The season has switched from not Summer to Summer here in Texas, so here’s a hot, humid LinkSwarm:
In Europe, youth unemployment is climbing to scary, stratospheric heights. So scary I’m going to swipe their chart:
Notice how countries that have kept their deficit spending relatively low (Germany and even the UK, where deficits has at least decreased under Cameron) are doing much better than the PIIGS. Again, Austerity hasn’t failed in Europe, it’s been declared difficult and left untried.
Harry Reid calls his close personal friend and business associate Harvey Whittemore (and his wife) “wonderful people.” Oh, and Whittemore is now also a convicted felon.
Eric Holder: Obama’s sin eater. “The attorney general has done little in his tenure to protect civil liberties or the free press. Rather, Holder has supervised a comprehensive erosion of privacy rights, press freedom and due process. This ignoble legacy was made possible by Democrats who would look at their shoes whenever the Obama administration was accused of constitutional abuses.”
Pentagon Papers lawyer James Goodale talks about just how bad Obaama is for freedom of the press.
ObamaCare rates next year in California: “Obamacare will increase individual-market premiums by an average of 116 percent.”
Britain remains in denial over Islamic terror.
The Gang of 8 proposal implements amnesty and gives conservatives nothing in return.
Ted Cruz actually tries to fix the bill. Gang of 8 tells him to get stuffed.
The Chicago Sun-Times lays off their entire staff of photographers. Including a Pulitzer Prize winner.