Birth anniversary Roger Miller (1936-92).
1953 - "The Life of Riley" debuted on NBC-TV.
1974 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon signed a bill requiring all states to lower the maximum speed limit to 55 MPH. The law was intended to conserve gasoline supplies during an embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries. Federal speed limits were abolished in 1995. 
2013 Greatest Hits: Presenting The Most Popular Posts Of The Past Year | Zero Hedge
L.A. starts 2014 with its new plastic-bag ban - latimes.com:
On Wednesday, large grocery stores will be prohibited by law from providing free plastic bags.
GAFFNEY: When the press is a poodle - Washington Times
Here Comes the ObamaCare Tax Avalanche - AMAC, Inc.:
Obama Admin Asks Judge To Release Radical Leftist Lawyer Lynne Stewart Who Conspired With Jihadist Cleric… | Weasel Zippers: "
Pilot captures stunning, bird's-eye photos of icy Lake Michigan shoreline | MLive.com:
The art of progress is to
preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. -Alfred North
Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947) 
"Before you review the list below, put these two on your watch list for 2014:
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* The Canadians Appear Smarter Than Some People Give Them Credit For. Lord Help Us Recover From The Damage Done By Our Despot President and His Hatchetmen. 
And exempting themselves from those laws they prefer not to apply to them, their families or their friends (read: those who've bought an "indulgence").
Fast food CEO: How govt regulation is driving us aboard:
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Sarah Massey, 33 has potentially the largest butt in the world and after many years of teasing and insensitive comments, she is trying to help ladies that may be going through a similar situation.
1622 - The Papal Chancery adopted January 1st as the beginning of the New Year (instead of March 25th). 
1804 - Haiti gained its independence. 
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in the rebel states were free. 
1902 - The first Tournament of Roses (later the Rose Bowl) collegiate football game was played in Pasadena, CA. 
1994 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect. 
1999 - The euro became currency for 11 Member States of the European Union. Coins and notes were not available until January 1, 2002.
2013: A Quick Look Back
Shock study: Most convicts, up to 73%, register as Democrats | WashingtonExaminer.com:
Both victims wondered whether the episode was an example of the so-called “knock-out game,” in which assailants randomly strike an innocent passerby with the goal of rendering them unconscious. Several such assaults have resulted in the deaths of victims.
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Mich. posts 2nd year of population growth, may fall in '14 rankings | The Detroit News:
Instapundit » Blog Archive » P.C. EDUCATION LED TO LIBYA DEBACLE:
Finally on this point, why does the American MSM almost never mention tribes, except occasionally as an afterthought, and never speak about how countries like Libya are organized socially, and how that affects their politics?
There are so many examples of this that it cannot simply be a coincidence. This is not the place to go into detail, but it comes down, I think, to a form of political correctness that tacitly prohibits any mention of what might be taken even to imply that Libyans (or Yemenis or Syrians or Egyptians, or Pashtuns, or…) might in some way be pre-modern, as we understand the term. (Actually, they’re less aptly described as pre-modern than simply as different, but lowest-common-denominator Enlightenment universalism is very bad at acknowledging the dignity of difference.)
That kind of appellation is considered just this side of racist in the higher etiquette of American Enlightenment liberalism, deeply dented, as it has been, by the nonsense of anti-“Orientalism” regnant now for more than a generation in academe. Yes, it was at university where our elite press reporters and their august editors learned this stuff.
As long as our elite press censors itself in this manner, an objective socio-political description of these (and other) countries will remain impossible, and a distorted understanding will inevitably feed misbegotten policy adventures like the Libya war. I would like to be able to assure you that what ails the academy and the press does not afflict the clear-eyed professionals at the CIA and the State Department and USAID and the NSC and the officer corps of the uniformed military. Yes, I would like to… but a lot of these guys went to those same universities.
"The anti-TEA Party GOP PAC Republican Main Street Partnership has been exposed. The Partnership mission states, “Main Street is aligned with the governing wing of the Republican Party and centrist policy makers.”
The first two lies are widely known and hardly disputed.
