Iranian paralympian refuses to shake Kate Middleton’s hand due to ‘cultural and religion reasons’  – NY Daily News

Iranian paralympian refuses to shake Kate Middleton’s hand due to ‘cultural and religion reasons’  – NY Daily News

I would expected to live by the customs of Iran if I visited that country, if Iranians can’t handle western customs in a western country they should fucking stay home. Or plan ahead and wear gloves. It’s not like that should have been something totally unexpected. Have a plan at least! Shaking hands is pretty standard in western society.

Obama’s honeymoon with media has degenerated into a troubled marriage

On the media: Obama’s honeymoon with media has degenerated into a troubled marriage – latimes.com

It’s been a bad month when you are President Obama and some of the most understanding words on your response to an emergency of unprecedented proportions have come from Bill O’Reilly, Charles Krauthammer and Jonah Goldberg

He needs to jettison the detached-above-it-all air and listen. Or at least pretend. Pretend a lot better than he has been doing or he is going to become one serious liability to the Democrats.

Not veering from his own course when conditions come up might sink the ship before it has a chance to make it very far out of port.