Sierra Faith

Jim Geraghty: One big infusion of ads for Fiorina, reminding Californians of just how little 18 years of Barbara Boxer has done for them and how much she has done to them, and this race is over

John Podhoretz: The president seems to think the terrorist threat is not a continuum from box cutters to shoe bombs to potential nukes. But that is exactly what it is. And that is, if anything, even more terrifying than a president so emotionally insulated from the true aftereffects of a terrorist attack — which, as [...]

Israel and the Palestinians: I sure do miss the days when George W. Bush went to the UN, gritting his teeth and delivering speeches that appalled the representatives of despotic regimes. As one wit put it, he treated them as if they were mental patients or overly exuberant fans — keep your distance, get out [...]

Charles Krauthammer: “Our Afghan policy was focused as much as anything on domestic politics,” an Obama adviser at the time told Peter Baker of the New York Times. “He would not risk losing the moderate to centrist Democrats in the middle of health insurance reform and he viewed that legislation as the make-or-break legislation for [...]

Oh, how they are going to lose big this November.

Here is Bully Bob in action:

Power Line:

And Tchaikovsky! More here: She may not exactly have qualified as “teacher’s pet,” but Hilary Hahn did hit it off in the mid-1990s with the instructor of her 20th-century music course at the Curtis Institute. That’s lucky for both of them; Hahn has since become one of America’s most popular, and critically well-regarded, young classical [...]