One unhappy mom

Her son was among those killed in the Benghazi attack, and the regime won't give her a straight answer about how and why it happened.

Once again, Stephanie Cutter offers us some very delicious low-hanging fruit

Says that the only reason the Benghazi debacle is being discussed by anybody is that R&R want to make it a campaign issue.

The spiritual rot at the core of our larger cultural rot

Eliot Abrams has a noteworthy piece today at NRO on the anti-Israel stance of American mainline Protestantism.  The United Methodists, United Presbyterians, Evangelical Lutherans, and the NCC are once again trying to influence US policy to be more critical of Israel and blind toward its interactions with Palestinians.  No mention by them, for instance, of the number of Palestinians who get treated - often for free - in Israeli hospitals, or the number of Arabs in Israeli politics and public life, or Israel's financial aid to the PA.

I wrote my master's thesis over 25 years ago on the correlation between mainline Protestantism's left-wing foreign-policy stance and the emptying of its pews.  This clearly continues apace.

I live about four blocks from the Presbyterian church in which I grew up and got confirmed.  (Still use the tattered Bible I was given by Rev. Laws upon entering the Junior Department in 1964.)  My visits there in recent decades have been sporadic, to say the least.  Sometimes members remind me I'm still on the rolls and suggest I try coming back into the fold.

Nah.

Was this a spontaneous protest to theYouTube movie?

A guy on a motorcycle rode up beside the Yemeni guy who is chief of security at the US embassy in Sanaa while the security chief was on his way to work and blew him away and rode off.

Yes, we must resist the temptation to get cocky with three long weeks still ahead, but . . .

. . . it's nice to start the day with a smile, particularly one induced by Mitt's very latest poll numbers.

We're at the stage in this particular election cycle - and what a cycle it is - where . . .

 . . . MSM stalwarts like ABC's Jake Tapper and NBC's Matt Lauer are pointing out the emperor's buck nakedness.

Lara makes it clear we were lied to; Trey Gowdy wants to know why

The South Carolina representative opens a can of whup-ass at the House Oversight Committee hearing today.

More proof that docs want him out

Results of a new poll show small private practices prefer Mitt to the MEC overwhelmingly.

For the full effect

Pundit and Pundette have the video of Lara Logan's talk in Chicago.

Nothin' slow about this news day

Let's do a quick roundup of this morning's noteworthy developments:

Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn lets loose on the Most Equal Comrade, saying that business people across the country are afraid of him.

The MEC went to the 1991 wedding of ABC's Martha Radditz, who will moderate tomorrow night's veep debate.  The guy she married was later appointed by the MEC as FCC head.

Security officer Eric Nordsrtom was denied his request for additional security, a request he made on the basis of 200 security breaches in Libya from mid-2011 to mid-2012, 48 of them in Benghazi.

The H-word Creature is to meet with the MEC this afternoon about the unraveling of the regime's Benghazi narrative.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee gets an earful about weak Libyan security at its hearing today.

RCP average has Mitt beating the MEC.  Mitt's ahead in all swing states, ahead with independents, and he's closed the gender gap.

Desperation breeds bad ideas

Multiple MSM outlets are scratching their heads at the childish, shark-jumping depths to which the MEC campaign has sunk with the Big Bird ad.

All you need to know about the MEC's character and spiritual depth

Sends a form letter of condolence to the father of a 22-year-old Marine who was killed in Afghanistan - last January.

But to call it failure is not quite accurate; it is, as we well know now, on purpose

Compact Power is furloughing workers.

How many moribund green "companies" is that now?

And Freedom-Haters are so up to their eyeballs in Kool-Aid there's no point in playing them the tape from the MEC's 2010 visit to the Michigan battery-component company.  It's always forward with the vision, no matter how many times it's proven to be utterly at odds with the basic laws of the universe.

I just wish I had those tax dollars back.

Hope this gets the exposure it deserves

Obama.com, a campaign fundraising website, is owned by a MEC bundler who lives in Shanghai and is up to his eyeballs in connections to the communist Chinese government.

When the MEC State Department says it has your back . . .

 . . . you'd better have a Plan B for your survival.  The former head of a Special Forces team overseeing security in Libya says Foggy Bottom turned a deaf ear to multiple requests for more security resources.

Our enemies are still strong and they still hate us

CBS News reporter Lara Logan, whose extensive Middle East experience ranges from interviews with the region's leaders to getting gang-raped in Tahrir Square, tells a public-affairs luncheon crowd in Chicago that al-Qaeda and the Taliban are as much of a threat as ever.