While it’s true that store’s Federal Firearms License (FFL) has been revoked most of the reports I’ve seen, like this one from Reuters, or this one from UPI omit certain important details.  Even prominent blogs like Hot Air are missing important parts of the story.

So what is the full story? According to The Journal News the formal process to revoke Riverview Guns Sales owner David LaGuercia’s Federal Firearms License began 18 months before the Sandy Hook shooting, the full administrative hearing was held last August… Long before Adam Lanza’s violent rampage claimed 26 innocent lives:

LaGuercia’s lawyer, Robert Altchiler, said Saturday the ATF began proceedings to revoke the dealer’s federal firearms license, or FFL, 18 months before the massacre on Dec. 14. He did not reveal why the license was revoked.

“The formal basis of the revocation had nothing to do with Sandy Hook, what Nancy and Adam Lanza did, or Newtown,” he said in a statement. “Nothing. Period.”

ATF spokeswoman Deb Seifert declined to say why LaGuercia’s license was revoked and referred questions about any possible criminal investigation to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Altchiler said two guns found at the massacre scene were sold at Riverview Gun Sales, one in March 2010 and the other in March 2011, but didn’t say which ones. A full administrative hearing was held in August regarding the revocation and “obviously nothing that occurred in that hearing had anything to do with Nancy and Adam Lanza or the purchases made by Nancy Lanza at Riverview Sales,” he said.

The Journal News also reports that Riverview Gun Sales has made news in the past after gun thefts went undetected:

Three days prior to the massacre, 26-year-old Jordan Marsh, of South Windsor, is accused of walking into the store and stealing an AR-15-style rifle from the counter, federal court records say.

Store employees didn’t realize it until Hartford police recovered the gun in a hotel room six days later, records say. Marsh is facing a federal charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and is being held without bond. He had a prior conviction after stealing guns from Riverview, court records show.

Also, in 2007, The Hartford Courant reported that LaGuercia contacted the ATF after determining his store could not account for 33 firearms. A man who occasionally worked there was charged with stealing the guns.

Anyway, Mr. LaGuercia is reportedly appealing the decision.

Conspiracy theories aside there doesn’t appear to be any sinister government conspiracy here — just the ATF doing it’s job. Mr. LaGuercia own lawyer admits the ATF began the process of revoking his FFL long before the Sandy Hook school shootings.

This is just one of those rare cases where the ATF revokes a gun dealers license.

Edit: WFSB TV has background on Jordan Marsh, the 26-year-old man, charged with stealing that AR15 rifle from Riverview Gun Sales last December.

Related

• Connecticut gun law: Breakdown of when new rules go into effect – New Haven Register
• Democratic front group hyped as hunters by media in gun control fight – Emily Miller, The Washington Times
• ACLU says Reid’s gun legislation could threaten privacy rights, civil liberties – Vince Coglianese, The Daily Caller
• Gun Deaths in the USA – David Robertson, Wizbang
• States look to tax guns, ammo – USA Today
• ATF Seeks ‘Massive’ Database of Personal Info: ‘Assets, Relatives, Associates and More’ – CNSNews.com
•  Hundreds of Texas educators take free concealed handgun class – Foxnews.com

Ted Cruz is right… she drives the mainstream media “Bat-crap crazy”.

More videos from CPAC 2013 can seen here.

President Obama’s second term could really be something. In the latest disdain for the Constitution’s checks and balances, the National Labor Relations Board has declared that it doesn’t like the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Friday ruling that three board members were illegally appointed so it plans to ignore it.

“The Board respectfully disagrees with today’s decision and believes that the President’s position in the matter will ultimately be upheld,” Chairman Mark Pearce said in a statement. “It should be noted that this order applies to only one specific case, Noel Canning, and that similar questions have been raised in more than a dozen cases pending in other courts of appeals.

“In the meantime, the Board has important work to do. The parties who come to us seek and expect careful consideration and resolution of their cases, and for that reason, we will continue to perform our statutory duties and issue decisions.”

To recap… first, President Obama unilaterally declares the Senate is “recess” while the Senate was holding pro-forma session specifically to prevent him from making recess appointments and appoints three people to the National Labor Relations Board. Then when a federal appeals court rules the recess appointments were illegal, the NLRB thumbs its collective nose at the ruling and declares that it will keep doing business as if nothing happened.

In a sane world the President’s three illegal appointees to the NLRB would resign and Mr. Obama would work with the Senate, in its advice and consent capacity, to legally reconstitute the National Labor Relations Board. Instead this administration continues to thumb its nose at the Constitution and the rule of law.

This is NRA Country…

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Police here have less than a sunny-side-up view of a local Denny’s.

The Belleville police chief banned his officers from the eatery while on duty after several detectives were told they couldn’t carry their guns in the restaurant, but Denny’s says the incident stemmed from a misunderstanding.

The incident began about 10 a.m. Tuesday when five Belleville detectives went into the Denny’s at 1130 South Illinois Street, ordered food and began to eat. The detectives had badges on their belts or on chains around their necks, but they weren’t in uniform.

Belleville Capt. Donald Sax said restaurant manager David Rice then approached and told one of the detectives that a diner had complained about seeing one of the detectives carrying a gun.

Even though the detective told Rice all at the table were police officers, Rice insisted the detectives take their guns back out to their cars, Sax said.

According to Sax, Rice then told the officers that it is company policy to allow only uniformed officers to carry their guns into a restaurant and that a sign on the door stated that policy.

According to news reports another manager approached the detectives as they were leaving the restaurant and explained the Mr. Rice was wrong and that they could remain. The detectives left anyway and made point of checking for signs alerting customers to the no firearms policy… They couldn’t find any.

Belleville Police Chief William Clay has ordered his officers not to eat at that Denny’s while they are on duty or when they’re off duty and still in uniform.

I didn’t know Denny’s had a no gun policy, regardless asking a sworn police officer to leave a restaurant because they’re carrying a tool of their trade is just plain stupid… It defies common sense, its political correctness gone crazy.

In sane world, what Mr. Rice would have done was explained to the concerned customer that the person with the gun was a police officer and that would have been the end of it.

But this isn’t a sane world…

Update: Belleville police chief: Conflict with Denny’s ‘made right’

H/T: Twitchy.

THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
by Clement Clarke Moore

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,

While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;

And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,

Had just settled down for a long winter’s nap,

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash,

Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow

Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,

When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,

But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,

I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.

More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,

And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;

“Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!

On, Comet! on Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!

To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!

Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!”

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,

When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,

So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,

With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof

The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

As I drew in my head, and was turning around,

Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,

And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;

A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,

And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

His eyes — how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,

And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,

And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;

He had a broad face and a little round belly,

That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,

And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,

Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,

And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,

And laying his finger aside of his nose,

And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,

And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.

But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,

“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night.”

~ ~ ~

Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. -Ephesians 1:2

Have a very Merry Christmas and Joyous New Year everyone, may you be blessed with every joy during this glorious season.

Related

• Yes, Virginia … – The New York Sun
• In Hoc Anno Domini – The Wall Street Journal

Have a very Merry Christmas and Joyous New Year everyone.

Tim Scott

Various news outlets are reporting that South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley will appoint Rep. Tim Scott to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jim DeMint, who is resigning to become president of the Heritage Foundation.

Gov. Haley is expected to announce the appointment at noon Monday.

Mr. Scott will be the only African-American in the United States Senate.

I live a little more than 10 miles from the Sandy Hook Elementary School where a madman went on murderous rampage that left 20 children and 6 adults dead.

There’s so much we still don’t know about happened yesterday, what we do know is this; sometime yesterday morning that 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother Nancy at their home in Newtown, then drove to the Sandy Hook Elementary School with at least 3 weapons and forced his way into the school. Once inside he shot and killed 26 innocent people and himself. One faculty member was wounded.

We still don’t know what motivated Mr. Lanza, but his mother reportedly pulled him out of the Newtown public school system at some point:

The aunt of Connecticut shooter Adam Lanza said the shooter’s mother pulled him out of Newtown’s public school system because she was unhappy with the school district’s plans for her son.

Adam Lanza’s mother Nancy, 52, was the first victim of his Friday shooting spree. Lanza shot Nancy in the face and then drove her car to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he killed 20 students and six adults before taking his own life.

Marsha Lanza, who is Adam’s aunt and Nancy’s ex-sister-in-law, told Evelyn Thomas of ABC-owned-and-operated station WLS in Chicago that Nancy had once been a classroom aide at the Sandy Hook school.

His brother, Ryan, of Hoboken, NJ reportedly told police his brother had a “personality disorder” and that he hadn’t talked to him roughly two years… Many of new reports have describe Mr. Lanza as troubled and withdrawn. Dr. Alan Lipman, a top Criminal Psychologist, explained on Fox News this morning “Every one of these episodes is proceeded by undiagnosed mental illness”:

In the coming days and weeks we’ll learn more what motivated Adam Lanza’s murderous rampage, but I think it’s safe to say it wasn’t the act of sane man.

One finally note for those of you who are calling for more gun control laws. Connecticut already has some of strictest gun control laws — including a ban on so-called “assault weapons”, in the nation… They didn’t stop this shooter.

No so-called gun control law has ever prevented a single shooting.

Europe’s strict gun laws didn’t stop Anders Breivik from killing dozens of people in Norway.

The sad reality no law can stop a person who is hell-bent on killing others. As Plato said “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” Simply put: laws only apply to those who are willing to abide by them.

Even if by some miracle we could remove every gun from the planet it wouldn’t end violent crime. People would just back to killing each other with sticks and stones, or swords and knives, or bows and arrows or their bare hands. Laws can’t stop a deranged, murderous, anti-social moron from committing a violent act. The only thing that can, is people who are willing and able to protect themselves.

If you think otherwise you’re in denial.

If we’re going to place blame or point fingers, point them at Adam Lanza, he’s the one responsible for this senseless act.

Edit: Authorities have released the names of the of the victims killed in Newtown, they are:

Adults

• Rachel Davino, 7/17/83, female (age 29)
• Dawn Hocksprung, 06/28/65, female (age 47)
• Anne Marie Murphy, 07/25/60, female (age 52)
• Lauren Russeau, 1982, female (age 29)
• Mary Sherlach, 02/11/56, female (age 56)
• Victoria Soto, 11/04/85, female (age 27)

Children

• Charlotte Bacon, 2/22/06, female (age 6)
• Daniel Barden, 9/25/05, male (age 7)
• Olivia Engel, 7/18/06, female (age 6)
• Josephine Gay, 12/11/05, female (age 7)
• Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 04/04/06, female (age 6)
• Dylan Hockley, 03/08/06, male (age 6)
• Madeleine F. Hsu, 07/10/06, female (age 6)
• Catherine V. Hubbard, 06/08/06, female (age 6)
• Chase Kowalski, 10/31/05, male (age 7)
• Jesse Lewis, 06/30/06, male (age 6)
• James Mattioli, 03/22/06, male (age 6)
• Grace McDonnell, 11/04/05, female (age 7)
• Emilie Parker, 05/12/06, female (age 6)
• Jack Pinto, 05/06/06, male (age 6)
• Noah Pozner, 11/20/06, male (age 6)
• Caroline Previdi, 09/07/06, female (age 6)
• Jessica Rekos, 05/10/06, female (age 6)
• Avielle Richman, 10/17/06, female (age 6)
• Benjamin Wheeler, 9/12/06, male (age 6)
• Allison N. Wyatt, 07/03/06, female (age 6)

Our thoughts and prayers go out to their families and friends.

Related

• 20 Children Among 28 Dead In Newtown, Conn. Elementary School Massacre – CBS New York
• Progressive Policies Are to Blame for the Mass Shooting in Sandy Hook – Jim Hoft, The Gateway Pundit
• Lt. Paul Vance: Investigators Have Uncovered Some Evidence, But We Don’t Have a Definitive Motive Yet – Fox News
• Conn. town mourns as police look for answers – Associated Press

I think it’s safe to say President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has officially jumped the shark.

I don’t know what else to say about their newly released ad featuring actress Lena Dunham comparing voting to losing her virginity:

President Obama’s campaign is out with an eyebrow-raising new ad targeting young voters in which  Lena Dunham, the creator of the HBO hit series ‘Girls,’ compares her first voting experience to losing her virginity.

‘Your first time shouldn’t be with just anybody,’ Dunham, 26, says in the ad. ‘You want to do it with a great guy.’

Dunham goes on to explain that ‘your first time’ should be with ‘someone who really cares about and understands women; A guy who cares whether you get health insurance and specifically whether you get birth control.’

‘The consequences are huge,’ she continues.

Dunham wraps up the Obama ad by describing her coming-of-age experience at the voting booth.

‘It was this line in the sand,’ she says. ‘Before, I was a girl. Now, I was a woman. I went to the polling station, I pulled back the curtain, I voted for Barack Obama.’

I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised by this ad, Pres. Obama and his fellow Democrats have all but lost the argument on the economy and have gone all in on abortion rights in effort to try to distract women from their lack of answers on the economy, jobs and national security.

The ad itself is the single most profoundly illogical and sophomoric appeal I’ve ever seen in American politics.  It speaks volumes about the contempt President Obama, and Democrats in general, hold for women. They seem to believe that women aren’t intelligent or informed enough to see through such tacky rhetoric and will blindly follow them like sheep.

Newsflash: They’re not… They’re every bit as concerned about the economy, jobs and national security as men are.

Anyway, it’s sad moment in our history when a sitting president resorts to this sort of tawdry desperation… it cheapens the office and emboldens all the disrespectful, sleazy misogynists who seek to objectify and degrade women on daily basis.

Shame on you Mr. President, shame on you.

Related

• Is the Obama campaign taking commercial ideas from Vladimir Putin? – Foreign Policy
• Obama’s Crass Campaign Ad Shows Contempt For Young Women Voters – Investors.com

News9.com – Oklahoma City, OK – News, Weather, Video and Sports |

BRYAN COUNTY, Oklahoma – A 12-year-old girl took matters into her own hands during a home invasion in southeast Oklahoma.

It happened on Wednesday when the girl was home alone. She told police a stranger rang the doorbell, then went around to the back door and kicked it in. She called her mom, Debra St. Clair, who told her to get the family gun, hide in a closet and call 911.

That was when St. Clair dropped what she doing and raced home.

“I drove home at a really fast pace to try to get to her, and when I got here the police were already here. And they had the suspect,” she said.

The during that time, the intruder made his way through the house. St. Clair’s daughter told deputies the man came into the room where she was hiding and began to open up the closet door. That was when the 12-year-old had to make a life-saving decision.

“And what we understand right now, he was turning the doorknob when she fired through the door,” said the Bryan County Undersheriff Ken Golden.

The bullet hit the intruder, who deputies identified as 32-year-old Stacey Jones. He took off but did not get far before officers took him down.

That an old cliché, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away, is a cold hard truism… The next time someone tells we need to ban guns show them this story and remind that Kendra St. Clair is alive and safe with her family today because she had access to a gun and was able to protect herself from someone who would have done her harm.

No innocent person kicks in the back door to a strangers home begins searching for someone or something by accident.

Anyway, I have things to do this weekend that don’t involve sitting in front of a computer, so without so without further ado I give you country duo Love and Theft performing their single Angel Eyes:

Peace, out… See you all on Monday.

Lara Logan, a correspondent for CBS’ “60 Minutes,” delivered a provocative speech to about 1,100 influentials from government, politics, media, and the legal and corporate arenas. Such downtown gatherings are a regular on Chicago’s networking circuit. (I am a member of the BGA’s Civic Leadership Committee, and the Chicago Sun-Times was a sponsor).Her ominous and frightening message was gleaned from years of covering our wars in the Middle East. She arrived in Chicago on the heels of her Sept. 30 report, “The Longest War.” It examined the Afghanistan conflict and exposed the perils that still confront America, 11 years after 9/11.

Eleven years later, “they” still hate us, now more than ever, Logan told the crowd. The Taliban and al-Qaida have not been vanquished, she added. They’re coming back.

“I chose this subject because, one, I can’t stand, that there is a major lie being propagated . . .” Logan declared in her native South African accent.

The lie is that America’s military might has tamed the Taliban.

BGA 2012 Annual Luncheon: Lara Logan from Better Government Association on Vimeo.

The sad truth we’ve gone back to our lazy, complacent pre-911 ways and are not willing to address the threat posed by radical Islam. Ms. Logan is right in our arrogance, we think we write the script. We don’t, our enemies get at least as much of say in it as we do.

And we’re not listening. We haven’t beaten them, we may have weakened the Taliban and al-Qaeda  in the short-term, but while we’ve become complacent here at home they’ve been regrouping and are making a comeback… wars don’t just end, they are either won or lost. Unfortunately, while our elected leaders are trying to find a politically acceptable way to end the war in Afghanistan, our enemies are trying to win it.

In her interview with Esquire‘s Ross McCammon, Mila doesn’t talk about dating — Ashton Kutcher’s name doesn’t come up.

But she doesn’t shy away from getting political. “The way that Republicans attack women is so offensive to me. And the way they talk about religion is offensive. I may not be a practicing Jew, but why we gotta talk about Jesus all the time? And it’s baffling to me how a poor person in Georgia can say, ‘I’m a Republican.’ Why?”

Ms. Kunis, went on say “Some people don’t like to hear celebrities talk about politics.I don’t think I’m a celebrity. I’m a working actress. I think there’s a difference.” Hah, with all due respect to Ms. Kunis once you’ve made the cover of Esquire magazine as the “Sexiest Woman Alive” and stripped to your skivvies  for a racy a photo and video shoot, you’ve crossed the line from “Working actress” to celebrity.

I can’t fault Ms. Kunis for being a Democrat, odds are she hasn’t been exposed to much conservative thought… Or what she has been exposed to has been filtered through the media and her peers and been branded as intolerant or extremist. The irony is Ms. Kunis’s remarks show that she is every bit as judgmental and intolerant as she claims Republicans are… something that probably escapes her.

Oh and Ms. Kunis the reason Republicans talk about religion is pretty simple. Horace Greeley explained it far more eloquently than I can “Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”

Update: You can read the Esquire interview here.

Crank it up and if you don’t feel like dancing before it’s over, seek medical attention.

I’m not inclined to believe the conspiracy theories simple because as James Sherk explains over at Nation Review Online it would be nearly impossible for the Obama Administration to cook the books. That’s doesn’t mean the number are right though, they’re more than likely the result of a glitch or statistical anomaly:

It would be virtually impossible for the Obama administration to fudge or otherwise tweak the employment numbers. The survey was conducted two weeks ago — well before the debate.

Further, President Obama has no political appointees in the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Until January the BLS commissioner was a holdover from the Bush administration whose term had not expired. The agency’s acting head is a member of the career civil service. Even if his campaign wanted to, Obama could not tweak the numbers.

That said, it is highly unlikely that today’s unemployment numbers are accurate. BLS conducts two main labor-market surveys: the payroll survey (polling employers) and the household survey (polling individuals). The household survey showed a 0.3 percent drop in unemployment and 873,000 net new jobs — the most since mid-1983. The payroll survey showed one-eighth as many jobs added (+114,000).

Unfortunately, the payroll survey is probably correct. Of the two, the household survey has a much smaller sample size and thus larger margin of error. Although the two surveys tend to show the same results over time, the household survey jumps around more on a month-to-month basis. Even without fudging, the laws of statistics dictate that some polls will produce results outside the margin of error. One out of every 20 polls is somewhat wrong, and one out of 100 polls is really wrong.

Today’s household survey looks a lot like that one poll in 100. It reports stronger job creation than any time since the height of the Reagan economic boom. However, nothing else shows anything similar.

A couple of takeaways from the report; first the broader measure of unemployment the U-6 number, that is the total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, is unchanged from last month at 14.7%. Second the labor force participation rate edged up in September to 63.6%,  just 0.1% higher than it last month’s 31 year low.

A few other observations… The household survey show 873,000 jobs were created last month, that’s not unprecedented; though the last time it happened was in June 1983. That was during the Reagan boom when the country’s Gross Domestic Product was growing at a blistering 9.3% rate.

We’re not seeing anywhere near that kind of economic activity now though. As I noted previously GDP for the second quarter was just 1.3% and the consensus of economists is that the economy is currently growing at a dismal 1.5%.

Factory orders were down in August and weekly jobless claims edged higher last week.

Bottom line, we’re not seeing the kind of economic activity we need to, there was report from the Associated Press a few days ago detailing how unemployment rates fell in nearly 90 percent of large U.S. metro areas in August, mainly because more people gave up looking for work. While I wouldn’t dismiss the September jobs report out out of hand, I wouldn’t breakout the champagne yet either… It’s mixed bag at best.

Related

• Meet the Obama Donors at the BLS – The Washington Free Beacon
• U.S. Unadjusted Unemployment Rate at 7.9% in September – Gallup
• The Odd September Unemployment Rate: When Good Surveys Produce False Results – J.D. Foster, Heritage.org
• The employment situation report released this morning was a mixed bag – Michael Strain, AEI-Ideas.org
• The sickly, stagnant September jobs report – James Pethokoukis, AEI-Ideas.rg

Ouch, score one for Clint Eastwood. There’s no denying now that his presentation at the Republican National Convention, which was widely panned as the incoherent ramblings of a senile old man, has resonated in the public consciousness exactly as he intended it to.

As Ace says it’s “Almost as if a celebrated story-teller and “movie tradesman” knew something about visuals and metaphor and narrative or something!”

Related

• Obama finally gets in his witty replies to Romney – 48 hours late. Did the TWO teleprompters help a bit? – Toby Harden, Mail Online
• Some Obama Campaign Aides ‘Shell-Shocked’ After Debate – The Daily Beast

I expected Mitt Romney to fair pretty well in a head to head debate with Barack Obama, I was not expecting the drubbing I saw last night though. And make no mistake that what was, when Chris Matthews and rest of the MSNBC team call it win for Romney you know it wasn’t even close.

Charles Hurt sums things up beautifully at the Washington Times:

Bewildered and lost without his teleprompter, President Obama flailed all around the debate stage last night. He was stuttering, nervous and petulant. It was like he had been called in front of the principal after goofing around for four years and blowing off all his homework.

Not since Jimmy Carter faced Ronald Reagan has the U.S. presidency been so embarrassingly represented in public. Actually, that’s an insult to Jimmy Carter.

The split screen was most devastating. Mitt Romney spoke forthrightly, with carefully studied facts and details at the ready. He looked right at the president and accused him of being miles out of his depth.

Mr. Obama? His eyes were glued to his lectern, looking guilty and angry and impatient with all the vagaries of Democracy. This debate was seriously chafing him.

I’m not sure what to add to Mr. Hurt’s analysis… What we saw last night was the real Barack Obama, not the media manufactured messiah, he was clearly out of his depth. He’s a guy who has spent his entire political career voting “Present” and that exactly what he last night.

He didn’t offer anything new, he simply recited the same tired, old, worn out class warfare rhetoric and talking points he’s used throughout his presidency.

Anyway, here’s the video in case you missed:

Related

• Candidates Spar Over Taxes – Wall Street Journal
• Romney goes on offense, forcing Obama to defend record – Washington Post
• Romney To Obama: You Were Fighting For Obamacare, Not Jobs – Breitbart.com
• Incumbent Debate Curse: Barack Obama Falls to Mitt Romney – National Journal
• Carville: ‘Mitt Romney came with a chainsaw’ – The Daily Caller
• Debate Ratings: Fox News Tops Cable News For First Debate, As More People Tune In Than 2008 – TV Newser
• Romney by Two Touchdowns - Charles Krauthammer, National Review Online
• Romney gains ground on Obama after strong debate – Reuters

Anyway, the story goes like this… while the Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders were shooting their 2013 Swimsuit Calendar in the Dominican Republic. They decided to have a little fun film their own cover of Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe”.

The rest, as they say is history, the video is a certified viral sensation with over 12.8 million views.