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Subtle: Pro-Kay Hagan fliers warns GOP victory with lynching images
10/21/2014 10:01:06 AM  Noah Rothman
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Once is an isolated incident, but twice is something else entirely. Less than 24-hours after the rapidly imploding Wendy Davis campaign in Texas warned that the interracially married Greg Abbott may just try to ban interracial marriage as governor, Sen.
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Age of Enlightenment: NY university offering training for couples on how to break up
10/21/2014 9:21:01 AM  Jazz Shaw
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Instapundit flagged this one as a Higher Education Bubble Update and it’s taking place in New York. The State University of New York (SUNY) campus at Delhi, west of the Hudson River, is offering an important training seminar for students.
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Michele Bachmann must be doing something right if ISIS is after her
10/21/2014 8:41:55 AM  Jazz Shaw
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Her name doesn’t appear in the national headlines nearly as often as it used to, but apparently there are those in other parts of the world who remember who Michele Bachmann is. Yet another ISIS video has popped up, and it includes the Minnesota
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The worst political ad ever? Or the most awesome?
10/21/2014 8:01:02 AM  Jazz Shaw
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Before you get your hopes up, this edition of Must See Political Advertising is brought to you by the GOP, not the Democrats. It was spawned out of the floundering race in Michigan, where Terri Lynn Land has seemingly failed to gain any traction against
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Quotes of the day
10/20/2014 10:41:57 PM  Allahpundit
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Two ordained ministers have filed a federal lawsuit and are seeking a restraining order to prevent local officials from forcing them to marry same-sex couples, saying they have been threatened with fines and possible jail time over their refusal. Donald
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Video: Phoenix business owner foils bank robbery by waiting at get-away car with his gun
10/20/2014 10:01:19 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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One suspect is dead and one in custody after a Phoenix business owner came to the aid of a neighboring business. The Desert Schools Credit Union was being robbed by masked gunmen Wednesday when a neighboring business owner apparently heard about the
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Obama: Hey, all these red-state Democrats running away from me are strong supporters who vote with me!
10/20/2014 9:21:14 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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President Barack Obama appeared on Al Sharpton’s radio show today to send a campaign message seemingly calculated to drive folks like Sens. Mark Pryor and Mary Landrieu to drink. “Well, look, here’s the bottom line,” said Obama,
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"Walking Dead" grumble thread: The ultimate gross-out
10/20/2014 8:41:47 PM  Allahpundit
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I would never have guessed that the most memorably repulsive scene in five seasons of this endless splatter porn wouldn’t involve zombies, but it did. And it makes sense. There’s no way to keep the gross-out impact of the zombies themselves
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Scary news from MoveOn: If Republicans win the Senate, they might use a dubious procedure known as "reconciliation"
10/20/2014 7:21:48 PM  Allahpundit
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Via Dan Foster, I’m not in the habit of watching MoveOn attack ads but I’m glad I made time for this important educational piece, featuring the always likable Robert Reich. I’ve been telling myself that the election doesn’t much
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Should a minority elect an executive? Maine edition
10/20/2014 6:41:51 PM  Jazz Shaw
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There’s something brewing in Maine which may seem unusual to the residents of many other states, but really isn’t all that unique in the far northeastern region at all. If current polling is at all predictive, Maine may once again wind up
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Video: Scarborough thinks Hillary's lack of competition is what will hurt her
10/20/2014 6:01:14 PM  Jazz Shaw
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Elizabeth Warren was out in Iowa this week, ostensibly stumping for her party’s candidates in the midterm elections, but wherever she goes people have to wonder if she’s prepping for a presidential run. This prompted a discussion among the
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Tina Brown: Obama makes women feel 'unsafe'
10/20/2014 5:21:58 PM  Noah Rothman
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Among the findings in Politico's latest poll of battleground voters which indicated that Republicans are set to have a good night on November 4 was the counterintuitive finding that the GOP is losing a number of key voting blocs; Republicans are behind
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Are you ready for … Chelsea Manning – The musical?
10/20/2014 4:41:53 PM  Jazz Shaw
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You know, I’ve tried to be a good and diligent blogger to the best of my ability. I follow the news, as depressing and/or inane as it often is, and cover the items I believe will be relevant and of interest to our readers in as much as possible.
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Democrats want to have it both ways on Ebola
10/20/2014 4:01:04 PM  Noah Rothman
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If you caught any of this Sunday morning's panel segments, you probably saw the left-of-center guest lamenting the scourge of Republican fear-mongering surrounding the spread of the Ebola virus overseas and in the United States. It is a theme echoed on
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Feds soliciting bids for production of four million ID cards for illegal immigrants — per year
10/20/2014 3:21:49 PM  Allahpundit
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A friendly reminder from Jonathan Strong of Breitbart that while the media might have forgotten about executive amnesty amid Ebolamania, the administration hasn’t. USCIS Contracting will be posting a solicitation for the requirement of Card Stock
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Wendy Davis: Would Greg Abbott, who, by the way, is in an interracial marriage, defend a ban on interracial marriage?
10/20/2014 2:41:21 PM  Allahpundit
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Via Gabe Malor, not only would (i.e. will) Abbott’s wife be the first Latina first lady of Texas, Abbott himself likes to stress that fact when he introduces her at rallies. Dave Weigel tweets that Mrs. Abbott is featured on campaign billboards
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Painful Udall interview: "We can play this over, right? Let me re-tape this."
10/20/2014 2:01:00 PM  Guy Benson
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Come for his answer on Common Core (“yes”), stay for his avert-your-eyes inability to answer lighthearted softball questions about books and music — via John Ekdahl: He’s got most of the policy stuff nailed: Keep Obamacare?
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Obama doesn't want to serve on the Supreme Court, not that anyone asked
10/20/2014 1:21:57 PM  Noah Rothman
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The political stars would have to align in order for a polarizing figure like President Barack Obama to follow in the heels of William Howard Taft and be appointed to serve as a Supreme Court justice; Obama would have to be succeeded by a fellow
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The dangers of turning Election Day into Election Month
10/20/2014 12:41:17 PM  Jazz Shaw
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Flipping through the cable news offerings today, I saw a number of different stories which involved the upcoming midterms. Nearly each one included some variant of the phrase, the election is barely two weeks away! But in reality, that’s not
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The Pentagon is sugarcoating the situation in Iraq
10/20/2014 12:01:57 PM  Noah Rothman
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On the Syrian border with Turkey, Islamic State fighters streaming toward the border to engage Kurds defending the city of Kobani are entering a coalition meat grinder. Overnight, the American-led coalition executed six new airstrikes on ISIS positions
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Attendees head for the exits as Obama speaks at campaign rally for Maryland Democrat
10/20/2014 11:21:41 AM  Allahpundit
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And so at last we reach the “Puppet Show and Barack Obama” stage of his presidency. What’s weirder? That people would wait hours for a glimpse of O, only to hit the road 10 minutes after he started speaking? Or that his friends in the
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New York bans gun ownership for 34,500 citizens without due process
10/20/2014 10:41:37 AM  Jazz Shaw
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This is one case where I have to give the New York Times full credit. They have managed – at least in part – to dredge some information out of the New York State government which I have been unsuccessfully trying to obtain since May of this
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