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| WaPo: Senate Dems may pass Keystone approval — to rescue Landrieu 11/12/2014 10:01:45 AM Ed Morrissey 20 Comments How desperate are Democrats to salvage the one Senate seat they still haven’t quite lost in the midterm elections? Desperate enough to anger their environmental-progressive base and threaten their ability to compete in 2016? It may come down to More... Referendum: Majority wants GOP to set the agenda for next two years in Gallup poll 11/12/2014 9:31:04 AM Ed Morrissey 31 Comments Democrats have spent the past week attempting to put the best possible spin on the midterm elections they can find. Voters say they want us to work together, said both Harry Reid and Barack Obama, even though voters kicked Democrats out of office while More... Nurses union to strike over inadequate Ebola protection 11/12/2014 9:01:33 AM Jazz Shaw 26 Comments But remember, voters… there’s nothing to worry about. We’ve got the entire situation under control. Nurses across the United States will stage protest rallies and strikes on Wednesday over what they say is insufficient protection for More... AP calls Sullivan the winner in Alaska Senate race 11/12/2014 8:31:50 AM Ed Morrissey 41 Comments Republicans picked up another Senate takeaway overnight — at least according to the Associated Press, which called Dan Sullivan the winner in the Alaska election. With 40% of the 50,000 absentee ballots counted, Sullivan’s lead has barely More...
Obama, Xi Jinping agree to more "carbon limiting" action 11/12/2014 8:01:43 AM Jazz Shaw 55 Comments In case you were wondering what the President was up to in China aside from chewing nicotine gum, he was busy signing us up for another round of regulations on carbon emissions. These discussions were taking place with the leader of China. If the More... Quotes of the day 11/11/2014 9:21:43 PM Allahpundit 650 Comments President Obama used his executive authority to increase the availability of visas for Chinese workers and students, a move that immigration hawks regard as a signal that his promised executive orders regarding immigration are coming soon… A Senate More... Video: A beautiful rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner, courtesy of Chris Botti & the NFL 11/11/2014 8:41:01 PM Mary Katharine Ham 65 Comments Today offers the perfect occasion for this truly stunning rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner, offered by jazz trumpetist Chris Botti during Monday Night Football last week. There are those who wish our country had chosen a more melodic, easily sung More... Video: 10 hours of Princess Leia catcalls in New York 11/11/2014 8:01:08 PM Allahpundit 48 Comments To cleanse the palate on a slow news holiday. Bad enough that any young woman would need to deal with street harassment. But actual royalty? Let’s be real, though: She didn’t mind Boba Fett tailing her. That’s like getting hit on by More... Police seizing billions via asset-forfeiture laws 11/11/2014 7:21:46 PM Jazz Shaw 74 Comments Last month we looked at the disturbing trend of the IRS seizing the bank assets of businesses with no charges being filed against them and just keeping the money. I remember thinking, when first reading that story, that it sounded like highway robbery. More... Video: GM knew of fatal ignition defect months earlier than previously revealed 11/11/2014 6:41:36 PM Ed Morrissey 27 Comments New e-mails uncovered in the GM ignition-switch scandal suggests that the company has misled victims and their families, and perhaps the court, as to when they knew of the defect. The shift in the timeline also calls into question whether the Obama More... Jon Gruber finally speaks! … to MSNBC 11/11/2014 6:01:23 PM Noah Rothman 131 Comments Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber is perhaps Republicans' best weapon in their fight to dismantle the sweeping health care reform law. Gruber, who forcefully insisted that the basis of the upcoming Supreme Court case King vs. Burwell is based only on More... Three reasons why the Rick Perry indictment must be dismissed 11/11/2014 5:21:36 PM Jazz Shaw 41 Comments A lot of us among the uneducated hoi polloi found the original indictment of Rick Perry over the use of his veto powers to be silly and unlikely to do well in the courts. But at least in my case, I couldn’t quantify exactly why. It didn’t More... Video: Ohio burglar tries robbing two homes, both with armed occupants 11/11/2014 4:41:35 PM Jazz Shaw 54 Comments NRA-ILA finds an interesting story from Ohio, where a would-be burglar wound up having a simply awful run of bad luck. Michael Roberts, 26, wielding a knife, attempted to break in to a private home through a basement window, but things didn’t go as More... Among other reforms, new VA secretary says agency should be more 'veterans-centric' 11/11/2014 4:01:17 PM Noah Rothman 50 Comments On Monday, VA Secretary Robert McDonald joined CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer where he revealed a series of new reforms to his beleaguered agency. Among the first reforms McDonald touted was lopping off of heads. He noted that 35 VA administrators had already More... Maine Sen. Angus King: Who cares if ObamaCare architect Jon Gruber thinks voters were deceived about ObamaCare? 11/11/2014 3:21:12 PM Allahpundit 148 Comments Via Newsbusters, after yesterday’s unpleasantness and the Halbig “speak-o” fiasco of a few months ago, I see Democrats (plus independents in name only like King) have finally reached the “Jon who?” stage of their Gruber More... Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Ambassador Francis Rooney 11/11/2014 2:50:17 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! Andrew Malcolm joins us for Tuesdays with Andrew! The Prince of Twitter and I will discuss all of the hot political stories of the day. Today, we’ll More... Good news: Obama strikes deals with China to avoid World War III 11/11/2014 2:41:47 PM Noah Rothman 56 Comments America's long-time chief geopolitical adversary in Europe, Russia, has been steadily challenging American dominance on that continent for several years. The most incautious escalation of tensions occurred this year after Vladimir Putin ordered the More... Walker: Hillary's "old, tired" … approach to governance 11/11/2014 2:01:36 PM Ed Morrissey 65 Comments Do readers sense a theme developing? Rand Paul made Hillary Clinton’s age an explicit attack point this weekend, but Scott Walker tries a slightly more subtle approach. It’s not that Hillary is old and tired, mind you, but that her More... Charlie Rangel: If you white tea-party crackers were offended by my choice of words, I apologize 11/11/2014 1:21:38 PM Allahpundit 433 Comments Well, okay. But I … can’t shake the feeling that he’s not really sorry. Via the Daily Caller, the key bit runs from 14:50 to 16:45. I remembered him sneering at conservative “crackers” last year but I’d forgotten how More... John McCain attacks Ted Cruz in… Salon? 11/11/2014 12:41:33 PM Noah Rothman 101 Comments Just days after Salon.com published a tasteless screed in which a relatively unknown author attacked the military and insisted that his freedoms were more threatened than protected by the armed forces (a piece delightfully eviscerated by our own Jazz More... Beware talk of the "permanent majority" 11/11/2014 12:01:06 PM Ed Morrissey 56 Comments But it’s sooooooo seductive, isn’t it? We all want to think that the rest of the country has finally awoken to the dangers of Democratic/Republican policies, and have delivered an enduring mandate for More... Red-state Dem Joe Manchin: I'm not going to put up with any obstructionist bullsh*t from my party in the new Senate 11/11/2014 11:31:58 AM Allahpundit 65 Comments Consider this a sequel to last night’s post about how hard it’ll be for McConnell to break Democratic filibusters and put GOP bills on Obama’s desk. Amid all the murmuring about party-switching over the past week, a shining fact More... Scarborough to Obama: Get out of your bubble on ISIS 11/11/2014 11:01:04 AM Ed Morrissey 28 Comments Watch this all the way through to see an excellent report from the front lines from Richard Engel, in which he embeds with Kurdish fighters in Kobane, including a female soldier attempting to push back against the seventh-century ideology that would More... | 
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