*Palin Rising, by Matt Patterson.

“A lot of stars have yet to align for Palin’s path to the presidency to be illuminated. But that no longer seems impossible to me. In fact, I can now quite clearly imagine that someday, someone may say the words “Madam President,” to a moose-hunting mom from Alaska.

Wouldn’t that be something?”

*On the Horizon: Some modest Obama Predictions, by Victor Davis Hanson.

“Such a strange phenomenon—as Obama’s polls dive, and the voters begin to see that the centrist moderate, whom they thought in 2008 that they were voting for, is in truth an ideologue, his supporters are reduced to calling critics “racialists.” That is the blueprint for 2010.”

*The Terror This Time, at the WSJ.

RELATED: Learning From Abdul Muttalib, by Victor Davis Hanson.

“As we learned on 9/11, it is often the unsung heroes among us that come out of the shadows to aid us, and not necessarily large bureaucracies entrusted with our safety. Individuals acting on their own so often make the difference between salvation and mass murder.”

Indeed.  Anyone interested in learning self-defense at a reasonable cost can contact the editor. 

RELATED II: Missing the Point, by Andy McCarthy.

RELATED III: The Guys Been on Every Channel, Every Day, for a Year.  Now He’s Shy? By Jim Geraughty.

*Cross the River, Burn the Bridge, by Mark Steyn.

*Forget the Democracy, They Have a Planet to Save, by Jennifer Rubin.

*Secondhand Hate, by Naomie Emory.

“The left, which invented first “hate speech” (opinions they didn’t like) and then “hate crimes” (crimes judged less on the criminal’s actions than on what he was presumed to be thinking), has now gone on to its epiphany, which is “hate” defined not by your words or deeds but by what other people have decided you really think. “Hate” is no longer what you do or say, but what a liberal says that you think and projects on to you. You are punished for what someone else claims you were thinking. It hardly makes sense, but it does serve a political purpose. You could call it Secondhand Hate.”

Read the whole thing.