PAUL GREENBERG on Benghazi and terrorism:

How is it, do you suppose, that a presidential candidate who wasn't privy to all the military and diplomatic intelligence that the White House should be able to command, understood the nature of this violence, and what incites it, almost instinctively?

Why did Mitt Romney sense what was behind this gathering storm? Why did he know, and say, that an America in retreat across the Middle East, offering apologetic obeisance as we withdraw, presents a natural target for the worst elements in the Islamic world? While our president still seems blind to the dangers he has invited since he began his administration by going to Cairo to confess America's sins -- and the West's -- and offer "a new beginning." Which now has turned into the same old treachery.

In retrospect, it is Mitt Romney who seems to have been the prescient statesman, Maybe it's because understands that peace is assured by strength. Barack Obama and his press secretary seem to be discovering only slowly -- and at great cost -- where weakness leads. While good men representing this country with extraordinary vision and valor, like our murdered ambassador to Libya, pay the ultimate price.

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THOMAS SOWELL: Obama versus Obama, Part I and Part II.

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WHAT HAS OBAMA LEARNED? Nothing. What he will learn in November is this: "You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."

SHOULD ADVOCATES of small government escape to Canada? Short answer. No, move to the Cayman Islands, then let the Nigerians give you a few million dollars.

MANUFACTURED FEAR drives needless regulations. The EPA doesn't need to be reined in; it needs to be abolished.

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