PETER INGEMI VISITS CONNECTICUT: Is Andrew Roraback 2012′s version of Scott Brown?

IT’S ALSO SEMANTICALLY INSANE: Condi Rice: “War on women” attack is worse than hyperbole.  If you believe there’s a war on women, you’ve never seen war or even a schoolyard fight.

CALIFORNIA POLITICS: “People who are fortunate enough to have a higher income,” English says today, “have a particular responsibility for that blessing to be given back.” In this case, “giving back” means underwriting a campaign to increase taxes on other people.

FINANCIAL ADVICE FROM MEGAN MCARDLE. “I share your worries about the path of growth over the next ten years. But unfortunately, that argues for more saving, not less. If returns are going to be dispiritingly low, you need to defer more consumption today.”

YES, BUT WILL THEY HAVE BAYONETS? US Navy’s robotic firefighter

IRONY ALERT! Bam $ite unplugged. Chinese authorities appear to have blocked access to site used as conduit of donations to Obama’s campaign.

A MAN WITHOUT HONOR: The Dishonorable Colin Powell.

SQUIRREL!

A WHIFF OF WEIMAR: The Greek crisis keeps getting worse.

YUVAL LEVIN: Social Mobility and Civil Society.

WHETHER OBAMA OR ROMNEY BECOMES THE NEXT PRESIDENT, EPA IS GOING TO BE HEADACHE CITY: Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-OK, wants to know why EPA is flouting the federal law requiring the agency to post its regulatory plans every six months. And Mark Levin’s Landmark Legal Foundation just sued EPA seeking documents about that regulatory agenda before they are disappeared, as has happened before. Read all about it here.

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS — especially if you’re the UN.

EPISTEMIC CLOSURE: NBC’s Brian Williams Can’t Understand Why Obama Isn’t Winning by a Landslide.

Yet another “unexpected” moment from the MSM. But hey, we were told that “No one understands this NASCAR nation more than Brian,” according to then NBC president Jeff Zucker back in early November of 2004 in USA Today, when Williams replaced Tom Brokaw.

(Only a few days after John Kerry channeled a very different NBC employee.)

HE DISRESPECTED THE STATE RELIGION: North Korean army minister ‘executed with mortar round’.

NEW YORK TIMES HARDEST HIT: Paul Ryan addresses income inequality, social mobility in Ohio speech.

READER BOOK PLUG: Postcard Memories From World War II.

SEE, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET COCKY.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Denial Is Not A Strategy. “Tierney’s missive does provide some valuable insight, albeit unintentionally: higher education is in bad need of reform and faces a potential fiscal cliff because it has increasingly been dominated by people who think like himself. Such denial and intransigence in the face of drastically changing circumstances undermine academia’s claim to intellectual primacy and wisdom beyond that possessed by the average man—or even equal to the wisdom of the average person.” Academics like to think of themselves as more like scientists, but most are more like clergy.

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Jury Splits in Conservative Faculty Candidate’s Hiring Bias Suit Against Iowa Law School. “A federal jury rejected Teresa Wagner’s First Amendment claim that the University of Iowa College of Law denied her a faculty position due to her conservative politics, but deadlocked over her Equal Protection claim that she was passed over in favor of less qualified candidates. The U.S. Magistrate Judge declared a mistrial on the 14th Amendment claim.” As is typical with such things, though, what came out in discovery was devastating.

YOU SAY YOU GOT A REAL SOLUTION, well, you know we’d all love to see the plan.

CLAIRE BERLINSKI investigates Fethullah Gülen, the controversial Turkish preacher who “inspires” the largest charter school network in the United States.

TWO BULLSHITTERS IN ONE:

 ‘You know, kids have good instincts,’ Obama offered. ‘They look at the other guy and say, “Well, that’s a bullshitter, I can tell.”’”

— “Obama: Romney’s a ‘Bulls—–,'” the Weekly Standard, today.

“You know, I actually believe my own bullshit,” [Obama] told me with a big smile.

— Renegade: The Making of a President,  By Richard Wolffe, 2009.

UPDATE: President “you don’t deserve a bunch of name-calling” Obama goes smaller and smaller.

SCIENCE: Life-Saving DNA Test Overlooked in Rise of Colon Cancer.

GREG LUKIANOFF IN THE NEW YORK TIMES: Feigning Free Speech on Campus. “Colleges and universities are supposed to be bastions of unbridled inquiry and expression, but they probably do as much to repress free speech as any other institution in young people’s lives. In doing so, they discourage civic engagement at a time when debates over deficits and taxes should make young people pay more attention, not less.”

I recommend his new book, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate.

PREFERENCE CASCADE? Actor Rob Schneider says ‘I’ve come around, not voting for crappy Obama again.’