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| Video: Officer in Ferguson shooting negotiating exit from force 11/21/2014 10:01:42 AM Ed Morrissey 33 Comments As Ferguson, Missouri waits with bated breath for the decision of the grand jury, the officer who may face indictment over the fatal shooting of Michael Brown has quietly negotiated his exit from the police force. CNN describes the talks as in its More... Video: Milwaukee police chief unloads on black community leaders over violence 11/21/2014 9:21:15 AM Jazz Shaw 57 Comments The roiling turbulence in Ferguson has boiled over and spread to other cities around the nation. That showed up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin this week, when community activists grew angry with their police force over an incident that happened last April. More... The cautious road ahead for Republicans 11/21/2014 8:41:41 AM Noah Rothman 112 Comments The president sought to start a war last night. In Barack Obama's announcement revealing the details of an executive order on immigration, he tried to frame his as a plan that was specific and tailored. Obama reaffirmed the principles in deferred action More... Fact-checks on Obama speech come from AP, WaPo … and Jay Carney? 11/21/2014 8:01:36 AM Ed Morrissey 86 Comments Barack Obama’s speech on immigration last night may have been brief, but not brief enough to exclude misleading arguments. In a speech of less than 15 minutes, Obama managed to pack a few whoppers into his arguments for unilateral executive action, More... Quotes of the Day 11/20/2014 10:01:38 PM Ed Morrissey 598 Comments President Barack Obama will order immigration officers to deport “felons not families” as he wields executive power to shield five million illegal immigrants in the most sweeping overhaul of the immigration system in More... Clinton Foundation footed more than \$8 million in travel costs for 2013 11/20/2014 9:21:05 PM Ed Morrissey 40 Comments Secretaries of State get used to a lot of travel, especially those who manage to stick around for a full presidential term as Hillary Clinton did. Lesser mortals would have to adjust to life outside the fast lane, but not the presumed frontrunner in the More... Buffalo's lake effect mega-blizzards: global warming or act of God? 11/20/2014 8:41:32 PM Jeff Dunetz 47 Comments For a year and a half I went to school at SUNY Oswego which among other things was known for its sunsets. Every night we would watch the sun go into Lake Ontario. Along with that beauty we had lake effect snow, and we could see it coming. Sometime we More... Media struggles to find successes in war against ISIS 11/20/2014 8:01:15 PM Noah Rothman 15 Comments American airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq began on August 8. Not long after the commencement of the air war against the Islamic State in Iraq, coalition forces expanded the theater of operations into Syria. Months after the start of that campaign, More... Open thread: Semi-retired President invokes the Sick And Tired clause of the Constitution 11/20/2014 7:21:09 PM Ed Morrissey 765 Comments The speech will start at 8 pm ET, but the damage may last for years, or decades. Barack Obama will step to the podium to explain how instructing the federal government not to enforce immigration law somehow completely comports with the Constitution, More... Breaking: Obama executive amnesty plan bullet points 11/20/2014 6:37:07 PM Ed Morrissey 320 Comments Consider this homework for tonight’s speech, which will have its own open thread up shortly. This document is worth its own post, if for no other reason than to make it easy for readers to find it. Posted originally by the National Immigrant Youth More... Breaking up is hard to do: 3 networks won't carry Obama immigration speech 11/20/2014 6:01:00 PM Bruce McQuain 71 Comments This shouldn’t come as a big surprise: Several networks won't be carrying President Obama's prime-time address on immigration Thursday night from the White House. ABC, CBS and Fox are saying they won't air the president's speech live; NBC also More... Now toxic, Jonathan Gruber dumped from Vermont consulting contract 11/20/2014 5:21:04 PM Noah Rothman 63 Comments With President Barack Obama's unilateral action creating legal status for millions of illegal immigrants set to dominate the headlines in the coming weeks, the news cycle is about to shift definitively and perhaps permanently away from the revelatory More... NBC/WSJ poll: By large margin, Americans want GOP, not Obama, leading on policy 11/20/2014 4:41:16 PM Guy Benson 74 Comments Perhaps the White House will rationalize these results as yet more evidence of the American public’s “stupidity:” The American people don't want President Barack Obama to take the lead on enacting policy, according to the latest Wall More... Arizona becomes the first state to sue GM for safety defects 11/20/2014 4:01:15 PM Gabriel Malor 27 Comments When last we heard about the beleaguered, killer automaker, fresh emails revealed that GM knew about its safety defect problem earlier than previously disclosed—including early enough for the Obama administration to start dumping shares ahead of the More... WaPo gives Obama three Pinocchios on Keystone 11/20/2014 3:21:33 PM Ed Morrissey 68 Comments “Understand what this project is,” Barack Obama said earlier this week when pressed on why his administration continues to stall on the Keystone XL pipeline after almost six years of waiting for a decision. “It is providing the ability More... To claim 7 million Obamacare enrollees, the government just changed its own rules 11/20/2014 2:41:55 PM Noah Rothman 44 Comments Initially, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that health insurance plans associated with the Affordable Care Act would attract at least 7 million enrollees. After a number of problems with state and federal enrollment websites surfaced in late More... Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Andy McCarthy, Sen. James Inhofe 11/20/2014 2:39:38 PM Ed Morrissey 2 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. National Review’s More... WH adviser: Oh, we're not tearing up the Constitution — trust us! 11/20/2014 2:01:19 PM Ed Morrissey 144 Comments If Jennifer Palmieri means that we can trust that they’re not literally sitting in the West Wing shredding the original Constitution, then yes, we can safely bet that’s the case. Post-Gruberama, though, we’d have to check out the window More... Univision anchor: Obama's executive order 'a triumph for the Latino community' 11/20/2014 1:21:21 PM Noah Rothman 192 Comments As the opening act before the Latin Grammy Awards tonight, the only broadcast network which will carry President Barack Obama's remarks announcing unilateral immigration reform will be the Spanish-language network Univision. That network's lead anchor, More... Jay Leno caves to Deplorable Nanny State Mayor 11/20/2014 12:41:16 PM Jazz Shaw 70 Comments Former late night host Jay Leno was scheduled to do an appearance at an annual event hosted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation in Connecticut this January. The Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show (SHOT) focuses on pretty much what it sounds More... Perry: Texas may sue Obama over immigration 11/20/2014 12:01:39 PM Ed Morrissey 181 Comments Perhaps Barack Obama had better have his attorney present during his prime-time announcement this evening of his new, unilateral changes to immigration enforcement. Anything he says could be used against him in court, Texas governor Rick Perry warned More... White House advisor: Obama was right when he said he couldn't ignore Congress 11/20/2014 11:21:44 AM Noah Rothman 111 Comments On more than a handful of occasions while speaking before reliably liberal or Hispanic audiences, President Barack Obama has tamped down their expectations for immigration reform. He has reminded several audiences that he is not a "king" nor is he the More... He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed 11/20/2014 10:41:59 AM Jazz Shaw 156 Comments Liberals in the media (but I repeat myself) have been having great fun mocking the idea that various Republicans may seek a legal remedy in response to tonight’s executive amnesty announcement. It’s all political theater, they say. These are More... |   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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