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 & 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

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”

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

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

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

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

Monday News

• We Use This Word Too Much These Days And Toss It About To Describe Mundane Acts
• Quote of the Day
• Boston bombers: FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
• Related: The Blair-Glass ‘Sleeper Cell’ — British Tabloid Fabricates a Phony Scoop
• The ‘Co-exist’ Bombers.
• The real lesson of the Gosnell trial
• MSNBC host explains our fixation with the bombers’ roots
• Blue states to sue EPA for not crushing coal industry fast enough
• Reminds Me of “Dog Day Afternoon” ~ Robbing a Bank With a Guy Who, Given Their Choice of International Refuges, Thinks “Wyoming”
• No Warrant, No Entry
• The Media Didn’t Learn a Thing after Boston   
• FBI, Boston PD raided Watertown homes without warrants in terrorist hunt
• ‘Take good care of the children’
• And now, a public service announcement on immigration from Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
• House committee wants administration's intelligence on Tamerlan Tsarnaev
• Feinstein 'regrets' talk of declaring Boston bombing suspect a military combatant
• The POPVOX Blog: The Week Ahead: April 22 - 26

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

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 

News and Opinions for Thursday!

Tyranny

• Immigration bill drops overnight; Update: Sessions: “This bill is legalization first”
• Argentina, Where Dollars Are the New Drugs
• Obama: I can't comment on Gosnell, but obviously lawbreakers should be prosecuted

Corruption

• Report: Obama Slashed Budget for Domestic Bombing Prevention by 45%, Spent More on Hawaii Vacations
• FBI Investigated Dingy Harry and Indicted Pal in 2008

Bill of Rights

• Judith Grossman: A Mother, a Feminist, Aghast
• Video: NRA has fun with Bloomberg group's dumb, irresponsible gun-control ad
• Toomey-Manchin Lets Doctors Block Your Gun Rights
• Video: Obama not handling gun-control failure in Senate very well
• Out: Sad Keanu. In: Pissed Obama; President Stompy Foot throws tantrum [pics, video]
• Obama Throws Tantrum over Gun Control Defeat
• He GOT His Vote (Which He NOW Claims “Distorted Senate Rules”), LOST It Handily Despite the Emotional Blackmail

It's The Economy

• Five Myths about Free Enterprise

Politics

• The Party of Surrender

Unions

• The UAW, Having Stripped Detroit Bare, Looks To The South

Media

• Citing anonymous Obama Admin official, CNN asserts pressure cooker bombs come from "extreme right-wing individuals"
• Idjit reporter shocked by ‘Amazing Grace’-playing bagpiper; Twitter schools
• The Mass Murder That The Media Is Choosing To Ignore
• MUST SEE! Race-Baiting Al Sharpton shows you exactly how it’s done going after CNN John King! PERFECT!

Socialism, Communism

• France drowning in rules and regulations, critics say

ObamaCareTax

• Boom: First union officially calls for the repeal of ObamaCare
• Nation's biggest movie theater chain cuts workweek, blaming ObamaCare
• Uh oh: Obamacare author warns implementation could be a "train wreck"

Big Government

• If/when Obama approves the Keystone pipeline, the green lobby is going to go berserk
• Postmaster general: The USPS is currently losing $25 million, every day
• Irony: Gov’t foreclosure settlement checks bounce

American Exceptionalism

• Moving: Man plays ‘Amazing Grace’ on bagpipes outside evacuated Boston courthouse [pics, video] 

Terrorism

• Mississippi man arrested in connection with ricin letter incidents
• Meet Our Modern Educators

Wednesday news & opinions

Tyranny

• Don’t You Feel Better?
• The Sum of all Fears
• Reid: We're making good progress on that anti-gun legislation
• Obama Refuses to Send Any Official Representative to Thatcher Funeral; Boehner Will Send Unofficial, Private-Citizen Delegates
• I Went to Bed a Christian and Woke Up a ... Terrorist?

American Exceptionalism

• One Word on the Boston Massacre

Second Amendment

• Reid coming up short on gun control billManchin-Toomey Amendment orchestrates gun registration, read it yourself
• Accidental honesty: Harry Reid touts progress on 'anti-gun legislation'
• Gun Bill May Be DOA As Spaghetti-Spined Republicans Start Taking Heat from Constituents.  BIDEN: TWO VOTES SHORT
• Anti-Gunners Lose More Money.
• GOP plans replacement proposal as Toomey/Manchin background checks bill nears failure

Media

• Powers: Yes, there is a Gosnell cover-up in the media
• The 10 Absolute Worst Media Reactions To The Boston Marathon Bombings
• Breaking media silence: Column
• Jay Mohr Calls for Gun Ban in Wake of Boston Bombing
• CBS News continues to hope Boston bomb suspect can be tied to the Tea Party
• The man on the roof

Abortion

• Eric Holder’s wife co-owns abortion clinic building run by indicted abortionist

State Government, Legislation, Taxes

• Dems will use 9th Order to resurrect Dream Act, abortion bill
• Washingtonians tell Olympia to restore 2/3s rule for tax hikes
• House snubs GOP amendments, OKs transportation budget

Budget Battle

• WaPo/ABC poll shows Obama under water on budget proposal 
• Role reversal: GOP blasts Obama plan to sell TVA

Corruption

• Desperate Dem Terry McAuliffe sues Watchdog.org over green tech/cash-for-visas exposé

ObamaCareTax

• Doctors Go Shopping: Price Comparisons Lead MDs to Lower Testing Costs

Taxes

• Most People Are Supposed To Pay This Tax. Almost Nobody Actually Pays It.

It's The Economy

• Yikes: IMF lowers global economic growth forecasts

Terrorism

• Shock the system? Electrical grid, comms attacked near San Jose

Local Government

• Tea partiers hold tax day rally in Walla Walla (read the comments)
• Sheriff waylays deputy who plans to run against him

Boston Marathon bombing

Our condolences to the families and friends of the dead, and our wishes and prayers for the well being of the wounded.

News and opinions for Tax Day!

Tyranny

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

Communism

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

Abortion

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

Second Amendment

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

Big Government, EPA

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

Foreign Policy

• Ron Paul plans foreign policy institute

Media, Terrorism

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

Education

• Our Education System Is a Complete Disaster

Civil Discourse

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

Legislation

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

State Government, Budget Battle, Second Amendment

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

It's The Economy

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

Politics

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