IT’S LIKE 1975 ALL OVER AGAIN: U.S. evacuates embassy as bombs, fighting rock Iraq.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Obama Wasn’t Interested In War, But War Was Interested In Obama.

ROGER KIMBALL: Putting the “PC” In Providence College. “Give it a try: Which of the following biographical sketches is satire, which is business as usual?”

THE HILL: Is Obama Done With Washington?

“The bear is loose!” is the president’s favorite phrase at such moments, and he deployed it again last week. Even the metaphor suggests a man straining at the leash after more than five years in the White House.
Yet there seems to be more to Obama’s frustration than cabin fever.

Last Tuesday, Obama was asked about gun control during a question-and-answer session hosted by the social networking website Tumblr. He didn’t try to assert that progress on legislation was realistically possible, instead launching into a personal broadside, permeated with a sense of resignation, against “this town.”

Most people harbor negative feelings toward the scene of their failures.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: George Will Slices And Dices Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Robert Casey (D-Pa.) on Campus Sexual Assault Rules.

WOW: List of Lawsuits Against Colleges and Universities Alleging Due Process and Other Violations in Adjudicating Sexual Assault. If you’re a journalist writing on this subject, someone’s done a lot of your research for you.

UPDATE: From the comments: “This article should be titled: ‘Lawyers – Your easiest path to a private jet and super models.'”

LESLIE LOFTIS: 3 Studies About Fatherhood That Will Shock You, But Shouldn’t.

VIDEO: Can’t Name Hillary’s Greatest Accomplishment? Don’t Worry, Neither Can Her Fans.

NEW YORK OBSERVER: All the President’s Muses: Obama and Prosecutorial Misconduct: Chronic bungling by DOJ officials who have the President’s ear. Yeah, I’m not so sure it’s bungling so much as malfeasance.

Note the final paragraph.

RACISM IN OUR TIME: “Massive Resistance” At UCLA.

SHARYL ATTKISSON: Lois Lerner’s Lost Emails: Questions for the IRS.

ANN ALTHOUSE STANDS UP AGAINST RACISM: Why did the editors of The New Republic — that venerable journal — think it was acceptable to title an article ‘The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker’?”

Because that sort of casual racial slur is accepted, and even approved, in their milieu. Plus, homophobic dog whistles.

RON FOURNIER calls for a Special Prosecutor on those “lost” IRS emails.