Larwyn's Linx: See, I Told You So

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Nation

See, I Told You So: Erickson
The Edge of the Abyss: Steyn
Obama Wins by Going Negative and Turning Out Base: Barone

Senate GOP should take a page from Dems' 2005 playbook: GayPatriot
How Immigration Ruined The Californian Republican Party: CDN
The GOP Is Nearly Dead In California: OTB

407,000 Votes in Four States Away from the Presidency: Geraghty
How Conservatives Can Win: Lessons from South Africa: Breitbart
DeMint digs in against talk of compromise: USA Today

Economy

Obamacare is still vulnerable: NRO
Dear Conservative Organizations: Erickson
Right-to-work states account for most of nation’s job growth: GayPatriot

Death spiral: Hours cut thanks to Obamacare: Twitchy
"I won't be hiring for a long time": Twitchy
Progressives target companies hit by Obamacare mandates: AmPower

Scandal Central

About Those "Massive Vote Fraud" Allegations: Ace
Colorado Counties Have More Voters Than People: RS
Jesse Jackson to Obama: Blacks deserve a return on their "investment": Marathon

Climate & Energy

Emails reveal Al Gore won’t take ‘no’ for an answer when seeking weather propaganda images: WUWT
LIPA Faces Angry Customers, Lawmakers as Blackouts Linger: BizWk

Media

Bob Woodward Shocker: There Is a Way to Raise Revenue AND Lower Tax Rates: NB
NAACP Chief Predicts Black Voters “Will Simply Go Away” Once Obama Is Off The Ballot: WZ
More Dead Bodies Discovered in Sandy’s Wake – Media Yawns – Obama Golfs: GWP

Values Voters Prevail Again: WS
Meet the Press Panel Pins Romney Loss on Rush, ‘Loons and Wackos' Conservatives: NB
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz May Lose His Show To WaPo’s Ezra Klein, Reports NY Times: Mediaite

Bill O’Reilly’s Open Letter to President Obama: IMAO
Rising number of states seeing one-party rule: Times
Obama's wins in Midwest only confirm its battleground status: Star-Trib

World

Petraeus Mistress Suggests Benghazi Attack Was Aimed At Secret CIA Prison: Breitbart
Petraeus Mistress Reveals Benghazi “Secret”- “CIA Annex Had Taken Libya Militia Members Prisoner”: CDN
Maryland: “Largest Islamic Project in America…could change landscape for years to come”: Creeping

Gaza groups pound Israel with over 100 rockets: JPost
"My mother always said, 'We, the Arabs, we were born to hate Jews'": JihadWatch
Huge Explosion In Indianapolis Still A Mystery 18 Hours Later: CBS Chicago

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Microsoft Surface RT tablet touch cover keyboard fuels complaints: PC World
Ransom malware gangs making huge profits, Symantec discovers: TechWorld
Support Forums Reveal SCADA Infections: Slashdot

Cornucopia

Old Soviet jokes become the new American reality: Cube
today’s KisPSA for tomorrow: Sondrakistan
Tuskegee Airman tells of his WWII experiences: AirForceTimes

Image: "Dead Enough: The Reality of the "Lesser Evil""
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Jackie Wellfonder

QOTD: "The good news is that reality (to use a quaint expression) doesn’t need to swing a couple of thousand soccer moms in northern Virginia. Reality doesn’t need to crack 270 in the Electoral College. Reality can get 1.3 percent of the popular vote and still trump everything else. In the course of his first term, Obama increased the federal debt by just shy of $6 trillion and in return grew the economy by $905 billion. So, as Lance Roberts at Street Talk Live pointed out, in order to generate every dollar of economic growth the United States had to borrow about five dollars and 60 cents. There’s no one out there on the planet — whether it’s “the rich” or the Chinese — who can afford to carry on bankrolling that rate of return. According to one CBO analysis, U.S.-government spending is sustainable as long as the rest of the world is prepared to sink 19 percent of its GDP into U.S. Treasury debt. We already know the answer to that: In order to avoid the public humiliation of a failed bond auction, the U.S. Treasury sells 70 percent of the debt it issues to the Federal Reserve — which is to say the left hand of the U.S. government is borrowing money from the right hand of the U.S. government. It’s government as a Nigerian e-mail scam, with Ben Bernanke playing the role of the dictator’s widow with $4 trillion under her bed that she’s willing to wire to Timmy Geithner as soon as he sends her his bank-account details.

If that’s all a bit too technical, here’s the gist: There’s nothing holding the joint up." --Mark Steyn