Lunch

++President Obama opened the 9-11 museum with the Clintons, Mayors Guiliani,Bloomberg and de Blasio in attendance. 

++President Obama urged Congress to approve highway funds for the depleted Highway Trust Fund.

++Eleanor Clift has been ridiculed by right and left on her Benghazi theory. Ambassador Stevens went there to check on the detainees being held and interrogated by the CIA.

++The FCC makes its net neutrality decision. By a 3 to 2 vote that passed the measure that for-pay can have faster service.

++Torrential rains are predicted for tomorrow's coup d'etat. But than the patriots at Valley Forge experienced worse.

++The FBI is investigating the militia groups camped out at Bundy's Ranch.

++The Republicans are now claiming they will pass immigration reform if they take the Senate. They argue then they can pass a "piecemeal" approach that the House would approve. Talk about Bait and Switch.

++I have to say I like the political ads for Mary Landrieu with her father New Orleans Mayor Moon,Senator Pryor's in Arkansas, and Mark Begich's in Alaska.

++PPP has Begich at 42 against Republican Dan Sullivan 37.

++Harry Reid has introduced a bill that would introduce a constitutional amendment against campaign finance such as the Koch Brothers. 

++TMac is looking into ways to get around Virginia's restrictions on abortion clinics.

++Bill Kristol's Weekly Standard believes Hillary Clinton will not run.

++John McCain said he would send special forces into Nigeria without batting an eye to save the school children kidnapped.

++The EU has signed an associate agreement with Georgia.

++Iran claims Assad has won and brags about their role in keeping him in power. This brings new meaning to the word "winning".

++The Danish Government has urged Syria to speed up its shipments of chemical weapons. Syria is now at 92% compliance. But Western observers believe they are holding back certain capability to produce chorine gas.

++Ambassador Brahimi has quit as Special Envoy to Syria. Basically he threw up his hands in frustration. 

++Putin is trying to get around Western sanctions by signing a massive pipeline deal with China.

++The Philippines have offered the US a base to protect them from the Chinese.

++The Chinese and the Vietnamese are engaged in an almost "hot war" over offshore oil rigs.