YNet: The conversation then drifted to Netanyahu, at which time Sarkozy declared: “I cannot stand him. He is a liar.” According to the report, Obama replied: “You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!” The remark was naturally meant to be said in confidence, but the two leaders’ microphones were accidently left on, making the would-be private comment embarrassingly public. The communication faux pas

That is a picture of Scott Jacobs, taken from his Twitter account avatar. I hadn’t realized Jacobs was on Twitter until just recently, when he sent me two consecutive unsolicited Tweets. Seems Scott will be in town for Blogcon 11 and has decided no trip to Denver is complete without getting in my face. Should make for an interesting time. Maybe I can hold a panel discussion on very angry

For what it’s worth: You have people right now within the party taking this moment to once again push for gun control and using the scandal – Fast and Furious, using that to do so. They are saying these things openly. It’s astonishing to me. They are very confident – or very afraid. I think it’s fear that is now motivating them. When you have Feinstein coming right out and

Evidently, being spectacularly and publicly wrong about both conservatism and the last Black presidential candidate he analyzed has done nothing to blunt Mr Brooks high regard for both himself and the people with whom he’d willingly share a cucumber sandwich. The GOP is playing a dangerous game with conservatives, classical liberals, and right-libertarians who make up their voting base. And this willingness to try to shame that constitutionalist base into

This is Gloria Allred. Some sexual harassment is more equal than others. Evidently.

Jim Pethokoukis, AEI: Sure, America has the second highest corporate tax rate among advanced economies. But few pay the headline rate, right? For instance, liberal advocacy group Citizens for Tax Justice just released a report noting that 30 U.S. corporations paid no income taxes to Uncle Sam for the years 2008-2010. (The always excellent Tax Foundation pokes several holes in that study.) But guess what, the effective average tax rate

Plus, have you seen the way he smiles, all slow and such? He’s Mandingo. Robin Givhan, Daily Beast: Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has been trying to shut down the unsavory story line that he sexually harassed at least two female co-workers while heading the National Restaurant Association from 1993 to 1996, by proclaiming that he was “falsely accused” and suggesting that he’s the victim of a witch hunt, a

OCCUPY IRONY! Exit question: if you can stuff 15 floppy-shoed clowns into a VW Bug, how many VW Bugs will it take to shuttle “the 99%” out of Zuccotti Park and back to Westchester? (h/t Weasel Zippers)

The timing is probably just coincidental.