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Video: Obama Gives Memorial Speech
The speech was quite good, but the atmosphere was strange. More like a pep rally than a memorial service. You’ll get the idea right from the very beginning. Why was it held in a sports stadium and not a church? Was it because one of those murdered was Jewish?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/01/12/full_speech_obama_addresses_tucson_shooting_memorial_service_.html

Obama Attends Memorial for Arizona Victims
Here’s how the WaPo reported the speech.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/12/AR2011011206134.html?hpid=topnews

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A Good Collection of Idiotic Democratic Comments
A rogue’s gallery.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/137141-stunned-lawmakers-struggle-for-answers

James Taranto Provides an Even More Thorough Breakdown
Includes politicians, commentators and talk show hosts — all calling for the death of a politician they dislike.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703791904576075660624213434.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion

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Arizona Assassin a Registered Independent

Honest WP writer sums it up at the end of this short piece. Think the Left will apologize?

He’s had major roles in Die Hard, License to Kill (a Bond film), An American Carol (a David Zucker comedy) and many others. And starring parts in TV series like Profiler and Criminal Minds.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001108/

He’s also a classically trained musician and singer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Davi

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Krauthammer: Why Reading Constitution Was Important
Can Republicans create a new cultural of smaller, less intrusive government?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010604379.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

Environmentalists Exaggerate Wildly Again
You know that big plastic island of garbage floating in the Pacific the size of Texas? Huh, it’s barely there.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8241265/Great-Garbage-Patch-in-the-Pacific-Ocean-not-so-great-claim-scientists.html

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Even French Socialists No Longer Support 35 Hour Work Week
Another socialist experiment that didn’t work.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14750246,00.html

Local Fox Reporter Sues Station for Firing Him for Using the N Word.
PC distorts everything it touches — office life, the courts, the media. The last thing the Left believes in is free speech — except for themselves.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20110105_Trial_set_for_firing_over_use_of__n__word.html

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Your Column Made RCP
Still up on main page as of 8pm Tuesday. Worth revisiting, even though you talked about these ideas last week.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/01/04/from_yale_to_the_nfl_are_we_still_the_home_of_the_brave_108416.html
This WSJ Article Is on the Same Theme as Your Column (didn’t make RCP)
More news analysis than opinion piece. Don’t miss last two paragraphs.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703808704576061931478655322.html?mod=WSJ_hps_editorsPicks_3
FLASHBACK:NY Times Expresses Its Admiration for Justice Stevens’s Death Penalty Stance

But as they relate that stance, it doesn’t make much sense to me.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/opinion/12sun2.html?ref=opinion
FLASHBACK: Here’s the Stevens’ Argument
Stevens reviews Garland’s book. Long, dull and specious. I suggest starting with the last paragraph.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/death-sentence/
WSJ: What the Republican Mandate Should Be
Some very valuable guidelines for the new Congress.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704723104576061922890057168.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

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Have Public Service Unions Finally Overplayed Their Hand
The backlash is coming. Now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/business/04labor.html?_r=1&hp
Here’s Another Way the Backlash Expresses Itself
Fighting back against absurd tenure rules.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576060122295287678.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond
Even Andrew Cuomo Talks about Budget Cutting and Lowering Taxes
These are all Republican ideas. After the Democrats go on a bender, who do they turn to?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/nyregion/02inaugural.html?scp=2&sq=cuomo&st=cse
And on the Left Coast…
Good luck, Jerry. You’re going to need it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576060113511442584.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond
WSJ Comments on the Job Ahead of Cuomo and Brown
Can they buck the unions that got them elected? That’s pretty much what it comes down to.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576059822394489608.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop
House Republicans Talk about Cutting Budget Back to 2008 Levels
Democrats are aghast. That would mean Pell grants would be reduced!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/us/politics/04fiscal.html?hp
Herbert: Republicans Only Care about the Rich
What fools we non-rich Republicans must be.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/opinion/04herbert.html
More Brits Converting to Islam
If it’s a trend, it’s a bad one.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-islamification-of-britain-record-numbers-embrace-muslim-faith-2175178.html
New Life Under the Sea
What they’re discovering is astonishing — in numbers and variety.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/science/04scibks.html?src=dayp
Alzheimers Patients Given Whatever They Want
Why is this so innovative? Isn’t it just plain common sense and decency? What a world we live in.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/01/health/01care.html?src=me&ref=homepage
Borders Books Skating on Very Thin Ice
Could easily be gone by the end of the year, if not sooner.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704199504576060182112033172.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection
Stephens: Egypt Becoming a Nation of Idiots
He’s been very, very good lately.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704735304576058382591955692.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion

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Coptic Church Bombed
21 dead. Muslims have made clear that Christians are not wanted anywhere in Arab world.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/31/world/main7201972.shtml

Hillary and Hugo Have a Nice Chat

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Krauthammer: Obama By Fiat
We must remain at our post, tireless, ever watchful, ready to signal danger.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/30/AR2010123003047.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
WSJ: Job One
Repeal ObamaCare. That’s the ball game.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703909904576051803529108190.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

ObamaCare Monster, Part 12
Every day and in every way its getting worse and worse. Kill it dead, Congress.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/30/AR2010123005032.html
“Denglish” Verboten in Deutscheland
Don’t think this will work.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/denglish-now-verboten-2171795.html
We Already Know Cap and Trade Is a Bureaucratic Nightmare
The harsh truth from Der Spiegel
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,736798,00.html
More Attacks on Christians in Iraq
This is a terrible trend. If Iraq has any future, it must end soon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/world/middleeast/31iraq.html?_r=1
Good for Nikki Haley
Shame on Oprah.
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/dec/30/haley-wont-grant-oprahs-request-interview-susan-sm/
Great Global Warming (Cooling) Predictions over the Decades
Sick fun.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/30/botched-environmental-forecasts/
Klein: Constitution Confusing and Old
Well, it’s a couple hundred years old, that’s true. But is it confusing?
http://www.breitbart.tv/liberal-star-blogger-ezra-klein-constitution-has-no-binding-power-on-anything-confusing-because-its-over-100-years-old/