Larwyn's Linx: How Do You Spell ‘Retaliation’?

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Nation

How Do You Spell ‘Retaliation’?: Kimball
WH: Drones can target Americans based on one official's opinion: HA
Holder: Half of U.S. Rating Agencies Accountable for Financial Crisis: ZH

Waterboarding Bad, Assassination Good: NRO
Who Were the Geniuses Who Came Up With That One?: Knish
Rove vs. the Tea Party: Shapiro

Economy

Let the Sequester Stand: Virtuous
HHS Mandate ‘remains unnecessary, coercive, and gravely flawed’: Lopez
Obamacare: 7 million will lose job-based health care insurance: GWP

More Welfare Abuse: EBT Still Being Used In Bars, for Lap Dances: MenRec
Is Government Eyeing 401(k) and IRAs?: MagNote
CBO Releases Latest Budget Forecast: Hilarity Ensues: ZH

Unions Want Taxpayer Subsidies for Obamacare Costs: Foundry
Argentina's "Anti-Inflation" Price Controls a Preview for America: ZH
Big Government Is Coming for Your Retirement Savings: Sentinel

Scandal Central

The Company Sen. Sleaze-Bob Menendez Keeps: Malkin
The Menendez Dilemma: AmSpec
Stuxnet Leak Came From Obamas Inner Circle – a Tiny Universe of Individuals: FBI Investigating: MagNote

Gun Owners We Are In The Fight of Our Lives – Right to Carry Rally & March: Ammoland
Obama's Three Cover-Ups: Morris
Colorado: The Assault on the Second Amendment Commences: NRAILA

Climate & Energy

Imagination Adventures with the EPA: NRO
GOP lawmaker threatens battle over EPA regulation: Hill

Media

Why Are We Discussing Skeet Shooting While the Government Seeks to Disarm Us?: Humphries
Here's That Video of Touré Defending Obama's 'License to Kill' Drone Strike Memo: AmPower
Ban This! Ban That! Ban This and That!: Stossel

Coulter's Warning: GWP
Washington Post: Critics of Michelle’s Oversized Posterior are Racist: Dossier
As Andrew Cuomo's Poll Numbers 'Crumble,' Chris Matthews Frets: 'Is Anybody Safe from the NRA?': MRC

Let's Organize a Search Party and Find WaPo's Greg Sargent: Owens
Ron Paul Clarifies: I Meant What I Said About Chris Kyle and Yes That Was Me: Ace
Lie of the Decade: Sexton

Enemies of the Constitution – Progressives, Liberals, & Marxists: Ammoland
Disgusting… Leftists Teach Three Year-Olds to Chant “Union Power” and “Transgender Rights”: GWP
Court: NYTimes's Request for New York City Gun Owners Violates Law: WS

World

Charlottesville, VA Becomes First City to Pass Anti-Drone Resolution: Marfdrat
How Obama Decides to Kill American Citizens in the War on Terror: AtlWire
North Korea video shows US city in flames after missile attack: Guardian

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Microsoft's CEO is wrong about Office for iOS: Here's why: PC World
‘Radio Buy Buttons’ found in iOS 6.1 via newly jailbroken iPads, could mean new functionality coming: 9to5Mac
It's official: Dell's going private in $24.4B deal: CNet

Cornucopia

Taliban to Send Peace-Keeping Advisers to Chicago: Cube
FOREWARD! All aboard Obama’s high speed intercontinental train.: MOTUS
Bats*** Crazy Love: Zilla

Manly Soaps (NSFW): Knuckledraggin
Seems Legit: American Digest
Here's the guy responsible for the Superbowl power outage: Wizbang

Image: The Morlock Revolt
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QOTD: "Melgen has been a generous political contributor to Menendez’s campaign, and reportedly donated more than $60,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee during Menendez’s tenure as DSCC chairman. Melgen is an affluent eye doctor and businessman whose friendship with Menendez dates back to the 1990s, and the New Jersey senator has admitted that he flew to the Dominican Republic aboard Melgen’s private jet. Exactly what Menendez did during his stays at Melgen’s mansion at Casa de Campo, a seaside luxury resort development, is a matter of dispute. At least one Dominican prostitute reportedly said last year that Menendez participated in a series of sex parties arranged by Melgen. “That senator also likes the youngest and newest girls,” the woman said in an April e-mail forwarded by the tipster and translated by the Daily Caller. The woman, whose services were reportedly acquired through an escort service called “The Doll Palace,” wrote that she had three trysts with Menendez in 2009: “The first one in February, and then in May and June. I recall his visit in June so well because that month was my 17th birthday.”

This is certainly a serious allegation because, while prostitution is legal in the Dominican Republic, having sex with 16-year-olds is definitely against the law. Yet Menendez insists that he never had sex with anyone at any time during his Dominican trips. “Now, nobody can find [the prostitutes],” Menendez told CNN’s Bash in their Monday interview. “No one ever met them. No one ever talked to them, but that’s where we’re at. So the bottom line is all of those smears are absolutely false and, you know, that’s the bottom line.”

Again, however, the Menendez denial is false. Matthew Boyle says he interviewed two of the women last year, and Boyle is adamant in his belief that these accusers were telling the truth. This presents a rather tricky dilemma for any journalist: Who is more trustworthy, a Dominican prostitute or a New Jersey Democrat?" --Robert Stacy McCain