Oh, the lies. It would be different if Chris Wallace did not know the truth, but he does. Yet, he lets Cheney paint his own version of events in Benghazi. We know from testimony in front of the Senate that President Obama directed Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to "do everything we needed to do to try to protect lives." Somehow, this little fact was never discussed on Fox News Sunday. Why not? Because their whole goal was to try to make the president look weak. A president who actually instructed to do everything needed isn't weak.

Conservatives love painting liberals/Democrats as weak. They love saying that in a crisis liberals are unable to make a decision merely because they are liberals. Liberals spend so much time thinking about other people's "feelings" that they can never make a decision. Yet, the truth is very different. After being directed by the president, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ordered two Marine anti-terrorism teams from Spain to deploy to Libya. There was no dawdling. There was no whiny liberalism. There was action. Deploy. Yet, you'll never hear this on Fox News. It isn't that this information is hidden. This information is readily available. Just use the Google.

I should add that former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Republican, appointed by President Bush, thought the idea that the military could've responded in time to save lives was a "cartoonish impression of military capabilities."

The truth is that we had a poorly defended Embassy that was in a country in which the government had just disintegrated. Ambassador Stevens did not stay in Tripoli, which was well defended. He decided to go where he was needed. That was Benghazi. We can continue to argue over what leeway the ambassador should have in dangerous countries. The bottom line – this was a tragedy. President Obama was not weak or indecisive. The president made a decision to quickly send available resources to Libya.

The FBI has new evidence or information about the death of Jimmy Hoffa. I'm speechless.

From CNN:

The FBI -- working on information from an aging reputed mobster -- began digging in the waist-high grass of a Detroit-area field Monday in yet another search for the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, according to a law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the investigation.

The information that sparked the latest hunt in the nearly four-decades-long search for Hoffa is "highly credible," the source said.

Agents were executing a search warrant for a field in Oakland Township, north of Detroit, based in part on information provided by alleged mobster Tony Zerilli.

Over the last two weeks, there's been a flurry of reports over the NSA surveillance program. There's been a lot of finger-pointing. There have been lots of accusations in which reporters and their sources have been called traitors and/or patriots, depending upon which side of the political spectrum you're on. First of all, I really don't believe that we have enough information to figure out exactly what's going on. We've got a cool name for a program called Prism. We have a rough idea about how the program works, but the devil is in the details. It is not important to me that former Vice President Dick Cheney went on Fox News and defended this program. We know that the vice president is not a human rights/civil rights kind of guy. We also know that he has lied to the American people before. Anybody who stands up and tells you that they are for or against this program should be immediately discarded as a zealot. We, the American people, simply don't have enough information to figure out what's going on. I know that President Obama stated that it was important to him that there are checks and balances, but I have no idea what these checks and balances are. I'm a little concerned that the FISA court is not a check nor a balance but are instead acting as a rubber stamp. I'm also afraid to say that I have absolutely no confidence in our elected politicians in Congress. I have no idea if these guys are acting in our best interest or not.

The San Antonio Spurs are knocking on the door of winning the NBA championship. They are leading the series against the Miami Heat three games to two. I really and truly love the way the San Antonio Spurs play basketball. It is an unselfish kind of basketball. Everyone seems to know what everybody else is doing on the basketball floor. When they're playing well, it is an amazing thing to watch. If the San Antonio Spurs are going to win the series, they have to win Game 6. I simply don't believe they can win Game 7 in Miami. I think there will be too much emotion and too much energy in the building. As I've said before, the key to the series is Dwayne Wade. If he plays well, like he can, it will be extremely tough for the San Antonio Spurs to win. If he is invisible, like he can be from time to time, the San Antonio Spurs could win their fourth championship.

Congratulations to Justin Rose

Congratulations to Justin Rose for winning the U.S. Open. In the U.S. Open, the key is hitting fairways. Justin Rose was tied for second in a fairways hit. He also putted very well. There's really nothing else to say about Phil Mickelson. It ha all been said. I will mention that Jason Dufner played an absolutely fabulous round of golf, with the exception of one hole. He had made six birdies in a single round. At Merion, he made six birdies! He only bogeyed one hole. Unfortunately, on that hole he made a triple bogey. It killed any chance he had of winning. Still it was a great round.

BTW, austerity is killing Europe. It has put Europe back in a depression.

The Supreme Court gets one right.

Tons of balls in the rough. Impossible to advance the ball out of the rough more than 100-125 yards. The greens are ridiculously fast. Nearly impossible to put down hill. Everybody is stumbling. Surprisingly, Rickie Fowler posted a 67 yesterday. At the beginning of the week, I thought that Steve Stricker had a really good opportunity to win one. He is struggling today. Phil Mickelson was in the lead earlier and is now falling back. So far, the best round of the day – Jason Dufner. Who knows who'll be able to keep themselves together, keep the ball on the fairway and be able to putt on these impossible greens? Who will come away with the victory?

It was 1974 and I was playing pool with a friend of mine in his basement. He had what was at the time the best stereo that I'd ever heard. He put on this album called Tom Cat. It was my first introduction to jazz. It simply blew my mind.