MEGAN MCARDLE: The West Should Offer Asylum to Egypt’s Copts. “I can’t pretend to know what we should do about Egypt, where all of President Barack Obama’s options seem bad. But one thing seems obvious to me: The U.S., along with other nations, should offer greater sanctuary to the Copts, who are clearly at risk as this drama plays out. This animus toward the large Coptic minority is not new — a friend whose grandfather was a prominent Coptic cleric once told me that his grandfather was used to spending time in jail because Hosni Mubarak would lock up some notable Copts every time he sensed the Muslim majority was getting restless. But this seems to be one of the worst spates of church-burning in Egypt since the Middle Ages. There’s a real risk that the widespread attacks on the Copts’ buildings will progress to widespread attacks on their people.”
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August 23, 2013
HEY, RUBE! “As a Democrat, I am disgusted with President Obama” – Leading New Media Guru Jeff Jarvis. “Did I mention that Jarvis voted for Obama?”
RACHEL MADDOW’S VOTING-RIGHTS “EXPERT” openly celebrates dictatorship. “What the Maddow show didn’t have was any dissent. Not a single guest appeared to rebut any of her false charges. That’s standard operating procedure for Maddow.” Hey, it’s not like MSNBC’s slogan is “fair and balanced.”
ORIN KERR: Not Exactly an “Outside” Committee to Review NSA Surveillance Programs. “Morrell retired just two weeks ago from the CIA, where he was Deputy Director and Acting Director. Sunstein served in the Obama Administration as head of OIRA, leaving the Administration one year ago. Swire served as a Special Assistant to President Obama for the first two years of the first Obama Term. To be fair, Richard Clarke’s government experience predates the Obama Administration; he endorsed Obama for his excellent judgment on national security issues, but Clarke did not actually work for him. But in my experience working on some similar issues as he did in the government, Clarke had a reputation for seeing everything as an extraordinarily grave national security threat. I would think Clarke is likely to bring in a pro-government perspective on the issues here.” There’s a shock.
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Plus, a broad selection in the Men’s Denim Shop.
Also, today only: 3M Mobile Projector MP220, $159.99 (68% off).
TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 106.
TOM COBURN not so happy with Obama.
A PHOTO FROM LAST NIGHT’S TOP-SECRET BLOGGER CONCLAVE, with Helen and Dana Loesch.
MAVERICK: Roll Call: McCain Angers China Over Disputed Islands. “We urge the U.S. lawmaker to stop making irresponsible remarks and avoid further complicating related issues and the regional situation.”
FASTER, SLOWER: An Interstellar Solar Sail Effort.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Obama Vows Action on College Costs, but Will It Work?
INSERT CHAKRA JOKE HERE: The Hill: Scientist: Al Gore Got It Wrong. “A Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) expert says Al Gore goofed during his widely circulated Washington Post interview on global warming. Gore, noting stronger storms fueled by climate change, told the paper ‘the hurricane scale used to be 1-5 and now they’re adding a 6.’ But in fact there’s no new scale, the Union of Concerned Scientists representative said on Thursday.”
Nobody tell Al about Mother of Storms.
August 22, 2013
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: I asked my girlfriend her “number” and was horrified by the answer. Will I ever get over it?
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Obamacare Is Really, Really Bad For You, Especially If You’re Young.
ANTHONY WEINER’S FAR-REACHING IMPACT: HIV-infected porn star had sex with actor who days later had sex with Sydney Leathers in her debut movie Weiner And Me. Likelihood of a man contracting HIV from a single incident of sex with a woman, then passing it on, is pretty low. But Sydney Leathers won’t be sleeping well for a while, I expect. And if the unlikely does happen, Weiner may be the first guy to infect a woman with HIV without ever meeting her . . . .
JEFF CARTER ON that NASDAQ shutdown.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Don’t Make the Mistake of Skipping Weddings & Funerals — You’ll Regret It Later. Largely true.
SO OBAMA’S HIGHER-ED REFORM PROPOSAL ISN’T GETTING VERY GOOD REVIEWS: “It is not every day that Harvard University and staunch conservatives can agree the president is wrong. President Obama’s decision to interject the federal government into university education, however, has done the trick.”
Obama has correctly identified the problem of higher costs, but his solution — more government government money with more government strings — isn’t the answer. May I suggest a bit of recommended reading?
WAIT, SOMEBODY ELSE IS TRYING TO OUT-CRAZY STACY MCCAIN? This will end well.
I PRETTY MUCH ASSUME THAT ANY “RACIST INCIDENT” IS PROBABLY A HOAX NOWADAYS: Meet the privileged Obama-supporting white kids who perpetrated cruel Oberlin race hoax.
One of the two students removed from Oberlin College earlier this year for allegedly circulating virulently racist, anti-Jewish and anti-gay messages around campus is an ardent leftist and committed supporter of President Barack Obama, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
Dylan Bleier, one of the two students, organized a voter registration drive on behalf of Obama before the 2008 election. That voter drive is still listed on the website for Organizing for Action, the non-profit group whose mission is to advance Obama’s agenda.
The Oberlin Police Department identified Bleier and his partner in the spree, Matt Alden, as two of the principal architects of a month-long spate of racist, anti-Jewish and anti-gay messages at the small, private campus.
The good news about America in 2013 is that if you’re a lefty and you want a racial incident to fire up the troops, you pretty much have to make it up yourself.
DRY PIPELINE: A shortage of new psychiatric drugs.