House approves $643 billion defense package

(Human Events – Hope Hodge) *Lead Story*

With Friends like Obama: President Undercuts U.S. Allies to Media Silence

(Culture and Media Institute – Matt Philbin) *Must Read*

Europe’s Other Power Crisis: Energy

(Energy Tribune – Peter C. Glover)

138 U.S. Customs and Border Personnel Arrested For Corruption Since 2004

(CNS News – Edwin Mora)

It’s time for Obama to close the corporate welfare fund

(Washington Examiner – Timothy P. Carney)

Dump the drones

(Daily Caller – Bob Barr) *Must Read*

Hopeless Change: Young Americans getting the worst of Obama’s Economy

(A Line Of Sight – Bob Beauprez)

Drop George Zimmerman’s murder charge

(NY Daily News – Alan Dershowitz)

America’s aging aviation force: Father, son flew same fighter jet 30 years apart

(Hot Air – Robert Bluey)

If Mitt Romney is elected, Keystone XL will be approved on first day in White House

(National Post – Lee-Anne Goodman)

CA High-Speed Rail and Positive Train Control in the News

(Reason Foundation – Baruch Feigenbaum)

Just how bad for the economy would falling off the 2013 fiscal cliff be? Bad

(The American – James Pethokoukis)

China is a lead cyberattacker of US military computers, Pentagon reports

(Christian Science Monitor – Anna Mulrine)

Boston: City Hall Bureaucrats Get Free Cars?

(Townhall – Daniel Doherty)

Soldier wants his guns back, Congress looks into D.C. for violating vet’s personal property rights

(Washington Times – Emily Miller)

North Korea Bites the Hand That Feeds It

(American Interest – Walter Russell Mead)

Could We Trust Killer Robots?

(Wall Street Journal – Tara McKelvey)

53,000 Dead Voters Found in Florida

(PJ Media – J. Christian Adams

Utah Rep. Bishop Lectures Colleagues on the Constitution After 2nd School Fined $19K for Selling Soda

(The Blaze – Jonathon M. Seidl)

The Supreme Court and Tasers: A Horror Story

(Esquire – Charles P. Pierce) *Must Read*

Pentagon shortens, softens annual report on China’s military in apparent bid to curry favor with Beijing

(Washington Free Beacon – Bill Gertz)

Time’s Mark Halperin: It’s ‘McCarthyism’ to Blame Mitt Romney for Non-Existent Jeremiah Wright Ad

(NewsBusters – Josh St. Louis)