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| Did Charlie Hebdo attack finally go too far for violent Islamists' apologists? 1/7/2015 10:01:22 AM Noah Rothman 38 Comments They finally went too far for the apologists. Not even militant Islam's sympathizers, who are too often willing to absolve violent Islamists of acts which they would never condone in anyone else, appear to see any rationale for the brutal attack on a More... UN accepts ICC membership bid for "the State of Palestine" 1/7/2015 9:31:53 AM Ed Morrissey 15 Comments Inevitable, perhaps, but regrettable on a number of levels — even for the Palestinians. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced this morning that the International Criminal Court would accept the membership bid of the Palestinian Authority, More... House Wars: The Establishment Strikes Back 1/7/2015 9:01:57 AM Jazz Shaw 104 Comments As Allahpundit described in yesterday’s open thread, for all the sound and fury on Twitter and Facebook and various blogs, in the end John Boehner was elected to another term as Speaker on a single vote. But as expected, it wasn’t unanimous. More... No, let's not invade North Korea, mm-kay? 1/7/2015 8:31:52 AM Ed Morrissey 29 Comments “North Korea is a joke,” writes Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry at The Week, “and shame on us for laughing.” He’s half right at best, but Gobry is dead wrong where it counts. He uses that introduction to scold America for laughing at More... Breaking: 12 dead in mass shooting at Paris newspaper which published Muhammad cartoons 1/7/2015 8:01:31 AM Jazz Shaw 249 Comments We woke up this morning to a real life horror show coming out of eastern Paris. The offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were invaded by two men wearing black hoods and carrying automatic weapons. By the time the dust cleared a dozen people More... Quotes of the day 1/6/2015 10:41:42 PM Allahpundit 434 Comments "Most Iowa Republicans have been expecting this for two years," says Jamie Johnson, a pastor and broadcaster who served as former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum's Iowa coalitions director in 2012. "There's a large group of Iowans who were heartbroken More... Can we talk about how Vice President Joe Biden is being inappropriate? 1/6/2015 10:01:47 PM Mary Katharine Ham 82 Comments I know he’s crazy ol’ Uncle Joe. I know he’s loveable and of a different generation, blah, blah. I know he wears aviators. I know he has a voting record and a party identification that make this kind of behavior suddenly charming and More... Photos: Contents of Paul Revere's time capsule unveiled in Boston 1/6/2015 9:21:25 PM Mary Katharine Ham 48 Comments A building repair in December revealed the presence of a 1795 time capsule in the cornerstone of the Massachusetts State House. The capsule, believed to have been placed originally by Paul Revere and Sam Adams, had been opened once before in 1855 so its More... US News editor: You know what would fix Congress? Earmarks! 1/6/2015 8:41:45 PM Jazz Shaw 21 Comments It’s a wonderful sign of how bright the future is under the new Republican majority when you see everyone willing to pitch in and offer some help with new ideas. Mitch McConnell and John Boehner probably won’t be able to keep up with the More... Great news: Even beyond Iowa, early GOP primary calendar favors Huckabee 1/6/2015 8:01:58 PM Allahpundit 81 Comments I enjoy a good “maybe Huckabee’s going to be president” story the way I enjoy a good campfire ghost story. They’re BS, we all know they’re BS, but there’s nothing more satisfying than watching the terror build in your More... FBI: We don't need no stinking warrant 1/6/2015 7:21:11 PM Noah Rothman 37 Comments In a letter released to the public last week, Senate Judiciary Committee members Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) expressed their concerns about the FBI's defense of the apparently widespread practice of warrantless surveillance of cellular More... Boom, of sorts: McDonnell gets two years in prison for corruption 1/6/2015 6:41:12 PM Ed Morrissey 20 Comments The sentencing hearing started off on a positive note for Bob McDonnell, who faced a potential 11-year term in prison for corruption when he walked in. The judge lowered the range to eight years, but eventually lowered the boom, too — albeit much More... Hot Air interview: Sharyl Attkisson discusses her DoJ lawsuit, media reaction 1/6/2015 6:01:40 PM Ed Morrissey 27 Comments Earlier today, I spoke with former CBS News on-air correspondent Sharyl Attkisson in an interview that first appears on The Ed Morrissey Show this afternoon. Our conversation focused mainly on the legal actions taken by Sharyl and her attorney against More... Watch Josh Earnest grapple with Harvard professors' criticisms of Obamacare 1/6/2015 5:21:14 PM Noah Rothman 45 Comments Kudos to the Washington Free Beacon for posting this clip. It is delightful. As Mary Katharine observed yesterday, the professors at Harvard University unleashed the "incredible whining of an incredibly privileged set" when they learned that they would More... Poll: Plurality say protesters bear some responsibility for murder of two NYPD officers 1/6/2015 4:41:24 PM Allahpundit 20 Comments Part of a wider-ranging poll from YouGov probing people on the perceived culpability of various players — Obama, Holder, de Blasio, even Al Sharpton. As you might expect, responses in those cases break down sharply along partisan lines with More... Obama's campaign of obstructionism to begin with thwarting of popular Keystone Pipeline 1/6/2015 4:01:36 PM Noah Rothman 61 Comments Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) pledged that one of the first measures the new GOP-dominated Senate would take up would be a bill approving the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Given that the vote to approve of the pipeline fell More... Jeb Bush on gay marriage: Couples making lifetime commitments to each other deserve respect 1/6/2015 3:21:41 PM Allahpundit 94 Comments Not so much respect that the state should recognize their commitment as a legal marriage, he stresses, but respect nonetheless. "We live in a democracy, and regardless of our disagreements, we have to respect the rule of law," Mr. Bush said in a More... Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Richard Kelsey, Sharyl Attkisson 1/6/2015 3:04:39 PM Ed Morrissey 4 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. Richard Kelsey, an More... New Yorkers keeping fever swamp dream of Cuomo presidency alive 1/6/2015 2:41:10 PM Jazz Shaw 26 Comments The New York love affair with the Cuomo family is far from over. Even while eulogizing the death of their Patriarch over the holidays, the media couldn’t avoid resurrecting the dreams many liberals had of a Mario Cuomo presidency and fondly More... Is Alan Dershowitz the latest victim of a false rape charge? 1/6/2015 2:01:55 PM Noah Rothman 67 Comments Harvard Law professor and popular criminal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz is the latest high-profile figure accused of engaging in sexual assault some years ago. "In a filing in Florida federal court last week, former federal judge Paul Cassell and More... Finally: Big Apple takes on epidemic public-transit threat of … 1/6/2015 1:21:20 PM Ed Morrissey 47 Comments … Ebola? Terrorism? Muggings? Elevators? Catcalls? Not exactly. The same city that apparently wants people to tolerate illegal protests in diners has now embarked on a campaign to get male public-transit customers to squeeze their legs together. More... The likely 2016 GOP nominee is free to cheer for the Cowboys 1/6/2015 12:41:20 PM Jazz Shaw 40 Comments I noticed yesterday that Allahpundit made yet another futile attempt to derail the inevitable candidacy of New Jersey Governor (and eventually 45th President) Chris Christie. The complaint making the rounds among a very bored media this week is that he More... Open thread: New Congress to be sworn in, vote on Speaker forthcoming; Update: Boehner elected Speaker, loses 25 votes 1/6/2015 12:01:48 PM Allahpundit 747 Comments This morning I woke up ready to set the over/under at 17 votes against Boehner, but The Blaze is convinced that 20 is quite possible. Conservatives need 29 to block him, by the way. There are now 15 Republicans who say they will vote against Boehner. More... Shock: Coast Guard seeing sharp uptick in Cubans fleeing workers' paradise 1/6/2015 11:31:56 AM Noah Rothman 35 Comments Despite its status among progressives as a veritable model for health care reformers and proponents of egalitarianism, the joint announcement by President Barack Obama and Cuban dictator Raul Castro of the normalization of bilateral relations has More... Progressives: Stop laughing at Harvard 1/6/2015 11:01:14 AM Ed Morrissey 118 Comments But it’s so much fun! After the New York Times provided conservatives with a schadenfreude feast about Harvard elites bemoaning their own ObamaCare petard, the scolds on the Left came out in force in an attempt to shame conservatives into giggles More... |   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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