OBAMACARE: When Did We Forget About the Patients? Never. To forget about the patients, you have to have thought about them first.

ObamaCare never thought about the patients. ObamaCare was never about patients; it was about control.

STEPHEN F. HAYES: The Benghazi Scandal Grows.

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Many more here.

COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES have been doing a good job of meeting their administrators' needs. Students' needs, not so much.

JUST DESSERTS: man flees arrest; gets bitten by an alligator.

JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE PARANOID doesn't mean the Government isn't out to get you.

This is more than tar & feathers; this is serious jail time. And, I would add, if you follow the trail far enough, impeachment.

STATE DEPARTMENT forces Defense Distributed to remove 3-D gun blueprints from its website. It's too late; in just two days, the weapon's design files were downloaded over 100,000 times.

Chris Muir comments.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "'Fairness' [is] the polite way to tell you to bend over."

KURT SCHLICTER: When Did the GOP Become Tax Collectors for Liberal States?

DEMOCRATS SAY there’s a reason they’re not selling ObamaCare yet: they have nothing to sell.

JOHN STOSSEL: Live free ... or move.

HEH: Mock him.

UPDATE: Drudge too.

ANN COULTER on 'liberal Evangelicals': "Adopting a classic liberal trait, these Christians incapable of abstract thinking seem to believe that true compassion consists of giving away something that isn’t theirs."

BRING ON the transporter beam.

NEWT GINGRICH: Sanford wins in South Carolina; Obama/Pelosi are big losers.

SOME THOUGHTS on the cost of amnesty. The Heritage Foundation report (here) estimates the lifetime (assimilation) cost of the amnesty provisions in the current immigration bill to be on the order of $6 trillion. If one assumes that complete assimilation takes about 40 years, it comes out to roughly $150 billion/year.

HEH: Mock him.

JONAH GOLDBERG explains why only the utterly shameless dare go into politics.

"IF ONE IS STRATEGIZING on how to improve the lives of the poorest black people, he wants to leave off his to-do list election of Democrats and black politicians. Also to be left off the to-do list is a civil rights agenda. Racial discrimination has little to do with major problems confronting black people."

TEACH GUN SAFETY in classrooms and leave sex education to parents. Plan B won’t save young people from incurable STDs, but ... the more young people know about guns, the safer our society will be.