JANET NAPOLITANO: Pay No Attention To The President.

PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH: The International Olympic Committee’s Disgrace.

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ELLEN BARKIN: Long live our president! Or as they say in Venezuela, Viva El Presidente!

SUSPECT’S RAPID DESCENT: Reader Tom Barker writes: “It struck me that this short article told me a hundred times more than we know about BHO’s college years.” Heh.

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SALENA ZITO: Mitt Romney’s Moment.

“The president actually said, if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that, somebody else made that happen.” He paused and threw his hands up before adding: “Really?”

Sitting in a small office attached to a local shale industry company for an interview with the Trib, Romney remained agitated and energized.

The agitation was personal because he is genuinely appalled by President Obama’s attitude toward business.

“I could not believe he said that. And it wasn’t just a twist of phrase, he actually goes on to explain what he meant by that,” Romney said, suddenly stretching forward as if finding it difficult to contain his feelings.

The energy came from what arguably was the presumptive Republican nominee’s best rally so far. More than 1,400 people packed a 4,000-square-foot warehouse – but it wasn’t the numbers, it was the event’s organic nature.

This was not a stacked rally, to which the usual GOP suspects bring a friend, or a ticketed event, for which you go to a local elected official to pick up a pass reserved for people who clap on cue.

This was the real deal – and the crowd, with nearly as many Democrats as Republicans, let Romney know they loved him and his message.

America’s spirit isn’t dead yet. In the age of Obama, it just smells funny.

HOW TO SAVE CIVILIZATION from itself.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, THE ECONOMY WOULD SINK SO LOW THAT NEWSPAPERS WOULD BE VALUED AS APPAREL. And they were right!

UPDATE: Reader Ric Manhard emails: “I followed your link to the newspaper dress. I’m surprised she wasn’t arrested for indecent exposure since neither the Washington Post nor the NY Times cover anything adequately these days.” Heh.

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Unemployment and Student Debt Sour America On College.

REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS OF this month’s massacre in Chicago. “A mass murder like Aurora, Colorado, naturally grabs the headlines and attention, as it should. A presidential recognition of the murders is appropriate. Yet more than twice as many people have been murdered this month in the president’s hometown of Chicago than were killed in the Aurora shooting. They are just statistics for whom there will be no presidential visits or flags flown at half staff.”

Well, since Chicago already has very strict gun control, these deaths can’t be turned to political use.

SCIENCE: Don’t Blame Sitting—Yet—for Shorter Lives of the Sedentary. “Instead, it could be that people who spend more time sitting are less healthy to begin with, or that those who sit less are using that time in healthier ways such as exercising.”

WORRIES ABOUT an electric-grid crash.

FACTCHECKING THE FACTCHECKERS: GOP truth squad targets bias in national PolitiFact units.

Well, Politifact Tennessee’s light-bulb debut wasn’t exactly brilliant.

THE CHROMOSOMAL EVIDENCE that mankind nearly went extinct.

GEORGE LUCAS shows his true colors.

WHY DIDN’T THIS MASS SHOOTING IN AURORA MAKE NEWS? Because someone with a gun stopped it quick.

ESPIONAGE: Virginia Man Sentenced for Spying for Syrian Government. “Mr. Soueid, a Syrian-born naturalized U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty to six counts of acting as an agent of a foreign government. Prosecutors said he recruited individuals in the U.S. to help gather information and supplied the Syrian government with contact information for key protesters in the U.S. and others. Mr. Soueid hand-wrote a letter of support to a Syrian official in April 2011, saying that he believed the dissension should be disposed of in a quick and decisive manner even through violence, home invasions and arrests.”

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Dear Prudence administers a well-deserved smackdown: “Your approach, however, seems to be to treat your sex life as if it is subject to regulatory review by the Department of Health and Human Services. Your prim, punctilious, punitive style has me admiring your put-upon husband’s ability to even get it up, given the possibility he’ll be accused of rape—or turn himself in for it!—if one of you fails a breathalyzer test. Living in terror that expressing one’s perfectly normal sexual desire could end one’s marriage, and freedom, is itself a form of abuse. Stop acting like a parody of a gender-studies course catalog and start acting like a loving wife. If you can’t, then give the poor sap a divorce.”

CHIVALRY: Three Men Died Taking Bullets For Girlfriends in Aurora Theater Shooting.

UPDATE: “That is, out of 12 individuals who died, 3 were men instinctively performing the traditional, masculine protective role.”

Plus, from the comments: “If Obama’s Julia were in the theater, who would have dove in front of her? A bureaucrat from the Social Security Administration or perhaps someone from Planned Parenthood?”

TRAFFIC CAMERA RECORDS IMPOSSIBLE SPEEDS: Red light cameras in St. Petersburg, Florida accuse motorist of running red light at 215 MPH.

CYBERSECURITY: Privacy advocates satisfied with Lieberman’s cybersecurity rewrite. “The revised Lieberman bill narrows the definition of what can be shared and requires that any information shared with the government must go to civilian, not military, agencies. The privacy groups argue that the legislation should not empower the CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect Americans’ personal computer information. The bill also dictates that the information can only be used for addressing cybersecurity threats and not other purposes, such as national security or criminal investigations.”

MIKE MCDANIEL: SWAT and the Second Amendment. “Millions of citizens lawfully carry concealed weapons. Police can encounter them, male and female, young and old, at any time and any place. Competent officers know this and behave properly and professionally around everyone. Millions more have firearms in their homes. Competent police officers know they may encounter legally armed people whenever they go to any citizen’s home. They know they may face particular danger if they do not clearly identify themselves or their purpose, particularly when they arrive at times and under circumstances people would not expect visitors — or the police.”

THE ELTON JOHN / RUSH LIMBAUGH bond.