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The Democratic autopsy
11/7/2014 10:01:09 AM  Noah Rothman
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The Republican Party has a presidential election problem. The GOP's "Growth and Opportunity Project," a 2012 postmortem referred to by the press by its pallid nickname "the autopsy," made several recommendations for how the party could fine-tune both its
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October jobs report: 214K added, jobless rate falls to 5.8%
11/7/2014 9:21:14 AM  Ed Morrissey
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The October jobs report offered up a mildly positive picture of job creation last month. The US economy added 214,000 jobs, above the rate needed to keep up with population growth (~150K) but lower than the initial 3rd quarter GDP results (+3.5%
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Appeals court upholds one-man, one-woman state marriage laws for first time
11/7/2014 8:41:44 AM  Ed Morrissey
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A month ago, the Supreme Court ducked an opportunity to take on the issue of whether states could decide how to define marriage, apparently on the basis of a lack of a split in the appeals circuits. The Sixth Circuit stole that excuse from the high court
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Russian tanks roll back into Ukraine
11/7/2014 8:01:11 AM  Ed Morrissey
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If they ever really left in the first place, the Russians are back in eastern Ukraine. Just days after rebels declared independence after a Moscow-backed plebescite, heavy weapons and tanks from the Russian army rolled back into Luhansk, and another
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Quotes of the day
11/6/2014 10:41:31 PM  Allahpundit
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Votes were still coming in on Tuesday evening when ABC's Jon Karl reported that, per White House sources, "the president will move forward with an executive order on immigration reform no matter how big a shellacking Democrats get." The shellacking was
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Video: What happens when a reporter tries to out-squat a squatter in Detroit?
11/6/2014 10:01:13 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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Here’s Detroit reporter Charlie LeDuff, a truly great writer and character, giving a Detroit squatter a taste of her (his? It’s somewhat in question.) own medicine. A homeowner had allegedly been attacked by the squatter while trying to sell
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In battle of grandstanding nurse vs. grandstanding Gov, Christie comes out grinning
11/6/2014 9:21:05 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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I should note Noah wrote about this earlier, but I wanted to add a little of my weirdo civil libertarian take to the mix. First of all, nurse Kaci Hickox certainly out-grandstanded Gov. Chris Christie on this. Though the governor’s Jersey pedigree,
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Campaign 2016 begins: Ben Carson to air 40-minute "introduction" ad in 22 states this weekend
11/6/2014 8:41:27 PM  Allahpundit
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Important news for two reasons. One: ABC is right. This really is the unofficial start to the next election. Two: Given how well Carson’s polling in Iowa at this very, very, very, very early stage, he might just be the grassroots stalking horse
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Kentucky GOP looks at switching to a caucus system just for Rand Paul
11/6/2014 8:01:05 PM  Jazz Shaw
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Although the prospect has been raised in the past, if you haven’t heard about it yet this story may surprise you. It’s no secret that Rand Paul is seriously considering a run for the presidency in 2016. But he is also up for reelection to the
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Sharpton: The voters really rejected Hillary, not Obama
11/6/2014 7:21:19 PM  Noah Rothman
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MSNBC host Al Sharpton is having a terrible time accepting the inescapable reality that President Barack Obama was a drag on his fellow Democrats. So much so, in fact, that their association with him, even in a peripheral sense, led to their rejection in
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Video: "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" trailer
11/6/2014 7:01:40 PM  Allahpundit
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We’re long overdue for a post-election palate cleanser. Given the buzz on Twitter, this’ll do nicely. Am I right in thinking this movie wasn’t originally going to be made? Peter Jackson was set to do “The Hobbit” in two
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YouGov poll: 39% of Democrats wish Obama could run for a third term in 2016
11/6/2014 6:41:03 PM  Allahpundit
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Should the reaction here be “that many?” Or “that few?” Not where Hopenchange expected to be six years into America’s new golden age, I’m guessing. The amazing thing about that? When people are asked whether they like
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2/3rds of NJ voters back Christie's decision to quarantine Ebola nurse Kaci Hickox
11/6/2014 6:01:40 PM  Noah Rothman
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If you only watched the press's coverage the week before suspected Ebola carrier nurse Kaci Hickox determined to make a martyr of herself by refusing to abide by even voluntary quarantining regulations in her home state of Maine, you would have thought
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Anti-megadonor super-PAC, megadonors, and Democrats learn same lesson in midterms
11/6/2014 5:21:07 PM  Ed Morrissey
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One clear lesson has emerged from this midterm election — voters do not respond to lectures. That’s true whether it’s about climate change, the ridiculous “war on women” meme, Kochsteria, or anything else that activists
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The GOP agenda: Hawkishness abroad and at home
11/6/2014 4:41:38 PM  Noah Rothman
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The Republican Party's agenda in the majority is, depending on what you read, either sweeping and dramatic or narrow and circumspect. According to reporting by The Washington Post's Robert Costa and Lori Montgomery, Senate Majority Leader Mitch
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Hatch: No, the Senate GOP should not "unilaterally disarm" after Reid's abuses
11/6/2014 4:01:47 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Harry Reid may want to sing “Kumbaya,” but that’s no reason for Mitch McConnell to provide the harmony. So writes Senator Orrin Hatch and former White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, in response to suggestions that the new Republican
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2014 fallout: Democratic officeholders jumping ship for the GOP
11/6/2014 3:21:56 PM  Noah Rothman
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In the wake of Tuesday's drubbing, soft Democrats in Congress are pledging to stand with the president's party… for now. So-called independent Sen. Angus King (I-ME) backed off his pledge to caucus with the majority party in the 114th Congress on
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Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson and the midterm recap
11/6/2014 2:56:35 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we’ll spend an hour recapping the midterm elections. Duane "Generalissimo" Patterson joins me to go over the Republican tsunami and its full implications, review Barack Obama’s response to it, and
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Wow: DSCC canceling some ad buys for Mary Landrieu in Louisiana runoff
11/6/2014 2:41:32 PM  Allahpundit
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And then there were 54. Bomb the rubble: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is canceling at least some of its advertising reservations for Sen. Mary Landrieu ahead of the December runoff in Louisiana. The committee canceled buys planned from
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Report: Obama secretly wrote to Iranian supreme leader Khamenei last month about fighting ISIS, nuclear deal
11/6/2014 2:01:37 PM  Allahpundit
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Hard to believe executive amnesty might not be the worst move Obama makes in his last two years. But it’s increasingly believable, isn’t it? As a special bonus, if you believe the WSJ, our allies weren’t told that O was reaching out to
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Clyburn unimpressed with Tim Scott as a sign of racial progress
11/6/2014 1:21:39 PM  Jazz Shaw
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Of the many, many big stories which have been flooding the zone since Tuesday, one with truly historic connotations was the election of Tim Scott to his first full term in the Senate. This made him the first African-American elected to the Senate from
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Josh Earnest: GOP should compromise with Obama, but he won't budge on Keystone
11/6/2014 12:41:45 PM  Noah Rothman
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On the Thursday after Democrats' drubbing at the polls, White House Press Sec. Josh Earnest appeared on CNN where he doubled down on Barack Obama's insistence that the areas where there was likely to be grounds for compromise were initiatives of key
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Begala: Democrats have no one but Hillary for 2016
11/6/2014 12:01:08 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Sure, it’s Paul Begala, but he’s not wrong — at least, not here. Even more amazing, Van Jones isn’t wrong either in saying that Democrats may need to look harder for anyone else who might still be on the bench. This is what three
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What should the GOP do to try to stop Obama's executive amnesty?
11/6/2014 11:21:02 AM  Allahpundit
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Don’t say “impeach.” You know that’s not happening. I’m asking for countermeasures here that are within the Overton window. Conn Carroll writes, “If Republicans let Obama get away with this they are essentially
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Exit polls show all demographics shifted to GOP after 2012
11/6/2014 10:41:19 AM  Ed Morrissey
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With most of the results of the midterm elections now counted and confirmed (with a few notable exceptions in Alaska and Virginia), we can now take a look at the exit polls and see what they actually mean. Before and during the election, plenty of
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