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| UVa refuses to reinstate fraternity activity 12/9/2014 10:01:22 AM Ed Morrissey 19 Comments The collapse of the Rolling Stone article on a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity has everyone involved backpedaling — except the university itself. UVa suspended all fraternity activity after the publication of the Sabrina Rubin More... Bobby Jindal's authenticity problem 12/9/2014 9:21:50 AM Jazz Shaw 48 Comments As we prepare for the long anticipated entrance of the 2016 Republican beauty pageant contestants presidential candidates, the press is faced with the endless task of establishing the normal narratives. This includes placing all of the hopefuls into one More... Exclusive: The Mad Magazine take on White House security 12/9/2014 8:41:39 AM Ed Morrissey 26 Comments Finally — the hours I spent in my youth on MAD Magazine have paid off! I grew up on MAD, with its cynical and self-deprecating humor and its satirical look on American life and institutions. On a trip to the Big Apple in 1974 at the tender age of More... Dear citizens, please call the police and ask to have your home searched for guns 12/9/2014 8:01:42 AM Jazz Shaw 67 Comments Have you ever found yourself wondering just how many guns you have laying around your house without any idea that they are there? And of the piles of guns you push through in your living room each day, are you worried that some of them might be illegal? More... Quotes of the day 12/8/2014 10:41:59 PM Allahpundit 273 Comments "I have serious questions about what happened, and I am at this point not ready to say what happened that night," [Rolling Stone's] managing editor, Will Dana, said in an interview Friday. "There should never be a story in Rolling Stone where I feel that More... Mika Brzezinski: Christie's Bridgegate exoneration "too in the weeds" to cover 12/8/2014 10:01:38 PM Mary Katharine Ham 27 Comments There have now been three investigations clearing Gov. Chris Christie of direct involvement in “Bridgegate.” This latest was conducted by Democrats in New Jersey. The Christie administration’s own investigation and the U.S. More... American facilities worldwide brace for release of Bush era 'torture' report 12/8/2014 9:21:04 PM Noah Rothman 90 Comments In August, the Republican members of the Senate Permanent Select Intelligence Committee (SPSCI) warned that the release of the committee’s report on the CIA's Bush-era enhanced interrogation techniques could endanger American personnel abroad. More... Cromnibus stalled in appropriations? 12/8/2014 8:41:53 PM Jazz Shaw 41 Comments Raise your hands if you thought that everything was business as usual on the Hill and the cromnibus was a done deal. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Okay, I guess it was just me. If you were in the army of doubting Thomas types, it may turn out that you were More... Video: Man gets eaten alive on Internet after bailing out of anaconda stunt 12/8/2014 8:01:33 PM Ed Morrissey 49 Comments As palate cleansers go, this may be the closest to literal that we’ll get. The Discovery Channel promoted its prime-time “Eaten Alive” special for weeks, with naturalist Paul Rosalie making appearance after appearance to explain exactly More... GOP establishment hoping to clear the field for one center-right champion in 2016 12/8/2014 7:21:03 PM Allahpundit 93 Comments Cynical but smart, especially when you view your own base as at least as much of a threat to the country as Democrats are. The logical counterstrike by conservatives would be to unite behind a single champion of their own, but good luck convincing Rand More... Compton: Obama goes on profanity-laced tirades against the media that loves him 12/8/2014 6:41:53 PM Ed Morrissey 59 Comments Well, who hasn’t? The difference between Barack Obama and the rest of us, especially on the Right, is that the rest of us don’t get an easy ride from the media. Retired ABC correspondent Ann Compton opened up about Obama to C-SPAN’s More... Joe being Joe: Biden's sexist gaffe his latest artless comment won't hear about 12/8/2014 6:01:39 PM Noah Rothman 146 Comments In the White House on Monday, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden took part in one of the many "Hour of Code" events held across the country. Sitting down with a group of middle-school students, the president and vice president urged More... Hizonor Boris Johnson is still going to be a US citizen 12/8/2014 5:21:20 PM Jazz Shaw 34 Comments The breaking news in this story was obviously, wait… the Mayor of London is a US citizen? But it turns out he is. Boris was born in New York and lived there until the age of five. His parents were from the old country, though, so he’s held More... Elizabeth Warren tells donors minorities were 'targeted' with subprime mortgages 12/8/2014 4:41:03 PM Noah Rothman 126 Comments Progressive icon Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) recently dropped a bombshell in a private meeting with Boston-area donors, according to a report in Politico. The dispatch focuses primarily on Warren's candid criticisms of President Barack Obama and his More... America to finally get new racial profiling guidelines 12/8/2014 4:01:53 PM Jazz Shaw 69 Comments As part of the President’s executive actions to address issues of racial tension in the nation, today we are being treated to new federal guidelines on racial profiling. (Or maybe it’s a byproduct of his bout of acid reflux disease.) Liz More... Eric Garner's widow: "I don't even feel like it's a black and white thing, honestly" 12/8/2014 3:21:54 PM Allahpundit 88 Comments Via the Corner, an amazing statement given that her husband’s become the face of the “black lives matter” police protests and that she has one of America’s foremost racial demagogues sitting right there at her left elbow during More... Poll: Maybe America is Ready for Hillary? 12/8/2014 2:41:54 PM Noah Rothman 103 Comments A poll recently conducted by Bloomberg suggests that Hillary Clinton's ascension to the presidency is all but inevitable. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. At least, that's how the writeup of this survey via Bloomberg's Lisa Lerer read. More... America's anti-ISIS strategy in Syria collapsing 12/8/2014 2:01:40 PM Noah Rothman 38 Comments When confirmed as the next Secretary of Defense, as he will likely be, Aston Carter will have his hands full as he seeks to steward America's national defense strategy. Among his hardest challenges will likely be the situation the United States and its More... US accuses Iran of cheating on nuclear accord … in private 12/8/2014 1:21:13 PM Ed Morrissey 41 Comments Yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry sounded optimistic about prospects for an agreement to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Just two weeks earlier, talks in Vienna ended without an accord, allowing Tehran to continue accruing cash while More... Boxer to retire? 12/8/2014 12:41:39 PM Ed Morrissey 153 Comments Politico calls this a potential “California quake,” and it would certainly be a stunning development. Barbara Boxer has won four terms for the US Senate in California, but would only be 76 years old when she comes up for re-election in 2016. More... New York police unions want to control officer discipline 12/8/2014 12:01:04 PM Jazz Shaw 75 Comments In a curious coincidence of timing, there is a bill pending in the New York State legislature which they will have to send to the desk of Andrew Cuomo in the next couple of weeks for his signature or veto. The reason I say that the timing is curious is More... Friend of UVA/Rolling Stone rape accuser: It's not a hoax 12/8/2014 11:21:35 AM Allahpundit 135 Comments Worth noting mainly because of the timeline. There are two theories about what happened with Rolling Stone. One is that Jackie made up the story whole cloth, whether for attention or because she decided that “rape culture” awareness needed More... Michael Tomasky has a meltdown over South's rejection of Democrats 12/8/2014 10:41:13 AM Noah Rothman 204 Comments Much has been made of the fact that when losing Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) leaves office in January, Louisiana will not have a Democratic statewide elected official in office for the first time since the 1870s. The Republicans who occupy all of the More... | 
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