NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: President Romney Can Thank Obama for His Permanent Robotic Death List.

IN VIDEOMAKER MAGAZINE THIS MONTH: Recording in Public Places and Your First Amendment Rights.

Maybe somebody could send a copy to the faculty at Minnesota’s Concordia College.

WE DON’T SEEM TO BE HAVING A LOT OF DIPLOMATIC SUCCESSES LATELY: Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran.

A TOXIC MIX OF BIGOTRY AND DESPERATION: Obama supporters rally around anti-Mormonism.

UPDATE: Prof. Stephen Clark writes:

Ramping up the anti-Mormon bigotry is a surefire fail given Romney’s biography and personality. Focusing on the behavior of religious figures from a previous century and on practices now disavowed is the last refuge of the loser. Given their classlessness and general cluelessness, this was always going to be the death-rattle of the Obama campaign and its supporters. Obama’s campaign is dying; they and their supporters know it.

Well, no one ever expected them to campaign gracefully.

WASHINGTON POST / ABC NEWS POLL: ROMNEY 50, OBAMA 47.

UPDATE: A reader sends:

The most interesting item in the linked article is not the poll results showing Romney taking the lead. It’s the disclosure deeper in the article that 92% (!) of Obama voters think Obama is going to win. Obviously these folks get their news from the mainstream media, aren’t paying attention to recent poll results, and/or are just bad at math. But more importantly, if the current “preference cascade” continues and Romney wins, as appears more likely every day, a significant minority of that clueless 92% is likely to engage in Occupy-style riots and endless false accusations of voter fraud and “election stealing.” And the irresponsible media (e.g., Dan Rather, MSNBC) will have only itself to blame.

No, they’ll blame Republicans and racism.

NOTE, THIS IS NOT SCIENCE FICTION: This is an actual Toyota Prius, in Northern California, with a Romney bumper sticker, as spotted on our way back from my wife’s office a few minutes ago. (Click to enlarge.)

Virginia Postrel still wins the award for the best photo of a Prius with a former Massachusetts governor’s bumper sticker, though.

THE HILL: Boehner calls for answers from Obama on Benghazi attack. ” Boehner specifically asks whether Obama himself was briefed by Stevens about the evolving security and political environment in Libya, or whether Stevens made any direct observations to the president about security. The Speaker also asks about military options the administration considered in the immediate aftermath of the attack.”

HACKING THE PRESIDENT’S DNA.

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IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Are bodies of 10,000 lost warriors from Battle of Hastings buried in this field?

A FAT LOT OF NOTHING: Romney’s Testimony, Now Released, Called “Devastating” To Allred’s Claims.

A TALE OF TWO FORMER CABLE TV STARS:

•  ‘Glenn Beck Is About to Become a $100 Million Man.’

— Jeff Bercovici, Forbes, September 12, 2011.

• ‘Keith Olbermann Casts A Wide Net In Job Search.’

— Jeff Bercovici, Forbes, today.

“But Glenn Beck is the crazy one,” as Kate of the Small Dead Animals blog likes to say.

OTHER THAN THAT, HOW DID YOU ENJOY STAY IN LAMOINE, MRS. LINCOLN?  “Despite recent killings, Lamoine still ‘a great place to live,’ say selectmen,” reports Maine’s Bangor Daily News, in yet another chapter of Great Moments in Headlines.

UPDATE: Alas, after plenty of Internet ridicule, the Bangor Daily News changed the headline, but it’s still reflected in the article’s URL.

LIFE IMITATES SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, as spotted by James Taranto:

• “I want to do some tunes that the young people will enjoy. That’s why I’m calling this album ‘Frank Sings Tunes the Young People Will Enjoy.’ “–Joe Piscopo as Frank Sinatra, aired May 22, 1982
• ” ‘I’ve laid out a plan for jobs and middle-class security,’ [President Obama] claimed in Delray Beach, Florida, brandishing a 20-page brochure titled ‘A Plan for Jobs and Middle-Class Security.’ “–editorial, The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 24, 2012

And of course, Obama telling NBC’s Jay Leno that he struggles with post-seventh grade “math stuff” is also another presidential moment anticipated decades ago by NBC’s Saturday Night Live.

RELATED: Rich Lowry on ‘Obama’s pathetic picture book.’

THINGS THE HR DEPARTMENT won’t tell you. Here’s one that’s particularly relevant for the Obama Economy: “Once you’re unemployed more than six months, you’re considered pretty much unemployable. We assume that other people have already passed you over, so we don’t want anything to do with you.”

That’s bad news for a lot of Americans.

21st CENTURY *NON* RELATIONSHIPS: Meet Real Life Sex Surrogates.

MY LATEST IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: The Islamist Threat Isn’t Going Away.

‘ENGLISH MAJORS ARE EXACTLY THE PEOPLE I’M LOOKING FOR,’ one successful Silicon-Valley entrepreneur recently told Michael Malone, as he reports in the Wall Street Journal:

Santosh said, “Are you kidding? English majors are exactly the people I’m looking for.” He explained: Twenty years ago, if you wanted to start a company, you spent a month or so figuring out the product you wanted to build, then devoted the next 10 or 12 months to developing the prototype, tooling up and getting into full production.

These days, he said, everything has been turned upside down. Most products now are virtual, such as iPhone apps. You don’t build them so much as construct them from chunks of existing software code—and that work can be contracted out to hungry teams of programmers anywhere in the world, who can do it in a couple of weeks.

Read the whole thing.

BRENDAN LOY: Hurricane Sandy Could Disrupt Election.

ELECTRONIC FREEDOM FOUNDATION: Fact Checking Obama’s Misleading Answer About Warrantless Wiretapping on The Daily Show.

HEY, BLOOMBERG, HERE’S A DIETARY ISSUE IN NEW YORK YOU’VE SOMEHOW MISSED: NYPD officer plotted to kidnap, cook and eat women, authorities say. As long as he didn’t serve them with a Big Gulp.

TECH CHANGE: An Unnatural History of the Electronic Mouse.  My kids think very well of the RAT mouse.

HOW’S THAT “POST-RACIAL PRESIDENCY” STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? 2012 voters: The deepest racial split since ’88. When calling your critics racist is your default position, this is no surprise.

THIS IS CNN:

• ‘Eason Jordan, CNN: US Troops Target Journalists in Iraq’ – the Davos Forum Blog, January 28^th, 2005. Jordon would resign from his post as CNN’s chief news executive a couple of weeks later.

• CNN founder Ted Turner: “I think it’s good” that US troops are committing suicide – the Piers Morgan Show, October 19^th, 2012.

HMM: Bombshell: Clinton Ordered More Security, Obama Denied Request. Huge, if true. But how likely is it that Obama would have gotten involved in a decision like this? Perhaps we’ll find out. Are the Clintons pushing this story?