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Nation

Inside the Progressive Mind: N. A. Halkides
Karl Marx Was a Tea Partier: Zombie
IRS Intimidation Scandal Is a Civil Rights Violation: BET

House Judiciary Committee: Holder May Have Lied Under Oath: ZH
Holder Judge-Shopped for Fox News Warrant: Tatler
Obama Goes After Reporters With the 1917 Espionage Act : Barone

The VanderSlooting of America: Lord
An IRS Scandal Inseparable from Obamacare: AmSpec
House bill would force HHS to prescribe national exercise guidelines: Hill

Democrat Anti-Gun Nuts Facing Recall in Colorado: JWF
5 Reasons Why the IRS Scandal Will Haunt Democrats in 2014: FW
What If a Republican Did That?: RWN

Economy

Obamacare Cost the IRS $881 Million Since 2010: Foundry
Sequester Be Damned! Feds Post 27,000 Job Openings: Lid
Obama is Losing Unions on Obamacare: FW

Scandal Central

Letters: IRS Higher-Ups Requested Info On Conservative Groups: WZ
Report: Holder Felt 'Remorse' Over Subpoena Of Fox News Reporter After WaPo Posted Copy Warrant: WZ
IRS to Tea Party: 'State the Reasons You Did Not Have a Candidate Rally for Lone Democratic Candidate' : CNS

Obama’s “Fast and Furious” Gun-running Scandal Grows: NewAm
HHS Secretary Sebelius Begs Lobbying Group For Help Selling Obamacare: WZ
Lois Lerner’s a 3-time loser: CFP

Climate & Energy

How Tesla Motors Really Makes Money… From Taxpayers: Greenfield
Gas Myths: Stossel
Former EPA Administrator Richard Windsor hired by Apple: Quinton Report

Media

Headline/accompanying photo of the day: Malkin
The Ailes Manifesto: America Rallies Around Roger Ailes and Fox News: Breitbart
As You Can Perhaps Imagine, This Has Been a Rough Week for Charles Johnson: RSM

Some Economists™ are Idiots: RS
New Evidence Shows Trayvon's Life Unraveling: AT
Preview: “The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress”: Loudon

World

To the Slaughter: Steyn
Syria Goes Hot: Russia To Deliver Weapons, Air Defense; Israel Warns; Obama Demands No Fly Zone: ZH
Chemical warfare in Syria: Le Monde

The Pat Condell Video Everyone Should See: HayRide
Britain wants its guns back: Commentator
Surprize, Surprize!!!! China Has Plans of Major US Weapons Systems: Loudon

Police Dogs Trained To Spot Terrorists May No Longer Come Into Contact With Muslims After Complaints: RWN
Malik Obama and Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir: The Terror Connection: Shoebat
Minnesota: Somali Mob Randomly Attacking Joggers: Atlas

Sci-Tech

US weapons system designs were reportedly viewed by Chinese hackers: CompWorld
Google Is Reportedly Testing Blimps That Dole Out Wireless Internet Signals: Techland
The next huge upset in online music: Fortune

Cornucopia

Caption This! The Obama-Christie Bromance On Full Tilt!: Bruce
How to Handle a Scandalanche®? Hint:You’ll Need a Few Rounds.: MOTUS
Question over missing time deepens: CFP

Image: Caption This! The Obama-Christie Bromance On Full Tilt!
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QOTD: "If you’re thinking of getting steamed over [the Woolwich beheading], don’t. Simon Jenkins, the former editor of the Times of London, cautioned against “mass hysteria” over “mundane acts of violence.”

That’s easy for him to say. Woolwich is an unfashionable part of town, and Sir Simon is unlikely to find himself there of an afternoon stroll. Drummer Rigby had less choice in the matter. Being jumped by barbarians with machetes is certainly “mundane” in Somalia and Sudan, but it’s the sort of thing that would once have been considered somewhat unusual on a sunny afternoon in south London — at least as unusual as, say, blowing up eight-year-old boys at the Boston Marathon. It was “mundane” only in the sense that, as at weddings and kindergarten concerts, the reflexive reaction of everybody present was to get out their cell phones and start filming." --Mark Steyn