Top Headline Comments 7-8-13

Happy Monday.

It's looking a lot like pilot error. NTSB isn't saying for sure yet, but there's no reported or observed mechanical failure and the pilot only had 43 hours of flying time on the 777. "The plane was travelling 'significantly below' its intended speed and its crew tried to abort the landing just seconds before it hit the seawall in front of the runway."

Cash-strapped cities are seeing Obamacare as way to unload retiree health costs on the U.S. taxpayer.

Islamists attempted to storm the army barracks where former president Morsi is being held. Some people are dead (the number keeps changing), and the Muslim Brotherhood is calling for an uprising. The Muslim Brotherhood, as is classic for this type of thing, claims that they were engaged merely in peaceful prayer when they were shot at by the army.

Eliot Spitzer is running for NYC comptroller . . . against his former madam. What is it with these people? Is there seriously nothing else the Spitzers and Weiners of the world can do except run for office?

Animated sequel Despicable Me 2 beat the stuffing out of Gore Verbinski's the Lone Ranger at the box office this weekend. The masked vigilante's $48.9 million haul doesn't seem so bad except that the film cost over $250 million to make, not including promoting costs.

The Hill joins the chorus of Beltway media outlets noting that Obama has to turn things around or his second term is gonna be a big fat failure. National Journal's Josh Kraushaar had perhaps the best of these pieces so far, "Obama's Crisis of Competence."

Speaker Boehner continues to rake in big bucks for the GOP.

posted by Gabriel Malor at 06:48 AM

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