National Review’s Kevin Williamson Wednesday had a very beautiful post on getting thrown out of a theater after he chucked the cell phone of an obnoxious fellow attendee. And it has everyone calling him a hero, and for good reason: Because it’s awesome.

“The lady seated to my immediate right (very close quarters on bench seating) was fairly insistent about using her phone. I asked her to turn it off. She answered: ‘So don’t look.’ I asked her whether I had missed s something during the very pointed announcements to please turn off your phones, perhaps a special exemption granted for her."

In a column for Bloomberg, Jeffrey Goldberg writes that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad isn't the only one crossing "red lines" today. Goldberg points out at least three instances in which President Barack Obama has crossed the line.

"Obama also crossed a red line by frightening allies through indecision. The U.S. is still the greatest power in the world, and its friends look to it for leadership. Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and even the U.K. and other European powers don't quite understand Obama's reluctance to get more deeply engaged in the Syrian crisis. (Note to apoplectic isolationists: Engagement doesn't have to mean armed intervention.) Allies have been lobbying for more than a year and half for Obama to provide weapons and training to the Syrian opposition, and the White House still won't commit."

Much has been written about the media’s unwillingness to make Kermit Gosnell and his appalling abortion practices front-page news. Or even back-page news, for that matter. He is on trial for the 2009 death of a mother of three and of four babies allegedly born alive; he was initially charged with the killing of seven babies.

Gosnell also faces roughly 250 lesser charges of racketeering, conspiracy and alleged violations under Pennsylvania law. The prosecution maintains that Gosnell routinely performed illegal third-term abortions.

Last week the New York Times published an interesting op-ed by journalist Frank Bruni, which essentially made the point that while we think we have reached full equality between the sexes, a double standard still exists.

Using Amanda Knox -- the foreign exchange student who was convicted of killing her housemate in Italy, only to have the conviction reversed -- as his prime example, Bruni seems to argue that, unlike men, a woman's character is decided by her sexual lifestyle.

In what appears to be the creeping Islamization of Turkey, at least that's the fear among secular Turks, Turkey's national airline has banned flight attendants from wearing red lipstick and nail polish because it "impairs visual integrity."

.... Because it "impairs visual integrity."

This new amendment to airline policy comes hot on the heels of a February proposal in dress code that would require flight attendants to wear ankle-length dresses and Ottoman-style caps; the uniforms have yet to be adopted.