President Creature Comforts and Commander of Me-Time.

President Barack Obama arrived in Nevada last night to begin three days of debate preparation at the Westin Lake Las Vegas Resort, a luxurious golf community just a few miles from the Las Vegas strip.

Obama once heard that a man must work hard, accomplish great things, and then he can live in high style. He just decided to cut out the middlemen.

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It appears the ACLU, like the media, is no longer pretending to be nonpartisan, too.

In an interview with The Algemeiner, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz slammed new approved advertising guidelines announced by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, calling them “Plain Dumb” and “Unconstitutional.”

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“A. it’s clearly unconstitutional” he said, and “b. it incentivizes people to engage in violence. What it says to people, is that if they don’t like ads, just engage in violence and then we’ll take the ads down.”

“It’s very bad policy,” he continued, “and it’s just plain dumb, because it is going to encourage violence.”

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Referring to the recent uptick in violence in the Middle East, Dershowitz added, “It is the worst possible approach to dealing with radical Islam.”

“In the age of radical imams whipping up reactions, it just gives them more encouragement to do it. So if somebody wants to put up a picture of Mohammed in the subway, all people have to do is threaten violence and its censorship comes into effect,” he said.

Dershowitz said that if the ACLU doesn't take action against the MTA, they'll have a hard time getting a donation out of him this year.

Only a hard time? He can't state that more forcefully? That they won't get a donation, and that others shouldn't donate either?

Perhaps he's being diplomatic.

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You had to know it was coming, didn't you?

Here's some reading on Libya that might be interesting:

Cherry picking intelligence?

The changing threat environment.

We went with the cheap private protection package in Libya. That worked out well. (via a good Twitter follow....Jeff Emanuel)

And related enough: US Marines training for embassy contingencies might be in danger of a damaging cut in funding because of sequestration. (via another good Twitter follow, Robert Caruso)

Mitt Romney has an Op-ed on President Foreign Policy's foreign policy failures.

Hysterically enough, longtime Romney shill Jen Rubin isn't happy with it. She wants Mitt to say he'll ask Congress for a de facto declaration of war on Iran. Related, Jen Rubin is bat-shit crazy.

Unrelated: You can still buy my Electoral College map app. Make your state by state predictions and share them via facebook and Twitter. You can make as many predictions as you want and post them often as events (such as SCOAMF lies and the debates) warrant.

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House races have been getting short shrift this year and since I'm tired of "What About Your Gaffes?", I figured I might as well focus on some races that are either potential GOP pickups or seats we need to defend.

First up....Vernon Parker who is running in the newly created Arizona 9th Congressional District based around parts of Phoenix and nearby cities and suburbs.

Parker is a self made guy who was raised by his grandmother and then put himself through college and law school. On the issues he seems to have all the key boxes checked from the economy, abortion, Second Amendment and national security.

The GOP considers Parker such a rising star they tapped him to give last week's GOP response to Obama's weekly address.

Parker's opponent, former AZ state Senator Kyrsten Sinema, is probably one of the most radical leftwingers seeking election this year.

She's a former Ralph Nader spokesperson, Green Party official, pro-tax hike and self described "Prada Socialist" who opposed going into Afghanistan in 2001 but has been, um, evolving to a more center acceptable Democrat recently (remind you of anyone else you know? Say a guy from Chicago who now pretends to be President).

Take for example what Sinema thinks of stay at home moms.

"These women who act like staying at home, leeching off their husbands or boyfriends, and just cashing the checks is some sort of feminism because they're choosing to live that life. That's bullshit. I mean, what the fuck are we really talking about here?"

The funniest part is progressives seem to distrust her because of her apparent move to the more acceptable mainstream. So, either she's a hardcore lefty or a political hack. Either, she's not someone who should be in Congress.

This new district is considered a swing district so Parker is going to need help to get over the finish line here.

You can donate to his campaign here and if your in the Phoenix area contact the campaign about volunteer opportunities.

For more on Vernon Parker, follow him on Twitter or facebook.

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October. Oy.

The Friday document drop was the Obama Labor Department once again telling defense contractors affected by sequestration to violate the WARN Act and fail to issue layoff notices as required by law. The change since the last time Obama did this in July? This time he's telling companies that the Labor Department (by which he means taxpayers) will pay for the cost of WARN Act lawsuits from fired employees who weren't given the legally required layoff notices. Obama is trying to keep millions of layoff notices from being sent by defense contractors in swing-state Virginia just before the election.

ICYMI over the weekend, Univision has discovered that 57 previously unknown Fast and Furious guns were used for murders, kidnappings, and two massacres in Mexico.

Obama at Vegas yesterday told supporters that Romney is the better debater.

Buzzfeed notes the perceptual bias that has led to such divergent views of the economy between Democratic voters and Republican voters. An utterly insane number of Democrats think the economy is hunky-dory, not because it actually is, but because it simply has to be for their other silly beliefs to hold true. As a result, only 15% of Democrats reported that they're hearing mostly bad things about the economy.

NYTimes front page today has an article on the coming expiration of the payroll tax holiday. The other front pager of note is headlined: "U.S. May Have Put Mistaken Faith in Libya SiteÂ’s Security." May?

Bloomberg editorializes against Obama Administration on transparency: "Americans arenÂ’t much better off than they were four years ago."

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