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| Is the White House claim that GOP's actions might blow up border security a bluff? 12/11/2014 10:01:52 AM Noah Rothman 15 Comments Last week, I remarked upon the unsatisfying reality that the Republicans in Congress have no good options available to them which would forestall the implementation of Obama's executive action on immigration before 2015. While the calculation will change More... Senate GOP requires staffers to use ObamaCare — and challenges Democrats to do the same 12/11/2014 9:21:36 AM Ed Morrissey 32 Comments The incoming Republican majority in the Senate passed a new rule that requires them to live by the law that Democrats championed — and pointed out that Democrats have yet to do so. Until now, a loophole in federal law allowed both caucuses to More... Pew poll shows Americans value gun rights more than gun control 12/11/2014 8:41:27 AM Ed Morrissey 24 Comments Quick — it’s time for an “arc of history” argument. Believe it or not, it’s the first time in over 20 years of polling on the subject that Pew has seen Americans view their gun rights as more important than government More... Elizabeth Warren threatens to make the GOP shut down the government or something 12/11/2014 8:01:30 AM Jazz Shaw 58 Comments When is a shutdown not a shutdown? As Noah pointed out at great length last night, the answer is when Democrats do it. This applies not only to their fellow progressives, but to most of the media as well. (But I repeat myself.) It’s never a More... College president apologizes after offending students by saying "all lives matter" 12/10/2014 10:41:47 PM Allahpundit 250 Comments I’m glad she walked it back. It’s a pretty outrageous statement. Between garbage like this, Star Chamber justice for students accused of crimes, and the cost of tuition, why would any kid go to college anymore? Ah, right: Because we as a More... Is Christie flip-flopping on 'torture'? 12/10/2014 10:01:01 PM Noah Rothman 28 Comments While monitoring the Chris Christie beat ahead of 2016, New York Times reporter Michael Barbaro made an interesting observation about the New Jersey governor's response – or lack thereof, as the case may be – to the Senate Intelligence Committee's report More... Greenpeace activists to be charged with damaging 2000-yr-old art formations in Peru 12/10/2014 9:21:37 PM Mary Katharine Ham 66 Comments As an activist with Greenpeace would surely tell you, it’s important to honor the earth, respect local cultures, never litter, and defer to the authority of the global community, which is why a handful of them decided to trample all over delicate More... When Democrats do it, it's not a government shutdown 12/10/2014 8:41:17 PM Noah Rothman 39 Comments For at least a generation, the gold standard for dangerous hypocrisy justifying the abuse of power was former President Richard M. Nixon. The 37th President demonstrated his perilous lack of self-awareness in exquisitely succinct fashion when he told Sir More... Senate Republicans debate: Should we reinstate the filibuster for presidential nominees? 12/10/2014 8:01:00 PM Allahpundit 46 Comments Jazz had an item about this yesterday but I frankly can’t believe the subject is still being debated today. Why would you revert to the 60-vote threshold for cabinet and (lower-court) judicial nominees when Democrats have already shown they More... Devastating: WaPo report strongly suggests Jackie made up the UVA rape story whole cloth 12/10/2014 7:21:12 PM Allahpundit 130 Comments Like I said on Monday, there are two theories of what happened. Theory A: She made up the whole thing, soup to nuts. Theory B: Something did happen to her, just not what Rolling Stone reported. Somehow, whether due to post-traumatic stress or More... Rick Santorum is back. In fact, he never really left 12/10/2014 6:41:16 PM Jazz Shaw 81 Comments Last month I talked about the fact that the next GOP presidential race was going to get off to a particularly early start with a candidate forum scheduled to take place in Iowa next month. When that news came out, I was speculating on who might be the More... Poll: Just about everyone wants police to wear body cameras 12/10/2014 6:01:27 PM Noah Rothman 53 Comments The latest CBS News poll is chock full of depressing news. The latest survey found that race relations are in danger of regressing in the wake of the protests resulting from the failure of grand juries in Missouri and New York to indict white police More... The obligatory "Harvard prof goes to war with Chinese restaurant over four bucks" post 12/10/2014 5:21:18 PM Allahpundit 177 Comments The Internet’s blowing up over this. Let’s talk about it — but not until you’ve read the e-mail exchange between the two, which feels like it came from a McSweeney’s satire on privilege. The professor, Ben Edelman, ordered More... Sebelius has figured out why Obamacare is unpopular: The 'Obama' part 12/10/2014 4:41:44 PM Noah Rothman 68 Comments Former Health and Human Services Sec. Kathleen Sebelius is back, and she has figured out why the Affordable Care Act is so unpopular. No, it's not the law's imposition of new taxes on those who have health insurance, or the "fines" levied on individuals More... Irony: DSCC took out loan to buy house while losing the Senate 12/10/2014 4:01:34 PM Ed Morrissey 41 Comments The DSCC left Mary Landrieu in the lurch after Election Day, and most observers understood why. The Democratic Party organization had put itself in debt trying to protect its doomed Senate majority, even though it outraised (and outspent) its Republican More... The convenient, liberal assault on Uber 12/10/2014 3:21:42 PM Jazz Shaw 63 Comments Everybody loves to be hating on the Uber, as the cool kids are wont to say on social media. The smartphone app driven car service which grew out of public frustration with conventional taxi companies has angered governments, unions and our national More... Party of ideas: Democrats to revive gun control push 12/10/2014 2:41:33 PM Noah Rothman 87 Comments In the wake of the Democratic Party's second disastrous midterm election in a row, the progressive wing of the party is acknowledging that Democrats need to renew their focus on policy rather than politics. On Wednesday, the Progressive Change Campaign More... Obama: I'm not the Deporter in Chief because I only just discovered my awesome powers, or something 12/10/2014 2:01:32 PM Ed Morrissey 76 Comments Barack Obama’s attempt to pander to Latino voters with his executive amnesty program hit a very large speed bump in Nashville. Obama met with reporters from Spanish-language outlets to leverage the popularity of his action with their audiences, More... Chris Matthews: C'mon, you're crazy if you think Al Qaeda's going to stop torturing if we do 12/10/2014 1:21:57 PM Allahpundit 45 Comments Via the Daily Caller. He’s right, but … I’m not sure anyone, up to and including nutty Joan Walsh, is claiming otherwise. (If Al Qaeda ends up ratcheting down the barbarity, it’ll be because of lessons they’ve learned from More... Kerry: We want a blank check from the AUMF for ISIS — including possible US combat deployment 12/10/2014 12:41:48 PM Ed Morrissey 42 Comments For an administration that opened the year dismissing ISIS as “jayvees” that required no particular American response, the White House is closing 2014 with a whiplash-inducing reversal. Most of the attention on Capitol Hill yesterday focused More... Obamacare is slowing the rise of health care spending! Well, not so much 12/10/2014 12:01:56 PM Jazz Shaw 36 Comments While the news cycle continues to explode over big ticket items, the New York Post notices that the administration has been feeding some bits of “good news” out into the media stream. One of these is yet more proof that, all evidence to the More... Obama taunts GOP: The next president won't reverse my executive amnesty 12/10/2014 11:31:14 AM Allahpundit 142 Comments Skip to 1:25 of the clip for the key bit. Here’s something you rarely hear me say about Obama: He’s totally right. I’ve made this same point more than once myself. One of the defenses used most often by fans of O’s executive More... Maybe it's a blessing in disguise most of the press ignored Gruber's comments 12/10/2014 11:01:24 AM Noah Rothman 53 Comments It seems that there is only so much the mainstream political press can ignore. In the wake of Tuesday's congressional hearing in which health care policy expert Jonathan Gruber attempted to explain his inflammatory comments about the law and the easily More... | 
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