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 on a Friday, with more scandal

Tyranny

• Exclusive: Holder Says 'No' to Special Counsel to Investigate Benghazi
• Oops: IRS's rationale for scrutinizing tea partiers debunked by nonprofit application data
• IRS to pro-life group: Send letter pledging not to protest Planned Parenthood to get your tax exemption
• Holder on the way out?
• Words That Should Not Be Strung Together In America, "IRS Building Largest Government Database" 
• ABC: Yes, it's true, the acting IRS commissioner was preparing to leave in a few weeks anyway; Update: Second IRS official to step down; Update: Was promoted last week?
• Did the IRS give Mitt Romney's tax returns to Harry Reid?
• Official White House Account Now Trolling Opponents
• Sharia Law: Australian Woman Spends 8 Months In Prison For Being Gang Raped
• Senate immigration gang frustrates GOP efforts to bolster border enforcement

Big Government

• Pelosi: These Republicans are too consumed with “evasions” to worry about the real issue, which is … jobs
• Video: IRS scapegoats not exactly taking it lying down
• Eric “Fedo” Holder Is Smart And Wants Respect
• Boustany: "A culture of rot going on at the IRS"
• Great news: US has misplaced two former Witness Protection Program participants "known or suspected as terrorists"; Update: Failed to update no-fly lists?
• Uh oh: Second appeals court invalidates Obama's questionable "recess" appointments
• DHS confirms cheaper to deport every illegal alien than allowing them to stay
• Police State Boston excels at shooting unarmed suspects, innocent bystanders, each other 

Bill of Rights

• The Feds Mandate Abolition of Free Speech on Campus
• Richland florist sued by state for refusing gay wedding sues back
• Dems offer gun control bill inspired by latest James Bond movie 'Skyfall'
• Legal Insurrection and Judicial Watch file suit to obtain David Gregory gun law violation documents
• O’Malley signs gun ban. Maryland offically joins the slave states

Media

• CNN Now Aiming for Zero Ratings
• Barbara Boxer's claim that GOP budgets hampered Benghazi security
• WaPo: CIA asked AP not to expose Yemen terror plot bust until White House was ready to crow about it publicly 
• WH: Golly, if we had a shield law, we wouldn't have broken the other laws in AP records scandal, or something; Update: SPJ not buying it
• The IRS Was Dead Right To Scrutinize Tea Party
• When it rains, it pours: Ten press conference take aways

Politics

• Rubio: Obama "doesn't have clean hands" in IRS scandal

State Government, Taxes, Budget Battle

• Washington Voters – No Appetite for New Taxes, Spending

ObamaCareTax

• IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office

Unions

• Behind the IRS, the National Treasury Employees Union; and Behind the Union, Democratic Politics

Abortion

• Pro-Abortion Planned Parenthood’s New Ad Campaign: Your Baby Will Thank You

Terrorism

• Reports: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev note found in boat points to mystifying motive we may never truly understand

Thursday news -- another IRS lollapalooza

Tyranny -- brought to you by the Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service

• President Cosmic Lightworker Expresses Disappointment in Mere Mortals at IRS
•  52 media groups protest DOJ's Associated Press action
• IRS approved liberal groups while Tea Party in limbo
• Report: IRS targeted more conservative groups than thought
• Selective “incompetence” in IRS scandal
• Holder: “I’m not sure” how many times I’ve approved seizing reporter phone records
• IRS faces class action lawsuit over theft of 60 million medical records
• A brief history of slimy Dem snoops and dumpster divers
• Rubio: These are the kinds of scandals you see in the third world
• Boehner: IRS scandal question is "who's going to jail?"
• The IRS wants YOU - to share everything
• The IRS Scandal Is Even Worse Than You Think, and It Extends Up to the Commissioner
• Throw Another Scandal On The Barbie...IRS Sued Over Improper Access To Tens of Millions Of Health Records
• IRS commissioner: Hey, turns out it was mainly just two "rogue" employees who targeted tea partiers
• Holder: I can't remember when I recused myself from the AP investigation, and I know I didn't do it in writing
• Open thread: Obama to address IRS scandal at 6 p.m. ET; Update: More than 75% of donations at Cincinnati IRS office went to Democrats
• Would You Believe The Administration Got Phone Records of The House Of Representatives?

Media

• ‘Media Matters’ posts talking points to defend DOJ spying on AP reporters
• Lisa Myers Calls The Press And The Left 'One' Of Obama's 'Most Important Constituencies'
• NYT, WaPo, USA Today editorial boards blast Obama over seizure of AP phone records 
• WaPo wonders: Could IRS scandal re-ignite the Tea Party?
• The New Republic: Hey, didn’t Tea Parties kinda bring this on themselves by trying really hard to follow the law?
• Chris Matthews: “White supremacy” is a pretty big part of all of this opposition to Obama

Politics

• In Praise of Paranoia
• D.C. turns on Obama
• Sen. Boxer’s latest take on Benghazi: “Mirror, mirror, who cut the funding for diplomatic security”?
• Attorney General Holder Looses Cool: DOJ Ruse Deletes Contents of 1,200 Emails Except "To and From" (Youtube)
• Holder to Hearing: Ask Somebody Else — Holder to Issa: You're 'Shameful'
• "Fired" Acting IRS Commissioner Was Set To Resign... in June 

United Nations

• Oh, lovely: Iran to preside over United Nations arms-control forum later this month

State Government

• Senator’s plan would make Washington a right-to-work state

Big Government, Corruption

• The top 20 Benghazi lies
• Great news: Government salt intake guidelines useless, may even be dangerous
• Did the White House selectively leak e-mail to distort Benghazi timeline story? Update: Axelrod: Release all the Libya e-mails
• Frank VanderSloot: 'I'm not the only' major Mitt Romney donor audited
• German Homeschooling Family's Request for Asylum Denied by the U.S. Government
• Document dump: White House releases 100 pages of Benghazi e-mails

It's The Economy

• BBC: US Shale Oil Supply Shock Shifts Global Power Balance
• Womp: Eurozone dragging into its sixth straight quarter of recession 

Socialism

• Argentina's Deadbeat Special: Buy a 4% Bond or Go to Jail

Bill of Rights

• Chicago gun laws bar museum from displaying Nazi weapon seized by WWII hero
• By the way, the feds also pushed super-broad speech codes for campuses this week 

Education

• An "informational text" from a Henderson County public school

News and Opinions for Wednesday

Tyranny

• The Obama Presidency, in One Tweet
• South Carolina Tea Party Mom Describes IRS ‘Harassment’
• After IRS, Benghazi, should I trust government? Column
• IRS-Gate: Executive Summary of the Inspector General's Report
• President Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts [Updated]
• The White House's New Game: The Benghazi Emails Were Doctored or Something 
• True the Vote Founder: DOJ Also Investigated Us After IRS Filing
• The Origin of Gun Control in America 
• Geller, Atlas Shrugs…Impeach. White House New Email Bombshell 

Abortion

• Morning Bell: Serving Justice to Gosnell
• Harry Reid: The Real Lesson of Gosnell Is That We Need Cleaner Abortion Offices

Media

• Four Pinocchios for Obama on Benghazi terror claim
• How the 2013 World Press Photo of the Year was faked with Photoshop
• Time: The Real IRS Scandal Is They Went About Targeting the Tea Party the Wrong Way
• Politico: Here’s Why Journalists Suck Today
• MSNBC's Hayes: GOP Pursuing 'Fake' 'Witch Hunt' on Benghazi and Over 'Big, Bad, Scary' IRS Scandal
• Watergate reporter blasts White House for attack on media 
• NPR: Scandals May Cost Obama His Dream of Bipartisanship 

Legislation

• H.Res. 36: Establishing a select committee to investigate and report on the attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Bill of Rights

• 4th Circuit Court: Open Carry NOT Probable Cause
• The Right of Self Defense (Event) 
• Disarming Realities: As Gun Sales Soar, Gun Crimes Plummet 
• Breaking: Holder recuses himself from DOJ investigation of AP phone records; Update: Already recused?

State Government, Legislation

• Committee OKs tougher DUI laws, but funding still unclear

Politics

• GOP defies Boehner on special Benghazi panel
• White House stuck on IRS scandal response
• Walker, Jindal: IRS case needs a special prosecutor

Big Government, EPA, Corruption

• Complexity + Hubris...
• Report: EPA followed double standard for conservative groups too?
• IRS Abandoned Tea Party Probes Due To 'Concerns' Over Media Attention
• Document of the day: The most transparent administration ever
• GOP probing Sebelius's fundraising push: "Clear appearance of a conflict of interest"
• What does the scandal cascade teach us about trust in government power?
• House Begins a "Follow the Money" Probe Into Sebelius' Attempt to Shakedown Health Care Providers for ObamaCare Funds
• Obama administration gives wind farms a pass on eagle deaths, prosecutes oil companies
• Revealed: Read the Letter the IRS Sent to One Local Tea Party and the Detailed Demands It Made
  

Civil Discourse

• Former NAACP chair: It's legit for the IRS to look at the tea party, "the Taliban wing of American politics"
• This Is What It's Come To

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

News and Opinions for Friday

Tyranny

• RED ALERT -- ACTION REQUIRED: #Benghazi Hearings and the Need for a Select Committee-Now [Hugh Hewitt]
• Transparency! Obama Administration Helps Hide Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Financial Records
• Suit Against NLRB to Proceed
• He Had It On "Vibrate"
• House Armed Service chair denied access to Benghazi files
• Coburn: State omitted something very significant to Senate Intel Committee
• The 'How Dare You' Defense on Benghazi
• The crucifixion of Jason Richwine
• House Dem on Benghazi: What’s the big deal here?

Media

• The Paul Anka/Admiral Byng Solution
• Republican leader rips the media for ‘shoving us in the corner’
• Sharyl 'Benghazi Campaign' Attkisson Hadn't Reported About the Attack On the Air in Over 5 Months
• Benghazi – what’s new?
• Unsurprising Media Consensus: ‘Shut Up About Benghazi, You Stupid Republicans’
• Benghazi Hall of Shame
• Video: MSNBC hosts now asking Democrats for autographs on air
• ‘That really pi$$es me off!’: Dana Perino blasts Bob Beckel over Benghazi BS [video]; Update: Perino slams media’s double standard

Big Government

• Feds demand removal of 3-D printable gun plans from the Internet
• David Frum Is Going to Rock Your World on Immigration
• Is the FDA heading toward age limits on caffeine products?
• Nobody Has Any Idea What’s Going on in Our Health Care System
• The GOP is boycotting Obama’s pick for EPA chief, and Democrats are not happy about it

Corruption

• House Oversight Committee: #Benghazi Hearing Live-Blog
• Can we just get to the bottom of it??
• Secret Service agent: We're being railroaded over hooker scandal
• Defense IG: Obama administration "bureaucrats" trying to silence me about corruption in Afghanistan

Politics

• Exposing The Republican “Liberty” Caucus Part I: Pro-Abortion, Pro-Illegal, Anti-Liberty History
• Ted Cruz's Twitter Feed Demonstrates Why Harry Reid Says Mean Things About HimCruz on Obama's Texas visit: Hey, perhaps he'll learn to create some jobs from the folks who know how

Unions

• Union boss Trumka calls out Walmart for having the audacity to hire veterans

Abortion

• 'Stop Being a Baby': Infanticide and the infantilization of women

Bill of Rights

• Still Setting Records
• Hobby Lobby Case Shows Obamacare Is Threat to Liberty

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

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”

From the Heritage Foundation

The Gang of Eight Immigration Bill, Explained in One Infographic

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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Tuesday news & opinions

Tyranny

• Good at campaigning, bad at governing
• Whatever's in the Water Out There
• Immigration Bill Has More Fake "Fence" Crap In It
• Americans fear government more than terror
• THREATS AGAINST BENGHAZI WHISTLEBLOWERS ALLEGED
• President calls Jason Collins, praises his courage; Slain heroes overlooked

Politics

• Democrats Plan to Run Pro-Gun Candidates in 2014 Battleground States
• Is It Helpful, In Politics, To Be Mean-Spirited? 
• Ted Cruz: My GOP Senate colleagues yelled at me for wanting to filibuster gun control 

Terrorism

• ‘Losers’ turn to Islamist carnage

State Government, Bill of Rights, Taxes, Budget Battle

• State senator proposes religious belief exemption to civil rights law
• As House Democrats Pass a $900 Million Tax Increase, Governor Throws a Monkey Wrench
• Per-student pre-K spending lowest in decade
• Washington Legislature adjourns without budget

Local Government

• Is the Walla Walla School District going in the right direction with its public meetings aimed at building a consensus on the direction for modernizing Wa-Hi?

Second Amendment

• A new front for gun background checks: the ballot
• Executive Orders, Round Two
• Why They Lost on Gun Control

Education, Liberal Mindset

• 'A History of Psychiatric Problems'
• Erasing History 

ObamaCareTax

• The Deceptive Appeal Of "3D Chess" And "Improving" ObamaCare
• HHS stages multimillion-dollar PR campaign to promote ObamaCare
• Another Obamacare deadline missed

American Exceptionalism

• Video: World Trade Center to become tallest building in Western hemisphere today ... or tomorrow

Abortion

• Undercover Video By Live Action Puts Into Question Just How Rare Gosnell-Type "Abortions" Really Are
• Gosnell’s defense attorney: This is an “elitist, racist prosecution”
• CNN legal analyst: Gosnell media blackout a ‘business decision’ and not evidence of bias

It's The Economy

• Why the Jobs Outlook Just Got a Whole Lot Worse

Big Government

• Of course: D.C. on cutting edge of citizen-gouging traffic camera technology

Foreign Policy

• Obama’s Syrian Dilemma

Looking Ahead

• Republican Liberty Caucus State Chapter Defeats Pro-LIFE Resolution, Cites Need to Keep Pro-Abortion Members: Counterpoint, The RLCWA State Convention - What Remains To Be Seen

Opinions and news for Sunday

Tyranny

• the Trea. Party
• Obama, Clinton Campaign Officials Convicted of Election Fraud 
• About that one-year window to apply for provisional legal status… 

American Exceptionalism

• All That For A Flag?

Terrorism

• US imam calls on Muslims in US to wage jihad
• Exclusive: Government doc shows how closely Boston Marathon bombers followed al Qaeda plans
• FBI: Tsarnaev bombs showed “additional training or expertise”

Liberal Mindset

• Gun-Haters Eat Crow after Blaming NRA for Marathon Bombing

Taxes

• Governors Group: Marketplace Fairness Act not a violation of tax pledge

Education, Liberal Mindset

• Teachers should give lessons in pornography and tell pupils 'it's not all bad',  experts say
• University Logo as Rorschach Inkblot
• Middle School Girls Forced into Lesbian Role playing; Boys Taught How to Identify a Slut

Abortion

• Obama: ‘Thank you, Planned Parenthood, and God bless you’
• Palin Hammers 'Radically Pro-Abortion' Obama for Planned Parenthood Speech

Big Government

• Continuing the National Discussion

Media

• Perry blasts California newspaper for cartoon depicting Texas plant explosion
• Still No Confirmation of ‘Sleeper Cell’ Connection in Boston Marathon Bombing
• Tom Brokaw on skipping White House Correspondents Dinner: Event has become cheap and undignified ever since Lindsay Lohan stole all our attention last year

Budget Battle

• FAA furlough reprieve: 'No fair!'

Politics

• Republicans In Congress to Push AMMO ACT to Limit DHS Purchases
• Copyright-challenged Moonbat Unveils Anti-Bill of Rights Poster, Ace Promptly Pimp-Slaps It Into Oblivion
• How much should we take politicians at their word?
• Rubio hit hard after inviting comments on immigration bill

State Government, Bill of Rights

• GOP wants freedom of conscience protection for businesses

Corruption

• Naturally: California awards billion-dollar high speed rail contract to firm partly owned by Dianne Feinstein’s husband

Second Amendment

• Gallup Poll Shows Only 4% of Americans Think Gun Control is an Important Problem

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