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Will the Blue Angels Have to Hit the Pavement Because of the Supercommittee Fail?

Thomas Sowell: Failure or Success? If you think the goal was to solve the country's fiscal crisis, then obviously the Super Committee was a complete failure. But, if you think the goal was to improve the chances of the Obama administration being re-elected in 2012, it was a complete success.

Michelle Malkin: The Search for Marizela: A Thanksgiving Note On March 5, my 18-year-old cousin disappeared from her University of Washington campus in Seattle. Marizela Perez -- 5-foot-5, 110 pounds, short black hair with brown/red highlights and bangs cut into an asymmetrical bob, wearing a dark hooded jacket, jeans and light brown suede boots -- was last seen at a Safeway grocery that fateful Saturday afternoon.

John Stossel: America: Land of Free Speech -- Sometimes We're proud that America is the land of free speech. That right is recognized in the First Amendment, and we usually take it seriously. It wasn't always the case.

Walter E. Williams: Should the Rich Be Condemned? The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.

Brent Bozell: Pouncing on Pepper Spray After the national media spent the month of October chronicling the "historic" Occupy Wall Street protesters in what Diane Sawyer bizarrely blurted out as happening in "more than 1,000 countries," the myth began to melt.

Jonah Goldberg: Sizing up a Gingrich-Romney showdown Whether the matchup between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney is the final bout on the GOP primary card is impossible to know. The whole season has been more like professional wrestling than boxing, with weird characters sporting implausible hair appearing out of nowhere to talk smack and explain why they are the greatest in the world. (I'm looking at you in particular, Mr. Trump.)

Larry Kudlow: Ted Forstmann, R.I.P. With a great feeling of loss and sadness, I want to join with so many others to mourn the passing of Ted Forstmann, the brilliant financier, entrepreneur, and free-market capitalist.

John Ransom: Newt Vows to Break Welfare Empire in Contract Reprise Now, in a form of poetic justice that shows that God has a sense of humor and a long memory, the GOP just may be given back that moment of opportunity in 1994 when the Contract with America propelled the House to a Republican majority for the first time in 40 years.

Mike Adams: In My Life That Takamine guitar just sat in the corner of my closet for three years. The bag of Lee Oscar harmonicas sat right next to it collecting dust. Then, one day during the late summer of 1996, I got a phone call from my old friend Harry Wilson.

Tony Blankley: Thanksgiving 2011 As we approach the festive season -- the elongated, enchanting month from Thanksgiving through Christmas to New Years -- my mind has been drifting through various memorable past holidays.

Michael Medved: Will Demography Defeat Democrats? If demography is destiny, the Democratic Party could be facing big trouble.

Ben Shapiro: Giving up Our Freedom, One Turkey at a Time The first object of government, wrote James Madison in Federalist Paper No. 10, was to protect the American people from deep turkey fryers. Oh, wait.

Terry Jeffrey: Is Michelle Obama Bad for Kids? Will Michelle Obama's efforts as first lady help or hurt American children and the nation in which they live?

Paul Greenberg: The New Gingrich At press time, the leading non-Romney in the Republican presidential race was Newt Gingrich. It's not easy keeping up with who holds that distinction, it changes so rapidly. Is it Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry or Herman Cain today? Ring around the rosie, they all tend to fall down once they're closely examined. For the moment it's Newt. (It's hard to resist calling so familiar a figure on the American celebrity/scandal scene by his first name.)

Mike Shedlock: Europe Set to Declare Bankruptcy in Early 2012? Panic is spreading says Steen Jakobsen, chief economist at Saxo Bank. Steen eyes the perfect storm including a potential "Chapter 11" call for European banks.

Bob Beauprez: Pelosi Ridicules Catholic "Conscience Thing" Since the ObamaCare legislation also requires every citizen to buy health insurance, the government mandate would force Catholics to buy health care plans that violate Catholic doctrine. Catholic insurance agents would face the additional dilemma of selling a product that violates the moral teachings of the Church, or change professions.

Jeff Carter: Corzine's Fraud Corzine committed fraud in my opinion. It was a cardinal sin. The one thing you don’t do is touch your customers' money. What he did is no different than bank robbery.

Political Calculations: The Post Turkey Apocalypse, Part 2 The fallout from the 2007 recession significantly hurt small turkey producers who, in addition to having to deal with reduced demand for their products from people whose economic livelihoods were most affected by the recession, have also been hit by rising costs of production, especially in the form of higher prices for feed corn, thanks to the government's increasing ethanol mandates.

George Friedman: Syria, Iran and the Balance of Power in the Middle East While it is unreasonable simply to say that Iran will dominate Iraq, it is fair to say Tehran will have tremendous influence in Baghdad to the point of being able to block Iraqi initiatives Iran opposes.

Ken Connor: Planned Parenthood: Agent of Destruction According to its website, "for more than 90 years, Planned Parenthood has promoted a commonsense approach to women's health and well-being, based on respect for each individual's right to make informed, independent decisions about health, sex, and family planning."

Robert Knight: A Supreme Opportunity to Right a Wrong Next March, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the challenge by 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordability Act, better known as Obamacare. A ruling is expected by mid-summer.

Crista Huff: There is Profit Potential in Some Well-Known Names The four stocks recommended by MS are Yum! Brands, CBS, Coach and McDonald’s. Let’s look at their earnings growth rates, other fundamentals, and charts, to identify which might be good investments, at what prices.

Jacob Sullum: Passing the Purse Clearly what we need is a super-duper committee.

Mark Calabria: Monstrous Moral Hybrids I repeatedly watched, while working in the Senate, Fannie/Freddie invoke their “private” nature in order to avoid regulation while invoking their “public” nature to gain protection and privilege. The result was little accountability from either the market or the government.

Carrie Schwab Pomerantz: Will Uncle Sam Take a Bite Out of Your Gift? The easy answer to your question is no, the recipient never has to pay income taxes on a gift or inheritance, no matter the amount.

Bill Tatro: Super Committee Proves Point for Term Limits Thus, in my opinion, any decision by the twelve super committee members was not done for the benefit of this country, but simply for the twelve’s own self interests.

Rebecca Hagelin: Thank God for the American Spirit As we head into Thanksgiving, life’s pretty rough for many Americans. A new survey shows that our national pessimism is at an all-time low, particularly on financial matters. Ninety percent of Americans say this is a tough time to get a job and seventy percent rate their own financial situation as “fair” or “poor.” Even the price of a Thanksgiving dinner is up 13% over years past.

Daniel J. Mitchell: A Lesson on the Laffer Curve for Barack Obama The key takeaway is that the IRS collected fives times as much income tax from the rich when the tax rate was far lower. This isn't just an example of the Laffer Curve. It's the Laffer Curve on steroids

Donald Lambro: Wanted: Incentives For Growth And Jobs The so-called "supercommittee" was doomed from the start, a victim of pie-in-the-sky thinking that a small, secretive legislative cabal could fix the debt crisis.</p><p> The idea that six Republicans and six Democrats in the midst of a highly charged election cycle could produce a budget-cutting plan within a few months was preposterous at best.

Armstrong Williams: Corzine's Wreckless Governance I provide this backdrop because you have to see that once again those who have a fiduciary responsibility to protect investors failed.

Rachel Marsden: U.S. And Europe threaten their own energy independence It's been a rough month for Canada. America's biggest trading partner and overall non-jerk country just wants to sell some oil to its friends. Canada is sitting on a black-gold mine, but its oil sales are unable to keep pace with production -- a problem that will only increase as the nation further taps the Alberta oil sands and Arctic territory.

Thomas Sowell: Alice in Liberal Land "Alice in Wonderland" was written by a professor who also wrote a book on symbolic logic. So it is not surprising that Alice encountered not only strange behavior in Wonderland, but also strange and illogical reasoning -- of a sort too often found in the real world, and which a logician would be very much aware of.

Mike Adams: The Dance Some twenty years ago, there was a rough-looking man who used to frequent the Mississippi bars where I once made my living playing music in acoustic duos and trios. I remember him because he always stood in the back and applauded enthusiastically. He would even shout out words of encouragement in between requests. I remember that he liked the Allman Brothers and wished we would play more of their songs.