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JUST ANOTHER DAY FOR PRESIDENT GOLDMAN SACHS: “Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, acted to shield Citigroup’s bondholders and management from accountability at the height of the financial crisis while taxpayers were left on the hook, a former US bank regulator has alleged,” according to the Financial Times.

FLASHBACK: How Wall Street Occupied the White House.

PHYSICAL GRAFFITI: CNN and MSNBC Pundit Arrested for Vandalizing Anti-Muslim Ad In N.Y. Subway System.

RELATED: Heather Mac Donald at City Journal on Radical Graffiti Chic.

PUNCHING BACKSIDES TWICE AS HARD: Video: Ahamadinejad Spokesman gets his Behind Kicked on NY Street by Iranians.

WHAT ABOUT YOUR GAFFFFFFESSSSS???!!!! “Bumbling Obama: ‘I Want to See Us Export More Jobs.’”

You know, come to think of it, Beijing looks like a pretty good option.

CLASSIC RINGTONES from the Brussels Philharmonic.

The New Media creates new paths to success. Randall Monroe of XKCD fame is one of the people who made it in an improbable way and this interview with him is fascinating. Personally, I read XKCD to avoid my kids disowning me.  (Yes, we’re an enormously geeky family.)

REPORT: AHMADINEJAD MEETS FARRAHKAN.

SILENT SPRING‘S 50-YEAR HISTORY OF SELECTIVE DATA: “Rachel Carson, more than any other person, created the politicized science that afflicts today’s public policy debates,” Ronald Bailey writes at Reason today:

Rachel Carson’s jeremiad against pesticides is credited by many as launching the modern environmentalist movement, and the author, who died in 1964, is being widely lauded for her efforts. “She was the very first person to knock some of the shine off of modernity,” says environmentalist Bill McKibben in a New York Times Magazine article from this past Sunday.

And she’d be far from the last, as so much of today’s “liberalism” particularly the flavor that’s pumped out the Times, is, ironically, a sustained assault on modernity.

RELATED: Raaaaacist! If you really do believe in your heart of heart that half the country is racist, as Mark Steyn catches a HuffPo contributor professing, and not just using trying to score cheap rhetorical points, then you’re also tacitly admitting that the entire mid-century arc of American liberalism, from Truman desegregating the Army, to MLK and the Great Society to Hollywood’s middlebrow period of teaching racial tolerance in the 1960s is a failure.

Or you could simply be a member of the Paranoid Center.

(If you missed my interview with Steyn last week on After America, click here.)

SEEMS APPROPRIATE: Flip flops with bullet casings to help Afghanistan. “Flip flops with AK 47 bullet primers may seem an unusual fashion choice for U.S. beach-goers, but one U.S. special forces veteran hopes the factory he’s set up in Kabul to make the footwear will help bring a better life to people in Afghanistan. . . . With a view to promoting local employment, he and another U.S. veteran, with backing from a Seattle-based business partner, set up a factory in Kabul to make flip flops.”

THIS AIN’T THE QUEEN’S BENTLEY:  The luxury automaker returns to racing with a 616 hp beauty.

WHAT DO RADICAL ISLAMISTS AND PROGRESSIVES HAVE IN COMMON?  Answer:  Hatred of America, capitalism, and the US Constitution.  Donald Thornton, writing in ThyBlackMan.com, makes the connection so many seem to have missed, particularly in light of the recent attacks on US installations around the globe:

The eerie similarities between radical Islamist all over the world and radical Leftist that reside right here in America. Because their ultimate goals are synonymic. A nation; dare I say a world, under submission to their will.

I believe these two ideologies are clear and present dangers to America and the world at large. Because both; at their core seek to suppress any speech or expression that is contrary to their worldview. Free speech has to be the first and most protected foundational pillar of any new nation.  And it must be re-enforced perpetually in any existing nation that has adopted it.

The progressive ideal is utopian– a “new world order” based on a rejection of capitalist ideals and individualism. So, too, the radical Islamists, who reject capitalist (western) ideals and individualism.  Granted, the radical Islamists’ goal is the institution of global sharia law, which is inherently religious, whereas the progressive goal is the institution of global communitarianism and inherently secular.  Yet these two growing groups have a frightening common goal.  David Horowitz recognized this “unholy alliance” back in 2004, with the publication of a book by the same name.

Now ask yourself this:  Do President Obama’s recent actions/statements regarding the Muslim Brotherhood and Israel, combined with his unabashed progressivism, suggest there is any potentially dangerous problem here?

SOMEBODY IN CAIRO GETS IT: Egyptian newspaper fights cartoons with cartoons.

US PRESS PLAYS PRAVDA: “I’ve taken to wondering if perhaps Obama does not really want to be re-elected, and the press is thwarting him at every turn; perhaps an Obama victory is merely incidental to the press, as long as their narrative is sustained,” Elizabeth Scalia, the Blogosphere’s Anchoress, notes in her First Things column.

And it really is all about the narrative.

WHAT HAS OBAMA LEARNED? That’s the the question Jonah Goldberg asks in his latest column:

The Oval Office isn’t the place to learn on the job. That was the line from both Hillary Clinton and John McCain in 2008. In fairness, that’s always the argument the more experienced candidate uses against the less experienced candidate (just ask Mitt Romney).

But Barack Obama seemed a special case, easily among the least experienced major-party nominees in U.S. history. A Pew poll in August 2008, found that the biggest concern voters had with Obama fell under the category of “personal abilities and experience.” In a “change” year, Americans swallowed those concerns and voted for the change candidate.

Four years later, it’s worth asking, “What has Obama learned?”

Several journalists have asked that exact question. And Obama’s answers raise another question: Can Obama learn?

Read the whole thing.

BLUE ON BLUE INTERCONTINENTAL HIGH-SPEED RAIL FAIL: “For decades the environmental movement has used [the National Environmental Protection Act] and its [California Environmental Quality Act]-like state equivalents, to block key energy development and infrastructure projects. Seeing Obama’s signature transportation initiative killed by this same tactic is some sweet poetic justice.”

(Headline inspired by this presidential malapropism.)

A universal striving towards freedom.  Oh, okay, fine.  That’s an excuse to post it. (Though the point could be made.)  It’s a cool article, about ants.

LIFE IMITATES SPINAL TAP: Drummer dies on stage during concert, band plays on.

Everything you wanted to know about elections but were really, really really afraid to ask.  And if you’re not afraid you should be, because this is a piece by Frank J. Flemming.   Swallow whatever you have in your mouth, then read.  You’ve been warned.  We’re not responsible for sprayed monitors or damage done to nasal passages by hot coffee.

POLICE INVESTIGATE RACIST PICTURES SENT TO BLACK POLITICIAN: “Don’t worry about it, though,” Jim Treacher quips. “She’s just a Republican.”

TRAMPOLINES: Threat, or menace?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE: Parents: How Much College Do You Owe Your Kids?

Jay Cost: Yes, Most Polls (The Ones The Media Prefers) Are Giving Obama a Phantom 3-4 Point Edge — from Ace of Spades.  Read the whole thing and pay particular attention to what Ace says:

I fret myself. I feel like I’m on tenterhooks. I want Romney to break big so I can relax.

I think a lot of us have this bubbling frustration and anxiety, and we wind up blaming Romney for not just winning this already.

Pay attention to it because I’m starting to get snarky at the backseat campaign driving in blog comments.  And no one wants me to get snarky.

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BLUE ON BLUE: “Roger Simon’s Bad Joke Winds Up Humiliating Half of the Left-Wing Universe,” Ace of Spades writes — and as he reminds his readers, that’s the Politico’s Roger Simon, not our own Roger L. Simon, PJ Media’s kindly and beneficent Maximum Pajamahadeen.

UPDATE: Much more at Twitchy.