Bin Laden Is Dead And Ambassador Stevens Is Dead

ISIS setting up training plants in Libya;

Correspondents say that in the aftermath of the revolution that ousted Gaddafi, many rebel fighters left to fight with militant groups in Syria, and some are believed to have returned home.
The elected government has lost Libya’s three main cities amid the political crisis.
Benghazi, the country’s second city, is in the hands of Islamist fighters, and the internationally recognised parliament is now based in the coastal town of Tobruk in the east.

Reader Tips

In tonight’s musical entertainment en route to the tips Welsh vocal group Trio Canig pull off that rarest of musical accomplishments: a not excessively scenery-chewing rendition of the old standby Danny Boy. Wait a few seconds for the lovely harmonies to kick in.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

Not Watching For The Asteroid

Special Report with Bret Baier Tops Several Evening Newscasts

With more than a double-digit advantage over Muir, Special Report easily beats World News Tonight. Baier also outperforms the broadcast program CBS’ Evening News with Scott Pelley in both Atlanta and Austin in household viewers.
In cable news, Baier ranks #1 in the 6PM/ET hour, beating CNN, MSNBC, and HLN combined in both demo and total viewers. Averaging more nearly 2.5 million in total viewers, Special Reports ranks #3 with P2+ only behind primetime shows The O’Reilly Factor and The Kelly File.

There Are People Who Believe They’re Napoleon, Too

Still trying to turn enemies into friends;

On Tuesday in the Legislature, the Saskatchewan Party government introduced the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code Amendment Act 2014. If passed, it will prohibit discrimination based on gender identity.
“There are a lot of trans and queer people in our province who have worked hard to see this happen,” said Craig Friesen, co-ordinator of the Pride Centre at the University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union. “If the proposed changes are passed, this will be a monumental day for all of us.” Rachel Loewen Walker, executive director of Avenue Community Centre, met with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission this past spring to push for the change, among others.

Tipping Point

Delingpole;

The scene is like the aftermath of a tsunami: splintered timber, shattered glass, broken sofas, scattered clothes, plastic bags, smashed furniture, fridges and TV sets, all piled up as though tossed ashore by some mighty wave and strewn for over a mile along the water’s edge.
But this ugly photograph doesn’t show any far-flung tropical disaster zone and the cause of the mayhem certainly isn’t natural.
It was taken this week at Cory’s Wharf in Purfleet, Essex, on a stretch of council-owned land by the Thames and now ruined by the modern curse of fly-tipping.
Once, this would have been a pleasant enough spot to walk your dog, with views across the river and scrubland, dotted with bushes and ponds, to explore. Not any more. […]
You’d think that with a problem so widespread, so expensive and so upsetting to so many of us, more would be done to stop it. But that would be to reckon without the bureaucracy and institutionalised chaos that have done so much to make it possible.
Yes, of course some travellers are partly to blame. So, too, are the organised criminal gangs that now find fly-tipping almost as profitable as drug dealing. But the real problem is the system itself. On closer scrutiny, this epidemic of illegal waste-disposal is not happening despite our stringent environmental laws. It’s happening because of them.

I Felt a Great Disturbance in the Narrative

Kevin Williamson:

When former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani takes seriously the operative slogan of the Ferguson protests — “Black Lives Matter!” — and asks the obvious question — “Don’t they matter in the 93 percent of cases when the lives of black murder victims are taken violently by black criminals?” — the Left’s reflexive response is to denounce him as a racist. The Washington Post‘s hilariously Orwellian fact-check column labelled Giuliani a liar even as it confirmed that his observation is, as a matter of fact, entirely true. […]
The reality is this: Black men, especially young black men, die violent deaths at appalling rates in these United States. But they do not die very often at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, thugs reminiscent of characters from American History X, police officers of any race or motivation, lynch mobs, the Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Walmart, the Tea Party, Goldman Sachs, carbon dioxide, or any other bogeyman currently in vogue among so-called progressives. As Giuliani noted, blacks die violent deaths almost exclusively at the hands of black criminals. But attempting to accommodate that reality in any serious way does not pay any political dividends for the Left. It does not put any money in Jesse Jackson’s pockets or create any full-time jobs for graduates of grievance-studies programs.

One of these.

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