QUOTE OF THE DAY - AT 9:58 A.M. ET:  From the great Charles Krauthammer, also commenting, as Victor Davis Hanson does below, on the president's Cairo speech and the bizarre moral equivalencies found within it:

Distorting history is not truth-telling, but the telling of soft lies. Creating false equivalencies is not moral leadership, but moral abdication. And hovering above it all, above country and history, is a sign not of transcendence but of a disturbing ambivalence toward one's own country.

Yes, sir.

June 12, 2009