OBAMA SPEAKS

OBAMA SPEAKS JAMES TARANTO: Blather, Rinse, Repeat: Obama perseverates [to repeat something insistently] again. ANDY KESSLER: The Pension Rate-of-Return Fantasy: Counting on 7.5% when Treasury bonds are paying 1.74%? That’s going to cost taxpayers billions. AN UNDERGROUND OBAMAVILLE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: The mole people: Police find ‘homeless city’ where vagrants – including kids – live in labyrinth of tunnels 25ft below Kansas City. MEDIA PRIORITY: At all costs, protect Hillary from Benghazi fallout. 21st CENTURY BROWNSHIRTS: Tolerant UMass Liberals Celebrate Diversity By Shouting Down Karl Rove. They call him a war criminal, but give President Dronekiller a pass. HYPOCRISY: CBS News: Giffords, Kelly own guns while pushing gun control. But watch the couple, with CBS, try to draw fine distinctions. This is embarrassing. JACOB SULLUM: Abusing Dead Children: Obama’s Gun-Control Push. GAY MARRIAGE COME TO MIND As Orwell saw, imprecision, or rather deliberate distortion, in language is always the first characteristic of the totalitarian.