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| Besieged by stupid Americans, Media circles the wagons around Gruber 11/13/2014 10:01:10 AM Noah Rothman 46 Comments How can you be certain the discovery of Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber's repeated praise for the deception which resulted in the passage of the Affordable Care Act, and his acknowledgement of the "stupidity" of the American people to whom he and his More... Special leadership role considered for noted Cherokee Senator 11/13/2014 9:21:17 AM Jazz Shaw 64 Comments When you lose an election – particularly when you lose really badly – there is often a shakeup in leadership so some new blood can have a chance get things back on track. For Democrats, one of the more complicated personalities to fit into More... ObamaCare an edict from "elitists" who don't get the American people, says … Howard Dean 11/13/2014 8:41:57 AM Ed Morrissey 48 Comments We missed this in our coverage of Gruberama yesterday, but Washington Free Beacon clipped it for good reason. Howard Dean, the darling of Internet progressives, has never exactly been enamored of ObamaCare, but not for the same reasons that conservatives More... Buffalo police now coming to homes after funerals to look for guns 11/13/2014 8:01:18 AM Jazz Shaw 73 Comments I was close to beginning this article by saying only in New York. Sadly, that’s not true. There are a number of states today with some truly horrible gun laws and attitudes toward Second Amendment rights. But the Empire State is still right up near More...
Quotes of the day 11/12/2014 10:41:13 PM Allahpundit 478 Comments A third video emerged Wednesday of MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, insulting voters and suggesting their ignorance was exploited by those pushing passage of the health care More... Hm: Reid makes move on NSA reform bill during lame-duck session 11/12/2014 10:01:54 PM Mary Katharine Ham 27 Comments In a more interesting, potentially productive move than I would have thought Sen. Harry Reid capable of, everyone’s favorite sourpuss has filed for cloture on the USA Freedom Act. The Sen. Patrick Leahy-crafted measure was the consensus pick of More... After John Oliver bit, liberals realize a bunch of stuff happens in state legislatures, they should get in on it 11/12/2014 9:21:52 PM Mary Katharine Ham 32 Comments John Oliver, a man famous for going viral after routinely DESTROYING the political adversaries of run-of-the-mill liberalism in monologues slightly less funny than Jon Stewart’s but imbued with gravitas thanks to a British accent, has turned his More... Video: Men wouldn't try to take advantage of a young woman who's drunk in public, would they? Update: Hoax 11/12/2014 8:41:46 PM Allahpundit 77 Comments Alternate headline: “Yep, chivalry’s dead.” The now famous and (much parodied) catcall video had 35 million views on YouTube as of this morning. This one, posted all of four days ago, already has over three million. There’s high More... Nancy Pelosi: That wasn't a wave 11/12/2014 8:01:02 PM Allahpundit 98 Comments A Twitter pal sums up her argument to Republicans this way: “They don’t love you, they just hate me so much more.” "I do not believe what happened the other night is a wave," Pelosi said in her first sit-down interview since Democrats More... Likely GOP 2016 nominee will not resign current job to run for POTUS 11/12/2014 7:21:10 PM Jazz Shaw 43 Comments Some concern trolling from the Politico team attempts to throw cold water on the Christie 2016 fire, this time in the form of fundraising issues. The question at hand is whether or not the big guy will quit his day job as Governor of New Jersey after he More... Pew: Americans are happy Obama stripped of legislative power 11/12/2014 6:41:27 PM Noah Rothman 26 Comments As the fallout from the 2014 midterms settles, polls are starting to show that the voting public is relieved that Republicans are set to wrest control of one full branch of government from the Democratic Party. Ed Morrissey's dissection of two recent More... Senate Republicans ready to use reconciliation to repeal ObamaCare? 11/12/2014 6:01:20 PM Allahpundit 121 Comments The bill’s destined to be vetoed, of course, but unless the reconciliation process ends up eating lots of time, there’s really no harm to it. One conservative activist told Politico he’s worried that if the GOP uses the same arcane More... Springsteen "Fortunate Son" flap at Concert for Valor 11/12/2014 5:21:00 PM Jazz Shaw 138 Comments The post election period always brings a bit of a slowdown, so I suppose we’ll get into a dust-up over … Bruce Springsteen. At the Concert for Valor near the Capitol Building in DC last night, Springsteen joined in with Dave Grohl, and Zac More... While Obama pursues climate deal with China, ISIS expands into Egypt, Libya 11/12/2014 4:41:52 PM Noah Rothman 45 Comments The left is collectively wrong about a lot of things, but they are perhaps the most misguided in their belief that climate change is among the greatest threats to American national security. An August Pew Research Center survey found that a whopping 68 More... GOP Rep. Jim Jordan: Maybe it's time for House hearings on Jon Gruber's ObamaCare remarks 11/12/2014 4:01:52 PM Allahpundit 151 Comments A fine idea. Democrats will whine that the new GOP is the same as the old GOP, obsessed as ever with revisiting old ObamaCare business, but that message can and will be countered by sending a few splashy bills to Obama’s desk, starting with More... Abandon ship: No outside groups donating to Landrieu runoff yet 11/12/2014 3:21:13 PM Ed Morrissey 77 Comments Granted, it’s still early, but speed is of the essence in the short time of a special election. Capitol City finds a notable lack of urgency on the part of Democratic outside groups to get involved in Louisiana: Six days ago, it was reported the More... Is Scott Walker's plan to drug test welfare recipients constitutional? 11/12/2014 2:41:24 PM Noah Rothman 196 Comments Following his third statewide victory in four years, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker wasted no time before announcing new reforms for his state. By far the most controversial is his stated intention to impose narcotics testing on prospective recipients of More... South Carolina gay marriage ban overturned 11/12/2014 2:01:12 PM Jazz Shaw 235 Comments For some time now the Supreme Court has managed to deftly duck out of the subject of each state’s right to decide on gay marriage for themselves. This was facilitated by the fact that all of the courts seemed to be coming down on the same side, so More... Is Iowa turning from purple to red? 11/12/2014 1:21:12 PM Noah Rothman 45 Comments In January, 2008, the Hawkeye State's Democratic caucus-goers shocked political observers by backing Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton. It would prove to be a fateful vote, one which would herald the slow demise of Clinton's presidential ambitions in the More... FCC chair distances himself from Obama on Net Neutrality 11/12/2014 12:41:02 PM Ed Morrissey 165 Comments That would be the Democratic, Barack Obama-appointed FCC chair, who spent yesterday backpedaling from his boss on a major policy announcement. Obama went so far as to push out a video demanding unilateral action from the FCC on Net Neutrality, the latest More... Sex education in high schools has failed 11/12/2014 12:01:48 PM Jazz Shaw 71 Comments At some point in the past we seem to have collectively decided that sex education for the nation’s high school age (or lower) kids was a subject to be tackled in the classroom. There were obvious reasons for trying to do something, given the More... Get excited: Huckabee building team for presidential run 11/12/2014 11:31:31 AM Allahpundit 164 Comments Or is he? Joshua Green‘s headline for this splashy WaPo piece about Huck 2016 is “Mike Huckabee plots elaborate strategy to hawk new book.” I think he’s serious. My theory on Huck is that he regrets passing on 2012 after seeing More... Gruber video #2: No, really, American voters are stupid; Update: Third video? 11/12/2014 11:01:18 AM Ed Morrissey 261 Comments Call this Gruber 2: Stupid and Stupider. Jonathan Gruber attempted to escape scrutiny for his October 2013 declaration that Americans are “stupid” and that ObamaCare was designed to exploit that and hide its true nature by saying that he More... | 
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