News and opinions on a Friday, with more scandal

Tyranny

• Exclusive: Holder Says 'No' to Special Counsel to Investigate Benghazi
• Oops: IRS's rationale for scrutinizing tea partiers debunked by nonprofit application data
• IRS to pro-life group: Send letter pledging not to protest Planned Parenthood to get your tax exemption
• Holder on the way out?
• Words That Should Not Be Strung Together In America, "IRS Building Largest Government Database" 
• ABC: Yes, it's true, the acting IRS commissioner was preparing to leave in a few weeks anyway; Update: Second IRS official to step down; Update: Was promoted last week?
• Did the IRS give Mitt Romney's tax returns to Harry Reid?
• Official White House Account Now Trolling Opponents
• Sharia Law: Australian Woman Spends 8 Months In Prison For Being Gang Raped
• Senate immigration gang frustrates GOP efforts to bolster border enforcement

Big Government

• Pelosi: These Republicans are too consumed with “evasions” to worry about the real issue, which is … jobs
• Video: IRS scapegoats not exactly taking it lying down
• Eric “Fedo” Holder Is Smart And Wants Respect
• Boustany: "A culture of rot going on at the IRS"
• Great news: US has misplaced two former Witness Protection Program participants "known or suspected as terrorists"; Update: Failed to update no-fly lists?
• Uh oh: Second appeals court invalidates Obama's questionable "recess" appointments
• DHS confirms cheaper to deport every illegal alien than allowing them to stay
• Police State Boston excels at shooting unarmed suspects, innocent bystanders, each other 

Bill of Rights

• The Feds Mandate Abolition of Free Speech on Campus
• Richland florist sued by state for refusing gay wedding sues back
• Dems offer gun control bill inspired by latest James Bond movie 'Skyfall'
• Legal Insurrection and Judicial Watch file suit to obtain David Gregory gun law violation documents
• O’Malley signs gun ban. Maryland offically joins the slave states

Media

• CNN Now Aiming for Zero Ratings
• Barbara Boxer's claim that GOP budgets hampered Benghazi security
• WaPo: CIA asked AP not to expose Yemen terror plot bust until White House was ready to crow about it publicly 
• WH: Golly, if we had a shield law, we wouldn't have broken the other laws in AP records scandal, or something; Update: SPJ not buying it
• The IRS Was Dead Right To Scrutinize Tea Party
• When it rains, it pours: Ten press conference take aways

Politics

• Rubio: Obama "doesn't have clean hands" in IRS scandal

State Government, Taxes, Budget Battle

• Washington Voters – No Appetite for New Taxes, Spending

ObamaCareTax

• IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office

Unions

• Behind the IRS, the National Treasury Employees Union; and Behind the Union, Democratic Politics

Abortion

• Pro-Abortion Planned Parenthood’s New Ad Campaign: Your Baby Will Thank You

Terrorism

• Reports: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev note found in boat points to mystifying motive we may never truly understand

News and opinions for a Monday!

• Is Russia Kicking Dirt in John Kerry’s Face?
• CBS Anchor: 'We Are Getting Big Stories Wrong, Over and Over Again'
• Grassley: Baucus Retiring Because He’s ‘Fed Up’ With Obamacare
• ABC: Petraeus called final Benghazi talking points “useless” the day before Rice’s full Ginsburg
• Boom: Benghazi mom wishes Hillary Clinton a happy Mother’s Day; ‘She has her child; I don’t have mine’
• Liberal Rednecks: A Salute
• 25 Reasons To Dislike Liberals
• HHS: Nothing improper about Sebelius’s ObamaCare fundraising
• Gag order: Liberal activists, unable to win the argument against Rush Limbaugh, try to silence him instead
• Governors: Time to end the drilling moratorium
• Exposing the Republican “Liberty” Caucus, Part II: Fetuses are Just Like Dandruff
• The news media is even worse than you think
• The POPVOX Blog: The Week Ahead: May 13 - 17
• Why Obama released embarrassing IRS bombshell

MEETING REMINDER!

After the last well attended meeting( 80 strong),  YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS FOLLOW UP MEETING!!

With Shahram Hadian opening the "door" to getting our country back on track, Richard Burke,  of Western Liberty Network, is a timely follow up as he comes with a fresh passion to support our local group fill the currently open positions in Walla Walla County with conservative activists. 

Tuesday, May 14th

6:30 pm, Father's House

304 North 2nd Avenue, Walla Walla

Tell your friends and bring them!!

Saturday news & opinions

Tyranny

• BUSTED: Bloomberg News Caught Spying On Bloomberg Terminal Customers
• Exclusive: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference 
• Progracists
• IRS Apologizes For Targeting Tea Party Groups During The Election 
• Obama IRS admits witch hunt against Tea Party, patriot groups
• TheTeaParty.net to IRS: “Apology Not Accepted”
• Darrell Issa: My committee will "aggressively follow up" on the IRS's political thuggery
• Putting The Comprehensive In Immigration Reform: Universal biometric IDs for every American? What could go wrong?
• What is truth?
• Venezuela: Photo of the week

ObamaCareTax

• Holy Crap: HHS Secretary Sebilus Is Extorting Money From Health Care Industry To Promote ObamaCare
• Republicans Are Refusing To Appoint Members To Obamacare's Most Notorious Panel
• Obama to Invoke Moms in Pitch for Health Exchanges
• Why Obamacare is oversold

Budget Battle

• Morning Bell: Ready for Another Debt Limit Fight?

State Government

• Owen wants Dems to end Carrell’s vote-by-proxy privilege

Foreign Policy, Corruption

• White House scrambles to contain Benghazi-gate fallout
• JW Files Three New Lawsuits Against Obama Administration for Concealing Benghazi
• Carney on Benghazi edits: Need I remind you that a certain Mr. Mitt Romney tried to make political hay of the attack?

Media

• Video: MSNBC Turns on Obama, Admits Benghazi Cover-Up
• Good news: Journalism museum to honor two members of Hamas TV
• White House holds Benghazi briefing with reporters - off the record; Update: More whistleblowers coming? Update: "Deep background"

Politics

• POLITICAL BOMBSHELL: SENATOR INHOFE SUGGESTS IMPEACHMENT COULD BE COMING OVER BENGHAZI COVER-UP
• The coming GOP civil war over climate change

Bill of Rights

• "Confiscate, Confiscate, Confiscate"
• Bloomberg, Obama and liberal media muzzled about gun crime decline
• Big Brother: LA police sued over massive data collection gleaned from cameras

Big Government

• 10 crazy things the IRS asked Tea Party groups
• 
  Big Government Conservatives Strike Back
   

It's The Economy

• Woah: Greece’s youth unemployment rises above 60 percent

Terrorism

• FBI to Boston: You knew about Tsarnaev from JTTF files

Liberal Mindset

• Obama donors: Nixing the Keystone pipeline is comparable to Lincoln ending slavery, or something

Want A Free House?

(Copied from Facebook, and it has been making the rounds.  Old  or fresh, truth or parable, it makes an excellent point concerning "free" health care.)

I was in my neighborhood restaurant this morning and was seated behind a group of jubilant individuals celebrating the coming implementation of the health care bill. I could not finish my breakfast. This is what ensued: They were a diverse group of several races and both sexes. I heard a young man exclaim, "Isn't Obama like Jesus Christ? I mean, after all, he is healing the sick."

A young woman enthusiastically proclaimed, "Yeah, and he does it for free. I cannot believe anyone would think that a free market wouldn't work for health care."

Another said, "The stupid Republicans want us all to starve to death so they can inherit all of the power. Obama should be made a Saint for what he did for those of us less fortunate."

At this, I had more than enough. I arose from my seat, mustering all the restraint I could find, and approached their table. "Please excuse me; may I impose upon you for one moment?"

They smiled and welcomed me to the conversation. I stood at the end of their table, smiled as best I could and began an experiment.

"I would like to give one of you my house. It will cost you no money and I will pay all of the expenses and taxes for as long as you live there. Anyone interested?"

They looked at each other in astonishment. "Why would you do something like that?" asked a young man, "There isn't anything for free in this world." They began to laugh at me, as they did not realize this man had just made my point.

"I am serious, I will give you my house for free, no money whatsoever.  Anyone interested?"

In unison, a resounding "Yeah" fills the room.

Thursday News & Opinions

Tyranny

• Judge rips Obama’s right-wing Plan B stance
• Operation Smear Benghazi Whistleblowers
• U.S. Is Weighing Wide Overhaul of Wiretap Laws
• Remember Nakoula?
• Clinton's Republican Guard
• President Obama's cigarette tax up in smoke
• New White House amnesty campaign: “Unless you’re a Native American, you came from someplace else”

Foreign Policy, Corruption

• What difference does it make? Eric Nordstrom fights back tears during opening Benghazi statement: ‘It matters’
•  How Do You Say "Reset the Reset" in Russian?
• Hicks: Higher-ups at State told me not to talk to GOP congressman about Benghazi; Update: "Effectively demoted"
• The Tears of Benghazi   

Civil Discourse

• Ted Cruz on being a “schoolyard bully”: I do so appreciate Harry Reid’s candor

Abortion

• Gosnell resolution blocked
• Video [fixed]: Late-term abortionist says “It’s like putting meat in a crock pot”

Bill of Rights

• With Friends Like This ...
• Admiral DEFIES THE MILITARY BAN on Sharing His Christian Faith 
• Jeff Flake Stays with Us

 
Media

• Report: CBS grumpy that Sharyl Attkisson's Benghazi scoops are "wading dangerously close to advocacy"
• Washington Post Breaks Benghazi Scandal Wide Open
• New left-wing coalition begs Tribune Company: Don't sell the LA Times to the Koch brothers

ObamaCareTax

• Sebelius asks pediatricians to start helping sign people up for Obamacare
• Your Fault! 

Politics

• May Is Make-or-Break Month for Congress, Obama
• White House: This Benghazi hearing is just another of Republicans' "attempts to politicize" the issue

Terrorism

• Domestic Terrorists Teaching At Colleges?

Big Government

• NYC also hating on innovation, opportunity with interminable food-truck regulations

Wednesday news & opinions

Tyranny

• OPEN LETTER TO GENOCIDAL EDITOR DAVE PERRY: "Get down on your knees and thank whatever god you worship that there is an NRA"
• Justice Department to monitor special election in South Carolina
• BREAKING: European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds and plants not registered with government
• WaPo fact checker: Who rewrote the Benghazi talking points?
• Obama tells OSU grads to reject the Founding Fathers' voices
• Byron York: Senate skips details in rush to pass immigration bill
• Good news from Sheila Jackson Lee: The Constitution implies a right to health care and education
• Heritage: Amnestied Illegals Will Get $9.4T in Benefits; Increase Debt $6.3T'
• Rand Paul: I hate to say it, but the immigration bill is a little bit like ObamaCare right now 

Taxes

• Senate Passes Internet Tax Bill (But Watch Sen. Ted Cruz’s Passionate Argument Against It)

Looking Ahead

• Rise of the Republican Governors

Corruption, Foreign Policy

• She KNEW It Was A DAMNED LIE
• Hillary Clinton — culpable for Benghazi from beginning to end
• Obama: We have a moral obligation to end the slaughter and ensure a stable Syria

Liberal Mindset, Education

• Second Grader Suspended for Pointing Pencil Like a Gun

ObamaCareTax

• New Worries for Democrats on Health Law

Bill of Rights

• Obama administration retreating from contraception mandate? 

 
Media

• Does He Listen to Himself? Matthews Compares NRA to Nazis, Decries Use of Nazi Comparisons
• Exclusive: Politico Misreports Tea Party Support for Immigration Bill 

Politics

• H.R. 1826: No Monuments to Me Act of 2013
• Gun control ads have Democrats worrying
• Jeff Flake hints: I'll support expanded background checks in return for changes on Internet sales
• “Very junior senator” Ted Cruz really getting under skin of very senior Sen. Harry Reid

Local Government, It's The Economy, Big Government

• Clark County hangs out ‘Open for Business’ sign to employers

Second Amendment

• Gun Fiction vs. Gun Facts: What Gun Control Supporters Don't Know 
• Media's Anti-Gun Narrative Destroyed By Justice Dept. Report
• Reports show gun homicides down since 1990s
• Biden asks clergy to make moral argument on guns

Big Government

• It's come to this: Solar installer now suing the government for more money 

It's The Economy

• Internet Sales Tax Bill Stalling in House
• 
  
• The Worst Unemployment Crisis In Modern History Is Unfolding Right Now
• Why Friday's Jobs Report Was Ominous

Tuesday news & opinions

Tyranny

• Snell: Waking the dragon — How Feinstein fiddled while America burned
• National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers to Gang of Eight: How About Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement First, Geniuses?
• Defective Kokesh agitates for slaughter of Second Amendment supporters in D.C.
• Dem Rep. Admits to TheBlaze She Wants National Gun Registry: 'It Helps Us Find Them For You'
• Another Bloomberg gun control accomplishment: Mail carriers refuse service to parts of Brooklyn  
• President who appoints lobbyists, donors doesn’t want youth to get demoralized by government that rewards lobbyists, donors

Budget Battle

• Cop out
• Report: California governments could be $1.1 trillion in debt

It's The Economy

• America's Savings Crisis: Your Spending Habits May Be to Blame
• 'Real' Jobless Rate Still Above 10% In Most States
• German euro founder calls for 'catastrophic' currency to be broken up
• If it Falls, Tax It

Terrorism

• Bill Ayers Defends Weather Underground Bombings, “Can’t Compare Them To Boston Bombing”

Foreign Policy

• Video: White House "highly skeptical" of UN's finding that Syrian rebels, not Assad, used chemical weapons 
• Then-Acting Ambassador to Libya: "My Jaw Hit the Floor" When I Saw the Government Blaming the Attack on a YouTube Video 
• Diplomat to testify that Benghazi “was a terrorist attack from the beginning”
• Whistleblower: Hillary cut State’s counter-terrorism bureau out of Benghazi loop
• That Crazy Benghazi Conspiracy Theory? It Just Got Less Crazy
• Diplomat: U.S. Special Forces told "you can't go" to Benghazi during attacks
• Here we go: Backlash against Benghazi whistleblowers is underway
• They Had a Team Ready to Go in Tripoli and a C-130* on the Ramp 
• Fifty Shades Of Red

Second Amendment

• The Firearms Statistics That Gun Control Advocates Don’t Want to See
• NRA Annual Meeting Stats

Abortion

• Kirsten Powers: Let's Stop Pretending on Late-Term Abortion
• Gosnell attorney: Fox tried to influence the jury

ObamaCareTax

• Obamacare is on the horizon, but will enough people sign up?

Politics

• Majority leader is ‘bullied’ by freshman senator, turns to public for help
• Reid to Cruz: “My friend from Texas is like a schoolyard bully”

Friday news and opinions

Tyranny

• Sessions: 'Tide Is Beginning to Turn' Against Immigration Bill
• Principal: ‘I was naïve about Common Core’

ObamaCareTax

• Landmark study shatters liberal health care claims
• Reid: We're gonna need a lot more ObamaCare money to stop the train wreck

Big Government

• Justice Department appeals morning-after pill ruling
• Attempt to improve U.S. food-aid efficiency going about as well as you’d expect
• Denmark Repeals Fat, Beer & Soda Taxes

Foreign Policy

• 15 Years or 8 Months...
• Human trafficking at Saudi diplomatic compound in Virginia?
• U.S. officials: We, er, aren't sure where all of Syria's chemical weapons are
• Report: State Department's Benghazi review panel now under investigation

Liberal Mindset

• Videos: May Day in Seattle goes about as well as you’d expect
• Stunner: Mostly Peaceful May Day March Turns Violent in Seattle, Eight Cops Injured

State Government, Taxes, Budget Battle

• Unnecessary special session starts May 13
• [Washington State] Concealed carry reciprocity with Fla. stopped by AG’s office?   (Phone calls recommended)
• Search of KCHA official’s browser shows work isn’t a priority

It's The Economy

• Weekly jobless claims fall to lowest level in 5 years 
• No policy changes expected as Fed ends two-day meeting

Terrorism

• Left-wing domestic terrorist becomes first woman on FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list

Abortion

• Arizona Abortionist: Why No, If a Baby Were Born Alive, We Would Not Provide Care for It

Media

• Howard Kurtz Screws Up Yet Again, But This Time He's Fired, Because He Offended the Left's Gay Lobby

Politics

• Two new polls: Disapproval of Obama's handling of gun policy over 50 percent

Budget Battle

• Boehner Successfully Reduces House Spending

News and Opinions for Wednesday!

Tyranny

• New Jersey Bypasses Medical Privacy To Assist Feds In Gun Control Registry 
• SHOCKER: Book: Obama surrounds self with ‘idolizers,’ plots legacy with scholars.
• No Tragedy Unfit for Exploitation 
• Cuba’s message to dissidents: You had your trip, now we’re coming after you
• Argentina: Courts now under Cristina’s authority
• Team Rubio’s ‘no welfare for illegal immigrants’ claim takes another hit
• DeMint: Gang of Eight Immigration Plan Unfair, Costs Too Much

Taxes

• The Newest Tax: Flu Vaccines

Politics

• Dems push gun control agenda in DC, but not in battleground states
• President's relationship with GOP congressional leaders at new low
• Bam! Conservatives bust Gov. Christie for rewriting history on Sandy relief 

Second Amendment

• The Billionaire Who Made Gun Control His Pet Issue   
• Gun Owners Continue Owning Guns & Won’t Help Gun Control Groups or Assist in Promoting Partisan Agenda
• Obama’s Gun Policies Unpopular with Millennials
• Because homeowners only need seven rounds to defend the lives of their families. Right, New York?

Media

• Thanks, Obama!  Related --> Chuck Todd: Obama 'Hates' 'Internet Media and Social Media'

Liberal Mindset

• Awesome: Redskins QB RGIII blasts ‘tyranny of political correctness’

Abortion

• Planned Parenthood CEO Lied About Not Knowing of Gosnell Horrors

ObamaCareTax

• Daniel Kessler: The Coming ObamaCare Shock
• 42 Percent of Americans Don't Think Obamacare Is Law 

Foreign Policy

• Obama on Syria: When I said chemical weapons were a "game-changer," I meant we'd rethink our options or something
• Here we go: Obama preparing to send “lethal arms” to Syrian rebels, say senior admin officials

Patriotism

• Ted Cruz Offers Fellow GOP Senators Some Advice: You Could Try To Not Be Such "Squishes"
• 'MERICA, 'MERICA, God shed his grace on thee (55 Photos)

It's The Economy

• The Amazing Texas Energy Turnaround
• Spain Is Beyond Doomed: The 2 Scariest Unemployment Charts Ever

Legislation

• The POPVOX Blog: The Week Ahead: April 29 - May 3

This post brought to you by a President distraught over the rise of the "Internet media and Social media".

Image courtesy of Weasel Times & Stoat Intelligencer

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

Saturday News

Tyranny

• Why are the senators so eager to give citizenship away the same senators so eager to ignore its protections?
• Gang of Eight loopholes put many illegal immigrants on fast track to citizenship
• Obama, Heroically Alone For His Moment of Silence for the Victims of Boston.
• Holder Calls Amnesty a 'Civil Right'
• Pint-sized, Would-be Despot Bloomberg Urinates on the Constitution   
• Obama still holding out on those subpoenaed Fast & Furious documents

It's The Economy

• Q1 GDP: 2.5% annualized growth; Update: “Disappointing,” says CBS
• Record Number of US Households on Food Stamps
• The Euro Is Ripping Europe Apart

Terrorism

• WaPo: Joint Terrorism Task Force warned about Tsarnaev’s return from Russia

Big Government

• Alarming! DOD Launches Urban Assault Training In Chicago Suburb, Frightened Residents Describe “A War Zone”
• Examiner Editorial: How the FBI was blinded by political correctness 
• Bad news: The Federal Helium Program is not a parody
• Rep. Hank Johnson’s ‘world without balloons’ speech meant to ‘deflate GOP message machine’
• Another Anti-Voucher Democrat, With Kids in the Best Private School
• In bid to play down claims of stockpiling, DHS improbably claims agents are shooting 3x-4x more than our Army at war

Foreign Policy

• White House: Clinton’s 'Signature' on Benghazi Docs Doesn't Mean She Knew of Them
• Syrian War Rape: Obama Supports The Real War on Women 

Media

• NYT: Breitbart was right about Pigford
• New York Times rejects Bloomberg group's demand to correct pro-gun op-ed

ObamaCareTax

• Dems on Capitol Hill retreat from ObamaCare exemption; Update: Dems getting nervous about Obamacare?

Education, Liberal Mindset

• German 5-Year-Olds Now Learning How to Achieve Orgasm: 'The vagina and penis feel nice and tingly and warm'

Politics

• A National Security History Lesson for Marco Rubio
• Obama: Planned Parenthood isn't going anywhere, America
• Gun-Grabbers Go After GOP
• ACLU, LGBT Groups Raise "Grave Concerns" About Job Bill Religious Exemption

Budget Battle

• Breaking: House passes bill to end FAA furloughs

Either Abide By It or Repeal It! (UPDATED)

Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption

Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, sources in both parties said.

…Yet if Capitol Hill leaders move forward with the plan, they risk being dubbed hypocrites by their political rivals and the American public. By removing themselves from a key Obamacare component, lawmakers and aides would be held to a different standard than the people who put them in office.

If this happens, aAll the members of Congress needs to be tarred and feathered for being as hypocrites for even considering this ..... after being run out of office.

If they are to be exempted because ObamaCare is a problem, THEN SHUT THE STUPID PROGRAM DOWN, so that all Americans aren't equally oppressed. Life can be that simple.

Write your Congressional delegation.

(Updated to reflect the true state of affairs)

Update II:

Tuesday news and opinions!

Tyranny

• Why Does Evil Make Liberals Stupid?
• More Bullet Hoses 
• Slow Down Immigration Reform: An Open Letter to Sen. Harry Reid from Sen. Rand Paul
• Bloomberg Says Interpretation of Constitution Will ‘Have to Change’ After Boston Bombing
• Timothy P. Carney: Civil society, not Big Brother, is the American way 

It's The Economy, Taxes

• The War against the Young 
• Argentina: Creditors say "no"
• Poverty in America: Millions of families too broke for bank accounts
• Walmart, Amazon Back Stealth Internet Sales Tax Bill
• Surprise: Americans not keen on paying higher gas taxes

Big Government, EPA

• Abracadabra!
• Danes Rethink a Welfare State Ample to a Fault
• Rubio Spokesman: Your Immigration Compromise Offer Reminds Me Of Something. What's It Called? Oh Right...SLAVERY.
• Fisker spent $600K for every car it sold, skids toward bankruptcy
• Obviously: State’s Keystone pipeline review is “insufficient,” says the EPA

ObamaCareTax

• Putting Lipstick on the Obamacare Pig 

Terrorism

• Homeland Security – One Would Have Thought………
• Marathon Bombing: Issues to Watch 
• FBI Confirms Boston Bomber Suspect's Radical Islamism
• Officials: Tsarnaevs Appear To Have Been Motivated By Religion and/or Early 60s Futurist Architecture

Liberal Mindset

• New York's 'Stop and Frisk' Policy a Lifesaver
• Boston Bombing Suspects Did Not Have Valid Handgun Licenses

Media

• Gun Store Running AR-15 Giveaways on Facebook Sees Page Shut Down - And Facebook Hasn't Contacted Him to Say Why
• Hunt for the elusive Tea Party murderer continues

Looking Ahead

• We Can't Go Back to Sleep
• How Chuck Schumer ran rings around Marco Rubio

Corruption

• Farrakhan son is part-time Harvey cop but hasn’t worked a shift in 4 years

Abortion

• Devastating: Philly-area columnist asks a key, yet horrifying, Gosnell question
• Planned Parenthood Kept Silent About Gosnell Butchery

Second Amendment

• USA Today poll shows gun-control support slipping still further

Friday news!

Tyranny

• On The Second Amendment and Presidential Anger
• Can trees grow without Central Planning?
• Planning to Stifle Human Ingenuity
• The House Just Passed The CISPA Cybersecurity Bill — Here's Why The Internet Is Up In Arms
• Pelosi, Biden issue threats after Reid pulls faltering gun ban bill from Senate

Second Amendment

• Gabby Giffords Jumps the Shark With Pathetic Gun-Grabbing Op-Ed in the New York Times
• Senator to propose bill regulating black powder in wake of Boston Massacre

Legislation

• S. 744: A bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes;  The Border Security, Economic Opportunity & Immigration Modernization Act

Politics

• Organizing For America’s Post-Vote Call to Action    
• Could Obama’s gun-control push cost Democrats the Senate?

Big Government

• No, really: Maryland has a tax on rain now
• Homeland Security’s Ammunition Purchases Should Not Worry You

Abortion

• Testimony: Gosnell reused disposable instruments, falsified records: Update: Nurse saw more than 10 babies breathing

Foreign Policy

• Issa to CIA: Get your lawyers ready on Benghazi
• John Kerry: “We have a lot more important things to move on to” than Benghazi

It's The Economy

• China’s Local Debt “Out of Control”
• IMF Piles On: Pensions Are in Danger
• Sobering Presentation Reveals The Two Economies In America

Corruption

• Memphis prosecutors charge former, current IRS workers with theft of government benefits
• Gun-control official on Senate failure: “Bribery isn’t what it once was”

Media

• CNN Claims Pressure Cooker Bombs Somehow ‘Signature’ of Extreme Right Terrorists
• NYT: Can you believe Fox was talking about this fertilizer explosion instead of guns today?
  

Education, Unions

• College fires professor who forced students to sign pledge to vote for Obama
•  A closer look at how the BGSD conducts its business

State Government, Legislation

• Gun bill stalls in Washington state Senate

ObamaCareTax

• Pompeo to Baucus: If ObamaCare is a “train wreck,” you’ve got nobody to blame but yourself

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

Saturday news & opinions

Tyranny

• Obama’s Tin Ear
• Here's The Democrats' Plan To Get Gun Control Through The Senate
• RED ALERT TRANSCRIPT: Mark Levin Says a Powerful Republican (*cough* John Boehner *cough*) is Trying to Silence Him

Communism

• Inside North Korea: Shock video and photos show true horror of Kim Jong-un's evil regime

Budget Battle, Taxes

• Morning Bell: Obama’s Fake Budget Marketing Exposed
• Video: Sessions plays Stump the OMB Director by asking ... about deficits
• By the way: Total student loan debt now topping one trillion dollars
• Taxpayers beware: Federal tax collections to hit record highs

Legislation

• The POPVOX Blog (Congressional) Weekly Roundup: April 5 - 11

Big Government

• Duplicative Government Programs Are a Symptom of the Problem
• City of Olympia votes itself incompetent
• Yep: EPA definitely putting the brakes on those power plant regs. 

State Government, Taxes, Budget Battle, Civil Discourse

• GOP irked by House committee’s late-night budget passage
• Bill would give publishers, broadcasters a do-over after errors
• State GOP’s AR-15 auction ignites far left fury

Abortion, Media

• The Scathing Speech That Takes the Media to Task for Blackout of Gruesome Abortion Trial: If the ‘Doctor’ Used An AR-15, You Bet They’d Care
• Planned Parenthood: This Gosnell case is “appalling”
• Reversal in WSJ/NBC poll: Majority once again thinks abortion should be illegal in most or all circumstances
• Photo of the Day: Media Row at the Gosnell trial
• Media Seating Area at the Gosnell Trial
• Horrifying: Teen Intern at #Gosnell Murder Factory Recalls Hearing Aborted Fetus 'Screeching'
• The #Gosnell Horror Prompts Flashback to Bush Derangement Syndrome

It's The Economy

• Retail sales fall 0.4% in March, most in 9 monthsToomey-Manchin Regulates All Advertised Sales
• The eurozone crisis: Back with a vengeance?

 Liberal Mindset

• Boomers Push Doctor-Assisted Dying in End-of-Life Revolt

Second Amendment

• Schumer-Toomey-Manchin gun bill allows the creation of federal gun registry
• Peter King promises House version of Manchin-Toomey by Tuesday
• More on the Toomey-Manchin Amendment 
• NEW SUPPORT GROUP: Gun Owners Against Illegal Mayors

Corruption

• Democrat Senator Cashing in on Newtown

Civil Discourse

• Gravedancing: Anti-Gun Nuts Using Increasingly Graphic Images of Newtown to Advance Agenda
• Connecticut senator to Rupert Murdoch: You should refuse to air the NASCAR race that the NRA's sponsoring

ObamaCareTax

• Cost of exchanges shoots up

Local Government

• County online by-name tax record search box to remain off

Friday news and opinions

Tyranny

• Am I a Dangerous Extremist?  Are you?
• IRS: All your e-mails are belong to us
• Elite Panic and Kermit Gosnell

Abortion

• Video: Gosnell staffer, defense attorney argue over whether babies were alive

Second Amendment

• We Have Language on the Toomey-Manchin Amendment
•  The Toomey-Schumer-Manchin Amendment
• Filibuster fails: Senate votes to open debate on gun-control bill, thanks to 16 Republicans
• Coburn: Manchin-Toomey deal is 'unworkable'
• Biden: Some people just like shooting guns because "it's like driving a Ferrari"

Big Government

• $43,000 of Kansas Welfare Money Withdrawn From ATMs at Strip Clubs, Casinos
• Highway patrol gave feds Missouri weapon permits data
• Study: Yeah, that NYC soda ban would probably backfire

Politics

• Senate Slouching Toward Compromise
• What - No Blow And Hookers Available?
• THIS'LL PLAY WELL WITH HIS BASE
• Republican Senators drop gun bill filibuster; is a trap being set?
• Point of Order With These Senate Gun-Control Morons
• Boehner: There’s no rule that says I need a Republican majority in order to pass bills in the House

ObamaCareTax

• ObamaCare exchanges now costing at least double initial projections

Liberal Mindset

• Video: Amnesty supporters inexplicably protest Marco Rubio, some without knowing who he is
• ‘Democrat Ethics’

Civil Discourse

• Reversing Its Previous Order, a High School in Michigan Will Allow Rick Santorum to Speak...So Long As Students Have Signed Permission Slips from Their Parents
• Leftists Send Ancient Wizard of Oz Song "Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead" Into Top Ten of Downloaded Songs To Express Their Hatred of Margaret Thatcher
• Senate Dems Blocking Resolution To Honor Margaret Thatcher

Budget Battle

• A hat trick for Obama budgets?
• U.S. debt to hit a gnarly 78 percent of GDP in 2014

Media

• Dog Bites Man; Man Rapes Girl: Journalism and Other Crimes
• Pro-Gun-Control Senator Thanks CNN "For [Its] Support"
• Krauthammer on the Media's Complete Embargo on the Gosnell Story

News & Opinions for Thursday!

Tyranny

• Obama's 'Lying Problem' about Firearms
• Man who escaped Castro's Cuba speaks at Oregon gun control hearing: 'You people don't know what freedom is because you never lost it'
•  Obama's Abuse of Dead Children
• Calif. Tax Bill Seeks to Punish Boy Scouts' for Gay Ban, Targets Group's 'Unfortunate Discriminatory and Outdated Practices'
• today's Lympians
• We must STOP Compromising! Florist in Richland, WA Sued for Not Providing Flowers for Gay Wedding

Budget Battle

• Good news!
• The Real Budget Action Won't Come Until Tonight
• President Finally Unites Americans: Everybody Hates Obama's Budget
• New Obama budget totals $3.77 trillion
• Obama sends Congress $3.77T spending plan, riles both sides
• Early analysis: Obama's 2014 budget numbers are based on bad math, phantom revenues, imagined spending cuts and a middle-class tax hike
• PoliceOne's Gun Control Survey: 11 key lessons from officers' perspectives

Second Amendment

• Manchin, Toomey close to deal on “expanded” background checks; Update: Deal reached
• The Toomey-Schumer-Manchin Amendment
• Colorado sheriffs plan lawsuit challenging state gun control laws
• Want a Credible Voice on Firearms? Listen to Dom Raso
• Manchin-Toomey "Bipartisan" Gun Control Press Conference
• The Toomey-Manchin Proposal Will Allow Doctors to Block Your Right to Guns
• Coverage of the Toomey-Manchin Gun Control Press Conference
• Statement from the National Rifle Association Regarding Toomey-Manchin Background Check Proposal
• NRA to oppose Manchin/Toomey bill on background checks
• It's Hard Not To Be Cynical About This Toomey/Manchin Deal
• Letter from NRA Institute for Legislative Action Executive Director Chris Cox to the United States Senate On Background Checks
• Senator Toomey Betrays Gun Owners
• NRA Statement on S.649
• Pat Toomey’s reward: Bloomberg’s gun-control group drops attack ad, runs favorable ad in PA instead

State Government, Budget Battle

• House wants even more spending than governor asked for 
• Pension spiking: defrauding taxpayers in slow motion

Media

• Weaned on the Beeb's hatred, no wonder the young rejoice at her death
• New MSNBC promo: You have the right to health care, education, housing, and food at all times

Big Government

• Bipartisan lawmakers: Time to scrap some of this ethanol-mandate ridiculousness, no?
• Video: GOP rep rips Obama’s budget for … proposing mild entitlement reform?

ObamaCareTax

• Is it statism or healthcare?

Abortion

• "It jumped, the arm"; Update: Media score - Rutgers 41, Gosnell 0 
• Video: Delaware Planned Parenthood clinic closed after whistleblowers go public about conditions

Taxes

• Who likes taxes? Democrats, and no one else.

Education

• Rotten to the Core: Conservatives spearhead drive at RNC meeting to stop Common Core

Politics, Looking Ahead

• Revealed: The Gang of Eight's immigration planCruz: Obama's gun-control push is going to cost Democrats the Senate in 2014
• Rand Paul goes to Howard

Terrorism

• No Tears for Lynne Stewart