The deadly siege at Kamdeysh

Michelle Malkin "Firing rockets and rifles, Taliban militiamen attacked American and Afghan military outposts in a daylong siege on Saturday that killed eight U.S. soldiers and two Afghan security forces in one of the deadliest battles in months, according to U.S. and Afghan officials."

Obama wins popularity contests, not much else

NY Post via Lucianne "Obama’s efforts — mostly intentional — are to make the US look small, unthreatening, humble. That may make us more popular, but the IOC’s rejection of Obama’s personal appeals was yet another indication that there are far more significant metrics of global influence than being liked. I would rather the United States be respected than liked."

Caught in a lie

American Thinker "John Kerry is leading the charge to bring the cap and trade bill to the floor of the senate before year's end. I would be very surprised if this news didn't kill the House bill for good. That doesn't mean that some kind of energy bill won't make it through the senate, but it will almost certainly not contain the carbon credits and other schemes to tax the American people into paupery." Now THERE'S hope.

The Obamas Violated First Three Rules of Selling

American Thinker# "In their academic arrogance, they thought they could sell a product they clearly do not believe in (the United States) and moreover, they could do so by stressing the benefits to the seller (Chicago) and not the buyer (the IOC). And to top it off, they committed the faux pas of talking too much about the sales force (themselves) and not about the product or the buyer. "

Hollywood's rally around admitted rapist Roman Polanski has resurrected the limousine liberal, reminding much of middle America why they hate the left

Daily Beast "Like their forebears, today’s limousine liberals display a very special brand of class-conscious hypocrisy. These people would never rally around an admitted child rapist—unless that admitted child rapist made great films, won prestigious awards, and went to the same dinner parties they like to attend." h/t to Hot Air

Video: And now, an important message from non-celebrities on ObamaCare

Hot Air "Meanwhile, Will Ferrell’s comedy collaborator Adam McKay has responded to arguments that he should pony up some of his vast fortune to buy poor people health insurance if he’s that concerned about it by calling them “sub-moronic” and then staying very, very quiet."

Reply to Andy McCarthy

By Max Boot "McChrystal’s strategy is the only way to achieve this goal, as the past eight years should have proven. During those years, we did not pursue a counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan. We focused on killing bad guys—something that McCarthy presumably approves of. The result has been that the Taliban are seizing control of large parts of eastern and southern Afghanistan. What experience teaches—most recently the experience of Iraq—is that only by placing troops among the population can we prevent safe havens for terrorists from emerging."

Obama's Olympic Failure Will Test the Washington Press Corps

by Fred Barnes "The Washington press corps will never fault Obama for pushing hyper-liberal policies in a moderate-to-conservative country. Ideological criticism by the press is reserved for Republican presidents. But the media is faced with three facts as a result of Obama’s embarrassing failure in Copenhagen. 1) The failure itself. 2) The incompetence. 3) The lack of persuasive ability. There’s nothing ideological about any of these items."

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed to have Jewish past

UK Telegraph# "The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his birth." Lotta those birth certificate issues out there lately.

The Obamas and school lunches

Big Fur Hat.com I wanted to give a hat tip to whoever sent this to me, but the email got deleted and I can't remember the sender.

Airborne laser

Blackfive "Fyi, attached is newly available video of the in-flight Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) aircraft precisely firing its laser at a stationary ground vehicle target during an Aug. 30 test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. As you can see, the laser damaged the vehicle." This is all I know.

Change and Hope

By Victor Davis Hanson# "I am not a fan of the Obama agenda. But I am don’t want an impotent Commander in Chief abroad for three very dangerous years to come. So I am worried that the U.S. will be crippled with a weak, unpopular executive, as happened to Bush (35% approvals) in 2007-8. Our currency is tanking. Our debts are climbing. Our energy needs are breaking us. Our borrowing is out of control. The country is divided in a 1859/1968 mode. And the world is smiling as Obama, now hesitant and without the old messianic confidence, presides over our accepted inevitable decline. The country needs to buck up and meet these challenges head on, since the world smells blood, whether in Iran, Russia, the Mideast, North Korea, or South America, and in a mere 9 months of the reset button."