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

News and opinions for Tax Day!

Tyranny

• 46 U.S. Senators voted to forfeit the Constitution to foreign powers on March 23. The mainstream media covered it up.
• Democrats Embrace Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Hate) 
• Priorities 
• Now He's After Your 401(k) 
• The Gang of Eight's Secret Amnesty Deal: Enforcement Will Not Come First [Sessions]

Communism

• Chilling images from inside the mass indoctrination ceremonies where communist 'cult' leaders brainwash North Korea's children

Abortion

• The Price of Utopia
• Stop the Killing. Stop the Crying.

Second Amendment

• Peter King: House gun bill ready Monday
•  Gun debate in Senate likely to feature amendments to weaken or strengthen laws
• Obama invites Newtown mom to deliver White House weekly address
• Don’t be fooled. Gun confiscation has already begun in NY
• Democrats push bill in Congress to require gun insurance under penalty of fine
• Broken Background Checks Won’t Stop Gun Violence
• Rep. Carolyn McCarthy: If guns ‘aren’t in the stores, they can’t be bought’
• What about national CCW reciprocity, cross-state sales?
• Gun Thread (4-14-2013)
• Coburn Amendment: Breaking the Glass

Big Government, EPA

• The next ban… e-cigarettes
• The President’s self created trap on Keystone XL

Foreign Policy

• Ron Paul plans foreign policy institute

Media, Terrorism

• Texas ADA, DA and his wife were murdered by… former justice of the peace
• Disgraced Lawyer Charged With Threatening E-Mails, Suspected in Murders of Texas Prosecutors
• MSNBC: The Network America Turns to for Irresponsible Speculation About News
• SNL Lampoons New Gun Bill: Dealers Must Ask, ‘Are You a Good Person?’
• ESPN Claim: Two NASCAR Drivers Told To Avoid Interviews With NRA Logo In The Background

Education

• Our Education System Is a Complete Disaster

Civil Discourse

• Actress Stacey Dash Told to 'Go Die' After Slamming Cuba Trip by Jay-Z, Beyoncé

Legislation

• H.R. 1467: To reduce the annual rates of pay of Members of Congress by 20 percent and prohibit further adjustments to such rates.

State Government, Budget Battle, Second Amendment

• House OKs Dems’ budget, setting up showdown with Senate
• Contact Sen Hewitt to Oppose HB 1840 in Washington State Senate

It's The Economy

• Bitcoin Is Changing The World
• The Recurring Rate of Non-Recovery

Politics

• Sen. Sessions: Immigration Reform Bill 'Will Not Withstand Public Scrutiny'On the Agenda

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

Monday news

• Happy Easter: Google Celebrates Cesar Chavez's Birth
• Angry Twitterers Are Threatening To Switch To Bing After Google Honors Labor Leader Cesar Chavez On Easter
• Expelled Nevada Assemblyman Arrested in California Hours Later
• Obama Accused of Trying to 'Nationalize' Elections
• Gun Control Group Falsely Claims Ronald Reagan Supported Universal Background Checks
• Backfire: Mark Kelly Filmed Himself to Show 'Background Checks Are Easy'
• If You Think China's Air Is Bad, You Should See The Water
• Texas Prosecutor Shot to Death Two Months After Assistant’s Killing
• Nevada wind farm could face hefty fine over eagle death
• Chinese company’s logo conveniently absent from White House photo of Obama’s US infrastructure speech
• U.S. Government Says They “Would vote “yes” on the treaty” To Ban Guns Internationally
• Climate Change Endgame In Sight?
• New Gas Regulations Show Slipping Middle Class Agenda
• Study: Waste Could Fund up to 45,000 Years of White House Tours
• Obama Hasn’t ‘Evolved’ That Far … Yet

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

Opinions, news, and thoughts on Saturday

ObamaCareTax

• President’s Own Small Biz Advocate Fires on ObamaCare
• U.S. Senate signals willingness to repeal medical device tax
• Over 30 Senate Democrats vote to repeal the medical device tax
• Good News: Cost of Individual Healthcare Plans Could Rise 116% Under ObamaCare
• Obamacare official on exchanges: "Let's just make sure it's not a third-world experience." 
• Study: Obamacare threatens 3.2 million small business jobs

Media

• Andrea Mitchell Scolds Fellow Reporters: 'You Guys Let the Assault Weapons Ban Die!'
• Pew poll shows 8-point drop in Obama approval rating 

Liberal Mindset

• Narcissism and the Self-Esteem Cult
• University Apologizes for “Stomping Jesus”

Communism

• Venezuela Takes Desperate Measures to Put Off Day of Reckoning

Politics

• White House Misfire

It's The Economy

• Russia rebuffs Cyprus, EU awaits bailout "Plan B"

Big Government

• Reminder: That incandescent light bulb ban was not a good idea
• DWS: We need to make sure budget cuts won't lower the "quality of life" on Capitol Hill
• The Redskins really need to change their name and House Democrats are on it

Tyranny, Corruption

• Judge Walker, Who Ruled That a Constitutional Amendment Is Itself Unconstitutional If It Blocks Gay Marriage, Caught Coordinating With Pro-Gay-Marriage Legal Team
• Connecticut’s Malloy plotting to ram through “emergency” gun control bill
• Joe Biden dutifully follows own advice on spending
• Messina: Obama doesn't attack Fox News or Rush Limbaugh

Looking Ahead

• Does the GOP have a Jack Kemp today?
• Is Hillary Clinton Too Conservative To Become President?
• Refuting three complaints about the Electoral College

Foreign Policy

• Great news: Feds have quietly given up on measuring border security

Second Amendment, Legislation

• Gun Control Dates
• Stage set for Senate gun control debate; background checks are sticking point

Education

If a picture is worth a thousand words....

......then this one is the graphical equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary:

(Click to enlarge, as always!)

Monday news & opinions

Tyranny

• The Cyprus “deposit haircut”
• Cyprus parliament delays vote on bank deposits tax
• Saxo Bank CEO: "This Is Full-Blown Socialism And I Still Can't Believe It Happened"
• Killing us softly: Why Holder’s letter carries little water
• Overlooked snippet from Dianne Feinstein's evasive response to Ted Cruz reveals her true agenda

Budget Battle, Taxes

• John Boehner: The ‘Talk About Raising Revenue Is Over’
• Question dodge of the day: Chris Wallace asks Dick Durbin why $9 trillion in debt was irresponsible and unpatriotic while $16 trillion is ‘sustainable’ 

 Elections, 2014

• The Fight Begins Now: Mid-Term 2014

Media

• Guilty Verdict in Steubenville Rape Case that Saw Anonymous Terrorize a Town
• The Huffington Post Lies About Steven Crowder’s CPAC Monologue

Corruption, Big Government

• So, the Senate barbershop is a thing, and surprise: It runs at a deficit
• The assault weapons ban: A case study in the politics of frivolity

Second Amendment

• Americans Can Have The Same Firearms As The National Guard!

United Nations

• Advanced Levity Commences as Global Warming Con Game Implodes

Communism

• OBAMA CLASSMATE AT OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: Barack sought "revolution, where the working class would overthrow the ruling class"

Monday News & Opinions

State Government, Legislation, Budget Battle, Taxes, Education

• Transportation Taxes Will be Endgame Issue, Says Clibborn – Undaunted by Poll, Reform Talk, Bad News About Bridge
• Bills address wolf control, compensation
• Senate Passes Slate of K-12 Bills With a Reform Message – Money Isn’t Everything
• Inslee to House Democrats: a plan is in the works to close tax loopholes to raise money for public schools
• Senate Rules Change Poses Problems, but Chances Better Than Two-Thirds-for-Taxes Constitutional Amendment
• State House approves several election-related bills
• TRAP & SKEET GUN CLUBS IN WASHINGTON STATE THREATENED BY NEW DEPT. OF REVENUE RULING

Media

• The most popular TV show is …
• Adam Carolla rips the Huffington Post, media: ‘You guys all have blood on your hands’ [AUDIO, foul language]
• Video: Jeb Bush to David Gregory, media: ‘Man, you guys are crack addicts’

Politics

• McCain: When I buck GOP leadership, I’m a maverick; now I’m suddenly an “angry old man”
• House GOP Leaders: We Can Pass Gun Control, Immigration, Without Republican Support
• Read President Obama’s remarks at the Gridiron Dinner
• The Real Reason McCain-Graham Attacked Ted Cruz 
• New problem for House GOP leaders: Rank-and-file may vote against rules
• The Republican establishment isn't going quietly   
• Historical chart illustrates the biggest problem in America today: Congressional Recidivism

Budget Battle, ObamaCareTax

• Ryan: New GOP Proposal Will Balance Budget Using ObamaCare Repeal

Big Government

• Bans on feeding homeless facing backlash

Communism

• STUNNING PHOTOS OF POLLUTION IN CHINA: Could Someone Let the EPA Know About This? 

Second Amendment

• The New Hope of Gun Control Advocates
• America's gun culture needs to change: Column
• Rhetoric from the Left Weakens Anti-Gun Rights Activists’ Positions

Tyranny

• Circumventing Heller and McDonald
• Andy McCarthy: Holder is trying to get KSM into civilian court using Bin Laden son-in-law
• Loathsome nutritionist thinks loathsome nanny-state mayor doesn’t go far enough

It's The Economy

• The Great Obama Failed Recovery, in graphs
• Obamacare Continues to Restrict Hiring

Opinions, Thoughts, and News For A Friday

Politics

• Morning Bell: Senators Bring Stirring Filibuster Against Obama CIA Nominee
• Obama goes around GOP leaders, holds dinner meeting with rank and file
• "Expressions of Approval or Disapproval Are Not Permitted in the Senate" 
• Graham, McCain Blast Paul's Filibuster as "Abuse of the Rules," "Not Helpful to Public," A "Ludicrous Question"
• The End of the Filibuster
• Jay Carney: Okay, fine, Obama doesn't have the authority to use drones against Americans on U.S. soil
• Video: McCain sneers at Rand Paul's filibuster on the Senate floor
• Blue Civil War: The Battle for California

Looking Ahead

• Justice Anthony Kennedy concerned that so many charged issues are shifting to US Supreme Court
• The powerless presidency

ObamaCareTax, Budget Battle

• Ryan 3.0: A perfect 10?
• Senators Cruz And Lee Talking Doubling Down On ObamaCare Funding
• House GOP Votes to APPROVE Obamacare

Tyranny, Corruption

• The Coddling of College Hate Crime Hoaxers
• Senator Feinstein effectively “blames Bush” for the creation of PTSD, asserts all combat vets are insane.
• MAIG Lobbyist Loves Shooting “Assault Weapons” He Lobbies to Ban 
• Last Gasps of Fearless Chavez: 'I don't want to die. Please don't let me die'
• BREAKING: Colorado Anti-Second Amendment Legislator's Criminal Record Exposed
• New SPLC fear-mongering report - "explosive growth" of SPLC fundraising predicted
• Southern Poverty Law Center Finds Fewer Militiia Hate Groups, But Hypes Them Anyway;Needing Additional Hate Groups to Pad Their Fundraising Emails, They Turn to History's Greatest Monsters: Pick Up Artists

Communism

• What happens when the Central Planners fail?

Second Amendment

• Gun safety measures face first votes in Congress Thursday
• Kirk and Manchin don't support Schumer background-check proposal

Sunday news and opinions

Budget Battle

• White House has some flexibility in choosing $85B spending cuts
• WaPo: Another two Pinocchios for Obama’s Janitorgeddon
• House GOP ready to support clean CR for FY2013?
• Capitol official: Obama wrong about janitors

ObamaCareTax

• More than 700 pages of healthcare rules released

Socialism, Communism, Education

• Harvard Crimson president defends editorial urging some conservatives not to enroll [VIDEO]

Second Amendment

• Rumor Control: Ammo Shortages!
• Police Chief: Within A Generation, Guns Will Be Taken Off The Streets

Tyranny

• Noonan: Obama Is Playing a New Game
• The slow slide toward state run media 

Taxes, EPA

• Obama trading Keystone XL for a carbon tax?

Politics

• The sequester’s in, so get ready for a “slow grind” …of campaigning

Elections, Liberal Mindset

• You might be a low information voter...
• [Video] Anti Gun Woman Says She Would Rather Die Than Use a Gun to Defend Herself

Bill of Rights

• DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones

United Nations

Tuesday news & opinions

State Government, Taxes, Bill of Rights

• Mar 9th Firearm Freedom Rally @ Olympia, WA
• House Democrats aim to extend solar subsidies no one’s using
• Washington State Senators Seek to Criminalize Gun Ownership
• Gun bill giving sheriff right to inspect homes pulled by Washington lawmakers

Tyranny

• The Goal is Simple: To Break Us
• MSNBC Almost ‘A Bona Fide Organ of State Propaganda’
• NRA Uses Justice Memo to Accuse Obama on Guns
• The charade is over: Democrats tip hand that “background checks” are a smokescreen for national gun registration.
• Self-defense and the defense of a free people against government tyranny is a HUMAN right
• Gun control is people control, rooted deeply in racism  
• GOP lawmaker: Obama using fake Twitter messages in fight over gun control

Budget Battle

• Trading sequester to avoid a government shutdown?
• Friend or Foe

 Foreign Policy

• Iranian media criticize Oscar win for ‘Argo’

Media

• TheBlaze Launches Grassroots Campaign to Prove to TV Operators That Conservative Commentary Is in Demand
• The 52 who didn’t make it into the Oscar winner last night
• Congressman @SteveStockmanUS Exposes Obama’s Anti-Gun Spambots
• NY Times Editors Call For Taxes, Pain And War (Have A Nice Weekend!)

Looking Ahead

• The ‘Footloose’ Fix
• What If ObamaCare, Too Big To Fail Banks, And The State Are All the Wrong Sized Unit?
• Conservative Ideas Still Prevail as Sen. Ted Cruz Refuses to Back Down

Corruption, Big Government

• Video: OFA selling WH access to donors?
• Obama’s Backers Seek Big Donors to Press Agenda
• Pressed by reporters, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney flees the podium
• Normally One Would Shriek “Fiduciary Malfeasance!!!” at the Top of Their Little Lungs Had the Name Been “Madoff”
• Biden: No Law-Abiding Citizen Objects to Attack on Constitution
• Obama Administration Set to Make Cuts That Would Most Hurt Taxpayers
• DHS steals TechCrunch founder’s boat over paperwork error
• Part of Obama’s second-term climate strategy: Going regional?
• Obama to state governors: I’ll take your questions, but first let’s kick out the media

Second Amendment

• Tom Coburn: No deal on background checks if Democrats demand record-keeping of gun sales
• GRASSROOTS: Progressive gun-control policies so popular they have to pay people to rabble-rouse
• Senate Judiciary Committee to consider assault weapons ban
• The miracle on guns
• Gun Permit Applications and Sales ‘Skyrocketing’ in … South Jersey

Socialism, Communism

• What happened to the Golden State?

United Nations

• Exposing the UN's dirty little secrets

ObamaCareTax

• Privatization Shellacs Obamacare Model

Monday news & opinions

Politics, Corruption, Big Government, EPA

• Boyle on Menendez: ‘Miller Cut His Teeth in Democratic Scandal Management’
• Jaimie Zapata's survivors sue over Fast and Furious
• Environmentalists suing the Interior Department over… solar zones

Liberal Mindset, Tyranny, Chicago, Communism

• A Blind Pendulum
• The Left Loves Cop-Killers
• FORGET THE INDOCTRINATION: Hitler and Mussolini were "progressives" and men of the left
• PRIORITIES: There's a murder every 3 hours in Chicago and Rahm Emanuel's first order of business is locking up law-abiding citizens
• Chicago Mayor and Police Chief Attack Law-Abiding Gun Owners, Ignore Mexican Drug Cartel Setting Up Shop in U.S. Murder Capital
• Obama’s EEOC: We’ll Sue You If You Don’t Hire Criminals
• In California, ’Moderate Democrat’ Is an Oxymoron
• Sheila Jackson Lee, in Congress: 'I Stand Here as a Freed Slave'
• The end of a free press in Taiwan?

It's The Economy

• The $9/hr unemployment act

Bill of Rights

• States join battle over drone flights
• Equality Update: Plessy and Ferguson Could Not Be Reached for Comment
• FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE SPEECH YOU'VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT: Dr. Benjamin Carson Speaks Truth to Power
• LOVE IT: Six Firearms Manufacturers Tell New York to Get Stuffed
• Guns and Self Defense
  Biden Lobbying in Colorado
• Colorado company threatens to leave state if gun bill passes
• My comments to Senate Judiciary

State Government

• Misstep in gun bill could defeat the effort 

Media

• AP Is Horrified at Obama-Hating Utah: 'Unyielding GOP Politicians Doing What Voters Ask'
• Kirsten Powers And Panel Hit Media Hard On SOTU: They Fawn Over ‘Every Stupid Idea Barack Obama Has’
• Upworthy — or, How we are losing the internet to lowest of low information young liberals

ObamaCareTax

• Ooopsie, Poopsie, Puddin’, Poo

Opinions and news for Thursday

Budget Battle, Politics, Taxes

• Stopgap Fix - Or Intro to Tax Hike?
• CBO: Interest on debt snowballing
• Krauthammer to GOP: Let the sequester roll
• Breaking: Obama proposes delay in sequester
• Post Office to end Saturday deliveries

Tea Party

• Karl Rove: My new group isn’t out to get the tea party, I swear

ObamaCareTax

• The Coming Obamacare Recession
• Sweet: ObamaCare is going to cost us 127 million+ hours a year
• Smokers may not be able to afford Obamacare
• ObamaCare: Unexpectedly!

Foreign Policy

• Barbarians at the Digital Gate 

The Constitution, Bill of Rights

• Preview of What's Coming Our Way: Nathan Haddad
• Something to Keep and Eye On
• House Republicans signal openness to some gun-control measures
• The Senate Fight Shaping Up
• Don't Assume You're Safe

Socialism, Communism

• The Three Types of People You'll Meet in Liberal Hell
• FRC Shooter Picked Up His List of Political Targets to be Assassinated from the Southern Poverty Law  Center Websites' List of "Hate Groups"
• Hate Kills: Left's Demonization of Conservative Group Inspired Shooter
• Angela Merkel's Words of Wisdom and Warning
• MASSACHUSETTS EMULATES CHICAGO: 1998 Gun-Ban Law Made It Safe For Criminals, Spiking Murders and Violent Crime
• Democrats selling voter data to retailers?
• Blue on Blue in CA – Eco-glitterati versus the unemployed

Big Government, Corruption

• Supermarkets cry foul as FDA proposes new food labeling rule under ObamaCare
• Payback for a Downgrade?
• San Francisco's Plastic Bag Ban Kills About 5 People A Year
• Thousands of Sandy Victims Still in Expensive Hotel Rooms, Obama Unavailable for Comment

Looking Ahead

• Morning Bell: Taking America from Welfare State to Opportunity Society

Media

• ABC, CBS, NBC Slant 8 to 1 for Obama's Gun Control Crusade
• BuzzFeed Plays Nice with Rubio, Attacks Once Back Turns

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

Tuesday news and opinions

Looking Ahead

• "Who Are The Police At War With?" 

Big Government, Corruption, EPA

• When Can the U.S. Kill Americans? The White House Won't Say.
• Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans
• Out of Ammo
• Obama administration getting strangely less specific about their electric-vehicle goals
• Arizona sues EPA over “absurd” coal emission rules
• Hess to close last refinery in New Jersey
• Army Drill For Martial Law Terrorizes Residents in Houston, TX
• UNBELIEVABLE: Bloomberg secretly distributed abortifacients to teens without telling parents: "population control on blacks and Latinos"
• Chicago police to stop dispatch for certain crimes (auto-play video)

 
Taxes,  It's The Economy

• Obama Admin Looks To Control Americans’ $19.4 Trillion In Retirement Accounts
• Bad news: That payroll tax cut expiration might not do much for the economy
• Obama Says U.S. Needs Revenue Along With Spending Cuts 

Politics

• New AFP ad: Say, remember when Obama demonized groups like us?
• Gibbs: Hagel “unimpressive and unprepared”

Humor

• White House Dared People to Photoshop Obama’s Gun Picture…and Did They Ever

ObamaCareTax

• Doctors who treat the elderly are in short supply

Liberal Mindset, Socialism, Communism

• Object of Fear, Object of Hate
• Argentine Statistical Hanky Panky Draws IMF Censure

Elections

• War chest swings open for 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign

State Government, Big Government

• Home bakers versus the regulatory-industrial complex

Second Amendment

• Obama tries to undercut NRA in gun control debate
• Female Gun Rights Activist Calmly Captivates Senate Gun Control Hearing
• Will the GOP Cave on Gun Rights?
• Gun Control Details in the Senate

News and opinions for Monday

Big Government

• Obama admin issues 160-page edict on healthy school snacks
• Pew Poll: Majority of Americans See Government as Threat to Freedom

Liberal Mindset, Socialism, Communism

• OFA and CPP?
• Chicago Murder Rate Higher Than Non-Gun Controlled Capone Era

The Constitution, First Amendment

• Obama's Solution To The HHS Mandate Is To Conjure Contraception Out Of Thin Air
• Obama Administration: We Will Still Force Christians to Act Against Their Faith Obama Loses Two HHS Mandate Cases in One Week

The Constitution, Second Amendment

• 18 USC 922 - Prohibited Persons
• Biden: New gun controls likely won't end shootings
• NRA Adding More Than 10,000 New Members - Per Day!
• Capt. Kelly, NRA CEO LaPierre show little common ground in possible gun control compromise
• Coach Shoots Two Attackers, Saves Himself, Two Females

ObamaCareTax

• Obama Operatives Training Media How to Sell Obamacare

Tea Party

• Karl Rove and rich GOP donors wage war on Tea Party

Politics, Corruption

• Senate Plan Would Let Napolitano Trigger Citizenship for Illegals
• Containment Breach
• Obama Bundler Who Oversaw Bank Collapse May Get Cabinet Nod
• Obama Eliminates Breakfast for US Troops in Afghanistan, Stuffs Own Face
• Chicagoans Beg Obama to Help with Gun Violence in City
• Low aim

Foreign Policy

• Congress pushing to stop F-16 transfer to Egypt

Media

• Bloomberg Group to Use Children in Gun Control Super Bowl Ad
• Media calls Obama's shotgun a 'rifle'

State Government, Bill of Rights

• Washington State Prepares Gun Control Nullification Bill (Please Contact Reps!)

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

Friday opinions, thoughts, and news (Updated)

• Biden: Have I mentioned yet that these new gun-control measures won’t fundamentally alter the chances of a mass shooting?
• Reid: The GOP really needs to stop bad-mouthing this recovery we’re in
• AP: Obama shutting down jobs council
• Certain Big Labor groups suddenly not so partial to ObamaCare
• Complaint: Sebelius' illegal campaign trip for Obama worse than we thought
• Suddenly, it's still the economy
• Washington State: "Universal Background Check" Legislation Must be Defeated* 
• Washington State Action Alert: HB1581, Anti-NDAA Bill needs more sponsors in State House (Facebook link)*
• The Left’s Year One
• “A deliberate attempt to bypass the Constitutional process” NY Sheriff’s PBA blasts Cuomo, Legislature over NY SAFE

 *:  To write your state legislators, use one of these links (also available in the right sidebar)

• Legislative Action Center -- write your elected officials!
• Washington State "Find Your Legislator"

Update:  Or, if you go to www.leg.wa.gov, click on House of Representatives, then District 16, you can select your representative.  You will be prompted for your name and address, and then you can write your legislators.

Thursday opinions & news!

• Obama Farm
• GOP senators to DOJ: So, about those unabashedly political “bird death” prosecutions against oil-and-gas…
• MSNBC: Um, we can’t reach a conclusion about whether the Sandy Hook dad was “heckled” or not
• MSNBC ‘essentially’ ran ‘a voter suppression campaign’ against GOP during 2012 presidential election, says author
• Raisin farmers in SCOTUS case face $650K charge if they don’t give half their crop to the feds
• Obama goes 'skeet shooting all the time'? Hardly ever, sources say
• Pushback: Gingrich, Vitter, National Review, Malkin, Coulter, Erickson oppose Rubio’s immigration plan
• The Senate Hearing on Gun Control (Real time blogging of televised hearing)
• UPDATE: Status of Gun Industry