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| Jen Psaki correctly admits the administration has no Egypt policy 12/5/2014 10:01:58 AM Noah Rothman 26 Comments Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak, who was pushed out due in no small part to having lost the support of the American government, was recently found innocent by an Egyptian court for his role in the deaths of hundreds of protesters who took to the More... Boom: November jobs report shows 321K jobs added 12/5/2014 9:21:42 AM Ed Morrissey 103 Comments The ADP jobs report for November may have been a slight miss, but the official BLS report hit a bullseye — finally. The US economy added 321,000 jobs last month, the highest figure in years, as job creation belatedly linked up with two solid More... Politinerds: Amelia Hamilton 12/5/2014 8:41:08 AM Jazz Shaw 15 Comments This week we’ll introduce something new which has been in the works for a while. Politinerds Radio is a podcast which I was invited to host along with Doug Mataconis of Outside the Beltway. Our goal is to do something different than the same old More... Unofficially official: Ash Carter wins SecDef: Survivor contest 12/5/2014 8:01:16 AM Ed Morrissey 32 Comments Politico declares, “It’s official,” but the appointment of Ashton Carter won’t actually be official until a formal White House statement, expected around 10 am this morning. Barack Obama has finally settled on Carter to replace More... Quotes of the day 12/4/2014 10:41:04 PM Allahpundit 477 Comments The Justice Department is planning to conduct a federal investigation into the chokehold death of an unarmed black man after a New York City grand jury declined to indict the white police officer who performed the move, Attorney General Eric Holder said More... At Grand Canyon, development pits environmentalists against Native American population 12/4/2014 10:01:14 PM Mary Katharine Ham 47 Comments On the rim of the Grand Canyon, there is an area that is not part of Grand Canyon National Park. This land does not belong to the federal government. It belongs to the Navaho people. The Navaho tribe, as such, has the right to develop its tribal land to More... Sure sounds like Jeb Bush has decided to run for president 12/4/2014 9:21:44 PM Allahpundit 190 Comments I read A.B. Stoddard’s column at The Hill this morning, wondering if there’s another guy named “Jeb Bush” out there thinking of running for president who I’m not aware of. Opening line: “Guess who isn't running for More... Jeff Toobin: I'm not saying the DA buried the Garner case to get in good with conservatives, but… 12/4/2014 8:41:16 PM Noah Rothman 65 Comments Ideally, if you don't want to promote conspiracy theories, the safest course is to avoid conspiracy theorizing on the air. That was not the course that CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin took on Thursday while discussing a New York City grand jury's More... Don't panic, but Pentagon now thinks Russia can jam American air-to-air missiles 12/4/2014 8:01:51 PM Noah Rothman 78 Comments Given the Russian Federation's blatant efforts to destabilize Europe and present itself as a military threat to the West, an unsettling development revealed via The Daily Beast's Dave Majumdar is only likely to make a dangerous situation in Eurasia More... Reversal: WI Republicans to push right-to-work legislation after all 12/4/2014 7:21:30 PM Ed Morrissey 44 Comments Alternate headline: Republicans move in for the kill. During the midterm cycle that saw Republicans keep control of state government at all levels, Governor Scott Walker and other party leaders dismissed questions about whether they would take up More... The Curious(ly unending) Case of David Petraeus 12/4/2014 6:41:00 PM Ed Morrissey 30 Comments CIA Director David Petraeus resigned in early November 2012, after a sexual affair with his would-be biographer Paula Broadwell came to light in the middle of the controversy over the Benghazi attack. The FBI, unbeknownst to Congress until later, had More... Boehner: Yes, we're still going to invite Obama to deliver a State of the Union address 12/4/2014 6:01:10 PM Allahpundit 52 Comments Via the Corner, our Thanksgiving eve thread about whether the GOP should pull the plug on the SOTU to protest executive amnesty went for nearly 200 comments, so here you go. Enjoy the exciting conclusion. Boehner’s reasoning is cute, and in line More... Video: Denver students get unexpected lesson in value of police 12/4/2014 5:21:20 PM Ed Morrissey 52 Comments And almost a tragic lesson, too. Around 500 students put together a demonstration in Denver over the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missour, to protests against police abuse of power. The Denver PD blocked traffic to allow the students to More... Eric Garner and the new tobacco road 12/4/2014 4:41:38 PM Jazz Shaw 90 Comments We’ve already had a number of analysis pieces on the Eric Garner grand jury decision here, and frankly I don’t have a lot of differing thoughts to add to what Noah, Ed and Allah have already said. But there is a second story beneath the More... Missouri college students pursue a hot new idea: Racial segregation 12/4/2014 4:01:52 PM Noah Rothman 142 Comments In yet another of those increasingly frequent moments when "progressivism" means its precise antonym, a group of college students in Missouri are testing out a new and exciting theory of social organization: Segregation. According to a report in The More... Hillary: Smart power means empathizing with your enemies 12/4/2014 3:21:32 PM Ed Morrissey 61 Comments It’s difficult to know where to start with this nonsense from a recent speech given by Hillary Clinton, in which the presumed Democratic front-runner finally defines what she sees as “smart power,” and what she claims is a 21st-century More... Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Ashe Schow 12/4/2014 2:51:03 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. Ashe Schow returns to More... Breaking: House passes symbolic bill to block Obama's executive amnesty; Update: Roll added 12/4/2014 2:41:35 PM Allahpundit 136 Comments This was the bill proposed by conservative Ted Yoho that would, if also passed by the Senate and signed by Obama, block Obama’s authority to remake immigration policy on his own. I … thought we had a Constitution that does that, but I guess More... The era of "narrative journalism" is upon us 12/4/2014 2:01:13 PM Jazz Shaw 60 Comments All of the coverage of Ferguson (and now Staten Island) is providing yet another glaring example of a long settled trend in journalism which applies to far more stories than just episodes of racial tension and law enforcement issues. The vast majority of More... Video: Nothing says "down home" like a country song about Hillary Clinton running for president 12/4/2014 1:21:53 PM Allahpundit 164 Comments Unspeakably terrible, as all attempts at writing a song about Hillary must be. It’s like writing a song about Microsoft: The product is mediocre on its best day, but through some mix of luck and ruthlessness, it’s turned itself into an More... In the fight against Obama's amnesty, the GOP has no good options… for now 12/4/2014 12:41:28 PM Noah Rothman 119 Comments With the 113th Congress coming to a close, Republicans in the legislature are in a bind. Most genuinely want to exert as much pressure as possible on the president for his unilateral pursuit of amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants via executive More... Why I did the Daily Show 12/4/2014 12:01:04 PM Jazz Shaw 92 Comments This was in the works for a while, but judging by some of the feedback we received, some of you already figured out that I was on The Daily Show last night. (Video at the end of the article.) Just to get the immediate reactions out of the way… yes. I More... House GOP leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers: We should hold hearings into Eric Garner's death 12/4/2014 11:21:59 AM Allahpundit 154 Comments Via Bloomberg, here’s the chairman of the House Republican Conference (and the party’s choice to rebut Obama’s SOTU speech last year) floating an … interesting proposal for next year’s agenda. The key bit comes at 4:20. I More... NY tabloid battle over Garner: A tale of two cities? 12/4/2014 10:41:44 AM Ed Morrissey 215 Comments It’s not the worst of times in New York City, but it’s certainly not the best of times, either, after a grand jury’s refusal to indict a police officer for the death of a cigarette-selling suspect that was caught on videotape. The Big More... | 
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