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| Obama overturns ban preventing criminal Ecuadorean Democratic donor from entering U.S. 12/17/2014 10:01:30 AM Noah Rothman 29 Comments This is more than just another of those moments that warily conservatives point to when President Barack Obama or his defenders insist that no administration has operated stricter border controls or pursued more deportations of illegal immigrants. This More... Breaking: Cuba frees Gross in spy swap … and promised new look at US policy? Update: Castro to make announcement; Update: US to offer full diplomatic relations 12/17/2014 9:31:38 AM Ed Morrissey 73 Comments Alan Gross will return to the US today after spending years in a Cuban prison for espionage. The Obama administration cut a deal for his release that may prompt the most significant change in American policy towards the Castro regime in decades: Held for More... NBC/WSJ poll shows 55% think Obama isn't getting the message from midterms 12/17/2014 9:01:22 AM Ed Morrissey 38 Comments The midterm elections sent Barack Obama a clear message, say three-quarters of respondents to the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, but 55% think Obama either missed the message or is ignoring it. Another majority back the use of enhanced More... Video: FBI arrests owners of compounding pharmacy linked to 64 meningitis deaths in 2012 12/17/2014 8:31:47 AM Ed Morrissey 10 Comments The FBI conducted early-morning arrests of 14 people connected with NECC, a compounding pharmacy that produced contaminated steroids that sickened 750 people and killed 64 of them in 2012. Among those arrested were the two owners of NECC and the wife of More...
Don't worry. It's not an executive action, it's a memorandum 12/17/2014 8:01:08 AM Jazz Shaw 41 Comments You’ve heard it over and over again from liberal outlets. Barack Obama has issued fewer executive orders than any President in the past century. Well, as it turns out, we’ve all fallen for a bit of linguistic juggling which should have come More... Quotes of the day 12/16/2014 10:41:25 PM Allahpundit 498 Comments Jeb Bush, who says he is considering running for president, is a strong conservative. As governor of Florida from 1999 through 2007, he advanced conservative goals on taxes, school choice, privatization, racial preferences, the right to life, and many More... Giant blow to Millennial college student entitlement dealt by…Oberlin professor? 12/16/2014 10:01:07 PM Mary Katharine Ham 64 Comments It is hard for me to put into words how pathetically silly I find the requests of college and post-grad students to postpone exams because of the “trauma” they experienced due to Grand Jury decisions in the national news. It is even harder to More... Rubio's office: Don't assume he won't run for president just because Jeb Bush is in 12/16/2014 9:21:26 PM Allahpundit 77 Comments Meh. Here's a statement from Marco Rubio's spox Alex Conant responding Jeb Bush's announcement… pic.twitter.com/M1LGcBUJqN — Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) December 16, 2014 As noted in this morning’s post, the thinking on More... Fascinating: Psych study debunks myths about 'political extremists' 12/16/2014 8:41:18 PM Noah Rothman 54 Comments No, you can't take an online quiz to check and see if you're a political extremist. You can, however, read this pretty fascinating write-up of a psychological study that found some common similarities in the cognitive processes of people with strong More... It turns out that new Iraqi prime minister isn't much better than the last one 12/16/2014 8:01:26 PM Noah Rothman 17 Comments As the Islamic State poured over the Syrian border into Iraq and began massacring religious minorities, enslaving women and children, and destroying 2,000-year-old holy sites, President Barack Obama defended his inaction by claiming that to involve the More... The infighting at Sony begins. Former employees file lawsuit 12/16/2014 7:21:17 PM Jazz Shaw 28 Comments The Sony hacking spectacular continues to pay dividends across the board this week as the fighting goes internal on a few fronts. First, as we previously discovered, Sony lawyers are trying to threaten the media and intimidate them into not reporting on More... Ted Cruz: Hillary will be president if we nominate another moderate 12/16/2014 6:41:12 PM Allahpundit 345 Comments He didn’t say whether he had a particular moderate in mind. Any theories? Cruz, a deeply conservative Texas Republican and likely 2016 candidate himself, called Bush a "good governor in Florida," before warning against nominating a centrist More... Video: That time Mom called you out on national television 12/16/2014 6:01:49 PM Ed Morrissey 29 Comments This has to be the nightmare of every talking head on television, or at least one of them. The worst would be getting a live call from an old flame who wants to tell your secrets while you squirm on camera, but for Brad and Dallas Woodhouse, this may be More... What's leading Jeb Bush to jump into 2016? New Hampshire 12/16/2014 5:21:49 PM Noah Rothman 52 Comments In the race for the presidential nomination, the early state contests are crucial. For former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, his home state will be unable to provide him with an early boost as it might have in past cycles. In 2016, primary voters in the Sunshine More... Re-tread: George Pataki looks at 2016 POTUS run 12/16/2014 4:41:18 PM Jazz Shaw 35 Comments There was a time back in the day when this announcement actually got me pretty excited, but with all due respect to a great man with a long and distinguished career, I have to wonder if the season has already passed. George Pataki is once again talking More... If you had to choose: Jeb Bush or Chris Christie as nominee? 12/16/2014 4:01:10 PM Allahpundit 393 Comments I asked this on Twitter and naturally 50 people instantly responded “SMOD.” Sorry, we’re not that lucky. With Jeb in the race, Christie very likely to get in, and Romney and Rubio now likely to pass, the field of loud-and-proud More... Harvard Law student's disastrous argument for delayed exams due to emotional trauma blows up 12/16/2014 3:21:54 PM Noah Rothman 141 Comments As a society, we value nothing as highly today as we do displays of emotion and pique. For the aggrieved, fits and exhibitions are sufficient to both make and defend an argument. But while emotional pageantry in lieu of a logical contention may yield More... Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Guy Benson, Christina Hoff Sommers 12/16/2014 2:47:54 PM Ed Morrissey 8 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! Andrew Malcolm joins us for Tuesdays with Andrew! The Prince of Twitter and I will discuss all of the hot political stories of the day. Guy Benson and I More... Federal judge: Obama's executive amnesty is unconstitutional 12/16/2014 2:41:31 PM Allahpundit 137 Comments Via WaPo, it’s now officially a mixed-blessings news day for Jeb Bush fans. Two issues here. One: Does Obama enjoy more power to craft policy if Congress is deadlocked between the two parties? Ezra Klein says yes, I say no. Two: How far can Obama More... Health insurers extend premium deadlines due to chronic back-end exchange issues 12/16/2014 2:01:39 PM Ed Morrissey 17 Comments The White House has been quick to brag about the last of front-end problems in the ObamaCare exchange this year, but what about the back end? Last year’s debacle on the consumer side eclipsed the problems of managing enrollments with the insurers More... Ruble on the run? 12/16/2014 1:21:05 PM Ed Morrissey 83 Comments After Vladimir Putin seized Crimea and fomented a rebellion in eastern Ukraine, Western nations slapped sanctions on Russia in an attempt to curtail Putin’s new expansionist ambitions. The strategy aimed at separating Putin from his oligarchical More... e-cigs now have teens smoking less tobacco than ever 12/16/2014 12:41:33 PM Jazz Shaw 45 Comments Although you’d have a hard time telling it from the media coverage, this sounds like pretty good news to me. Cigarette smoking among teens is down to all time lows, and part of the reason seems to be the advent of e-cigarettes. Electronic More... Canada: Ottawa attacker was not a 'lone wolf' 12/16/2014 12:01:09 PM Noah Rothman 39 Comments October's terror attack in Canada, in which a lone attacker tragically took the life of a Canadian soldier outside of the Parliament building in Ottawa, prompted a series of hand-wringing reports over the rise of "lone wolf" terrorists. This attack was More... Sorkin: "Morally treasonous" media "dishonorable" for reporting off of hacked Sony documents 12/16/2014 11:31:29 AM Ed Morrissey 85 Comments Aaron Sorkin has a few words to say about the news media that didn’t get a chance to make it into an episode of Newsroom. Instead, the filmmaker and screenwriter has spent the last few days taking aim at media outlets using data stolen in the hack More... Jeb Bush: I'm in 12/16/2014 11:01:14 AM Allahpundit 491 Comments Bush, Bush, Dole, Bush, Bush, McCain, Romney … Bush? As with all major political developments, foreign and domestic, my thoughts turn to one question: What does this mean for Romney 2016? As a result of these conversations and thoughtful More... | 
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