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In the News<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. \u00a0To those who enjoy following the inside-baseball of the debt-ceiling wheeling and dealing, here are a couple links for you. \u00a0Mark Salter<\/a> has an interesting take on Obama\u2019s maneuvering. \u00a0Keith Koffler<\/a> thinks the McConnell plan is a brilliant maneuver. \u00a0Michael Goodwin<\/a> is growing weary of Obama\u2019s half-truths. \u00a0And Larry Kudlow <\/a>explains why he believes the spending is the problem. \u00a0Kudlow writes:<\/p>\n

The highly accurate IBD\/TIPP pollsters have just released an incredible result. Get this: The public rejects a debt-ceiling increase by a huge 58 to 36 percent. That includes 59 percent of independents and even 38 percent of Democrats. That is the tea party revolt.<\/p>\n

I believe the public agrees with people like Michele Bachmann. She told me in an interview this week that Congress can direct the Treasury to \u201cfirst pay off the interest on the debt, make sure our military men and women get paid, and then deal with our priorities. Yes, we have very sacrificial consequences, but when are we going to get serious about deficit reduction?\u201d<\/p>\n

On this logic, Bachmann and other tea party Republicans \u2014 including most on the presidential campaign trail \u2014 oppose a debt-ceiling increase. This populist spending revolt runs directly counter to the Tim Geithner, Wall Street, big-business view that we must at all costs have a debt-ceiling increase to make good on our federal debt.<\/p>\n

Tea party populists are saying no, no: We can still make good on our debt, but this debt bill is the only leverage we have to force Washington to cut spending.<\/p>\n

Main Street is in revolt against Wall Street, although it should be noted that Wall Street bond investors are not panicked by any means. The 10-year Treasury continues to trade below 3 percent. Maybe that will change by August 2, or the next Geithner debt-limit drop-dead date. But right now the bond market seems to be aligned with the tea party movement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obama said it\u2019s time to \u201ceat our peas.\u201d \u00a0James Pethokoukis<\/a> asks, \u201cWhy isn\u2019t it time for government to eat its peas?\u201d \u00a0Americans who have been following the story are strongly against<\/a> a hike of the debt-ceiling. \u00a0Would they feel the same way if it spooked the markets?<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0China\u2019s schizophrenia<\/a> on human rights issues.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0Why has the odious Dan Savage<\/a> become one of America\u2019s most influential sex advice columnists?<\/p>\n

In the Pews<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Princeton\u2019s Peter Singer and Oxford\u2019s John Lennox will debate the existence of God<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0A roundup<\/a> of sorts on the C. J. Mahaney business.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0RJS has a nice piece at Jesus Creed entitled, \u201cAre We Just the Sum of Our Neurons?<\/a>\u201d \u00a0I don\u2019t always agree with RJS, but I always enjoy the thoughtfulness of the writing.<\/p>\n

BONUS: An amazing story, from Minnesota, of Crime in the 21st Century:<\/p>\n

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Ardolf\u2019s obsessive passive-aggression was apparently ignited in late 2008 when his neighbors, Matt and Bethany Kostolnik, filed a police report against him. The Kostolniks had a 4-year old son who wandered over to their next-door-neighbors property shortly after moving into the Minnesota suburb of\u00a0Blaine. Ardolf, 46 and a father of two, had reportedly picked the boy up carried him back to the couple and then kissed the child on the lips. Ardolf was offended when the cops were called and vowed his revenge like every good villain.<\/p>\n

The man, a Medtronic computer technician, downloaded a\u00a0Wi-Fi<\/a> hacking program to tear into his neighbors WEP encryption. Ardolf created a fake Myspace page as well as several fake emails for Matt Kostolnik.\u00a0The hacker\u00a0then posted child porn on the Myspace page and emailed the same child porn to co-workers at Kostolnik\u2019s law office.<\/p>\n

To top it all off, the Blaine hacker sent\u00a0death threats\u00a0to\u00a0Vice President Joe Biden\u00a0and other politicians from Kostolnik\u2019s Yahoo account. This granted Kostolnik a visit from the secret service who had traced the emails back to his IP address. One of the emails told Biden, \u201cI swear to God I\u2019m going to kill you!\u201d<\/p>\n

Ardolf\u2019s mischief was detected when a frustrated Kostolnik told bosses he had no clue as to what was going on. The law office hired a firm to poke around the Wi-Fi network and install a\u00a0packet sniffer\u00a0to figure it all out. Eventually Ardolf\u2019s name and Comcast account were found which gave the FBI a reason to obtain a\u00a0search warrant\u00a0for Ardolf\u2019s house. They found massive evidence that led to the Blaine hacker being slapped with charges for identity theft, making threats against Biden, possession of child pornography as well as distribution of kiddie-porn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the News 1. \u00a0To those who enjoy following the inside-baseball of the debt-ceiling wheeling and dealing, here are a couple links for you. \u00a0Mark Salter has an interesting take on Obama\u2019s maneuvering. \u00a0Keith Koffler thinks the McConnell plan is a brilliant maneuver. \u00a0Michael Goodwin is growing weary of Obama\u2019s half-truths. \u00a0And Larry Kudlow explains […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[92,1351,121,147,153,154,165,227,247,259,324,1362,364,391],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atheist","tag-barack-obama","tag-china","tag-dan-savage","tag-debt-ceiling","tag-debt-crisis","tag-economics","tag-human-rights","tag-john-lennox","tag-larry-kudlow","tag-peter-singer","tag-sex","tag-sex-advice","tag-theist"],"yoast_head":"\nDebt Ceiling, Dan Savage, China on Human Rights, Singer and Lennox Debate, and More Mahaney - 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