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Backlash: 17 states suing Obama administration over executive amnesty
12/4/2014 10:01:35 AM  Noah Rothman
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Led by Texas Attorney General and Governor-elect Greg Abbott, 17 states filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against President Barack Obama's administration over his decision to create legal status for millions of illegal immigrants via executive actions. "His
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So, who is up for a third Chechen War?
12/4/2014 9:21:19 AM  Noah Rothman
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In a brazen operation executed early Thursday morning in Grozny, Chechen rebels stormed their way into the province's capital and attacked schools, police checkpoints, and a media office. The raid killed left at least 16 people dead and 21 injured. Nine
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New poll shows Landrieu closing gap in Louisiana — to, er, 24 points
12/4/2014 8:31:12 AM  Ed Morrissey
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With the runoff just two days away in Louisiana’s Senate race, the excitement of the final contest in the 2014 midterms is so thick one could cut it with a knife … at least on the GOP side. Since independent pollsters gave up on the finale of
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Ben Carson may not be ready for prime time
12/4/2014 8:01:17 AM  Jazz Shaw
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Following the recent CNN poll which showed Dr. Ben Carson near the top of the pack of potential 2016 Republican presidential contenders, the media has turned their rather jaundiced eye on him in a more serious fashion. One of the most attractive features
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Quotes of the day
12/3/2014 10:01:24 PM  Allahpundit
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Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida was blunt Monday night: If he runs for president in 2016, he will not pander to his party's conservative base in the primaries. Mr. Bush said at The Wall Street Journal's CEO Council in Washington that Republican
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Ew: Milbank says Hillary's lost that new-car smell
12/3/2014 9:21:07 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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In a move from which he’ll have to backtrack as soon as Hillary Clinton is coronated by the Democratic Party, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank has declared she has lost that “new car smell” voters crave. Yeah, I’m mildly
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NY Times op-ed: Obamacare is tearing the Democratic Party apart
12/3/2014 8:41:44 PM  Noah Rothman
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It seems that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) opened the floodgates. When Schumer criticized the Affordable Care Act for being both the wrong policy enacted at the wrong time and also for being a policy overreach, his comments sparked a fierce backlash from a
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Video: The freaky deaky "killing my own kid" prank
12/3/2014 8:01:10 PM  Allahpundit
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To cleanse the palate. For sheer cruelty, I thought the Japanese sniper prank would never be topped. I was wrong. From the YouTube page, one of the greatest comments ever: Every one is hating on this prank, but nobody knows why. It’s a doll idiots.
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ADP report shows 208,000 private-sector jobs added in November
12/3/2014 7:21:06 PM  Ed Morrissey
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With the pace of economic growth picking up in the last two quarters, one might expect a breakout month for job creation to come soon. ADP’s latest survey suggests that the wait will continue a while longer. The projection from the nation’s
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Can the space program survive the US – Russian feud?
12/3/2014 6:41:08 PM  Jazz Shaw
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Our relationship with Russia is not in the best of shape. We’ve hit them with sanctions and more may be on the way. Putin was sent to sit at the kids’ table while all the cool dudes hung out at the G20. Obama is the butt of jokes on Russian
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A clarifying period of media bias
12/3/2014 6:01:36 PM  Noah Rothman
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Mary Katharine Ham's review of the multiple counts of sexual assault to which Donny Ray Williams Jr., a former Democratic staffer, plead guilty on Tuesday is required reading. She observed that the 10 counts to which Williams confessed to range from
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Behold: Mary Landrieu in full meltdown
12/3/2014 5:21:16 PM  Guy Benson
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It’s almost the end of the line for the Mary Express, and she knows it. First, she tripled down on her ‘sexism and racism’ smear against an electorate that has entrusted her (a woman!) with 18 years in the US Senate, and that handed
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No indictment for Eric Garner unites the right and the left… for now
12/3/2014 4:41:26 PM  Noah Rothman
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In a way, this is all eerily familiar. The failure of a New York City grand jury to indict a police officer who killed a large African-American man for resisting arrest seems prima facie to be quite similar to the facts of the case which set the town of
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Ted Cruz to House GOP: Forget the "cromnibus" and defund Obama's amnesty now
12/3/2014 4:01:16 PM  Allahpundit
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All he needs is 30 or so House conservatives to agree with him to deny Boehner 218 votes. Supposedly he’s already got 12. Coming this Christmas: Shutdown II? At Wednesday’s press conference, it appeared that some of the House’s
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New York City grand jury: No charges against cop who used chokehold in Eric Garner's death
12/3/2014 3:21:15 PM  Allahpundit
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This will be linked forever to the grand jury decision in Ferguson, partly because of the races of the cop and the deceased and partly because the decisions were issued just a week apart. In key ways, though, the two incidents were different: The killing
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Off-duty police have been protecting Darren Wilson amid death threats
12/3/2014 2:41:14 PM  Jazz Shaw
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One of the persistent questions in the whole Ferguson debate has been what the future holds for Officer Darren Wilson. He is now unemployed, having resigned his position to reduce any potential dangers to his fellow officers after being cleared of
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Charles Barkley challenges pervasive myths surrounding Ferguson, racism, and police violence
12/3/2014 2:01:02 PM  Noah Rothman
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Not only did former NBA star Charles Barkley stun many observers when he said that the Ferguson grand jury got it right when they determined they could not indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, he scolded the media for
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Sources: Senate GOP didn't want to talk about countering Obama's amnesty in this week's caucus meeting
12/3/2014 1:21:30 PM  Allahpundit
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Joel Gehrke has two sources who swear that Mike Lee and David Vitter were the only people in the room pressing for a discussion at this week’s lunch. (Not Cruz? Not Jeff Sessions?) That’s catnip to grassroots righties who are convinced, not
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Louis Head explains: I didn't mean "burn this b**** down" literally
12/3/2014 12:41:08 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Good to know, because it certainly looked different last week when the grand jury decision got announced. Now faced with an investigation into possible incitement charges, Louis Head has issued a belated explanation for his “burn this b****
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'Hands up, don't shoot': The myth that refuses to fade
12/3/2014 12:01:20 PM  Noah Rothman
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If there is one uniting feature of the national protests surrounding the shooting death of Ferguson teen Michael Brown, it is the notion that he had his "hands up" just before his killing. Today, columns of protesters march in major American cities with
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Morale booster: WH was still looking for alternatives to Ash Carter while finalizing his SecDef nomination
12/3/2014 11:31:40 AM  Allahpundit
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You can’t appreciate what an insult this is to Carter without reminding yourself first that no one wants this job. Hagel was brought in to rubber-stamp White House management of the Pentagon, then dumped when Obama needed someone to blame for his
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WaPo does deep dive on Obama Hillary Warren college records — oh, wait …
12/3/2014 11:01:17 AM  Ed Morrissey
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Hey’s it’s great to see one of America’s leading newspapers put precious resources into deep research of a high-ranking public official. After all, the media styles itself as a check on public policy and power, and as a means to make
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