IT APPEARS the New York Times stuck its neck out and got its head handed back on a platter.

BREAKING NEWS: a map of the location of all gun owners in Texas has been published.

Heh.

WELCOME to the new Bush administration. Well, except that the Bush appointees weren't all old white men (and Bush's appointees were competent).

INDOCTRINATING STUDENTS: The Role of 'Educators'. We're not there yet, but close -- especially in the elite colleges and universities.

MONA CHAREN: Democrat Hurricanes Versus Republican Hurricanes. And in both cases, WalMart was more effective and efficient.

RICHARD COHEN explains conservatives; Dennis Prager explains why Richard Cohen is an intellectural moron.

DAN MITCHELL: Do Tax Cuts "Starve the Beast"? The answer appears to be 'probably not' simply because legislators can -- and usually do -- reverse the tax cuts within a few years.

Smaller government, doing less, is the only solution. Perhaps, just perhaps, now Americans are beginning to realize that Big Government means Big Control over their lives. It's not OPL (other people's lives) any more.

NO SHIT, SHERLOCK: Far from adding to people’s standard of living, government is the number one cause of poverty in this country.

POWERLINE schools Paul Krugman on economics.

FISCAL CLIFF DEAL socks it to the rich — middle class hardest hit. Unexpectedly.

IS HE CRAZY? "Obama’s recent choices seem to be not just counterproductive, but intentionally provocative to the point of being insane." If insanity is believing he's the Emperor, then he's insane.

Day by Day has a similar view.

SO YOU WANTED OBAMACARE? Here's what you have to look forward to. Me, I'm going to cash.

GUN RANGES & SALES operating at capacity as gun control legislation looms. It's true in Virginia as well. When I was at the local range -- mid-day, middle of the week -- the pistol range was full, the rifle range mostly full, and the shotgun range always had at least one position filled.