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Monday, December 17

BP Ledger, Dec. 17 edition

FIRST-PERSON: Rachel weeping for her children

FIRST-PERSON: Mental health & the Newtown tragedy

Attorney: City laws against churches on rise

Stephen Mansfield: 're-engage the culture'

'O Come, All Ye Faithful' atop LifeWay carols

Christmas music enjoyed by 70% of Americans

Religious freedom for military being negotiated by Senate-House conference committee

27 college teams trek to N.Y. to tackle Sandy survivors' mud-out needs during winter break

Huckabee answers, 'Where was God?'

At Sandy Hook, chaplains pray, offer hope

Funerals begin in Connecticut, Obama cites Bible, vows action; Luter points to God's house

Get Ready For the Costs and Chaos of Obamacare

The Real Story from Michigan

NRA Derangement Syndrome

Plenty of Blame to Go Around

Let’s Have That Conversation About Guns

Kurt Schlichter

How Flexible is Vladimir Putin?

Face a Cliff Now or a Chasm Later

Tea Partiers Must Hang Tough

Republicans Need to Reach Minorities

Wishing You Capitalism on Earth

Party of Big Business

While Feds Dawdle, States Tackle Fiscal Problems

The Newtown Massacre and the Pain of God

A Prayer for Sandy Hook

They Never Say "Tax the Successful"

Unions Chant "Pork, Pork, Pork!"

An Honest Liberal Writes about Gun Control

Daniel J. Mitchell

The Markets Are Crazy

Chris Poindexter

Beware of Global Slowing

Report: Sad Federal Employees :(

Sunday, December 16

The Baby Bust Generation

In Washington, The Goal Is Control Of Private Wealth

And So It Goes?

Michael Youssef

Powering the Country

America’s Growing Government Class

The Irrelevance of "Right-to-Work" Laws

A Smart Conservative Position on War on Drugs

Debra J. Saunders

In Search of Meaning at Sandy Hook

Kevin McCullough

Tragedy and Exploitation – The Progressive Way

New Rule: All Teachers Should Be Required to Carry Guns

Corporate Tax Crash Created By Dems Lame Duck Act

Leveraging Death

The Shale Gas Revolution: Reindustrialize the Economy

States with No Income Tax Grow Faster and Create More Jobs

Daniel J. Mitchell

Is Boko Haram More Dangerous Than Ever?

The U.S. Postal Service vs. Greece

What We Can Do and What We Cannot Do

Saturday, December 15

An Open Letter to Michigan’s Workers

A Christmas Truce?

Stop Subsidizing the Slaughter

It's a Twittersweet Symphony, This Life

Why Do We Need Unions?

John C. Goodman

Radical Left Fanatics

Don't Cave GOP, This Time Deficits DO Matter

End in Sight for Assad

Gold Lower To End Week

Chris Poindexter

Bernanke's Market Games

A Chance to Double Your Money from One of the Cheapest Stocks on the Market

Nathan Slaughter

5 Safety-Net Funds To Protect Your Nest Egg From The Next Crash

Right-to-Work Laws Shouldn’t Exist, so Why Am I Happy about What Happened in Michigan?

Daniel J. Mitchell

Finally, My Views on Gold

Rampage Shootings: It's the Moral Decay of Society, not Guns

Rachel Alexander

Friday, December 14

EDITORIAL: La navidad: la llegada del Príncipe de paz

FIRST-PERSON: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' gets edited

CULTURE DIGEST: Scalia defends interpretation of Constitution

Obama: U.S. won't prosecute marijuana users

WEEK OF PRAYER: Daughter endures mother's anger over faith in Christ

WEEK OF PRAYER: Muslim women who choose Christ stay wary

Gold medalist Gabby Douglas 'always' praying

WRAP-UP: More states raise budgets & CP

WRAP-UP: State conventions underscore church planting, ethnic diversity, moral issues

'Grieved' -- Conn. Baptists responding to shooting

Decision Deficit Disorder

Rice Falls Flat

The Doha Wealth Redistribution Process Moves On

Hail, Hail Michigan

I Still Like Ike

Don't You Dare Open a Door for Me!

Time for GOP to Push Obama off the Fiscal Cliff

Chicago Teachers Union Latest Group to Stoke Class Warfare With ‘Fat Cats’ Video

Insourcing to America

Federalism Could be the Solution to GOP Branding Problem

Republicans Do Have Leverage; Use It!

American Politics as a Confidence Game

Marvin Folkertsma

Media Oddly Silent on WikiLeaks Proceedings

What We Can Learn from One of the Greatest Investments in History

The Verdict: Americans are Certifiably Nuts

Gold Lower After Fed

Chris Poindexter

Iran Customer for North Korea Missle Launch

Need a Job? You May Have to Wait Until 2015 or Later, Says the Fed

Oh, SNAP!

New Evidence Confirms Federal Bureaucrats Don’t Work Very Hard, Paid Too Much

Daniel J. Mitchell

Dividend Tax Folly

Beyond the Supreme Court: A Guide to Settling Gay Marriage

The Fall of the House of Labor

Merry Christmas, America-Haters?

Brent Bozell and Tim Graham

Obama's Electronic Medical Records Scam

Michelle Malkin

5 Myths Liberals Have Created About Themselves (Part 2)

Thursday, December 13

FIRST-PERSON: Jovan Belcher, ruined lives and manhood

BIBLE STUDY: Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012

Iowa Baptists increase church plants

Northwest Baptists reduce executive board

Ohio Baptists celebrate church planting

Mohler tells grads: Feed, guard the sheep

New England Baptists partner with new college

Student expelled over beliefs wins settlement

Bible doesn't command wealth redistribution, presenters say at theological meeting

New Hispanic generations to be conf. topic

Hurricane changes view of N.Y. community toward faith

Dictators and Dissidents

A Turkish 'Trojan Horse' for Loudoun?

Donkey Love

Maggie Gallagher

Jon Stewart and Gene Robinson Strike Out on the Bible and Family

On Cleveland Sports and the House GOP

Fighting the Campus Porno Culture

We Have a Problem -- A Real Problem

Fiscal Cliff Creates Problems That Don't Faze Obama

Let the Real Fat Cats Pay Their Fair Share

Victor Davis Hanson

Bill Ayers: Leftist Power is in Schools

Save the Middle Class ... and Everyone Else

Marriage Best Left to Churches

Gun Rights Find a New Home

For Once, Republicans Must Ignore All Calls and Jump off Cliff

Taxman to Middle Class: 'Bend Over'

Cal Logo 2.0: Let There be UC Lite

Debra J. Saunders

185 Economists to Congress: "Fiscal Cliff Tax Hikes Risk Economic Damage"

Sniveling and Despicable French Thief Complains that Victims Are Running Away

Daniel J. Mitchell

Morality and Investing

Unions Represent the Collective

Left-Wing Ideology Now Rules Supreme In America

Douglas MacKinnon

The Fed is Running Out of Monetary Weapons

Wednesday, December 12

Tax Rich Liberals

FROM THE STATES: N.C., Okla. & Texas evangelism/missions news

BGCT budget to remain at $38M

Okla. Baptists renew focus on Sunday School

Newsweek vs. the New Testament -- it must be Christmas

Prof: 'Charlie Brown Christmas' can be helpful

'Jeopardy!' mentions Angola extension center

Moore urges biblical view of adoption

Online poker opponents warn of Senate battle

LifeWay store's customers find more than Bibles & books

No Entitlements

With Right to Work, Hell Freezes Over in Mich.

When School Teachers Act Like Bullies

Freedom From Union Compulsion

Oil Exporter Abu Dhabi Funded Anti-Fracking Film, But Matt Damon Doesn't Want You To Know

Those Pesky Mayans

Defeat is an Orphan: A Foot Soldier’s After Action Report

Robert Morrison

The Tax-The-Rich Fairy Tale

Taxing the Poor

Our Government-Created Financial Crisis

Walter E. Williams

Please Enter and Exit through the Revolving Door

Compromise or Gridlock in Washington: Two Unpalatable Alternatives

Mark W. Hendrickson

Better Dictators than Elected Islamists

Government Gone Bad

The GOP -- Not a Club For Christians

Smoking Pot and Tying the Knot

Tale of Two Presidential Aspirants: Paul Ryan Disses the Gold Standard; Marco Rubio Proposes Good Money

Boehner Punishing Fiscally Responsible Legislators

GE’s Immelt: The Damndest Scoundrel and the Damndest Fool

"There Will Be Blood": Union Violence in the Age of Obama

Michelle Malkin

Still Looking for Some Jobs

The $822,000-per-Year Bureaucrat and the Death of California

Daniel J. Mitchell

Gold Flat Ahead of Fed

Chris Poindexter

North Korea Delays Rocket Launch

Putting the Rich in Their Place

North Korea's Missile Test Raises Tensions in East Asia

Not Enough Liberal Bias in Loony Land

Brent Bozell and Tim Graham

Welcome to the Thugocracy

Obama's Cronies Shield Themselves From His Higher 2013 Tax on Dividends

Obama's America Will Become Detroit

Tuesday, December 11

WORLDVIEW: The 'Crews missile' and Christmas

Call to Prayer: January is 'pivotal opportunity'

CALL TO PRAYER: Individuals, churches, SBC entities -- pray 'like never before'

SBC-wide call to prayer for 2013 issued by Frank Page

No Cliff Calamity: That’s What Stocks Are Correctly Predicting

Big Government, Big Business, Big Black Boxes

The President's Middle Class Head Fake: It’s Time for a Middle Class Wake Up Call

When Terrorists 'Killed' In Drone Strikes Aren't Really Dead

Obama To Take Oath In Private. Because It's None Of Your Business, That's Why

State Dept. Should Designate Boko Haram a “Foreign Terrorist Organization”

The Winter of Conservative Discontent

Gold Moves Higher

Chris Poindexter

You Gotta Have Hope

World Begins to Heal with Taxes on Rich January 1st

Conservative Media Are Not the Problem

A Victory for Demagoguery

Budget Farce Suggests Term Limits Needed

Why Liberalism Doesn't Work

Anarchist Protest Trainer Preps Michigan Unions for Right to Work Showdown

The ACLU’s Sounds of Silence

Airbrushing an Impeachment

Debra J. Saunders

Egypt Crisis Deepens

Christmas Books

Obamacare Jiujitsu

The Death of Modern Investment Theory

Time out -- Take Five With the Brubeck Jazz Quartet

An Honest Liberal Confronts the Problem of Government Dependency

Daniel J. Mitchell

Atheist Attacks on Christmas

Phyllis Schlafly

5 Myths Liberals Have Created About Themselves