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Nation

Keep Your Doctor, Change Your Senator: Glob
Matt Bevin Polls Better Than McConnell Against Democrat: Erick Erickson
Senate Democrats Backed Obama On Vast Majority of 2013 Votes: Roll Call

One Brave Doctor Stands Up to Obamacare: David Limbaugh
Lupus Sufferer: 'Obamacare Has Made My Life a Nightmare': Breitbart
This Pelosi Answer Says So Much: EIB

Republicans to the Rescue?: Thomas Sowell
Obama: ‘Not a Smidgeon’ of Corruption in IRS Abuse: Bryan Preston
Dismal Wisdom for Dismal Times: Fred on Everything

Economy

"May You Live in Interesting Times": Silicon Graybeard
The BLS Can't Hide These Numbers: Allison Martinez
Ohio Gov. John Kasich Wants to Redefine Conservatism: Jason Hart

8th Circuit Says USDA Can’t Keep Hiding Food Stamp Data: JW
Obamacare Rules Trap Some Domestic Violence Victims: PJM
You can’t celebrate America, school says: Todd Starnes

Scandal Central

Another IRS Stonewall: R.S. McCain
Fox News: CIA Director Morell Altered Benghazi Talking Points To Help Obama Politically: Nice Deb
Get your opiates for free: Capitalism meets the zombie apocalypse: Bronte Capital

Media

Will the FCC shut down Fox News now that Obama has blamed them for all his problems?: WyBlog
Networks Tout Obama Dodging Tough Questions From O'Reilly and Attacking Fox News: MRC
Why the “America the Beautiful” Coke Ad Should Not Be Controversial: Victory Girls

NRA calls 2014 elections do-or-die; vows war with Michael Bloomberg, Obama: Paul Bedard
‘Dana Loesch is my hero’: Conservative superstar totally kills it on ‘The View’: Twitchy
Ditch Mitch Snowballing – Matt Bevin Leading Grimes And McConnell: IM41

World

America’s Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Are Not ‘Ended’: Dennis Prager
Another heartwarming story about funding the Castro regime: Babalú
Israel: The innovative nation: Commentator

Coke Balkanizes USA With Super Bowl Ad: Publius
Karzai Arranged Secret Contacts With the Taliban: Scoop
Pretending Tel Aviv Is the Capital of Israel: Daniel Pipes

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Government spying challenge on the way: SCOTUSblog
Suspected Data Breach At Holiday Inn, Marriott Hotels: CIO
A single pound of human body fat looks horrifyingly vile: Casey Chan

Cornucopia

Watch Ben Howe’s “Bankrupt” documentary here - for free: Moe Lane
On Gun Control Activists...: 90 Miles
Monday the Day After Groundhog Day: We Do it All Over Again: MOTUS

Image: An Open Letter to Michael Lawlor, the CT Governor's Hatchet Man on Firearms Confiscation
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Fire Mitch McConnell: support Matt Bevin for Senate

QOTD: "An Open Letter to Michael Lawlor, the CT Governor's Hatchet Man on Firearms Confiscation

...As Governor Malloy's volunteer hatchet man on the forcible disarmament of the Connecticut citizenry, it is appropriate that I write you directly on some issues raised by your personal collectivist appetites for control of your fellow citizens' liberty, property and lives, if for no other reason than to politely explain some ramifications of that dictatorial compulsion under the Law of Unintended Consequences and the principles of 4th Generation Warfare, under which the civil war that you seem eager to solicit will likely be fought...

...You know it is quite ironic that on the morning I sit down to write this letter we discover that Adam Lanza (whose evil deeds were the supposed excuse for your Intolerable Act) was something of a twisted fellow traveler of collectivism being an apparently homosexual, environmentalist vegan who was anti-Christian enough to forbid his mother to put up a Christmas tree. "Gee," I thought when I read that, "This kid could have grown up to be a Connecticut Democrat politician." That he provided the bloody excuse for tyrant wannabes such as yourself is certainly the Devil's own joke -- send a collectivist killer to enable future collectivist power. Old Scratch must be laughing his ass off...

...I note that while you were at UConn in 1977 you "participated in language studies in Russia in 1977" at Moscow and Leningrad. You then earned a Master's Degree in Soviet Area Studies from the University of London in 1981. You were, what, 20 when you first experienced the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War? It must have fascinated you early on in life. Yet after you got your Masters in Soviet Area Studies from the University of London at a time when that and other British universities were prime recruiting grounds for KGB "political warfare" assets, and you subsequently "received a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to study economic reform in Hungary in 1982," you decided to change course and become, in quick succession, a lawyer, a prosecutor and then a Democrat Party politician.

...Your KGB file might provide some clues along those lines, of course. I had a long chat with a former CIA Cold Warrior who is intimately familiar with the KGB infiltration and subversion tactics of the time of your stay in the Soviet Union. He says that you certainly have a KGB file and had a KGB officer assigned to your case with the object of making an asset of you. No one from the United States got into the Soviet Union back then without the close inspection of the KGB. NO ONE...

And what would the KGB be looking for, I asked? "A lot of dewy-eyed kids were going to the Soviet Union back then with this fascination for the other side. They thought the Vietnam War proved the evil nature of American society and they wanted to see what the other side was like. So they (the KGB) would look for someone with those misconceptions and then look for other vulnerabilities. And their recruitment operations were vast. VAST." What other vulnerabilities? I asked.

"For one, homosexuality or other sexual deviance," he answered... It is a matter of record that after being long in the closet, you "came out" only in 2006...

...So, what about it, Mike? How's YOUR KGB file hangin'? Would you be so kind as to sign a release so an enterprising reporter can delve into the KGB archive and find out who you truly loved back then -- literally and figuratively? ...Perhaps we can find someone who can do it without your permission. After all, as someone who doesn't blink at using the violence of the state police power to work his will on otherwise innocent citizens in contravention to the Second Amendment, you can hardly expect that the Law of Unintended Consequences would not also apply here, now can you?

As I said, we'll continue this conversation on the ramifications of your personal quest for tyrannical power in future letters. Have a nice day." --Mike Vanderboegh