Larwyn's Linx: 2012: When Dreams Died

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Nation

2012: When Dreams Died: Hanson
Another Obama ICE memo sabotages homeland security: Malkin
"Progressives" Panic As They Lose the Gun Narrative: Townhall

Fathers vanishing from American households: Times
Counting the dead vs. those who will live: Bookworm
Charts: Gun violence in America declining over last 20 years: Hot Air

The Magic of Gun Control: Events
Kwanzaa: Holiday Brought To You By The FBI: Coulter
Election Over, Americans Find They Were Duped By Obama: IBD

Economy

Building The Fiscal Cliff, One Dollar At A Time : RWN
It’s Not a “Fiscal Cliff” … It’s the Descent Into Lawlessness: BigPic
Holiday Sales Stink, Guess Whose Policies Aren't To Blame: Cove

Obama Blows $7M+ Pretending He Cares About Fiscal Crisis: JWF
Will Rising Union Activism Expose The Zombified US Pensions?: ZH
'Disabled' Workers Hit New Record in December: 8,827,795: CNS

Scandal Central

State Department's Benghazi Resignations Were FAKE: Lid
Scofflaw David Gregory Busted by Bloggers, MIA From ‘Meet the Press’: RSM

Climate & Energy

Big Brother: Feds Propose Tracking Black Boxes in All New Cars: 90 Miles

Media

D.C. Police: NBC told it could NOT use high-cap magazine in news segment: LI
HuffPo Shocker: Clinton Policies Seriously Damaged Economy: NB
The year's 9 most hilarious New York Times corrections: TheWeek

OUTED: NY Journalists Who Published Name And Address Of Every Handgun Owner In Two Counties: WZ
Cowardice: Smug Journal-News Editor Deletes Facebook Page, Hides Tweets: JWF
Newspaper editor who published gun owners’ personal info protects her Twitter account: Twitchy

The Howard Kurtz Recursion: Driscoll
The Journal News (NY) Posts Names/Addresses of Handgun Permit Holders: UrbanGrounds
Gun Owner Map Backfire: Outing unarmed homes makes them sitting ducks: Wolf Files

'Assault Weapons' vs. 'So-Called Modern Sporting Rifles': A New York Times Lexicon: Reason
Obama’s Numbers Went Down, but Romney Never Inspired Voters to Vote: Barone
R.I.P. Newsweek: AIM

World

Where's Hillary?: WS
Tom Friedman: ‘Hagel Is Out of the Mainstream’: WS
Ancient temple, rare ritual tools discovered near Jerusalem: Hayom

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

This 200-Year-Old Mechanical Caterpillar Does Everything But Turn Into a Butterfly: Gizmodo
FBI Memo: Hackers Breached Heating System via Backdoor: Wired
Software patents: The talk of 2012: OpenSource

Cornucopia

The Obamas have yet to master this vacation wardrobe thing.: NakedDC
Obama Dined at Morimoto, 41 Ate Chinese: MOTUS
The Media Violence Project: IowaHawk

Image: ABC's Brian Ross wins "Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste" Award
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: 2012 MRC Awards for the Worst Reporting

QOTD:"In combing through the results of the 2012 election — apparently finally complete, nearly two months after the fact — I continue to find many similarities between 2012 and 2004, and one enormous difference...

The popular vote margins were similar — 51 to 48 percent for George W. Bush in 2004, 51 to 47 percent for Barack Obama in 2012.

The one enormous difference was turnout. Turnout between the 2000 and 2004 elections rose from 105 million to 122 million — plus 16 percent. Turnout between the 2008 and 2012 elections fell from 131 million to 128 million — minus 2 percent.

Turnout is a measure of organization but also of spontaneous enthusiasm." --Michael Barone