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| WSJ compares new Romney campaign to 'recycled' trash 1/14/2015 10:01:09 AM Noah Rothman 15 Comments Does Mitt Romney have any compelling reason to mount a third bid for the presidency? Matt Vespa asked that question this morning and came up with few satisfactory answers. He did observe, however, that the early polling suggests that Romney can unite the More... Boston.com really wishes Boehner had been successfully poisoned 1/14/2015 9:21:20 AM Noah Rothman 50 Comments According to prosecutors, Michael Hoyt heard voices. The 44-year-old bartender at the Wetherington Golf & Country Club in West Chester, Ohio also frequently served House Speaker John Boehner. Hoyt had grown convinced that Boehner was frequently rude More... Pelosi shocked that GOP is doing what they said they would do on DHS 1/14/2015 8:41:28 AM Jazz Shaw 45 Comments Back when Congress passed the last omnibus spending package one of the major bones of contention was President Obama’s executive amnesty program. Handled by the Department of Homeland Security, it was a requirement for the GOP that funding for DHS More... Does Mitt Romney have good reasons to run again in 2016? 1/14/2015 8:01:45 AM Matt Vespa 29 Comments As my colleague Guy wrote over at Townhall, it's happening; Mitt Romney is probably running for president (again). Right now, he's moving towards to reassembling his "national political network." Ann seems to have had a change of heart about the notion More...  Quotes of the day 1/13/2015 10:41:39 PM Allahpundit 243 Comments The GOP field is in pygmy warlord phase—loud, fractured, and not terribly impressive. The most credible candidate is Jeb Bush, a far-sighted policy wonk whose greatest asset and liability is his last name. Powerhouse Chris Christie still has Bridgegate More... Rand gets a campaign manager, Christie gets a PAC 1/13/2015 10:01:00 PM Mary Katharine Ham 26 Comments Sen. Rand Paul took a step toward a 2016 run Tuesday, naming a prospective campaign manager for a prospective run: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday announced the hiring of a campaign manager for his likely 2016 presidential bid, part of an aggressive More... Huckabee targets the Obamas' parenting in opening salvo of 2016 1/13/2015 8:41:57 PM Gabriel Malor 167 Comments Mike Huckabee had to know this would happen, right? After review copies of his new book, God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy (subtle, no?), went out last week, the media immediately singled out an astonishing attack on pop culture icons Beyoncé and Jay Z. For a More... Oh, by the way: Christie's awfully close to jumping into the presidential race 1/13/2015 8:01:04 PM Allahpundit 49 Comments You know I’ve got a hopeless, probably terminal case of Mittmentum! but we should probably pay some attention to this guy too. I think, in their heart of hearts, both Jeb Bush and Romney thought that signaling their intentions to run early might More... Is "free" community college just another out of touch elitist scheme? 1/13/2015 7:21:11 PM Bruce McQuain 59 Comments The short answer is “yes”. Megan McArdle makes the point : Higher education is becoming the ginseng of the policy world: a sort of all-purpose snake oil for solving any problem you’d care to name, as long as we consume enough of it. More... $1.9 trillion: The cost of regulation in 2015 1/13/2015 6:41:50 PM Kevin Glass 16 Comments President Obama hasn’t given much credence to the idea that America is suffering from overregulation, and his policies have proven that. Late last year, he debuted a new EPA rule that has been called “the most expensive regulation More... Even the guy who tattooed Romney's logo on his face isn't behind a 2016 bid 1/13/2015 6:01:48 PM Noah Rothman 31 Comments When even the guy who had the foresight to tattoo the logo for Mitt Romney's failed 2012 presidential bid thinks the former Massachusetts governor lacks the requisite sound judgment to necessary to mount a successful run for president in 2016, it really More... Boehner on Obama's executive amnesty: "Our goal here is to fund the Department of Homeland Security" 1/13/2015 5:21:32 PM Allahpundit 133 Comments I’d be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that this is just standard “we hate shutdowns (but we’ll do ‘em if necessary)!” messaging if not for the fact that John Thune already promised on national TV that More... Josh Earnest: Let's stop using "radical Islam" to describe terrorists 1/13/2015 4:41:56 PM Allahpundit 208 Comments So here’s where we are now. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the administration doesn't want to legitimize those terrorists or the "warped" view of Islam they hold. Also, Mr. Earnest said, the phrase "radical Islam" simply is not an More... Jimmy Carter: Jews are safer in France than they are in Israel 1/13/2015 4:01:49 PM Noah Rothman 53 Comments As most members of the Jewish faith will confess in moments of candor, former President Jimmy Carter knows their struggle better than they do themselves. On Tuesday, Carter demonstrated his command of the issues confronting Jews around the globe when he More... As America moves out of Afghanistan, ISIS moves in 1/13/2015 3:01:17 PM Noah Rothman 33 Comments As American combat forces withdrew from Afghanistan after more than 13 years of war, they left behind an ill-prepared Afghan government and a power vacuum. The Taliban's campaign of violence south of the border in Pakistan signaled to most that it was More... Poll: Just 36% of Americans say they have the right to blaspheme religion 1/13/2015 2:01:18 PM Allahpundit 167 Comments Not even Bill Donohue goes this far. You do have the right, he concedes. You should simply decline to exercise that right in the interests of social harmony. Do Americans agree? Fusion surveyed 1,502 Americans and asked a single question: Do Americans More... White House aides: Dude, we didn't think the Paris rally was gonna be that big, okay? 1/13/2015 1:21:56 PM Matt Vespa 91 Comments The fallout from America's absence from France's unity rally in Paris after the awful Charlie Hebdo shooting has been well documented–and it's embarrassing. For heaven's sake, nations with awful records in journalistic freedom, like Egypt, Russia, More... House conservatives plot to blow up Republican Study Committee over feud with leadership 1/13/2015 12:41:13 PM Noah Rothman 125 Comments When former Republican Study Committee chairman and House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) came under fire for allegedly speaking to a white supremacist organization in 2002, he found himself short on friends among the influential conservative More... Calling it "Jihad" is probably far too great a compliment 1/13/2015 12:01:57 PM Jazz Shaw 42 Comments CNN has a rather vacuous piece out today dealing with Islamic terror recruiting efforts among young people and how they are using rap music in an attempt to reach the disaffected masses. In one way, it’s absolutely true. The terrorists have More... Muslim mayor of Rotterdam to Muslim immigrants: If you don't like western freedoms, f*** off 1/13/2015 11:21:18 AM Allahpundit 153 Comments Noteworthy, not just because of his background but because the list of prominent western pols willing to tell immigrants to hit the bricks if they won’t adopt their new country’s values is short enough that we have to go looking for less More... Let's be honest: 'ISIS' didn't hack CENTCOM's social media accounts yesterday 1/13/2015 10:41:40 AM Noah Rothman 35 Comments Yesterday, the verified Twitter account and the YouTube page linked to United States Central Command were hacked by a group claiming to be the Islamic State. The hackers immediately began posting threats and propaganda, as well as American military More... |   | |||||
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