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By Christopher Smith Gonzalez

The system is meant kill legislation: That’s the old line often heard around the Capitol. And now, as the session’s end slams the coffin door on a slew of bills, more than a few lawmakers are taking solace in the fact that their dead legislation has plenty of company.

Top on the list of bills that didn’t make it across the finish line is, of course, Senate Bill 1811, a broad fiscal matters proposal that had public school financing tacked on to it. Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, killed it with a filibuster, but school financing has to be addressed and will be taken up in a special session.

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Investor’s Business Daily

• Editorial: ObamaCare Is No Longer A Law - The Law: Already bruised and unpopular, ObamaCare has now been issued a death sentence. Yet the White House says it will “proceed apace” with its implementation. Has anyone there heard of checks and balances?
• Would We Drill For $200 Oil? - Energy Security: As unrest spreads in the Middle East, threatening oil transport and oil-rich kingdoms, our laughable energy policy may come home to roost. Better get those wind turbines spinning in a hurry.
• Stalling On Fan, Fred - Home Finance: Fannie and Freddie are still bleeding losses, costing taxpayers billions more each month. Yet the White House continues to delay reforms, in defiance of a congressional order.
• Egypt Means Real Trouble For Israel - Middle East: No matter what ends up replacing President Mubarak and his harsh government, history may rewind to the 1970s for Israel — with the Camp David Accords possibly erased in the process.
• Only In Gov’t Do All Benefits Justify Costs - Despite the old saying, “Don’t cry over spilled milk,” the Environmental Protection Agency is doing just that.
• The Revolution In Middle East Is Growing Up - Nobody said it better than Hosni Mubarak: “Our eventual goal is to create an equal society, not a society of privileges and class distinctions. Social justice is the first rule for peace and stability in society.” But that was in November 1981, a few weeks after he had become president of Egypt.
• IBD/TIPP Poll: A Country That Knows What It Wants - Public Opinion: The latest IBD/TIPP poll finds that Americans want decisive action taken to solve some of our biggest problems. But they also recognize the difference between real problems and the fake ones that politicians dwell on.

 Laura Ingraham

• Sen. Orrin Hatch on immigration and the tea party – February 01, 2011 (mp3)

Mark Levin

02/01 The Mark Levin Show

American Thinker

• The Story of the Egyptian Revolution - A day-by-day account from Cairo, written by a sophisticated Egyptian analyst.
• The Left and Their ‘Good Victims’ - The left divides the world into good and bad victims.
• Egypt, the United States, and the Ghost of Khomeini - There is still hope that Egyptians won’t display the naïveté of the leaders of the Iranian democratic forces.
• There’s No Abe Lincoln in the Muslim Hood - There are only bad choices.
• Radical Islam or Mainstream Islam? - If the majority of Muslims adhere to Sharia law (at least in their hearts), then we must confront the possibility that “Radical Islam” is actually mainstream Islam.
• The British Left’s Betrayal of America - The latest revelations that Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government advised Libya on how to secure the release of the Lockerbie bomber may have destroyed the Anglo-American relationship.
• Judge Vinson Also Smacks Down Crony Capitalists - Perhaps almost as pleasing as the affirmation of individual freedom and the dismissal of a government-run society is the smack-down Judge Vinson’s ruling gave to the concept of “crony capitalism.”

FrontPageMag

• Red Carpet for Islamists - Mubarak out, Brotherhood in.
• Obama’s Brotherhood Moment - The president endorses the Muslim Brotherhood and helps pave the way for the Islamic Republic of Egypt.
• Hezbollah’s Lessons - What Egypt’s Islamists learned about grabbing power from their brethren in Lebanon.
• You Say You Want a Revolution? - The dire warning 1979 Iran gives 2011 Egypt.
• Obama’s Secret - Stanley Kurtz joins Jamie Glazov’s new video series to expose the President’s disguised radical agenda.
• The Egyptian Crisis’ Green Roots - How the Left’s biofuel-induced starvation exacerbates instability in the Third World.
• Brushfire in the Middle East - Regional uprisings continue to spread — who will be the next to fall?
• Holocaust Hypocrisy - When will leftists who use Holocaust imagery to attack Israel be held accountable?
• CAIRing for Anwar al-Awlaki and Other Targets of Interest - A radical Muslim group works hard to hinder the FBI’s efforts and to support terror.