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Nation

The Perversion of Rights: Steyn
More than 2,500 religious leaders oppose Obamacare: Foundry
The Sharia Court of Pennsylvania — the Transcript: McCarthy

The Obama White House Is Campaign Central: BigGovt
Pay No Attention to the Mandate Behind the Curtain: Foundry
FBI Turns Off Thousands of GPS Devices After Ruling: WSJ

Koch Bros Respond to Obama’s Smears: Nice Deb
Anti-Semitic stalking horses in NJ-09 Democratic primary?: Lane
Obama World Apology Tour – Year 3.1: ProWis

GOP Primary

Santorum hits hard: Romney’s on the left’s team: Scoop
Mitt Romney Attacks Santorum At AFP Forum in Troy: Kuznicki
Santorum Blasts Obama: “He wants to remake you in his image”: VS

Economy

'Unions v. NY': The Battle Over Mixed Martial Arts: BigGovt
War on School Lunch: CDN
Who’s Offering Economic Solutions?: RWN

The Socialist Transfer of Wealth: Who are the real 1%?: Solway
Chicago Schools Aren’t Broken, They Need More Money: ConCom
FLOTUS asks rich to share wealth while wearing $2,400 outfit: NakedDC

Scandal Central

'Taxpayer-funded Clean Energy Company Laying Off Workers While Execs Get Raises' Story o' the Day: Malkin
Obama Sics IRS After TEA Parties: ConCom
Holder, DOJ continue to drag out Fast & Furious probe, say lawmakers: Kouri

Climate & Energy

Democrats to Obama: Tap strategic oil reserve: Politico
President Obama Blames You for High Gas Prices: Foundry (4/7/2011)
Flashback: Obama and Democrats Blast Bush for High Gas Prices in 2008: GWP

Media

The War On Women, By Women: Loesch
L.A. Times to Charge for Content: Patterico
Charles Blow apologizes for religious insult, NYT ready to ‘move on’: Greenroom

Media Skewers Santorum, Romney On Faith, What About Obama?: Stranahan
Letter: Preserve our republic: George Roy
Your Right to the Pursuit of Happiness: XCV

AP Nonsense on Santorum: 'Misidentified' As Evangelical -- By Time Magazine: Blumer
“I can’t help noticing that if you take the 1 in 1969...": Troglopundit
Congress Tried to Change Natural Born Citizen Clause Over and Over: MagNote (7/6/11)

World

Why Apologize to Afghanistan?: McCarthy
Iran and Obama Share a Common Goal: Stopping Israel: Tobin
Santorum Was Right About Iran—When It Was Unpopular: WSJ (Ledeen)

Prompt American Apologies Forestall Deadly Violence in Afghanistan Over Accidental Koran Burning: VS
What would one big nuke do to Israel? This …: Peth
Soldiers nearly lynched by Arabs in Haifa: ynet

Syria’s (Literal) Information Warfare: Foundry
UN: Iran is enriching uranium at secret site: Telegraph
22 tourists robbed in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico bus assault: Fox

Harvard's Kennedy School of Government to Host Conference On the Extermination of Israel: AmPower
Desecration of Holy Quran widely condemned: News of Pakistan
Progress on plans for Galway Che Guevara monument: Advertiser/IE

Sci-Tech

How to Take Down a Corporation's Facebook Page with a Fake Email Account: AtlWire
Is Israel losing Temple Mount war?: ynet
New Samsung Galaxy Beam phone includes projector that can show films and pictures at up to 50”: Telegraph

Cornucopia

Millennium Falcon lands in Roswell? Footage takes Internet by storm: DC
Ebony and Irony: MOTUS
With No Apologies, Try This One: ASWI

Image: Weasel Zippers
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "We have officially lost our minds.

The New York Times reports that President Obama has sent a formal letter of apology to Afghanistan’s ingrate president, Hamid Karzai, for the burning of Korans at a U.S. military base. The only upside of the apology is that it appears (based on the Times account) to be couched as coming personally from our blindly Islamophilic president — “I wish to express my deep regret for the reported incident. . . . I extend to you and the Afghani people my sincere apologies.” It is not couched as an apology from the American people, whose frame of mind will be outrage, not contrition, as the facts become more widely known.

The facts are that the Korans were seized at a jail because jihadists imprisoned there were using them not for prayer but to communicate incendiary messages... Also understand this: In sharia societies, non-Muslim religious articles are confiscated and destroyed every single day as a matter of policy. In Saudi Arabia, where sharia is the law of the land, where Mecca and Medina are closed to non-Muslims, government guidelines prohibit Jews and Christians from bringing Bibles, crucifixes, Stars of David, and similar artifacts emblematic of their faith into the country. When that prohibition is violated, the offending items are seized and burned or otherwise destroyed. " --Andrew C. McCarthy