Champions Of Liberty Get Called Fascists By

Three Explanations Dominate Speculation About What Obama Is Up To. The First Is That He's Trying To Lay The Groundwork For His Successor, Presumptive Nominee Hillary Clinton. The Second Is That He's Trying To Pad His Legacy. The Third Is That He's Trying To 'troll' Or Bait The Gop Into Debating His Agenda Rather Than Pursuing Its Own. All Are Plausible, And None Necessarily Contradicts The Others.

But There's A Fourth Interpretation: Obama Can't Leave His Comfort Zone. No President Since Woodrow Wilson Has Been As Enamored Of Abstract Ideas Or More Sure That Disagreement With Him Is Proof Of Ignorance, Bad Faith Or Dogmatism. As A Candidate, He Insisted His Real Opponent Was 'cynicism,' And In His Address Last Week, He Returned To This Trite Formulation, Insisting Again He Was Bravely Battling The Cynics.

I Like Vengeance As Much As The Next Guy, If The Next Guy Likes Vengeance A Whole Lot.

On Tuesday, The So-called Islamic State Released A Slickly Produced Video Showing A Jordanian Pilot Being Burned Alive In A Steel Cage. On Wednesday, The United Nations Issued A Report Detailing Various 'mass Executions Of Boys, As Well As Reports Of Beheadings, Crucifixions Of Children, And Burying Children Alive' At The Hands Of The Islamic State.

Our Fear Of Hypocrisy Is Forcing Us To Live In A World Where Gluttons Are Fine, So Long As They Champion Gluttony.