Saturday News

Civil Discourse

• Cripple, Eviscerate, Pressure, and Slam

Media

• Your Little Shot of Heartwarming for Today: CNN Wants to make Sure NOone
• Cartel You Guys: The Media Has a Full-Blown Embargo on Soledad O'Brien's Ethnic Purge
• Report: Spree Killer Ali Syed Was ‘Videogame Playing Loner’

It's the Economy, Financial

• Pelosi: Oh, this minimum wage thing is happening, just get ready
• Why do Democrats hate American manufacturers?
• Moody's strips UK of coveted triple-A debt rating
• Late Friday Humor: Quantitative Easing Simplified
• Republicans Say Administration's Budget Cut Warnings Not Helping
• Depressing poll of the day: Public opposes cuts to virtually all types of spending

Tyranny

• The Feds Want Your Retirement Accounts
• Revealed: Why Obama won’t show the rest of his drone memos to Congress
• Obama's hall of shame

 
Politics, Corruption

• USA Today asks, “Why not fix the family instead?
• FBI probe of defense tech allegedly leaked from NASA stonewalled, sources say
• Political histrionics 101: The sequester

Second Amendment

• Combating the New Big Anti-Gun Money
• Why So Many Police Chiefs Favor Gun Control, When Most Sheriffs Don’t

State Government, Legislation, Taxes

• Bills: Dead & Alive
• New transportation secretary supports gas tax, tolls
• Dem-backed bill would make it tougher to suspend students

Economic Indicators prove Reagan was right and compassionate conservatism is wrong

Courtesy of Liberty Bell,  here is "Seriously?  A Layman’s Look at How Political Ideology Impacts the  Economy And Other Interesting Stuff," by Lawrence Farey (unpublished report).

It's lengthy, but worth a read.  Here's the report abstract:

Using generally accepted economic indicators, President Reagan's traditional conservative policies had a three times better success rate for the economy than any president since Reagan.

If President Bush 1 and President Clinton continued to follow President Reagan's policies the Federal government would have had a surplus one year earlier than President Clinton's surplus.

Compassion conservative policies yield the same results for economic indicators as modern Liberal policies. Economically there is no difference between compassionate conservatives and modern liberals.

Are we becoming Europe? Economic indicators prove we are already there.

The data sources for this report are: Fiscal Year 2013 Analytical Perspectives from the Budget of the U.S. Government Office of Management and Budget, US Census Bureau, The Tax Foundation, IMF, World Bank, UN, OECD, CIA World Factbook, Internet World Statistics, The Heritage Foundation and Transparency International.

Tuesday opinions and news

Civil Discourse

• Video: The obligatory “Michelle Obama rolls her eyes at Boehner” clip
• The Left's Inability To Be Civil
• The President's Hyper-Partisan Inaugural Address
• Obama Crowd Boos Paul Ryan 
• Show Some Civility, You Nazi Racists!

Socialism, Corruption

• Dems and Their Gun Money
• Obama's Second Inaugural: Definition of 'Liberty' Subject to Debate

Politics

• Cantor: Say, maybe we can get something done this year
• Former RNC Chair Steele Rips GOP For Skipping Inauguration
• Cuomo abortion bill outrageous, says … Democrats for Life

 Second Amendment

• Sen. McConnell: I Will Stop Obama's Gun Grab
• Sen. Ted Cruz Calls Out Obama’s Gun Control Hypocrisy
• Thousands Gather in Olympia for the Guns Across America Rally

Local Government, Taxes

• Voters to decide on Wa-Hi bond issue

State Government, Big Government

• House Bill 1128 Moves Transparency in the Wrong Direction
• Why isn't the Legislature as open as local government?

Media

• CBS political director urges Obama to 'go for the throat' of GOP to cement legacy

ObamaCareTax

• Universities Bludgeon Adjuncts With Obamacare Loophole

Big Government

• Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Washington, D.C.'s Civil Forfeiture Racket

Financial, It's the Economy

• Moody’s New Pension Rules Would Bankrupt Six Cal Counties
• China Equities Turn Inside Out

Saturday opinion & news

State Government

• GOP leaders respond to Inslee's inaugural speech
• Inslee outlines vision in inaugural address
• Sen. Adam Kline hopes to amend Citizens United decision
• Inslee talks taxes, gun control in first press conference

Politics

• A new strategy for the GOP
• The Country’s Going Straight to Hell, But at Least We’ve Got a ‘Likeable’ President
• I'm Outraged That The NRA Would Mention The President’s Kids — OUTRAGED I TELL YOU!
• Rand Paul hits Chris Christie for criticizing NRA ad, grandstanding on Sandy relief bill
• Obama for America is morphing into a nonprofit advocacy group
• Harry Reid's Great Disappearing Act 

Liberal Mindset, Socialism, Communism

• Biden: We need more gun laws because we don’t have time to enforce the ones we have
• The Gray Lady Confirms Blue Civil War
• NRA President: Death Threats Against Org Reflect Obama's Tactics
• From “fertile” to fertilizer: a debunking of the revisionist history of the origins of the Second Amendment

The Constitution, Bill of Rights

• Just sayin'
• How the NRA is winning

Budget Battle

• Paul Ryan: We’re considering a short-term debt-ceiling extension
• Eric Cantor: 'The last time the Senate passed a budget, the iPad did not exist'

Financial

• US Mint Out Of Silver Coins - Suspends Sales

Education

• Moody’s: Higher Ed Is Failing

Big Government

• School Buses Bankrupting NYC 
• Great news: Interior successfully fast-tracking solar projects in Arizona

Media

• NBC’s Chuck Todd: One must understand who owns guns and where they live
• Affordable Care Act 101: Classes to teach journalists how to properly report stories about Obamacare set to begin
• Today’s gun-control heroes: Time Warner Cable to reject ads that feature semiautomatic weapons
• Newsweek revels in Obama cultism with creepy 'second coming' Inauguration cover
• Newspaper removes map showing location of gun owners in New York State

Looking Ahead

• Shocker: Americans want term limits and end to Electoral College after re-electing a bunch of incumbents

Thursday news & opinions

Media

• Bob Schieffer Likens Obama 'Taking on the Gun Lobby' to Hunt for Bin Laden, 'Defeating the Nazis'
• Is the White House freezing Fox out of pressers?
• Lib Media Owes Romney an Apology – Chrysler Sends Jeep Jobs to China

Agenda 21

• Roger Kimball: This Metamorphosis Will Require a Permit

The Constitution, Bill Of Rights

• Dueling Headlines, religious freedom edition
• 4 Problems Obama Will Face In Gun Control Push
• New NRA ad: Let’s redistribute school security
• What's In the Obama Executive Orders
• Full List of 23 Executive Actions in Gun Violence Reduction Measures
• Office The Press Secretary: The President’s Plan to Protect our Children and our Communities by Reducing Gun Violence (PDF available upon request if link goes bad)
• HURT: Gun edicts put personal liberty under fire

Big Government

• Experts fear proposed N.Y. gun law might hinder therapy
• A Gun Ban That Misfired
• Undercover Feds At SHOT Show?

Budget Battle

• Republicans push alternative to default in debt-ceiling battle
• AARP Warns Against Cutting Entitlements to Solve Budget Crises

Financial

• Fitch may downgrade U.S. credit rating

Politics

• White House quadruples number of signatures needed to respond to a petition
• Don't Worry Guys....John Boehner Is On The Case Pushing Back Against Obama And The Gun Grabbers

ObamaCareTax

• Whole Foods CEO says Obama healthcare law is 'more like fascism'

Taxes

• Heineman proposes an end to all corporate and income taxes in Nebraska 

News and opinions for a Wednesday morning

Budget Battle

• The House GOP Is Ready To Cave on Sandy Pork . . . And The Debt Ceiling
• House Passes $50 Billion In Sandy Relief (Mostly Unrelated Pork) With Democrats Providing Majority Of The Yes Votes  UPDATE: Less Than Half The Money Is Sandy Related
• Obama Really Wishes He Never Gave This Speech About The Debt Ceiling
• New Social Security Retirees Will Outlive Trust Fund
• New GOP idea: How about offering to raise the debt ceiling for the rest of Obama’s term?

State Government, Budget Battle, Taxes

• Gregoire leaves office with a call for increased spending

The Constitution, Second Amendment

• QOTD: Norton v. Shelby County
• THE SECOND AMENDMENT: What can you do? This.

Financial

• THE OBAMA ECONOMIC RECOVERY: In One Chart
• It Begins: Bundesbank To Commence Repatriating Gold From New York Fed
• Bad news in the euro zone: Germany's economy contracts

Socialism, Communism, Liberal Mindset

• Senate Democrats Encourage Obama to Violate the Constitution
• Transsexual Bullies Successfully Censor Feminist Writers Who Criticized Them
• 'Insulting' words crime which made it illegal to call a police horse 'gay' is to be changed

Politics, Corruption

• Inauguration fund coming up $8 million short?
• Obama Accuses NRA of Ginning Up Fear, Warns Social Security Checks Won’t Go Out Unless GOP Raises Debt Ceiling
• Why Doesn't President Obama Support 'Citizens Against Senseless Violence'?

Core Values

• Mike Pence's first move: A regulatory moratorium for Indiana
• THINK OF THE CHILDREN
•  I agree with James Feehery

Media

• Piers Morgan to Ben Shapiro: How about participating in a townhall debate where my other guests and I can berate you?

Going into debt the really hard way

Worst of all worlds — all debt, no degree

The Higher Education Bubble is bursting, and the hardest hit Americans will likely be those who cannot afford to complete their degree programs.

Via Instapundit: The Wall Street Journal writer Ben Casselman takes a detailed look at the complex economic factors impacting millions of troubled scholars.

The rest is here.

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

Thursday News & Opinions

The Constitution, Bill of Rights

• The new horizon of gun control, Part 2. The black hole of mental health.
• Obama Ignores Fast & Furious, Rushes to Announce ‘Gun Control Task Group’ in Wake of Newtown
• Is Obama Really Committed to Leading the Gun Control Charge?
• An open call to gun-control advocates and gun supporters

 
Foreign Policy, Corruption

• Benghazi Report — No protest, deteriorating security conditions ignored
• Obama’s Benghazi Fall Guys
• Benghazi: State Department fail

Big Government, EPA, Corruption

• CBS News: ‘Fast and Furious’ Gun Found At Site Where Mexican Beauty Queen Killed
• No bigs: Head of EPA does a bunch of her work on alias e-mail account
• Pistol purchased by ATF agent found at alleged cartel crime scene in Mexico
• Hurricane Sandy relief turning into Porkfest 2012

 
Liberal Mindset, Civil Discourse

• What Kind of Values Are Being Taught In a School Named For a Murderer?
• NAACP Goes Racist Against First Black Senator, Tim Scott
• Harry Reid in 2010: “I carried a gun with me everywhere I went”; Update: Feinstein in 1995, too

 
Media

• Is Saturation Coverage Encouraging Mass Murderers?

ObamaCareTax

• White House buckling on HHS mandate?

Budget Battle, It's the Economy, Taxes

• Speaker Boehner: "Mr. President, It's Plan B or Be Responsible For the Largest Tax Hike In History" *drops mic*
• It's the Spending, Stupid! 
• Boehner’s House Has Increased Debt $18,944 Per Household

Saturday Cartoons

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Friday news and opinions

Politics

• PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year” nominees left out 2012′s biggest lie
• Jim DeMint Leaving The Senate To Head Heritage Foundation
• Boehner Has To Go: Ignore the Constitution, Party Uber Alles!
• Only 16 Members Can Unseat Boehner, Group Says
• Former RNC Research Director: Will No One Rid Me of This Turbulent Tea Party?
• 'Voter Suppression,' Debunked

Taxes, Budget Battle, Financial

• Dean: "The Truth Is Everybody Needs To Pay More Taxes, Not Just The Rich"
• Open Letter On Tax Fairness To Senator Murray
• Why tax hikes will never be enough
• I Believe in a Fiscally Responsible America
• Tacoma council faces hard facts, other WA cities faltering
• Bobby Jindal: Ideas for staving off the fiscal Armageddon
• Japan’s Aging Infrastructure

It's The Economy

• Gallup: Unemployment sharply rises

Second Amendment

• Charles Barkley says carrying gun gives 'sense of peace'

ObamaCareTax

• Obamacare: The Resistance Endures
• Darden Restaurants to stick with full-time employment
• Christie: Nope, we won't be building a state exchange in New Jersey
• Morning Bell: Businesses Cutting Hours, Bracing for Costs of Obamacare

Big Government, Corruption

• Gee, whiz: Federal agencies lagging way behind on Obama's transparency promises
• Expect the LNG-export battle to continue, despite the economically obvious
• EXCLUSIVE: FEMA teams told to 'sightsee' as Sandy victims suffered
• GOP sides with Mickey Mouse on copyright reform
• House follows Senate, votes to strike word ‘lunatic’ from federal law

United Nations

• Inhofe Video Message for UN Climate Conference: Obama Quietly Handing Over Billions of Dollars to the UN in the Name of Global Warming 
• Fmr. Thatcher advisor Lord Monckton evicted from UN climate summit after challenging global warming -- 'Escorted from the hall and security officers stripped him of his UN credentials'

Unions, Corruption

• VIDEOS: Union Intimidation, Vandalism At Michigan Capitol Over Right-to-Work
• Right to Work Spreading to Michigan
• Michigan State Legislature Passes Right To Work Law
• Rhode Island’s Blue Civil War

Liberal Mindset, Socialism, Communism

• Lee Doren breaks down the ridiculous "bad people are rich" teacher union video
• Berkeley students seek Christmas ban on Salvation Army bell ringers
• “Sadly, I was wrong” about Obama, isn’t good enough
• Germany: Cross Landmark Removed From Bavarian Tourist Leaflet to Appease Muslims
• There may not always be an England
• So, Mr. Damon — how does it feel to be in the pocket of Middle East oil interests?

Foreign Policy

• U.S.-Approved Arms for Libya Rebels Fell Into Jihadis' Hands
• Mounting questions for Susan Rice

Thursday news, thoughts, and opinions

United Nations

• Senate Rejects U.N. Children's Disability Treaty Submitted by Obama

Socialism, Communism, Liberal Mindset

• No surprise: 2nd highest grossing political documentary of all time not nominated for an Oscar
• Amsterdam proposes “scum villages”
• Chicago Teachers Union VP Busted Participating in Midwest Marxism Conference
• Detroit councilwoman to Obama: We voted for you, now bail us out
• California Federation Of Teachers To America: There's A Rich Guy - Get Him!
• Teachers Unions, Who Are The Super-Educated People Entrusted With Teaching Our Children, Offer a Nuanced and Highly Intellectual Take on the Financial Crisis
• The Blue-State Suicide Pact
• NOT HYPOCRITICAL IN THE LEAST: Now the Left SIMPLY ADORES the Bush Tax Cuts

Second Amendment

• Dem Senators to Strip Gun Rights from Military Vets
• Belcher Teammates Refuse to Blame Guns
• Dem Lawmakers Exploit Belcher Murder-Suicide to Push Gun Control

Agenda 21, EPA, Big Government

• Surprise: Long-awaited report finds that exporting nat gas will boost economy
• Despite Benefits, Hydraulic Fracturing Continues to be Target of Federal Regulators
• Sen. Sessions to EPA: Show Me Evidence for Obama's Global Warming Agitprop
• When the Government Prohibits for Your Own Good

Financial, It's the Economy

• Citigroup Axes 11,000 Jobs, $1.1 Billion in Costs
• ADP report shows 118,000 jobs added in November
• Awaiting the Aftershock

Budget Battle

• The Budget Baseline Con
• Obama: Republicans' revenue math doesn't work, except for when it did
• Boehner tells Obama put deal on the table, amid growing caucus discontent
• White House: When we said tax revenue figures were ‘just math,’ we meant ‘politics’
• Huh, that’s odd: Harry Reid declines to bring a vote on Obama’s cliff plan
• Harry Reid blocks vote on Obama’s fiscal cliff proposal
• Falling back to the debt ceiling?
• Obama to GOP on debt ceiling: "I will not play that game"
• Tapper to Carney: Back to “hostage” again, eh, champ?

 Politics, Foreign Policy, Corruption

• The ugly truth about Benghazi and Team Obama
• Fast & Furious firings coming: WSJ
• Dumb and Dumber: The Stupid Party Marches On (with comment by Paul)

Monday opinions and news

State Government

• Washington set to legalize marijuana use without Justice Department guidance

Socialism, Communism, The Constitution

• The Imperial Presidency

Budget Battle, Financial, Taxes

• Geithner Lays Out Obama Fiscal Plan, As Boehner Says Talks Are 'Nowhere'
• Video: Geithner says “no deal” without higher marginal tax rates
• What Cliff? Markets See Deal on Horizon
• No US budget deal without tax hikes: White House
• McConnell: WH Must Agree to 'Structural Changes' in Entitlements
• Pelosi Moves to Force Vote on Top Rate Tax Hike
• http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/02/Boehner-tells-Geithner--You-cant-be-serious

Politics

• Barack Obama: Worst. President. Ever.

ObamaCareTax

• EDITORIAL: Obamacare’s Medicaid time bomb
• Obama admin: By the way, we’re going to need insurers to pay to use our exchanges.
• The Sebelius Coverup 
• Does HHS Have the Authority to Tax Health Premiums in Federal Exchanges?

Big Government, Corruption, EPA

• We’d better stop drilling to save this bird
• Government Spent Half Trillion on Unemployment Benefits During Recession
• ATF Takes Action Against Agents Involved In Fast and Furious
• Liberals blast Susan Rice's 'outrageous' investments in Canadian pipeline firm

Looking Ahead

• Gallup: Half Of Democrats, Quarter of Republicans Approve of Socialism

Friday news and opinions

Looking Ahead

• Conservatives Must Learn the Dark Arts of Image Manipulation

Taxes, It's the Economy, Financial

• Higher taxes do not equal more revenue, example #85902479…
• We're Heading For Economic Dictatorship
• New Obama stimulus: hiring subsidies
• Second look at tax hikes on everyone?

Unions

• CA Union Shuts Down America's Largest Ports

Big Government, Corruption, Politics, Budget Battle

• White House Uses Secret Service to Shield Goldman Sachs CEO from Press
• Report: Obama’s “fiscal cliff” offer to Republicans calls for $1.6 trillion in new taxes and end of debt ceiling in exchange for … nothing, basically; Update: McConnell laughed out loud
• Boehner's Press Conference
• Inside the talks: Fiscal framework emerges
• Krauthammer: Republicans Who Cave on Entitlements and Buy Obama’s Promise Are Fools
• Ignore GDP and the Fiscal Cliff, U.S. Is Already in Recession: ECRI’s Achuthan [VIDEO]
• Ugly Q3 GDP Confirms Personal Consumption Collapsing; Headline "Growth" Driven By Government, Inventory Accumulation
• Speaker Of The House Shocked That President Who Likely Left Two Heroes High And Dry In Benghazi Proves Incapable Of Keeping Phone Call Secret
• The Incestuous Bleeding of the Republican Party
• Wind Power Fiasco: Call Your Congressman
• Wavering: Obama Signs Anti-Carbon Tax Bill
• The Showdown Begins: Calpers Sues Bankrupt City
• Washington Proposes $1 Trillion Bailout for Delinquent Student Loans
• WH: Obama’s “not particularly concerned” about whether Rice misled the public
• US: Yeah, that UN Internet-control proposal isn’t going to fly with us

EPA, Big Government, Agenda 21

• Video: Feds shut down 100-year-old oyster company, destroy some lives and dreams

ObamaCareTax

• Appeals court issues injunction against HHS contraception mandate
• WSJ: Yep, the feds are totally unprepared to launch ObamaCare exchanges

Terrorism, Foreign Policy

• Canadian PM Harper, heir apparent to the free world, stands up for freedom, personally intervened to stop 'Palestinian' terror statehood bid at UN
• A REAL War On Women
• UN votes to recognize Palestine as non-member state

Liberal Mindset, Socialism, Communism

• It Doesn’t Pay to Work
• Dem Maryland Comptroller: Unpatriotic to Shop Online
• Rhode Island Governor Removes 'Christmas' Tree
• The Sage Who Won't Stay Put in Omaha
• Study: Sea Levels Rising 60% Faster Than UN Predictions

Saturday Cartoons

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Tuesday news & opinions (National)

ObamaCareTax

• The Obamacare implementation layoff announcements du jour

 The Constitution, Bill of Rights, Big Government

• Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants
• States deciding what to do with their pieces of the energy pie

Second Amendment

• Our Opponent's Poor History

 Looking Ahead

• Too Few Oppressors, Too Many Victims
• Is Rand Paul the future of the GOP?
• The Nasty GOP?

Big Government, EPA, Corruption

• House investigates EPA emails, as agency says administrators have two accounts

It's The Economy, Financial

• Democrats have own fiscal cliff issues
• Our Dust Bowl Economy
• CHART: America's Road to Collapse
• 2013 Looks a Lot Like 1937 in Four Fearsome Ways

Foreign Policy

• CBS: "Office of the DNI" cut al-Qaeda and terrorism references from Benghazi talking points
• Obama warns Egyptian President Morsi to rein in terrorists in Gaza

Media

• Surprise: Slate calls out Obama for saying same thing as Rubio

 Unions

• A Brief, Illustrated History of the Public Sector Unions That, Together With The Democrat Party, Are Waging War on the Taxpayer

Tuesday News and Opinions.....with some thoughts

Big Government, EPA, Corruption

• EPA won't waive ethanol mandate for gasoline
• Congress demands EPA’s secret email accounts
• Yikes: The Federal Housing Administration isn't looking too good, is it?
• FBI investigation of Broadwell reveals bureau’s comprehensive access to electronic communications

The Constitution, First Amendment, Second Amendment

• Lawsuit Attacks Billy Graham, Bishop for Saying Vote Pro-Life 
• House reps to Obama: About that UN arms trade treaty? Just say no.

Foreign Policy

• America, Israel, Gaza, the World
• Chambliss: WH had to have changed CIA talking points on Benghazi
• House Intel Chair: 'Appointees from Administration' Changed Rice's Talking Points
• David Petraeus: A Good General Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
• The Jacksonian Tradition

Taxes, It's The Economy, Financial

• CEOs to Washington: Strike a Deal—and Do It Now
• Half Your Paycheck To The Government In 2013
• Euro falls versus U.S. dollar after Moody's cuts France credit rating
• Fiscal cliff deal taking shape?
• Investment Falls Off a Cliff
• The 'fiscal cliff' deal we need
• Punked: GOP Already Losing Fiscal Cliff Talks
• IT'S OFFICIAL: Nancy Pelosi Demands That American Small Businesses Fire 710,000 Workers

Liberal Mindset, Socialism, Communism, Education

• Obama: ‘I Wish I Could Impose My Will on Congress’
• With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race 
• Thinking Voting With Your Vagina

ObamaCareTax

• 75% of the costs of Obamacare will be paid by those making $120,000 or less
• Capretta and Levin: Why ObamaCare Is Still No Sure Thing 
• The 49ers

Media

• Embattled NYT questions leadership change at the WaPo
• NYT Once Again Unaware of Terrorists in Gaza
• The CBS Evening News Calls Bulls--- on Hamas
• AP reporter slams Obama administration for ‘silent diplomacy’ while people are dying

Politics, Elections

• The 2016 Campaign Begins
• All Eyez on Him
• Boehner steps back to lead
• The Demographic That Matters 

Unions

• CHART: The Top 10 Union Fat-Cats Who Destroyed 18,500 Jobs
• Hostess, Union Agree to Mediation
• More Big Labor-induced misery: The looming port strike

Thursday news, thoughts, and opinions

Foreign Policy

• Kristen Powers: Why Did Obama Send Out Someone To Give a "Presentation" On Benghazi Who He Now Says Knew Nothing At All About Benghazi?
• Breaking: Petraeus to testify on Benghazi attacks; Update: Petraeus offered testimony
• "Come After Me:" Obama Offers Rehearesed Tough-Guy Message on Benghazi, But Avoids Actual Answers
• Krauthammer: White House 'Held Affair Over Petraeus's Head' For Favorable Testimony On Benghazi
• Graham: I'm "dead set" against promoting anyone involved in Benghazi debacle
• Heckuva Job, Susan Rice!
• A MILLION ISRAELIS HAVE 15 SECONDS TO FIND SHELTER: Any other country would have turned Gaza into the Bonneville Salt Flats.

ObamaCareTax

• 5 Ways To Protect Yourself Against Obamacare
• Doc Shortage Could Crash Health Care
• Catholic bishops pledge defiance on HHS mandate

Looking Ahead

• How about showing some fight?
• The Grover Plan: More Cowbell!

It's The Economy, Financial, Taxes

• Great news: October deficit higher than October 2011
• The fiscal cliff: Will Obama, Congress cut budget deal?
• Reid: Social Security really isn’t part of the problem, you know
• Stocks Down Another 1+%; NASDAQ's Cumulative Drop Since Mid-September Is 10.6%
• French CEOs: So, we're kinda' drowning over here...
• Mark Levin: Fiscal cliff? We’re facing the COLLAPSE of our society and Republicans need to “wake the hell up”
• Look Who's Refusing To Compromise To Avoid The Fiscal Cliff
• Obama Campaigning: $3 In Cuts For Every $1 In Taxes; Obama at Debate: $2.5 in Cuts For Every $1 In Taxes; Obama's Actual Plan: $3 In Taxes For Every $1 In Cuts

Politics, Corruption

• The Senate's first order of business: Polar bear carcasses
• Barack Obama tacitly admits Eric Holder is as guilty as sin about Operation Fast & Furious...
• More Hispanic Voting Myths

Media

• Politico: ‘Hard questions await Obama at news conference’
• Hilarious Video: McCain shuts down reporter after "dumb" Petraeus scandal question

Communism, Socialism

• Oh, happy day: Chicago hopes to crack down on high-calorie vending machines

Sunday news and opinions

Financial, It's The Economy, Core Values

• Forget Greece, Look to Illinois and Beware
• HISTORIC: Obama Economic "Recovery" Just as Bad As It Feels
• GDP grew at 2% in Q3; 2012 Growth Slower Than 2011

Socialism, Liberal Mindset

• The Welfare State of America (Note: this is not a parody, it's a genuine liberal opinion)
• They Can’t Sing About All The Jobs Created Or Saved For Them

Media

• One Of The Few Real Surprises Of The Campaign: The Des Moines Register Endorses Mitt Romney
• Media Blackout: Why Obama Dodged the Libya Question
• The Detroit News Endorses Romney
• If Bias Doesn’t Matter ......

Big Government

• Explosive CDC Omission: Norovirus Spread Through Reusable Grocery Bags
• Obama's $500M 'Green Jobs' Training Produces 16% of Jobs Projected
• Obama’s green-energy jobs success — er, failure rate
• Blood flows almost to Obama's doorstep in town they call 'Chi-raq'

Elections, Politics

• Wisc. Gay GOP Worker Hospitalized in Politically Motivated Attack
• Why I Think Obama Is Toast
• Petraeus Throws Obama Under the Bus
• The Two Polls That Have Chicago Terrified
• Part I: Obama optimism: why it is unfounded
• Obama Refuses to Answer ‘Repeated Questions on Whether Requests for Help in Benghazi Were Denied’
• Surprise! Obama floats new tax cut trial balloon
• SPOT THE TREND: Nate Silver Edition
• Bill Clinton’s long game for Hillary
• This is actually someone's house in Manassas, Virginia 
• Romney v Obama, Adult v Adolescent

Terrorism

• FRC Shooter Receives First-Ever Domestic Terrorism Indictment in DC

Foreign Policy

• Darkness Descending in England
• RESET: Russia conducts first large-scale exercises of strategic nuclear forces since Cold War

Saturday news and thoughts

Political, Elections

• WaPo fact check gives Obama seven Pinocchios on the sequester and mammograms at Planned Parenthood
• AC-130U Gunship was On-Scene in Benghazi, Obama Admin Refused to Let It Fire (Updated)
• Must-Watch Vid: Still Thinking About Voting for Obama?
• PRESIDENT OBAMA IS ANNIHILATING THE MIDDLE CLASS!
• Spending on White House dinners soars under Obama 
• Lone Star state to int'l poll watchers: Be ready for some Texas justice

Big Government, Corruption

• Oh, goody: More waste, fraud, and abuse from Obama's Energy Department?

It's The Economy, Financial

• What Austerity Looks Like

Media

• Megyn Kelly: Media in spin room laughed and applauded at Obama's "bayonets" line