenching real-world effects when every day 80 Americans, their friends, families and loved ones, learn they obviously and tragically do.

Duh.  My question is:  What liberal Kool-Aid is this lady drinking?  The Supreme Court, in both Heller v. D.C. (2008) and McDonald v. City of Chicago  (2010), made it abundantly clear that recognizing that the “right of the people to keep and bear arms” under the Second Amendment was, like all other constitutional rights, not absolute.  Indeed, the majority in those decisions went so far as to assure Americans, in dicta, that laws restricting guns in “sensitive places” or possession by the mentally ill and felons would be perfectly constitutional.

Would someone please educate the citizenry about the Constitution????  SOON!!!

NETANYAHU, ROMNEY TO SPEAK TODAY: “The Weekly Standard has learned that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has scheduled a phone call for late morning Friday with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.”

LAME SCIENCE, Republicans-Are-Crazy Edition.

GUY SENT TO JAIL FOR LINKING TO COPYRIGHTED CONTENT. In Britain. “In his writing on Surfthechannel, Vickerman expresses amazement and fury at the prosecution and the lengths that Fact went to in order to mount it, especially after the Crown Prosecution Service declined to mount a case under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (CDPA). Other cases where links websites have been tried under forms of the CDPA, including TVlinks and Newzbin, have not found them guilty of infringement. The CPS also declined to prosecute Richard O’Dwyer, who ran tvshack.net, another links site.”

UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE: Elizabeth Warren defender: “With this bombshell, I would no longer view the case against her as weak.”

This is somewhat old, but just too cool.  The question is, how do you find the tiny maidens to feed it?

SEEN ON FACEBOOK:

This feels wrong.  It just does.

Celebrating a lost decade in housing!  Whoo Whoo….

To every woman who thinks there’s a giant conspiracy of males to keep them down — it’s true.  And the sneaky men are even in your brain!

EDUCATIONAL POLITICS: Harvard Tells The Freshmen What To Read.

ELECTION 2012: An Army Of Davids vs. . . An Army of Peggy Josephs?

They’ll turn us all into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please.

Related: Where Do “Obama Phones” Come From?

BEN DOMENECH: Base More Mature Than GOP Elites. “One of the most interesting aspects of the 2012 election is how the tea party movement has proven more politically mature than the center-right’s self-styled elites, and those who spent much of the Republican primary season chiding swathes of people for being insufficiently pragmatic have turned out to be far more childish than the conservative base.” I’ve noticed that, too.

Plus, from Stacy McCain:

Remarkable irony: Many of those conservative now working hardest to elect Mitt Romney are conservatives who spent the primary campaign supporting other candidates in an effort to prevent Romney’s nomination as the “It’s His Turn” choice of the party establishment. Meanwhile, the elite pundits who spent the primary season nitpicking every fault of Romney’s rivals are now the first to raise the white flag of surrender, abandoning hope in the candidate that they insisted was the only one in the GOP field with any realistic chance to win in November.

Whoever wins in November, those folks will lose. Related thoughts from Elizabeth Foley and Ross Douthat.

HIDE THE DECLINE: “More than 100 million people will die and global economic growth will be cut by 3.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030 if the world fails to tackle climate change, a report commissioned by 20 governments said on Wednesday,” according to Reuters.

So today’s “unexpectedly” horrid economic report is actually good news, right Senators Kerry and McCaskill?

ROMNEY AND RYAN get specific. “It seems the campaign has finally accepted the notion that voters want more meat on the bones. Indeed, this was among the top reasons for selecting Ryan in the first place — his ability to articulate a conservative reform agenda. Meanwhile, Romney was explaining in Ohio why it is critical to keep taxes low on small business.”

KRAUTHAMMER TELLS ROMNEY, “GO BIG”:  Charles Krauthammer’s latest column rightly advises Mitt Romney to stop the small ball, take the bull by the horns and go all in (how’s that for mixing metaphors?).  He missed the perfect opportunity, post-Libya, to attack the Obama appeasement doctrine head-on.  But it’s not just this one, isolated lost golden opportunity.  In Krauthammer’s words:

It makes you think how far ahead Romney would be if he were actually running a campaign. His unwillingness to go big, to go for the larger argument, is simply astonishing.

For six months, he’s been matching Obama small ball for small ball. A hit-and-run critique here, a slogan-of-the-week there. His only momentum came when he chose Paul Ryan and seemed ready to engage on the big stuff: Medicare, entitlements, tax reform, national solvency, a restructured welfare state. Yet he has since retreated to the small and safe.

Calling Romney aides:  Are you listening?

GARY MOORE on Mexico’s gruesome massacre era.

WHEN BIBI MET MITT: “I don’t know what happened,” the Anchoress writes. “But a picture is worth a thousand words.”

IS THE SUN HEADING FOR AN EXTENDED QUIET PERIOD? I don’t care for the term “hibernation.” But it’s feeling more and more like Fallen Angels all the time.

I LINK, YOU DECIDE.

Max Boot: Five Reasons to Intervene in Syria Now.

Gary Gambill: Intervention Won’t Save Syria.