Feel like I’m really getting good with the SCAR-17.  Today I tried several drills.  With the hostage drill, I first tried grouping shots in the eyes and forehead, saving one last shot for an attempt at the mouth.

To borrow from the late great Dandy Don, “turn out the lights, the party’s over…” (h/t Darleen)

Good overview, addressing such things as the increase in debt as a share of GDP; an historically slow jobs recovery; a drop in US competitive status as noted by the World Economic Forum; a decline in real hourly earnings, and so on. But Mr Pethokoukis misses number 12 — and it’s a rather significant omission, in my estimation:  namely, Obama is still President. Other than that, though.  Nice work.  

This would be a big deal — particularly in the run-up to a foreign policy debate — if it wasn’t for one simple fact: RACIST! (h/t Pablo)

Just to highlight my own Visigothery — I see things, you see, that just aren’t there, like for instance Obama’s inherent embrace of Marxism — here’s a reminder from the Tuesday debate of how the President very clearly does not stand for any of those things we fringe “purists” very unhelpfully accuse him of — and in our conspiratorial zeal, push away the very kinds of moderate and undecided voters

Good lord:  is the race hustling industry becoming so hard up that they’re now reduced to trying to paint white Republicans with plantation language? Because — and I know Michael Eric Dyson could find hidden or coded racism in the color of a shadow, then insinuate that the sun is looking for way to keep the pinned down on urban streets or rural acreage, so this really is par for

It’s okay:  Mr Bean will explain it to you, using as an objective correlative current British law: [Rowan Atkinson] criticised the “new intolerance” as he called for part of it the Public Order Act to be repealed, saying it was having a “chilling effect on free expression and free protest”. Mr Atkinson said: “The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as

No answer given, just speculation, of course.  But if I had to guess?  I’d go with “their names appear magically on his teleprompter, almost as if they’d been sent him by God.  Which can’t be the case, clearly, because He is God.  So more likely, it’s some sort of Terminator time travel scenario.” Science!