News and opinions for a Saturday

Tyranny

• VIDEO: Congressman Mike Kelly Gets Standing Ovation During Hearing After Awesome Rant About IRS
• Our Lawless President: Obama’s IRS Thuggery Certainly Was No Coincidence
• How Obama Could Start Fixing the IRS
• Homeland Security guidelines advise deference to pro-Shariah Muslim supremacists
• Lanny Davis: Did WH counsel know IRS was targeting conservatives?
• Soros Gave $6.1 Million to Groups Linked to Pressure on IRS to Target Conservative Nonprofits
• Obama administration sources explain Benghazi: “It’s actually closer to us being idiots”
• [Video] Welcome to NJ, Pro Gun Citizen Forcefully Removed From Hearing in the Middle of His Testimony
• Of Course It Troubles Me. Are You Kidding Me?
• WaPo: Two Pinocchios for Holder over contempt citation claim
• Obama #IRS Scandal Amnesia 
• Kimberly Strassel: Obama Set the Tone, the IRS Executed It 

Abortion

• Eric Holder Unsure if Law Stopping After-Birth Abortions Has Been Enforced (auto-start video)
• Second 'house of horrors' abortion clinic where doctor 'twisted heads off fetus' necks with his bare hands' is investigated in Texas 

Media

• Jay Carney: I dismiss the idea that these are scandals
• Woodward: Don’t dismiss Benghazi as a scandal 
• Piers Morgan: Say, I guess government can become tyrannical after all 

Foreign Policy

• Russia sending anti-ship cruise missiles to Assad

Looking Ahead

• Jahar, the Teen Idol Terrorist

Tea Party

• Tea party tax returns show activism on a budget
• Has the IRS been watching the Freedom Foundation?

Corruption

• IRS Commissioner: Yeah, we staged that Lerner apology
• Worse and worse: IRS claimed in 2011 that there were no documents related to scrutiny of tea-party groups
• Treasury Knew of I.R.S. Inquiry in 2012, Official Says 

Bill of Rights

• Colorado Lawsuit Against New Gun Control Laws
• Cuomo, State Police fumble SAFE Act gun grab 

Politics

• Gallup: Low-Information Americans Not Paying Attention to Obama Scandals
• Want to Keep Obama’s IRS Scandal in the News? Use Democrat Tactics Against Them

News and opinions for a Monday!

• Is Russia Kicking Dirt in John Kerry’s Face?
• CBS Anchor: 'We Are Getting Big Stories Wrong, Over and Over Again'
• Grassley: Baucus Retiring Because He’s ‘Fed Up’ With Obamacare
• ABC: Petraeus called final Benghazi talking points “useless” the day before Rice’s full Ginsburg
• Boom: Benghazi mom wishes Hillary Clinton a happy Mother’s Day; ‘She has her child; I don’t have mine’
• Liberal Rednecks: A Salute
• 25 Reasons To Dislike Liberals
• HHS: Nothing improper about Sebelius’s ObamaCare fundraising
• Gag order: Liberal activists, unable to win the argument against Rush Limbaugh, try to silence him instead
• Governors: Time to end the drilling moratorium
• Exposing the Republican “Liberty” Caucus, Part II: Fetuses are Just Like Dandruff
• The news media is even worse than you think
• The POPVOX Blog: The Week Ahead: May 13 - 17
• Why Obama released embarrassing IRS bombshell

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After the last well attended meeting( 80 strong),  YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS FOLLOW UP MEETING!!

With Shahram Hadian opening the "door" to getting our country back on track, Richard Burke,  of Western Liberty Network, is a timely follow up as he comes with a fresh passion to support our local group fill the currently open positions in Walla Walla County with conservative activists. 

Tuesday, May 14th

6:30 pm, Father's House

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Tell your friends and bring them!!

Saturday news & opinions

Tyranny

• BUSTED: Bloomberg News Caught Spying On Bloomberg Terminal Customers
• Exclusive: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference 
• Progracists
• IRS Apologizes For Targeting Tea Party Groups During The Election 
• Obama IRS admits witch hunt against Tea Party, patriot groups
• TheTeaParty.net to IRS: “Apology Not Accepted”
• Darrell Issa: My committee will "aggressively follow up" on the IRS's political thuggery
• Putting The Comprehensive In Immigration Reform: Universal biometric IDs for every American? What could go wrong?
• What is truth?
• Venezuela: Photo of the week

ObamaCareTax

• Holy Crap: HHS Secretary Sebilus Is Extorting Money From Health Care Industry To Promote ObamaCare
• Republicans Are Refusing To Appoint Members To Obamacare's Most Notorious Panel
• Obama to Invoke Moms in Pitch for Health Exchanges
• Why Obamacare is oversold

Budget Battle

• Morning Bell: Ready for Another Debt Limit Fight?

State Government

• Owen wants Dems to end Carrell’s vote-by-proxy privilege

Foreign Policy, Corruption

• White House scrambles to contain Benghazi-gate fallout
• JW Files Three New Lawsuits Against Obama Administration for Concealing Benghazi
• Carney on Benghazi edits: Need I remind you that a certain Mr. Mitt Romney tried to make political hay of the attack?

Media

• Video: MSNBC Turns on Obama, Admits Benghazi Cover-Up
• Good news: Journalism museum to honor two members of Hamas TV
• White House holds Benghazi briefing with reporters - off the record; Update: More whistleblowers coming? Update: "Deep background"

Politics

• POLITICAL BOMBSHELL: SENATOR INHOFE SUGGESTS IMPEACHMENT COULD BE COMING OVER BENGHAZI COVER-UP
• The coming GOP civil war over climate change

Bill of Rights

• "Confiscate, Confiscate, Confiscate"
• Bloomberg, Obama and liberal media muzzled about gun crime decline
• Big Brother: LA police sued over massive data collection gleaned from cameras

Big Government

• 10 crazy things the IRS asked Tea Party groups
• 
  Big Government Conservatives Strike Back
   

It's The Economy

• Woah: Greece’s youth unemployment rises above 60 percent

Terrorism

• FBI to Boston: You knew about Tsarnaev from JTTF files

Liberal Mindset

• Obama donors: Nixing the Keystone pipeline is comparable to Lincoln ending slavery, or something

Thursday News & Opinions

Tyranny

• Judge rips Obama’s right-wing Plan B stance
• Operation Smear Benghazi Whistleblowers
• U.S. Is Weighing Wide Overhaul of Wiretap Laws
• Remember Nakoula?
• Clinton's Republican Guard
• President Obama's cigarette tax up in smoke
• New White House amnesty campaign: “Unless you’re a Native American, you came from someplace else”

Foreign Policy, Corruption

• What difference does it make? Eric Nordstrom fights back tears during opening Benghazi statement: ‘It matters’
•  How Do You Say "Reset the Reset" in Russian?
• Hicks: Higher-ups at State told me not to talk to GOP congressman about Benghazi; Update: "Effectively demoted"
• The Tears of Benghazi   

Civil Discourse

• Ted Cruz on being a “schoolyard bully”: I do so appreciate Harry Reid’s candor

Abortion

• Gosnell resolution blocked
• Video [fixed]: Late-term abortionist says “It’s like putting meat in a crock pot”

Bill of Rights

• With Friends Like This ...
• Admiral DEFIES THE MILITARY BAN on Sharing His Christian Faith 
• Jeff Flake Stays with Us

 
Media

• Report: CBS grumpy that Sharyl Attkisson's Benghazi scoops are "wading dangerously close to advocacy"
• Washington Post Breaks Benghazi Scandal Wide Open
• New left-wing coalition begs Tribune Company: Don't sell the LA Times to the Koch brothers

ObamaCareTax

• Sebelius asks pediatricians to start helping sign people up for Obamacare
• Your Fault! 

Politics

• May Is Make-or-Break Month for Congress, Obama
• White House: This Benghazi hearing is just another of Republicans' "attempts to politicize" the issue

Terrorism

• Domestic Terrorists Teaching At Colleges?

Big Government

• NYC also hating on innovation, opportunity with interminable food-truck regulations

Wednesday news & opinions

Tyranny

• OPEN LETTER TO GENOCIDAL EDITOR DAVE PERRY: "Get down on your knees and thank whatever god you worship that there is an NRA"
• Justice Department to monitor special election in South Carolina
• BREAKING: European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds and plants not registered with government
• WaPo fact checker: Who rewrote the Benghazi talking points?
• Obama tells OSU grads to reject the Founding Fathers' voices
• Byron York: Senate skips details in rush to pass immigration bill
• Good news from Sheila Jackson Lee: The Constitution implies a right to health care and education
• Heritage: Amnestied Illegals Will Get $9.4T in Benefits; Increase Debt $6.3T'
• Rand Paul: I hate to say it, but the immigration bill is a little bit like ObamaCare right now 

Taxes

• Senate Passes Internet Tax Bill (But Watch Sen. Ted Cruz’s Passionate Argument Against It)

Looking Ahead

• Rise of the Republican Governors

Corruption, Foreign Policy

• She KNEW It Was A DAMNED LIE
• Hillary Clinton — culpable for Benghazi from beginning to end
• Obama: We have a moral obligation to end the slaughter and ensure a stable Syria

Liberal Mindset, Education

• Second Grader Suspended for Pointing Pencil Like a Gun

ObamaCareTax

• New Worries for Democrats on Health Law

Bill of Rights

• Obama administration retreating from contraception mandate? 

 
Media

• Does He Listen to Himself? Matthews Compares NRA to Nazis, Decries Use of Nazi Comparisons
• Exclusive: Politico Misreports Tea Party Support for Immigration Bill 

Politics

• H.R. 1826: No Monuments to Me Act of 2013
• Gun control ads have Democrats worrying
• Jeff Flake hints: I'll support expanded background checks in return for changes on Internet sales
• “Very junior senator” Ted Cruz really getting under skin of very senior Sen. Harry Reid

Local Government, It's The Economy, Big Government

• Clark County hangs out ‘Open for Business’ sign to employers

Second Amendment

• Gun Fiction vs. Gun Facts: What Gun Control Supporters Don't Know 
• Media's Anti-Gun Narrative Destroyed By Justice Dept. Report
• Reports show gun homicides down since 1990s
• Biden asks clergy to make moral argument on guns

Big Government

• It's come to this: Solar installer now suing the government for more money 

It's The Economy

• Internet Sales Tax Bill Stalling in House
• 
  
• The Worst Unemployment Crisis In Modern History Is Unfolding Right Now
• Why Friday's Jobs Report Was Ominous

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Tuesday news & opinions

Tyranny

• Snell: Waking the dragon — How Feinstein fiddled while America burned
• National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers to Gang of Eight: How About Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement First, Geniuses?
• Defective Kokesh agitates for slaughter of Second Amendment supporters in D.C.
• Dem Rep. Admits to TheBlaze She Wants National Gun Registry: 'It Helps Us Find Them For You'
• Another Bloomberg gun control accomplishment: Mail carriers refuse service to parts of Brooklyn  
• President who appoints lobbyists, donors doesn’t want youth to get demoralized by government that rewards lobbyists, donors

Budget Battle

• Cop out
• Report: California governments could be $1.1 trillion in debt

It's The Economy

• America's Savings Crisis: Your Spending Habits May Be to Blame
• 'Real' Jobless Rate Still Above 10% In Most States
• German euro founder calls for 'catastrophic' currency to be broken up
• If it Falls, Tax It

Terrorism

• Bill Ayers Defends Weather Underground Bombings, “Can’t Compare Them To Boston Bombing”

Foreign Policy

• Video: White House "highly skeptical" of UN's finding that Syrian rebels, not Assad, used chemical weapons 
• Then-Acting Ambassador to Libya: "My Jaw Hit the Floor" When I Saw the Government Blaming the Attack on a YouTube Video 
• Diplomat to testify that Benghazi “was a terrorist attack from the beginning”
• Whistleblower: Hillary cut State’s counter-terrorism bureau out of Benghazi loop
• That Crazy Benghazi Conspiracy Theory? It Just Got Less Crazy
• Diplomat: U.S. Special Forces told "you can't go" to Benghazi during attacks
• Here we go: Backlash against Benghazi whistleblowers is underway
• They Had a Team Ready to Go in Tripoli and a C-130* on the Ramp 
• Fifty Shades Of Red

Second Amendment

• The Firearms Statistics That Gun Control Advocates Don’t Want to See
• NRA Annual Meeting Stats

Abortion

• Kirsten Powers: Let's Stop Pretending on Late-Term Abortion
• Gosnell attorney: Fox tried to influence the jury

ObamaCareTax

• Obamacare is on the horizon, but will enough people sign up?

Politics

• Majority leader is ‘bullied’ by freshman senator, turns to public for help
• Reid to Cruz: “My friend from Texas is like a schoolyard bully”

Monday news and opinions

Tyranny, Looking Ahead

• I am Number 421,721
• Jeanine Pirro NRA Speech 2013: Accused of Denigrating All Muslims “How About Not Blaming All Gun Owners”
• Freedom Or Socialism? The Choice Is Still Ours
• PC Kills: Pentagon Brass Crush Career Of Decorated Army Officer Who Taught About Radical Islam
• Author to immigration reform opponents: “A lot of people live in land that was taken from Mexico”
• You Disagree With @Instapundit At Your Peril, But I’m Going With Nicolaitanism Over Oikophobia
• Well, yes, he would say that, wouldn't he 

Media

• Colorado newspaper editor calls for NRA members to be summarily shipped to prison camps

Abortion

• More Evil than Nazi Germany

Corruption

• Par For The Course (highly suggestive imagery)
• Karzai Says He Was Assured C.I.A. Would Continue Delivering Bags of Cash 

Foreign Policy, Corruption

• Chaffetz: State Department officials fear ‘retaliation' on Benghazi, more will talk
• Paper Tiger POTUS: Obama’s ‘red line’ on Syria totally just a gaffe, guys! (Profanity alert)
• Dem Congressman: Benghazi Talking Points Were ‘Scrubbed’
• The Highly Ironic Syrian End-Game?
• NYT: Obama may have ad-libbed us into a war
• Dems Now Slam Rice's Benghazi Account, Amid New Damaging Details

State Government, Taxes, Budget Battle

• Job-killing tax increases are not needed
• Judge Tosses a Rule That Keeps Retailers Out of the Restaurant Biz – and Returns Spotlight to Legislature’s Most Spirited Battle.
• In Our View: Keep an Eye on the Governor
• In overtime, budget should be only goal

Bill of Rights

• The NRA Meeting Protest
• Hooray for the Second Amendment!
• Muzzling free speech about taxes

 
Civil Discourse

• S.C. Dem chair doubles down on Nikki Haley comments
• Erica Lafferty: Gun Control’s Cindy Sheehan

Sunday news & opinions

• Top South Carolina Democrat Wants To Send Nikki Haley “Wherever The Hell She Came From”
• The printable gun has arrived
• The POPVOX Top 20: April 25 - May 2
• Obama Administration’s Benghazi Lies Exposed as State Department Cover-Up
• DAMNING: The Complete Benghazi Timeline in Spreadsheet Format
• Benghazi Impeachment Suddenly Not So Far-Fetched
• Kansas Governor to AG Holder: We Will Continue to Defend 2nd Amendment
• Civility: Haters hope for violence, death at NRA convention
• Media Matters runs cover before Fox News’ Kermit Gosnell special airs
• How the Oregon Study Should Change Our Thinking
• Five Things Obamacare Won’t Do
• An armed march on Washington? Let’s not. Update: Kokesh an anti-war smear merchant?
• Gang of Eight's Stuttering Cluster of an Immigration Bill Deconstructed With a Single Infographic
• MSNBC Forced to Apologize After Egregiously Taking Quotes Out of Context for Gun Control Segment

Saturday news & Opinions

Tyranny

• Obama: The fall
• Lucky Thing Obama’s Making Sure
• Barry “Fast and Furious” Obama redlines on the hypocrisy meter

Taxes

• Obama budget caps tax-deferred retirement contributions to ... half of what he'll get

It's The Economy

• April jobs report: 165K jobs created, 7.5% unemployment rate; Update: Reuters: “Consistent with a slowdown”
• IRS Takes A Bite Out Of Bitcoin
• Economics, Translated to Plain English

Foreign Policy

• CNN: Al-Qaeda operatives part of Benghazi attack
• Timeline: Emails Reveal State Department Flack Has Fingers All Over Talking Points Deception, Stating That Her "Superiors" Were Unhappy With Implication They'd Ignored Warnings

Media

• The Left Hates Howard Kurtz, Which Doesn’t Mean We Should Love Him, But …
• PepsiCo Pulls Incredibly Racist Mountain Dew Commercial
• Piers Morgan Admits He Wants UK-Style Gun Ban in the States
• Media drops the ball on Ayotte coverage
• National media exaggerate anti-Ayotte gun control protests
• MSNBC panelist on Ayotte, etc: Is it even more surprising when a woman votes against background checks?
• Video: CNN panel names Romney a religious fanatic for promoting ... children

Terrorism

• Friend of Bill Ayers Added to FBI’s Most Wanted List

Big Government, Education

• Oregon's Medicaid Expansion Trial - Lessons Learned
• Hope & Hairy Shemale Alert: Obama Spends $350k to Study Trannies in IndiaA Parent's Prayer for The Children (Not Valid in Illinois)
• Video: “Change you can believe in?”
• Not to worry: DoD still buying $59/gallon "green" jet fuel, despite sequester

Bill of Rights

• ERIC HOLDER TO KANSAS: We Will Ignore the Bill of Rights and State Laws to Enforce Federal Gun Grabs

Politics

• He Makes Me Puke
• Is Obama's legacy a health care law that hurts his party for years to come?
• Politico: OFA flops on first campaign

Abortion

• Ramirez, Crowder on Gosnell

Looking Ahead

• Revolutionary Math II
• The NRA won. Now comes the hard part

Friday news and opinions

Tyranny

• Sessions: 'Tide Is Beginning to Turn' Against Immigration Bill
• Principal: ‘I was naïve about Common Core’

ObamaCareTax

• Landmark study shatters liberal health care claims
• Reid: We're gonna need a lot more ObamaCare money to stop the train wreck

Big Government

• Justice Department appeals morning-after pill ruling
• Attempt to improve U.S. food-aid efficiency going about as well as you’d expect
• Denmark Repeals Fat, Beer & Soda Taxes

Foreign Policy

• 15 Years or 8 Months...
• Human trafficking at Saudi diplomatic compound in Virginia?
• U.S. officials: We, er, aren't sure where all of Syria's chemical weapons are
• Report: State Department's Benghazi review panel now under investigation

Liberal Mindset

• Videos: May Day in Seattle goes about as well as you’d expect
• Stunner: Mostly Peaceful May Day March Turns Violent in Seattle, Eight Cops Injured

State Government, Taxes, Budget Battle

• Unnecessary special session starts May 13
• [Washington State] Concealed carry reciprocity with Fla. stopped by AG’s office?   (Phone calls recommended)
• Search of KCHA official’s browser shows work isn’t a priority

It's The Economy

• Weekly jobless claims fall to lowest level in 5 years 
• No policy changes expected as Fed ends two-day meeting

Terrorism

• Left-wing domestic terrorist becomes first woman on FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list

Abortion

• Arizona Abortionist: Why No, If a Baby Were Born Alive, We Would Not Provide Care for It

Media

• Howard Kurtz Screws Up Yet Again, But This Time He's Fired, Because He Offended the Left's Gay Lobby

Politics

• Two new polls: Disapproval of Obama's handling of gun policy over 50 percent

Budget Battle

• Boehner Successfully Reduces House Spending

Thursday news & Opinions

Tyranny

• Newspaper guild: The LA Times must not be sold to the Koch brothers and their "harsh right-wing positions"; Update: LA Dems threaten Times investors over Koch sale 
• Is Obama's second term sunk? 'Maybe I should just pack up and go home.'
• The Dreaded Wyoming GOP Facebook ‘Hatef–k’ Rapist Has Been Apprehended 

Liberal Mindset

• Just When You Think Democrats Couldn’t Possibly Get Any Crazier …

Foreign Policy

• Pentagon Paying China — Yes, China — To Carry Data
• Issa: The next Benghazi hearing is going to "expose new facts" the Obama admin has "tried to suppress"

 
It's The Economy

• Interior doubles estimates of oil in Dakotas, Montana
• Poll: Nearly half of US college grads are underemployed

Politics

• Botched ObamaCare rollout tops Democratic fears for 2014 election
• Daughter of Newtown Victim Confronts GOP Senator for Voting Against Gun Control Bill at Tense Town Hall Meeting, Storms Out After Response
• Obama’s Misfire on Gun Control
• Today’s dumb immigration kabuki: Dems to demand that gay illegals be allowed to sponsor partners abroad
• Any Political Capital That Obama Had Is Now Gone

Media

• Nicholas Jackson, Ghastly Little Fascist
• Breaking: American Press to Find New and Inventive Ways to Ignore Major National Security Story
• Clark County Lincoln Day Dinner Speakers Smeared by SW Washington Press-Watch the videos and you be the judge

Big Government

• Oh, good: Interior still acquiring new land and creating monuments, nevermind sequestration warnings
• CityScan has a solution for cash-strapped cities
• Red Tape Rising: Regulation in Obama’s First Term

State Government, First Amendment

• Gay swipe ignites local fury
• Hewitt counsels staffer for gay remark

Education

• Houston schools cancel NRA safety program after discovering NRA connection?
• Indoctrination NATION 

Terrorism

• The FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist List

News and Opinions for Wednesday!

Tyranny

• New Jersey Bypasses Medical Privacy To Assist Feds In Gun Control Registry 
• SHOCKER: Book: Obama surrounds self with ‘idolizers,’ plots legacy with scholars.
• No Tragedy Unfit for Exploitation 
• Cuba’s message to dissidents: You had your trip, now we’re coming after you
• Argentina: Courts now under Cristina’s authority
• Team Rubio’s ‘no welfare for illegal immigrants’ claim takes another hit
• DeMint: Gang of Eight Immigration Plan Unfair, Costs Too Much

Taxes

• The Newest Tax: Flu Vaccines

Politics

• Dems push gun control agenda in DC, but not in battleground states
• President's relationship with GOP congressional leaders at new low
• Bam! Conservatives bust Gov. Christie for rewriting history on Sandy relief 

Second Amendment

• The Billionaire Who Made Gun Control His Pet Issue   
• Gun Owners Continue Owning Guns & Won’t Help Gun Control Groups or Assist in Promoting Partisan Agenda
• Obama’s Gun Policies Unpopular with Millennials
• Because homeowners only need seven rounds to defend the lives of their families. Right, New York?

Media

• Thanks, Obama!  Related --> Chuck Todd: Obama 'Hates' 'Internet Media and Social Media'

Liberal Mindset

• Awesome: Redskins QB RGIII blasts ‘tyranny of political correctness’

Abortion

• Planned Parenthood CEO Lied About Not Knowing of Gosnell Horrors

ObamaCareTax

• Daniel Kessler: The Coming ObamaCare Shock
• 42 Percent of Americans Don't Think Obamacare Is Law 

Foreign Policy

• Obama on Syria: When I said chemical weapons were a "game-changer," I meant we'd rethink our options or something
• Here we go: Obama preparing to send “lethal arms” to Syrian rebels, say senior admin officials

Patriotism

• Ted Cruz Offers Fellow GOP Senators Some Advice: You Could Try To Not Be Such "Squishes"
• 'MERICA, 'MERICA, God shed his grace on thee (55 Photos)

It's The Economy

• The Amazing Texas Energy Turnaround
• Spain Is Beyond Doomed: The 2 Scariest Unemployment Charts Ever

Legislation

• The POPVOX Blog: The Week Ahead: April 29 - May 3

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Saturday News

Tyranny

• Why are the senators so eager to give citizenship away the same senators so eager to ignore its protections?
• Gang of Eight loopholes put many illegal immigrants on fast track to citizenship
• Obama, Heroically Alone For His Moment of Silence for the Victims of Boston.
• Holder Calls Amnesty a 'Civil Right'
• Pint-sized, Would-be Despot Bloomberg Urinates on the Constitution   
• Obama still holding out on those subpoenaed Fast & Furious documents

It's The Economy

• Q1 GDP: 2.5% annualized growth; Update: “Disappointing,” says CBS
• Record Number of US Households on Food Stamps
• The Euro Is Ripping Europe Apart

Terrorism

• WaPo: Joint Terrorism Task Force warned about Tsarnaev’s return from Russia

Big Government

• Alarming! DOD Launches Urban Assault Training In Chicago Suburb, Frightened Residents Describe “A War Zone”
• Examiner Editorial: How the FBI was blinded by political correctness 
• Bad news: The Federal Helium Program is not a parody
• Rep. Hank Johnson’s ‘world without balloons’ speech meant to ‘deflate GOP message machine’
• Another Anti-Voucher Democrat, With Kids in the Best Private School
• In bid to play down claims of stockpiling, DHS improbably claims agents are shooting 3x-4x more than our Army at war

Foreign Policy

• White House: Clinton’s 'Signature' on Benghazi Docs Doesn't Mean She Knew of Them
• Syrian War Rape: Obama Supports The Real War on Women 

Media

• NYT: Breitbart was right about Pigford
• New York Times rejects Bloomberg group's demand to correct pro-gun op-ed

ObamaCareTax

• Dems on Capitol Hill retreat from ObamaCare exemption; Update: Dems getting nervous about Obamacare?

Education, Liberal Mindset

• German 5-Year-Olds Now Learning How to Achieve Orgasm: 'The vagina and penis feel nice and tingly and warm'

Politics

• A National Security History Lesson for Marco Rubio
• Obama: Planned Parenthood isn't going anywhere, America
• Gun-Grabbers Go After GOP
• ACLU, LGBT Groups Raise "Grave Concerns" About Job Bill Religious Exemption

Budget Battle

• Breaking: House passes bill to end FAA furloughs

News and Opinions for a Friday!

Tyranny

• BREAKING: Reid Introduces Ammunition Background Check Bill
• In a Showdown with Sen. Sessions, ‘Big Sis’ Napolitano Claims that the Obama Administration can Pick and Choose what Laws to Enforce 
• Eric Holder: ‘Banning homeschooling does not violate rights’
• Obama's Terrorist Pal Comes Clean About Their Friendship
• NY State Middle School Forces Girls to Ask Each Other for a Kiss as Part of Anti-Gay-Bullying "Workshop" 
• ACLU: CISPA Is Dead (For Now)

State Government, Budget Battle, Education

• Education Budgets Compared

Big Government, Corruption, EPA

• Obamacare for thee but not for me [UPDATED]
• Up in the air: Taxpayers are subsidizing empty commercial flights
• They Damn Well Better Have To Abide By It
• Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption
• Raping Arizona......
• Raping Arizona… Part 2
• Did the Boston PD lie about the “hour-long firefight” with Boston terror suspect?
  Lolz at workers. 65% of coal powered plants may close thanks to EPA

Terrorism

• FRC shooter: I targeted them because SPLC list said they were ‘anti-gay’
• Contractor Writes the Real Story About “Secret Warriors” in Afghanistan and Iraq

Foreign Policy

• Canadian minister: Obama rejecting Keystone would be a “serious reversal in our long-standing energy relationship”
• MUST READ: Why Jerusalem is “Holy” for the Muslims

Politics, Liberal Mindset

• Memo: The Aaron Sorkin Model of Political Discourse Doesn't Actually Work
• Powerful New Weapon Unveiled in Fight Against Evil NRA

 Abortion

• Silencing the Lambs

ObamaCareTax

• Good News: House Leadership Fails To "Improve" ObamaCare; Bad News: House Leadership Was Trying To "Improve" ObamaCare
• Re: Good News/Bad News
•  Exclusive--McConnell: Entire Country Should Be Exempt from ObamaCare

Civil Discourse

• War on Women: Kirsten Powers slams Media Matters commenters for calling women ‘whores,’ ‘banshees’

Taxes

• Obama says new taxes aren’t negotiable

Second Amendment

• Joe Biden Readies Gun Control Advocates For Round Two
• Schumer, McCain agree: Gun control’s coming back before the end of the year

Thursday opinions and news

Tyranny

• Perez Abomination Grows
• Sen. Harry Reid explains difference between violent anarchists and Tea Party
• Mark Pryor May Soon Have A Bloomberg Problem
• So did Obama just 'Specter' Max Baucus?

Agenda 21

• Forecast: No End in Sight to AGW Excuses

Terrorism

• Krauthammer: "The Lengths To Which Obama Will Go To Avoid Telling Us About The Enemy Is Becoming Comical"
• Kerry: Bombing suspect got radicalized in ChechnyaTo a terrorist, a cop is just a gun store
• Mosque that Boston suspects attended has radical ties
• Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical

Big Government, Corruption, Politics

• Did Rubio Lie to Mark Levin?
• Bad Karma: Obama admin kept funding Fisker while knowing it was failing
• Federal judge: Obama/DHS can’t let DREAM-eligible illegals stay if the law says they should be deported
• Federal Judge Rules That Napolitano Does Not Have Self-Proclaimed "Discretion" To Refuse to Deport 
• Feds spend at least $890,000 on fees for empty accounts
• Immigration reform could be bonanza for Democrats
• Boston strong! Company-sized police unit fired 40+ rounds at UNARMED terrorism suspect 

It's The Economy

• Durable Goods Report Delivers More Bad News for Economy

Legislation

• The POPVOX Blog: The Week Ahead: April 22 - 26

Second Amendment

• Anarchy: NY State Troopers Distance Themselves From Cuomo, Hesitant to Enforce Draconian Gun Laws
• Financial Gun Control? GE Capital Quietly Cuts Off Lending to Gun Shops
• Gun prohibitionists to launch grisly anti-NRA effort
• Harry Reid Proposes New Background Check Bill
• Fox News poll: Why yes, most Americans would like a gun when there's a manhunt going on outside
• WaPo-Pew poll: So much for that tide of anger over gun-control failure

Foreign Policy

• House GOP faults Clinton, State Dept for Benghazi security (auto-start video)
• Issa: Clinton "was just wrong" in her testimony on Benghazi

United Nations

• UN Freak and 9/11 Truther Links Boston Bombings to Obama's Israel Trip

State Government, Legislation

• Inslee still considers DUI, gun control, abortion bills in play

American Exceptionalism

• I Watch People Like This
• Adam Carolla Mocks 'Coexist' Bumper Stickers, Says Terrorists 'Hate Our Culture'

Looking Ahead

• It’s time to file for a cultural divorce

Media

• Media and Left (But I Repeat Myself) Wonder: Was Dzhohkar Tsarnaev The World's First Victim of Viral Concussion-Induced Dementia?

Wednesday News

Tyranny

• W.Va. Teen Arrested After 'Almost Inciting Riot' Wearing NRA Shirt to School
• The controversial moment SWAT teams ordered innocent neighbors out of their houses at GUNPOINT during door-to-door searches for the Boston bomber
• House to House Searching, Not Just Boston Anymore
• Bloomberg wants to reintepret the Constitution 

Media

• Media Chorus to Silence Ted Cruz Growing Louder
• Add Boston Marathon Bombing to pile of Failed Eliminationist Narratives

United Nations

• If Supposedly One Gomer Speaks for All Americans When Looking For an Excuse to Hate Us

Education

• Seven Not-So-Fun Facts About the Costs of Public Education

Corruption, Foreign Policy

• Sharyl Attkisson tweets House report; Reveals Hillary Clinton lied under oath about Benghazi; Update: WH altered talking points
• Dissecting the Gang of 8′s enforcement sham
• House GOP releases report on Benghazi investigation, faulting Clinton
• Let’s see now…
• Congressional Panel Releases Report on Beghazi: Hillary Not Truthful In Claiming That She Was Unaware of Requests for Improved Security; White House Blamed Video In Order to Deflect Attention Away From State's Refusal to Provide Security

Terrorism

• Terrorist blames Bush

Bill of Rights

• Searches and Seizures: Reasonable or Unreasonable?
• The Boston Civil Rights Massacre

Abortion

• Kermit Gosnell Judge Drops Three Abortion-Infanticide Charges

Taxes

• Promise expired: Obama budget tax hikes hit “nearly every income level”
• Carney: Online sales tax will ‘level the playing field’

Agenda 21

• Whatcom County destroys the environment in order to save it

Sunday news!

•  Obama Losing Control of Middle East Policy
• Old And Busted: It's Not Amnesty Because illegals Will Have To Pay Back Taxes. New Hotness: Shut Up.
• John King Not Benched for Calling Suspect "Dark-Skinned," CNN Says
• Islamist Ultimatum to Syrian Christians: Convert, Leave, or Die.
• Obama Bans Islam, Jihad From National Security Strategy Document
• Biden: GOP Trying To Get Guns In More Hands
• Constitution of the United States
• Dana Milbank breaks out the rustiest epithet in the whole arsenal of liberal insults
• Video – Tim Scott. “There is no corner on Earth, no hiding place”
• Tale of two terrorists
•  Gosnell worker testifies to seeing baby make swimming motion in toilet
• Boston lockdown: The new normal?
• Terror Attacks Force US Officials To Balance Safety, Privacy Concerns
• After Four Days of Speculatively Blaming the Right and Anticipating What Political Solutions We Might Need To Address Their Growing Menace, Left Declares That the Time for Speculation and Political Wargaming Has Passed
• Getting to the bottom of this Miranda question for the bomber

Friday news!

Tyranny

• On The Second Amendment and Presidential Anger
• Can trees grow without Central Planning?
• Planning to Stifle Human Ingenuity
• The House Just Passed The CISPA Cybersecurity Bill — Here's Why The Internet Is Up In Arms
• Pelosi, Biden issue threats after Reid pulls faltering gun ban bill from Senate

Second Amendment

• Gabby Giffords Jumps the Shark With Pathetic Gun-Grabbing Op-Ed in the New York Times
• Senator to propose bill regulating black powder in wake of Boston Massacre

Legislation

• S. 744: A bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes;  The Border Security, Economic Opportunity & Immigration Modernization Act

Politics

• Organizing For America’s Post-Vote Call to Action    
• Could Obama’s gun-control push cost Democrats the Senate?

Big Government

• No, really: Maryland has a tax on rain now
• Homeland Security’s Ammunition Purchases Should Not Worry You

Abortion

• Testimony: Gosnell reused disposable instruments, falsified records: Update: Nurse saw more than 10 babies breathing

Foreign Policy

• Issa to CIA: Get your lawyers ready on Benghazi
• John Kerry: “We have a lot more important things to move on to” than Benghazi

It's The Economy

• China’s Local Debt “Out of Control”
• IMF Piles On: Pensions Are in Danger
• Sobering Presentation Reveals The Two Economies In America

Corruption

• Memphis prosecutors charge former, current IRS workers with theft of government benefits
• Gun-control official on Senate failure: “Bribery isn’t what it once was”

Media

• CNN Claims Pressure Cooker Bombs Somehow ‘Signature’ of Extreme Right Terrorists
• NYT: Can you believe Fox was talking about this fertilizer explosion instead of guns today?
  

Education, Unions

• College fires professor who forced students to sign pledge to vote for Obama
•  A closer look at how the BGSD conducts its business

State Government, Legislation

• Gun bill stalls in Washington state Senate

ObamaCareTax

• Pompeo to Baucus: If ObamaCare is a “train wreck,” you’ve got nobody to blame but yourself