What great news for tax victims that the IOC slapped down Obama, Rahm, the rest of the Chicago machine, and the empire, and rejected the municipal government’s bid for the Olympics! Politically connected businessmen have lost billions in loot, and their wholly owned politicians too. No festival of nationalist hysteria. No unjust media enrichment. And a much needed fall in presidential power and arrogance. How sweet it is.

UPDATE from John Flanagan:

Based on recent polling on the subject, it wouldn’t surprise me that Rush Street is rockin’ tonight—beyond the normal Friday night chaos, that is. What would this be—VOO Day? Victory over the Olympics and the Obamas. There must be a country ballad: The Rent-Seekers Lament.

UPDATE from Jive Dadson:

Unintended consequences—TSA finally does some good for the people—at the Olympics election.

In the official question-and-answer session following [Obama's] Chicago presentation, Syed Shahid Ali, an I.O.C. member from Pakistan, asked the toughest question. He wondered how smooth it would be for foreigners to enter the United States for the Games because doing so can sometimes, he said, be “a rather harrowing experience.”

The late Sudha Shenoy, a great scholar and lady in her 70s, who loved visiting the states, stopped coming here from her home in Australia because of the extensive humiliation sessions the TSA subjected her to.