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| Obama administration stonewalls FOIA request on IRS targeting scandal 2/10/2015 10:01:25 AM Ed Morrissey 22 Comments It has been almost two years since the exposure of the IRS efforts to target conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, and their donors. In the meantime, the Obama administration has done exactly nothing to hold IRS personnel accountable for More... You might want to sit down: Obama apparently lied about 'evolving' on support for gay marriage 2/10/2015 9:31:48 AM Noah Rothman 60 Comments Few will be surprised to learn that President Barack Obama apparently "misled" the nation for years regarding his personal support for same-sex marriage rights. That's apparently what former White House advisor David Axelrod revealed in his forthcoming More... Video: Which progressive will take the Crusader Wager? 2/10/2015 9:01:07 AM Jazz Shaw 77 Comments Plenty of progressive voices in the media have piled on to the President’s comments about the crusades and the moral equivocating in play when trying to describe the global destruction caused by radical Islamic terrorists. There’s more than a More... Breaking: Jordan moves "thousands" of troops to Iraq border 2/10/2015 8:31:09 AM Ed Morrissey 45 Comments When ISIS executed a Jordanian pilot by immolation and released the video as propaganda, they may have lit a fire for which they weren’t prepared. Jordan’s King Abdullah quoted the Clint Eastwood film Unforgiven to promise revenge, and he More...  NY prosecutor basically calls Governor Cuomo a liar 2/10/2015 8:01:14 AM Jazz Shaw 27 Comments As we recently discussed, there’s a bit of a tug of war going on inside New York’s state government, as Governor Andrew Cuomo dodges around to stay out of the corruption investigation net which has already swept up former Assembly Speaker More... Quotes of the day 2/9/2015 10:41:27 PM Allahpundit 319 Comments The Supreme Court will decide whether to allow same-sex marriage nationwide later this year. But it’s leaving little doubt which way it’s leaning. The latest evidence came Monday, when the high court denied Alabama’s request that gay More... Shade: German reporter would like to know Nobel Laureate's Ukraine red lines 2/9/2015 10:01:23 PM Mary Katharine Ham 51 Comments A highlight from today’s press conference, in which we learn that we don’t have red lines, and that German reporters throw shade better than ours do. In this clip, brave leader President Obama passes off a question that is very literally More... Video: Melissa Harris-Perry asked Eric Holder to quack like a duck in interview 2/9/2015 9:21:24 PM Mary Katharine Ham 57 Comments Melissa Harris-Perry is a Princeton and Tulane professor turned MSNBC host. She’s an intellectual, we are repeatedly told— one of “few academics [to] make that turn to become the host rather than the expert,” according to a 2012 NPR More... Oh my: Rubio lands top Romney aide in New Hampshire, signaling likely run for president 2/9/2015 8:41:02 PM Allahpundit 91 Comments Everyone in the field, starting with Jeb Bush, was trying to snap up Jim Merrill. How likely is it that Merrill would have agreed to snub them and sign with Rubio if he hadn’t gotten an all but ironclad promise from the candidate himself that, yep, More... Illinois' GOP governor goes about dismantling state unions' power 2/9/2015 8:01:55 PM Noah Rothman 50 Comments Elections have consequences. And, for Illinois' unions, the consequence of the 2014 gubernatorial election will be devastating. In an attempt to tackle the worst fiscal crisis the Prairie State has faced in years, Gov. Bruce Rauner is walking a path More... "Walking Dead" grumble thread: Sometimes dead is better 2/9/2015 7:21:02 PM Allahpundit 50 Comments A rare episode where the show was simultaneously at its best and its worst. They caught me by surprise in bouncing a well-liked character like Tyreese so soon into the second half of the season. I remember grumbling after the mid-season finale that, for More... NPR ombudsman: Why should the Constitution protect making fun of someone's prophet? 2/9/2015 6:41:39 PM Allahpundit 90 Comments The best part of this, as many have noted online today, is his perfunctory denunciation of the “bombing” of Charlie Hebdo’s HQ. An ombudsman is supposed to be the readers’ advocate within the publication that employs him. You More... Obama to Vox: Media should stop hyping the threat of terrorism 2/9/2015 6:01:08 PM Noah Rothman 115 Comments It's hard to be more tactless in addressing the threat posed by modern Islamist terrorism than by calling attacks like that which occurred on a kosher market in Paris "random" and comparing the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to small town criminals in More... Mandatory citizenship testing in schools likely won't fix anything 2/9/2015 5:21:26 PM Jazz Shaw 27 Comments Here’s some news to make you feel better about America. In 2010 only 20% of 8th graders were rated as proficient in civics. Just to really brighten your day, a significant plurality of millennials say they are “ready for Hillary” and More... Audio: Williams tells Stars & Stripes, "All we knew is we had been fired upon" 2/9/2015 4:41:06 PM Ed Morrissey 67 Comments The comeback attempt of Brian Williams started today, with an exclusive interview given to the publication that exposed his “misremembered” Iraqi adventure [see update — interview was February 4th]. Williams spoke with Stars and Stripes More... Relax, Moscow: Obama doesn't want you 'contained' or 'weakened' 2/9/2015 4:01:09 PM Noah Rothman 35 Comments There is some dispute as to when the Cold War truly began, but many historians contend that the military, ideological, and geopolitical struggle between the Western and communist worlds was not obvious to most observers until March of 1946. Then, and More... Gallup: Fewest Americans satisfied with abortion laws since 2001 2/9/2015 3:21:51 PM Allahpundit 14 Comments Seems noteworthy. I’m just … not sure what the takeaway is. Pretty clear-cut. Democrats are where they’ve been for most of the last 10 years. So are indies after a brief post-election honeymoon with current abortion policy following More... Colorado may have to return some of that marijuana tax money to citizens 2/9/2015 2:41:24 PM Jazz Shaw 48 Comments One of the big selling points for the legalization of recreational marijuana use in Colorado was that it would represent a potential windfall in tax revenue which could be put to use addressing a host of other ills. Given how expensive the product now is More... Humiliated by 'portrait-gate,' Bobby Jindal mocks the race-obsessed left 2/9/2015 2:01:19 PM Noah Rothman 54 Comments Maybe you missed this controversy, and your life was probably richer more serene for it. If that is the case, please forgive me for shattering that tranquility by providing you with a window into the inane world of internet trivialities. You might More... Halperin: Hey, stop saying the Democrats have no bench! 2/9/2015 1:21:35 PM Ed Morrissey 58 Comments To be fair to Mark Halperin, his larger point is that the 2016 election is Hillary Clinton’s to lose, which becomes clear when you see this in its full context. However, Halperin almost undoes his secondary argument — that there is More... Your smart TV is really listening 2/9/2015 12:41:48 PM Jazz Shaw 79 Comments Maybe that smart television is getting a little too smart. The geeks at TechCrunch have been checking out the newest Samsung televisions with voice activated controls and discovered that the company’s privacy policies come with a warning you may More... Video: Obama prepares to veto Keystone … in private 2/9/2015 12:01:17 PM Ed Morrissey 50 Comments He’s got a phone and a pen, and … an office door that can stay closed, too. The Hill reports that Barack Obama has begun preparing to veto the bill forcing approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, which may be a delicate task — since so More... Report: NBC execs were warned a year ago that Williams was "constantly inflating his biography" 2/9/2015 11:31:14 AM Allahpundit 32 Comments Alternate headline: “Maureen Dowd publishes first consequential column in 15 years.” This was a bomb that had been ticking for a while. NBC executives were warned a year ago that Brian Williams was constantly inflating his biography. They More... Shock: California's reformers only made things worse 2/9/2015 11:01:33 AM Noah Rothman 54 Comments They say that the perfect is often the enemy of the good. In the pursuit of perfection, California's fiddlers and tinkerers possessed with an outsize sense of their historical significance have gone and made an imperfect but functional system worse. More... |   | |||||
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