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| Having solved all other problems, Eric Holder to tackle racial profiling 12/2/2014 10:01:06 AM Jazz Shaw 23 Comments Rather than working on whatever few things we might actually be able to accomplish during his waning days in the cabinet, Attorney General Eric Holder is launching straight into yet another racially charged issue. And in this case, that’s a literal More... Breaking: Jeh Johnson out as potential SecDef; CNN says Carter likely nominee 12/2/2014 9:31:37 AM Ed Morrissey 52 Comments One trial balloon to replace fired Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has crashed almost as notably as it arose. Leaks from the White House last week suggested that Barack Obama might name Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to replace Hagel, given More... Great job opportunities with ISIS 12/2/2014 9:01:31 AM Jazz Shaw 15 Comments How many young, wannabe jihadis have we seen signing up to head off across the sea to fight with ISIS? One of the latest examples is found with the three teenage girls from the Denver area who made it as far as Germany before returning home. In case they More... How Harry Reid stole Christmas 12/2/2014 8:31:17 AM Jazz Shaw 32 Comments A late entry nod for Political Headline of the Year should probably go to Politico for this one: Harry Reid threatens recess, Christmas. Congress usually heads out of town on recess after the second week of December, returning to swear in the new class More... Video: Wife and child of ISIS "caliph" held in Lebanon 12/2/2014 8:01:55 AM Ed Morrissey 36 Comments Lucky break? Attempted defection? A strange attempt at espionage gone wrong?The Lebanese army has detained both a wife and child of ISIS “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after both attempted to enter from Syria “in recent days,” More... Quotes of the day 12/1/2014 10:41:05 PM Allahpundit 346 Comments President Obama on Monday announced executive actions to curb "simmering mistrust" between local police departments and minority communities, pledging that his push for more body cameras on cops and greater oversight of the use of military weapons by More... "Walking Dead" grumble thread: Whatever 12/1/2014 10:11:26 PM Allahpundit 96 Comments Just to finish off last week’s analogy, the kick is up and it’s … no good. What a bummer to end the best first half since season one with such a wheezing fart of a finale. I thought it would be dynamite after the opening scene. Rick More... Surprise: Five years after Obama started trying, Gitmo still won't close 12/1/2014 9:41:58 PM Mary Katharine Ham 32 Comments Democratic Sen. Carl Levin delivers the totally unsurprising news: President Barack Obama’s 5-year-old campaign to close the federal prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, suffered a major setback as lawmakers finalizing the annual defense policy bill More... Chevron to take Ecuador back to court over fraudulent case 12/1/2014 9:11:43 PM Jazz Shaw 13 Comments Earlier this year we witnessed the victory of Chevron over the New York shakedown artists who spent several years and tens of millions of dollars trying to pick their pockets over a fraudulent case in Ecuador. (Full coverage) For many of us, that would More... White House: Obama will shut down the government with a veto if the GOP tries to stop amnesty 12/1/2014 8:41:50 PM Allahpundit 145 Comments Via the Daily Caller, there’s a caveat here but I’m not sure why. First Jon Karl asks whether Obama would veto a single bill that funds the entire government for 12 months but specifically blocks him from carrying out executive amnesty. Yup, More... WaPo wonders: Did you feel "bullied" into signing up for a department store credit card? 12/1/2014 8:01:16 PM Ed Morrissey 40 Comments Old and busted: Taking responsibility for your own actions. New hotness: Claiming “bullied” status because of a sales pitch. Department-store clerks have pitched revolving credit accounts at shoppers since I worked at Sears as a teenager, More... Video: "Star Wars Episode VII" trailer — the George Lucas special edition 12/1/2014 7:21:20 PM Allahpundit 73 Comments To cleanse the palate, the only way to be sure it’s a parody and not the real deal is to remind yourself that Lucas no longer has the right to gouge SW fanatics by re-editing official releases after the fact and selling them as special editions. More... Gallup: Latino approval of Obama soars 14 points since executive amnesty, more than 20 points since September 12/1/2014 6:41:54 PM Allahpundit 114 Comments A striking graph from WaPo. For most of the country, his job approval has been flat in the low to mid-40s for nearly a year. His approval among Latinos was mostly flat too from February to the beginning of September, albeit a bit higher in the mid-50s. More... Turkey's increasingly conflicted role in fight against ISIS 12/1/2014 6:01:09 PM Noah Rothman 19 Comments According to a report via The Washington Post, extensive bilateral meetings between American and Turkish officials have resulted in a welcome framework agreement. The talks have led both nations to consent to a plan that would finally result in the NATO More... Hillary can remain the voice of reason on coal energy. Wait… what? 12/1/2014 5:31:54 PM Jazz Shaw 24 Comments The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity had a message for Hillary Clinton before a speech of hers and it raises some interesting questions. The clean coal industry is asking Hillary Clinton to be the "voice of reason" for coal if she makes a More... Charles Barkley: Let's face it, the Ferguson grand jury got it right 12/1/2014 5:01:06 PM Allahpundit 125 Comments Not the first time he’s taken the “wrong side” of a shooting transformed in haste into a Teachable Moment about race relations in America. Once the death of Michael Brown was reduced to a microcosm of police discrimination against young More... Lawmakers ask CFPB to take a fresh look at SolarCity leases 12/1/2014 4:31:02 PM Jazz Shaw 18 Comments Back in July we read about a scheme that SolarCity has put together whereby they would lease (rather than sell) rooftop solar power panel installations to consumers and pocket government green energy subsidy dollars themselves. (A legal plan, but one More... Poll confirms that the GOP, not Obama, will be blamed for a new government shutdown 12/1/2014 4:01:06 PM Noah Rothman 148 Comments This should come as no surprise. Despite delivering Republicans control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in 1994, Americans blamed the GOP when the government shut down in 1995 and 1996 amid the Republican Party's efforts to impose More... Video: Cotton shuts down "fear mongering" allegation over border security issue 12/1/2014 3:31:17 PM Ed Morrissey 22 Comments There’s nothing quite as damaging as the backfire from an anticipated gotcha moment, as Meet the Press host Chuck Todd discovered yesterday. In a discussion about immigration policy, incoming Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) talked about the economic and More... Scarborough on Ferguson: "if my child or your child" did this he'd be "shot in the car" 12/1/2014 3:01:32 PM Jazz Shaw 64 Comments When I woke up this morning, I was a bit later getting started than normal. (We were up late grinding horseradish.) As such, I missed the first half hour or so of Morning Joe. But when I opened up Twitter as I poured my coffee, I saw that Joe Scarborough More... NYT: Oh, by the way, Boehner will get "re-elected easily" as Speaker 12/1/2014 2:31:53 PM Ed Morrissey 34 Comments Remember how the last, embarrassingly close vote for Speaker meant that John Boehner’s time was through at the top of the House — even if Republicans kept their majority? Good times, good times. The fortunes of Boehner have turned positive More... Video: Peaceful protester Farrakhan will "tear this G** damn country up!" 12/1/2014 2:01:52 PM Jazz Shaw 119 Comments As a waitress said in Steve Martin’s classic movie Leap of Faith (upon seeing the traveling troupe arrive in her diner), I can smell trouble like s*** on a griddle. There is a distressing undercurrent forming in the ongoing discussions of the More... Terror returns: Officials warn of coordinated attacks in the planning stages 12/1/2014 1:31:57 PM Noah Rothman 17 Comments Americans awoke on a Monday after the Thanksgiving holidays to learn that a series of terrorist threats had been uncovered by American and British authorities. According to officials in the U.K., aspiring terrorists were planning a Christmas More... Gallup: ObamaCare not shielding consumers from economic choices 12/1/2014 1:01:51 PM Ed Morrissey 32 Comments Among the promises of ObamaCare made by Democrats and especially the White House, the most evocative may have been the pledge that economic circumstances should not impact choices about care. Why that should be the case is anyone’s guess; economic More... Doom: Early vote trends are gruesome for Mary Landrieu 12/1/2014 12:31:38 PM Guy Benson 42 Comments Alternate headline: Confirmed — Landrieu basically needs a miracle at this point. One plugged-in observer of this race tweeted a few brutal indicators for the incumbent over the weekend, and now the Times-Picayune is out with a heartburn-inducing More... |   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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