Truth, Lies and In Between

…here’s today’s reading list.

Guns/Gun Rights/RKBA

• Feinstein exempts police, not “PTSD” vets from gun ban

• Sheriffs and the Second Amendment

• Congress struggles to entice states to report mental illness for gun checks

• Bloomberg ‘optimistic’ on background check legislation for gun sales

• Colo. activists call for sporting ‘sequester’ in response to gun bills

• Copy Clinton on guns, Feinstein tells Obama

 

Politics/Congress/Government

• Senate Dems straining to get budget over finish line

• McCarthy won’t rule out passage of bills lacking majority GOP support

• The Hill: Conservatives threaten run against incumbent Sen. Lindsey Graham

• Sen. McConnell touts support of Rand Paul filibuster in campaign email

 

Government Scandals

• Company that received $1.3B stimulus contract in 2009 committed fraud from 1999 to 2008

• The Hill: Possible McConnell challenger denies any role in trading scandal at former firm

• Terry McAullife used political connections to grow business, critics say

• Trump says he would fund canceled White House tours

 

Economics

• Voters see economic gloom in US deepening with sequester

• The Minimum Wage: Apparently Benevolent, Completely Wrong

• 6 Things the Next U.S. Budget Should Do

• Welcome to Budget Week in DC! Like Shark Week, Only with More Blood, Tears, and Chum

• Cutting Government Will Boost the Economy

• Ryan budget cuts spending $4.6 trillion

• SEC nominee vows ‘unrelenting’ Wall Street enforcement

• Ryan budget would approve Keystone pipeline, open more land for drilling

• Ryan budget slashes spending by $5.7T to reach 10-year balance

• Culture in a Cage

• Senate Dem budget includes nearly $1 trillion in new taxes
  

 

Illegal Immigration/Shamnesty/Amnesty

• GOP suggests DHS using sequester to sap immigration laws

 

International

• Chi-Com Propaganda Outlet Falsely Attacks WFB

 

ObamaCare/Healthcare

• The Hill: Rep. Paul Ryan: House budget will assume the repeal of ‘ObamaCare’

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• Liberalism is a Mental Disorder

• Leaked email reveals shadowy liberal network in Tarheel State

• Pelosi praises Obama as ‘very bipartisan’

 

SCOTUS/Circuit Courts

• Judge Blocks Bloomberg’s Big Beverage Ban

• ‘Arbitrary and capricious’ to deny the people access to their Big Gulps

 

Global Warming Scam/EPA

• Former EPA official used private email, contrary to agency claims

• The Anatomy of Climate Science Hype

• Carbon Power Politics

• Blog Memo to Lead Authors of NCADAC Climate Assessment Report

• Politics: The Real Manmade Climate Crisis (Secretary Kerry, take note)

• Signs of the Times: New York Times Kills Green Blog

• The Green Agenda and the Political Tipping Point

• Can Global Warmists Get Their Story Straight?

• Climate-Change Science Poised to Enter Nation’s Classrooms

• A despotism over the mind

• Global tipping point not backed by science

• The Climate and the Constitution

• Cabinet Picks Could Take On Climate Policy

• Congressmen demand investigation of EPA selectively blocking FOIAs

• US was world’s largest petroleum producer in November, surpassing Saudi Arabia for first time in ten years

• Report: US oil-and-gas production up despite drop on federal lands

• Obama’s War On Drilling: Oil Surplus, Not Scarcity, Is The New Regulatory Excuse

 

Military/Defense News/Veterans

• Hagel orders review of sexual assault case

 

Israel/Middle East/Muslim/Islam/Jihad Douche Bags

• Former Iranian official launches ‘Countdown to an Attack on Israel’

• Violence mounts in West Bank, Gaza in lead up to Obama visit

• Israel not responsible for sensationalized death of reporter’s son, U.N. confirms

 

Media Bias/Hollywood Morons

• NYT blogger asks if Weekly Standard writer was unduly influenced by religion

• Opinion: Paul showed use, abuse of filibuster

• The New York Times: Cuts give Obama path to create leaner military

• How the Media Botched Coverage of Rand Paul in 2010

 

Science/Tech/Computer/Cyber War

• Obama rejected tough options for countering Chinese cyber attacks two years ago

• DOD highly vulnerable to cyber attack from sophisticated opponents

• National Security Adviser warns China on cyber attacks

• White House demands China stop hacking into US companies