- At two separate weekend campaign stops, Republican presidential
candidate and former food industry executive Herman Cain
proposed an
electrified border fence that would kill anyone who tried
to cross the border illegally;
today says, "America needs to get a sense of humor."
- Wall Street occupiers
are destroying food carts and other small
businesses.
- Mexico President Felipe Calderon,
when asked if his presidency will be remembered as the one that
led to the murder of 40,000 Mexicans and counting: "It’s possible
some will remember me for that or will want me to be remembered for
that. But if Mexico triumphs as I am sure it will, if Mexico has
new institutions in the future, if Mexico subdues the criminals, if
Mexico reconstructs its social fabric there will also be those that
remember me as the president who dared to take on the criminals and
indicate the long path of institutional reconstruction of the
country."
- Rush Limbaugh
accuses President Obama of "targeting Christians" for
going after the child-enslaving, village-pillaging Lord's
Resistance Army. (Sen. John McCain
takes the high road and chides Obama for entering yet another
military engagement without the consent of Congress.)
- Texas District Attorney
opposes DNA testing of convicted suspects because "it overrides
what a jury decided."
- Daily Telegraph blogger and Oxford historian Timothy
Stanley says Western
governments should ban Internet pornography because "like
heroin, porn has been proven to be addictive," and "the internet
turned pedophilia from a private sin into an organized
crime."
-
NewsBusters: "U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, a
Clinton appointee, has ruled that the Justice Department does
not need to release emails Solicitor General Elena Kagan sent from
her DOJ email account to people in the White House—in which she
discussed her recusal decisions as solicitor general—because the
emails were 'used for a purely personal objective.'"(Via Ben in the
comments)