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| Video: Ryan takes over Ways and Means 11/19/2014 10:01:03 AM Ed Morrissey 23 Comments It’s “the single most important committee in Congress,” one former Representative tells WTMJ in Milwaukee, with its fingers in practically everything the federal government does. Tax reform? Ways and Means. Health care? Social Security? More... Video: PressSec painfully tries to explain why Obama is not an emperor now 11/19/2014 9:31:30 AM Jazz Shaw 76 Comments ABC has some rather awkward coverage of the latest presser with Josh Earnest where a pesky reporter once again spoils everyone’s good time by remembering things which Barack Obama said way back in ancient history… specifically one year ago. More... It's official: Democrats are over Mary Landrieu 11/19/2014 9:01:10 AM Ed Morrissey 53 Comments It’s not just last night’s Keystone XL vote, either, although that was a rather telling moment in itself. There may have only been theoretical value in getting Landrieu a legislative win to use in her runoff election less than three weeks More... NSA reform bill goes down to defeat 11/19/2014 8:31:28 AM Ed Morrissey 36 Comments The effort to force approval on the Keystone XL project went down to defeat last night, but it didn’t die alone. Outgoing Judiciary chair Pat Leahy has spent the last year working on a plan to reform laws controlling the NSA and had reached More...  Rescission is not the answer to executive amnesty 11/19/2014 8:01:38 AM Jazz Shaw 62 Comments Noah wrote at length last night about the GOP’s battle strategy going into the immigration fight ahead. He focused quite a bit on avoiding a shutdown, and while many of our readers disagree on this point, there does seem to one area of consensus. More... Quotes of the day 11/18/2014 10:41:12 PM Jazz Shaw 305 Comments "To see Jews wearing tefillin and wrapped in the tallit lying in pools of blood, I wondered if I was imagining scenes from the Holocaust," said Yehuda Meshi Zahav, the veteran leader of a religious emergency-response team, describing the straps and More... Heartbreaking: Obama passed on opportunity to use Syrian army defectors to topple Assad 11/18/2014 8:41:41 PM Noah Rothman 85 Comments More than 1,000 Syrian army defectors, some of them ranking officers, are rotting away in Turkish refugee camps while a multi-front war rages just across the border. "Rather than forming the vanguard of a Western-backed fighting force, they follow the More... This Gruber-gate supercut video is positively enraging 11/18/2014 8:01:31 PM Noah Rothman 131 Comments This video, flagged by invaluable Twitter resource and Ace of Spades Decision Desk entrepreneur John Ekdahl, is among the most infuriating things you will see today. Composed by American Commitment, this video is nothing more than a smash cut of the More... Uh oh: New York Times creates big trouble for tax-dodging Obama ally Al Sharpton 11/18/2014 7:21:46 PM Noah Rothman 90 Comments On Tuesday, The New York Times took its readers inside the city's exclusive Four Seasons Restaurant where Al Sharpton celebrated his 60th birthday party at what was dubbed his "party for a cause." "Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo hailed him More... Dreams do come true. Iowa GOP POTUS forum to start in January? 11/18/2014 6:41:47 PM Jazz Shaw 31 Comments Okay… maybe it’s not technically a presidential candidate debate, but it might as well be. Iowa representative (and “King maker” if the Des Moines Register is the judge of such things) Steve King is planning to not only keep Iowa More... Open thread: Senate vote on Keystone XL pipeline; Update: Fail; Update: Nay votes added 11/18/2014 6:01:55 PM Ed Morrissey 234 Comments For more than five years, Senate Democrats couldn’t bother to lift a finger to press for approval on the Keystone XL pipeline. Tonight at 6:15 pm ET, Harry Reid & Company will conduct a rushed vote to force the Obama administration to allow the More... Insurrection: Liberal constitutional scholar will represent GOP in lawsuit against Obama 11/18/2014 5:21:16 PM Noah Rothman 111 Comments When the Republican-led House voted to sue President Barack Obama in July over what the GOP considered his excessive application of executive authority, particularly in repeatedly delaying the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, it made a big More... Video – Scarborough to McCaskill: Does Darren Wilson get his life back? 11/18/2014 4:41:34 PM Jazz Shaw 81 Comments I mentioned this earlier in conjunction with the FBI story on Ferguson, but Claire McCaskill’s (D – Missouri) take on the potential unrest in Ferguson and the future of Officer Darren Wilson is worth a closer look. During her appearance on More... The coming Democratic purity purge 11/18/2014 4:01:30 PM Ed Morrissey 56 Comments Dana Milbank calls this the “Tea Party of the left,” but that’s not quite correct. Politically, the Tea Party grassroots couldn’t be more different than their progressive counterparts in the Democratic Party. One wants the federal More... The coalition and the coronation: relics of a bygone era? 11/18/2014 3:21:15 PM Ed Morrissey 55 Comments The midterms are over, and now we can relax for a few months about electoral analysis and just focus on legislation. Yeah, riiiiiight. The analyses of 2016 began earlier this year, mainly focusing on Hillary Clinton and the Inevitable Coronation Tour II: More... Tuesday TEMS: Salena Zito, Peter Wehner 11/18/2014 2:59:37 PM Ed Morrissey 5 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! Andrew Malcolm can’t be with us today or next week, sooooooo …. Salena Zito of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review joins us to discuss the latest in More... The GOP battle plan to fight Obama's immigration order is coming together 11/18/2014 2:41:47 PM Noah Rothman 187 Comments The three instances in living memory in which Republicans in Congress embraced a strategy which led to shutting down the government, the results were disastrous for their party. While there is some debate on the right as to just how lasting that damage More... NFL suspends Peterson without pay for season 11/18/2014 2:01:33 PM Ed Morrissey 51 Comments Adrian Peterson wanted a quick resolution to his status in the NFL after agreeing to a plea bargain in Texas to misdemeanor counts relating to allegations of child abuse. Today, he got one, although probably not the outcome he or the Minnesota Vikings More... Will the US start negotiating with terrorists now? 11/18/2014 1:31:28 PM Jazz Shaw 43 Comments The families of Peter Kassig and the previous ISIS captives who were brutally slaughtered have no doubt been wrestling with many heartbreaking questions for quite some time. Why didn’t their government do more to effect a rescue before it was too More... Gruber on the run: Famed video commentator suddenly gets shy on camera 11/18/2014 1:01:41 PM Ed Morrissey 130 Comments For a man who spent years deriding the intelligence of the American voter, it sure took Jonathan Gruber a long time to wise up. The architect of ObamaCare spent the intervening four years snickering at making suckers out of Americans, but won’t More... Democrats back leader with views on women in the workplace that belong in a Mad Men episode 11/18/2014 12:31:28 PM Noah Rothman 53 Comments At its height in 2009, then Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) presided over 257-member Democratic majority in the lower chamber of Congress. By January of this year, the Democratic caucus in the House will consist of fewer than 190 members. Despite More... Obama in 2006: I've "stolen ideas…liberally" from Gruber 11/18/2014 12:01:29 PM Guy Benson 58 Comments We’ll start with the undercard, then move on to the latest Gruber video. This is characteristically excellent work from Remy here, skewering Grubergate to the tune of Jeremih’s “Don’t Tell ‘Em:” If the Lena Dunham More... Former WH official: Gruber 'an important figure' in putting Obamacare together 11/18/2014 11:31:58 AM Noah Rothman 105 Comments In a well-reasoned piece in Bloomberg, Dave Weigel suggests that Democrats have put themselves in a tough position with their initial, panicked response to the discovery of the first six plus videos featuring MIT professor Jonathan Gruber making More... "Collegial" Senate Dems won't support Landrieu on Keystone vote 11/18/2014 11:01:35 AM Bruce McQuain 80 Comments Desperate for something positive to put before Louisiana voters prior to her Senate run-off, Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu is looking for an apparently illusive 60th Senate vote – from her Democratic colleagues. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and More... |    | |||||
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