Wead This You Wascally Wabbits

- June 26, 2014

Today on NRO

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: It is historically inaccurate to say the War in Iraq was cooked up by Bush alone. Looking Back at Iraq.

ELIANA JOHNSON: Thad Cochran won by appealing to Republicans and liberal Democrats. Two-Faced Victory.

ASKOLD KRUSHELNYCKY: Last Friday's battle for Mariupol may mark a turning point in the fortunes of eastern Ukraine. A Ukranian Victory.

MARCO RUBIO: We need to promote growth and opportunity, encourage work, and support families. Finding Economic Security in an Insecure Time.

SLIDESHOW: Meme Watch: Scandalous!

Morning Jolt
. . . with Jim Geraghty

June 26, 2014

Greetings Joltarians,

Lucky you: Just today and tomorrow are left before the Geraghty Drought ends! Never have so many looked forward to a Monday.

There's much to read on NRO today. Some choice selections:

Just when you thought the Obama Administration couldn't get any Alinskier, you find out, as Spencer Case reports, that "The Feds Prepared for the 'Surprise' Surge of Child Migrants." Your blood will boil.

And then you remember, there's still over two years to go with this insufferable POTUS. Kevin Williamson looks ahead to 2016, and prays that God will send us a boring man to occupy the White House.

You'll tink you taw a puttytat when you check out "The Weft Should Wove Wooney Tunes" by James Lileks, Super Genius, about how the Warner Brothers, Bugs, Elmer, and Daffy were doing Ninth Circuit stuff years before it was cool.

Stephen Moore has a heartfelt remembrance of the late Richard Sharp -- business leader, visionary, philanthropist, conservative.

Suing Obama. Andrew McCarthy goes after "feckless" Speaker John Boehner very hard in The Corner. A taste:

Boehner's problem is not that Congress lacks a responsive arsenal. It is that he is afraid of the administration and press criticism attendant to using it. That's a political problem, not a legal problem.

Boehner and Beltway Republicans are essentially saying, "We can't use our power because Obama and his media friends would say mean things about us. But our lunatic conservative base is demanding action. So let us file a lawsuit so we can say we did something. Who knows . . . maybe in a year or two we'll get lucky and get a favorable ruling against Obama that can't be enforced without Obama's help."

Now that's leadership!

Ryan Lovelace reports on how the people of Escondido, CA are fighting the federal Department of HHS "over its attempt to turn a residential building into a detention center for illegal-immigrant children." (Follow Ryan on Twitter at @LovelaceRyanD.)

And finally, get your snark on: The "Hillary in Three Words" slideshow.

Enough! You have much reading to do, so get clicking those links. Have a wonderful Thursday.

Jack Fowler
Publisher

P.S.: Lois Lowry's classic dystopian novel, The Giver, is being made into a movie by our pals at Walden Media. It's out in August. The Wall Street Journal had a great interview with Lowry about the book and its popularity. Word has it I might be going to a screening, if I can bamboozle a ticket. Catch the trailer.

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