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Nation

House Intel Chair: CIA Talking Points Changed By White House: Ace
Whodunnit? Benghazi Talking Points Mysteriously Changed: JOM
Benghazi-gate: Grounds for Impeachment: AT

E-Mail Security in the Wake of Petraeus: Schneier
Killing the Goose: Sowell
The GOP: A Most Unpopular Majority Party: DLim

GOP followed Rove off the cliff yet again: Beast
On the Ground in Philly: Dems Out-Hustled the GOP: Dossier
Liberals Begin Their War on Marco Rubio: Lid

Economy

Never Has Less Cost More: AmSpec
More Big Labor-induced misery: The looming port strike: Malkin
Obama Quickly Crushing the Hopes of Small Business: FreeWorks

“New study shows why heavily taxing the rich won’t work”: ProWis
The illusion of a recovery: Obamanomics in one graph: WyBlog
On Surviving The Monetary Meltdown: ZH

Europe is Now Sinking Fast: Martenson
2013 Looks a Lot Like 1937 in Four Fearsome Ways: Shlaes
How Students Are Forced to Prop Up the Education Bubble: Malcolm Harris

Scandal Central

GOP Urges Obama to avoid Rice nod for State – Call for Select Committee to Investigate Cover-up: Nice Deb
DHS Hides Records of Failed $1 Bil System from Congress: JW
Christie's Lt. Gov. embroiled in records scandal: Watchdog

Climate & Energy

Dirty Secrets at the EPA: Elephant
Cooling in the Near Future?: Watts
2013 Chevrolet Volt - Not Quite Electrifying: Forbes

Media

How the New York Times Covers Evil: Prager
Paul Krugman's Nostalgianomics, again: Cato
New York Times: Where FEMA Fell Short, Occupy Sandy Was There: Glob

Reporters Without Borders Shields Terrorists: Kesler
Obama Laments Not Having Dictator-Like Powers: WZ
Petraeus Biographer Regrets Damage Done by Affair: ABC

World

Operation Pillar of Defense (Day Six): BermanPost
One little reason Hamas deserves a lot more than the 200 tons of bombs they got today: JOdysseus
Hamas is wrecking Gaza with ‘friendly fire’: Twitchy

The real news: Melanie Phillips
Well, this is sure to help: Turkey calls Israel a “terrorist state”: Q&O
Islam creeping in Georgia: Creeping

Barack Obama blunders again on the world stage: Telegraph
Israel Defends Against Annihilation, World Tells Them To Use “Restraint”: Zilla
South pounded by rockets, but Israel to hold off on land war: Times of Israel

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Scientists estimate at least one third of marine species remain unknown to humans: Engadget
The legendary pivot: How Twitter flipped from failure to success: VenBeat
Windows Phone 8 Users Reporting Random Reboots, Freezing; Nokia, HTC Handsets Affected: Crunch

Cornucopia

We’re all Thai/Burmese/Myanmar Now: MOTUS
Bad News: The Human Race Has Been Getting Stupider For 10,000 Years: Ace
TEA Party to Gee-O-Pee Establishment: 'Yeah, It's a War- and You're Going to Lose It': Reaganite

Image: Israeli aircraft hit Hamas bank headquarters in Gaza
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: The Breitbart Children's Trust

QOTD: "Since the beginning of Israel’s operation Pillar of Defence last Wednesday against Hamas rocket attacks, there have been more than 1000 Israeli air strikes. At time of writing, the Palestinian death toll is 69. That is a staggeringly small number of fatalities for more than 1000 bombing raids.

It shows beyond doubt that the Israelis are not only doing everything they can to avoid civilian casualties, but have achieved a degree of precision in doing so which no other army can match. For sure, every civilian casualty is regrettable, and the deaths of children are always tragic -- today’s apparently heavy toll particularly so, including at what appears to have been a mistaken target. Such mistakes inevitably happen in war.

But consider this: the very low casualty rate among Israelis from the thousands of rockets that have rained down on them from Gaza is largely due to the fact that Israel has provided its citizens with shelters to save their lives. In Gaza, by horrific contrast, the Hamas leadership has deliberately exposed its citizens to attack by siting its rocket arsenals among them in order to maximise the number of civilian men, women and children who will be killed." --Melanie Phillips