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Nation

Ted Cruz On Defunding Obamacare and The DC Establishment: HayRide
Obama to America: ‘Bleep You’: Tom Blumer
Obama's Creeping Authoritarianism: Daniel Henninger, WSJ

Cutting Through the Benghazi Smoke-screen: Conservative Treehouse
Howard Dean: Sarah Palin Was Right About Death Panels: John Hawkins
A Reader Sends: Western Rifle Shooters

The Best Quotes From Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals.”: John Hawkins
Barbara Lee and the Communists: Trevor Loudon
On the Road to Execution: GJWHG

Where's Al Sharpton? Black man in hoodie stabs white girl 11 times: Clash
Shocking Videos: 3 Black Youth Viciously Attack 6th Grader in Florida: Sooper
9-1-1 Calls Depict Chaos, Gangs On Chicago’s Lakefront: CBS-2

Economy

Obama Exempts Congress, Staffers From Horrors of Obamacare: GWP
Obamacare Full Frontal: ZH
Spot the Recovery: ConIntel

Detroit Failed Because Right Wingers Engineered It To Fail, Or Something: Ace
BCBS: “Unusually large rate increases” ahead as a result of ObamaCare: Toldjah
Rahm's Group Lobbied for Downgrade?: SCC

Scandal Central

“Workman reveals gun control playbook”: Protein Wisdom
Issa subpoenas Treasury for IRS documents, accuses agency of obstructing probe: Fox
If Benghazi’s No Scandal, Why the Cover-Up?: Jonathan S. Tobin

Climate & Energy

House slams door on carbon tax: Zack Colman, The Hill
EPA report slammed in Congressional hearing: Charles Rollet, DC
EPA official links fracking and drinking water issues in Dimock, Pa.: Mark Drajem

Media

The New York Times fails its readers—and the country: Matthew Continetti, Free Beacon
All the President's Courtiers: Ace
The 58 year-old question Democrats still can’t answer: Liberal Logic

Moran to Visigoths: “Your Visigothery is so, like, insane and stuff!”: Protein Wisdom
Greta: What Congress just did ‘will make you want to throw up’: Tom Tillison
The Soaring Inspiration of Jack E. and Mark Levin: Judi McLeod

World

Worldwide terror threat closes all US embassies across Middle East: BPR
Frank Wolf asks his last Benghazi Question of the Day: Shoebat
“Smuggling guns and arms across the Libyan border”: MOTUS

Obama administration losing credibility in Cairo: World Tribune
Two BBCs in One!: Ed Driscoll
Why Japan Has Helicopter Destroyers: Brick Muppet

Sci-Tech

Lookout's 'Operation Dragon Lady' uncovers mobile malware industry: Paresh Dave, LAT
Google’s call for open Internet hedged in its own rules: Lindsay Wise, McClatchy DC
Banks Get One Last Mulligan in Payments: Jon Matonis, American Banker

Cornucopia

The Best Way to Troll Someone Who Just Got Lasik: Kyle Wagner, Gizmodo
The Thin Goering: Brick Muppet
Massive Obamaphone fraud continues: John Lott

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QOTD: "...former federal judge Michael McConnell noted there are few means to stop a president who decides he is not obligated to execute laws as passed by Congress. So there's little reason to doubt we'll see more Obamaesque dismissals of established law, as with ObamaCare's employer mandate. Mr. Obama is pushing in a direction that has the potential for a political crisis.

A principled opposition would speak out. Barack Obama is right that he isn't running again. But the Democratic Party is. Their Republican opponents should force the party's incumbents to defend the president's creeping authoritarianism.

If Democratic Senate incumbents or candidates from Louisiana, Alaska, Missouri, Arkansas, North Carolina, Montana and Iowa think voters should accede to a new American system in which a president forces laws into place as his prerogative rather than first passing them through Congress, they should be made to say so.

And to be sure, the other purpose of the shafted middle-class tour is to demolish the GOP's standing with independent voters and take back the House in 2014. If that happens—and absent a more public, aggressive Republican voice it may—an unchecked, unbalanced presidential system will finally arrive." --Daniel Henninger