…here’s today’s links.
Guns/Gun Rights/RKBA
Politics/Congress/Government
- Lawmakers: Sack NFL’s tax break
- GOP insiders back Rubio in 2016
- Dems trump GOP fundraising in battle to regain House
- With Baucus on way out, business groups worry about trade
- The New York Times: Lobbying rules do not end revolving door on Capitol Hill
- The Washington Post: With no favorite, GOP could face turmoil in 2016
- Trump mulls run for New York governor
- High anxiety for Obama and Democrats
- Tea Party teams with union leaders to fight Obama’s trade plan
- Frustration mounts in Silicon Valley
- Cruz: Obama’s depiction of foreign affairs is ‘fantasy’
Scandal Central
- Republican senators leaning toward special prosecutor in IRS probe
- Iran gets first $500M under Obama nuke deal
- President meets with top Muslim Bro in WH….
Economics / Crony Capitalism
- Stabenow defends farm bill provisions
- Debt Up $6.666 Trillion Under Obama…
- Biden, Obama to call for more transportation, Internet funds
- Senate renews jobless aid push
- Obama, House Dems hold ‘productive’ talks on economic agenda
- Transportation chairman opposes gas tax hike
Constitutional Issues
Obamacare/Healthcare/HHS
- Obamacare’s Grassroots Marketing Plan Falls Flat
- 5 Devastating Obamacare Facts From CBO’s Latest Economic Report
- Reid: Obamacare Doesn’t Cost Jobs, It Turns Workers Into ‘Free Agents’
- Is part-time USA permanent?
- The Hill: O-Care will cost 2.5M workers by 2024
- WH not worried about O-Care enrollment
Nanny Statism
- Gov’t Seizes Property For ‘Economic Development’ — Nothing is Built…
- Regulators shut down, issue fines to kids’ lemonade stands…
- Town rules make hot dog vendor move truck every 15 minutes…
- House bill limits cough medicine sales to adults
Illegal Immigration / Shamnesty / Amnesty
- BOEHNER KEEPS PUSHING AMNESTY…
- REPORT: Ryan, Schumer in secret talks…
- SOWELL: Republicans to rescue Dems, betray nation…
- McConnell: Not going to happen this year…
- OBAMA DREAMER FACES DEPORTATION AFTER KILLING TWO IN HIT-AND-RUN…
- Immigration Groups, Unions Push to Suspend Deportations for 8 Million…
- Immigration-Reform Opponents Suspect a Ruse
- Republicans’ Comprehensive Immigration Folly
- Schumer, Ryan, Gowdy Holding Secret Amnesty Talks
- If he Pushes Amnesty, Is Boehner’s Gavel on the Line?
- GOP battles base on immigration
- GOP appears to tap immigration brakes
- Eyeing a majority, Senate GOP cool to House immigration plan
War on Women/Feminazis
SCOTUS/Circuit Courts/Law
United Nations
State Department
- Kerry dismisses Reid on fast-track trade bill
- Report: No to Keystone could mean six deaths per year via oil trains
NSA
- Won’t Say if Obama Phone Data Collected…
- Has Wiretapping Violated Attorney-Client Privilege?
- Greenwald Denies Selling Snowden Docs…
- Stack ‘More Than 3 Miles High’…
- States launch efforts to rein in government surveillance…
- Panel to NSA: Change your ways — or else
Global Warming Scam/EPA/Ecotards
- Europe’s Stark Renewables Lesson
- Shell Plans Boat to Tap Gas Fields
- Cherry picking and the tale of the Siberian larch trees
- Climate Change
- New study suggests global warming decreases storm activity and extreme weather
- Societal Benefits of Fossil Energy to be at Least 50 Times Greater than Perceived Costs of Carbon
- Should We Be Worried?
- Closing the Books on 2013: Another Year, Another Nail in the Coffin of Disastrous Global Warming
- Met Office Is Accused Of A ‘Warm Bias’ In Annual Forecasts
- Met Office global forecasts too warm in 13 of last 14 years
- Climate Change: A Serious Threat to Science
- Procrastinating About The Global Warming ‘Pause’
- ‘Social Cost’ of Carbon vs. Climate Science
- The evidence for climate change is increasingly challenged
- Response to the SOTU address: Efforts to cap CO2 emissions are adverse to human health and welfare
- At Last: A Report on the Social Benefits of Carbon
- A high school dissident takes on global warming
- Greens warn base will sit out election
- Whitehouse: ‘I will not ignore effects of climate change’
Cops/Police/Sheriff/Law Enforcement
- Scenes from a militarized America: Iowa family ‘terrorized’…Authorities destroy cameras to prevent account of raid…
- Fugitive found in California 37 years after escape
Military/Defense News/Veterans/DOD
Middle East
- Aide: White House ‘absolutely’ stands behind Syria policy
- Al Qaeda cuts ties with Syrian Islamic group
NASA / Science/Tech/Computer