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| White House reconsidering pace of Afghanistan withdrawal — again 2/11/2015 10:31:00 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments In the rush to declare the war in Afghanistan over, the White House has made the uncomfortable discovery that … it isn’t. According to the Washington Post’s Missy Ryan, the plans for a full withdrawal from the theater has hit enough More... Obama: Saying I misled you all on gay marriage "isn't quite accurate" 2/11/2015 10:01:35 AM Jazz Shaw 38 Comments Noah first brought up the stunning (by which I mean completely not stunning) news from David Axelrod’s new book in which the former senior advisor claims that Obama basically lied about his position on gay marriage to appease religious voters. More... Obama sends AUMF proposal for ISIS fight to Congress 2/11/2015 9:31:53 AM Ed Morrissey 47 Comments The Obama administration has conducted its reluctant and late-developing fight against ISIS since last fall under the auspice of the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) that allowed George W. Bush to invade and then occupy Iraq. More... Grotesque: Self-professed 'anti-theist' kills three young Muslims in Chapel Hill; Update: Parking? Really? 2/11/2015 9:01:57 AM Noah Rothman 130 Comments Three young college students are dead today, gunned down in a horrific act of terroristic violence. Their killer, Craig Stephen Hicks, turned himself into police shortly after he claims he committed the murders. His victims all shared one trait in More...  Abandon ship: West retreats from Yemen 2/11/2015 8:31:34 AM Ed Morrissey 47 Comments Last month, I wrote that the hasty evac has become the hallmark of a Barack Obama foreign-policy “success.” That was specific to Yemen, where the Arab Spring policies that turned Libya, Syria, and Iraq into failed states and nearly did the More... Jon Stewart calls it quits on the Daily Show 2/11/2015 8:01:42 AM Jazz Shaw 41 Comments Did anybody see this coming? I don’t mean eventually, but right at this moment. Jon Stewart went before his studio audience last night and, essentially out of nowhere, announced that he would be retiring later this year. Jon Stewart, the host of More... Quotes of the day 2/10/2015 10:01:33 PM Allahpundit 258 Comments President Obama called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to a diplomatic solution to the escalating Ukrainian conflict Tuesday, telling Putin in a phone call that “the costs for Russia will rise” if its aggression continues. In a More... Sigh: French graffiti artist reports attack by gang over Coexist artwork 2/10/2015 9:21:43 PM Mary Katharine Ham 42 Comments Combo is a French street artist known for Banksy-style graffiti mostly in France, but around the world as well. He was born to a Lebanese Christian father and a Moroccan Muslim mother, according to The Guardian, and as such is a symbol of French More... Breaking: Williams suspended for 6 mos without pay by NBC; Update: "Dossier of apparent Williams lies" 2/10/2015 8:16:46 PM Ed Morrissey 241 Comments The wages of journalistic sin, at least in the case of Brian Williams, are six months without wages — and without an office. Per an e-mail from NBC Universal, Williams will come back in late September, while Lester Holt fills in as anchor: All, We More... FEC latest front in Democrats' multi-pronged assault on internet freedom 2/10/2015 8:01:25 PM Noah Rothman 59 Comments The internet is under assault. At the Federal Communications Commission, regulators are hard at work crafting a plan that would turn the internet into a taxable utility. In Congress, lawmakers are determining whether and how best to tax the sales that More... Rejoice. Bradley Chelsea Manning will be an opinion writer for the Guardian 2/10/2015 7:21:45 PM Jazz Shaw 33 Comments The news broke on Twitter. I know you are all simply breathless with antici….. pation. Delighted to announce: Chelsea Manning joins @GuardianUS as a contributing opinion writer, writing on war, gender, freedom of information — Katharine More... Pew: Republicans slightly more likely than Democrats to say measles vaccine is safe 2/10/2015 6:41:42 PM Allahpundit 20 Comments A little something for your bookmarks folder, so that you have it handy the next time someone in the media assures you that vaccine skepticism is a “Republican problem.” Wait a sec. Haven’t we seen other polls recently claiming that More... Video: Are you ready for the, um … CNN anchorman quiz show? 2/10/2015 6:01:43 PM Allahpundit 27 Comments To cleanse the palate, via Mediaite, I feel about this the way I feel about the Brian Williams saga. Whenever I cringe and feel tempted to accuse the media of squandering its credibility, I catch myself and think: Listen to what you’re saying, man. More... Higher Education: School worksheet says GOP thinks poor are a waste of money 2/10/2015 5:21:26 PM Jazz Shaw 81 Comments In case you were worried about the next generation and the future of the nation, save yourself some time. All is lost. A Wisconsin mother claims her 16-year-old son’s classroom assignment last week described Republicans as opposed to helping the More... Earnest: Not sure if Jews are terror targets, and climate change is a bigger threat anyway Update: Backtracks 2/10/2015 4:41:04 PM Noah Rothman 99 Comments It seems like at least a few members of the press corps watched President Barack Obama pander gracelessly to progressive sensibilities in an interview with Vox.com's top personalities. On Tuesday, ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl and Fox News More... GOP's path to holding Senate majority not looking quite so rough 2/10/2015 4:01:14 PM Jazz Shaw 46 Comments Going into the 2014 election the Democrats (at least the ones being honest about it) knew that they had a problem. They were defending far more seats than the Republicans, their approval ratings were in the tank and youth turnout in the midterms is More... Jon Stewart sacrifices his remaining credibility in defense of Brian Williams? 2/10/2015 3:21:54 PM Noah Rothman 86 Comments It was not so long ago that Jon Stewart was the undisputed voice of the progressive conscience. To single out any one conservative writer who has exposed the hollowness of the left's infatuation with this liberal comedian is to unjustly rob others of More... Civil war: Democrats spoiling for fight with Obama over ISIS war authorization 2/10/2015 2:41:10 PM Noah Rothman 44 Comments More than six months after President Barack Obama ordered the first combat operations against Islamic State forces in Iraq, the White House is finally preparing to send language to Congress that, if passed, would legally authorize the new campaign. More... Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Jim Geraghty (Updated) 2/10/2015 2:11:31 PM Ed Morrissey 4 Comments Update: Due to a combination of weather conditions and technical problems, we could not do the Relevant Radio hit today, but I’ll return to guest host for Drew in March. Instead, we have Andrew and Jim at our normal time of 4 ET — and More... Katrina hotel manager: Maybe Williams "misremembered" that too 2/10/2015 2:01:55 PM Ed Morrissey 44 Comments Another of Brian Williams’ courage-under-fire stories continues to unravel. After Williams admitted that the story he’d told for more than a decade about coming under fire in Iraq was untrue, people began questioning his recollections from More... The Democrat stampede from the Netanyahu speech grows 2/10/2015 1:21:15 PM Jazz Shaw 179 Comments At this point I’m starting to wonder if this speech is even going to happen. One thing is for sure, though… the Democrats are lining up to turn this into the biggest political football possible, even as they decry the injecting of politics More... Another exciting game of "Where's Hillary?" 2/10/2015 12:41:55 PM Jazz Shaw 71 Comments The candidates for President in 2016 are all busy running around, talking to the press, rounding up donors and generally doing whatever they can to raise their profiles. Well… almost all of the candidates. Careful observers will note that More... Clintons got $81 million from HSBC tax-avoidance figures 2/10/2015 12:01:34 PM Ed Morrissey 74 Comments Paging Elizabeth Warren … Senator Warren, please pick up the red emergency progressive phone in the lobby … The charitable foundation run by Hillary Clinton and her family has received as much as $81m from wealthy international donors who More... Obama 2008: As a Christian, I believe marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman 2/10/2015 11:31:51 AM Allahpundit 140 Comments Just a little garnish to Noah’s post to remind you how shameless this guy was in lying about gay marriage for his own political advantage. This clip comes from the Saddleback Forum on social issues with McCain held three months before the 2008 More... CNN's Carol Costello apologizes for providing Moscow with invaluable propaganda 2/10/2015 11:01:06 AM Noah Rothman 29 Comments Western observers of the increasingly deadly conflict in eastern Ukraine between the separatist forces armed and supported by Russian troops and soldiers loyal to Kiev have long opposed the practice of dubbing the insurgents "pro-Russian forces." It is More... |   | |||||
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