Obama: He From Whom All Blessings Shall Flow?

Megan McArdle:

However did we manage to get through the first 200 years without Barack Obama to beat some progress out of the corporations that have been holding us back?

Hat tip: Instapundit

Strategic Collapse in the War on Terror

Joseph Myers, c/o Instapundit:

Words matter, and in the global war on terror we are losing the battle of words, in a self-inflicted defeat. The consequences could not be more profound.

Recent government policy memoranda, circulating through the national counter-terrorism and diplomatic community, establishes a new “speech code” for the lexicon in the war on terror, as reported by the Associated Press and now available in the public domain .

These new “speech codes” recommended that analysts and policy makers avoid the terms jihad or jihadist or mujhadid or “al-Qaida movement” and replace them with “extremists” and by extension other non-specific terms.

All part and parcel of the anatomy of surrender, I suppose.

The Banality of Sedition

Gerard Vanderleun:

[T]here are some lies that lodge so deep in the hopes of man that they can never be killed no matter how many are executed to make the lie true.

Sadly, chillingly spot-on.