Larwyn's Linx: Boehner, Rove, and Chamber Wage Big-Moneyed Assault Against Tea Party

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Nation

Boehner, Rove, Chamber Wage Big-Moneyed Assault Against Tea Party: TPNN
Karl Rove's Crossroads Reloading Against the Tea Party: Tony Lee
The 15 Most Idiotic Things Liberals Said in 2013: Publius

Ted Cruz: 2013 Person of the Year: TPNN
It Sucks to Be Mary Landrieu: AmPower
Nullification vs. Article V Constitutional Convention: Michael Lotfi

Veteran’s scathing letter to Ryan over budget, ‘stolen’ benefits goes viral: BPR
Cowards! Shirkers! Sycophantic Bootlicking Slaves!: Plucking the Yew
Obamacare Contraception Mandate Loses In Federal Court: RWN

Economy

Uh oh: Worst Christmas Retail Numbers Since 2009: TAB
Surprise! Bronze plans may cost a lot more than you expect: Hot Air
Data Firms Hold Files on Millions of Americans: Income, Disease, etc.: PJM

Heh: Obamacare cancels Americorps workers' health insurance: TAB
$26B in tax-hikes later, Deadbeat State is deadbeatier than ever: David Freddoso
Wash. judge strikes part of minimum wage hike measure: USA Today

Scandal Central

Busted Lying Again: NSA Can Decode Your Phone Call and Listen In: Victory Girls
ATF Agent Sends Shockwaves Across Internet With Explosive Fast and Furious Allegations: Blaze
New Jersey Cops Suspended for Serving Their Country?: FNI

Climate & Energy

Last Night, I Hit Rand Simberg’s Tip Jar for $10, Because … Science!: R.S. McCain
Warmists Really Hate Allowing “Skeptics” To Give Their Views: Cove
Stock Up Now: January 1 Is Lightbulb Ban: Cowboy Byte

Media

The 10 Best Conservative Columnists of 2013: Dave Swindle
Normalization of Pedophilia Proceeds: Moonbattery
MSNBC's Klein: How ObamaCare Could Make Insurance Unaffordable for Elderly and Sick: Brad Wilmouth

Top 10 Nice Deb Posts for 2013: Nice Deb
2013 Ratings: Fox News Number One for 12th Straight Year: Don Irvine
Revealing Gaffe on MSNBC About Obama Coverage: Roger Aronoff

Year-End Awards: The Tea Party Terrorists Award: Rich Noyes
Media Matters' Boehlert: Democrats Don't Have Money: Elisha Krauss
GLAAD issues statement on Phil Robertson’s return to ‘Duck Dynasty’: Twitchy

World

The Chinese Dragon Flexes Its Military Muscle: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Sharia's Protector: Mark Steyn
The End of Erdogan’s Cave of Wonders: An I-Told-You-So: Spengler

Superpowers Making Strategic Moves In Africa: RWN
Obama’s Vacation Unleashed (Cartoon): RWN
John Kerry meets Snoop Dogg -- Beclownment Occurs: DC

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Digital Enterprise: Frank Diana
Project of the Month: An Autonomous Lawn Mower: Ian Chant, PopSci
Infographic: The pros and cons of working at a startup: VenBeat

Cornucopia

If You Duck This Holiday Season, Please Duck Responsibility.: MOTUS
M11 Christmas Eve crash driver has 'incredible escape': BBC
Little Red Phony: iOTW

Image: Sign at butcher shop - @SaintRPH
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Matt Bevin for U.S. Senate

QOTD: “I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘arbitrary invasion’ than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval. Surely such a program infringes on ‘that degree of privacy’ that the founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment.” --Judge Richard Leon on the NSA's Sweeping Data Collection Program