I BLAME THE HATE-FILLED ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND ITS SUPPORTERS: Domestic Terrorism? Gunman Taken Into Custody After Shooting At Family Research Council. “Authorities were treating the attack as a case of domestic terrorism.”

UPDATE: Crosshairs.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Is the Southern Poverty Law Center to blame for incitement?

More here.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: More from Prof. Jacobson.

MORE: Reader Russ Meyer writes:

What I find most interesting about the Family Research Council shooting that you’ve linked to is that the story is on Fox News’ website and Drudge, but it’s nowhere to be found on CNN. I’m sure that’s just an oversight they’ll quickly correct. I mean, it’s not like they’d selectively ignore stories that don’t fit their narrative…right?

Heh.

MORE STILL: Meyer follows up: “Just wanted to let you know that CNN has now put up a story on the shooting today…two hours after you pointed it out. Maybe someone over there reads Instapundit!” Could be.

SCIENCE: Fingertip tingle enhances a surgeon’s sense of touch.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Price of Ground Beef Hits Record High. “The average price of ground beef hit a record high in the United States in July, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS has been tracking the average price of a pound of 100% ground beef since 1984.”

COURT UPHOLDS Voter ID in Pennsylvania.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Expect The Heckling To Get Worse, And You Can Thank Saul Alinsky. The advice to have video cameras is good. Punch back twice as hard. Post the names, employment background, etc. of the hecklers who are arrested. Find ties to the campaign, SEIU, etc. and publicize those. Follow the money. Shine the sunlight on them. They’ll scatter like roaches.

MICKEY KAUS: Obama’s Misleading Welfare Ad.

Barack Obama posed as a tough welfare reformer when he ran for president in 2008, his campaign boasting in a TV ad that:

He passed a law to move people from welfare to work, slashed the rolls by eighty percent.

This while the screen said “The Obama Record: Reduced welfare rolls nearly 80%.” [Emphasis not added]

When he became president, though, Obama named opponents of welfare reform to key positions in the Department of Health and Human Services. Now they’ve gotten him in political trouble by sneaking out a new policy opening the door for states to weaken the work requirements in the law (in a way that contradicts the “Work First” philosophy behind the 1996 reform). Earlier in his term, Obama enthusiastically signed a Dem stimulus measure that was explicitly designed to encourage states to add to the welfare rolls.

Whatever you think of Romney’s ad–-it’s oversimplified, like Obama’s 2008 ad–-Obama deserves to be busted for his original I’m-a-welfare-slasher con, no?

Yes.

I’M INCLINED TO DISAGREE: Sixth Circuit Rules That Pinging a Cell Phone to Determine Its Location is Not a Fourth Amendment “Search.” But I’m not entirely sure.

REUTERS: Special ops group attacks Obama over bin Laden bragging, leaks. “A group of former U.S. intelligence and Special Forces operatives is set to launch a media campaign, including TV ads, that scolds President Barack Obama for taking credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden and argues that high-level leaks are endangering American lives.”

FRACKING, HORIZONTAL DRILLING, AND MORE: The Energy Revolution Approaches. “The geopolitical consequences of these changes will upend many conventional assumptions — about US decline, the role of energy conflict in 21st century politics and several others. . . . The new economics and geopolitics of energy are real; they are changing the ground under our feet. Environmentalists are not the only people who will have to adjust to a future that doesn’t match our forecasts.”

CHANGE: “Ladies and gentlemen, Wisconsin is on a roll.”

ONE GUY ON THE INTERNET VS. PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE: At the trial, the guy who killed my sister was defended by Progressive’s legal team. “All the Millions spent on new Flo ads and clean white sets are not going to undo the damage done to this company’s reputation by this story and their decision to contest this claim, particularly in a market where there are plenty of other choices for people to make.”

ANDREW MALCOLM: Video: See for yourself why Romney picked Paul Ryan.

Related: Video: Romney tells CBS that Obama’s running to “hang onto power.”

WHEN FOOD IS SOLD TWICE: Bags of groceries are often left at the store by shoppers in a rush. Shouldn’t they be donated to food banks rather than reshelved and resold? Should they?

YOUTH VOTE FLOCKING TO ROMNEY? Maybe they figure if he wins, they’ll have a chance of getting a job . . . .

DOG BITES MAN: In Harvard essay, young Michelle Obama argued for race-based faculty hiring. Of course she did.

UPDATE: Say, what do you think Drudge is trying to get across here?

AT AMAZON: Textbooks: Rent, Buy, Sell.

Also, today only: Up to 50% off Transcend Memory.

CHARGE: Wisconsin Officials Selectively Enforcing Voting Laws. The “Deep State” hasn’t given up.

PROTECTING UNIONS FROM COMPETITION: Union campaigns to bring call centers back to US. “The Communications Workers of America (CWA) launched a political campaign on Tuesday in support of legislation that would pressure companies to locate their telephone call centers in the United States. . . . The bill, offered by Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.), would bar companies that offshore call centers from receiving federal grants and would require them to disclose the physical location of their center at the beginning of each call. The bill would also give callers the right to be transferred to a U.S. call center.”

I think that when Hollywood films movies in Canada that purport to be set in the United States, every scene shot in Toronto should have to have a subtitle saying “Not actually New York, but Toronto” or some such . . . .

TOM BLUMER: How Many People Has Obama Killed? If we apply his supporters’ “standards.”

FOR A LIMITED TIME, my The Higher Education Bubble is $1.99 on Kindle. The Kindle version has links and video, too, which the paper version (naturally) lacks. (Bumped).

OH, YEAH, NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT THERE. JUST RELAX. Team Obama confident Biden can take on Ryan despite new gaffe.

Related: Biden to Have ‘Family Emergency’ in Argentina During VP Debate?

WHY IS THERE NO LIBERAL AYN RAND?

UPDATE: More thoughts from Ed Driscoll.

BUYER’S REMORSE: Video: Obama That I Used To Know.

PRIORITIES: Mother Jones: Obama Has Attended, On Average, One Fundraiser Every 60 Hours While Running for Reelection.