Friday, January 03, 2014

Al Gore Makes Himself Scarce

I have an APB out for fat boy.



Maybe someone nearby can visit Al Gore's mansion in California (one of at least three massive residences) and ask him.


GREAT JOB, ENVIRO-KOOKS: Derailment of Oil-Laden Train Confirms Need for Keystone Pipeline

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Energy Policy: An oil-laden train collides with another and bursts into flames in a small American town, proving why pipelines are safer and why environmentalist opposition to a pipeline from Canada is misguided.

Casselton, N.D., had a near brush with tragedy after a train of tank cars carrying crude oil derailed, resulting in fiery explosions and a call from the town's mayor for a re-examination of how such fuel is transported across the United States.

The railroad runs right through the middle of Casselton, a town of 2,400 people about 25 miles west of Fargo, and Mayor Ed McConnell said dozens of people could have been killed had the derailments had occurred in the town, not just outside.

It's time, he said, to "have a conversation" with federal lawmakers about the dangers of transporting oil by rail.

"There have been numerous derailments in this area," he told the Associated Press. "It's almost gotten to the point that it looks like not if we're going to have an accident, it's when. We dodged a bullet by having it out of town, but this is too close for comfort."

Thanks to a boom in oil production in the Bakken shale formation that runs underneath the state, North Dakota has become the No. 2 oil-producing state in the nation. It's creating a lot of the kind of high-paying jobs that the rest of America desperately wants — and needs.

An estimated 11 to 12 crude-oil unit trains depart daily from the oil region in western North Dakota. Due to lack of pipelines, some 69% of the state's oil is currently shipped to market by rail.

The state's top oil regulator has said as much as 90% of North Dakota's oil is to be carried by train in 2014.

THE ADVENTURES OF PAJAMABOY: Woof!

Another Biff Spackle exclusive.



Hat tip: Papa B.

Larwyn's Linx: Iowa man continues to go blind, thanks to Obamacare

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Nation

Iowa man continues to go blind, thanks to Obamacare: Moe Lane
Impervious To Evidence, Liberals Ride Again: Mona Charen
Karl Rove and the GOP Socialists: Jeffrey Lord

Becoming the New Barbarians: Western Rifles
The Unconstitutional State: David Codrea
Shocking no one with a brain, study shows CCW reduces murders: Bob Owens

Liberal black leaders wage “war on women” over judges: Allen West
We Need To Talk About Bill De Blasio: Glob
Question o' the day: Would you comply?: AWD

Obama Request To Release Radical Leftist Lawyer Lynne Stewart Granted: WZ
What 2014 Will Look Like Under Obama – Warning, It’s Not Pretty: Sara Noble
The Roberts Trap Is Sprung: Bill Dunne

Economy

Inflation, Illustrated: Outcast
Obama Admin Deported Fewer than 0.2% of Illegals in 2013: TPNN
OR Mother: I Can’t Afford Obamacare For Myself, 1-Year-Old: CBS Seattle

Will: If Labor Force Rate at '07 Levels, Unemployment's Really at 11.3%: RCP
Obamacare Goes Live: Here Is The Next Big Problem: ZH
Showtime for Obamacare: Ellison Barber

Scandal Central

Ten 2013 stories that should make news in 2014: Sharyl Attkisson
White House slams Daily Caller report on Obamacare enrollment: Neil Munro
Will the Supreme Court Review the NSA’s Telephony Metadata Program?: Orin Kerr

Climate & Energy

Climate Change, Theory vs Reality in One Image: DTG
HuffPo: Global Warming To Make Earth “Unlivable” By 2050: WZ
Global Warming 2014: Massive Blizzards, Winnipeg Colder Than Mars: Daily Mail

Media

Girl Scouts Suggest Abortion Activist Wendy Davis for “Woman of the Year”: Steven Ertelt
Obama and Oprah: Two that Aren’t Kind: David Lawrence
Homosexuality: The Straight Dope (via Taki Magazine): SaberPoint

It Begins: Michael Moore Says Obamacare is Awful, Calls for Single Payer: AllAm
New Ads Target Senators: ‘It’s Time to Be Honest: ObamaCare Doesn’t Work’: R.S. McCain
WABC Throws Down the Gauntlet in NYC Talk Radio War: Leather Penguin

Answering Liberal Race Exploitation: David Limbaugh
Professor: Obamacare Failed Only Because of Racist "Southern White Radicals": Ace
Intervention to Cure Black Friend's Addiction -- to Liberalism: Larry Elder

World

Obama’s Afghanistan Mess: Michelle Malkin
Britain wants its guns back: Commentator
What Does the Bahrain Weapons Seizure Mean?: Michael Rubin

2014 = 1914?: Bring the heat
Democracy And Peace Pushed Farther Away: Michael Barone
White House Treats Obama’s Golf Summit Like Oval Office Meeting: Bridget Johnson

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Latest NSA Leak Nears Science Fiction Levels: Brian Resnick, Marina Koren
Facebook sued for allegedly intercepting private messages: Jennifer Van Grove
FireEye buys Mandiant for nearly $1 billion to stamp out cyber attacks: Zach Miners

Cornucopia

How About a Little Sugar?: EBL
Progress notes on my "plywood gun," an ar-15 which holds a .308 winchester mag: Winter Soldier
Secret Service Leaks: A Look at The Presidents Behind The Façade, Pictures, and Videos: Angle

Image: Northeast Weather Radar
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QOTD: "The real reason [the establishment GOP] will be out there trying to defeat Reaganite conservatives/Tea Partier candidates is precisely because these candidates in victory have shown themselves to be a direct threat to the Washington way of doing business. So job one for the GOP Establishment is to deliberately pick Republican socialist candidates — candidates who are perfectly happy to talk the talk but once in Washington will refuse flatly to do what they promised to do.

As the 2014 election year proceeds, we will have many opportunities to spot these Republican Socialist candidates and their backers at work out there, just as our friends at Breitbart put a spotlight on the behind-the-scenes machinations of American Crossroads in the Kentucky Senate race.

The 2014 elections should be a bumper year for the GOP.

But it will quickly turn to disaster if those who are intent on making this year a victory for Republican Socialism get their way — and in turn drive the Reagan conservative base away from the polls." --Jeffrey Lord

Thursday, January 02, 2014

The Greatest Threat to the Nation

Guest post by Richard Larsen

Our economy, and personal liberty, are under assault in America, The threat to the country is much more stealthy and incremental than that faced by our nation’s founders two centuries ago. According to a Gallup poll this past week, 72% of Americans see the burgeoning power of the federal government as our greatest threat. This should serve as a wakeup call to the statists in Washington who are continuously expanding the role of government in micromanaging our lives.

Much of this expanded control comes in the form of regulation. Since 1993, over 1.43 million pages have been added to the Federal Register that includes all new regulations, regulatory revisions, and presidential documents. The passage and implementation of the “Affordable Care Act” alone has added 10,516 pages to the Federal Register; that’s more than eight times the length of the Bible.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI) 20th edition of “Ten Thousand Commandments,” which explicates the impact of the mountainous stacks of regulation on the country, estimates the cost burden of all this regulation at $1.8 trillion per year. To put that figure in perspective, that’s more than half the size of the federal budget, and nearly 12% of the entire U.S. economy.

The cost to the government in enforcing regulation is not that great, a relatively paltry $55.4 billion in 2010, according to the CEI. That allocation of the federal budget covers most of the cost of federal agencies and regulatory enforcement. By far, the greater cost is to the economy, and in abrogated liberty, whittling incrementally away at our individual freedom.

Kim Jong-Fun Comix

With a tip o' the fur hat to People's Cube:



Extremely rare photo of Obama found

Via the exceptional Andrew Malcolm of Investor's Business Daily:


BUT I THOUGHT WE WERE IN A RECOVERY: Chart illustrates cruel, draconian proposed cuts to food stamps

Spotted at the invaluable Heritage Foundation:

Food stamp spending is at historic highs—it has doubled twice since 2000. Now some on Capitol Hill say the House is trying to make major cuts to the program, but they’re really making some much-needed policy reforms that would achieve modest savings.


The House bill proposes a small 5 percent reduction, while the Senate proposes a mere one-half of 1 percent. Even if the House’s reforms are accepted, food stamp spending is projected to be nearly double 2008 levels. It is also projected to remain at or near historical highs into the foreseeable future.

The House’s savings come from closing loopholes and ending policies that are currently undermining the integrity of the program. These policies have allowed states to artificially boost food stamp levels and expand the program beyond its intended population. While the House takes steps in the right direction to reform food stamps, the Senate does [almost nothing].

Food stamps should be reformed to ensure that the program is serving those it is intended to serve. It should also be reformed to promote self-sufficiency through work, thus helping those who are able by encouraging self-sufficiency.

Let me put this in terms even progressives can understand: either the economy is recovering, in which case we can slash food stamps... or we're still in the Obama Depression.

Which is it, dimwits?


Hat tip: Liberal Logic 101.

Female Israeli Soldiers Who Shattered Barriers in 2013

I'm only interested because, uhm, of my, eh, research into various military forces of the world:


See the complete list at the IDF Blog.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: The Enigma of Barack Obama

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Nation

The Enigma of Barack Obama: Michael Walsh
No, 2.1 million haven't enrolled in Obamacare plans: Philip Klein
WH Now Pretending Obamacare Enrollment Goal Never Existed: Noah Rothman

‘Checks and balances’ is now called ‘obstructionism’: Renee Nal
The Republican ‘Agenda’ — and the Youth Vote: Larry Elder
That Dude DiBlasio Got Inaugurated As Mayor Of NYC Today: HayRide

Bet This Will P!ss Ya Off: This Ain't Hell
Judge Upholds Most of NY SAFE Act: Bob Owens
The irony: Chicago cops ordered to register all their guns: GSL

Economy

The War On Poverty At 50: Cal Thomas
Common Core: John Stossel
Obama To Americans: You Don’t Deserve To Be Free: Instapundit

Scandal Central

Two Most Admired People of 2013: Onan Coca
It's official: Obamacare caused more cancelled plans than enrollments: Rick Moran
NYT Tries to Clean up Benghazi for Hillary: “What Difference Does it Make Now?”: MagNote

Climate & Energy

Fossil Fuels To The Rescue Of The Climate Alarmists: LoneCon
IPCC silently slashes its global warming predictions in the AR5 final draft: WUWT
Economist Blames Global Warming For Ice Trapping Climate Change Fanatics In Antarctica: WZ

Letter Re: The Bakken Oil Development has Ended the Peak Oil Debate: SurvivalBlog
President Obie: Daniel Greenfield
Wondering how stupid 2014 is already? This stupid.: Twitchy

Media

The five worst op-eds of 2013: Gene Healy
Hollywood's War On Religion Rages On with Kevin Smith's 'Christzilla' Movie: Yehuda Remer
Ya Gotta Love Matt Drudge: Instapundit

Readers Picks for The Top Ten Stories of the Year 2013: The Lid
‘The Central Prob. of Obamacare Will Not Yield to Technical or Rhetorical Solutions’: R.S. McCain
Libs furious that Obama names black woman Republican as federal judge: BPR

David Kirkpatrick of the New York Times Doubles Down on Bogus: Power Line
Year of the Dud: Victor Davis Hanson
Ready or not, Obamacare coverage begins: RedAlert

World

Revealed, the U.S. hate preacher who inspired murderer of Lee Rigby: Exposing
UN declares 2014 the ‘Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People’: RT
"Palestinian" Ambassador Reportedly Killed by Own Explosives: Atlas

Hagel Deployed to Press Egypt on Being ‘Inclusive’ Toward Muslim Brotherhood: Bridget Johnson
Hamas-linked CAIR to hold symposium on "Islamophobia": JihadWatch
Legendary Anti-Communist Lech Walesa: Obama Failed, “America No Longer Leads The World”: WZ

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Skype Social Media Accounts Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army: WSJ
Apple Denies NSA Backdoor For iPhone: Appy-Geek
New MIT Technology Allows 3D Image Interaction: ABC

Cornucopia

Ten Years of Nonsense: Asylum Movie Pitches: Ace
Happy New Year! And a brief review of 2013’s Dark Energy: MOTUS
Hostility to Truth-Telling: Gates of Vienna

Image: The Viral Photo out of CT that's given some gun owners chills
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QOTD: "Gregory Hicks hearing the last words of Ambassador Stevens to the outside world was told, ‘We’re under attack.”‘And under oath when asked, if you — if the ambassador had seen a protest or anything else earlier, would he have reported it, he said ‘Of course, yes.

The fact is people from this administration, career professionals, have said under oath there was no evidence of any kind of a reaction to a video and, in fact, this was a planned attack that came quickly. That’s the evidence we have by people who work for the U.S. government and were under oath.” --Rep. Darrell Issa

Wednesday, January 01, 2014

HILARITY: Global Cooling Deniers Trapped in Arctic Ice That They Said Didn't Exist; Al Gore Hardest Hit

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Cold Climate: In an event chock-full of bitterly cold irony, perhaps even Al Gore has noticed that multiple icebreakers couldn't free a boat stuck in Antarctic ice that global warming was supposed to have melted.

Few of the media reports on the plight of the Russian-flagged research vessel MV Akademik Schokalskiy have noted the irony of a ship full of climate scientists getting stuck in an Antarctic ice sheet so thick that early attempts at breaking through the ice to free them were failures.

"We're stuck in our own experiment," the Australasian Antarctic Expedition said in a statement. "We came to Antarctica to study how one of the biggest icebergs in the world has altered the system by trapping ice. We ... are now ourselves trapped by ice surrounding our ship."

In a statement only climate-change die-hards could make, the group said, "Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change, but here ice is building up."

A Chinese icebreaker was unable to reach the ship, and another vessel, the Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis, got within 10 nautical miles of the stranded ship but couldn't see it through a driving blizzard and had to turn back to open water, Fox News reported.

A makeshift helicopter pad on the ice sheet was being readied for a helicopter rescue.

Concealed Carry: Through the Eyes of a Criminal

Immutable truths, illustrated by Biff Spackle:



Hat tip: BadBlue Gun News.

Commander-In-Chief Comix

Biff Spackle illustrates a comment by Atlas reader Walt:


I wonder what Melissa Harris-Tampon-Perry thinks about pointing these kinds of facts out?


Larwyn's Linx: Where Do We Go From Here America?       Will There Be Anything Left?

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Nation

Where Do We Go From Here America? Will There Be Anything Left?: Sher Zieve
Parting Company: Walter Williams
NSA Spying: Herschel Smith

The Viral Photo out of CT that's given some gun owners chills: Blaze
There Ain’t No More Middle-Ground: Daniel Greenfield
"The state police (are) investigating.": SSI

The Year Washington Fled Reality: Sen. Tom Coburn
Bush Approach to Government – Noise Based on Ignorance: Jen Kuznicki
Bloomberg leaves office today, protected by firearms: Chris Cox

Economy

Hit Piece Journalism: Thomas Sowell
Chicago: The Next Detroit: Ushanka
What to expect in 2014: Ben Shapiro

The Progressive Agenda Crashes into Complexity: J.R. Dunn
Obamacare's Biggest Whopper: Betsy McCaughey
Obama notes buying a second dog as an accomplishment for 2013: BPR

Scandal Central

Yet Another Eric Holder, Fast & Furious Gun Turns up at Deadly Shooting: Blaze
Obama's Knockout Game: Crockett Lives
Newark mayoral hopeful Ras Baraka wrote letters on behalf of notorious gang boss: WyBlog

Climate & Energy

A Few Easy Tests to Debunk Global Warming Hysteria: Chet Richards
Media cover-up: warmist scientists trapped by ice are just “tourists”: Blazing Cat Fur
That's A Lot Of Quid Pro Quo Going Up In Smoke: SDA

WUWT, WeatherBell help KUSI-TV with weather forecast for ice-trapped ship in Antarctica: WUWT

Media

New York Times Attempts to Blur Benghazi Scandal: AIM
Failure: Defense Expert Tells WSJ-NY Times Benghazi Piece Backfired on The Paper: Jeff Dunetz
Rapist Logic: Juliette Ochieng

Profiles in Hypocrisy: Rhymes with Right
A Stimulus Plan That Is Too Good To Be True: Cosmocon
Obamacare is a Noble Effort: American and Proud

Attention Joy Reid: The Knockout Game Is A Real Trend That Deserves Our Attention: Nice Deb
Because @Deanofcomedy Isn’t Funny: R.S. McCain
CAMERA Prompts Washington Post Correction on Israel's Christians: CAMERA

World

Moscow Mayor Says No More Mosques Will Be Built in the City: RWN
Xi Jinping preparing the PLA for war: Xinhua commentary: WantChinaTimes
France: The Looming Battle over Muslim Integration: Soeren Kern

New U.S. Tax Regime is "Devastating," Experts Say: NewAm
Operation Empty Chair: SDA
Spot the Dictator: Western Rifles

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Bitcoin Takes On Gold: RWN
I, Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass: Mat Honan
One of a Kind Holiday Gifts: Woman Honor Thyself

Cornucopia

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act…: Bluebird of Bitterness
Reflections: Fix Bayonets
Resignation Speech of George Washington: WWTFT

Image: BeHoLD THe GRiM MaRKeT ReaPeR...
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QOTD: "All battles for the soul begin with culture. And while the battle against Obama’s unprecedented growth of government started with the tea party victories of 2010, the cultural battle against the left didn’t truly take until 2013. The seeds were planted for this cultural battle in earnest in 2012, when Obama and his Democratic Party allies put race, sexual orientation and abortion at the core of his reelection campaign. Americans were told by the media that Obama’s competence mattered less than the fact that half the country was mean, nasty, racist and homophobic. Todd Akin’s absurd comments on conception via rape were the issue, Americans were told, not the imminent takeover of the health care system; Obama’s sudden support for same-sex marriage was the issue, not his devastating regulatory state; George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin were the issue, not the destruction of entire swaths of the United States via leftist governance.

And it worked. Conservative Americans, bludgeoned into silence on cultural battles, decided to focus entirely on Obama’s economic buffoonery. Unsurprisingly, it didn’t work; culture, as my friend Andrew Breitbart was fond of stating, is upstream of politics.

2013 marked a turning point. From Chick-fil-A to “Duck Dynasty,” conservative religious Americans found their footing: Whether you are for or against same-sex marriage, it is plainly un-American to override someone’s religious beliefs in the name of your politics. Conservative Americans seemed to realize, for the first time in a long time, that the battle over same-sex marriage came wrapped in a larger battle over religious freedom. And they fought back, and won." --Ben Shapiro

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Two Politifacts in One!

The indefatigable Avik Roy of Forbes offers us this scandalous dichotomy (hat tip: Sondrakistan):

Politifact, October 2008:


Politifact, December 2013:


As noted earlier, Politifact has already completed its transition from embarrassment to laughingstock.


New Jersey Says You Must Have a "Justifiable Need" to Exercise Your Constitutional Rights

Guest post by Brian Kelly

Picture a woman going to register to vote in New Jersey only to find the State has passed a law requiring her to undergo a background check, pay a fee, show proficiency in civics and, after meeting all those requirements, having to write a summary justifying her Need to vote.

Now, after attempting to justify her need to exercise her right (let that statement sink in) she is denied by a judge who has arbitrarily determined that she didn’t have an urgent need to vote.

That judge’s lover and the local police chief’s sister-in-law however have miraculously passed all the above hurtles and can freely exercise that right with gleeful abandon.

Too farfetched? How about in the aftermath of 911, New Jersey passes a law requiring anyone wishing to practice Islam must apply for an Islam permit and show ‘justifiable need’ to pray to Allah. The State justifies this by claiming a large amount of terrorists are Islamic and therefore the Islam Permits will only be issued to very few people in order to protect the public, after all they can’t have NJ turn into the Gaza Strip.

If you find these examples offensive, you should, as they clearly violate an American’s rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights and no amount of fearful justification merits such infringement. Unfortunately that same, arbitrary, subjective standard applies to most New Jersian’s right to protect themselves and their loved ones in public with a firearm.

New Jersey’s ‘Justifiable Need’ requirement to obtain a carry permit is the self defense equivalent of ‘Separate but Equal’ Jim Crow laws.

The Crisis of the Middle Class and American Power

Guest post by George Friedman

When I wrote about the crisis of unemployment in Europe, I received a great deal of feedback. Europeans agreed that this is the core problem while Americans argued that the United States has the same problem, asserting that U.S. unemployment is twice as high as the government's official unemployment rate. My counterargument is that unemployment in the United States is not a problem in the same sense that it is in Europe because it does not pose a geopolitical threat. The United States does not face political disintegration from unemployment, whatever the number is. Europe might.

At the same time, I would agree that the United States faces a potentially significant but longer-term geopolitical problem deriving from economic trends. The threat to the United States is the persistent decline in the middle class' standard of living, a problem that is reshaping the social order that has been in place since World War II and that, if it continues, poses a threat to American power.

The Crisis of the American Middle Class

The median household income of Americans in 2011 was $49,103. Adjusted for inflation, the median income is just below what it was in 1989 and is $4,000 less than it was in 2000. Take-home income is a bit less than $40,000 when Social Security and state and federal taxes are included. That means a monthly income, per household, of about $3,300. It is urgent to bear in mind that half of all American households earn less than this. It is also vital to consider not the difference between 1990 and 2011, but the difference between the 1950s and 1960s and the 21st century. This is where the difference in the meaning of middle class becomes most apparent.

New York Times: We Had a Reporter Embedded With Terrorists in Benghazi During the Attack

Based on the headline, I really thought the Twitchy story entitled "NYT: ‘We had a reporter on the scene talking to the attackers during the [Benghazi] attack’" was satire. It wasn't.

What’s that? The New York Times had a reporter on the scene of the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya? Reporter David D. Kirkpatrick, who wrote this weekend’s piece on Benghazi, says it was invaluable to have a reporter on the ground talking to the attackers during the attack.

Which begs the question: who in the hell was this "reporter" and just what the hell was he doing during the attack -- and for the last 15 months? Biff Spackle offers some possibilities:


This scandal needs to go viral.


Larwyn's Linx: Trey Gowdy Cremates NYT Benghazi Fable That Curiously Omits Hillary Clinton

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Nation

Trey Gowdy Cremates NYT Benghazi Fable That Omits Hillary Clinton: MagNote
A New Year and Old Problems: Thomas Sowell
Political Timidity & Clerical Cowardice: Paul A. Rahe

WWII vet warns America: 90 percent of Congress are traitors: BPR
White House Quietly Announces a Net Loss of 3 Million Insurance Plans: TPNN
Wonderful: Labor Unions Funding the Republican Civil War: Scott Bland

How The NSA Hacks Your iPhone (Presenting DROPOUT JEEP): ZH
GOP Must Strike While Obamacare Iron Is Hot: David Limbaugh
A GOP “dam ready to break” in West Virginia: Jazz Shaw

Economy

Why Obama frets about income inequality, not family breakdown: Pethokoukis
Crashing and Burning in 2013: Victor Davis Hanson
AFL-CIO Defends Union Violence As A ‘Legitimate’ Union Activity: LUR

The Government-Employee Dismissal Rate For Poor Performance is...: WZ
Democrats, Obama, Unions prepare for big minimum wage push in '14: Hot Air
Downfall of a California police-union law firm: Walter Olson

Scandal Central

Yes, There IS Evidence Linking al Qaeda to Benghazi: Eli Lake
NY Times Benghazi Piece Penned by Cairo Bureau Chief: Shoebat
Michelle Obama, CGI and the $678 million connection: Allen West

Climate & Energy

If only the Global Warming Expedition had sailed 100 years ago: DTG
Climate Research Ship Trapped By Ice; Only 1 of 23 Network News Stories Mention: MRC
Helicopter rescue needed for passengers on icebound ship: Fox

Media

NYT: ‘We had a reporter on the scene talking to the attackers during the [Benghazi] attack’: Twitchy
So, that NYT Benghazi ‘investigation’ to cover for Hillary isn’t working out too well, huh?: Dan Calabrese
Dear Gallup: For WHAT is Obama Most Admired, Exactly?: SIGIS

NY Times: Hey, that YouTube video did have something to do with Benghazi attack after all: Ed Morrissey
Globe op/ed page highlights the great national divide: Caldwell's Corner
‘Beyond the pale’: Fox Business’ Charles Payne blasts MSNBC for mocking Romney grandson: Twitchy

Leftism Is A Mental Disorder…Part 965: Nice Deb
Charlottesville Newspaper Shuts Down Comments on Knockout Game Report for 'Hateful Nature': TruthRevolt
Washington Post's Obamacare Miracle: Loren Heal

World

The Islamization of Britain in 2013: Soeren Kern
NBA Tony Parker now making Nazi salutes quenelle: FAM
Wiesenthal Center Accepts Tony Parker Apology, Calls for Statement in French: Algemeiner

America's Internal Checkpoints: Wes Kimbell, Reason
St. Louis to Become DUI “No Refusal Zone” – Driver Blood Tests Required: GWP
I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on: Guardian

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Cops to Use Portable Drug Test at New Year's DUI Checkpoints: NBC-LA
Photographer captures stunning photos of the split-second when a gun fires: Bob Owens
Four New Tech Trends That Should Be Huge In 2014: Julie Bort

Cornucopia

Top 10 Conservatives of 2013: John Hawkins
Frontpage’s 2013 Man of the Year: Ted Cruz: Daniel Greenfield
A&E, The NYT and the DNC Bring You “REHAB ADDICT: The Hillary Addition”: MOTUS

Image: A&E, The NYT and the DNC Bring You “REHAB ADDICT: The Hillary Addition”
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QOTD: "Next time some lefty tells you how uninformed Fox News viewers are, remind them of this uncomfortable statistic:

81: Percentage of young Democrats who approve of the Affordable Care Act, according to December poll by Harvard's Institute of Politics.

58: Percentage of young Democrats who approve of "Obamacare."

Ahem. "Obamacare" and the "Affordable Care Act" are the same thing." --Jim Geraghty

Year-end Blog Stats

Here's a year-long chart of daily visits to this site. Can you find the time the Drudge Report linked?


Here are the year's top 50 referrers:

Rank Source Visits % New Visits New Visits
1 hotair.com 103443 19.01% 19664
2 drudgereport.com 84705 88.76% 75188
3 linkiest.com 65924 50.26% 33136
4 badblue.com 63399 14.96% 9484
5 thegatewaypundit.com 25303 28.97% 7331
6 iowntheworld.com 24638 24.99% 6156
7 ace.mu.nu 20575 40.54% 8341
8 reddit.com 19604 95.88% 18797
9 maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com 17444 31.08% 5421
10 michellesmirror.com 15615 20.90% 3263
11 pjmedia.com 13957 42.27% 5900
12 rightwingnews.com 12279 39.64% 4868
13 newsbusters.org 10140 28.48% 2888
14 americandigest.org 9458 25.05% 2369
15 legalinsurrection.com 8556 16.80% 1437
16 smalldeadanimals.com 8164 71.84% 5865
17 zerohedge.com 8077 79.50% 6421
18 freerepublic.com 7465 67.05% 5005
19 punditandpundette.com 7161 20.64% 1478
20 theferalirishman.blogspot.com 6518 30.45% 1985
21 ihatethemedia.com 5558 48.96% 2721
22 godlikeproductions.com 5500 90.80% 4994
23 curmudgeonlyskeptical.blogspot.com 5009 29.33% 1469
24 jammiewf.com 4560 25.70% 1172
25 im41.com 4354 66.88% 2912
26 weaselzippers.us 4187 51.97% 2176
27 astuteblogger.blogspot.com 3375 11.29% 381
28 proteinwisdom.com 3328 35.91% 1195
29 nicedeb.wordpress.com 2843 15.20% 432
30 jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com 2789 20.62% 575
31 stevequayle.com 2782 94.36% 2625
32 bastionofliberty.blogspot.com 2771 27.21% 754
33 dailypaul.com 2750 80.76% 2221
34 coldfury.com 2748 19.43% 534
35 michellemalkin.com 2705 56.71% 1534
36 beforeitsnews.com 2637 86.04% 2269
37 whitehousedossier.com 2630 30.95% 814
38 thepiratescove.us 2430 25.06% 609
39 yidwithlid.blogspot.com 2410 28.46% 686
40 sondrakistan.com 2359 19.08% 450
41 americanglob.com 2350 20.81% 489
42 reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com 2328 23.63% 550
43 adriennescatholiccorner.blogspot.com 2192 10.63% 233
44 powerlineblog.com 2121 68.65% 1456
45 moonbattery.com 2079 31.07% 646
46 thenewscommenter.com 1962 85.47% 1677
47 westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com 1930 66.53% 1284
48 angrymikeshood.blogspot.com 1815 35.26% 640
49 nicedoggie.net 1813 46.22% 838
50 ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com 1782 47.98% 855

Thanks to all of my beloved readers and fellow bloggers -- patriots one and all -- except for you progressive miscreants and you know who you are.