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| Justice Department to treat Obama's close friend as a 'hostile witness' in fraud case 12/3/2014 10:01:46 AM Noah Rothman 9 Comments A former director of the Illinois Department of Public Health under Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Dr. Eric Whitaker began to be seen together with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama when he worked with the first lady at the University of Chicago Medical More... Harkin: Yeah, ObamaCare was a mistake 12/3/2014 9:31:58 AM Ed Morrissey 35 Comments Chuck Schumer isn’t the only Democrat suffering from buyer’s remorse from March 2010. Outgoing progressive Senator Tom Harkin, whose seat will be filled by conservative Joni Ernst in large part because of voter unhappiness with ObamaCare, More... IRS holding "thousands" of requests by White House for tax documents Update: Congress already knew? 12/3/2014 9:01:25 AM Jazz Shaw 58 Comments Are you ready to finally hear some good news about the IRS? Me too! Sadly, you’ll have to wait a bit longer because this looks like yet another example of something particularly shady at the agency. A watchdog group claims that after two years More... Reid backing the CRomnibus? 12/3/2014 8:31:52 AM Ed Morrissey 44 Comments Is this a sign of a civil war between the White House and Democrats on Capitol Hill, or is it a trap for Republicans? The lame-duck session may go better for the GOP than they dared hope after Harry Reid appeared to endorse their budget plans last night. More... Defending those who defend you 12/3/2014 8:01:35 AM Jazz Shaw 100 Comments So now we have activists urging students in both high school and college to do a Hands Up, Walk Out routine and bail out of school. Remember that we’re not talking about Ferguson here… this was taking place in New York City and other urban More... Quotes of the day 12/2/2014 10:31:47 PM Allahpundit 320 Comments The House will vote this week on a symbolic immigration bill and then take up a two-part government funding bill next week — a package Republican leaders believe will prevent a government shutdown… The plan was first unveiled Monday night at More... Sebelius: Americans don't like Obamacare because their "financial literacy is low" 12/2/2014 10:01:44 PM Mary Katharine Ham 95 Comments Well, she may claim to not know who Jonathan Gruber is, but she sure did get a copy of his talking points. Discussing Obamacare with a USA Today reporter, former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius blamed many of the law’s More... In much less important news than Lauten's Facebook post, Dem staffer pleads guilty to sexual assault 12/2/2014 9:31:38 PM Mary Katharine Ham 45 Comments Well, this story would seem to fit into the news cycle perfectly, and I look forward to it being covered extensively. It’s the story of a Congressional staffer, whose mere personal Facebook posts we’ve just learned are worthy of blanket More... YouGov poll: Plurality of Americans oppose Obama's executive order on amnesty, 38/45 12/2/2014 9:01:53 PM Allahpundit 22 Comments Interesting, and encouraging. Now convince me that either the White House or its friends in Congress really care. Immigration for them is about pleasing one particular demographic group long-term even if it ends up irritating other demographic groups More... American tanks back on the European frontier as the Russian menace looms 12/2/2014 8:31:51 PM Noah Rothman 32 Comments In April of 2013, American tanks briefly left European soil entirely for the first time since the invasion of Normandy in 1944. By January of 2014, however, American M1A1 Abrams tanks had returned to their German bases. The departure of American tanks More... White House: When Obama said he changed the law on immigration, he was speaking "colloquially" 12/2/2014 8:01:58 PM Allahpundit 50 Comments After this, the word “colloquially” should be added to the definition of “Kinsleyan gaffe” — i.e. when a politician accidentally tells the truth … colloquially. That’s what Obama did last week when he shooed away More... The wind energy credit buried in the tax extender deal should get the ax 12/2/2014 7:31:22 PM Jazz Shaw 14 Comments Ed talked about some of the issues surrounding the current tax deduction extender deal the other day. As of this afternoon, it’s looking more and more like a complicated deal is going to wind up making it to a vote. The plan involves a largely More... Will New York be the site of the next energy boom? 12/2/2014 7:01:44 PM Jazz Shaw 18 Comments Fresh off his 72% reelection victory in New York’s 27th District, Congressman Chris Collins has set to work attempting to deliver on his promises to the voters. One of the biggest challenges he faces is the effort to help turn things around in the More... New SecDef frontrunner once advocated unilateral bombing of North Korea 12/2/2014 6:31:34 PM Ed Morrissey 23 Comments Perhaps Ashton Carter is a little more independent a voice in policy matters than we’ve credited. Eight years ago, Carter teamed up with his fellow Clinton administration colleague, former Secretary of Defense William Perry, to urge George W. Bush More... Pentagon knows Iran is bombing ISIS in Iraq, too 12/2/2014 6:01:38 PM Noah Rothman 15 Comments Among the many dismally shortsighted predictions the besotted press and pundit class made in the wake of Barack Obama's 2008 election was the anticipation that his ascension to the presidency would have a number of transformative effects America's More... The price of Hillary's company 12/2/2014 5:31:10 PM Jazz Shaw 51 Comments Hillary Clinton has a lot demands on her time, so it’s not easy to get a spot on her dance card and have her come speak at your event. As we’ve been finding out, it’s also not cheap. Whether she needs to have a Presidential Suite set up More... Michael Brown's stepfather under investigation for pre-riot 'burn this b**** down' comments 12/2/2014 5:01:34 PM Noah Rothman 256 Comments In the wake of the Ferguson grand jury's determination that there was no probable cause to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, incensed rioters took to the streets of that Missouri city and neighboring towns where they More... Rice: I'm just looking for a second chance 12/2/2014 4:31:05 PM Ed Morrissey 59 Comments Americans love a comeback — but only after a sufficient period of public penance. Has Ray Rice paid enough of a price yet to get people behind him? Winning an appeal of his indefinite suspension obviously doesn’t count, so the Rice family More... Question for WH: Can you explain why Obama chose his embarrassingly unqualified new ambassador? 12/2/2014 4:01:54 PM Allahpundit 59 Comments You know why and I know why and Josh Earnest knows why, but this is one of those precious moments in Washington when a fact that’s transparently plain must be ignored in the interest of politeness and pretensions to good government. Colleen Bell More... DHS chief to Republicans: You must be taking Obama's old comments that he lacks authority for executive amnesty out of context 12/2/2014 3:31:38 PM Allahpundit 42 Comments Via the Corner, the balls on this guy to float an answer this blithe when he’s had weeks to prepare for the question, which he surely knew was coming. Read ‘em and weep — 22 different occasions compiled by Boehner’s office when More... Two more highly qualified ambassadors approved by the Senate 12/2/2014 3:01:03 PM Jazz Shaw 41 Comments Jim Geraghty sent out a warning this morning that the lame duck Senate was getting down to the people’s business and was going to vote on confirmation of two more Obama nominees, this time ambassadors. Today the U.S. Senate votes on two of More... Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Pete Hoekstra 12/2/2014 2:51:39 PM Ed Morrissey 1 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! Andrew Malcolm returns for Tuesdays with Andrew! The Prince of Twitter and I will discuss all of the hot political stories of the day. In fact, it’s More... Joe Scarborough tears into the 'hands up' members of Congress: 'It's a lie' 12/2/2014 2:31:13 PM Noah Rothman 127 Comments On Monday, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough sought to differentiate himself from his network colleagues when he upbraided both the political press and the activist class for distorting the facts of the case surrounding the shooting death of Ferguson teen More... Bowing out of 2016 presidential bid, Rob Portman crushes the hopes of millions 12/2/2014 2:01:31 PM Noah Rothman 66 Comments If you close your eyes, you could almost hear them now. "Portman. Portman. Portman," the feverish throngs chant. In the minds of these multitudes, they can envision that fateful January in 2017 when Ohio Sen. Rob Portman puts his hand on the bible and More... CNN media critic: The coverage of Lauten was a little much, huh? 12/2/2014 1:31:19 PM Ed Morrissey 28 Comments “I think in this case it was about a slow news cycle,” CNN media critic Brian Stelter said yesterday in a critique of the media’s coverage of Elizabeth Lauten’s Facebook comments about Sasha and Malia Obama. Michaela Pereira More... |   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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