Maggie's Farm

Tapscott: Will journalists wake up in time to save journalism from Obama's FTC? Coyote opines, in Creating the American Pravda, that this was the information missing from the FTC report:

“The New York Times and Newsweek can’t figure out a profitable business model in the Internet age.  We propose the government step in with all means at its disposal to limit competition to these print media companies and create new government subsidies for their business.  Once their companies’ profitability is absolutely dependent on these government mandates and subsidies, the Federal government will have a powerful source of leverage to protect itself from criticism in these outlets.  Once we have this situation in place, we will have a strong inventive to quash more independent outlets and maximize the market share of media companies beholden to the government.  In a large sense, our recommendations build off the success of the tobacco settlement experiment, where a few large companies agreed to pay the government large percentages of their future profits, and then the government worked diligently to quash new tobacco competitors to maximize the market share of those companies paying it settlement money.”

Chinese electric vehicles will dramatically increase emissions

Gallup's Pro-Life America

Krauthammer on Gaza:

If these people had wanted humanitarian aid, Israel offered to take the ships into Haifa, peacefully, unload all the stuff inside and to allow all the humanitarian aid immediately into Gaza, all the food and medicine. And it was refused because it was meant to be a provocation and to create an incident.

Shocker. Arrested Gaza Flotilla “Peace Activists” Are Al-Qaeda Members. Also, 

Liberal Arts majors and the adults who lie to them. h/t SDA.