Too much live video going on.

McCain: "Sen Hagel is an honorable man. He served his country and no one on this committee should impugn his integrity."

Of course.

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Update: Howard Kurtz Frets, "Will This Spoil Obama's Prom?"

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What if alleged killer Chris Dorner is captured or killed as the SOTU begins? Obama could face a Bill Clinton/O.J. verdict moment.

Yannow, it's not a terrible question, in and of itself. But it does reveal a certain mindset -- no leaf can fall and no chick can hatch without Obama's Palace Guard asking "How does this affect Our Glorious Majesty, the King?"

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Update: The audio is now registering gunshots and shouts. Definitely a battle.

By the way, I'm guessing the cabin part -- I just can't imagine how else a gun battle goes on for so long, unless Dorner has significant cover.

Reports from scanner traffic of two officers down. Confirmed: Two deputies shot.

Rumor -- police has called in an armored vehicle to evacuate the wounded officers.

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I'm listening now. He's near Big Bear. Or so they think.

This is almost as exciting as NBC's primetime lineup.

Author Brad Thor, on Twitter, is keeping tabs on the #PiersMorganKiller.

KLTA says shots have been heard in the area. Ehhh... I don't trust reporters to tell the difference between "shots" and "wolves."

More: Reporter says that cops were seen pumping their fists, as if in victory.

More: A woman was found tied up (Yay, Chris Dorner! Hero of the Left!) and there was a shootout. Again, sources say.

This is near highway 38 in the Barton Flats area.

"We have not heard anything about him being in custody." Reporter says we've seen that on Twitter but have no word on that apart from the Idiot Machine.

Believed home invasion, with couple being tied up, and attempted carjacking (or did he just steal the couple's car? Or both?). Not known if he has hostages.

Don Lemon just called him "A Hero for our times." Not really, but you know.

Officer Down? So many rumors. But this is a new one.
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Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat forever.

Give a man food stamps, and you've got a motivated Democratic voter.

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The reason? Climate change.

No, that's what they said. Link should work.

Wonderful. Maybe we should make a noose our second-favorite animal.

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It's sad -- one of these days feminists will accept our radical idea that women are more than their sex organs.

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Might be time to reconsider unconsidered choices.

I'm going to shop for a new email provider.

More: Raytheon's new analytical program "Riot" digests and analyzes trillions of bits of data and spits out predictions about human behavior.

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Josh Marshall (editor of Talking Points Memo) had a sad yesterday. Below is how his day went. more...

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The Washington Post has a blog for liberal women called She the People (and not, note, She the Rocket Scientist).

This is what's produced there.

Here's a Fun Riff, Maybe: Do you have any Scoopz for Suzi (TM)?

Don't Get The Vaporz: More dumb.

What the do is tendentiously link every leftist thing they say to rape and when you object to their Idiot Agenda they immediately scream WHY DO YOU LOVE RAPE?

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Ben Smith had a long story yesterday at BuzzFeed about how Obama's signal achievement, ObamaCare, helps a group of voters (the elderly) at the expense of voters who overwhelmingly support him (the young).

The passionate supporters are the youth, who voted for him by a margin of 60% to 36%, according to exit poll samples of people 29 and under. His enemies are the elderly: Mitt Romney won 56% of the votes from people 65 and over. And while one of ObamaCare's earliest provisions was a boon to the young, allowing them to stay on their parents' insurance through the age of 26, what follows may come as an unpleasant surprise to many of the president's supporters. The provisions required to make any kind of health insurance plan work — not just ObamaCare, but really any plan of its sort — require healthy young people to pay more in health insurance than they consume in services, while the elderly (saved by Sarah "Death Panels" Palin from any serious attempt to ration expensive and often futile end-of-life care) consume far more than they pay in. There is always a push and pull, however, and this year will be spent laying plans to shift the burden further toward the young.

Yes, ObamaCare is a bad deal for these "young invincibles" (it's an argument conservatives made during the ObamaCare debate) but that doesn't mean it's a boon for older Americans.

The fight over health insurance resources isn't simply between young Obama voters and older Republican voters. It's also a struggle between income groups. Here the poor, aka "the 47%" which make up the core of the Obama and Democratic coalition are going to see massive amounts of dollars poured into government assistance programs while money is taken away from the middle class via taxes

On top of that, many middle class Americans will lose their existing health insurance coverage and be forced to buy new coverage out of their own pockets.

Middle class families take note. A family of four with an aggregate income of more than $88,000 annually or an individual earning around $44,000 could find themselves badly strained by healthcare costs under the Obama plan.

Many of these folks currently get their health coverage from work. They benefit from an implicit subsidy built into that workplace coverage that lets them spend pre-tax dollars through their employer to purchase health insurance. Depending on their tax rate, that subsidy helps offset some of the premium costs.

Under the Obama plan, many of these families could instead find themselves buying their health insurance on the new state-based exchanges that get started in January 2014. For a family of four, premiums on even one of the lower priced "silver" options could still cost more than $15,000 annually on the exchanges.

Only their incomes will make them ineligible for the "premium assistance credits." that are meant to offset some of the cost of buying the pricey comprehensive coverage that the Obama plan mandates. These families will also no longer have the benefit of being able to defray some of these costs by spending pre-tax dollars.

Meanwhile, Medicare eligibility will be expanded and subsidies will be provided to poor or low income Americans to cover their health insurance costs.
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