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So, how are those strong anti-gun laws working for you?

• Chicago Tribune 19 people shot in overnight shootings across Chicago
• AP NYPD Gunfire Injures 9 at Empire State Building
  Pop quiz: how many innocent bystanders are shot by CCW holders in the US each year?

Michelle Malkin “Clean Energy” Is Obama-Speak for Crony Government

Fox News:

• More than 2,200 hospitals face penalties under ObamaCare rules
  Guess who’s going to pick up the tab when hospitals increase rates to make up for the penalties?
• Dress code bars Oklahoma City kindergartner from wearing University of Michigan T-shirt
  This is the kind of insanity that ensues when school districts refuse to enforce disciplinary policies that might have an actual effect—like criminal prosecution of students for violent behavior.

Townhall:

• Maggie Gallagher Politics Interfering With D.C. Hate Crimes Law
  So why isn’t this being prosecuted as a hate crime? Although it clearly falls within the scope of the law, the victims belong to the wrong class—conservative Christians.
• Walter E. Williams Educational Lunacy
  See Fox item above for a perfect example.

James Taranto@WSJ Out of Mani, One: The philosophical roots of the Obama cult.

WSJ The $6,400 Myth: Breaking down a false Obama Medicare claim.

Fox US taxpayers bail out California homeowners, as banks fail to pay their share

CBS NYPD Probing Hate Crime After Bacon Found At Staten Island Ramadan Site
So strewing bacon is a “hate” crime but the media and DOJ can’t bring themselves to call Nidal Hasan a terrorist? Gotta love the word games of the Left.

ABC Valley woman told she could not hand out free bottled water in summer heat
We certainly can’t have charity going on without government approval, now, can we?

Townhall:

• Thomas Sowell “Issues” or America?
• Mike Adams All My Exes Live in Texas
• Walter E. Williams Educational Lunacy

Kirsten Powers@The Daily Beast Why The Screwed Generation Is Turning To Paul Ryan
Yes that Kirsten Powers…hardly a conservative commentator.

Louis Woodhill@Forbes General Motors Is Headed For Bankruptcy — Again

Breitbart Obama Top Bundler Ran Bain Capital During GST Steel Layoffs
Delicious!

Townhall:

• Brent Bozell Skipping Over the Shooting at FRC
• Jonah Goldberg A Storied Presidency
• Mike Adams Ethnocentric Studies

Breitbart New Black Panthers to RNC: Our ‘Feet will be on your Motherf***ing necks’

The media silence is deafening.

Michelle Malkin Black like us: The race clownery of Obama-Biden

Townhall:

• John Stossel There Ought Not to Be a Law
• Walter E. Williams Obama’s Educational Excellence Initiative

Des Moines Register Owner complains Obama’s beer tent stop cost him $25,000

Who cares? That beer vendor? He didn’t pour that.

Byron York@Washington Examiner When 1,099 felons vote in race won by 312 ballots

Think voter fraud isn’t significant? We have ObamaCare thanks to it.

Dr. Daniel Akin@OneNewsNow Is it true Jesus never addressed same-sex marriage?

Fox News Philadelphia woman faces $600-a-day fine for feeding needy neighborhood kids

This epitomizes the problems caused by increasingly intrusive government at all levels.

Townhall:

• Humberto Fontova Chick-fil-A, Mayor Vincent Gray, and “Hate Speech”
• Dennis Prager Will a Weakened American Character Defeat Paul Ryan?

WSJ:

• Kimberley A. Strassel Why Romney Chose Ryan
• Joseph Rago The Forgotten History of Ryan’s Medicare Reform

HotAir Video: Romney, Ryan play offense on Medicare in 60 Minutes appearance

Nothing quite like having the media so blatantly in your camp.

Townhall:

• Katie Pavlich Payback: Holder’s DOJ Refuses to Close Whistleblower’s Retaliation Case

Outrageous treatment of an agent and his family. Why am I not surprised?

• Jeff Jacoby The Rich Pay Their Fair Share in Taxes — And Then Some
• Michelle Malkin Revisiting the DHS Smear of the Tea Party Movement

WSJ:

• Obama Attacks Romney on Wind-Energy Stance

Hey, I have an idea. Let’s keep spending billions on failed “green” energy projects that reward campaign supporters but leave taxpayers in the hook and consumers with higher energy prices. Forward!

• The Postmodern President: The challenge is finding anything his campaign says that is true.

NBC Woman, 84, raped; husband, 93, savagely beaten inside home
Where are the police when horrible crimes are committed against innocent people? It doesn’t matter who you are or where you live. You are responsible for your own protection.

Michelle Malkin Meet the real workers Obama screwed over

Harry R. Jackson, Jr.@Townhall 54.5 MPG and The Law of Unintended Consequences
Environmental regs are useful when they are reasonable, but which is more important to the left: the environment or the safety of drivers and passengers and the well-being of the poor?

WSJ The Romney Hood Fairy Tale: The false, invented analysis behind Obama’s tax claims.

Washington Times:

• Slow path to progress for U.S. immigrants: 43% on welfare after 20 years
• IRS told employees to ignore potential fraud in program used by immigrants

Can you say, “Unsustainable?”

Weekly Standard Over 100 Million Now Receiving Federal Welfare

Wayne Allyn Root@The Blaze Obama’s College Classmate: ‘The Obama Scandal is at Columbia’

Daily Caller Emails: Geithner, Treasury drove cutoff of non-union Delphi workers’ pensions
20,000 Americans screwed out of their pensions while the unions received theirs in full. Now we find out it was done in blatantly illegal fashion while Treasury and the White House lied about their involvement. Surprised?

PolitiFact Pants on fire: Harry Reid says anonymous source told him Mitt Romney didn’t pay taxes for 10 years

The Hindu India seeks more security for religious places in U.S.
Mass murder is a problem no matter where it occurs. I seem to recall a little incident in Mumbai a couple years ago in a hotel…and India already has the kind of strict gun laws they suggest we impose. How’d that work out for ya’?

Richard Landes@WSJ Romney Is Right on Culture and the Wealth of Nations: A 2002 United Nations report written by Arab intellectuals acknowledges the problems the Republican candidate pointed out.

Townhall:

• Thomas Sowell Sports Versus Politics
• Mike Adams Expel Brice Horton

Michael Barone@Townhall Partisan Divide: Eggheads Get What They Wished For

Michelle Malkin:

• Another company scraps US expansion plans due to Obamacare medical device tax
• Harry Reid: One time this guy called and said Romney didn’t pay taxes for ten years
• Congressional report preview: Solyndra was too green to fail… at least until investors took priority over taxpayers for repayment

WSJ:

• Jim DeMint No Internet Taxation Without Representation: Subjecting online retailers to 10,000 local tax jurisdictions is a terrible idea.
• John R. Lott, Jr. What Mayor Bloomberg Doesn’t Know About Police and Guns

Thomas Sowell@IBD The Big Lie In Politics: Rich Get Richer While Others Grow Poorer

Townhall:

• Mona Charen Can We Still Call Men Heroes?
• Mike Adams The Salem Sandwich Trials
• Dennis Prager Sandusky Abused Children, NCAA Abuses History

Doug Powers@MichelleMalkin Latest Mayor Bloomberg push: Hospitals should hide the baby formula to encourage breast-feeding