Larwyn's Linx: Is the Current Santorum Criticism Substantive, Or Political?

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GOP Primary

Is the Current Santorum Criticism Substantive, Or Political?: Riehl
Gingrich bus is now just a metaphor: NakedDC
Rick Santorum thinks gambling is bad for you: ProWis

Do voters know Romney’s views on Global Warming?: RWN
2012 Ad War: Santorum Fights Mud With Humor: PolWire
Questions surface on Gingrich campaign travel payments: Times

Nation

Obama holds fundraiser, massive Tea Party breaks out: GWP
F-16s intercept plane flying near Marine One: ArmyTimes
FBI Arrests Man in Fake Suicide Vest on Way to Capitol: Wire

House GOP using new tactic to block Obama regulations: Hot Air
Dick Lugar: A so-called ‘statesman’ without a state: Hoosier
A Most Dangerous Website Still Up and Running: CFP

Economy

How Entitlement America is strangling the rest of America: Scoop
CBO gives the stimulus package a good, solid F-: Hot Air
NLRB Staff: NLRB Bosses Have Declared War on Us: LUR

Happy Third Anniversary, Stimulus!: Powers
UAW Gives Union Workers At GM $7K Bonus: S&L
Long-term unemployed topped 40% in December 2009... for the first time since 1948: IBD

Obama does support tax relief!: Looking Spoon
Justice says Supreme Court should revisit campaign finance: Times
Happy Belated Third Birthday, Stimulus!: RWN

Pro-Walker signature verification effort needs your help this weekend: LI
The Key to Markets Performance Until November, 2012: Oracle
The Federal Reserve’s Explicit Goal: Devalue The Dollar 33%: Insider

Scandal Central

Dem Convention co-chair's company received $230M in green energy loans: Beacon
‘Fast and Furious’ probe shows Burke called DOJ officials ‘chuckleheads’: WaPo
Project Gunrunner Wasn't Fast and Furious by Any Means: AT

Climate & Energy

The DeSmoggers are crashing and burning: Watts
Keystone Pipeline Finds New Opponents: Roll Call
Emails Show Chu's Loan-Deal Role: WSJ

Media

Hey PolitiFact, here’s your death panel: Surber
AP: Santorum Is Out Of Step With The Nation: S&L
Resist Car Insurance We Much: Al Sharpton’s SUV Impounded at La Guardia: Powers

Tucker Carlson: “The Press Are More Corrupt Even than I Think People Think”: VS
Controlling the Birth Control Debate: Alexa
I get it now, the Democrats are trying to distract us: WyBlog

America or Ameritopia: Levin
Occupy Protester Charged With Battery on Police Officer at “Peaceful March Protesting Police Brutality”: JWF
Maher Distinguishes Between His Bush Insults And Conservative ‘Disrespect’ Towards Obama: Mediaite

World

Liberal Rats Flee the Mideast Ship: BRubin
Iranian naval ships enter Mediterranean via Suez: Reuters
Hacked: How China is stealing America's business secrets: Week

Holder & DOJ Fail to Prosecute Palestinian Terrorists who Kill Americans Overseas: BigPeace
Reid attacks Rubio for insufficient racial loyalty: Hayward
Fake US bonds worth trillions seized: BBC

Media and Obama Administration Reserve Harsher Treatment for U.S. Soldiers than Taliban: BigPeace
Turkey will not allow NATO to share intelligence with Israel: Breitbart
Gov. Christie's Strange Relationship with Radical Islam: IPT

Sci-Tech

Must-Complete Projects for Every Hardcore Tech Geek: Wired
Nevada Approves Road Rules For Google's Driverless Cars: Insider
Google, Three Months In: Joe Marini

Cornucopia

DC Driver's "NO TAGS" Vanity Plate Leads To $20,000 In Tickets: Consumerist
Superhuman pull-ups: YouTube
Queen of Sheba's lost gold mine discovered, archaeologist claims: Fox

Image: iOwnTheWorld
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QOTD: "The centerpiece [of German's resurgence] were labor-market reforms designed by a former human-resources executive at Volkswagen AG. The power of unions and craft guilds was curtailed, making it easier for unskilled youth to enter the job market and easier for employers to hire and fire at will. Germany's lavish unemployment benefits were sharply cut back. An unemployed person in social-democratic Germany today can draw benefits for only about half as long as his counterpart in capitalist America.

The immediate reaction was a brief rise in unemployment, as German business was allowed for the first time to optimize its labor force. And there was a backlash by powerful union and guild interests, costing Mr. Schroeder his bid for re-election. But Germany was transformed.

Today's chancellor, Angela Merkel, who replaced Mr. Schroeder, has praised him for his "courage and determination." She is now spearheading the effort to repeat his Agenda 2010 template throughout Europe. Surely if Germany could start with the wreckage of a communist slave-state and make itself into the most dynamic developed economy in the world, its template could transform sluggish and over-indebted economies like Italy and Spain." --Donald Luskin