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Cartoonist: Glenn Foden

[via Town Hall]

Rule 5: Emily Ratajkowski

Eminent  conservative blogger Stacy McCain created the infallible Rule 5 for blog success: everyone likes a pretty girl. Today, the Laughing Conservative brings you this sample from an extensive lingerie photo-shoot of Emily Ratajkowski, purely to hone your photographic skills for the holidays, of course.

Giuliani weighs GOP candidates

Rudy boosts Gingrich, Santorum. Calls Paul a distraction.

[via The Looking Spoon]

Cartoonist: Gary Varvel

[via Town Hall]

Stopping the phone fascists (3)

Glenn Reynolds  makes a compelling case for excluding hands-free  phones from the NTSB's proposed  total ban on using phones in cars. Read it all.

Cartoonist: Gary McCoy

[via Town Hall]

Does Obama want your email address?

 Big Bro' is watching  you: The Obama campaign has launched a disturbing and potentially pernicious drive to  the uncover the email addresses of GOP supporters. More here.

New US tax law prompts banks to dump US citizens

Der Spiegel reports that European banks are dumping clients with US citizenship due to a new law introduced under the Obama Administration  which requires financial institutions around the world to report on certain client activities. Compliance, say many banks, is  way too expensive to justify continuing to serve US citizens . Details here.
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Stop the phone fascists!

 [ by Chip Bok via Town Hall]

Turd of the Year

 Doug Powers at Michelle Malkin protests  that Time didn't use his suggested cover [left] for their Person of the Year: The Protester. True, it's an image that many will  remember as emblematic of OWS, but it's also a sight  that many of us deeply wish we could unsee.

The scent of your wasted tax money

 Your tax dollars at work: Thanks to a $374,000 taxpayer-funded grant, we now know that inhaling lemon or lavender scent doesn't do a lot for our ability to heal a wound. With $666,000 in federal research money, scientists examined whether distant prayer could heal AIDS. It could not. Read it all.
[thanks BJS]

[via The Looking Spoon]

Crony capitalists threaten us all

Bill Frezza at Real Clear Markets makes this compelling argument: 

"...we have let our government grow without bound, extending its tentacles into every aspect of our lives. And we have allowed Crony Capitalism to grow along with it. Meanwhile, Market Capitalism has been battered into a defensive crouch, bogging down the entire economy. Progressives who think they can solve our problems by making government bigger and more powerful only dig the hole deeper, playing into the hands of the Crony Capitalists they claim to hate. 
The only way to restore the balance so we can lift ourselves out of our economic malaise is to harness the anger of both the left and right to slash the power of Crony Capitalists and their enablers in government, while freeing Market Capitalists to do what they do best..."  Read it all.
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