NO CARTOONS INVOLVED: 2,000 feared killed in ‘deadliest’ Boko Haram attack in Nigeria.

ANDREW BOLT: Are we really all Charlie? No, no and shamefully no.

RUPERT MURDOCH: Muslims must ‘recognise and destroy growing jihadist cancer’ or ‘be held responsible.’

JEFF CARTER: Want to Have Successful Kids? Let Them Fail.

SO, PRETTY MUCH LIKE ALL HIS OTHER BUDGETARY MATH, THEN: Obama’s math doesn’t add up on free tuition, critics say.

resident Obama’s plan to provide free tuition to community college students has landed with a thud among number crunchers, who argue that overburdened states cannot afford to fund the White House idea.

As a political strategy, “free tuition” is as appealing a message as Obama could devise heading into his final two years in office. But when pressed on funding the measure, it gets messier for the White House.

Even if Obama had the backing of Republicans to spend $60 billion in federal funds on the education program — he doesn’t — the White House still would have a money problem.

States would be on the hook for $20 billion over the next decade to send students to community college, even at a time when statehouses are funding a shrinking share of their higher education programs.

“I don’t know how states would pay for this,” said Neal McCluskey, associate director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom. “The assumption is states are willing to shell out more money if they can get additional federal dollars. But they’ll either have to raise taxes or slash spending somewhere else.”

As usual, it’s just another lie to buy votes.

NONSENSE: WHAT COULD GO WRONG WITH OPEN IMMIGRATION? The Hill: Paris terrorist attacks raise stakes for looming immigration fight.

Oh, wait, that’s not what this is about. This is about Obama holding America hostage over his executive orders on immigration.

Maybe the GOP Congress should just allow the immigrants amnesty so long as they settle in blue states. . . .

NEWS: Contrary to media narrative, gun sales are steadily increasing.

JOURNALISM: Men Without Chests: How C.S. Lewis Predicted Charlie Hebdo Censorship: History, theology, and even grammar must bow before the altar of terrorism.

WHY JEB AND ROMNEY ARE CRAZY TO THINK THEY CAN WIN WITHOUT THE BASE: “It’s all very simple: the Republicans lost Florida in the 2012 presidential election by 0.88. If conservatives stay at home in 2016 in the same numbers as they did in 2012, then there is no chance of the GOP winning. If conservatives are advised by Governor Palin (unlike in 2012) and Mark Levin to either stay home or vote third-party, then it is impossible to see how Florida could be won by, for example, Jeb Bush. However, for argument’s sake, if, because of Bush’s Florida connection and a bad economy, Florida is won, then Ohio (-2.98%), Virginia (-3.88%), and Colorado (-5.36%) also have to be roped in. The road to 270 Electoral College votes is extremely difficult under the most optimal of circumstances; utter realism indicates that it is impossible with the slightest bleeding off of actual or potential votes from 2012.”

REMEMBERING THE Tasman Bridge disaster. “The car, which he still drives, hung over the edge for two days.”

MICKEY KAUS: To Beat Amnesty, Beat Jeb. Early.

It’s a bit of a mystery. Sure, Republican business interests want a supply of inexpensive labor, Republican strategists want a bigger share of the Latino vote. But that doesn’t quite explain it. After all, the lopsided 2014 election suggests that, with a few tweaks, Republicans don’t really need a sweeping immigration deal to win in the electoral college. Business lobbyists could be placated with some more “guest workers.” Put that extra dollop of cheap labor together with Obama’s “prosecutorial discretion” (for existing illegal immigrants) and you’ve in effect cobbled together a half-assed “comprehensive” bill, minus the enforcement part (even better for business!). Why don’t Boehner and McCarthy discreetly shoot for that?

A thought: Maybe it’s all about Jeb. Jeb Bush is the one presidential candidate who’s based his strategy on what can only be described as a lovefest between him and the Latino electorate.** The Jeb Effect would explain the relentlessness: I’ve learned to never underestimate the power of the Bush family to produce semi-vicious robotic loyalty among the GOP elite. Why wouldn’t that include the congressional elite?

Indeed.

TUNKU VARADARAJAN: Why Paris is even more shocking than Peshawar.

SPACE: SpaceX rocket nails launch but narrowly misses landing test.

IN CASE YOU RETAINED ANY DOUBTS ABOUT JULIAN ASSANGE’S SCUMMINESS: WikiLeaks: ‘Jewish Pro-Censorship Lobby Legitimized Attacks on Charlie Hebdo.’

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Also, deals on Tech Accessories.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: If You’re Going To Rob Somebody, Don’t Do It In Front Of A Marine Recruiting Office.

LIFE AMONG THE BARBARIANS: Saudi blogger Raif Badawi flogged and jailed for ‘insulting Islam.’

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Health Benefits Of Whiskey.

NEXT STEP, A SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR ASTROLOGY: Active Sun At Birth Cut Historical Lifespans: High UV radiation during solar maxima may have degraded expectant mothers’ stores of folate, a vitamin essential to development.

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SPEAKING OF TARNISHED BRANDS: Everything You Need To Know About Voxsplaining The Charlie Hebdo Massacre.

Actually, I’m not sure that what Vox’s brand is made of is capable of tarnishing. Plus, an evergreen subhed: “Basically Everything Ezra Klein Said Is Wrong.”

Related: Brendan O’Neill: Why do liberals fear the working class and ignore anti-Semitic murder? Because they are bigots.

UPDATE: More than 700,000 rally in France after Islamist attacks.

NOTE THAT THIS POLL WAS TAKEN BEFORE THE CHARLIE HEBDO MASSACRE: Majority of Germans see Islam as threat, poll indicates.

In a survey conducted in November, before Wednesday’s massacre by Islamic extremist gunmen at French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo or widespread media coverage of a new German anti-migrant movement, 61 percent of non-Muslim Germans said Islam had no place in the West.

The figure was up from 52 percent in 2012, according to the study released by the Bertelsmann Foundation think tank.

More than half – 57 percent – said they felt threatened by Islam, 4 percentage points higher than in 2012.

Forty percent said they felt like “foreigners in their own country” because of the presence of Muslims.

And one in four (24 percent) said that Muslims should be barred from migrating to Germany.

Islam is a tarnished brand in the West, and I suspect that will get worse before it gets better.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 10 Ways to Open a Bottle of Wine Without A Corkscrew. Personally, I just use a saber.

UPDATE: Zane Lamprey’s take.

JOURNALISM: ‘Confirmed: Fear of terrorism is driving CNN’s editorial decisions.’

Eason Jordan is long-gone, but it’s still his network when it counts.

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