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Duke University to broadcast Muslim call to prayer on Fridays
1/15/2015 10:01:13 AM  Jazz Shaw
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At some point you have to wonder if they’re just trying to create controversy down at Duke University. The school paper announced this week that they will begin broadcasting the Muslim call to prayer from the university chapel each Friday.
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The latest to justify religious violence: Pope Francis
1/15/2015 9:21:20 AM  Noah Rothman
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The lights of civilization are again dimming across Europe. War between sovereign powers has returned to the continent, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim violence is flaring, and the most common response to aggressors from those in positions of authority has
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LeBron James selects date of 2016 Republican convention
1/15/2015 8:41:10 AM  Jazz Shaw
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Reince Priebus has announced the dates for the 2016 Republican National Convention, to be held in Cleveland, Ohio. As expected, the dates will be earlier than in the last few election cycles, a move which provides a number of potential benefits to the
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Yeah, that Scott Walker 'shows promise' if he runs in 2016
1/15/2015 8:01:13 AM  Matt Vespa
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From reading the comments on my Romney post, some people are absolutely sick of hearing about the former Massachusetts governor. Oh, and I pretty much agreed with what everyone had to say about a third presidential run by Mr. Romney. With that said,
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Quotes of the day
1/14/2015 10:41:33 PM  Allahpundit
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Mitt Romney will address the Republican National Committee on Friday night at the committee’s winter meeting, an RNC source tells CNN. The remarks will be open press… Romney was invited to the event after he conveyed interest in a third
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Meryl Streep, Margaret Cho offer lessons in stopping the outrage machine
1/14/2015 10:01:39 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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One of the things I will miss most about the late Joan Rivers is that she almost never apologized. She was literally unapologetic, not unapologetic in the way that Hollywood usually pats itself on the back for, when they’ve just posted another
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Three Marines foil armed robbery of woman without wrinkling dress blues
1/14/2015 9:21:16 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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Beautiful: On “Fox and Friends” today, Schebesta explained that they were in the office when they heard a car honking. Shoemaker said that they went outside to see a woman erratically driving over curbs in the parking lot. He approached her
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Film review: Unbroken
1/14/2015 8:41:33 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Note: Film and book spoilers below. Unbroken, a film by Angelina Jolie from the Laura Hillenbrand biography of the same name, tells the story of Louis Zamperini, a man who lived an epic life of service, survival, glory, agony, and redemption.  Agony and
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Obama deeply unpopular with the military, as are the political parties
1/14/2015 8:01:23 PM  Bruce McQuain
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The Military Times has a long article out today which comes to the startling conclusion that a deeply conservative institution like the military may find a Commander-in-Chief like Obama to be very unpopular among most of its members. That should really
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Rand Paul: I'm a judicial activist and you should be one too
1/14/2015 7:21:56 PM  Allahpundit
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Don’t be daunted by the length of the clip. His speech runs just 12 minutes, starting at around 2:45, and is worth your while for various reasons. The most basic is that it’s bound to antagonize righties on the eve of the primaries, even
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It's come to this: The situation with French Muslims is 'kind of like what we saw in Ferguson'
1/14/2015 6:41:04 PM  Matt Vespa
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This is CNN. The network known for asking an alleged Bill Cosby victim why she didn't she bite his penis, hypothesizing that black holes were responsible for the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, and not knowing the difference between
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White House just assuming they'll win Obamacare case at SCOTUS
1/14/2015 6:01:24 PM  Kevin Glass
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King v. Burwell, the court case that will determine if Obamacare’s language about federal subsidies and their availability on exchanges “established by the state”, will be heard in oral arguments at the Supreme Court on March 4, with a
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A misreading of the new Pew poll has the left convinced of their moral superiority
1/14/2015 5:21:31 PM  Noah Rothman
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Lately, the left has been relatively short on fodder for their favored pastime: Casting aspersions on those who do not share their political values and reassuring themselves of their moral superiority. This condition has led to the grasping of straws,
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Video: Sky News cuts off Charlie Hebdo writer when she tries to display Mohammed cartoon
1/14/2015 4:41:00 PM  Allahpundit
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Via Mediaite, the lowest moment yet in western media’s slow-motion surrender to jihadi degenerates. My colleague has their number: We are deeply sorry and ashamed that we allowed that courageous writer, whose work we are praising, to show it.
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Iran announces construction of two new nuclear plants
1/14/2015 4:01:20 PM  Jeff Dunetz
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Strange happenings in the U.S. nuclear talks with Iran. On one hand both parties are saying that the talks will be accelerated to insure that the March deadline for an agreement framework is met, on the other hand Iran has announced it is increasing its
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Place your bets: Will Romney last longer in the 2016 race than Huntsman lasted in 2012?
1/14/2015 3:21:04 PM  Allahpundit
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Having singlehandedly made the “Romney 2016!” dream possible, I feel obliged now to start kicking the sand castle over. I’m inspired by this thought from Ramesh Ponnuru: Romney has sometimes lost but never been humiliated. A campaign
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The French response to an attack on free speech is to curtail it further
1/14/2015 2:41:46 PM  Noah Rothman
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Despite a rich French history of expression art and literature, there is not much of a tradition of free speech in France. In fact, the French Republic has as bountiful a history of criminalizing expression dubbed dangerous to the state as it does of
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NYT editor: Cartoons blaspheming Mohammed are different from anti-semitic cartoons
1/14/2015 2:01:06 PM  Allahpundit
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The double standard laid bare. If you’re a devout believer of whichever faith and eager to see less blasphemy in the media, as many Americans are, there’s no other conclusion to draw here than, “I need to be much, much
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Does the media care that the Democratic message on DHS funding fight makes no sense?
1/14/2015 1:21:49 PM  Noah Rothman
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The short answer to that one is, "no." The evidence for that being this perfectly credulous tweet via NBC News Capitol Hill reporter Luke Russert who apparently believes it is his role to repeat Democratic talking points nearly verbatim. Rs will vote D
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House votes to undo Obama's executive amnesties as part of new funding bill for Homeland Security
1/14/2015 12:41:16 PM  Allahpundit
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Two separate anti-amnesty amendments passed this morning: Marsha Blackburn’s bill, which would freeze Obama’s 2012 DACA amnesty for DREAMers; and Robert Aderholt’s bill, which would defund Obama’s more recent executive amnesty and
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It's official: Hillary is campaigning for Obama's third term
1/14/2015 12:01:23 PM  Noah Rothman
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There is a reason why it is so difficult for two-term presidents to be succeeded by a member of their party. It has only happened once in the post-war era, and that was largely because George H. W. Bush was seen as the inheritor of a legacy of sustained
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Media celebrates massive success of Charlie Hebdo's defiant new issue by refusing to publish the cover
1/14/2015 11:23:06 AM  Allahpundit
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Normally CH’s circulation is 60,000 copies. They printed three million of the new one to try to meet expected demand after the massacre, but sales are so hot in France this morning that they’ve already had to bump the print run up to five
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TSA steps up security after Al Qaeda posts detailed bombing instructions
1/14/2015 10:41:26 AM  Gabriel Malor
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One more story for the “Al Qaeda is not dead” pile: the terrorist umbrella organization posted detailed airplane bombing instructions in its online magazine, including how to build  the devices, get them past security, and where to sit on the
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