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Let me get this straight—I can’t be trusted with a semi-auto rifle, but these clowns can? Please.

• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ATF’s Milwaukee sting operation marred by mistakes, failures
• NY Post Homeland Security has advice for confronting mass murders: scissors

Washington Examiner Why isn’t gun control working in Chicago?

CBS 6-Year-Old Expelled for Bringing Toy Gun to School
If you really want gun rights advocates to take any proposed legislation seriously, you’re going to have to end this nonsense. The girl has since been allowed back in school, but every person in the original decision-making chain should be fired.

Thomas Sowell Shouting Louder

Kirsten Powers Obama vs. Fox News—behind the White House strategy to delegitimize a news organization

Ann Coulter Rubio’s Amnesty: A Path to Oblivion for the GOP
[One of those rare moments when she’s not being abrasive. Worth a read.]

Michelle Malkin Rotten to the Core (Part 2): Readin’, Writin’ and Deconstructionism
Yes, we’re replacing important literature with government manuals. Great improvement.

Nicholas Eberstadt@WSJ Yes, Mr. President, We Are a Nation of Takers: Since 1960, entitlement transfers have grown twice as fast as personal income—to $2.3 trillion annually.

Jonah Goldberg Hillary Clinton’s dodgy testimony

Townhall:

• Mark Davis Military and Society Threatened by Women in Combat
• Michael Brown The Church is Not a Closet

Michelle Malkin Rotten to the Core: Obama’s War on Academic Standards (Part 1)
As a mathematician who has taught at the university level I’m appalled by the deliberate weakening of our standards—they weren’t all that high “back in the day.” As the parent of high school students I can attest that it’s happening. This is not going to help us catch other advanced nations in math and science—it’s putting us farther behind.

Fox News California residents, businesses consider bailing on Golden State over taxes

Jonah Goldberg Good sense and gun control

Thomas Sowell Do Gun Control Laws Control Guns?

Michael Brown My Response to Your Inaugural Speech, Mr. President

Judge Andrew Napolitano Guns and the President

Jonah Goldberg Wake Up, Socially Liberal Fiscal Conservatives

Star Parker Could Dr. King Have Given the Inaugural Benediction?

Mary Grabar Common Core: Orwellian Lessons in Florida
Think Common Core is harmless or even good? Think gain. We’re dumming down our curricula.

USA Today Brutal cold roaring into central, eastern U.S.
Funny…they didn’t mention global warming at all.

Newsday Journal News map-listed guns, permits stolen from New City home, cops say
That makes 2, this time with a successful gun heist. What’re the odds the Journal News acknowledges the consequences of their actions?

Erick Erickson@RedState The Purpose of the Second Amendment

Bill Flax@Forbes The 2nd Amendment Is What Makes The Other Nine Possible

Richard Vedder@WSJ The Wages of Unemployment: Labor-force participation has declined since 2000, and among the reasons are soaring government benefits.

Thomas Sowell Liberalism Versus Blacks

Neal Boortz Obama’s Disarm the Victim Movement

Newsday Journal News gun permit map used by burglars to target White Plains home?
Don’t expect this to be the last. The nice thing about being liberal is not concerning yourself with the consequences of your actions…as long as “your intentions were good.”

Michelle Malkin EBT Abuse: The Cash-for-Drunkards Program

Victor Davis Hanson When Big Deficits Became Good

Americans for Tax Reform Braces for the Kids Just Got More Expensive: Obamacare Tax Hike Case Study

Global, um, whatever (USA Today):

• Chinese struggle to stay wired amid cold snap
• Mideast snow has some delighted, others overwhelmed

Interesting how global warming alarmists use every hot day to bang their drums but have fallen eerily silent over the record cold in eastern Europe and stories like these.

Gun Rights:

• Judge Andrew Napolitano Guns and freedom
• Ashley Herzog Girls With Guns
• Katie Pavlich The Need for Semi-Automatic “Assault” Weapons
• Ann Coulter Doing the Research the New York Times Won’t Do

Dennis Prager Richard Cohen Explains Conservatives

Publishing gun owners’ addresses:

• Doug Powers@MichelleMalkin County Sheriff: Inmates using newspaper’s gun permit map to intimidate guards
• Fox News Ex-Burglars Say Newspaper’s Gun Map Would’ve Made the Job Easier, Safer

The nice thing about being a Lefty is not having to concern yourself with the consequences of your actions. As long as your intentions were good…

Townhall:

• Mike Adams Every Idea Is an Incitement
  We need many more profs like him!
• Michael Brown What’s Right and Wrong With American Christianity
• Ashley Herzog Good Guys With Guns

Doug Powers@MichelleMalkin Study: Eco-friendly bulbs could cause skin cancer (hey, nobody said saving the planet would be easy)

Breitbart School Obama’s Daughters Attend Has 11 Armed Guards
Good for me, but not for thee.

Joyce Lee Malcolm@WSJ Two Cautionary Tales of Gun Control: After a school massacre, the U.K. banned handguns in 1998. A decade later, handgun crime had doubled.

Jonah Goldberg@National Review Don’t Tread on the Six-Toed Cats

Townhall:

• Doug Giles The Assault Weapons Ban Didn’t Work Then and It Won’t Work Now
• Walter E. Williams Why the 2nd Amendment
• Ann Coulter Kwanzaa: Holiday Brought to You By The FBI

Fox News No bullies: Kind kids are most popular
We needed a study for this? Before liberals took over education we called this common sense.

Matt Ridley@WSJ Matt Ridley: Cooling Down the Fears of Climate Change

RT Down to -50C: Russians freeze to death as strongest-in-decades winter hits

Juan Williams@Fox News Robert Griffin III, Rob Parker and the sad truth about our racial politics

Michelle Malkin:

• The post-Newtown witch hunt
• What the Looming Port Strike Is Really About

Townhall:

• Ann Coulter We Know How to Stop School Shootings
• Bob Barr Sandy Hook Shooting Demands More Than Knee-Jerk Anti-Gun Response