CHICAGO TEACHER STRIKE: A News and Opinion Roundup. I would note that when liberals have lost the Washington Post (Charles Lane) in such uncertain terms, they've lost.

A REAL ECONOMIC PLAN: Just get out of the way.

FORMER UN AMBASSADOR JOHN BOLTON on peace through strength.

25-YEAR-OLD SHOCKED to find out that taking out huge student loans lead to huge debt.

Best comment: "Should’ve gotten a degree in Common Sense but I guess those classes were probably filled." More nearly correct -- and damning for higher education -- comment: "I don’t think those classes were filled ... I think the courses have been dropped from the curriculum."

MIKE ROWE [Dirty Jobs] for Secretary of Labor (or Education).

Gov. Romney read his letter.

IT'S A LOSER: What happened to one of the “biggest threats of this generation?”

ROMNEY TO OBAMA VOTERS: He let you down.

Mitt Romney has just one job going into the last stretch of the presidential campaign. He has to connect with people who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 but are disappointed with the president now. He has to assure them that they didn't make a mistake back then, that it wasn't crazy or stupid to believe Obama's promises, but that things just haven't worked out. And he has to convince them it's OK to choose a new candidate this time around; they don't owe Obama another vote.

Let Clint Eastwood do it. Romney's job is to convince voters that free-market capitalism is the antidote to Obama's stale statism.

THE UNIVERSAL SYMBOL for (lost) Hope and Change (for the worse).

CHRIS ROBLING: Democrats Too Small to Answer Big Issues.

TECHNOLOGY: Expanding “Hot Spots” May Trigger Earthquake Fault Slips.

AND IN OTHER EARTHQUAKE NEWS:

The Transportable Array is a migrating 500-mile-wide band of 400 high-quality, portable seismographs that covers the country in a 42-mile grid from Canada to Mexico and the Gulf. The portable array started with NSF funding in 2007, beginning on the Pacific coast. Today, it has rolled across the country to the eastern edge of the Midwest, reaching from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to Louisiana and from Ohio to Florida.

From November 2009 to September 2011, the Transportable Array covered Texas. University of Texas geophysicist Cliff Frohlich analyzed the data, paying particular attention to the state’s oil-rich Barnett Shale. After analyzing more than 1300 events and discarding quarry blasts and signals straying in from out-of-state, he identified 149 earthquakes in the region—nothing like the 400 logged last week in Brawley, but many times the 8 listed by the National Earthquake Information Center. In a recent analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Frohlich persuasively demonstrated that the quakes cluster around the state’s highest-volume injection wells, those pumping 150,000 barrels of water per month (BWPM) or more into the ground.

His conclusion: “The most significant result of this investigation is that all of the better located epicenters were situated within a few kilometers of one or more injection wells…. It is possible that some of these earthquakes have a natural origin, but it is implausible that all are natural.”

Never mind that the earthquakes were minor and shallow; the anti-fracking forces will have a field day with this news.

NOW RACIST: peanut butter & jelly sandwiches.

WAS THE OBAMA 'BOUNCE' following the Democrat National Convention really the Clinton bounce?

WHEN THE RACE CARD DOESN'T WORK, play the rich card.

ISLAMIC TERRORISTS attack embassies in Egypt and Libya; Obama administration attacks Mitt Romney: "We are shocked that, at a time when the United States of America is confronting the tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in Libya, Governor Romney would choose to launch a political attack."

U.S. EMBASSY IN CAIRO apologizes for “abuse of free speech” after protesters tear down American flag. I agree with Charles Krauthammer: "Go to hell; nasty letter follows."

UPDATE: now Libya.