Assortment

“Open Blogger” over at Ace of Spades does an excellent fisking of a hit-piece by Laurie Kellman on Rep. Eric Cantor.

Angelo Codevilla has written a lengthy, but outstanding, essay on Barack Obama, centered on the theme of various biographies (including Obama’s own two books) that have sought to document and explain the life and adventures of Mr. Enigma (or, in the case of the autobiographies, to avoid documenting and explaining). Just a taste:

The lack of first-hand material for a proper intellectual portrait of Barack Obama forces any who approach the subject to note, first, what information we do not have: not even a senior thesis (or any other paper) from his college days, nor even a single signed article in the law review which he formally edited. He simply never produced stuff that qualified for that academic level. All we have is a signed screed in the Columbia student paper Sundial imputing America's refusal to embrace nuclear disarmament to structural social flaws, and a six-page fragment in the Harvard Law Review attributed to him by researchers but unsigned and unacknowledged by him, which asserts an absolute right to abortion. Neither bespeaks a serious mind. We have no academic records. His "autobiographies" are of uncertain parentage.

Pat Austin notes a sign of the end times.

Bob Belvedere contemplates several aspects of Obama’s latest mood swings.

The shy and retiring Ted Nugent has a few soft words for our liberal elite.

Alex Castellanos takes a clue-by-four to Chris Matthews.

Jeff Goldstein to Republican establishment: “Watch and learn”.

Be sure to catch the hilarious gif of Obama at Gateway Pundit.