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

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
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• The Worst Unemployment Crisis In Modern History Is Unfolding Right Now
• Why Friday's Jobs Report Was Ominous

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

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?

Tuesday news and opinions!

Tyranny

• Why Does Evil Make Liberals Stupid?
• More Bullet Hoses 
• Slow Down Immigration Reform: An Open Letter to Sen. Harry Reid from Sen. Rand Paul
• Bloomberg Says Interpretation of Constitution Will ‘Have to Change’ After Boston Bombing
• Timothy P. Carney: Civil society, not Big Brother, is the American way 

It's The Economy, Taxes

• The War against the Young 
• Argentina: Creditors say "no"
• Poverty in America: Millions of families too broke for bank accounts
• Walmart, Amazon Back Stealth Internet Sales Tax Bill
• Surprise: Americans not keen on paying higher gas taxes

Big Government, EPA

• Abracadabra!
• Danes Rethink a Welfare State Ample to a Fault
• Rubio Spokesman: Your Immigration Compromise Offer Reminds Me Of Something. What's It Called? Oh Right...SLAVERY.
• Fisker spent $600K for every car it sold, skids toward bankruptcy
• Obviously: State’s Keystone pipeline review is “insufficient,” says the EPA

ObamaCareTax

• Putting Lipstick on the Obamacare Pig 

Terrorism

• Homeland Security – One Would Have Thought………
• Marathon Bombing: Issues to Watch 
• FBI Confirms Boston Bomber Suspect's Radical Islamism
• Officials: Tsarnaevs Appear To Have Been Motivated By Religion and/or Early 60s Futurist Architecture

Liberal Mindset

• New York's 'Stop and Frisk' Policy a Lifesaver
• Boston Bombing Suspects Did Not Have Valid Handgun Licenses

Media

• Gun Store Running AR-15 Giveaways on Facebook Sees Page Shut Down - And Facebook Hasn't Contacted Him to Say Why
• Hunt for the elusive Tea Party murderer continues

Looking Ahead

• We Can't Go Back to Sleep
• How Chuck Schumer ran rings around Marco Rubio

Corruption

• Farrakhan son is part-time Harvey cop but hasn’t worked a shift in 4 years

Abortion

• Devastating: Philly-area columnist asks a key, yet horrifying, Gosnell question
• Planned Parenthood Kept Silent About Gosnell Butchery

Second Amendment

• USA Today poll shows gun-control support slipping still further

Saturday opinons and news!

• Why Is Defying Majority Support for Gun Control 'Cowardice'?
• Boston Bomber Could Have Been Deported After 2009 Conviction
• Obama showing his back side
• House lawmakers call on ABC, NBC, CBS to explain media's Gosnell, Planned Parenthood 'blackout'
• Behind the Curtain: Obama, boxed in
• Crocodile Tears?
• The Switch…
• We Could've Deported One of the Terrorists, But Apparently We Didn't Think He Was A Threat
• Myth vs. Fact: Yes, the Schumer-Rubio bill does allow lawsuits to gut border security
• Watertown Residents Are Looking Out Of Their Windows And Seeing These Incredible War-Like Scenes
• Morning Bell: Beware the Internet Sales Tax
• Can the Police Search My Home for a Bomber?
• After day of inept searching and false alarms, Boston Marathon bombing suspect is finally captured
• Obama taking executive action on guns after Senate vote
• Proposed regulations already killing food truck businesses in D.C.
• Option #2: It’d Work That Way In Our Neighborhood 

Future Candidate Workshop

Courtesy of the Lewis Clark Tea Party:

Future Candidate Workshop

Led by Robert Arnakis,  Team Manager, WDC Leadership Institute

His 15 years of experience in grassroots organizing and developing campaign, fundraising, and communications strategies has established Robert as one the country’s top political trainers. Last cycle, 179 first time candidates who were trained through Robert’s programs were elected to office, including seven freshmen members of the United States Congress.

Robert has served as campaign staff on two presidential races, several congressional races and a multitude of municipal and legislative campaigns. His favorite campaign was working on U.S. Senator John Thune’s 2004 campaign. Robert helped lead the GOTV efforts which resulted in the defeat of former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.

Some on the nation’s foremost public policy organizations such as Tea Party Patriots, Americans for Prosperity, Focus on the Family, State Policy Network, National Right to Life Committee, and the American Legislative Exchange Council have benefited from Robert’s training. Robert has provided training for the Republican National Committee, Libertarian National Committee, and the Constitution Party.

More information on the workshop may be found here.

"Restoring our Republic"

Shahram Hadian at the Tax Day Rally In Walla Walla:

News & Opinions for Thursday!

Tyranny

• Obama's 'Lying Problem' about Firearms
• Man who escaped Castro's Cuba speaks at Oregon gun control hearing: 'You people don't know what freedom is because you never lost it'
•  Obama's Abuse of Dead Children
• Calif. Tax Bill Seeks to Punish Boy Scouts' for Gay Ban, Targets Group's 'Unfortunate Discriminatory and Outdated Practices'
• today's Lympians
• We must STOP Compromising! Florist in Richland, WA Sued for Not Providing Flowers for Gay Wedding

Budget Battle

• Good news!
• The Real Budget Action Won't Come Until Tonight
• President Finally Unites Americans: Everybody Hates Obama's Budget
• New Obama budget totals $3.77 trillion
• Obama sends Congress $3.77T spending plan, riles both sides
• Early analysis: Obama's 2014 budget numbers are based on bad math, phantom revenues, imagined spending cuts and a middle-class tax hike
• PoliceOne's Gun Control Survey: 11 key lessons from officers' perspectives

Second Amendment

• Manchin, Toomey close to deal on “expanded” background checks; Update: Deal reached
• The Toomey-Schumer-Manchin Amendment
• Colorado sheriffs plan lawsuit challenging state gun control laws
• Want a Credible Voice on Firearms? Listen to Dom Raso
• Manchin-Toomey "Bipartisan" Gun Control Press Conference
• The Toomey-Manchin Proposal Will Allow Doctors to Block Your Right to Guns
• Coverage of the Toomey-Manchin Gun Control Press Conference
• Statement from the National Rifle Association Regarding Toomey-Manchin Background Check Proposal
• NRA to oppose Manchin/Toomey bill on background checks
• It's Hard Not To Be Cynical About This Toomey/Manchin Deal
• Letter from NRA Institute for Legislative Action Executive Director Chris Cox to the United States Senate On Background Checks
• Senator Toomey Betrays Gun Owners
• NRA Statement on S.649
• Pat Toomey’s reward: Bloomberg’s gun-control group drops attack ad, runs favorable ad in PA instead

State Government, Budget Battle

• House wants even more spending than governor asked for 
• Pension spiking: defrauding taxpayers in slow motion

Media

• Weaned on the Beeb's hatred, no wonder the young rejoice at her death
• New MSNBC promo: You have the right to health care, education, housing, and food at all times

Big Government

• Bipartisan lawmakers: Time to scrap some of this ethanol-mandate ridiculousness, no?
• Video: GOP rep rips Obama’s budget for … proposing mild entitlement reform?

ObamaCareTax

• Is it statism or healthcare?

Abortion

• "It jumped, the arm"; Update: Media score - Rutgers 41, Gosnell 0 
• Video: Delaware Planned Parenthood clinic closed after whistleblowers go public about conditions

Taxes

• Who likes taxes? Democrats, and no one else.

Education

• Rotten to the Core: Conservatives spearhead drive at RNC meeting to stop Common Core

Politics, Looking Ahead

• Revealed: The Gang of Eight's immigration planCruz: Obama's gun-control push is going to cost Democrats the Senate in 2014
• Rand Paul goes to Howard

Terrorism

• No Tears for Lynne Stewart

Tuesday opinions & news

Tyranny

• EXCLUSIVE: ACLU says Reid’s gun legislation could threaten privacy rights, civil liberties
• State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
• Gun-rights testimony from a communism survivor: "You don't know what freedom is, because you've never lost it"
• Feinstein: Veterans May Have PTSD And Should Not Be Exempt From Assault Weapons Ban
• Obama's Emotional Plea In Connecticut: 'What's More Important — Our Children Or An 'A' Grade From The Gun Lobby?'
• Law Firm: New York Matching Up Private Health Records With Gun Permits to Confiscate Firearms

Second Amendment

• Emotional Newtown dad: More gun control is not the answer
• Gun legislation’s prospects improve
• As support for gun bill filibuster grows, Obama says backers trying to use 'political stunts'
• Colt Manufacturing Company Moving to... Texas
• Why Transfers?
• Senate "background checks" are anything but; ban anyone but owner from touching gun at almost any time
• But I Thought Law Enforcement Supported Gun Control!
• ACLU understands that the bill before the Senate next week is essentially a gun registration system 
• WHERE ARE THE CALLS FOR ANTI-DEPRESSANT CONTROL? Like Other Mass-Killers, James Holmes Was Taking Violence-Linked Antidepressants

It's The Economy

• Dear Mr. President ~ May I Reiterate My Earnest, Heartfelt Sentiments Yet Again?
• How Thatcher was "freakishly correct" about the euro
• Are demographics really to blame for the struggling economy?
• Rhode Island’s Tallest Building to Go Dark in the ‘Most Visible Symbol of the State’s Long Economic Decline’
• Doctors driven to bankruptcy
• Number of the Week: Youth Unemployment at 22.9%?

Big Government

• Massachusetts man facing charges after shooting bear in self-defense in his yard
• U.S. Passes Saudis In Oil Output, No Thanks To White House
• Did You Know This? The US Has Surpassed Saudi Arabia in Oil Production
• GAO report: The govt has gotten a little heavy-handed with these wind subsidies, huh?

Unions

• Public Sector Unions Reeling In Wisconsin
• Seattle Board Capitulates to Testing Revolt

Legislation

• What’s your position on H.R. 1120: Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act
• What’s your position on CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act)

Foreign Policy

• Obama budget to cut missile-defense spendingObama administration reviving the Arab Peace Initiative

Media

• As Our Wonderful President Makes His Points to Adoring Fans On the Backs of Dead ChildrenGOP rep’s son: CNN and MSNBC canceled my interviews when I refused to bash my dad
• Press Ignores Pat Smith
• The Truth About Pamela Geller

Taxes

• Jindal backs off of his tax reform plan: “Let’s work together”

ObamaCareTax

• WSJ: Small businesses increasingly looking to avoid the employer mandate

Looking Ahead

• Random Thoughts...

Liberal Mindset

• Sigh: George Washington University students attempt to oust priest after discovering he’s Catholic
• Protesters greet Obama on S.F.’s Billionaires’ Row

Monday news & opinions

Tyranny

• Six Alinsky Rules That Explain Obama’s Words and Deeds
• Smiley-Face Lies and Homicide Hogwash in Dem Hellholes
• Illinois Democrat blames Aurora mass killing victims for not defending themselves
• WHO SEDIT?

Media

• MSNBC — All your children are belong to us
• Univision Wins Peabody Award for Fast and Furious Documentary — (45 Min Video with auto-start)

Big Government

• Scaredy-Cat Nation
• So Many Unsolved Murders in Gun-Free Chicago, It's Posting Photos of Unclaimed Bodies on its Website

Budget Battle

• White House pushes Obama budget, warns Republicans about 'my way or highway' tactic

It's The Economy

• Americans discouraged by economic recovery leave labor force

Politics

• Anti-Tea Party No Labels Co-founder Unleashes Attack on Sarah Palin
• Paper Tigress 
• Sen. McCain: I ‘don’t understand’ GOP threats to filibuster Senate gun bill
• White House says Obama had limited expectations for gun violence proposals 

Liberal Mindset

• In Case PETA Didn't Already Disgust You Enough....
• Michael Bloomberg needs more thorough background check system for his ‘Mayors Against Illegal Guns’ 

Second Amendment

• The Giffords-Kelly Lie Machine Strikes Again
• Infographic: Gun Facts You Need To Know
• Sen. Coburn Drafts His Own Gun Bill

Looking Ahead

• Israel prepares for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Agenda 21

• Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: The Whole CO2 “Argument Is Tiresome And Absurd…Warmists Living In A Fantasy World”

Friday thoughts, opinions, and news

Tyranny

• Obama: Gun Control Won’t Lead to Confiscation Because ‘I Am Constrained by a System Our Founders Put in Place’ 
• “I need a gun to protect myself from the govt” – Obama mocks gun owner concerns as ‘ginned-up fears’
• Police Militarization, Abuses of Power, and the Road to Impeachment
• Loose Language in Reid’s Gun Control Bill Allows the Beginnings of a National Gun Registry
• Canadian News Anchor Issues Ominous Warning to America: Gun Registration Will Lead to ‘Confiscation’
• Denver Cops to Obama: Don't Use Us as "Political Props" for Gun Control
• Beware Schumer's Latest Pose
• Poverty, food stamp explosions, and the notion of "recovery"
• ACLU to Reid: Not so fast on that gun-control bill

Looking Ahead

• Bloody calculus

 
Media

• Why Hasn’t The Media Been Reporting On Or Booking Pro-Gun Newtown Parent Mark Mattioli?
• The Open-Borders “Journalists” Who Banned “Illegal Immigrant”
• Unhinged: Chris Matthews Ties Texas Prosecutor Murders to Ted Cruz and the Second Amendment

ObamaCareTax, Bill of Rights

• As ObamaCare crumbles, Obama returns to--Can you guess?--fundraising
• “Hobby Lobby Granted Full Hearing on HHS Mandate”
• HHS survey shows that half of ObamaCare target market doesn't want it

Second Amendment

• The NRA Is Beating President Obama on Gun Control
• Gun-rights laws are gaining steam in the states
• 31 Major Hunting and Wildlife Organizations Representing Tens of Millions of Americans Oppose Universal Background Checks

Big Government, Politics, Corruption

• Rep. Jason Chaffetz Makes More Startling Border Discoveries: ‘Worst Thing I’ve Seen’
• Shock, Consternation: Chevy Volt Sales Plummet
• RUSH, RUSH, RUSH! Like the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland
• Another public-school cheating scandal in Philly? 
• The Obama admin wants to reform food aid and the agribusiness lobby is not okay with it
• Dem Congresswoman Mocks Concerned Pro-Gun Senior Citizen: ‘You’d Probably Be Dead Anyway’

Budget battle, Corruption

• What Sequester? Stars Align (Again) at Obama's White House

Liberal Mindset

• City Recruits Minority Lifeguards Even if They Can’t Swim
• Ben Carson blasts 'vicious,' white liberal critics as ‘the most racist out there’ 

It's The Economy

• Red Flags Are Popping Up For Both The Economy And The Market
• Germany, Only Country In Eurozone Which Has Shown Any Robustness, Collapses to "Near Stagnation"

State Government

• A WIN for Open Government
• Sexual conversion therapy bill debated in House committee

Humor

• Joe Biden Zoning Out

Terrorism

• Kathy Boudin, Columbia Professor: The Whole Story

News for Friday!

Tyranny

• Krauthammer: With This Administration, I Don't Buy Anything They Are Telling Me
• "Bizarre Interpretation of Second Amendment" is Obstacle to UN Gun Grab   
• Bringing Down America with The Company You Keep
• Thousands of armed vigilantes takeover Mexican town, arrest police and shoot at tourists after 'commander' is killed and dumped in the street 
• Obama Administration Seeks To Nullify The Nullifiers
• Sen. Cruz Statement on President Obama's Comments on Gun Control Legislation

Politics

• Obama: Shame on us for not enacting my gun-control agenda already
• A Columbine Survivor Tells President Obama To Man Up
• Flashback: Remember when Democrats swore they opposed same-sex marriage? 

Looking Ahead

• The Wisdom of Dan Quayle

It's The Economy

• NBC: "surging" student loan debt "crushing" the system
• Not-So-Great News for Jobless Claims and GDP
• The Story Behind Walmart's Bare Shelves

Legislation

• Issue Spotlight: Firearms and Gun Control
• Issue Spotlight: Key Amendments Passed in the Senate's Budget

Foreign Policy

• Reminder: How Mexico Treats “Undesirable” Foreigners

ObamaCareTax

• Medicare Has Stopped Paying For Diagnostic Tests
• Obamacare isn’t forever, but what’s next is worse 
• Pssst: The super-secret GOP plan to repeal ObamaCare
• Little hope seen for millions priced out of health overhaul
• CNN: Hey, were Americans misled about the costs of ObamaCare?

 
Big Government

• Running The Numbers On DHS’ Ammo Purchases
• Yes, liberal friends, the government is ‘protecting’ you from delicious, local food

Corruption

• Obama’s ‘Fast and Furious’ Body Count Continues Rising in Mexico

State Government, Taxes

• So Much for Inslee’s No-Tax-Increase Pledge

Unions

• Commentary: A Milestone for Michigan — Worker Freedom in the 'Big Labor' State

Liberal Mindset

• One Nation Above God

Second Amendment

• We Have the Language of Reid’s Bill, S.649
• Misplaced Words or True Intent?
• Republicans Clamoring For Bill?

Budget Battle

• White House: Okay, for real this time, Obama’s budget is coming April 10th 

Opinions and News for Tuesday!

Tyranny

• Cyprus strikes last-minute EU bailout deal
• New York Budget Will Include ‘Indefinite Postponement’ of Andrew Cuomo’s Absurd Gun Clip Law
• When is a citizenry justified in deposing its government?
• Eurozone chief: Yeah, the Cyprus deal could definitely augur future euro-crisis plans
  Member of Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns Dropped After Weapons Accusation 

Looking Ahead

• Resistance is Dangerous; Submission is Frequently Fatal
• Review: A Failure of Civility

State Government, Legislation, Unions, Agenda 21

• Teachers' union tops lobbying spending in Olympia so far
• House OKs greenhouse gas bill, whether it’s needed or not
• Lawmakers, civil rights groups spar over mental health regs 
• Can you balance Washington's budget?

Media

• CBS ‘Apologizes’ If You Were Offended By Their Communist Propaganda
• MSNBC panelists: A lot of this opposition to Bloomberg's anti-gun campaign is probably fueled by anti-Semitism 
• Wayne LaPierre Batters David Gregory: ‘Why Doesn’t NBC News’ Report That Chicago Ranks ‘Dead Last’ in Federal Gun Law Enforcement? 

Politics

• McCain emerges as key senator in expanding background checks
• Paul Ryan's disappearing act 
• Marriage and the Supreme Court
• Disaster for Dems

Bill of Rights

• Gallup: Drones over thee, not we 
• Michael Bloomberg is a one-man gang on gun control. But how much difference can he make? 
• The State of the Gun Rights
• Round Limitation in New York: Round Two
• Mike Bloomberg: "I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom"
• Video: Guy in Bloomberg gun-control ads breaks all the major rules of gun safety

ObamaCareTax

• Coming Soon to the U.S.: Two-Day Waits for Doctors?
• Obamacare Premium Spike Goes National

Big Government

• US Border Patrol Uniforms – Made in Mexico
• Good news: FDA probably going after cigars next
• Regulatory pressure moves battery recycling south of the border
• The Obama administration is definitely not prioritizing oil and gas permits 
• Oh, joy: Obama creates five new national monuments

Education

• Forbidden City: The left-wing stranglehold on academia.

Foreign Policy

• Backing up Obama's warnings to Syria creates tough challenges on two fronts

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

Time for the Friday news & opinions

Tyranny

• EU to Cyprus: We Are Not Impressed
• Biden: No, Obama and I haven't given up on the assault-weapons ban

Second Amendment, Legislation, United Nations

• Cuomo: That gun law I signed turned out to be utterly unworkable, huh?
• Suing the Gun Grabbers
• New York's New "Intelligent", "Reasonable" and "Common Sense" Gun Law Now Unworkable
• NRA sues Gov. Cuomo over New York gun law
• Florida firearm violence hits record low; concealed gun permits up
• (Congressional) Issue Spotlight: Firearms and Gun Control
• Stacked Deck at UN ATT Talks
• Gifts, gun raffles and multiple sales of guns would be effectively banned
• S. 54 Would Effectively Ban Even More Guns than Feinstein’s Bill! 
• Video: Gun-grabbing billionaire hints at defeating Senators who vote no on assault-weapons ban

Big Government, Taxes, Budget Battle

• The tobacco pirates invade Ireland
• California: How about a retroactive tax grab, plus interest?
• Super: Congress votes to force broke Postal Service back into 6-day delivery
• Hey, what if we fired federal employees seriously delinquent on taxes? Democrats: Nah.

State Government, Budget Battle, Taxes

• New revenue forecast says Washington state lawmakers face $1.2 billion shortfall
• Confusion in Olympia: Lawmakers try to assess tax breaks
• Why did that bill die? There’s a law for that, my friend

Budget Battle

• POPVOX Daily Digest - March 21, 2013 (Budget)
• House passes Ryan budget, 221-207
• Impact of "sequester" budget cuts on jobs may be exaggerated

ObamaCareTax

• Can you get Obamacare? This insanely complicated chart will tell you.
• Health-care law uncertainty grips Old Town Alexandria cafe - and other small businesses
• CVS preparing to penalize workers who won't disclose their health information 
• MSNBC to HHS secretary: So, three years later, what do Americans still not understand about ObamaCare?
• Poll: Not even Democrats are convinced ObamaCare will improve health care

Looking Ahead

• The surrenderers

Legislation

• (Congressional) Weekly Roundup: March 14 - 20

Liberal Mindset

• Mixed Martial Arts fighter Fallon Fox shouldn't be allowed to beat up women
• Food Stamp Nation: R.I. Town Shows Leftism's Dead End

Foreign Policy

• Graham: Yeah, it's time to subpoena the Obama administration on the Benghazi survivors

Power and control

From Bob Owens, writer, blogger, and firearms instructor, his thoughts on where America is going:

Let’s not be fooled, America.

Both of this nation’s political parties operating at the federal level have far more in common with each other than they do with you and I.

The polimedia—the revolving door between the mainstream media, the consultant class, bureaucrats and elected officials—has no more in common with you, than you have with a Moro tribesman, and if your idealism and insistence upon clinging to your Constitutional rights gets in the way of their desire for power and control, they have little moral objection to treating you the same way.

Their goal is to exert their influence over you, using laws and regulations in such a way as to bring themselves both power and financial advantage. It is human nature that great power leads inevitably to great corruption, and it is no coincidence that the counties surrounding Washington DC are among the wealthiest in the nation.

These self-styled elite are offended and more than a little afraid of the electorate. No, they aren’t remotely concerned about the several dozen urban cores from whence they draw their power. They’ve pacified them with government handouts, and will continue to exert tremendous influence over those they’re paying off and scaring into complicity as long as they can steal from the productive and borrow from our enemies.

No, they’re specifically afraid of you, those who failed to gratefully receive your indoctrinations, who fail to see the State as benevolent, who continue to dare hold to those crusty old Enlightenment values that propose that man can be something greater than a datapoint, a row in a spreadsheet, or asset to be taxed.

Read the rest.

News & Opinions for Wednesday

Tyranny, It's the Economy

• Russia offers to bail out Cyprus … for a price
• Cypriot Government Freaks Out 
• Cyprus lawmakers on “one-time” bank deposit levy: Yeah, we’re not doing that

Politics, Looking Ahead, Corruption

• Dodge of the Day: Reporter asks Jay Carney if Obama plans to cut back on lavish vacations and golf trips
• White House refuses to promise that Obama will cut back on ‘lavish vacations’
• Harry Reid hints: The explosion that killed those seven Marines was caused by sequestration, you know
• Dingy Harry Insinuates That Explosion That Killed 7 Marines Was Caused By... The Sequester
• The GOP's Plan To Save Itself Involves Destroying Grassroots Conservatives
• Reince Priebus’s not so crazy plans
• Recall Campaigns for Colorado Democrats who pushed draconian anti-Second Amendment bills through state legislature
• CNN: Obama approval drops to 47/50
• GOP catfight: Michael Steele calls Reince Priebus 'numb nuts'

Budget Battle

• "Yes”

Second Amendment

• Reid kills Feinstein AW ban, making it even more dangerous
• Feinstein: Reid excluded the assault-weapons ban from Senate gun bill
• Holy cow: Not even 40 votes in the Senate for the assault-weapons ban, says Reid
• Magpul's response to passage of anti-gun laws in Colorado
• Lupica: Morbid find suggests murder-obsessed gunman Adam Lanza plotted Newtown, Conn.'s Sandy Hook massacre for years 
• CT governor’s post-Sandy Hook advisory panel avoids real solutions to play politics 

Media

• Pew study: Fox News reports three times more news than MSNBC

State Government, Budget Battle, Taxes, Legislation

• State budget shortfall grows by $300 million
• Critical numbers coming for Olympia
• Legislature clamps down on tax breaks with bills that set standards for those that exist, lay out expectations for new ones
• Dozens Killed in House Battle Over Gun Control — and Other Tales from Deadline Day
• Democrat Pedersen Offers Astounding Explanation for Epic Flopperoo of Gun-Control Bill – It’s the Republicans’ Fault
• Bill would prevent government from using its own lobbyists

ObamaCareTax

• Implementing Obamacare? “Impossible endeavor”

It's The Economy, Taxes

• Are we experiencing an off-the-books boom?
• Save Small Businesses from the Internet Tax Mandate
• Shocker: Oil companies pay the most in income taxes

Big Government, Bill of Rights

• I Should Apply For Federal Funds 
• Grounds for Warrantless Search and Taking Kids in New Jersey?
• TSA agents 'humiliated' wounded Marine with aggressive inspection: report