HUBRIS-NEMESIS COMPLEX:

This complex involves a combination of hubris (a pretension toward an arrogant form of godliness) and nemesis (a vengeful desire to confront, defeat, humiliate, and punish an adversary, especially one that can be accused of hubris). The combination has strange dynamics that may lead to destructive, high-risk behavior. Attempts to deter, compel, or negotiate with a leader who has a hubris-nemesis complex can be ineffectual or even disastrously counterproductive when those attempts are based on concepts better suited to dealing with more normal leaders.

I wonder how the CIA must feel to know that the research they sponsored describes our very own President.

Linked via Instapundit.

Byron York's opinion piece on Obama's 'messianism' is here.

IF YOU’RE YOUNG, don’t give to charity.

P.J. O'ROURKE: Dear Mr. President, Zero-Sum Doesn't Add Up.

The solution to our problems, you said, is redistribution of the pizzas we've got—with low-cost, government-subsidized pepperoni somehow materializing as the result of higher taxes on pizza-parlor owners.

Redistribute your own damn pizza. I'm eating mine.

PENTAGON PREPARES stealth strike force to counter China.

2012: When Dreams Died.

DANIEL J. MITCHELL: Obama Announces New Federal Golf Rules.

GOLDEN SPIKE hopes to build 'railway' to the moon. Mmm. Private enterprise.

CONNECTICUT SCHOOL SHOOTING caused by excessive testing?

IN 2012, THE VOTERS FORGOT: "Politicians are a lot like diapers; they should be changed frequently, and for the same reason."

INTREPID MUSEUM, home of shuttle Enterprise, reopens after Hurricane Sandy closure. Luckily the Enterprise suffered little damage.

LIBERALS PANIC as they lose the gun narrative.

E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post ... had to “grope for words to describe the National Rifle Association’s proposal [to put armed police on school campuses],” yet he managed to find some: “Absurd, unbelievable, tragic, obscene,” as well as “insane.”

Note that Dionne’s righteous fury does not apply to the armed guards at the Post’s front door, surrounding President Obama, or to anywhere else other than in the vicinity of regular people’s children.

Particularly amusing are the liberals who transform into green eyeshades misers with the public purse when it comes to cops in schools. The folks who can’t spend enough dough on fudge-smeared, patriarchy-challenging performance artists suddenly become thrifty Scotsmen when it comes to doling out a few shillings to put a cop on campus.

It's not over yet, but I'm hopeful.

SPACE-X puts cowboy in orbit. Well, not exactly.

MIKE ADAMS: My Plan for Eliminating School Shootings. I actually like the part about replacing the teaching certificate with a concealed-carry certificate. Anything that gets colleges of education out of teaching is a good thing.

PETA WANTS a memorial to 5/22 cow victims. In Illinois, naturally.

COMMANDER IN CHIEF? No, Preener in Chief.

THE INTERNATIONAL TERROR GROUP known as Al Qaeda announced its dissolution today, saying that “our mission of destroying the American economy is now in the capable hands of the U.S. Congress.”

ADAM: Lockheed Martin's new battlefield laser.

SWITZERLAND: A Case Study in Consumer-Driven Health Care. My only concern with the Swiss system is the government mandating coverage. If a mandate is necessary, it should only be for catastrophic care (hospitalization, life-saving surgery, and the like). Coverage beyond the minimum mandate should be available if the consumer chooses to pay for it.

MOTHER OF SIX says school kids deserve to be protected by armed, trained guards. The easiest way to do exactly that is to allow concealed carry on school property. 'Armed and trained' is not synonymous with government-employed.

MEDIA CONTROL the right way. Sue the bastards.