Shout First, Ask Questions Later: Random Round-Up 03-14

Overview of Crisis in Japan (may God bless the departed and comfort the suffering.)

Japan earthquake: Many are the terrors of the earth, but they're not our fault Why do we insist on blaming ourselves for natural disasters like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, asks Boris Johnson.

President Obama Job Approval

Holder MUST GO - DoJ ignores the law on racial discrimination

‘Bipartisan’ Redistricting in Va. Targets Cantor, Other Republicans

Tax Foundation: On April 1, U.S. Is #1 (World's Highest Corporate Tax Rate)

Why Is It So Easy for Lila Rose and James O’Keefe?

Overview of NPR Scandal

Donors Told Obama in Weaker Position As Push for 2012 Funds Begins, Campaign Chief Offers Early Glimpse of How President Stacks Up Against the GOP Field Well, if they said Obama was a done-deal, they wouldn't get donations at all.

The 30,000-foot presidency?

The Great Tractorcade That Wasn't

Jobs growing slowly, wages falling fast

Bachmann: Obama May Have Used Pigford to Win Black Vote From Hillary

Team Obama Realizes 2012 Will Be Harder Than 2008

The Supreme Court and the health-care mandate muddle

Bring it - Wis. labor protesters say next fight at the polls

Unions plan more protests and a recall effort, as authorities ID death threat sender AND ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NBC and NPR Ignore Death Threats to Wisconsin Republicans

Obama's transparency myth

The global food crunch

Bernanke's Tsunami of Greenbacks

REIN-ing in the Regulatory State

Health care fight: Round 2

The White-Hot Seat

The Dayton Police Department is lowering its testing standards for recruits.

It's a move required by the U.S. Department of Justice after it says not enough African-Americans passed the exam

Time Magazine Headline: 'Wisconsin's Governor Wins But Is He Still Dead Man Walker?'

There Aren’t Enough Millionaires

Green Development? Not in My (Liberal) Backyard

Medicare Illegally Paid for Seniors’ Viagra, U.S. Audit Says

Astroturfing in the Mid-West

Bill Clinton blasts drilling and permit delays at forum

The Real Battle: Makers v. Takers

There’s Lots of Oil in America’s Energy Cupboard

The SEC’s shrinking credibility

The Other Pension Crisis: Employer-Sponsored Plans

Naming the Dead

The world’s attention has been riveted by the horrendous natural disaster in Japan. Naoto Kan, the Japanese prime minister, somberly described the damage wrought by the shattering earthquake and tsunami the nation’s “worst crisis since World War II.”

That tragedy — and no one can watch the video footage of what happened in northern Japan without a feeling of horror — is everywhere in the news. Another story, smaller in scale, but no less horrific, has received scant notice. Late Friday night, some yet-to-be-identified people — the sort of people President Obama would doubtless describe as “lone extremists” — cut their way through a security fence and entered the Israeli town of Itamar in the West Bank. They then broke into the house of Udi and Ruth Fogel (36 and 35 years old, respectively), and stabbed them to death along with their 3-month-old daughter, Hadas, and two sons, Elad (3 years old) and Yoav (11).