Morning Roundup

  Well, apparently a British paper has the goods on the French First lady's writing that Queen Michelle views her job as "hell," which is hard to swallow given that she wears $200 t-shirts to paint on service days and parties 2-3 times a week and travels to Spain on the taxpayer's dollars. I'm a bit suspect of this report, as it is pretty gossipy. Nothing would surprise with this bunch, however.
  Then it appears the number of virgins as reward has been raised to 2.5 million for "martyrs." One has to pause a moment and wonder what kind of society (like we don't know) sees as a spiritual reward the taking of a young girl's innocence. Sounds very spiritual. Weasel Zippers and INN:

Palestinian Authority Hamas legislative Speaker Ahmad Bahr has updated from 72 to 2.5 million the number of virgins waiting for “martyrs” upon their arrival “in the Garden of Eden.”

Most Muslim preachers and politicians have used the expression “72 virgins” to encourage Arab youth to be ready to die in anti-Israeli terrorist attacks and suicide bombings. Bahr’s new arithmetic reasons, “In the Garden of Eden, there is a palace… with 500 gates. At every gate, there are 5,000 black-eyed virgins. Brothers, 500 multiplied by 5,000 is 2.5 million.”

  Sore loser Mike Castle lost, WHY? Fred Barnes tells over at the Weekly Standard.
  Ann Althouse discusses all the lies that The One told in his children's speech the other day. Right on.