Coach Roy's Reading List for 1/12/2012

As the game rolls on -
[As usual my comments are in bold type surrounded by square brackets].

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Politics (as usual) Department:

O'Malley says he wants increase in sales tax

(Wash Examiner) ANNAPOLIS — Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said Wednesday he would like to raise the state's sales tax by a penny, putting another revenue source on the table in a new General Assembly session expected to produce extensively higher taxes for Marylanders.

[Tax and Spend, Spend and Tax, and a couple of tra la la's
Its how we pass the day away in the merry old land of Annapolis]

Is Obama Courting Dead Voters?

(White House Dossier) An outfit called Project Veritas – run by James O’Keefe, who made the videos that brought down ACORN – ran a little experiment in New Hampshire Tuesday and found that without voter ID requirements, dead people were offered a rare opportunity to participate in the political process.

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Presidential Election Department:

Shapiro: Keep Their Feet to the Fire

(Ben Shapiro-CNS News)Assuming Mitt Romney wins the nomination and somehow wins the White House, most conservatives will be ready to box him about the ears as soon as he steps out of line.

KUHNER: Dynamic capitalism is a virtue

(Wash Times - Jeff Kuhner) Mitt Romney has won a major victory in New Hampshire. He is the first non-incumbent Republican to capture both Iowa and the Granite State - a historic achievement. He has the money, momentum, organization and - perhaps most importantly - the air of inevitability going into South Carolina. Barring an unexpected development, the former Massachusetts governor is poised to be the Republican presidential nominee. Mr. Romney will likely be the man destiny has chosen to challenge President Obama.

Limbaugh: Gingrich and Perry Blew It on Bain Attack (Update: Newt Admits He Made a Mistake)

(EI You know, folks, it is — (laughing) — it is amazing. As I go through the news today, looking at the establishment websites, looking at the conservative establishment, media establishment websites, they're starting to have some regrets about Romney.  Really, they are.  I have two or three examples here, but there are some creeping doubts now about Romney on the establishment Republican side.

Obama flexing same powers he once criticized

(Wash Examiner) As he eyes re-election, President Obama is increasingly flexing his executive muscle to outflank congressional Republicans, even though he railed against such expansive uses of presidential power as a candidate in 2008.

[and you're surprised? Absolute Power corrupts absolutely]

EDITORIAL: Employment advice for Obama

(Wash Times) President Obama brainstormed at the White House Wednesday at a forum on “insourcing American jobs.” The administration’s greatest political vulnerability is sky-high unemployment. The basic idea that trickled out of the session was America must “bring back” jobs from overseas by raising taxes on companies that invest abroad. That’s a bad idea.

Messina Scolds Slack Obama Donors

(White House Dossier) Obama Campaign Chairman Jim Messina gave President Obama’s supporters a bit of his mind this morning, scolding them in video and email messages for failing to pony up enough cash for Obama’s reelection effort.
[Can't do it all with Arab Money ya know...]

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Law of Unintended Consequences:

EDITORIAL: Shariah in America’s courts

(Wash Times) A panel of federal judges has ruled that states cannot protect their courts from jurists who base their decisions on international or Koranic law. America needs better judges.

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The Media

In 'Right to Work' Battle, Narrative Trumps Fact on NPR

(PJ Media) On the morning of December 29, I was driving and listening to the radio. A National Public Radio anchor, discussing assorted issues being considered by prospective voters in the New Hampshire primary, described a proposed “right-to-work” law as one that would enable employees to benefit from collective bargaining agreements without having to pay dues to the unions negotiating for them.

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World View

Egypt cancels Jewish festival...

(Breitbart.com) Egypt on Wednesday called off an annual Jewish festival in the Nile Delta, which draws Israeli pilgrims every year to the tomb of holy man Abu Hassira.

Intelligence study glum on Afghan war, at odds with DOD portrayal

(Stars and Stripes) WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community says in a secret new assessment that the war in Afghanistan is mired in stalemate, and warns that security gains from an increase in American troops have been undercut by pervasive corruption, incompetent governance and Taliban fighters operating from neighboring Pakistan, according to U.S. officials.

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Global What?

[& The Environmental Wackos]

EPA Gives Activists a New Tool to Pressure Power Plants, Oil Refineries

(CNSNews.com) - Environmental activists are applauding the EPA for releasing greenhouse gas emissions data for large polluters through a new, consumer-friendly Web platform.

[As if they needed a reason to oppose these things....]

Obama: EPA Regulations Create Jobs; 'EPA Touches on the Lives of Every Single American Every Single Day'

[Yeah, jobs in Government that hold back real growth...]

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Popular Culture, etc.:

Apparently, Someone Forgot To Tell Reality That The Entertainment Industry Was Dying

(TechDirt.com) We hear it all the time: the entertainment industry legacy players insist that the world is ending, jobs are going away, and that they need new laws like SOPA and PIPA or it's all over. That's why SOPA & PIPA are being positioned as jobs bills. Especially popular are the major labels and the big Hollywood studios insisting that they're really doing this not to save their own companies from having to adapt, but to protect the poor, poor indie creator, who is totally being destroyed by those evil online pirates. We hear time and time again about how it's really the "indie" folks who are being decimated.

If SOPA's Main Target Is The Pirate Bay, It's Worth Pointing Out That ThePirateBay.org Is Immune From SOPA

(TechDirt) In looking over Eric Goldman's excellent "linkwrap"really about going after one single site: The Pirate Bay. I've actually heard this repeatedly — and from folks heavily involved with the bill itself. The whole point of the bill is to try to take down The Pirate Bay. Now, we can argue back and forth about how pointless that is... but there's something else that seems important: of a bunch of recent SOPA/PIPA stories, it pointed me to a News.com article from last month, about how SOPA was

SOPA foes warn: Not much time left to act

Klavin: Watch Blue Bloods, Damn It!

(Andrew Klavan - PJ Media) If you are a conservative and you don’t watch Blue Bloods, you are a caitiff and a knave.  And okay, I don’t know what that means either, but the point is:  you gotta watch this show.  I know I’ve talked about it before, but it really does deserve repeating.  We complain and complain about how the left has taken over the culture, then CBS puts something like this on offer and we’re too good for it or haven’t got time to pay attention.

Radosh: The New York Times Offers Propaganda for the Castro Regime as an Op-Ed

(Ron Radosh - PJ Media) Today’s New York Times runs one of its usual idiotic op-eds from a contributor. It is not quite as bad as the time the paper ran the late Libyan dictator Gaddafi’s op-ed on how the world should deal with Israel, but it comes close.

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Business

Amtrak to spend $764M on new locomotives, rail cars

(Wash Post) Amtrak will pay $466 million this year for 70 new locomotives to enhance the speed and reliability of rail service in the Northeast Corridor and invest $298 million on 130 new rail cars to serve the East Coast and Midwest.

[its your money folks....]

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Military Stuff

Naval patrols cut pirate attacks by about half

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And the rest of the stuff:

The Weather in Lower Slower Delaware

U.S. Retail Gasoline Prices

Politico's Morning Score Election Cheat Sheet [Remember this is Politico]

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