Japan expert to ABC: Yes, Obama’s bow made him look like an idiot

Hot Air "So much of an idiot, in fact, that according to Tapper’s source, at least one Japanese paper isn’t running the photo out of embarrassment. This tool actually groveled himself into a minor international incident." Other world leaders greeting the emperor Perspective; always perspective.

President Obama takes heat on Afghan timing

Politico "In a tough column in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times headlined “Obama must rethink rethinking Afghanistan,” Doyle McManus said the deliberations were “starting to look like dangerous indecision”..."

Charles Krauthammer: Medicalizing Mass Murder

Townhall "Have we totally lost our moral bearings? Nidal Hasan (allegedly) cold-bloodedly killed 13 innocent people. In such cases, political correctness is not just an abomination. It's a danger, clear and present."

NYT derisive over Jewish claims to Temple Mount

American Thinker "As for Muslim behavior on Temple Mount, there's nothing in Kershner's article about how the Islamic Wafq, which administers the site, has for a long time set out to destroy artifacts that might connect the site to the Second Temple, even using a bulldozer to vandalize this holy place and consign precious relicts(sic) to garbage heaps where Israeli archaeologists have had to rummage through to rescue invaluable relics."

Fort Hood and the Academic Apologists

By Cinnamon Stillwell    "The rush to judgment against those who express valid concerns about Islamism only adds to the self-censorship that was in large part responsible for allowing Hasan to remain in the military and murder his fellow soldiers in cold blood."

Is Fort Hood Really a “Tragedy?”

By Victor Davis Hanson  "And do we need another Western “thinker” writing that our armed forces attacking suspected al Qaeda and Taliban in Predator strikes is the equivalent of Hasan shooting uniformed soldiers — as if those in uniform of a democratic state, training for or in war, are the same as those out of uniform committed to theocratic absolutism through the deliberate killing of civilians or the unarmed?"

Obama’s “Bush Did It” Narrative

By Victor Davis Hanson  "Obama is a product of his education and early life, in which America being culpable for a variety of sins was the gospel , as we see from his associates like Ayers, to his minister like Wright, to the general force of his community organizing in Chicago, to his most partisan voting record in the Senate

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Obama's botched bow

Thomas Lifson  "I suspect the poor Emperor was so shocked by the faux pas that he just pretended it didn't happen. That is one way Japanese people deal with breaches of etiquette, especially from the powerful who are also ignorant. But the end resilt is that Obama has been snubbed royally."

From Germany: "An Amateur’s Plan"

Watching America  "Since then,[Obama] has done everything in his power to make sure he loses that war. His national security team exhibits a measure of amateurism that’s not unusual for the early phases of a presidential administration. That can, however, lead to total defeat for his administration and for Afghanistan’s future.

Video: Glenn Beck devotes entire show to black conservatives

Hot Air   "A brilliant idea, although I hope the participants know that they’re now fair game for “progressive” blackface photoshops mocking them as traitors to their race. The Clinton coalition is fracturing, thanks to The One’s statism on steroids; every white surbanbite vote that’s lost will have to be made up with a minority vote, which means the volume on the demagoguery will have to be turned up that much higher."

When Won’t Obama Visit Afghanistan?

Pajamas Media "He hasn’t been back to Afghanistan since his campaign stop there in the summer of 2008. He has been to Cairo to “reach out” to Muslims. He has been to Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago’s (failed) Olympic bid. He has been to France to commemorate D-Day 65 years ago. He has used his presidential traveling prerogatives for such matters as family time in Chicago, a vacation on Martha’s Vineyard,and a “date night” in Manhattan with Michelle. He is expected to go to Oslo next month to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. But since becoming president, he has not been to Afghanistan."

How low will he go? Obama gives Japan's Emperor Akihito a wow bow

From the LA Times of all places! "Very low bows like this are a sign of great respect and deference to a superior."