OBAMA: Aiming At The Suburbs, But Hitting Higher Ed?

ANDREW MALCOLM: If You’re Feeling Too Important, Take A Look At This.

CANCER AD TURNS MALIGNANT: Business Insider: That Brutal Anti-Romney Ad Is Blowing Up In The Obama Campaign’s Face.

Update: ‘Disgusting’ Pro-Obama Ad Criticized by Democrat.

READER BOOK PLUG REQUEST: Reader Carl Schellbach asks me to plug his wife’s book, On Astronaut Wings. 99 cents on Kindle. Done!

SANTORUMED: New Urban Dictionary entry pegs Harry Reid as child molester. “‘Harry Reid,’ the dictionary now says, is defined as ‘[a]n unofficial rap sheet of alleged pederasty and sexual abuse of minors by anonymous sources that may not exist.’”

TRACKING: Android’s Rise Helps Google Grow Its Traffic System.

GOOGLE SELF-DRIVING CARS pass 300,000-mile mark.

AT NPR I talk about the Moon.

BRANNON DENNING AND MICHAEL KENT: Anti-Anti-Evasion in Constitutional Law.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD ON BARACK OBAMA’S COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE PRESS: “Most of us outside the bubble think that the mainstream media is pretty pro-Obama. We remember all those comparisons to Lincoln and FDR in the heady early days of the administration. But apparently that’s not how it looks from the Oval Office; the president thinks he’s not getting a fair shot from the press. . . . It’s a good thing we have a Constitution and laws that limit the ability of the great and the good to decide what the press is free to say. If even Barack Obama, the most coddled and cosseted politician in modern American history, thinks the media is against him, it’s clear that no politician can ever be trusted to umpire the press.”

DAMON ROOT: Conservatives vs. Liberals vs. Libertarians On The Supreme Court.

ANDREW STUTTAFORD: Europe, Bloody Europe: David Cameron’s EU Problem. “Rather than shoot for a minority government (the bolder, better course), Cameron opted for a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, the most europhile of all Britain’s major parties. The irony was obvious. The self-inflicted wound has taken a little longer to become visible. With the keys to 10 Downing Street so close, Cameron’s choice can perhaps be forgiven. The same cannot be said of his reluctance to take a more aggressively euroskeptic tack in the years that have followed.”

AT AMAZON, Blu-Ray Deal of the Week: The Bourne Trilogy.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Feds Dock Social Security Checks For Unpaid Student Loans: More retirees are falling behind on student debt, and Uncle Sam is coming after their benefits. “From January through August 6, the government reduced the size of roughly 115,000 retirees’ Social Security checks on those grounds. That’s nearly double the pace of the department’s enforcement in 2011; it’s up from around 60,000 cases in all of 2007 and just 6 cases in 2000.”

EMPLOYMENT IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: “No matter how much you want this job, there are 652 other people who want it, too.”

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Report finds widespread fraud in taxpayer ID program. “A recently released report shows widespread tax fraud in connection with the federal government’s Individual Taxpayer Identification Number program. The U.S. Treasury inspector general report accuses the IRS of discouraging employees from reviewing applications for the ID numbers, which are generally from non-resident workers. The inspector general specifically said there were 154 mailing addresses that were used 1,000 or more times on applications, including 15,795 numbers assigned to a Phoenix address.” Plus, claims that IRS employees were told not to investigate potential fraud.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Obama’s Campaign of Lies Reaches Despicable Low

Unable to run on his record, President Hope-and-Change has built a campaign based entirely on scurrilous lies about Mitt Romney. But the latest reaches a historic, despicable low.

That ad features a man claiming that after Bain Capital closed his steel plant, he lost his job and his insurance, and shortly thereafter his wife died of cancer.

Even it were true, trying to blame Romney for his wife’s death defies credulity. But the facts are all wrong.

Romney had left Bain to run the summer Olympics two years before Joe Soptic lost his job in 2001. And his wife had her own job and insurance at that time. She later took a disability leave and lost her coverage, and her cancer was apparently symptom-free until she checked into a hospital for pneumonia in 2006.

The ad, sponsored by an Obama “super-PAC” was too much even for the in-the-Obama-tank press. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer called it “a pretty outrageous claim,” and Sam Stein of the Obama-worshipping Huffington Post said it went “too far.”

The Obama campaign has refused to denounce the ad, which is understandable, since when you lie as often as it does, the lines of propriety start to get blurry.

It is becoming clear that Obama is not only intellectually, but also morally unfit to hold the office of President.

EUGENE VOLOKH: “If the president and the mayor want to make ‘semi-automatic weapons’ ‘[un]available to private purchasers,’ we have to realize just how broad this restriction would be. According to the ATF, over 80% of all handguns manufactured in 2011 are semiautomatics, and my sense is that the bulk of civilian purchases are semiautomatics as well.”

PAUL RAHE IS predicting a landslide.

UPDATE: Reader Will Hackett writes:

Paul Rahe definitely posts some interesting commentary in his “Landslide on the Horizon” article on the variables that Mitt Romney must focus on in order to achieve victory this November. However, any time I read these articles, I find myself repeating one of your favorite mantras… ”Don’t get cocky, kid.”

Indeed.

F.I.R.E. SENDS A MESSAGE TO MARK YUDOF: FIRE Warns U. of California President: Reject Recommendation, Don’t Pick Fight with First Amendment.

SAY IT AIN’T SO: Obama Administration’s Failure to Prosecute Bankers is a Result of Cronyism.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Should Men Open Doors For Women?

ED MORRISSEY: Behind The Fiscal Cliff Looms The Deficit Mountain.

MICHAEL WALSH: Romney-Petraeus in 2012?