Get a load of Madam Clinton talking up AJAM.

Smart woman! Someone with stuff we can take to the bank.

Kerry denies everything. however. 

A video aired Wednesday by Iranian state television shows an American sailor apologizing for entering Iranian waters.

He has Obama’s most recent boast of our being respected to cover for, does he not?

Anything to distract from Rahm’s real problems.

The products include cigarettes, e-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, according to the mayor’s office.

Read more? —–> Rahm Wants To Raise Tobacco Buying Age From 18 to 21 in Chicago – Downtown – DNAinfo.com Chicago

. . . LIES! Not one! But he told ten of them! says this fellow. Including this for starters:

1. “[W]e’ve done all this while cutting our deficits by almost three-quarters.” This is pure fiction. Obama has doubled the national debt, and it’s not because he cut the deficit.

Rather, he spent staggering amounts of money in his first months in office–which he assigns, dishonestly, to the previous fiscal year, under George W. Bush.

He “cut” (i.e. spent more gradually) from that spending, but only under protest, after Republicans took the House in 2010.

(Update: It is true that Obama’s 2015 budget deficit was about 25% of his 2010 deficit. But he referred to “deficits,” plural. Until last year, all of Obama’s deficits were worse than all of Bush’s deficits except for the last two.)

Where are the other nine? Here.

His world, he says, and welcome to it.

On Tuesday afternoon I was sitting in the auditorium of Chicago’s Court Theatre, watching Charlie Newell reblock the final scene of his production of Satchmo at the Waldorf, which opens there on Saturday. Midway through the scene I received an e-mail from Eric Gibson, my editor at The Wall Street Journal.

Source: ArtsJournal: Daily arts news | Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City

And darn good, too:

“More than anything, I like essays. Books of essays don’t sell very well – that’s what I’m told – but I buy them. I feel most things said in books nowadays could have been said better in a few thousand words. I’ve always been a magazine junkie for that reason.

Favorite essay collections: John Simon’s The Sheep from the Goats, Gertrude Himmelfarb’s Victorian Minds, Anthony Daniels’ several collections, and I do love E. P. Thompson’s The Poverty of Theory, Marxist though Thompson was.”

Source: Anecdotal Evidence

Nikki Haley, won’t you please shut up, says the irrepressible C.

Is this hitting below the belt?

Spotlight, in which director Tom McCarthy recounts how the Boston Globe blew the lid off a simmering sex-abuse scandal in the Boston archdiocese, is a paradoxical product.

The film pays tribute to dogged investigative reporters, while itself blithely ignoring the standards to which those journalists adhered. Somehow it works.

Treating a historical episode as a drama, Spotlight successfully conveys the essence of the story: the frustrations and triumphs of the reporters, the enduring agony of abuse victims, and the flavor of life in a city dominated by disaffected Irish Catholics.

Source: Spotlight on the Vulnerable | Philip Lawler | First Things

This is refreshing, Pope Francis allowing problems with being one’s brother’s keeper.

Pope Francis warned Monday that the recent influx of migrants risked overwhelming European values and traditions, but said he was confident the continent could successfully integrate the newcomers.

Is the bloom off the rose of his getting down with the bad-smelling?