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| New Dem horror story: GOP-held Senate will slow-walk Obama nominees 10/31/2014 10:01:56 AM Ed Morrissey 12 Comments We’ll hear a lot about bottlenecks on nominations and legislation if the GOP wins control of the Senate. It’s telling, however, that the Obama administration has begun to complain about it now — and that the media is picking it up. The More... In failed gotcha moment, Scott Brown showed he knows New Hampshire better than debate host 10/31/2014 9:21:31 AM Noah Rothman 75 Comments In New Hampshire on Thursday night, the final debate between Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Republican candidate Scott Brown concluded with a moment of controversy. Brown's biggest adversary on that debate stage was not Shaheen, but one of the debate More... Welcome to your politically correct Halloween 10/31/2014 8:41:18 AM Jazz Shaw 45 Comments Students at the University of Wisconsin got some helpful advice for trick or treating this year in an e-mail. (Hat tip to John J. Miller at the Corner.) WEARING A FUNNY COSTUME? Ask yourself: Is the humor based on "making fun" of real people, real human More... Landrieu: My state is kinda racist and sexist, y'know 10/31/2014 8:01:11 AM Ed Morrissey 99 Comments Give Mary Landrieu credit for thinking outside the box in a tough re-election campaign she’s not likely to win. Most politicians pander to their constituents, praising them and talking about what an honor it is to serve them. Landrieu tried a More... Quotes of the day 10/30/2014 10:41:14 PM Allahpundit 462 Comments I sent the video around to some men in my office to gauge their reactions. "I knew this stuff happened—I see and hear it every once in a while—but the frequency of the remarks was astounding," one colleague told me. "As a (fairly obvious) gay guy, I like More... Hm: Days before the election, trouble in the Northeast for Democrats 10/30/2014 10:01:48 PM Mary Katharine Ham 37 Comments It is a strange cycle, with Georgia at times seemingly more in trouble than Colorado or Iowa. Nonetheless, it’s interesting to see Democrats stumble in the Northeast just days before the election— a bit of a bellwether, or at the very least, More... Politico: ObamaCare still not a boon for Democrats at the polls 10/30/2014 9:21:28 PM Ed Morrissey 49 Comments Remember when Democrats insisted they’d run in the midterms on the success of ObamaCare? Good times, good times. Granted, the last time Debbie Wasserman-Schultz uttered that bon mot was almost a year ago, and it was so ridiculous a notion even at More... Mitch McConnell's office: On second thought, he's willing to try to repeal ObamaCare with just 51 votes 10/30/2014 8:41:20 PM Allahpundit 106 Comments Follow the bouncing ball. Two years ago, after the Supreme Court upheld the ObamaCare individual mandate, McConnell said, “The chief justice said it’s a tax. Taxes are clearly what we call reconcilable. That’s the kind of measure that More... Fatah calls for 'Day of Rage' in Jerusalem 10/30/2014 8:01:43 PM Noah Rothman 40 Comments In what was believed to have been an assassination attempt, the prominent American-born Israeli activist Yehuda Glick was shot in Jerusalem on Wednesday by a motorcycle gunman. Glick, a controversial figure due to his advocacy in favor of allowing More... Great new media meme: Big win for GOP will fracture the party 10/30/2014 7:21:25 PM Ed Morrissey 49 Comments What’s the best metric to determine whether a wave election is coming? The generic Congressional ballot margins in polls certainly can give us an indication, as can presidential approval ratings and polling from different states. Sudden changes in More... New James O'Keefe video: North Carolina campaign workers encourage non-citizens to vote 10/30/2014 6:41:21 PM Allahpundit 69 Comments Man, did O’Keefe pick the right moment and the right state for this clip. By now everyone in conservative media has seen that bombshell Old Dominion study claiming that Democrat-heavy non-citizen votes may have delivered a Senate seat to Al Franken More... Unity, kinda: Wolf endorses Roberts in Kansas 10/30/2014 6:01:07 PM Ed Morrissey 57 Comments Better (almost) late than never, and with just five days to go, this endorsement from Milton Wolf couldn’t come at a better time for Pat Roberts. The RCP average of six polls in Kansas has the Republican down by less than a point, and even the More... The Joni Ernst plagiarism scandal that wasn't 10/30/2014 5:21:27 PM Jazz Shaw 32 Comments It almost becomes painful to write about the political “scandals” which show up in the news at this time of year. An old rule of thumb I’ve tried to follow is that any breaking news which is unbelievably shocking that shows up in the More... Revealed: "Frozen" is just Disney's "The Shining" 10/30/2014 4:41:46 PM Mary Katharine Ham 60 Comments A Halloween palate cleanser cross-posted from www.mkhammertime.com "The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them." —Roger Ebert Arendelle and the Overlook Hotel Exhibit More... Bad news: Operation Inherent Resolve isn't accomplishing much at all 10/30/2014 4:01:56 PM Noah Rothman 58 Comments For months, the White House resisted calls by concerned observers to intervene in the conflict in Iraq and Syria where the Islamic State was capturing territory and massacring locals. Only after it appeared likely that the ancient Yazidi minority would More... Video: Should the Royals have waved Alex Gordon home? 10/30/2014 3:21:36 PM Allahpundit 94 Comments Every baseball fan in America wants to talk about this today so here’s your thread. Confession: I was so sure that Madison Bumgarner would shut down the Royals again, even on short rest and in relief, that I turned the game off in disgust as he was More... Mary Burke: I wasn't technically "fired" from my family's company, they just eliminated my position 10/30/2014 2:41:39 PM Guy Benson 143 Comments In my item on Marquette Law School’s favorable final poll for Scott Walker yesterday, I touched briefly upon a story alleging that Democrat Mary Burke had been fired from her family’s bicycle company in the 1990′s. Burke has touted her More... Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Jon Ralston, Jonathan Last 10/30/2014 2:39:57 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! Duane "Generalissimo" Patterson brings us up to date on the week's top stories and gives us a preview of tonight's Hugh Hewitt show. Jon Ralston of Ralston More... Democratic Rep: This Kaci Hickox dustup is just like the Terri Schiavo case 10/30/2014 2:01:56 PM Noah Rothman 62 Comments This clip confirms the extent to which condescension on the left has replaced efforts to convince those skeptical of the medical community's assessment of Ebola's communicability of their error. In an appearance on CNN on Thursday, Rep. Steve Cohen More... Final Colorado Q-poll: Gardner up 7 among likely voters 10/30/2014 1:21:25 PM Ed Morrissey 44 Comments “This Colorado Senate race has national implications,” Quinnipiac assistant director Tim Malloy observes, “and it’s taken an ugly turn for the incumbent.” Actually, it was the ugly turn taken by incumbent Democrat Mark Udall More... Ebola nurse Kaci Hickox violates quarantine, dares you to do something about it 10/30/2014 12:41:23 PM Noah Rothman 279 Comments Once portrayed in the press as the face of noble resistance to Gov. Chris Christie's draconian policy of consigning health care workers who were potentially exposed to Ebola in West Africa to a mandatory quarantine, nurse Kaci Hickox is rapidly expending More... Donna Brazile pens the most dishonest defense of teacher tenure in memory 10/30/2014 12:01:32 PM Jazz Shaw 79 Comments If you need a sign of the times which demonstrates that the Democrats are desperately trying to rally their hard core base in the closing days before the election, you need look no further than this incredible essay for CNN by Donkey Party strategist More... Report: As many as 20-30 Gitmo detainees freed within the last few years are now fighting in Syria 10/30/2014 11:21:42 AM Allahpundit 45 Comments Emphasis on “in Syria.” If you’re looking for the total number of sprung Gitmo alums who’ve returned to the battlefield worldwide, e.g. in Afghanistan, think closer to 200. Presumably that includes some of the Taliban Five whom we More... CBS poll: GOP lead in generic Congressional ballot similar to final 2010 poll 10/30/2014 10:41:17 AM Ed Morrissey 62 Comments It takes a while to get to this data in the CBS News report, as the Washington Examiner and Twitchy point out, but it’s real — and perhaps spectacular. One has to read to the ninth paragraph for CBS to get to the point of its latest and last More... |   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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