Tuesday news, thoughts, and opinions

Budget Battle, Taxes

• Report: Fiscal cliff deal emerging — including one-year debt-ceiling increase; Update: Obama concedes on new, higher income threshold for tax hikes
• Boehner Offers Obama Tax Rate Boost If Entitlements Cut
• Obama, Boehner meet at the White House over new cliff-deal proposals?
• Could a Fiscal-Cliff Deal Go the Way of TARP?
• GOP Movement on Taxes Still Leaves Huge Budget Quandary
• President Obama’s Economically Destructive Tax-Hike Plan

ObamaCareTax

• Obamacare and My Daughter

Second Amendment

• Gun Control, Disarmament and the Threat of Genocide
• Active shooters in schools: The enemy is denial
• Rep. Louie Gohmert: Attorney General Eric Holder is one to talk about gun control
• Bloomberg: “I don’t know what a gun would have done”
• The Facts about Mass Shootings
• Some explicit history to explain why we must keep military-capable arms to ensure our essential liberty 

Liberal Mindset

• Months Before Shooting, “Civil Liberties” Groups Defeated Conn. Law Aimed at the Violent Mentally Ill

Education

• The $10,000 Degree

Elections

• The Ten Worst Fact-Checks of the 2012 Election

United Nations

• Confirmed: Majority of UN member nations aren’t big on freedom of information