“Yesterday, by a vote of 15 to 5, the city council’s health and finance committees approved a bill adding e-cigarettes to Chicago’s Clean Indoor Air Act. The full city council, where a total of 26 votes are needed to pass the ordinance, is expected to follow suit tomorrow.” – Reason

“In a fiery speech broadcast live on Palestinian television Monday, the Palestinian minister for religious affairs called for Muslims to flock to Jerusalem to fight a holy war, or jihad. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sat front and center in the audience and joined others in applauding his minister’s speech, according to video released by a watchdog organization.” – The Blaze

“A long-delayed Senate intelligence committee report released on Wednesday spreads blame among the State Department and intelligence agencies for not preventing attacks on two outposts in Libya that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.” – Washington Post

“The problem with Harry Reid is that he routinely makes a disgrace out of himself, and it’s just so difficult to choose which anecdote is the worst.” – Hot Air

“So why should Republicans, let alone conservatives, defend Christie in his current times of troubles? I mean, shouldn’t we be happy to see a turncoat wounded in his quest to become the GOP nominee? Of course not says the establishment. You see when Ted Cruz was being attacked by the media many in the GOP not only refused to defend him, they rushed to join the attackers. But now that a member in good standing of the moderate wing is in trouble, well teamwork demands we all come to his aid.” – Ace Of Spades

“President Obama’s health care law may have gotten off to a rocky start, but executives of major private health insurance companies are informing investors that they’re still betting on the program in the long run.” – Washington Examiner

“The slow and continuing demise of Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey as a viable 2016 presidential contender is leaving a significant void where a front-runner once stood. Who steps in to fill it will depend on many factors, but a number of Republicans have much to gain by riding out the Christie media storm.” – Breitbart

“The Obama administration’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour could result in as many 1,084,000 jobs eliminated from the work force, according to a new study conducted by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI).” – Daily Caller

“Targeting the 1 percent kills the goose that lays the golden tax revenues and states and cities that are already close to the edge can’t afford to drive away their tax base. The welfare class is taught to blame the rich, but without the rich its lifestyle implodes, its social dysfunction increases and in the final phase of urban collapse, the middle class abandon their homes block by block and retreat to the suburbs as the city collapses.” – Daniel Greenfield/Front Page Mag

“In the comments published by the Yediot Ahronot daily, Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon called Kerry ‘obsessive’ and ‘messianic’ and dismissed Kerry’s security plan as worthless.” – CBS News