Nation
Cover-Up: Petraeus Affair Known About Since Summer: WS
Romney Got ZERO Votes in 59 Philadelphia Voting Divisions! Zero!: NB
Are You Effing Kidding Me With This Right Now?: Ace
Romney lost because the GOP behaved like undisciplined clowns: RWN
Finally, the 2016 presidential race gets started: IBD
Assimilation, not amnesty: Malkin
Why Hispanics Don’t Vote for Republicans: Mac Donald
In Ohio, the GOP puzzles over missing white voters: Exam
Democrats Better Start Soul Searching: Commentary
Paul Ryan supporters begin online campaign to oust Boehner: Twitchy
The FBI has some explaining to do: ForPol
Economy
Triumph of the Moochers?: AceI Change Lives, You Don't: Captain Capitalism
Out of business avalanche: Small biz owners give up fight: Twitchy
Bummer: Feds May Not Have ObamaCare Operational on Time: Cato
Misdiagnosing the Fiscal Cliff: Mish
Walter Williams on the Morality of Free Markets: Hayek
Scandal Central
Report: FBI Suppressed Petraeus Scandal to Protect Obama: FoxNationL'affaire Petraeus: second woman identified, and Gmail metadata outed Broadwell and Petraeus: Boing Boing
CIA denies claim from Petraeus’ girlfriend that Benghazi annex held Libyan prisoners: DC
Obama and Terror: A Four-Year Scandal: Mukasey
Obama assault on religious liberty rolls on: Pundette
BREAKING: FBI Is Busting into Paula Broadwell’s Home!: GWP
Climate & Energy
The ‘Regulatory Cliff’: NROLIPA exec tells customers who have no power to download forms on the Internet: Post
Chevy Volts Fail to Electrify Customers: CAGW
Media
Rebranding the Democrats: ATThe Credulous Press: Shoestring Millionaire
Allen West: Democrats complain about Republican diversity but then viciously attack minorities in GOP: Scoop
Fun With Numbers: JOM
Layers and Layers of Fact-Checkers: Transterrestrial
Mitt Romney Lost, Not Conservatism: Hawkins
World
Fox News source: Yes, the CIA was holding prisoners at the Benghazi annex: Hot AirWhy Did Al-Qaeda Target Ambassador Stevens?: PJM
Friend: Petraeus began affair after taking CIA job: Philly
U.S. to Legitimize Horrific U.N. Human Rights Council for Three More Years: Bayefsky
Why did Paula Broadwell think the CIA had taken prisoners in Benghazi?: WaPo
Russia Helpfully Reminds Obama of His Missile Defense Promise: JWF
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)
Aakash 2 Android tablet materializes, costs around $21 for Indian students: EngadgetFlu During Pregnancy Linked to Autism, Says Survey: ABC
Microsoft Just Dismissed the Mastermind Behind Windows 8: AtlWire
Cornucopia
Holocaust survivor unites with family of benefactor: GlobeExclusive: John McAfee Wanted for Murder : Gizmodo
“We let Obama get away with…”: iOTW
Image: Foreign Policy
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Prosecutors Gone Wild, by Michael Volpe
QOTD: "...let’s hope the Speaker and the rest of the Republican negotiators are smart enough to propose revenue increases that will hurt liberals the most. Start by taxing the ever-loving crap out of Hollywood. I’ve suggested this before, and the esteemed Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds, was on the same wavelength last August when he suggested bringing back the 20 percent excise tax on motion picture gross revenue from the 1950s.
“The movie excise tax was imposed in response to the high deficits after World War Two,” Reynolds recalled. ”Deficits are high again, and there’s already historical precedent. Of course, to keep up with technology, the tax should now apply to DVDs, downloadable movies, pay-per-view and the like. But in these financially perilous times, why should movie stars and studio moguls, with their yachts, swimming pools and private jets, not at least shoulder the burden they carried back in Harry Truman’s day – when, to be honest, movies were better anyway.”
As Reynolds noted, one side effect of such proposals is that it causes far-Left Hollywood types to suddenly begin babbling about the depressing effects of high tax rates upon economic growth, as though they had been suddenly possessed by the ghost of Milton Friedman. That’s fun even if the tax proposals end up getting defeated. Especially now that we have YouTube to disseminate and immortalize their panicked bursts of “trickle-down economic” wisdom." --John Hayward
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