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| Does the GOP have a nominee who can compete for Senate in California? 1/9/2015 10:01:22 AM Noah Rothman 17 Comments California Senator Barbara Boxer's decision to surrender her Senate seat has sent Democrats in the Golden State scrambling. Between figures like Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and state Attorney General Kamala More... December jobs report: 252K jobs added, jobless rate shrinks to 5.6% 1/9/2015 9:21:18 AM Ed Morrissey 92 Comments Another month, another mixed bag from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. TheUS economy added 252,000 jobs in December and the jobless rate dropped two-tenths of a point to 5.6%, but the workforce participation rate dropped by the same amount to return to a More... The 2016 Ames Straw Poll is a go, and everyone is conflicted about it 1/9/2015 8:41:21 AM Noah Rothman 11 Comments The Republican National Committee has caved. Despite widespread criticism of the Ames Straw Poll, a first-in-the-nation contest in which Republican candidates vie for bragging rights associated with a victory, the GOP determined that the poll could go More... Next big Obama agenda item: "free" community college 1/9/2015 8:08:53 AM Ed Morrissey 103 Comments “Free” should always be in scare quotes, because it won’t be free at all. The latest entitlement proposal comes off the long and hoary list of progressive hobby horses, a giveaway that benefits students and even more the teachers needed More... Open Thread: Charlie Hebdo killers in hostage standoff. Updates: Second hostage situation at Kosher grocery in Paris. Possible third site 1/9/2015 7:01:53 AM Jazz Shaw 260 Comments Unless there has been a complete breakdown in communications among the French authorities, we are nearing the endgame of the Charlie Hebdo killings story. The two suspects, Cherif and Said Kouachi, are said to be holed up in a printing business to the More... Quotes of the day 1/8/2015 10:01:03 PM Allahpundit 349 Comments The murders today in Paris are not a result of France's failure to assimilate two generations of Muslim immigrants from its former colonies. They're not about French military action against the Islamic State in the Middle East, or the American invasion More... Democrats and Republicans agree: It's a perfect time for a gas tax hike 1/8/2015 8:41:35 PM Noah Rothman 155 Comments You might have noticed the spectacular collapse of global crude oil prices reflected in the commensurate reduction of your weekly gasoline bill. Gas prices are lower, much lower, than they were just a few months ago. For Washington D.C., that represents More... Audio: Hugh Hewitt versus Bill "Those Charlie Hebdo attackers were right to be angry" Donohue 1/8/2015 8:01:13 PM Allahpundit 114 Comments A long clip but a fun one and you won’t lose much if you listen to only the first half. Things start to get hot at around 4:30 and then hotter still at 9:30. Noah already blogged Donohue’s statement yesterday arguing that, although murder is More... Healthcare costs still rising (but "not soaring") under Obamacare 1/8/2015 7:21:58 PM Jazz Shaw 54 Comments If you had a nagging feeling that you were still paying more and more for healthcare coverage while getting fewer covered services, you probably weren’t imagining it, at least according to a new study from the Commonwealth Fund. But before digging More... While visiting city at the center of the VA scandal, Obama blows off the VA 1/8/2015 6:41:43 PM Noah Rothman 37 Comments Since the scandal involving the systematic mistreatment of veterans and the subsequent cover-up of wrongdoing on the part of Veterans Affairs administrators broke in the spring of 2014, President Barack Obama has stayed far away from the city where the More... US oil production to drop off by end of year 1/8/2015 6:01:08 PM Jazz Shaw 36 Comments Here’s an early sign for all of the folks like Dick Durbin who are insisting that now is the time to raise gas taxes while prices are low. While I’ve tried (apparently in vain) to warn that this was going to happen, the good times of More... The Republican plans to halt Obama's executive amnesty emerge 1/8/2015 5:21:45 PM Noah Rothman 56 Comments Over at the Washington Examiner, Byron York has a must-read piece up in which he explains the details of two plans submitted by House Republicans this week aimed at preventing the implementation of President Barack Obama's unilateral extension of legal More... Scott Walker's 2016 pitch: The 21st-century reformer 1/8/2015 4:41:13 PM Ed Morrissey 103 Comments Earlier today, our friend John Nolte argued on Twitter that conservatives needed to rally quickly around Wisconsin governor Scott Walker as the Republican nominee for 2016, specifically to set up a binary choice for conservatives in contrast to Jeb Bush. More... Boehner: Let's face it, I'm the most anti-establishment Speaker we've ever had 1/8/2015 4:01:09 PM Allahpundit 102 Comments A terrible thought: What if he’s right? What if the bar set by his predecessors in Congress was so low that the Boehner era has actually raised it? Don’t laugh, says James Antle. The man’s got a case. Yes, even against Newt More... The only person to heal the NYPD – de Blasio rift is… 1/8/2015 3:21:53 PM Jazz Shaw 38 Comments How bad has the situation gotten between the New York City police department and the Mayor’s office? According to the police unions, the situation has reached a crisis level which can only be rescued by… Bubba. NYPD union leaders think the More... Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Joel Pollak on Charlie Hebdo massacre 1/8/2015 3:05:00 PM Ed Morrissey 7 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have one topic — the massacre of the staff at Charlie Hebdo in Paris. There is so much to unpack, and Duane and I will discuss it at length: Duane "Generalissimo" Patterson brings us exclusive clips of More... Bill Maher to Jimmy Kimmel: Hundreds of millions of Muslims support this Charlie Hebdo attack 1/8/2015 2:41:10 PM Allahpundit 219 Comments It’s not what he’s saying that’s novel — he’s made this point before, and seems to be making it more often lately — but the forum in which he’s saying it. I wonder if there was anyone else featured across the More... Is second attack on French police officer an act of terrorism? 1/8/2015 2:01:09 PM Noah Rothman 33 Comments In the wake of the bloody attack on the Parisian weekly Charlie Hebdo, France may be in the midst of a terrorist campaign targeting the symbols of French authority. At 7:15 a.m. local time, a French police officer in southern Paris was attacked by at More... The left rushes to sympathize with Paris terrorist after he claims Abu Ghraib radicalized him 1/8/2015 1:21:40 PM Noah Rothman 151 Comments Here we go. It has always been difficult for Westerners to understand a murderous, illiberal ideology of Islamist extremism. The torturous course of self-examination in which liberals engage in the wake of this kind of a terrorist attack has become a More... Charlie Hebdo survivors, former contributors to publish edition next week 1/8/2015 12:41:41 PM Ed Morrissey 63 Comments It will take a week to pull a new edition of Charlie Hebdo together, and it won’t be as robust as its usual offerings, but survivors and former colleagues plan to defiantly publish after al-Qaeda-linked terrorists assassinated key contributors More... Boxer: I'm out of here in 2016 1/8/2015 12:01:12 PM Ed Morrissey 93 Comments Aaaaaand the first retirement notice for the 114th Senate* goes to Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer (CA), who announced today that she will not run for re-election in 2016. This confirms the report from exactly a month ago that Boxer would hang up her More... Mark Steyn: Charlie Hebdo was a target only because the rest of the media wouldn't share the risk 1/8/2015 11:31:45 AM Allahpundit 158 Comments A necessary corrective to the well-meaning but impotent “Je suis Charlie” cris de coeur. Yesterday that was a social media phenonemon, hashtag solidarity in the spirit of the “Bring Back Our Girls” phrase that circulated months More... Gun control activists: we can be as successful as the pro-gay marriage folks 1/8/2015 10:41:22 AM Matt Vespa 67 Comments Frustrated by gridlock in Congress and unable to win over public opinion regarding the curtailment of one of America's oldest civil rights, anti-gun activists have decided to take their fight to your local neighborhood. For a movement that's virtually More... |   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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