Larwyn's Linx: Legislators Are Digging Their Own Grave and Taking Us Down with Them

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Nation

Legislators Dig Their Own Graves, Taking Us Down with Them: Janine Turner
The AWOL Commander-in-Chief : Andrew C. McCarthy
Benghazi select committee chair announcement could come Monday: FAM

Liberal Racism: Derek Hunter
Using Mitch McConnell's Words Against Him: BarbWire
Rand Paul Promotes School Choice as "The Great Equalizer": Wire

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton: 'Benghazi a corpse': BarbWire
Meet the Serial Killer Who Murdered Living Babies: Foundry
What Obama Did on September 11, 2012: Jack Cashill

House select committee must peel back Benghazi coverup: Exam
Democrat Party Accepts Money from Anti-Gay Cult Leader: GayPatriot
Harry Reid should lead, not attack and distract: LVRJ

Economy

Tax Cut Denialism, With A Freudian Slip: JOM
In Open Letter, Volkswagen Employees Rip Into UAW Boss: LUR
Obama Vacations Have Cost $40 Million Total; $625,000 per month: RWN

Scandal Central

John Bolton: Benghazi Panel Needs to Question Hillary Clinton for 'Hours and Hours': Paul Ebeling
Benghazi: During Attack Denis McDonough and Tom Donilon Replace Obama and Biden: Treehouse
One Year Later: Americans Targeted by the Obama Administration’s IRS Deserve Justice: RS

Climate & Energy

No Statistically Significant Warming In 17 Years And 9 Months: Cove
EPA Employees Received $500,000 In Unauthorized Bonuses: LoneCon
New EPA Rule Gives Feds Authority Over 'Nearly All' Water: CNS

Media

“Two Dads are Better Than One”: pro-gay adoption ABC profile of convicted pedophile: Wintery Knight
Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?: JOM
Obama Mocks Biden's Jealousy of Hillary Clinton: WS

Not A Cover-Up, A Strategy: JOM
Correspondents’ Dinner 2014: We Do Hot Messes Right: MOTUS
Kentucky Derby fans are sick of NBC’s Bob Costas, and BLAST him on Twitter: YC

Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) Talks Twitter: The Talkhouse
Brit Hume fears no one, eviscerates Democrat Rep. for defending false Benghazi narrative: YC
LiberalRacism: The Left's Cynical Perpetuation of Racist Plantation Politics: AmPower

World

Global Creeping Sharia Never Ceases: BarbWire
Maldives: Progresive Muslim Nation Enacts Death Penalty For Children: BCF
Top Saudi Cleric says true Muslims must believe the Sun revolves around the Earth: Commentator

From Sir, With Love: Theodore Dalrymple
‘They Are Worse Than Hitler’: Telling Words from an Iranian Émigré: Tatler
Former Russian Foreign Minister on Ukraine: No Bluffing: PJM

Exclusive: CIA Falls Back in Afghanistan: Daily Beast
Norway: No Saudi mosques, as long as there's no freedom of religion in Saudi-Arabia: IIE
Gold Jumps Back Above 200DMA As USDJPY & Stocks Continue Slide: ZH

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Scientists reverse aging in mice by giving them young blood: Engadget
Listen To NASCAR Explain Dogecoin Thanks To 'The Google Machine': Jalopnik
Department of Defense to study bitcoin as possible terrorist threat: Fox

Cornucopia

Fifth Grade Boys Steal Talent Show With Synchronized Swim Routine: GWP
LaFerrari first drive review: AutoCar
‘Seeing the irony here?’ Valerie Jarrett poses for photo with her ‘#Scandal bosses’: Twitchy

Image: Detainees freed after Odesa police HQ stormed
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QOTD: "There is an enormous amount of theorizing about what the “real story” behind Benghazi really is. To me it’s always been obvious. The White House was caught off guard — for reasons stemming both from ideology and incompetence — on September 11, 2012. As they have after virtually every other (jihadist) terrorist attack on Americans, they acted as if it had absolutely nothing to do with them. As with the Times Square bomber, the Fort Hood shooter, and other Islamist assaults, there’s always some other reason for the bloodshed, some attempt to claim, at least for a while, that this was an “isolated incident” with no broader implications for the War on Terror or Obama’s foreign policy. Admittedly, even this White House understood that spinning the Benghazi attack as an isolated incident wasn’t going to work (such intense spinning could risk irreparable scrotal torsion). So they went with the story about the video..." --Jonah Goldberg