Give a frontiersman coffee and tobacco, and he will endure any privation, suffer any hardship, but let him be without these two necessaries of the woods, and he becomes irresolute and murmuring. ~ U.S. Army Lt. William Whiting, 1849

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Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) ‘An Absolutely Hostile Attitude Towards Jews’ In Germany — “Charlotte Knobloch survived Nazi Germany’s genocide on Jews to rise to the head of the German Jewish Council. In a disturbing interview with Der Spiegel, Knobloch — whose personal history gives her the requisite perspective — states that anti-Semitic attitudes have hit levels not seen in years:”

PoliBlog (Dr. Steven Taylor) Harris on Track to Win So that She Can be on Track to Lose — “If anyone wants a lesson in the anemic influence of party leadership and the general fact that the process of choosing primaries candidates is a self-selection process, this race is it. It has been clear for months that Harris has no chance of winning this Senate seat, and while there were attempts by GOP leadership to recruit another candidate, or to dissuade Harris from running, the bottom line is that they have no power to actually make such things happen. Party leadership sometimes can actively and successfully recruit candidates, but on balance it is a catch as catch can in terms of who is willing and able to run.”

GOP Bloggers (Jonathan R.) Europe Begs Iran: “Please Toy With Us” — “With Iran, Europe behaves in exactly the way one would expect, reluctantly imposing an ultimatum and then begging the aggressor to create some blatantly duplicitous facade of compliance that Europe could then point to as a rationale to do nothing.”

Confederate Yankee Pretty/Stupid — “If Hammasa Kohistani wants to change public opinion and stereotypes against Muslims as she says elsewhere in the article, she needs to encourage Muslims to prove, time and again if necessary, that the violent fundamentalist way is not their own. British Muslims should respond to suspicions not by embracing terrorism, but by becoming the most vigilant fighters against it.”