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| A.B. Stoddard: Don't expect the Supreme Court to kill Obamacare for you, Republicans 2/5/2015 10:01:03 AM Noah Rothman 26 Comments Politico foresees "political peril for the GOP" if the hastily constructed and deeply unpopular Affordable Care Act is gutted by the Supreme Court in the summer. That's counterintuitive, but they make a strong case for why the Republican coalition could More... A shakeup is likely at MSNBC 2/5/2015 9:21:52 AM Jazz Shaw 58 Comments As the Daily Caller reports, the continually sagging ratings at MSNBC, particularly in the afternoon and evening, have Phil Griffin looking at some changes… potentially big ones. Some of the most disappointing numbers have come from their latest More... Obama's student-loan program $22 billion in the hole for FY2015 2/5/2015 8:41:33 AM Ed Morrissey 40 Comments In the federal budget, just how big a hole would $22 billion be? As Michael Grunwald points out at Politico, that’s “larger than the annual budget for NASA, or that of the Interior Department and EPA combined[.]” And the shortfall is More... Every for profit business started by Al Sharpton was hit for not paying taxes 2/5/2015 8:01:10 AM Jazz Shaw 45 Comments This news was actually uncovered by National Review a few days ago, but things have been rather busy so we didn’t get around to it until now. The tax problems which Al Sharpton has run into with his National Action Network are well known and More... Quotes of the day 2/4/2015 10:41:49 PM Allahpundit 259 Comments Senator Rand Paul, facing a backlash over his comments that cast doubt on whether he believes vaccines can pose a health risk to children, asserted on Tuesday that he believes vaccinations are indeed safe and that all parents should have their children More... Too good to check: Angry Jordanian king may personally suit up against ISIS 2/4/2015 10:01:46 PM Mary Katharine Ham 130 Comments First, there was a warning: Members of the House Armed Services Committee met with Jordan’s King Abdullah Tuesday not long after news broke that ISIS had burned to death a Jordanian pilot captured in the fight against the terrorist group. In a More... How will Hillary Clinton explain this one to women? 2/4/2015 9:31:27 PM Noah Rothman 56 Comments The revelations out of David Axelrod's forthcoming memoirs just keep coming. Earlier on Wednesday, we learned that President Barack Obama took offense at the fact that Mitt Romney had complimented him on his ability to turn out voters in urban areas in More... Williams: Hey, my bad on that whole my-helicopter-was-hit-by-an-RPG thing, y'all 2/4/2015 8:59:17 PM Ed Morrissey 165 Comments Well, it happens. Who hasn’t been in a helicopter hit by an RPG a few times? Er … Brian Williams, even though the anchor of NBC News has been telling that story for more than a decade. But hey, Williams was telling the story to “honor More... New McDonald's ad campaign: You'd humiliate yourself for three bucks' worth of fast food, wouldn't you? 2/4/2015 8:41:14 PM Allahpundit 48 Comments Could the act of ordering a “McMuffin” be less dignified than it already is? Yep, says Kate Batchelder. Significantly less. I wouldn't need money today, [the cashier] explained, as I had been randomly chosen for the store's "Pay with Lovin' " More... Scott Walker turning the tables on Jeb Bush in the war over GOP donors 2/4/2015 8:01:24 PM Noah Rothman 87 Comments The Scott Walker boom is real. On the heels of a poll from the respected Des Moines Register revealing that the Wisconsin governor has a real shot at winning the Iowa caucuses, a survey of New Hampshire's Republican voters suggests that he also has a More... Five truths about the Chevron shakedown 2/4/2015 7:21:34 PM Jazz Shaw 16 Comments It’s been a while since we checked in with the decades long story of Chevron and how the government of Ecuador – in league with American environmental activists and trial lawyers – tried to pick their pockets for billions of dollars. At More... Wasserman Schultz: US media biased against Israel, including MSNBC 2/4/2015 6:41:18 PM Ed Morrissey 47 Comments A nice scoop for my friend Javier Manjarres, and an eye-opening allegation from someone whose party often benefits from media bias. DNC chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schulz told a Jewish Federation gathering that the Gaza war last summer demonstrated the More... Jeb Bush 2013: It's "ridiculous" that DREAMers don't have citizenship, impossible to completely control the border 2/4/2015 6:01:59 PM Allahpundit 164 Comments It’s always fun as primary season heats up to theorize about which campaign leaked some damaging oppo research to the media about another. So many suspects in this one! Chris Christie stands to benefit most: If he can make Jeb less palatable to More... Ted Cruz smoked pot, so he'd better switch over to the Democrats, right? 2/4/2015 5:21:14 PM Jazz Shaw 75 Comments So I suppose Ted Cruz is toast, right? (Or should that be toasted…) In the more bored and rudderless sections of the mediasphere, an article from the Daily Mail issued a triumphant cry when they received confirmation from the Texas Senator that he More... Consigning Europe to decades of war 2/4/2015 4:41:08 PM Noah Rothman 22 Comments The administration may deny it, but Kiev is apparently convinced that the United States is preparing to respond to armed Russian aggression in Ukraine by providing the beleaguered European state with defensive weapons. Ahead of Secretary of State John More... Jesse Ventura on Chris Kyle: The Nazis had heroes too, you know 2/4/2015 4:01:40 PM Allahpundit 125 Comments Via Mediaite, a friendly reminder that this guy, before becoming a Truther and the host of a show about conspiracy theories on basic cable, was once the duly elected governor of a U.S. state. As late as 2008, he was polling semi-respectably in More... NRO: High-flying Hillary outspent Romney 9:1 on private jets in 2008 cycle 2/4/2015 3:21:04 PM Ed Morrissey 40 Comments Last week, we discovered that taxpayers footed a $225,000 bill for Hillary Clinton during her eight years in the Senate for the use of private jets for her travel. Today, National Review has an analysis of her 2008 campaign expenditures and discovers More... Video: And now there's … "Shush-gate" 2/4/2015 2:41:48 PM Ed Morrissey 66 Comments Mary Katharine wrote about this CNBC interview on Monday, pointing out the moment where Senator Rand Paul “shushes” Kelly Evans in a testy exchange over vaccinations. The shush wasn’t the biggest beef MK had with the segment — she More... YouGov poll: 67% of Republicans, 81% of Democrats support government vaccine mandates 2/4/2015 2:01:41 PM Allahpundit 63 Comments Fresh evidence that this isn’t a partisan issue despite the left-leaning media’s selfish, stupid, dangerous attempt to make it one. Here’s the response when YouGov asked whether the government should or shouldn’t require kids to More... Accused Columbia rapist fights back 2/4/2015 1:31:53 PM Jazz Shaw 71 Comments I assume that most of you recall Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia University student who gained national fame for carrying around a mattress to symbolize her burden and struggle after she claimed to have been raped by a fellow student who was later cleared More... Former CIA #2: It will take 100,000 ground troops to defeat ISIS, and "that will simply does not exist here" 2/4/2015 1:01:08 PM Ed Morrissey 127 Comments Depressing, and yet entirely true. While the US and other coalition nations expressed outrage over the brutal execution by ISIS of a captured Jordanian pilot and vowed to destroy the terrorist “organization,” the efforts made so far More... Netanyahu's supposedly huge political blunder has painted Democrats into an anti-Israel corner 2/4/2015 12:31:33 PM Noah Rothman 62 Comments If you subscribe to the conformist opinion within the industry of political punditry, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu committed a potentially career-destroying political blunder when he accepted an invitation from Republicans to address a joint More... On fighting the Democrat filibuster over DHS funding 2/4/2015 12:01:44 PM Jazz Shaw 53 Comments There is a significant test coming up for the new Republican majority in the Senate, and if they have any hope of sustaining the support of conservatives and like minded independents who propelled them back into the driver’s seat it is one they More... Remember when the media treated vaccine skepticism as respectable? 2/4/2015 11:31:18 AM Allahpundit 116 Comments Inevitable pushback as we enter day three of the “wingnuts hate vaccines” news cycle. Reporters like this story, as Mollie Hemingway says, because it can with great effort be squeezed into the broader “wingnuts hate science” More... Are you ready for … Senator Grayson? 2/4/2015 11:01:29 AM Ed Morrissey 40 Comments Isn’t Congressman Grayson bad enough? The charmer from Florida, who once called his Republican opponent “Taliban Dan” and once said that allowing Republicans in charge would be like letting al-Qaeda fly planes, has his eyes set on More... |   | |||||
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