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Nation

A Low-Information Voter's Guide to Politics: Cube
The Kind of Cop We Need: LibertyZone
Failed Government: A Study of Futility: NoisyRoom

Putting politics over public safety: Gaffney
Pick your analogy for Obama's sequester fear-mongering fail: LI
Barack Obama: the Man Behind the Mask: McCann

When confiscation begins, politicians guilty until proven innocent: Western
GOP accusation confirmed: Obama out to break it: Rubin
Ultra-assertive Obama adopts new strategy: Taking no prisoners: Hill

Economy

Circle The Wagons: The Left Goes Gunning For Texas: RS
Obamacare Insurance Plans Will Be Bare Bones -- And Expensive: RCM
Non-Teaching School Staff Costing Taxpayers Money: Foundry

Mark Levin schools Jeb Bush and Matt Lauer: Scoop
Doom: A Heap of Broken Images: Ace
Arne Duncan: Sorry For Making All That Stuff Up About the Sequester: WZ

Scandal Central

Sen. Graham Backs Radical Obama Judicial Appointment: Tatler
Is 5th Time the Charm to Get Obama’s Leftist Activist on DC Circuit? : JW
Washington Post report confuses one prostitute with another in bid to debunk Menendez allegations: DC

Climate & Energy

Obama Possibly Trading Keystone for More Taxes?: RWN
California's Green Energy Completely Fails to Power State: LI
Flashback: Ashley Judd Compared Coal Mining To Rape: WZ

Media

Advice To Candy-Ass Reporters On How To Deal With Bullies: Ace
An Open Letter From a Black Republican to Reince Priebus: IJ Review
NY Times Obama Sequester Hysteria: 125,000 Families Could Become Homeless: JWF

National Journal’s Ron Fournier Asks Why Obama Doesn’t Just Murder John Boehner: NB
Sequester Scare: Two Thirds of News Stories Devoted to Hyping Budget Hysteria: MRC
Pirro to Chi Police Chief Garry McCarthy: How About Tracking Illegal Guns and Policing Southside?: MagNote

Rubin, wouldn’t you like to be a conservative too?: Kuznicki
5 Myths in Steven Brill's Opus on Health Costs--Part 1: Forbes
Keith Olbermann Wants To Work At ESPN Again: Deadspin

Obama admin opens new front in war on women, calls journalist a c***: NakedDC
Dr. Ben Carson: Your right to own a semiautomatic should depend on where you live: Hot Air
Bob Woodward is a limp noodled tool of Barack Obama: Winter Soldier

World

Threat Level: Obama: Peters
Jihadists, Suicide, and Nuclear Weapons: Commentary
Hitler's Islamist Allies: The History Lesson You Didn't Get in School: WorldThreat

Forum: Do you consider a nuclear armed Iran a problem? If so, how would you deal with it?: Watcher
41% of Dems think president should have power to kill suspected American terrorist on American soil: Hot Air
Biden: Obama 'not bluffing' on Iran -- 'as far as you know' (okay, I added that last bit): ynet

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

30 years of PCWorld, 30 pivotal moments in PC history: PC World
How Search Works: Google
Jailed cybercriminal hacked into his own prison's computer system after being put in IT class: Sophos

Cornucopia

Just Had To Share This Picture With You: Western
A Message From the Future: AllThingsD
Some 3-D Printing Links: Chicago Boyz

Image: People's Cube
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QOTD: "Conservatives are fighting a losing battle of moral arithmetic. They hand an argument with virtually 100% public support—care for the vulnerable—to progressives, and focus instead on materialistic concerns and minority moral viewpoints.

The irony is maddening. America's poor people have been saddled with generations of disastrous progressive policy results, from welfare-induced dependency to failing schools that continue to trap millions of children.

Meanwhile, the record of free enterprise in improving the lives of the poor both here and abroad is spectacular. According to Columbia University economist Xavier Sala-i-Martin, the percentage of people in the world living on a dollar a day or less—a traditional poverty measure—has fallen by 80% since 1970. This is the greatest antipoverty achievement in world history. That achievement is not the result of philanthropy or foreign aid. It occurred because billions of souls have been able to pull themselves out of poverty thanks to global free trade, property rights, the rule of law and entrepreneurship.

The left talks a big game about helping the bottom half, but its policies are gradually ruining the economy, which will have catastrophic results once the safety net is no longer affordable. Labyrinthine regulations, punitive taxation and wage distortions destroy the ability to create private-sector jobs. Opportunities for Americans on the bottom to better their station in life are being erased." --Arthur C. Brooks