Larwyn's Linx: A Fling With the Welfare State

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Nation

A Fling With the Welfare State: Emerie
We Are The Undefeated: Why Sarah Palin should run: Hayward
Opposition to McConnell plan grows among GOP senators: Hill

House Freshmen not on-board for any deals?: RS
Partisan Justice Under Eric Holder: Federale
Ex-Rezko Partner Told Feds Of Payments To Obama: AdvIn

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Punks ICE HSI: Federale
Perry: I'm feeling a call: Hot Air
Every Dem voted against lifting debt ceiling in '06: GWP

Economy

Can’t Buy Love? Try Obama’s Corporate Dating Website: Dewey
California's Pay Day Loan: BG
Scott praises Cantor’s walkout from debt negotiations: Hill

GOP Govs Prove Conservative Economic Principles Work: GWP
Unemployment uh-oh: 9.2% may be the low-water mark: IHTM
True origins of financial crisis: Power Line

Climate & Energy

Globaloney: The Statist Push Continues: Blumer
The War on Copper: Exam
Why Nothing Is “Shovel Ready” Anymore: Mead

Media

Review: Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind: Power Line
Marco Rubio schools CBS' Bob Schieffer: GWP
'Murdoch Hacking Scandal' vs. NY Times National Security Leaks: TAB

The Slow, Painful Coming Death Of The Independent, Conservative Blogosphere: RWN
How Network News Helped Bring About the Crash: Klavan
Hollywood Hasn’t Lost ‘Hope’: Malkin

Big Demand For The Undefeated Drives Broader Release: Riehl
Gray Lady Gets Yet Another Case of Depression Lust: Driscoll
Keith Olbermann: The Lost Months: MB

World

Al-Qaeda Is Down but Not Out: Foundry
Cain: Voters Should Have Right To Prevent Mosque Construction If Community Opposes It: WZ
Obama Accused Of Crimes Against Humanity Over Bin Laden Killing At International Criminal Court: WZ

Islamic Teacher: Bring Back Slave Girls!: Big Peace
Trichet Repeats Nuclear Threat to Reject Greek Bonds as Collateral; Verbal Discipline or Big Bluff?: Mish
Indonesia: Veiled teen girls send mock bomb to police officer: JihadWatch

Sci-Tech

Make It So: Hands-On With Official Star Trek iPad App: Wired
Orphiro's electric motorcycle: like a Harley, just not obnoxiously loud: Engadget
A beginner's guide to telecom jargon: CNet

Cornucopia

Celebutards from 50 of our 57 states: MOTUS
Casey Anthony: Spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood: RWN
Sunken 19th Century Schooner Found Intact In Lake Ontario: Irish Weather

Image: The Looking Spoon
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QOTD: "When Roosevelt signed Social Security into law, it was meant to start coverage at age 65 at a time when 58 was the average life span of male Americans. (Roosevelt himself died at 63 ten years later.) When President Johnson signed Medicare, life spans were still well below today’s standards, and most major medical breakthroughs were still in the future. (Johnson also would die in his 60s.) Neither imagined a world in which people routinely lived into their 80s and 90s, with knee replacements and heart transplants and home dialysis machines. Roosevelt opposed public employee unions, whose pension demands and early retirements are now driving some of our states and cities into bankruptcy. It’s easier to think of goods as rights when the costs are low, and they therefore take little from others. It’s when the costs rise—as in medical treatments—that the political trade-offs rise, too." --Noemie Emery