Some Tuesday Morning Links

My wife and I went to see the final Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises its first weekend in theatres.  I highly recommend this movie.  The action and excitement are non-stop and the plot has some unexpected twists.  And surprisingly (for Hollywood), the movie had clear conservative themes as well.  World magazine had a great review analyzing the ideology behind The Dark Knight Rises.  As World puts it, the movie "powerfully portrays the logical results of relativism and socialism."

The Daily Caller has released information from a soon-to-be-published book by Richard Miniter about the attack on Osama bin Laden's Pakistani compound.  Miniter claims, based on an anonymous source with direct knowledge of the operation, that Obama canceled it three times over a period of several months and continued to waffle on whether or not to give the order to carry out the mission right up until the last minute.  I had the privilege of hearing a Navy SEAL involved in planning the bin Laden mission speak in person about the operation last year, and he mentioned something similar about Obama.  Obviously, we should be careful about putting too much stock in allegations based on anonymous sources.  This story may or may not be true, but if true I think it is very damaging to Obama.  It shows him both as a weak, indecisive leader and also as a President unwilling to take the terrorist threat seriously.

Finally, I found a couple of interesting links relating to the topic of same-sex marriage.  One is an excellent post by William Jacobson from the blog Legal Insurrection that notes that the anti-gay bigot card is now "on full display as a centerpiece of Democratic politics," thanks to Obama's convenient flip-flop-flip on same-sex marriage.  The goal is to silence all dissent by branding support for traditional marriage as hate speech.  The other essay is by Matthew Franck and discusses a recent book called Debating Same-Sex Marriage, which is co-authored by same-sex marriage supporter John Corvino and same-sex marriage opponent Maggie Gallagher.