Larwyn's Linx: Congress to Investigate Potential Obama Crackdown on Drudge, Hannity

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Nation

Congress to Investigate Potential Obama Crackdown on Drudge, Hannity: TR
What could go wrong? Feds begin rollout of 'Internet driver's license': TechDirt
Some Keys To Success For The Gowdy Committee: David Bossie

House Finally Holds Lois Lerner In Contempt Of Congress: John Hawkins
Benghazi Committee to Include Five Dems, Call Amb. Stevens’ No. 2: PJM
Don't be fooled: The #TeaParty IS Winning: ConHQ

Did Hillary Send Talking Points to Rhodes?: Dick Morris
Gun Grabber Chris Christie Dodges Political Bullet: Betsy McCaughey
Another Obamacare Lie: 8 Million Are Not Enrolled in Obamacare: Sara Noble

Common Core Assignment o' the Day: Daniel Greenfield
America’s Red Guard: Daniel Greenfield
The President’s Non-enforcement Power: LibertyLaw

Economy

Labor Force Participation Rate Drops to 62.8%: Bankrupting
Sequester Resulted in One Layoff: WFB
Fantasy Healthcare Scenario, Reader Anecdotes, Wildcards: Mish

Scandal Central

Darrell Issa threatens EPA official with contempt: Exam
Barack Obama refutes Carney on #Benghazi talking points: AEI
Net Neutrality's Death Could Spark Populist Revolt: Ron Fournier

Climate & Energy

Dems soiling their armor over coming Obama climate regs: David Freddoso
The Warm Must Go On: Mark Steyn
EPA official spent 2-6 hours a day watching porn while on the clock: Daily Mail

EPA’s "Dept Of Homeland Security" Blocking Investigations: Cove
The Climate Change Debate Is Over, And Environmentalists Lost: Federalist
In One 2-Minute Monologue, George Will Destroys WH's Dire Warnings on 'Climate Disruption': TR

Media

Trey Gowdy discusses Benghazi and Select Committee on Morning Joe: Scoop
NBC's Chuck Todd Spins on Benghazi Special Committee: 'Nothing More Than a Partisan Stunt': MRC
Paper Savages Rahm: 'An Elitist Whose Swagger Doesn't Match His Triumphs': WS

Mark Levin hits back HARD against attacks on the Tea Party by the Republican Establishment: Scoop
Epic: In 2 minutes George Will DESTROYS White House dire warnings on “Climate Disruption”: YC
Are You the Biggest Victim?: Daniel Greenfield

Women Columnists Practically Plagiarize Each Other to Attack Monica Lewinsky: Rush
Saving Barack Obama: Power Line
Lawyering Up: Day by Day

World

Did Russian Planes Take Down LAX Air Traffic Control Systems?: SHTFplan
What do the Putins of the world want?: Victor Davis Hanson
Washington’s strategic mistake in Iraq: Abandoning Iran’s opposition: AIM

Ecuador: Patton Boggs to pay Chevron $15 million: Fausta
White House Memo Blaming Video was Sent to Muslim Brotherhood Operative: Daniel Greenfield
Shoplifting while Muslim not a crime in New York City: Creeping

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Level3 is without peer, now what to do?: I, Cringely
Virtru Encrypts Your Email, Lets You Recall or See If It's Forwarded: LifeHacker
This Was the Best Watched Solar Flare Ever: UniverseToday

Cornucopia

Not In The News Weak: MOTUS
Hilarious: Al Sharpton Versus the TelePrompter: JWF
Bald Men Turn To Ink Procedure Known As Micropigmentation: CBS New York

Image: Not In The News Weak
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: I Gave $100 to Thom Tillis’s Campaign

QOTD: "The Obama administration’s wider policy failures in the Middle East are significant, and they are partly the product of wishful thinking, partly the product of its narrow ideology, and partly the product of the fact that the American public to which he ultimately answers is itself incoherent on the question of what we should be doing there and how we should be doing it. But, even disinclined as I am toward being overly generous to President Obama, he is not the first president to underestimate the dangers and difficulties of the Middle East. The idea that the deaths in Benghazi, horrible though they were, would have been his undoing in the election if not for his administration’s disinformation campaign is probably wishful thinking. But for politicians of President Obama’s genus, truth is simply another multiple-choice proposition, and he and his people chose the version that best suited their immediate needs. One of the many problems with having a government dominated by law-school graduates is that lawyers suffer from a collective delusion that clever argument has a truth of its own, a unique moral weight independent of the facts. Recall that in the 1990s Bill Clinton was openly admired by Democrats for his deft touch with a lie: If you are winning, this line of thinking goes, then at some level you are also right.

In other words, the Obama administration did not mislead the American public about Benghazi out of political necessity; it misled the American public out of habit. And why wouldn’t it? From the economic effects of the stimulus bill to the GM bailout to blaming last quarter’s poor economic numbers on the fact that it is cold during the winter, the Obama administration has an excellent record for wholesaling fiction to the American electorate, which keeps enduring it. There is apparently enough collective intelligence in the Obama administration to hold in general contempt the wit and attention span of an American public that has elected it twice." --Kevin D. Williamson