*How Israel Was Disarmed, by Bret Stephens.
*Are the Arab states dropping the dollar for oil transactions?
*CNN fact checks SNL for their Obama skit. No, seriously. Every time I think the dinosaur media couldn’t be more in the tank for this guy, I’m proven wrong.
*Congress is fighting attempts to post bills online before they’re voted on.
*The Buck Passes Here, by Victor Davis Hanson.
“There is a growing credibility problem with this young administration. When Barack Obama promises a public option in health-care reform, or the passage of such legislation before the August break, or a renewed commitment to the necessary war in Afghanistan, or an end to lobbyists in government, or a new transparency, no one believes any of it anymore. Even worse, we know that the broken promises and policy mishaps will always be someone else’s fault.
The problem with all this is that while Americans may tire of duplicity, they hate whining with a passion.”
*The Obama Snap Back: Obama is the Rights best community organizer, by Rich Lowry.
*An Olympic Ego Trip, by George Will.
*You Can’t Say That: At the UN, the Obama administration backs limits on free speech, by Anne Bayefsky.
*In Defense of Glen Beck, by Jonah Goldberg.
“By definition, making conservatism popular means making it less stuffy and intellectual and more accessible. Not only is Beck good at that, he actually gets people to read serious books in ways Buckley never could. Why defenestrate him from the house of conservatism merely to preserve the rarefied air?”
*Nothing to see here folks, no astro-turfing what-so-ever, no sir.
*Disgraceful. The Obama administration cuts off funding to the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, an organizations that has “carefully documented cases of assassination and torture of democracy activists in Iran. With more than $3 million in grants from the US State Department, they have pored over thousands of documents and Persian-language press reports and interviewed scores of witnesses and survivors to build dossiers on those they say are Iran’s most infamous human-rights abusers
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