News & opinions for a Friday morning

Big Government, Corruption, EPA

• Obama administration delivers delayed regulatory agenda, could cost billions
• Virginia judge rules EPA overstepped authority trying to regulate water as pollutant
• Obama signs fiscal cliff bill with “autopen”
• Train Carrying Biofuel Crosses Border 24 Times Without Unloading to Exploit Obama "Green Energy" Loopholes

Taxes, Budget Battle

• Meet your new IRS withholding tables
• How Congress, Wall Street and the media traded America’s future for the next short-term fix 
• Reasonable Reid threw Obama cliff offer into a fire after he was booted from negotiations
• Tim Carney: How corporate tax credits got in the 'cliff' deal
• Morning Bell: Uproar Over Bloated Sandy Aid Package

Terrorism

• NYC Occu-Bomb Suspect: Hey, I’m Just a Sportsman or Something 

ObamaCareTax

• Surprise: Employers Cutting Hours, Reducing Hiring to Avoid ObamaCare's Expensive Mandate
• Hmm: Utah’s existing health exchange gets conditional nod from feds
• Employers Must Offer Family Care, Affordable or Not

Politics

• Obama Taking Campaign-Style Approach to New Goals
• Joe Biden, Class Act 
• A Bitter End for House Republican Freshmen
• The Democrats' Coming Civil War

United Nations

• UN back to its free-spending ways, despite Obama administration claims

It's The Economy

• California: Invasion of the job-snatchers
• Moody's: More action needed to avoid credit rating downgrade

Liberal Mindset

• Michael Moore's Bodyguard Arrested on Airport Gun Charge

Media

• Occupy Terrorist Says His Cache of Explosives Material Were Only for "Experimental Fireworks"
• Des Moines Register publishes gun-ban column advocating deadly violence against NRA, GOP leaders

An alternate view on the "Fiscal Cliff" bill

From a commenter at The Other McCain blog:

"There was and is no good alternative. The amended version with spending cuts would not have been presented to the Senate, and the Let It Burn option would bring even more tax hikes and the spending cuts would be devastating to Defense.

Blame whoever you wish, when America reelected Obama and enough Democrats to keep control of the Senate, she ensured no meaningful spending cuts and no serious entitlement reform would happen for at least two more years, and probably four."

Thursday Cartoons

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Thursday opinions & news

Budget Battle, Taxes

• House Passes Fiscal Cliff Deal Over Conservative Nays
• OBAMA: FISCAL CLIFF DEAL IS 'JUST ONE STEP,' VOWS NOT TO DEBATE DEBT CEILING
• Fiscal Cliff DealPutting America's Tax Hike In Perspective
• A New Agenda

Politics

• Boehner to Harry Reid: “Go f*** yourself”
• Obama ‘Has Brought Us to Our Knees. He Is Lowering Our Standard of Living.’
• Krauthammer: We Surrendered Completely, and Have Set the Stage for Future Surrenders
• Why the House Couldn't Amend the Deal
• Peter King may be leaving the GOP because of failure to vote on Sandy aid bill or something; Update: Christie rips Boehner, House GOP at presser
• Paul Ryan: I came to Congress to make tough decisions, not run from them 
• Boehner: I refuse to negotiate one-on-one with Obama anymore
• White House: Immigration and gun control are happening. Soon. 

Big Government, Corruption

• After Heroically Saving Bulk Of Bush Tax Cuts, Obama Spends Millions To Fly Back To Hawaii 
• More From Philadelphia's Asset Forfeiture Racket 
• 'Fiscal Cliff' Deal Also Doles Out Millions for Hollywood, Railroads, Rum Producers

Bill of Rights

• "Contacts I have in the Land of Lincoln indicate the attack from the anti-gun folks is far broader than initially indicated."
• 'Assault Weapon' Is Just A PR Stunt Meant To Fool The Gullible
• Ted Cruz Vows to Lead Opposition to Dianne Feinstein's Gun-Grab Bill
• Burglary attempt leads to apparent gunfight

Media

• Kathy Griffin Kisses Anderson Cooper's Crotch On National Television
• Time for David Gregory to Apologize 
• 'Gun control' doesn't survive Christmas

Looking Ahead

• Democracy at Work in Israel
• Used to Hardship, Latvia Accepts Austerity, and Its Pain Eases
• ‘Unlearning’: A Hail Mary Government Cannot Stand
• Gallup: Most Americans unsatisfied with country's direction, think best days are behind us

ObamaCareTax

• CBS "Evening News" Report: Is ObamaCare Bad For Business?
• Just Noticing Now?

Wednesday Cartoons

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News and opinions for a Wednesday morning

Budget Battle

• Fiscal cliff: Does Boehner have the votes?
• Signs Of Backbone From House Republicans?
• Fiscal cliff: How much trouble will House Dems cause? 
• House GOP Strategy On Senate Bill.  UPDATE: Report: Amendment Effort Dead, House Will Pass Senate Bill As Is
• An Optimistic Take On the “Cliff” Deal 
• FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 659

Big Government, EPA

• Happy New Year: Feds Kill 75W Incandescent Light Bulbs

Politics

• Why Harry Reid Was Sidelined for Joe Biden 
• King Obama the Irrelevant
• Obama’s Tax Evaders of the Year

Bill of Rights

• Pizza magnate wins temporary ruling on contraception coverage dispute
• 'Turn 'Em All In': Feinstein Said She Wanted All Guns Banned

Socialism, Communism

• 60,000 patients put on death pathway without being told but minister still says controversial end-of-life plan is 'fantastic'
• Al Sharpton: Knife Control Comes Next After Guns
• Sneaky Tea Party Extremists!

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)

Her proposal:  Stopping the spread of deadly assault weapons

The recommended response: Click here --> Feinstein Goes For Broke With New Gun-Ban Bill 
 

Yet another assault on the Constitution

From the New York Times:  Let’s Give Up on the Constitution

Two responses, one detailed, one to the point:

• The Lawless, and Ultimately Pointless, Views of Professor Seidman
• NYT Editorialist: You Know What's Really Holding America Back? The Constitution, That's What

Ringing in 2013 with news and opinions!

Budget Battle, Core Values

• Fiscal Cliff Deal: $1 in Spending Cuts for Every $41 in Tax Increases
• Fiscal Cliff Deal: Obama Takes Less In Revenue In Exchange For Destroying The GOP
• Senate passes fiscal-cliff deal; House vote next
• Senate passes massive tax cut which raised taxes over $600 billion in middle of night without reading the bill
• Tick tock: No deal on the fiscal cliff yet; Update: The last hope is …

It's The Economy, Financial, Core Values

• Mort Zuckerman: Brace For an Avalanche of Unfunded Debt

Politics, Foreign Policy

• Obama: Say, there was a little “sloppiness” in State Department security, huh?
• Senator urges Obama to rescind pay raise for Congress
• Obama Seizing Sole Authority for US Defense
• Gallup: Disapproval of Obama Has Climbed 5 Points Since Christmas

 
Big Government, Corruption, EPA

• Let My People Grow
• Warnings Not To use 'E15' Gas In Your Car
• Black Grassroots Activist: Jesse Jackson Family 'Traitors' to Chicago
• Office of Congressional Ethics could soon be silenced by those it investigates

Socialism, Communism, Liberal Mindset

• Kitty Werthmann Shares Her Eyewitness Account
• British Doctors Call for Ban on Long Kitchen Knives to End Stabbings

 
First Amendment, ObamaCareTax

• Obama Administration: We Can and Will Force Christians to Act Against Their FaithLet’s Be Frank (O’Brien)
• HOBBY LOBBY COUPONS: Show Your Support for the First Amendment

Second Amendment

• ‘It Ain’t True’
• Next Phase Of The Gun Control Fight....Gun Shows
• THE TOP 5 GUN CONTROL GRAPHS: The Gun-Grabbers' Failed Policies Are Exposed by Their Own Data!
• Teachers Learning to Shoot
• Feinstein Goes For Broke With New Gun-Ban Bill 
• Obama says gun control will be dictated by public opinion
• Cops in Schools 
• Marine to Gun-grabber Di Feinstein: 'No Ma'am'
• Obama: Chicago Blueprint for National Gun Laws
• Celebrities Who Demand Gun Bans Sure Seem To Celebrate Gun Violence In Their Movies A Whole Heck of a Lot

United Nations

• Top 10 Worst U.N. Decisions of 2012

Cartoons For The New Year!

May 2013 be an improvement over 2012.

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