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Nation

I Am a Gun: Clash
Circumventing Heller and McDonald: LibertyZone
The Danger of Attributing Malice to Stupidity: Max Velocity

2,000 Violent Illegal Alien Offenders Released, More Coming: MagNote
The Panopticon State: Steyn
Tuition Assistance Cut for Military -- But Not For Illegals: Sentinel

The Real Reason McCain-Graham Attacked Ted Cruz: PJM
Sobriety checkpoints and the 4th Amendment: HoosierAccess
Holder; Obama decides who's entitled to gun rights: WZ

Economy

CBO: Excessive Spending, Not Insufficient Taxation, Explains Deficits: CFIF
Bloomberg Prances Through Education Disaster: Mead
Only 2% of insurance plans meet all Obamacare rules: Comm'l Appeal

The Great Obama Failed Recovery, in graphs: LI
Anti-Semitic Coffee Shop "Busboys and Poets" Attacks Customer: LI
Not Enough Fingers to Contain the Leak in the Dyke: Mish

More than 70% of Federal Spending Goes to Dependence Programs: Foundry
Vassar Student — The Sequester Illustrates President Obama’s Laziness: CI

Scandal Central

Andy McCarthy: Holder is trying to get KSM into civilian court using Bin Laden son-in-law: Scoop
OOPS: Gabby Giffords' Husband Buys AR-15: Breitbart
Kerry pressured to make Benghazi survivors available: Hill

Media

Sen. Feinstein’s Husband a Board Member and Point Man on Current TV Sale to Al Jazeera: Creeping
Bitter codger John McCain takes his whining about Rand Paul to Piers Morgan – no one watched: FAM
MMA Fighter Fallon Fox May Lose Her License After Revealing She’s a Trans Woman: Jezebel

Obama Meets the Press—for Dinner: WS
Another California Coastal Commission Horror Story: Coyote
900 Dead Pigs Float in Chinese River: Beast

World

Francis (Franz) Lieber 1800 - 1872: Early ally in the fight against America’s Progressive Movement: Tea Party 911
Flag Carrier Strips Flag Wearer: BlackFive
Jesse Jackson Compares Hugo Chavez To Founding Fathers: Western

Muslim hackers target U.S. banks, demand removal of Muhammad video from YouTube: JihadWatch
Soccer riots threatening to engulf Egypt: Haaretz
Egypt bakers threaten strike over rising costs: GlobalPost

Susan Rice The Front Runner For National Security Advisor: WZ
Greta Van Susteren: Time to Subpoena Obama Officials on BenghaziGate – “Put Them Under Oath!”: Nice Deb
UN Confirms Hamas Rocket Kills BBC Reporter's Son: IPT

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Researchers: Stonehenge started as huge graveyard: AP
Google Sneaking Up On Dealer Internet Marketing: AutomotiveDigest
Four months in, Windows 8 needs help: CNet

Cornucopia

10 impressive conservative women: RedAlert
Top Ten Sequester Cuts to Hit the White House: Dossier
15 Year Old Kid Develops Easy, Foolproof Test for Pancreatic, Ovarian and Lung Cancer: Mish

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QOTD: "Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen born in New Mexico, was whacked by a Predator not on a battlefield but after an apparently convivial lunch at a favorite Yemeni restaurant. Two weeks later, al-Awlaki’s son Abdulrahman was dining on the terrace of another local eatery when the CIA served him the old Hellfire Special and he wound up splattered all over the patio. Abdulrahman was 16, and born in Denver. As I understand it, the Supreme Court has ruled that American minors, convicted of the most heinous crimes, cannot be executed. But you can gaily atomize them halfway round the planet. My brief experience of Yemeni restaurants was not a happy one but, granted that, I couldn’t honestly say they met any recognized definition of a “battlefield.”

Al-Awlaki Junior seems to have been your average anti-American teen. Al-Awlaki Senior was an al-Qaeda ideologue, and a supposed “spiritual mentor” to everyone from the 9/11 murderers to the Fort Hood killer and the thwarted Pantybomber. On the other hand, after September 11, he was invited to lunch at the Pentagon, became the first imam to conduct a prayer service at the U.S. Congress, and was hailed by NPR as an exemplar of an American “Muslim leader who could help build bridges between Islam and the West.” The precise point at which he changed from American bridge-builder to Yemeni-restaurant take-out is hard to determine. His public utterances when he was being feted by the New York Times are far more benign than those of, say, Samira Ibrahim, who was scheduled to receive a “Woman of Courage” award from Michelle Obama and John Kerry on Friday until an unfortunate flap erupted over some ill-phrased Tweets from the courageous lass rejoicing on the anniversary of 9/11 that she loved to see “America burning.” The same bureaucracy that booked Samira Ibrahim for an audience with the first lady and Anwar al-Awlaki to host prayers at the Capitol now assures you that it’s entirely capable of determining who needs to be zapped by a drone between the sea bass and the tiramisu at Ahmed’s Bar and Grill. But it’s precisely because the government is too craven to stray beyond technological warfare and take on its enemies ideologically that it winds up booking the first lady to hand out awards to a Jew-loathing, Hitler-quoting, terrorist-supporting America-hater." --Mark Steyn