Tuesday news & opinions

Tyranny

• Good at campaigning, bad at governing
• Whatever's in the Water Out There
• Immigration Bill Has More Fake "Fence" Crap In It
• Americans fear government more than terror
• THREATS AGAINST BENGHAZI WHISTLEBLOWERS ALLEGED
• President calls Jason Collins, praises his courage; Slain heroes overlooked

Politics

• Democrats Plan to Run Pro-Gun Candidates in 2014 Battleground States
• Is It Helpful, In Politics, To Be Mean-Spirited? 
• Ted Cruz: My GOP Senate colleagues yelled at me for wanting to filibuster gun control 

Terrorism

• ‘Losers’ turn to Islamist carnage

State Government, Bill of Rights, Taxes, Budget Battle

• State senator proposes religious belief exemption to civil rights law
• As House Democrats Pass a $900 Million Tax Increase, Governor Throws a Monkey Wrench
• Per-student pre-K spending lowest in decade
• Washington Legislature adjourns without budget

Local Government

• Is the Walla Walla School District going in the right direction with its public meetings aimed at building a consensus on the direction for modernizing Wa-Hi?

Second Amendment

• A new front for gun background checks: the ballot
• Executive Orders, Round Two
• Why They Lost on Gun Control

Education, Liberal Mindset

• 'A History of Psychiatric Problems'
• Erasing History 

ObamaCareTax

• The Deceptive Appeal Of "3D Chess" And "Improving" ObamaCare
• HHS stages multimillion-dollar PR campaign to promote ObamaCare
• Another Obamacare deadline missed

American Exceptionalism

• Video: World Trade Center to become tallest building in Western hemisphere today ... or tomorrow

Abortion

• Undercover Video By Live Action Puts Into Question Just How Rare Gosnell-Type "Abortions" Really Are
• Gosnell’s defense attorney: This is an “elitist, racist prosecution”
• CNN legal analyst: Gosnell media blackout a ‘business decision’ and not evidence of bias

It's The Economy

• Why the Jobs Outlook Just Got a Whole Lot Worse

Big Government

• Of course: D.C. on cutting edge of citizen-gouging traffic camera technology

Foreign Policy

• Obama’s Syrian Dilemma

Looking Ahead

• Republican Liberty Caucus State Chapter Defeats Pro-LIFE Resolution, Cites Need to Keep Pro-Abortion Members: Counterpoint, The RLCWA State Convention - What Remains To Be Seen

Opinions and news for Sunday

Tyranny

• the Trea. Party
• Obama, Clinton Campaign Officials Convicted of Election Fraud 
• About that one-year window to apply for provisional legal status… 

American Exceptionalism

• All That For A Flag?

Terrorism

• US imam calls on Muslims in US to wage jihad
• Exclusive: Government doc shows how closely Boston Marathon bombers followed al Qaeda plans
• FBI: Tsarnaev bombs showed “additional training or expertise”

Liberal Mindset

• Gun-Haters Eat Crow after Blaming NRA for Marathon Bombing

Taxes

• Governors Group: Marketplace Fairness Act not a violation of tax pledge

Education, Liberal Mindset

• Teachers should give lessons in pornography and tell pupils 'it's not all bad',  experts say
• University Logo as Rorschach Inkblot
• Middle School Girls Forced into Lesbian Role playing; Boys Taught How to Identify a Slut

Abortion

• Obama: ‘Thank you, Planned Parenthood, and God bless you’
• Palin Hammers 'Radically Pro-Abortion' Obama for Planned Parenthood Speech

Big Government

• Continuing the National Discussion

Media

• Perry blasts California newspaper for cartoon depicting Texas plant explosion
• Still No Confirmation of ‘Sleeper Cell’ Connection in Boston Marathon Bombing
• Tom Brokaw on skipping White House Correspondents Dinner: Event has become cheap and undignified ever since Lindsay Lohan stole all our attention last year

Budget Battle

• FAA furlough reprieve: 'No fair!'

Politics

• Republicans In Congress to Push AMMO ACT to Limit DHS Purchases
• Copyright-challenged Moonbat Unveils Anti-Bill of Rights Poster, Ace Promptly Pimp-Slaps It Into Oblivion
• How much should we take politicians at their word?
• Rubio hit hard after inviting comments on immigration bill

State Government, Bill of Rights

• GOP wants freedom of conscience protection for businesses

Corruption

• Naturally: California awards billion-dollar high speed rail contract to firm partly owned by Dianne Feinstein’s husband

Second Amendment

• Gallup Poll Shows Only 4% of Americans Think Gun Control is an Important Problem

Thursday opinions and news

Tyranny

• Perez Abomination Grows
• Sen. Harry Reid explains difference between violent anarchists and Tea Party
• Mark Pryor May Soon Have A Bloomberg Problem
• So did Obama just 'Specter' Max Baucus?

Agenda 21

• Forecast: No End in Sight to AGW Excuses

Terrorism

• Krauthammer: "The Lengths To Which Obama Will Go To Avoid Telling Us About The Enemy Is Becoming Comical"
• Kerry: Bombing suspect got radicalized in ChechnyaTo a terrorist, a cop is just a gun store
• Mosque that Boston suspects attended has radical ties
• Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical

Big Government, Corruption, Politics

• Did Rubio Lie to Mark Levin?
• Bad Karma: Obama admin kept funding Fisker while knowing it was failing
• Federal judge: Obama/DHS can’t let DREAM-eligible illegals stay if the law says they should be deported
• Federal Judge Rules That Napolitano Does Not Have Self-Proclaimed "Discretion" To Refuse to Deport 
• Feds spend at least $890,000 on fees for empty accounts
• Immigration reform could be bonanza for Democrats
• Boston strong! Company-sized police unit fired 40+ rounds at UNARMED terrorism suspect 

It's The Economy

• Durable Goods Report Delivers More Bad News for Economy

Legislation

• The POPVOX Blog: The Week Ahead: April 22 - 26

Second Amendment

• Anarchy: NY State Troopers Distance Themselves From Cuomo, Hesitant to Enforce Draconian Gun Laws
• Financial Gun Control? GE Capital Quietly Cuts Off Lending to Gun Shops
• Gun prohibitionists to launch grisly anti-NRA effort
• Harry Reid Proposes New Background Check Bill
• Fox News poll: Why yes, most Americans would like a gun when there's a manhunt going on outside
• WaPo-Pew poll: So much for that tide of anger over gun-control failure

Foreign Policy

• House GOP faults Clinton, State Dept for Benghazi security (auto-start video)
• Issa: Clinton "was just wrong" in her testimony on Benghazi

United Nations

• UN Freak and 9/11 Truther Links Boston Bombings to Obama's Israel Trip

State Government, Legislation

• Inslee still considers DUI, gun control, abortion bills in play

American Exceptionalism

• I Watch People Like This
• Adam Carolla Mocks 'Coexist' Bumper Stickers, Says Terrorists 'Hate Our Culture'

Looking Ahead

• It’s time to file for a cultural divorce

Media

• Media and Left (But I Repeat Myself) Wonder: Was Dzhohkar Tsarnaev The World's First Victim of Viral Concussion-Induced Dementia?

Monday News

• We Use This Word Too Much These Days And Toss It About To Describe Mundane Acts
• Quote of the Day
• Boston bombers: FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
• Related: The Blair-Glass ‘Sleeper Cell’ — British Tabloid Fabricates a Phony Scoop
• The ‘Co-exist’ Bombers.
• The real lesson of the Gosnell trial
• MSNBC host explains our fixation with the bombers’ roots
• Blue states to sue EPA for not crushing coal industry fast enough
• Reminds Me of “Dog Day Afternoon” ~ Robbing a Bank With a Guy Who, Given Their Choice of International Refuges, Thinks “Wyoming”
• No Warrant, No Entry
• The Media Didn’t Learn a Thing after Boston   
• FBI, Boston PD raided Watertown homes without warrants in terrorist hunt
• ‘Take good care of the children’
• And now, a public service announcement on immigration from Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
• House committee wants administration's intelligence on Tamerlan Tsarnaev
• Feinstein 'regrets' talk of declaring Boston bombing suspect a military combatant
• The POPVOX Blog: The Week Ahead: April 22 - 26

News and Opinions for Thursday!

Tyranny

• Immigration bill drops overnight; Update: Sessions: “This bill is legalization first”
• Argentina, Where Dollars Are the New Drugs
• Obama: I can't comment on Gosnell, but obviously lawbreakers should be prosecuted

Corruption

• Report: Obama Slashed Budget for Domestic Bombing Prevention by 45%, Spent More on Hawaii Vacations
• FBI Investigated Dingy Harry and Indicted Pal in 2008

Bill of Rights

• Judith Grossman: A Mother, a Feminist, Aghast
• Video: NRA has fun with Bloomberg group's dumb, irresponsible gun-control ad
• Toomey-Manchin Lets Doctors Block Your Gun Rights
• Video: Obama not handling gun-control failure in Senate very well
• Out: Sad Keanu. In: Pissed Obama; President Stompy Foot throws tantrum [pics, video]
• Obama Throws Tantrum over Gun Control Defeat
• He GOT His Vote (Which He NOW Claims “Distorted Senate Rules”), LOST It Handily Despite the Emotional Blackmail

It's The Economy

• Five Myths about Free Enterprise

Politics

• The Party of Surrender

Unions

• The UAW, Having Stripped Detroit Bare, Looks To The South

Media

• Citing anonymous Obama Admin official, CNN asserts pressure cooker bombs come from "extreme right-wing individuals"
• Idjit reporter shocked by ‘Amazing Grace’-playing bagpiper; Twitter schools
• The Mass Murder That The Media Is Choosing To Ignore
• MUST SEE! Race-Baiting Al Sharpton shows you exactly how it’s done going after CNN John King! PERFECT!

Socialism, Communism

• France drowning in rules and regulations, critics say

ObamaCareTax

• Boom: First union officially calls for the repeal of ObamaCare
• Nation's biggest movie theater chain cuts workweek, blaming ObamaCare
• Uh oh: Obamacare author warns implementation could be a "train wreck"

Big Government

• If/when Obama approves the Keystone pipeline, the green lobby is going to go berserk
• Postmaster general: The USPS is currently losing $25 million, every day
• Irony: Gov’t foreclosure settlement checks bounce

American Exceptionalism

• Moving: Man plays ‘Amazing Grace’ on bagpipes outside evacuated Boston courthouse [pics, video] 

Terrorism

• Mississippi man arrested in connection with ricin letter incidents
• Meet Our Modern Educators

Wednesday news & opinions

Tyranny

• Don’t You Feel Better?
• The Sum of all Fears
• Reid: We're making good progress on that anti-gun legislation
• Obama Refuses to Send Any Official Representative to Thatcher Funeral; Boehner Will Send Unofficial, Private-Citizen Delegates
• I Went to Bed a Christian and Woke Up a ... Terrorist?

American Exceptionalism

• One Word on the Boston Massacre

Second Amendment

• Reid coming up short on gun control billManchin-Toomey Amendment orchestrates gun registration, read it yourself
• Accidental honesty: Harry Reid touts progress on 'anti-gun legislation'
• Gun Bill May Be DOA As Spaghetti-Spined Republicans Start Taking Heat from Constituents.  BIDEN: TWO VOTES SHORT
• Anti-Gunners Lose More Money.
• GOP plans replacement proposal as Toomey/Manchin background checks bill nears failure

Media

• Powers: Yes, there is a Gosnell cover-up in the media
• The 10 Absolute Worst Media Reactions To The Boston Marathon Bombings
• Breaking media silence: Column
• Jay Mohr Calls for Gun Ban in Wake of Boston Bombing
• CBS News continues to hope Boston bomb suspect can be tied to the Tea Party
• The man on the roof

Abortion

• Eric Holder’s wife co-owns abortion clinic building run by indicted abortionist

State Government, Legislation, Taxes

• Dems will use 9th Order to resurrect Dream Act, abortion bill
• Washingtonians tell Olympia to restore 2/3s rule for tax hikes
• House snubs GOP amendments, OKs transportation budget

Budget Battle

• WaPo/ABC poll shows Obama under water on budget proposal 
• Role reversal: GOP blasts Obama plan to sell TVA

Corruption

• Desperate Dem Terry McAuliffe sues Watchdog.org over green tech/cash-for-visas exposé

ObamaCareTax

• Doctors Go Shopping: Price Comparisons Lead MDs to Lower Testing Costs

Taxes

• Most People Are Supposed To Pay This Tax. Almost Nobody Actually Pays It.

It's The Economy

• Yikes: IMF lowers global economic growth forecasts

Terrorism

• Shock the system? Electrical grid, comms attacked near San Jose

Local Government

• Tea partiers hold tax day rally in Walla Walla (read the comments)
• Sheriff waylays deputy who plans to run against him