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Nation

Obama Indicts Obama: Victor Davis Hanson
From Cowboy to Mau-Mau Diplomacy: DiploMad
Elitism, the Great Unwashed and the Destruction of America: DeRP

The Plot to Save America: Andrew C. McCarthy
Minority Voting Actually Up In States With Vote ID Laws: SAB
And Now, It's Golfing Time (Or Putin +1, Obama 0): ZH

Full Speech: Ted Cruz at Right Online and Defending the Dream Summit: Scoop
Obama Backs GOP into Debt-Ceiling Corner with Syria Move: Wynton Hall
Protesters show up at John Kerry’s house: Twitchy

Economy

Suicide Pact: How to cripple your state in five easy steps. : Kevin D. Williamson
Food Stamps And Welfare Promoted At The New York State Fair: LoneCon
Government Killed Buckyballs, Now Seeks to Destroy CEO, Too: Ari Armstrong

Citing Obamacare, 40,000 Longshoremen Quit the AFL-CIO: Warner Todd Huston
Living Wage? How about not dropping out of high school first?: RWN
India in Serious Trouble (and Gold at the Heart of It): Mish

Scandal Central

Is Eric Schneiderman a Crook?: Jeffrey Lord
The Top Twenty Obama Administration Scandals: Keith Koffler
Bolton: We’re watching the collapse of American influence in the Middle East: Scoop

Media

Ben Smith, Chuck Todd Crush on Obama's Heroic "OPERATION ENDURING HESITATION": Ace
Media Now Openly Lying To The American People To Cover For Obama On Syria: Glob
Right Online 2013 in Pictures: John Hawkins

Chris Wallace: 'What Message Does It Send' That Obama Golfed After Syria Speech?: Breitbart
Black Mob Violence: More and More and more in Baltimore: WGBAL
AP Amends Map With Golan Heights: CAMERA

World

Ted Mack! Calling Ted Mack! Please Pick up Your Royalty Check at the Rose Garden!: DiploMad
Sunni Arab allies exasperated with Western inaction: Matzav
Kerry says top advisers not undermined by Obama Syria decision: Ed Henry

UK Paper: Obama an Amateur on World Stage Compared to Bush: Daniel Greenfield
Sec of State Kerry Briefs US Muslim B’hood Group ISNA on Mideast Negotiations: Creeping
In Rare Interview, Head of Jewish Community in Yemen Describes Segregation, Persecution: MEMRI

Sci-Tech

What a Sweltering City Really Looks Like in the Summer: Eric Limer, Gizmodo
he ten most embarrassing, exploitative, soul-killing, downright dangerous tech jobs: Ian Paul
Apache Software Foundation may have hit a midlife crisis: Serdar Yegulalp

Cornucopia

Drunks Gone Wild: Robert Weissman
Come Back Newton Minow, All is Forgiven!: Ed Driscoll
National Defense Takes a Vacation in the Age of Obama: MOTUS

Image: So democracy won, now what about Syria?
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QOTD: "Although most discussions of separation-of-powers focus on checks and balances among the federal departments, the principal curb on federal power was to be the states. The Constitution, as the Federalist Papers attest, left control over the infinite details of everyday life to the individual and the local government closest and most accountable to him. The federal government was to handle just a few external matters, mainly dealing with national security and foreign relations. To restore that balance, to strip Leviathan back down to size, would take the collective strength and determination of the states. But how to do it?

Levin realizes it is not enough to say the state amendment convention provides the mechanism. It would be as hopeless as herding cats unless there was a concrete plan for the convention: a comprehensive body of proposed amendments tailored to rein in Washington’s multifaceted, unsustainable excess. Thus, the lion’s share of the book is devoted to proposing and explicating ten specific amendments to revive liberty by re-animating the Constitution’s power-checking purpose.

No priority is greater than supplanting the entrenched Beltway ruling class. As designed, the Republic’s central government featured citizen legislators, representatives of the people who actually were, well, representative of the people. More out of patriotic duty than financial remuneration, they met infrequently in the nation’s capital—just a few months out of the year—reflective of the fact that the national government’s responsibilities, though vital, were few and critically reliant on the indulgence of state governments. Over time, as the progressive administrative state grew, particularly under the Wilson and FDR administrations, Washington incrementally devoured state sovereignty. With this dramatic shift in the balance of power, a governing elite emerged—a permanent Beltway ruling class of career politicians whose main interest was in increasing federal power. They now inhabit Congress as if they were life peers or revolve between the bureaucracy and its back-scratching cottage industry of lobbyists, consultants, and celebrity media commentators." --Andrew C. McCarthy