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 Friday

Tyranny

• RED ALERT -- ACTION REQUIRED: #Benghazi Hearings and the Need for a Select Committee-Now [Hugh Hewitt]
• Transparency! Obama Administration Helps Hide Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Financial Records
• Suit Against NLRB to Proceed
• He Had It On "Vibrate"
• House Armed Service chair denied access to Benghazi files
• Coburn: State omitted something very significant to Senate Intel Committee
• The 'How Dare You' Defense on Benghazi
• The crucifixion of Jason Richwine
• House Dem on Benghazi: What’s the big deal here?

Media

• The Paul Anka/Admiral Byng Solution
• Republican leader rips the media for ‘shoving us in the corner’
• Sharyl 'Benghazi Campaign' Attkisson Hadn't Reported About the Attack On the Air in Over 5 Months
• Benghazi – what’s new?
• Unsurprising Media Consensus: ‘Shut Up About Benghazi, You Stupid Republicans’
• Benghazi Hall of Shame
• Video: MSNBC hosts now asking Democrats for autographs on air
• ‘That really pi$$es me off!’: Dana Perino blasts Bob Beckel over Benghazi BS [video]; Update: Perino slams media’s double standard

Big Government

• Feds demand removal of 3-D printable gun plans from the Internet
• David Frum Is Going to Rock Your World on Immigration
• Is the FDA heading toward age limits on caffeine products?
• Nobody Has Any Idea What’s Going on in Our Health Care System
• The GOP is boycotting Obama’s pick for EPA chief, and Democrats are not happy about it

Corruption

• House Oversight Committee: #Benghazi Hearing Live-Blog
• Can we just get to the bottom of it??
• Secret Service agent: We're being railroaded over hooker scandal
• Defense IG: Obama administration "bureaucrats" trying to silence me about corruption in Afghanistan

Politics

• Exposing The Republican “Liberty” Caucus Part I: Pro-Abortion, Pro-Illegal, Anti-Liberty History
• Ted Cruz's Twitter Feed Demonstrates Why Harry Reid Says Mean Things About HimCruz on Obama's Texas visit: Hey, perhaps he'll learn to create some jobs from the folks who know how

Unions

• Union boss Trumka calls out Walmart for having the audacity to hire veterans

Abortion

• 'Stop Being a Baby': Infanticide and the infantilization of women

Bill of Rights

• Still Setting Records
• Hobby Lobby Case Shows Obamacare Is Threat to Liberty

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

Tuesday opinions & news

Tyranny

• EXCLUSIVE: ACLU says Reid’s gun legislation could threaten privacy rights, civil liberties
• State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
• Gun-rights testimony from a communism survivor: "You don't know what freedom is, because you've never lost it"
• Feinstein: Veterans May Have PTSD And Should Not Be Exempt From Assault Weapons Ban
• Obama's Emotional Plea In Connecticut: 'What's More Important — Our Children Or An 'A' Grade From The Gun Lobby?'
• Law Firm: New York Matching Up Private Health Records With Gun Permits to Confiscate Firearms

Second Amendment

• Emotional Newtown dad: More gun control is not the answer
• Gun legislation’s prospects improve
• As support for gun bill filibuster grows, Obama says backers trying to use 'political stunts'
• Colt Manufacturing Company Moving to... Texas
• Why Transfers?
• Senate "background checks" are anything but; ban anyone but owner from touching gun at almost any time
• But I Thought Law Enforcement Supported Gun Control!
• ACLU understands that the bill before the Senate next week is essentially a gun registration system 
• WHERE ARE THE CALLS FOR ANTI-DEPRESSANT CONTROL? Like Other Mass-Killers, James Holmes Was Taking Violence-Linked Antidepressants

It's The Economy

• Dear Mr. President ~ May I Reiterate My Earnest, Heartfelt Sentiments Yet Again?
• How Thatcher was "freakishly correct" about the euro
• Are demographics really to blame for the struggling economy?
• Rhode Island’s Tallest Building to Go Dark in the ‘Most Visible Symbol of the State’s Long Economic Decline’
• Doctors driven to bankruptcy
• Number of the Week: Youth Unemployment at 22.9%?

Big Government

• Massachusetts man facing charges after shooting bear in self-defense in his yard
• U.S. Passes Saudis In Oil Output, No Thanks To White House
• Did You Know This? The US Has Surpassed Saudi Arabia in Oil Production
• GAO report: The govt has gotten a little heavy-handed with these wind subsidies, huh?

Unions

• Public Sector Unions Reeling In Wisconsin
• Seattle Board Capitulates to Testing Revolt

Legislation

• What’s your position on H.R. 1120: Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act
• What’s your position on CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act)

Foreign Policy

• Obama budget to cut missile-defense spendingObama administration reviving the Arab Peace Initiative

Media

• As Our Wonderful President Makes His Points to Adoring Fans On the Backs of Dead ChildrenGOP rep’s son: CNN and MSNBC canceled my interviews when I refused to bash my dad
• Press Ignores Pat Smith
• The Truth About Pamela Geller

Taxes

• Jindal backs off of his tax reform plan: “Let’s work together”

ObamaCareTax

• WSJ: Small businesses increasingly looking to avoid the employer mandate

Looking Ahead

• Random Thoughts...

Liberal Mindset

• Sigh: George Washington University students attempt to oust priest after discovering he’s Catholic
• Protesters greet Obama on S.F.’s Billionaires’ Row

News and Opinions for Thursday!

Tyranny, Corruption

• But we're not smart enough or responsible enough!
• Tapper: Obama regulators cashing in after very little enforcement

State Government, Taxes, Education, Budget Battle

• Senate transportation plan could be amended if tax hike OK’d
• Senate budget adds $1.5 billion to schools without a tax hike
• Senate moves education bills minus standards, accountability

It's The Economy, Unions

• We Are Saved! Cars Sales Are Up!
• Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit
• The UAW and Once-Big Three try to exclude Japan from free trade talks
• TRUMPeting the 3% Factory Orders BOOM on the Telly Last Night

Budget Battle

• The Sequestration of Pay for Members of Congress Act

ObamaCareTax

• Insurers see way to dodge federal healthcare law next year
• Millions Could Get Surprise Tax Bills Under ‘Obamacare’ If They Don’t Accurately Project Their Income
• Krauthammer: ObamaCare is pretty much destroying the essence of insurance
• It Would Be Easier to List What the Administration Has Delivered “On Time” Than What Is Tardy, N’est Pas?
• Joe Klein: My, the administration is looking pretty incompetent in Obamacare implementation

Second Amendment

• NRA spokesman: I personally could support expanded background checks

Liberal Mindset, Civil Discourse

• How Piers Morgan keeps people from trespassing
• What feminism has come to 

Agenda 21

• The failure of an anti-fracking fantasy

Sunday news

• S. 649: Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013
• White House Warns Cruz, Paul, Lee Not to Filibuster Gun Control Bills
• Google: We make it easy for anyone to spy on you...using your own web cams or security cameras!
• Teaching by Example
• Gun-grabbing Democrats in Maryland about to force Beretta to leave state with their jobs
• WaPost op-ed blames whites for mass shootings; fact remains minorities are over-represented for ALL murder types, including mass murder
• Because It Wasn't Already Contentious Enough ... WaPo Op-Ed Injects Race Into the Gun Debate
• AN EXXON VALDEZ EVERY YEAR
• The Economist has a climate change of heart
• Video: Hollywood rediscovers The Bible?
• Labor, big business agree on key part of immigration reform, but final deal still faces hurdles

News for Friday!

Tyranny

• Krauthammer: With This Administration, I Don't Buy Anything They Are Telling Me
• "Bizarre Interpretation of Second Amendment" is Obstacle to UN Gun Grab   
• Bringing Down America with The Company You Keep
• Thousands of armed vigilantes takeover Mexican town, arrest police and shoot at tourists after 'commander' is killed and dumped in the street 
• Obama Administration Seeks To Nullify The Nullifiers
• Sen. Cruz Statement on President Obama's Comments on Gun Control Legislation

Politics

• Obama: Shame on us for not enacting my gun-control agenda already
• A Columbine Survivor Tells President Obama To Man Up
• Flashback: Remember when Democrats swore they opposed same-sex marriage? 

Looking Ahead

• The Wisdom of Dan Quayle

It's The Economy

• NBC: "surging" student loan debt "crushing" the system
• Not-So-Great News for Jobless Claims and GDP
• The Story Behind Walmart's Bare Shelves

Legislation

• Issue Spotlight: Firearms and Gun Control
• Issue Spotlight: Key Amendments Passed in the Senate's Budget

Foreign Policy

• Reminder: How Mexico Treats “Undesirable” Foreigners

ObamaCareTax

• Medicare Has Stopped Paying For Diagnostic Tests
• Obamacare isn’t forever, but what’s next is worse 
• Pssst: The super-secret GOP plan to repeal ObamaCare
• Little hope seen for millions priced out of health overhaul
• CNN: Hey, were Americans misled about the costs of ObamaCare?

 
Big Government

• Running The Numbers On DHS’ Ammo Purchases
• Yes, liberal friends, the government is ‘protecting’ you from delicious, local food

Corruption

• Obama’s ‘Fast and Furious’ Body Count Continues Rising in Mexico

State Government, Taxes

• So Much for Inslee’s No-Tax-Increase Pledge

Unions

• Commentary: A Milestone for Michigan — Worker Freedom in the 'Big Labor' State

Liberal Mindset

• One Nation Above God

Second Amendment

• We Have the Language of Reid’s Bill, S.649
• Misplaced Words or True Intent?
• Republicans Clamoring For Bill?

Budget Battle

• White House: Okay, for real this time, Obama’s budget is coming April 10th 

Wednesday opinions and news

Tyranny

• Yes, Actually, We Do Plan To Keep Stealing Your Money
• Proof The Obama Administration Is Going After The Good Guys With Guns

Unions, Education

• NEA’s Legacy: $310 Million in Direct Campaign Spending Since 2000
• Here’s the Video That Teaches Children That Decisions Made by U.S. May Have Caused 9/11 — and It’s Been Used by ‘Tens of Thousands of Schools’ for Over a Decade 
• Professor (and Vice President of Local Democratic Party) Conducts Exercise in Which Students Stomp on the Name of Jesus; University Hastily Suspends... the Student Who Told the Press About the Exercise

 
Second Amendment

• Arkansas: Pryor Disses Bloomberg’s Gun Control Media Blitz
• Paul, Cruz promise filibuster on gun-control bill
• CBS poll shows support for gun control push fading
• On Polling and Passing the Buck
• Multnomah County Proposes New Gun Restrictions

Liberal Mindset

• Flashback: Mayor Bloomberg Visits Gun-Free Bermuda, Requests Exception For His Bodyguards To Carry Guns
• As I'm NOT Buying This Month's Vogue Because of "The Fashion Icon's" Mug Plastered On the Cover

Big Government

• News You Can't Use, Because Your Government Is Remote, Arrogant, Unresponsive, and Monstrous: There Are No High Speed Trains And There Won't Ever Be
• CNN: Say, high-speed rail is an expensive bust, huh?
• No kidding: DOE mismanaged $1.5 billion in stimulus-backed "investments," report says
• Shocking: A Smart Idea From A Republican
• Issue Spotlight: Defense of Marriage Act

ObamaCareTax

• Great news: ObamaCare will provide a boost for ... temps

Media

• Ack. Alex Jones and Infowars. Good googly moogly folks

It's The Economy

• CBO: America Will Never See Full Employment Under Obama

Opinions and News for Tuesday!

Tyranny

• Cyprus strikes last-minute EU bailout deal
• New York Budget Will Include ‘Indefinite Postponement’ of Andrew Cuomo’s Absurd Gun Clip Law
• When is a citizenry justified in deposing its government?
• Eurozone chief: Yeah, the Cyprus deal could definitely augur future euro-crisis plans
  Member of Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns Dropped After Weapons Accusation 

Looking Ahead

• Resistance is Dangerous; Submission is Frequently Fatal
• Review: A Failure of Civility

State Government, Legislation, Unions, Agenda 21

• Teachers' union tops lobbying spending in Olympia so far
• House OKs greenhouse gas bill, whether it’s needed or not
• Lawmakers, civil rights groups spar over mental health regs 
• Can you balance Washington's budget?

Media

• CBS ‘Apologizes’ If You Were Offended By Their Communist Propaganda
• MSNBC panelists: A lot of this opposition to Bloomberg's anti-gun campaign is probably fueled by anti-Semitism 
• Wayne LaPierre Batters David Gregory: ‘Why Doesn’t NBC News’ Report That Chicago Ranks ‘Dead Last’ in Federal Gun Law Enforcement? 

Politics

• McCain emerges as key senator in expanding background checks
• Paul Ryan's disappearing act 
• Marriage and the Supreme Court
• Disaster for Dems

Bill of Rights

• Gallup: Drones over thee, not we 
• Michael Bloomberg is a one-man gang on gun control. But how much difference can he make? 
• The State of the Gun Rights
• Round Limitation in New York: Round Two
• Mike Bloomberg: "I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom"
• Video: Guy in Bloomberg gun-control ads breaks all the major rules of gun safety

ObamaCareTax

• Coming Soon to the U.S.: Two-Day Waits for Doctors?
• Obamacare Premium Spike Goes National

Big Government

• US Border Patrol Uniforms – Made in Mexico
• Good news: FDA probably going after cigars next
• Regulatory pressure moves battery recycling south of the border
• The Obama administration is definitely not prioritizing oil and gas permits 
• Oh, joy: Obama creates five new national monuments

Education

• Forbidden City: The left-wing stranglehold on academia.

Foreign Policy

• Backing up Obama's warnings to Syria creates tough challenges on two fronts

Monday News

Tyranny

• Mayor Bloomberg: Security Drones Over New York City Are 'Scary' But Inevitable
• Bloomberg group launches ad buy to pressure lawmakers as gun control push falters
• Gun Thread (3-24-2013):  A Reminder of What We're Up Against
• Loathsome nanny state mayor spends $12M on gun banning ads… with no gun ban
• France finally abandons that 75 percent tax on the wealthy
• Think it can’t happen here? It already has

Taxes

• Poll shocker – Americans don’t want higher energy taxes

Liberal Mindset

• Washington state weighs first-in-the-nation abortion insurance mandate
• How Feminism Mistook Fiction for Fact

Communism

• “For Our Next Trick, We’ll Give Every Child a Little Red Book”

Politics, Tea Party

• Cool Research - Tea Party Rallies Had a Very Big Impact on Politics

Second Amendment

• DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. DICK ANTHONY HELLER
• NRA gains upper hand on Obama
• Issue Spotlight: Firearms and Gun Control
• Federally Licensed Firearms Retailers Overwhelmingly Oppose "Universal" Background Checks
• Want A .50 Cal Rifle, New York LEOs? Pound Sand.

Budget Battle

• The Senate continuing resolution

Unions

• Who is really blocking immigration reform?

ObamaCareTax

• The doctor will see you...never
• Hatch: Obamacare Was Designed to Become Single-Payer System

Foreign Policy

• Mr. Nobel Peace Prize Works His Magic: Israel Now at War With Syria?

Media

Sunday news

Tyranny

• FAA to close 149 air traffic towers, senator calls for using untapped research money to save them
• N.Y. State Pays Gov. Snitches Cash Rewards To Help With Gun Confiscation
• Instructions for living in Coloradostan, 1

Budget Battle, Taxes

• Senate passes first budget in four years
• Senate approves Democratic budget after marathon 'vote-a-rama'
• Senate Narrowly Passes Budget, 50-49
• Senate Rejects Funding WH Tours to Save Elvis Cruises, Ukranian Easter Eggs 
• Obamacare Isn’t Forever

Big Government, Corruption

• 'Fast and Furious' report finds DHS missed warning signs, Napolitano in the dark
• DHS IG Report Fails to Detail Post-Fast & Furious Communications
• Department of Ed website for kids removes Mao Zedong quote
• What’s really behind those FAA tower closures?
• Congressman: DHS Refuses to Answer to Congress on 1.6 Billion Bullet Purchase 

Second Amendment

• Colt Firearms Threatens to Leave Connecticut over Strict Gun Laws
• Senate votes 53-46 to stop US from joining UN Arms Trade Treaty
• UN Holds "Final" Conference on Arms Trade Treaty

State Government, Legislation, Unions

• Routine Unemployment Bill Offers Labor a Hostage in Workers’ Comp Fight – 11th-Hour Objection Threatens $400 Million in Federal FundsOp-ed: State pension plan works, does not need fixing
• Charter School Commission Named

Legislation

• The Marketplace Fairness Act

Media

• Ted Turner's Son: CNN Is So Far Left I Mostly Watch Fox
• Ammo vs. Amnesty in the MSM

It's The Economy

• The Keystone XL pipeline gets the Senate’s endorsement
• Crunch time in Cyprus
  Long-awaited vote on Senate budget exposes cracks among Democrats 

Education

• Scott Walker vs the world

ObamaCareTax

• Unqualified medical providers cropping up under Obamacare
• Obamacare Isn’t Forever

News for Friday!

Politics

• President Obama's agenda: Easier said than done
• Boehner: Obama’s like Santa Claus on infrastructure plans
• Senate delays Brennan confirmation at least two weeks

Tenth Amendment, Big Government, EPA

• Hickenlooper: We should let the states regulate fracking, and I’ve got the cocktail to prove it

It's the Economy, Taxes, Unions

• Increase the gas tax?
• Eurozone's economy contracts more than expected, unexpectedly
• Raise the Minimum Wage and Get Minimum Jobs
• Destroying Jobs to Save Them
• Fighting Over Scraps in the Ruins of San Bernardino

ObamaCareTax

• States’ next major ObamaCare challenge: Marketing campaigns
• Obamacare Supporters Feel the Fear.

Elections

• CHART OF THE DAY: Barack Obama's Monster Online Advertising Campaign

Liberal Mindset

• The difference between Catholicism & Islam in one tweet

Foreign Policy

• Senator Inhoffe Confirms Benghazi Cover-Up; Impeachment Charges Next?
• Say, why was Iran looking to buy 100,000 ring magnets? 

State Government, Budget Battle

• Lawmakers told sequestration would hit Washington hard

State Of The Union

• Krauthammer: SOTU “a throwback to mid-20th-century liberalism”

Media

• CNN Scrapes Bottom

Education

• Few States Look to Extend Preschool to All 4-Year-Olds

Second Amendment

• Missouri Democrats Introduce Legislation to Confiscate Firearms – Gives Gun Owners 90 Days to Turn in Weapons

Liberal Mindset, Tyranny

• Who failed Chicago?
• Tom Harkin: The country can't be broke because we still have some checks left

Wednesday news and opinions

State Government, Legislation

• What's hot today at the legislature - February 5, 2013
• The Voting Rights Act (aka the Election Manipulation Act) is back
• Wa State Rep tries to stop Police from selling guns after buyback events
• Olympia:  Protecting Daughters from their Dads

Looking Ahead

• The Walker model: Savvy messaging, conservative governance
• Video: Three flushes for American capitalism!
• A revolution in the works?

Unions, It's The Economy

• Indiana Businesses Thriving Year After Right-to-Work Passage
• GOP energy plan: Better clean energy? Okay, let’s drill more 

 
Big Government

• D.C. continues to streamline only thing it does efficiently— collect other people’s money
• DoJ to S&P: How dare you rate our mandated securities so highly, or something 

 
Bill of Rights

• Catholic bishop blasts new version of HHS mandate
• CAIR Gets Another Kick In The Teeth: Lawsuit forces Chicago to accept anti-jihad bus ads
• Obama admin: Drones can target Americans abroad based on one official’s opinion

 
Budget Battle

• Obama Calls For A Delay In His Sequestration Plan

Socialism, Communism

• Paul Krugman channels Sarah Palin, admits Death Panels will be required to keep Obamacare solvent
• The Harbingers of Tyranny
• Annals of government intervention: Pemex, Argentina, and Brazil
• Texas Lesson Plan Instructs Students to Design Flags for a ‘New Socialist Nation’
• Argentina freezes prices to break inflation spiral

ObamaCareTax

• Sebelius: ObamaCare is the law of the land, so you might as well help us implement it
• Seven million will lose insurance under Obama health law
• Refuse to Recuse

Politics

• Effort building to change US pot laws 

Media

• NPR Touts Leftist Groups' Protest of Israeli Company SodaStream

Saturday News and Opinions

Education

• Rotten to the Core: Reader feedback from the frontlines

Media

• OH, MY: NBC blacks out Hagel's disastrous confirmation hearing

It's The Economy

• January jobs report: Unemployment rises to 7.9%, 157K jobs added
• About the economy...

Politics

• Chuck Hagel’s Very Bad Day
• Armed Officer at Atlanta Middle School Disarmed Suspect, Gun Grabbers Hardest Hit

ObamaCareTax

• IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family
• Obama administration retreating on HHS contraception mandate?

State Government, Legislation

• Dems reject attempt to make supermajority a House rule2013 Member Legislative Day
• How new House rules would help Washington households (opens PDF)
• WA Lege Day 5: Kretz would share the wolves

Unions, Corruption

• Trumka Lies

Communism, Socialism

• Nordic thaw: Shrinking the state in...Sweden?

The Constitution

• Preserve Second Amendment Gun Rights From Attack
• Arkansas town’s martial law plan 
• Newtown Calls for Armed School Officers

EPA, Big Government

• The Unicorns Are in Charge

Tuesday Opinions and News!

Big Government

• Solis: I really wish I had been able to pass those spectacularly obtrusive farm-labor regulations, darn it
• Business world bracing for flood of new regulations from Obama
• If ‘Assault Weapons’ Are Bad…Why Does DHS Want to Buy 7,000 of Them for ‘Personal Defense’?
• We get £17,680 a year in benefits, buy 40 cigs a day, have a laptop and a home with 47-inch TV.. why work?
• IJ Scores Major Federal Court Victory In Massachusetts Civil Forfeiture Case

Looking Ahead

• Unite or Perish

Socialism, Communism, Liberal Mindset

• Powers: That Obama-Clinton interview looked just like "state-run media propaganda"
• Understanding Obama
• San Diego’s Top Cop: We can disarm Americans within a generation!
• EXCLUSIVE: Journalist Accosted by Security over Mayor Bloomberg Gun Control Question
• Touré: Thank God for abortion
• BREAKING: Lightworker Astride Unicorn Transcends Space-Time Continuum
• CBS's Charles Osgood: 'Is Constitution Truly Worthy of Reverence in Which Most Americans Hold It?'

Civil Discourse

• Father of 6-Year-Old Sandy Hook Victim In Tears: ‘The Problem Is Not Gun Laws’

Politics

• The "Border Control" Con
• Dems reassure supporters: The border-enforcement stuff in the new immigration plan is just a talking point for the GOP
• George Will Schools Donna Brazile: America's 'Going To Be an Assisted Living Home With an Army'
• What Difference, at This Point, Does It Make?
• Suicidal GOP senators join open-borders Dems for Shamnesty Redux
• Democrats beg Obama: Please don't offer your own immigration bill
• Immigration proposal: border security, visa overhaul, then normalization
• More Violent Democrat Rhetoric: “He is our number one target, yes. We definitely want him gone”

Unions

• Ten things you should know about union membership numbers

Core Values

• Aznar: We need to defend Western values

Media

• NYTimes Falls For Soros Group's PR Stunt Against Pro-Lifers
• Emails Reveal FBI Investigating Senator Bob Menendez For Sex With Underaged Dominican Prostitutes; CREW and ABCNews Had Been Aware of the Story Since
• National media focus on small gun-control protest, miss massive March for Life
• Bitterly Clinging to Made-Up Story, WH Has No Plans to Release Non-Existent Obama Skeet-Shooting Photos
• Above the Law: Media Matters Thug David Brock Protected With Illegal Weapons

Second Amendment

• Carolyn McCarthy: Women Shouldn't Use Assault Rifles, They Should Use Rifles InsteadGun Control Requires Our Willing Compliance
• Feinstein's New 'Assault Weapon' Ban: Read It and Sleep
• Update: Obama claim on background checks moved from ‘verdict pending' to 2 Pinocchios 

Agenda 21, EPA

• Study: We all might be "overestimating climate sensitivity"

State Government

• State’s taxpayers overcharged millions for locally built ferries

Sunday opinions & news

• On “condemning” our violent culture
• Red-state Democrats may break with White House
• Guns: Hunting Obama's Elephants
• A minority posture for House GOP
• In 2011, more people were murdered with knives, "hands or feet" or "clubs and hammers" than with any type of rifle.
• Vilification of NRA going about as well as you’d expect 
• Huzzah: Appeals court upholds Gov. Walker’s collective bargaining reform law
• Welcome to Tea Party 2.0: Gun Rights Edition

Tuesday opinions and news

State Government, Taxes

• HB 1183: Embarrassing liquor taxes

Terrorism, Media

• Mostly Peaceful OWS Wannabe Bomber Planned to Blow Up Washington Square Arch

Media, Politics, Corruption

• Obama's Festival of Lies

ObamaCareTax

• Sweet new ObamaCare revision: Mandate, plus?
• IRS Warns Employers: Do Not Try to Avoid ObamaCare Insurance Mandate
• Mandates, Regulation and ‘Rights’

Second Amendment

• BREAKING: Deal Reached in New York?
• Biden: W.H. readies 19 executive actions on guns 
• Obama’s 19 Actions
• Gallup: Dissatisfaction with gun laws jumps to 12-year high
• Schumer to Gun Retailers: Hey, Maybe You Should Stop Selling Guns While We Try to Ban Them
• McCain, Manchin agree - assault-weapons ban going nowhere
• Obama: I'll "vigorously" pursue a "meaningful" assault-weapons ban 
• Guns already allowed in schools with little restriction in many states

Socialism, Communism

• The Problem With The Greens
• Pollution highlights the price China is paying for rapid development (ed: Yeah, we want to be like China)
• Marxism by Any Other Name

 
Big Government, EPA

• The Economic Punishment Agency 

Budget Battle

• White House to Paul Ryan: Yeah, about that budget deadline...

Unions

• NEA gave $15 Million to advocacy groups

Saturday News & Opinions

Agenda 21

• Turning Joggers into Outlaws

Education

• How home schooling threatens monopoly education

Unions

• Union Hypocrisy: Local Teamsters Bosses Try Union Busting On Their Own Workers Seeking A Union

Politics, Looking Ahead, Budget Battle

• Can Republicans Win a Government Shutdown?
• Harry Reid to Obama: Please ignore Congress and raise the debt ceiling on your own
• To "The Precious Metal Purchasing Act" From Executive Order 6102 - Santelli's Take

It's The Economy

• Womp, womp: The U.S. loses ground in economic freedom, again
• Latest serious idea for fiscal-crisis solution: IOUs
• New federal restrictions on mortgages not exactly CRA-friendly

Liberal Mindset, Corruption, Socialism

• Rush Limbaugh Is Right: The Academic Pro-Pedophile Movement Is a Real Danger 
• Bloomberg Slaps Down Criticism of Painkiller Restriction Plan

Media

• WaPo: Yeah, Morgan got pwned last night

State Government

• Assault Weapons Ban Proposal to Hit Legislature; Ed Murray Will Sponsor
• Superintendent Dorn has been wrong a lot lately

Second Amendment

• National Organizations With Anti-Gun Policies
• Gun control: Piers Morgan vs. Marine who wrote that open letter to Dianne Feinstein
• Disregard and Dismiss Senator Feinstein's proposed Gun Control Bill.
• Gun critics challenged to be without their guns

Thoughts and News for a Sunday!

Bill of Rights, First Amendment

• Hobby Lobby CEO open letter: “Honoring God is more important than turning a profit”

Liberal Mindset, Communism, Socialism

• Obama, Democrats eager for bipartisan work in new year
• New Hampshire Legislator: We Need to 'Restrict Freedoms' of Conservatives
• If you’re not David Gregory …

Big Government, Corruption

• Hey, GOP: The IRS Is A Substantial Reform Target
• Delaware taxpayers increasingly on the hook as Fisker auto plant idles
• Obama’s inaugural committee on the receiving end of transparency complaints

EPA

• Nebraska report: Keystone XL pipeline poses “minimal” risks

Unions

• Meet the Bosses of the National Education Association

Taxes, Budget Battle

• WEALTHY, GREEDY CORPORATIONS POISED TO CURE CANCER: But Let's Tax the Hell Out of 'Em First 
• America’s European moment

It's the Economy

• This Map Shows Where Everyone Is Moving To And From In America

Looking Ahead

• We're now one step closer to America's coming civil war

Education

News and opinions on Christmas Eve

Politics, Second Amendment

• Good Advice
• Supporting NRA’s Policy Proposal for School Security
• This is What Democracy Looks Like
• “Confiscation could be an option”
• Steven Greenhut: California lawmakers train sights on gun ownership

It's the Economy, Financial, Taxes

• American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals
• Don't be fooled by January pay: Higher taxes loom

Big Government

• Federal government largest driver of income inequality?

Budget Battle, Politics

• Senators lower expectations for fiscal deal, trade blame
• Rewriting history on the filibuster
• Why Obama isn't caving

Liberal mindset, socialism

• Gun Control Mayors Most Heavily Protected By Guns
• Are We Going to Avoid Reality in the Gun Control Debate?
• Ambassador Musclehead
• Actual CNN Segment: Should We Profile White Men After Newtown Shooting?…
• Putting Santa on trial

Unions

• 50,000 GM Union Workers to Bag Year-End Bonuses

Politics

• If your employee did these 10 things, would you fire them?

Media

• It's Time for Media Control
• Will Obama include his Hollywood supporters in the discussion about repairing a culture that ‘glorifies guns and violence’? Updated
• NRA chief: Media wrong to ‘blame guns’ for every tragedy 
• The press goes full hysteria