President Obama's checklist:
Put on white shirt and jacket - no tie.
Leave Martha's Vineyard vacation compound to issue statement.
Tell the world the U.S. failed in a mission to rescue Americans held hostage by terrorists.
Express sympathy for parents of beheaded hostage and pledge to see that justice is done - "standing alongside others."
Go immediately to golf course to play seventh 18-holes in ten days.

 

Attorney General Eric Holder made a much-publicized flight to Ferguson, Mo., but did little or nothing to ease the racial tensions and end the violence that erupted after the fatal shooting of a black youth by a white police officer. Instead he talked about how he had personally endured the humiliation of racial profiling in his past.



Hillary Clinton, who demands expensive hotel accommodations and other luxuries for her speaking engagements, is not the only member of the family who enjoys high living. Author Daniel Halper says former president Bill Clinton loves a Gurkha. At $1,000 each, it is the world's most costly cigar.