KURT SCHLICHTER: Let’s Have That Conversation About Guns. A conversation, not a Leftist "shut-up-and-listen" shouting match.

YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT JOURNALISM: You tend to believe it until it’s about something you actually know.

Fox Report's Shepard Smith is my personal bete noire -- every time he goes off-script and mouths something I know to be patently false, I have a powerful need to throw something big -- and hard -- through the TV screen.

Instapundit chimes in.

THOMAS SOWELL: Invincible Ignorance. You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink. Horses are dumb, but compared to the average liberal intellectual, they're geniuses.

WASHINGTON POST FACT CHECKER: No evidence right-to-carry laws increase crime.

Notice the subtle change of subject ... from this sweeping statement
(“The facts are every time guns have been allowed, concealed-carry has been allowed, the crime rate has gone down.”) to the contra-positive (" it appears such laws have not increased the crime rate....").

An honest assessment would have been that there is no definitive evidence to support such a sweeping assertion. Similarly, the available evidence does not support the contrary assertion. At best the data are inconsistent the assertions.

THE 'END OF THE WORLD' will be broadcast live online.

THE OUTRAGE is real because they are dumb.

Here's the thing about dumb liberals that really yanks my chain: "Shame on you! (because) I am offended!" If the liberal were honest (and self-aware), the statement would be "Shame on me! (because) I am offended!"

THERE MAY BE DUMB QUESTIONS, and then there are some really idiotic answers.

THE CORRECTIONS BEGIN. Next step; correcting the corrections. I don't believe a Glock handgun comes in a 10mm caliber.

SOME QUESTIONS to begin a national 'conversation' on gun control.

YOU, TOO, CAN BE A BULLY: Just sing a Christmas carol in public.

THE MEDIA is guilty of doing what they criticize big business for — putting money (in this case, ratings, newsstand sales, and web traffic) ahead of humanity and decency. Just as greedy businessmen put profit and personal gain ahead of ethics, so too do our media outlets.

Linked from Instapundit.

IS THERE ANYBODY in the world of tax-funded green energy who isn’t a sleazy thief or an incompetent idealist? Uh, no.

ASTEROID'S EARTH FLYBY CAUGHT ON VIDEO:

The asteroid Toutatis video combines 64 radar images taken Wednesday and Thursday (Dec. 12 and 13) by NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, CA.

THEN WHY DID THEY VOTE FOR OBAMA? Gloomy voters say US on wrong track, kids will be poorer.

THE ECONOMIC AND FISCAL EFFECTS of the Obama Tax Plan.

Read the details here.

PLAIN & SIMPLE: The "coverage" of Newtown's sorrow is [MSM] voyeurism....

THEY NEVER SAY tax the successful:

"They never say 'tax the hard-working' or 'tax the successful.' They say 'the rich' because it's easier to deal with their inability to be successful by attributing others' success to luck."

Think about it.

GUN CONTROL: "[M]y instinct was [is] that if someone is shooting at you [me], it is generally better to shoot back than to cower and pray."

IT'S TIME reasonable public safety laws were passed - to ban progressives.