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This isn’t an “October surprise” foisted on the media by opposition research; it’s news. If you want to understand why conservatives have lost faith in the so-called mainstream media, you need to ponder the question: Where is the Benghazi feeding frenzy? Unlike some of my colleagues on the right, I don’t think there’s a conspiracy at work. Rather, I think journalists tend to act on their instincts (some even brag about this; you could look it up). And, collectively, the mainstream media’s instincts run liberal, making groupthink inevitable. In 2000, a Democratic operative orchestrated an “October surprise” attack on George...

The relentless drip, drip, drip dominating the final days of the presidential campaign isn't a rainsquall spawned by Hurricane Sandy,it's the slow release of disturbing information about the al-Qaida-inspired 9-11-2012 terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.........................The Benghazi attack,if it proved to be a planned attack rather than a spontaneous response to a video created without Obama's approval, would call into question at a politically inconvenient moment the fundamental assumptions that guide his administration's Middle Eastern diplomacy--in particular, the history-changing impact of his own personality and his insistence that his diplomacy is smart. A planned attack would also demonstrate...

............The Obama administration has some explaining to do. With four Americans dead overseas, their fellow citizens rightly want to know why they couldn't have been protected. But the answers will not fit neatly, or in time, to make 30-second campaign ads. And there may be new revelations but definitive answers can't be expected before election day.

A Muslim cleric hosting an Egyptian television show recently outlined his version of Islamic instructions for wife-beating. In another show,a cleric claimed that the MuslimBrotherhood,now governing Egypt,one day will rule the world. [SNIP] “The young people who carried out the revolution are not in power,”Mr.Ibrahim said, according to an English translation of remarks posted on the website of the MiddleEast Media Research Institute,a Washington nonprofit organization that monitors Arabic media. “It’s the latecomers who are in power. Some of them,like the Salafis,did not participate in the revolution at all,”Mr.Ibrahim said. “This is an indication of their plan to hijack,control and...