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DUDE, YOU’RE WRITING FOR IZVESTIA: ‘Suffocating pressure’: Former ThinkProgress writer describes White House ‘censorship.’

Next you’ll be expecting political independence at Media Matters.

ROGER KIMBALL: “Uncontested arrivals” and Obama’s foreign policy.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: CFPB to pay $22.3 million to lease building owned by Obama bundler. “The temporary offices to be occupied by CFPB for the next two years are being leased in a building owned by Neil G. Bluhm, a longtime friend and campaign bundler for President Obama. Bluhm made headlines in 2010 when he hosted Obama’s 49th birthday party at his Chicago home. Admission was $30,000 per person, with the proceeds going to the Democratic National Committee.”

MORE RUBES SELF-IDENTIFY: Liberal labor union makes Republican arguments against Obamacare. “A new labor union research report offers a scathing indictment of how Obamacare affects middle-class workers. The report features a series of arguments that conservatives have long made about the law, right down to mentioning the language of ‘unintended consequences.'”

THE HILL: Is The United States Losing A New Cold War? Well, we’re certainly not winning. We don’t seem even to be trying.

DIVERSE AS AN MSNBC FANS’ CONVENTION: The Democrats’ 2014 Whitewash: Why are nearly all the statewide Democratic candidates this year white? “The upside of making the race of the candidate an existential issue for African-American voters is, it’s a tremendous motivator to turn out to keep the symbolic leader in office. The downside is, it’s not easily transferable to other candidates – not to other non-white candidates for lower offices, and certainly not to a bunch of white politicians who look pretty much just like the people they are running against. And yet, bafflingly, that is exactly what the Democrats are running in 2014.”

Lose enough of the white vote and the minorities don’t matter. The Democrats seem worried about that.

HE’S A SPIRITUAL LEADER: Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s daughter found guilty of money laundering.

SMART DIPLOMACY^TM UPDATE: U.S.: No Need for PA to Recognize Israel; State Department spokeswoman says the U.S. believes there is no need for the PA to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Obama’s got your back. He’s just holding a knife.

ELI LAKE: The CIA and the Senators overseeing the agency are nearly at war. And it all revolves around the contents of a secret database documenting the CIA’s clandestine prisons.

KYLE SMITH: How ‘Free to Be … You and Me’ emasculated men. Wasn’t that the point? “The show, which is of course unwatchable today except perhaps in states with generous attitudes toward self-medication such as Colorado and Washington, was an hour-long special that meant to tell little girls they could be anything they wanted, and little boys they could be anything they wanted too, provided that what they wanted was to be girls.”

PRIORITIES: Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Nor Gloom of Night Shall Keep our President from his Appointed Vacation.

PEGGY NOONAN: The Ideologue vs. the Children: New York’s new mayor attacks charter schools, proving his critics right. But with the New York schools losing students already, getting rid of charter schools merely ensures that more people will exit the public school system entirely. Long-term, charter schools are the only thing that can save them.

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KEVIN WILLIAMSON: The Tyrant in the Gray Flannel Suit: Traditional American distrust of the centralized state is based on some lessons learned the hard way.

There is no one who can be trusted with political power. Lord Acton’s famous epigram — “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” — communicates a law of human life that is as inescapable as that of supply and demand: There may be variations along the curve, but the slope is always in the same direction. Even in a stable, liberal society such as our own, we have seen presidents, including the current president, abuse their power for personal and political ends, sometimes with shocking disregard for both law and propriety. The number of generals who have participated in the overthrow of civilian governments to which they swore oaths of allegiance is enough to populate a small army. In politics, great men are dangerous men.

There is very little in this world as dramatic as the coup d’état, but it is not only presidents and princes who are susceptible to the allure of power. New York City enjoys the services of the nation’s best-led and most professional big-city police department, but its officers have been known to abuse their power in ways ranging from the banal to the antiheroic, from taking petty bribes to acting as mob enforcers for the Lucchese crime syndicate. Political power is corruptible down to the level of public-school administrators and DMV clerks.

That’s why there should be as little of it as possible.

SMART DIPLOMACY^TM UPDATE: So, how’s that whole disarming-Iran thing going?

HEALTH NEWS: Man loses 56 pounds after eating only McDonald’s for six months. “John Cisna, a high school science teacher in Colo, Iowa, who gained national attention for his experiment, says he has lost 56 pounds, lowered his cholesterol and lost a total of 21 inches off his chest, waist and hips while dining only at the fast food emporium.”

HMM: Stolen Passports on Malaysian Airliner Raise Terror Questions.

SPYING AND LYING: Administration And NSA Continue To Avoid The Privacy Vs. Security ‘Discussion.’

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EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: 3 asteroids set to flyby Earth as Hubble watches asteroid crumble.

FIRST PLUTO, NOW THIS: No Evidence For Existence of “Planet X.”

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AUSTRALIA: Man, bitten by deadly snake, grabs cold beer and hopes for the best.

Rod’s reaction was to grab his shovel and “whack it on the head”.

As soon as he was done with the snake, he called an ambulance, grabbed a beer from the fridge and sat down.

“I said to myself, if I’m going to cark it I’m going to have a beer, so I got a Goldie out of the fridge and drank that; ’cause you know eastern browns are the second most venomous snake in the world,” Rod said

Rod’s teenage son was on the couch and slept through the whole thing because Rod didn’t want to wake him and make anyone panic.

“If you panic it makes it worse,” he said.

Well, I suppose the beer helps you stay calm.