OUCH: Saddest Letter to the Editor ever: ‘Grown-ups killed my kitty.’

AT AMAZON, iPhone 5 Accessories.

A SPEECH BY BILL WHITTLE, from the Wake Up America rally in Los Angeles.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: No More Easy Money.

LEARNING TO APPRECIATE A ROLLS-ROYCE: “I asked Rolls to lend me a Ghost (the version I drove costs $352,000, while the higher-end Phantom will set you back even more) to find out whether someone like me—the last car I owned was a 1995 Saturn compact with a broken second gear—could appreciate the artisanal dedication that goes into creating a palace on wheels. And indeed I could. Almost instantly. After the Ghost got dropped off in front of my apartment and I was left on my own, I tried to start up the engine. Turned out it was already running. It was so nearly silent, the vibration so damped, I’d just assumed it was off.”

I BELIEVE YOU MEAN THE “NONPARTISAN” ACLU: ACLU pressuring vice presidential debate moderator to emphasize GOP ‘war on women.’

GO FIGURE: 2013 Business Tax Climate: Chilliest in Blue States.

JAMES TARANTO: Tears of a Clown: Obama’s torpor sends Andrew Sullivan into a heartbroken rage. “Obama is a cipher with one great political talent: the ability to capture the imagination of people like Andrew Sullivan, to persuade them that he is what they wish him to be. Sullivan’s particular fantasy–and we are not making this up–is that Obama is the Road Runner from the old Warner Bros. cartoons, endlessly outwitting his opponents. Well, meep meep, Andrew.”

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Chart: Debt-to-GDP Ratio Is Terrible, Worse Than Projected, and Deteriorating Rapidly.

REPORT: ABC News scrambles to cover up Barack Obama’s attendance at VP debate moderator’s wedding.

FLASHBACK: Why do strange things keep happening to veep moderators? Recall in 2008 when Gwen Ifill was tapped to be the “impartial” moderator of that fall’s vice presidential debate — despite having a pro-Obama book already scheduled to be published in January?

COMPETENCE: Video? What video? “A senior State Department official says his department never concluded that the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam, raising further questions about why the Obama administration initially used that explanation after assailants killed four Americans there.” When will Mr. Nakoula get an apology?

Or maybe:

ZOMBIETIME: Left Hook, Right Jab: Obama Battered from All Sides at San Francisco Stop.

INDIANA: Mr. President, You Could Learn A Lot From A Farmer.

The unemployment rate of people in the 20s and 30s is over 50%. They see the American workplace as having no place for them.

The result of this is that there is a significant segment of our society does not see getting up and going to work as something they need to do. Not having a job was once considered a sign of laziness or personal failure. Today, it is becoming an accepted norm and someone else’s fault. Big business, big banks, the government, foreign competition, NAFTA, big unions, China, and a host of other factors are blamed for people’s inability to find work.

The government’s response to this situation has fostered this change in the American work ethic.

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

IN SEARCH OF alternative stores of value.

YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS, a kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh. The fundamental things apply…

…Unless you’re a member of the radical left who wants to deconstruct one of the most iconic images from the conclusion of World War II to score cheap rhetorical points: Fretting Feminists Attack Classic WWII Times Square Kissing Photo As Rape.

Wow, I can remember back in the 1990s, when oral sex wasn’t sex — and now a mere kiss is rape. (But was it rape, rape?) Orwell wasn’t kidding when he predicted the rise of the prudish far left in 1984.

CLAIRE MCCASKILL: Hey, The Stimulus Was A Big Success!!

RELATED (From Ed): Not so fast! If the economy is growing, that’s bad news for the environment, according to…Claire McCaskill.

CENSORSHIP: Sam Houston State U. Prof. slashes anti-Obama student “free speech wall.”

BUSTING ANOTHER OBAMA MYTH: “Asked about the Fast and Furious program at the Univision forum on Thursday, President Obama falsely claimed that the program began under President George W. Bush.”

TIM CAVANAUGH: Obama Vows to Protect Big Bird, U.S. Ambassadors Not So Much.

JOBS: Paul Krugman, Then And Now.

MIKE RIGGS: Obama Says He Wants to Debate Civil Liberties With Romney; Here Are Some Atrocious Decisions He Should Explain.

HOPEY-CHANGEY: An employer tells his employees what will happen to them if Barack Obama is re-elected.

ALWAYS GLAD TO HELP: Reader Jody Green writes:

You mentioned, about 2 weeks ago, In-house Power line internet and how it outperforms wireless. I have to say you are so right. I can now watch PJTV, Amazon and Youtube videos in full screen without the annoying pause. For more details and to explain because I am a lifelong techie/telecom guy, the airwaves of better and better WiFi signals are all stepping on each other. I was forced to upgrade to AT&T U-Verse fiber service which was supposed to be much faster and I found it sucked. The service came with it’s own modem/router/wireless device and the first thing I noticed is that it was picking up like 10 of my neighbors signals. When I did a speed test, it said I was getting like 8 mbs but could not view a video without pause. I complained and AT&T said you suck. Two days with the power line connections and I am one happy camper.

Yeah, we have these power line adapters in several places and they do help, both with increased speed and where the wi-fi is a bit weak.

ER, BECAUSE ROMNEY’S MONEY CAME FROM WORK, AND REID’S CAME FROM CRONYISM AND CORRUPTOCRACY? Why Harry Reid Hates Mitt Romney.

Say, how did Harry Reid make so much money while on the public payroll? Can we see the last ten years of his tax returns?

OF COURSE IT DOES: Washington Tops List of America’s Richest Cities