Larwyn's Linx: Yes, Fascism Has Come to America

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Nation

Yes, Fascism Has Come to America: Nice Deb
What you’ll see in the rebellion: Bob Owens
Obama: We Must Limit 2nd Amendment Despite "Resistance": PunditPress

Communist Revolution: I Never Thought It Would Come to This: SaberPoint
Seventh Circuit Blocks the HHS Mandate for a Private Business: NRO
Democrats Seek the Holy Grail of Gun Control: Power Line

Economy

Obama forgot his big boy pants, blames GOP for his intransigence: WyBlog
Boehner Responds To Obama: "Stop Blaming And Lead": ZH
Lindsey Graham: Tax-Hiking Schmuck: Scoop

Reid To GOP: "At This Stage We're Not Able To Make A Counteroffer": RCP
Reid unable to counteroffer, hands over negotiations to... Biden: ZH
Reid suggests stalemate was the fault of Democrats, WH: WaPo

Sotomayor: Hobby Lobby To Be Fined $1.3M/day Starting 1/1: MagNote
When Government Offers to Help, Watch Out: Barone
The Multiplier Effect of Government Spending is 0: P&F

Scandal Central

The untold story of gun confiscation after Hurricane Katrina: Scoop
How Chicago and Obama Globalized Voter Fraud: AT
Obama vows to go after gun rights, admits he wants ‘fundamental change’ to America: Twitchy

What Fiscal Cliff? VP Biden, Gov’t Workers Getting Raises: RWN
The Assault Weapons Ban Didn’t Work Then and It Won’t Work Now: RWN
Feinstein: US must ‘bite the bullet' and enact new gun-control restrictions: Hill

Climate & Energy

Video: Eye-popping proposed EPA regulations: Fox
Politico’s Bogus Framing of Jackson’s Resignation from EPA: BizzyBlog
Professor Calls for Death Penalty for Climate Change 'Deniers': AT

Media

Media Bias Year-in-Review: The Biggest Obamagasms of 2012: NB
Peggy Noonan: With This President ‘It’s Always Cliffs, Never Deals’: Mediaite
Ed "The Red" Schultz: Impose Socialism on Talk Radio: MB

Lone Gun-Grab Advocating Protester Gets Headline, Photo in Gun Show Coverage at Denver Station: Bizzy
FLASHBACK: D.C. arrests vet for unregistered ammunition : Times
Is Media To Blame For Mass Shootings?: Mediaite

Obama Quietly Renews Warrantless Wiretap Law for 5 Years: Blaze
New Video Mercilessly Mocks Celebrities for Rank Hypocrisy on Gun Control: Bruce
Economist Morici: Obama “Put a Pistol to the Head of the Middle Class”: GWP

World

When the Lights Go Out in America: NoisyRm
President Obama “puzzled” by attacks on Susan Rice: RedAlert
Report: Half to two-thirds of Christians in Middle East fled or killed over past century: Creeping

Gun Control's Self-Refuting Arguments: Ace
Despite Gun Control, Dutch Shooting Rampages Becoming Common: Breitbart
Venezuela VP: Chavez suffers 'new complications': CNS

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves on Tablet Computers: AmPower
Extreme Diet Hacking With Tech: How Cheesecake Made Me Leaner And Stronger With Carb Backloading: Crunch
10 tech trends to watch for in 2013: TechRadar

Cornucopia

Peers-More-Gun: MOTUS
Chinese woman aged 127 takes on 'young man' from Japan who is aged just 115: Daily Mail
Could Belgium Bring Down Scientology?: AtlWire

Image: BizzyBlog
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QOTD: "Central banks have become the great enablers of fiscal profligacy. The overarching belief is that there will always be someone or something there to act as the safety net. The safety nets worked so well recently that investors now trust they will be underneath them ad-infinitum. Markets and economists alike now believe that quantitative easing (“QE”) will always “work” by flooding the market with relatively costless capital. Unlimited QE and the zero lower bound (“ZLB”) are likely to bankrupt pension funds whose expected returns happen to be a good 600 basis points (or more) higher than the 10?year “risk-free” rate. The ZLB has many unintended consequences that are impossible to ignore.

Our belief is that markets will eventually take these matters out of the hands of the central bankers. These events will happen with such rapidity that policy makers won’t be able to react fast enough. The fallacy of the belief that countries that print their own currency are immune to sovereign crisis will be disproven in the coming months and years. Trillions of dollars of debts will be restructured and millions of financially prudent savers will lose large percentages of their real purchasing power at exactly the wrong time in their lives. Again, the world will not end, but the social fabric of the profligate nations will be stretched and in some cases torn. Sadly, looking back through economic history, all too often war is the manifestation of simple economic entropy played to its logical conclusion. We believe that war is an inevitable consequence of the current global economic situation." --Kyle Bass