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| Astonishment: Politifact's Lie of the Year is an embarrassing liberal copout 12/16/2014 10:01:05 AM Noah Rothman 13 Comments Earlier this month, the self-described fact-checking outfit Politifact submitted a series of candidates for their Lie of the Year to readers for their perusal. They came up with a variety of great candidates; Barack Obama's claim that his "position More... It's now news when Hillary doesn't say anything 12/16/2014 9:31:05 AM Jazz Shaw 19 Comments I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to sit through various speeches by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Her remarks tend to range from the annoying to the innocuous and serve as a bitter reminder of her time carpetbagging in More... Too good to check: NY Mag's teen-genius trader turns out to be a hoax 12/16/2014 9:01:02 AM Ed Morrissey 41 Comments Old and busted, legacy media edition: Layers of fact checkers and editors. New hotness: “There was this one time, in band camp …” Yet another big, splashy mainstream media story has collapsed, although the damage from New York More... Video: Taliban assault school in Pakistan, kill at least 126; Update: All militants now dead, Pakistan says 12/16/2014 8:31:11 AM Ed Morrissey 86 Comments After a new offensive by the Pakistan military against the Taliban in the frontier areas, the Taliban have struck back — by mounting a full-scale attack on a military-run school in Peshawar. The current death toll is 126, which includes two More...
Vivek Murthy confirmed as Surgeon General in largely party line vote 12/16/2014 8:01:41 AM Jazz Shaw 66 Comments We wondered yesterday about the odds of the full raft of Obama nominees making it through the Senate at the end of the lame duck session. Last night we got what was probably the best indicator that Harry Reid has broken out of the secondary and is More... Quotes of the day 12/15/2014 10:41:26 PM Allahpundit 442 Comments Jeb Bush and his emissaries are sending increasingly strong signals that the former Florida governor is gearing up for a 2016 presidential campaign, with associates saying he could announce his intentions within a month. Bush recently e-mailed major More... Cool: Boston unearths 1795 time capsule of Sam Adams, Paul Revere 12/15/2014 10:01:57 PM Mary Katharine Ham 61 Comments Undoubtedly filled with 8-tracks of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” and some super-done, trendy knickers of the time, Boston unearthed a time capsule Friday thought to have been placed by legendary patriots Sam Adams and Paul Revere. We More... North Carolina poll: Ben Carson leads GOP field with 19%, leads Biden by four head to head 12/15/2014 9:21:31 PM Allahpundit 54 Comments Sounds impressive until you realize that Biden’s currently rocking two percent of the vote nationally in a Democratic primary involving Hillary and Elizabeth Warren. Speaking of which, Ben Carson against Hillary in North Carolina: Dead even at 44, More... Peaceful Protesters block, damage Oakland police station 12/15/2014 8:41:35 PM Jazz Shaw 46 Comments The peaceful protesters in Oakland, California who want to make their case about the need for better, more equitable relations between police and the African-American community chose a rather interesting way to make their point this week. They decided to More... Immigration activists stop pretending it's not about more Democratic voters 12/15/2014 8:01:56 PM Noah Rothman 46 Comments Polls, including the exit polls from the 2014 Republican wave election, show that the public remains broadly supportive of comprehensive and legislated immigration reform. Voters of all political stripes want to see the nation's immigration system work More... Pew poll: Majority says CIA interrogation methods after 9/11 were justified, 51/29 12/15/2014 7:21:53 PM Allahpundit 25 Comments I realize we’re throwing a lot of these interrogation polls at you lately but I find them fascinating as a long-running rebuke to elite opinion. Liberals in Congress and their friends in the press have spent the better part of 10 years pressing the More... Democrats want someone, anyone, to challenge Hillary in the primaries 12/15/2014 6:41:25 PM Noah Rothman 36 Comments Democrats may be #ReadyForHillary, but they're split on whether she should be coronated without a primary fight. According to a recent Monmouth University poll, Clinton remains the Democratic Party's favorite to succeed Barack Obama in the White House. More... Sarah Palin hunts feral hogs. World ends. 12/15/2014 6:01:09 PM Jazz Shaw 215 Comments Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is filming the next season of the show Amazing America with the most recent episode taking place in Texas. It involved a hunt for feral hogs, with Palin bagging a rather large one. Of course, this was pretty much the More... Beinart: The media is ready to gush over Obama again 12/15/2014 5:21:58 PM Noah Rothman 30 Comments Over at The Atlantic, the liberal columnist Peter Beinart hypothesized on Monday that the mainstream political press is ready to start idolizing President Barack Obama again. While it is debatable as to whether they ever really stopped, Beinart suggests More... Mike Lee: Don't blame Ted Cruz and me for letting Harry Reid push through a bunch of Obama's nominees 12/15/2014 4:41:37 PM Allahpundit 113 Comments Via the Right Scoop, read Noah’s post from yesterday for clarity if the headline above is unclear. The Senate was supposed to be in recess all weekend after Reid and McConnell made a deal on Friday night to hold a cloture vote on the cromnibus More... Horrifying: Flawed pre-natal tests led to mistaken abortions 12/15/2014 4:01:23 PM Ed Morrissey 69 Comments Medical science and diagnostics have advanced significantly over the last few years, but they aren’t perfect. Unfortunately, some doctors and patients are making life-and-death decisions based on claims of accuracy that don’t match up to More... All Barbara Walters knows about the Kochs is what Harry Reid says about them 12/15/2014 3:21:15 PM Noah Rothman 62 Comments For Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and his supporters, the libertarian billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are the focus of evil in the modern world. Reid has blamed the Koch brothers for climate change, opposition to minimum wage hikes, the House More... Reid: We could be here all week 12/15/2014 2:41:45 PM Jazz Shaw 50 Comments There is apparently no deal with Harry Reid that doesn’t come with an expiration date, and it usually falls within the first 48 hours. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is warning senators that they could be in session until Thursday as More... He's running: Jeb Bush to release new e-book, 250,000 e-mails from his terms as Florida governor 12/15/2014 2:01:06 PM Allahpundit 231 Comments “his isn’t someone simply dipping his toes into the presidential waters,” says NBC, “it’s someone who’s bouncing up and down on the diving board.” I’m interested in the timetable. Did he intend to More... Video: Peterson lawyer releases tape of NFL exec promising two-game suspension 12/15/2014 1:21:27 PM Ed Morrissey 23 Comments NFL running back Adrian Peterson lost his appeal of his indefinite suspension last week when an arbiter picked by the league ruled that there was no evidence that the punishment was retaliatory for Peterson’s use of the collective bargaining More... Newtown families to sue Bushmaster 12/15/2014 12:41:55 PM Jazz Shaw 234 Comments Yesterday was the two year anniversary of the date when Adam Lanza stole his mother’s legally owned and registered rifle and used it to commit a mass shooting in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. It was also the deadline for affected persons to file a More... Warren: I'm not running for President 12/15/2014 12:01:15 PM Ed Morrissey 95 Comments Elizabeth Warren’s firm and repeated denial of presidential aspirations in her latest interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep didn’t stop speculation arising about what she really means. The Weekly Standard’s Daniel Halper writes that More... Friends of "Jackie": Author of Rolling Stone UVA rape story told us she's going to … re-report it 12/15/2014 11:31:48 AM Allahpundit 78 Comments Interestingly, they don’t specify that she’s going to re-report it *for Rolling Stone.* RS is supposedly revisiting the UVA story too but you would think at this point they’d want nothing more to do with Erdely, especially with her More... Americans think 'torture' is often necessary, while Democrats are deeply divided 12/15/2014 11:01:07 AM Noah Rothman 35 Comments One of the more irresponsible aspects of the reporting on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee's long-awaited report on the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques is the prevalent suggestion that there is little debate over the efficacy of the More... | 
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