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Nation

Things I learned today: Wisdom
Ladies Against Senator Sleaze-Bob: Malkin
CHICAGO: The true causes of Chicago’s insane orgy of violence: GSL

The Worst 80 Seconds of Chuck Hagel’s Hearing: Beacon
Why Isn't Gun Control Working in Chicago?: Exam
The Sandy Hook Video You Won't See on TV: GVP

DHS Report: Mass Shooters Prefer Handguns, Unlikely To Be Veterans: Ace
Lindsey Graham uses his powers for good on Chuck Hagel: Lane
A Blow to Obama’s Imperial Presidency: Foundry

Economy

Surprise: Glitch in Obamacare pricing families out of health insurance: Cove
Obamacare’s Union Shills Now Having Second Thoughts: LoneCon
Americans Buy Nearly Half a Billion Dollars Of Gold, Silver In January: SHTF

Rubio’s Amnesty: A Path To Oblivion For The GOP: Coulter
Real Border Control Has to Come First in Any Immigration Deal: Rasmussen
A Needed Stimulus For Our Robust Keynesian Recovery: MOTUS

Scandal Central

FOUR DOMINICAN HOOKERS Confirm They Attended Sex Parties With Sen. Bob Menendez: GWP
Dominican prostitute: Sen. Bob Menendez ‘likes the youngest and newest girls’: DC
Menendez rushes to pay private-jet tab after FBI raid: Hot Air

So It Starts… Injured Army Vet is First Victim of New York’s Abominable Gun Law: LibertyZone
IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family: CNS
Anti-gun protestor a convicted rapist: Buckeye

Climate & Energy

The EPA vs. Reality : NRO
Senate GOP Battles Obama’s NLRB Appointees: NRO
Coal blamed as China chokes on smog: BBC

Media

ChiComm hackers infiltrated the New York Times? Why, aren't they both on the same team?: WyBlog
Feel Good Story Of The Day: Piers Morgan Loses To No Name RuPaul In TV Ratings: WZ
Bracken: Review Of Martino’s “Resistance To Tyranny”: Western

Another Blacks-on-White Philadelphia Beat Down: When is a Hate Crime NOT a Hate Crime?: UrbanGrounds
Weimar Krugman:‘We Can Print the Money’: CNS
Heller case attorney: NY 7-round limit “clearly unconstitutional”: LI

If You Don’t Think ‘Jailbait Hookers’ Is Headline News, You Don’t Know News: RSM
If Ezra Klein were any more stupid we’d have to elect him to public office: Wisdom
David Mamet: Assault Weapons Ban is an Appeal to the Ignorant: Ammoland

World

Ted Cruz blasts Hagel over interview agreeing that America is the world’s bully: Scoop
Hagel Supports Nuclear Disarmament... of the United States: Foundry
Rancher: No, The Mexican Border Isn't Secure: HapBlog

Hagel’s 7 Worst Moments in Round One: Beacon
Hagel on the "Jewish Lobby": NRO
Professor Hagel’s Georgetown syllabus littered with anti-Israel authors: Beacon

McCain SLAMS Hagel Over Iraq Surge: Lid
Rubio says No to Hagel Nomination: PJM
Yes, Venezuela Has Banned All Guns: And What Good Has That Done Its People?: Extrano's Alley

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Exploring the Grand Canyon on Google Maps: Googleblog
NYU synthesizes crystals with lifelike behavior under light: Engadget
Americans are voting with their wallets on guns: GSL

Cornucopia

Qatar Hero Algorical Returns to Explain his Theory of Everything: MOTUS
FOUND: Childhood Photo of Ben Bernanke: Reaganite
Poll: For First Time A Majority Of Americans Believe Government Is Threatening Their Freedom: MenRec

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QOTD: "Modern economies are too complex to be reliably modeled; their connections and correlations are loose and imprecise, the second- and third-order effects largely immeasurable, the fickle vagaries of individual and aggregate human behavior utterly unknowable. Put an economist in a powerful government job and provide levers that can be pulled to start the printing presses, set reserve requirements, fiddle with the Fed funds rate, expand the Fed’s balance sheet, and deliver indecipherable communiqués, and that economist will feel compelled to pull those levers.

He or she, like a monkey with a typewriter, might even give us Shakespeare (or Adam Smith) on occasion. But mostly that economist will spout gibberish, a mélange of untested and potentially counterproductive measures that unleash all manner of unintended consequences.

Were the meddling to actually remedy the targeted deficiency, it might well be at the cost of dangerous feedback loops and unexpected ripples growing beneath the surface into the incipient waves of tomorrow’s much larger problems." --Seth Klarman, "Why Ben Bernanke Is Like A Monkey"