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France24 France to close embassies in fear of cartoon backlash
The West continues its capitulation to Muslim infantilization.

InfoWars DHS Purchases 200 Million More Rounds of Ammunition

1. Why does DHS need 1.5 billion rounds of ammunition? They certainly aren’t using it to protect our borders.
2. Why do they need 176K sniper rounds?

Detroit News Secretary of State: 4K noncitizens on voter rolls
But no, we don’t need voter ID. Let’s just let everyone vote: tourists, illegals, resident aliens,…

Jonah Goldberg@Townhall Can ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Trailer Really be that Potent?
One of the best commentaries on the current insanity.

Michelle Malkin Romney’s “secret video” and the Dem politics of “Squirrel!”

Andy Kessler@WSJ The U.S. Needs More i-Side Economics

Forbes Antarctic Sea Ice Sets Another Record
Oops.

Washington Times Feds ignore rules and use stimulus cash to buy Chinese solar panels
While the Dems bash Romney for sending jobs overseas, they use stimulus funds—which are supposed to generate jobs here—to create jobs in China. Pot meet kettle.

USA Today:

• Just 96K jobs added in August; jobless rate falls to 8.1%
  Note the truth buried in the story:

  The drop in the August unemployment rate fell because 368,000 Americans dropped out of the labor force

  If another half million drop out over the next couple months, you can expect to hear Dear Leader crowing about reducing unemployment.

• Alpha closing 8 coal mines, cutting 1,200 jobs
  Those 1200 families? Not important to this President—after all, WV didn’t vote for him.

Daily Caller Emails reveal Justice Dept. regularly enlists Media Matters to spin press
More from the most ethical and transparent administration ever.

NY Post America basher’s backfire: Killed by flag smoke
Epic fail.

Townhall:

• Jeff Jacoby Just as Intended, Teachers Strike Hurts Families
  If you don’t think the union knew the strike would hurt families and planned to use that pain against the city politically, you’re not paying attention.
• Dennis Prager Note to Paul Krugman: Here’s Real “Eliminationist” Rhetoric
• Michael Brown Is the Republican Party the Party of God?
  A timely word of caution.

Bret Stephens@WSJ Muslims, Mormons and Liberals: Why is it OK to mock one religion but not another?

The Muslim world is melting down and, to quote one columnist, “Mr. President, you built that.”

• UK Daily Mail Children raised to hate America: Shocking picture of boy holding a gun during anti-U.S. riot in Lebanon… as ANOTHER embassy goes up in smoke
• WSJ The Video Did It: The White House finds a root cause of anti-American violence.
• Derek Hunter@Townhall The Media’s Rape of Reality
• Michael Barone@Washington Examiner Obama stumbles in response to embassy attacks
• CNN U.S. ambassador’s last moments
  Does anyone buy the White House spin that this was just an anti-video mob out of control?

Four colleges evacuated for bomb threats, demonstrating all too easily the chaos that would be created by a real bombing. Does your family have a bug-out plan?

• USA Today Telephoned bomb threats send 3 campuses scrambling
• Fox News Louisiana State evacuates following bomb threat

UK Daily Mail Controversial ‘naked’ airport body scanners to be scrapped after failing to receive European approval
So backscatter machines won’t be used on flights originating from Europe to the U.S. Can we finally dispense with the fantasy that they’re keeping us safe here?

Daniel Henninger@WSJ The Obama Democrats: This isn’t the party of FDR, Truman, JFK or Clinton. They’re different.

Larry Kudlow@Townhall Obamanomics Has Failed Dismally

Washington Free Beacon Reports: Marines Not Permitted Live Ammo
Why have a Marine guard if they aren’t armed? The reaction of State Department embassy personnel—as well as the White House—is outrageous. Embassy grounds are sovereign U.S. soil and should be defended as such. The current administration is only encouraging further attacks by deliberately projecting American weakness and indecision.

Townhall:

• Thomas Sowell The Brass Standard
• Jonah Goldberg Don’t Misplace Blame for Middle Eastern Mayhem
• Mike Adams When Students Cheat Liberals Retreat

WSJ:

• The New World Disorder: As the U.S. retreats, bad actors begin to fill the vacuum.
• Romney Offends the Pundits: Doesn’t he know he’s not supposed to debate foreign policy?
• Liz Cheney Cairo, Benghazi and Obama Foreign Policy

USA Today Cairo protesters scale U.S. Embassy wall, remove flag
Add to that four dead Americans at the embassy in Libya. I thought President Hopey Changey was supposed to improve our status in the Middle East. How’s that Arab Spring thing workin’ for ya’?

Michelle Malkin Egyptian faux-rage, deadly American dhimmitude, and the return of Islamic Rage Boy; Update: US Ambassador to Libya, Foreign Service officer, two Marines dead

Townhall:

• Thomas Sowell An Economic ‘Plan’?
• Thomas Sowell Depending on Dependency
• Dennis Prager The Most Important Event At Either Convention

Fox News Letting babies cry out at nighttime is OK
Only in academia do you need to waste time and money confirming what our grandparents considered common sense. If you listen carefully you can hear wisdom slowly running down the drain.

John R. Lott, Jr.@Fox Opinion Did Colorado shooter single out Cinemark theater because it banned guns?
In a word (by Biden’s counting method): very likely.

WSJ:

• Desperately Seeking Middle-Class Taxes: What Obama’s critique of Ryan tells us about Obama’s budget plans.
• Karl Rove The President’s Fountain of Youth Is Drying Up: In 2008 young voters chose Obama over McCain by 66% to 32%. Today he leads Romney by 49% to 41%.
• Transformers 2: Obama was honest when he said he wanted to remake America.

Star Parker@Townhall An alternative to Democrats’ moral bankruptcy

Weekly Standard S.C. Dem. Chair Compares GOP Gov. to Hitler’s Mistress
Nice. Now which party was it that was spewing hatred and waging war on women?

Michelle Malkin Obama’s (Un)American Auto Bailout

Townhall:

• Thomas Sowell ‘Bait and Switch’ Taxes
• Frank J. Fleming The First Term of Obama Has Been a Failure…of America

AP Fact Check: Clinton Claims of Compromise a Stretch
Good to see a liberal outlet fact checking the Dems for once, but it’ll be interesting to see if they’re as honest with Obama or continue to carry water for The One.

Fox News Massachusetts judge approves taxpayer-funded sex change for inmate
Your tax dollars at work.

Michelle Malkin The Condensed Liberal Handbook of Racial Code Words

Townhall:

• Jonah Goldberg Liberal Media Brings Out the Hockey Pucks
• Diana West What’s Whiter Than the GOP? The Media
• Thomas Sowell Obama’s Dreams

I haven’t watched the RNC convention live, but wanted to check out the speech highlights. Anyone notice what’s missing here?

NBC Video: Tuesday night’s RNC speeches

According to NBC there weren’t any black or Hispanic speakers. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Armed Citizens:

• NBC (local) Armed bystander stops stabbing outside school
  Wait a minute. Shouldn’t he have called 911 and waited for the police? We can’t have citizens stopping attempted murders, now, can we?
• CBS (local) Bystander Fired Deadly Shot, Not Officer
  Shouldn’t he have called 911 and waited for the police? Oh wait…that was the police.

Michelle Malkin Obama’s Sneaky, Deadly, Costly Car Tax

Townhall:

• Thomas Sowell Entitlement Reforms
• Walter E. Williams The Rich Don’t Pay Enough?

Fox News New US standards would double car fuel efficiency
Great. So we’ll get smaller, lighter, flimsier deathmobiles when what we want are cheaper gas and cars and SUVs that are big enough to actually travel with our families—or even do something really crazy like take the kids and a couple friends to the lake without being forced to drive two vehicles.

CBS Family: School Made Deaf Child Change Sign Name, Said It Looked Like Gun
More of the insanity that ensues when our schools are run by liberals.

FoxNation Ellen Barkin Hopes Hurricane Kills ‘Every Pro-Life, Xenophobic, Gay-Bashing SOB’ At The RNC
Where, again, is all the hate supposedly coming from?

Doug Powers@MichelleMalkin New campaign ad: ‘Republican’ women for Obama
Nothing like a little AstroTurf…

WSJ Cheesecake Factory Medicine

Townhall:

• Thomas Sowell Risky Business
• Dennis Prager My Dream Speech for Mitt Romney