Title: “Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream”

Author: Dinesh D’Souza

Rank: 22

Blurb: “America as we know it—wealthy, powerful, assertive—is not what Obama wants. He wants a smaller America, a poorer America, an America unable to exert its will, an America happy to be one power among many, an America in decline so that other nations might rise—all in the name of global fairness. To Obama, the hated ‘one percent’ isn’t just wealthy Americas; it is America itself. In Obama’s view, America needs to be taken down a notch.”

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A recent New Yorker article made a reference to this video from 2010, which I missed the first time.

Ladies and gentlemen, performing Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair,” is Jimmy Fallon as Neil Young, and Bruce Springsteen as….’70s Bruce Springsteen:

Bonus video: Fallon’s “Tebowie”:

[via Know Your Meme]

“Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay rights organization, posted an alert on its blog Tuesday: ‘Paul Ryan Speaking at Hate Group’s Annual Conference.’ The ‘hate group’ that the Republicans’ vice presidential candidate would be addressing? The Family Research Council, a mainstream conservative think tank…” [WaPo]

Our guest columnist is Daniel Halper, online editor for the Weekly Standard.

• “Biden: ‘I’d Trade Being Vice President in a Heartbeat for Having Won Daytona'” [3:59 pm, Tuesday]
• “Obama Has Plenty of Time to Drop Biden” [12:35 pm, Wednesday]
• “Is Today the Day?” [8:01 am, Thursday]

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• Failed to shoot a lawyer in the face.
• Failed to say we would be “greeted as liberators” in Iraq.
• Failed to tell Mitch McConnell to “Go Fuck Yourself” on the floor of the Senate.

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No, she didn’t die again, but she would have been 100 years old last Monday. I have used a few of these 8 cooking suggestions, and here’s the best one:

Eight Cooking Tips from Julia Child [Buzzfeed]