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| A higher standard for the GOP 12/30/2014 9:31:48 AM Noah Rothman 45 Comments “After much thought and prayer, I have made the very difficult decision to step down from Congress effective January 5th, 2015,” said pugnacious Big Apple Republican Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) in a statement released on Monday night. He More... Michael Grimm to resign following felony guilty plea 12/30/2014 8:01:42 AM Jazz Shaw 38 Comments One week ago, New York Congressman Michael Grimm entered a guilty plea on a charge of federal tax evasion. At the time, he stated that he planned to continue serving in Congress while the process played out, but following a meeting with Speaker Boehner More... Quotes of the day 12/29/2014 10:31:36 PM Allahpundit 412 Comments President Obama’s recent overhaul of his deportation rules has electrified the largely partisan debate over immigration policy heading into the next Congress… Many Democrats were up in arms that Obama decided to delay his deportation order More... CNN's Don Lemon somehow makes "worst in journalism" list 12/29/2014 9:31:39 PM Jazz Shaw 48 Comments The Columbia Journalism Review has compiled their list of the Worst Journalism of 2014, a task which nobody should envy given the size of the fetid pool they had to wade through to identify the “winners” of this prestigious honor. As Legal More... The war in Ukraine isn't over, but Putin has already won 12/29/2014 8:01:09 PM Noah Rothman 56 Comments Despite delivering an impassioned address to a joint session of Congress in September following the Russian invasion and annexation of portions of eastern Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko was unable to secure lethal military aid from the United More... Hot Air's top 50 posts in 2014: 21-30 12/29/2014 6:31:19 PM Ed Morrissey 19 Comments Welcome back to our retrospective on the most-read posts at Hot Air in 2014, a chance to revisit some narratives and old “friends,” as it were. One of those is Eric Cantor, who neglected to take care of business back home and got sent back More... CNN poll: Jeb Bush leads GOP field by 10 points with 23% 12/29/2014 5:01:11 PM Allahpundit 199 Comments It’s the first time since Election 2012, notes CNN, that any Republican has held a lead greater than the MOE. Establishmentum? A poll this early, when Jeb momentarily has the field to himself, is 99 percent useless — but since it’s a More... Taliban declares victory over America… again 12/29/2014 3:31:20 PM Noah Rothman 68 Comments Over the weekend, the United States formally declared an end to the war in Afghanistan. The war that began on October 7, 2001 and completed its objective of ousting the Taliban from power on November 13 quickly evolved into a counterinsurgency More... Semi-retired president forces soldiers to move wedding to accommodate his golf game 12/29/2014 2:01:51 PM Allahpundit 305 Comments So this is what his advisors had in mind when they said he feels “liberated” after the election. Now, as a late-stage lame duck, he’s free to be the d*ck he always wanted to be but couldn’t for fear of the electoral More... Obama: Maybe we'll normalize relations with Iran next 12/29/2014 12:31:30 PM Noah Rothman 109 Comments In a recent interview with NPR, as Jazz observed, President Barack Obama pledged a new era of obstructionism would dawn when Republicans take control of the representative body of government in January. The press, however, will surely not characterize More... Should adultery be illegal? 12/29/2014 11:01:04 AM Jazz Shaw 421 Comments This may seem to be a rather obscure topic, but it popped up while I was reading Helen Smith’s musings on whether or not pornography should be made illegal and the long term, detrimental effects that it can have on marriage. As a subset of that More... |   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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