Renewed Push to Give Obama an Internet “Kill Switch” (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

How Chicago Works: Severance Pay for all My Friends! (Cha-ching!!)

Morning Bell: State of Denial

Colombia’s Stride Toward Greater Freedom

America, Here’s Your New Solicitor General To-Be: Don Verrilli (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

House leader opposes bankruptcy for states (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Defunding The U.N. (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

RAND study: No direct military benefit from use of alternative fuels by armed forces (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Egypt braces for anti-government protests (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Indian Outsourcing Firms Use H-1B To Displace U.S. High-Tech Workforce (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Administration Sues to Overturn Secret Ballot Initiatives in Four States (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

GET YOUR OBAMACARE WAIVER NOW!!! SUPPLIES ARE LIMITED!!! CALL NOW!!!! (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Three SEIU Locals–Including Chicago Chapter–Waived From Obamacare Requirement (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

HuffPo Front Page: Blue Dog Congressman Sanford Bishop Knew about Pigford Fraud (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

China’s Empty Cities Are Result of UN Agenda 21?

As Predicted, Tunisian Islamists Emerge

This Is Not A Good Sign, Not By A Longshot (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Governors rev up rhetoric on pension reform (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

By Chapter, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Chinese agree to buy city-owned Docks property on river for $2.15 million (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

And the Debt Bomb Ticks On (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

UK economy shrinks 0.5pc (“unexpected”) (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

The Pound Is Tanking, And US Futures Are Sliding After Shock UK GDP

WHOOPS: UK Q4 GDP Misses Big Time, As Growth Unexpectedly Goes Negative

Houston, We Have a Problem

An Economic Forecasting Fiasco: What Pro Economists Predicted For QE2 And Treasury Yields

Only 47% Of Working Age Americans Have Full Time Jobs

Shanghai Dives, Spain Is Sliding, And The Precious Metals Tank Again

The plain truth about who owns the Democratic Party (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

How I became a whipping boy for the loony Left (working to transform Britain into socialist state) (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

‘Capitalist’ contradictions (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

‘Investing’ our way to the poorhouse (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Ryan Is Republican Point Man (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

The SOTU response: Obama to provide the pomp, Ryan to explain our circumstances (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Do Costly Red-Light Cameras Make Us Safer?

Lies Dominated 2010 State of the Union Address

Future of Drilling in Gulf of Mexico in Jeopardy

Ex-Minn. governor sues over body scans, pat-downs (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Silver taking a dive. (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

The More Americans That Go On Food Stamps The More Money JP Morgan Makes (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Obama won’t endorse raising retirement age or reducing Social Security benefits. (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Postal Service Eyes Closing Thousands of Post Offices. (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

The Meeting in Davos: Don’t Worry, the World’s Elite Is Here to Save Us (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

One Day After Securing A Huge Deal With China, Boeing Lays Off 1000 American Workers (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Food prices rocket by 50% as global hunger epidemic causes riots and famines (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Patrick Gaspard, Gathering Rotten ACORNs for 2012 Campaign (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Lars man standing – again (on the Danish Mohammad cartoon trial) (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

The Tea Party Republicans are putting our liberal Tories to shame (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Commissioners sever ties with environmental group (ICLEI gets the boot) (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

The Air Force Needs a Serious Upgrade (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Inside Pentagon, Growing Alarm Over China’s Military Prowess (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Engineer gets 32 years for military secrets sale (China – B2 Stealth Bomber) (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Obama Orders Study on Socialism (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Judge throws out ban on online ammo sales (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Sarkozy Lays Out Plans for ‘Moral’ Reforms of Global Money Markets

Kerry: Obama to embrace ‘major initiatives’ on climate in SOTU (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Carol Browner to Quit Obama Administration (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

State of the Union Showdown: Obama, Tea Party on Collision Course

Peter Schiff: China to Unleash US ‘Inflation Nightmare’

Pawlenty: Consider Letting States Have Bankruptcy

The Left’s Piggy Bank? – The National Education Association is a cash cow for many liberal causes (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

The Top 7 Violent Left-Wingers You’re Not Supposed to Remember (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

The Super Rich at Davos: 40 years of disaster (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Obama 2.0: The First Big Lie (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

The end of credit cards is coming (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Grain shortage (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Obama Said to Call for 5-Year Federal Spending Freeze

SEC Gives Shareholders `Say on Pay’ for Top Executives

Consumer Confidence Rises to 8-Month High

End Is Nigh: Church Foreclosures Up

Taxpayers Foot Fannie, Freddie Chiefs’ Legal Bills

A STAR IS BORN?

Thousands pack Cairo to protest Mubarak; 3 killed

13 self-immolations in Tunesia, Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Mauritania

‘Day of rage’ as Hezbollah gains power in Lebanon

Wall Street Partying in Davos as Bankers Overcome Crisis

IMF: Instability Threatens Recovery

OH NO: Price Drop Points to Likely Double Dip in Housing Market

Jobless Rise in 20 States as Workers Still Laid Off

UK Economy May Be Heading for Double Dip

Maryland tests dimmer highway lighting to save energy, money

LIGHTS AT NIGHT: $1M electricity bill for Dept. of Labor — in one month!

SICK JOKE… After Increasing Spending By 84% – Obama Will Propose Spending “Freeze” Tonight

US Communist Leader Urges Unification With Democratic Party

Paper Money Madness: Inflation-Fueled Economic Growth Does Not Indicate That An Economy Is Getting Stronger

SOTU Glimpse: Obama to Call for Spending Freeze…Again

Huffington Post Blogger Let Go After Aiding Dramatic Anti-Bank Protest

GOP Lawmakers Target United Nations: ‘Unaccountable, Unreformed’

NASA Targets ‘Climate Kids’ With New Global Warming Website

Justice Scalia Addresses Congressional Meeting Organized by Tea Party Caucus

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An Ugly Side Effect of New 1099 Law: More Tax Evasion

‘Super Stagflation’ End Game?

Brits Ponder Fuel Rationing

American Arrested in Mexico for Carrying 150 Gold Coins; Coins Seized.

Silver Investors: Pick Your Poison

The Next Great Bull Market Of The Decade

Debt Bondage From The Economic Treason Of Banks

UK: Soaring Petrol Prices Will Damage Economy