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| Obama goofed around with a selifie stick on the same day Kayla Mueller confirmed dead 2/13/2015 10:01:30 AM Noah Rothman 61 Comments As Allahpundit accurately noted, we might soon come to regret enabling the world's most powerful narcissist by handing him a selfie stick. Those who are concerned that Obama's antics – mugging into a smudgy mirror, failing to successfully dunk a cookie More... Politinerds: The AUMF 2/13/2015 9:21:57 AM Jazz Shaw 16 Comments This week on Politinerds we did something a bit different. Following some listener feedback, Doug and I were reminded that we originally decided to launch this series because we frequently disagree on some of the issues under discussion. One such case More... Another chopper whopper: Did Williams lie about Seal Team 6? 2/13/2015 8:41:59 AM Ed Morrissey 46 Comments If this turns out to be a lie, it might be one of more egregious of Brian Williams’ truncated-for-now career. As NBC goes through what has been described as a “dossier of lies” (which reportedly also includes his expense reporting), More... 'Merica: You will now pay for Chelsea Manning's "transitional hormone therapy" 2/13/2015 8:01:19 AM Jazz Shaw 39 Comments It’s been a banner month for Chelsea Manning. Right on the heels of learning that he will be an unpaid op-ed writer for the Guardian, (writing about “war, gender and freedom of information”) the convicted traitor has been informed that More...  Quotes of the day 2/12/2015 10:41:33 PM Allahpundit 309 Comments A federal judge on Thursday ordered an Alabama official to comply with her earlier ruling striking down the state’s ban on same-sex matrimony by beginning to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. U.S. District Court Judge Callie Granade’s More... Surprise: Government has been wrong about cholesterol for 40 years 2/12/2015 10:01:18 PM Mary Katharine Ham 125 Comments Oops. The nation's top nutrition advisory panel has decided to drop its caution about eating cholesterol-laden food, a move that could undo almost 40 years of government warnings about its consumption. The group's finding that cholesterol in the diet More... Scare: ISIS getting closer to direct combat with U.S. troops in Iraq 2/12/2015 9:21:00 PM Noah Rothman 50 Comments On Thursday afternoon, a series of unconfirmed reports indicated that forces loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria had surrounded a base in which 320 United States Marines were stationed. Those reports were particularly disturbing because they More... Joe Biden to Democrats: Do not forsake us! 2/12/2015 8:41:54 PM Noah Rothman 28 Comments Outwardly, President Joe Biden appeared his usual cheery and jubilant self in Iowa on Thursday. Inside, however, the vice president was racked with regret and consumed with introspection as Barack Obama's presidency comes to a close. With the House More... House conservatives to McConnell: Nuke the filibuster and pass our DHS bill blocking Obama's executive amnesty 2/12/2015 8:01:59 PM Allahpundit 48 Comments Er, why? Reps. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho) and Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) said McConnell should change Senate rules, so the House-passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill, which includes language to revoke Obama’s immigration-related More... This is what media bias looks like 2/12/2015 7:21:25 PM Noah Rothman 57 Comments When conservatives charge the political press with displaying a bias toward liberalism – or, at the very least, deferring to the consensus opinion that is dominant among coastal, urban elites – they are often accused of lacking substantive evidence to More... Pentagon, Capitol Hill sources: This AUMF proposal is completely unnecessary 2/12/2015 6:41:44 PM Ed Morrissey 24 Comments Yesterday, President Obama finally got around to offering his proposal on a new authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) tailored to his vision of how to handle ISIS. So far, it has received a striking amount of unanimity in response … of More... Union pensions and repairing the deadbeat state 2/12/2015 6:01:06 PM Jazz Shaw 20 Comments Yesterday we mentioned the challenges which the new Governor of Illinois will face as he attempts to confront the unions in his state – particularly the public workers unions. Even the relatively mild move of preventing the state from extorting More... Revealed: Obama partied with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn — last summer 2/12/2015 5:21:00 PM Allahpundit 50 Comments Let’s hope this scoop from Gawker doesn’t disrupt the important “Scott Walker dodged a question on evolution” news cycle overly much. The reunion came, allegedly, at the wedding of MSNBC talking head Alex Wagner to White House More... Power: It will take ground troops to defeat ISIS … but we won't send any 2/12/2015 4:41:43 PM Ed Morrissey 49 Comments Coming from the woman who once argued that the West needed to massively occupy Israel, this sounds a little surprising from the world’s foremost expert on genocide in the middle of multiple genocides in Iraq and Syria. The fact that ISIS is More... Harvard study: Dodd-Frank actually made "Too Big to Fail" even bigger 2/12/2015 4:01:49 PM Ed Morrissey 30 Comments The aftermath of the Great Recession and financial-services industry collapse provided one intriguing opportunity to settle an old argument. In the wake of the massively unpopular government bailouts, would more regulation reduce the Too Big To Fail More... NBC News: We'd have condemned Scott Walker no matter what he said in London 2/12/2015 3:21:16 PM Noah Rothman 74 Comments Republican presidential candidates seem to consistently get themselves into trouble when they embark on high-profile trips to London. This phenomenon has led some to wonder whether Republican presidential candidates should simply refrain from traveling More... Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Salena Zito, C. T. Rex 2/12/2015 2:51:11 PM Ed Morrissey 4 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! Duane "Generalissimo" Patterson brings us up to date on the week's top stories and gives us a preview of tonight's Hugh Hewitt show. Forbes’ Erik More... Bad news: Notorious narcissist now has a "selfie stick" 2/12/2015 2:41:29 PM Allahpundit 171 Comments Giving this guy his own selfie stick is like giving Charlie Sheen his own meth lab. WaPo wryly borrows BuzzFeed’s own format for its headline on this: “Which image of Obama mugging for BuzzFeed's cameras diminshes the presidency the most, More... Law & Order: SVU episode on GamerGate is every bit as bad as you'd expect 2/12/2015 2:01:50 PM Ed Morrissey 56 Comments Bear in mind that the starting level of any Law & Order: SVU is somewhere around dreck and self-satire anyway. I watched three weeks of episodes in Rome last October because I could only get one channel of television in English, and it tended to run More... IRS commissioner: Illegals are now eligible for tax credits under Obama's amnesty — even for years past 2/12/2015 1:21:10 PM Allahpundit 153 Comments Our Townhall cousin Conn Carroll was way ahead of the game on this, warning back in December that handing out Social Security numbers to illegals under Obama’s new executive amnesty was a momentous development. Illegals are already eligible for More... Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Gay marriage 'will be decided before we leave town in June' 2/12/2015 12:41:51 PM Noah Rothman 455 Comments In Alabama, one of many states in which a local ban on same-sex marriage rights was struck down by the state's Supreme Court – a consequence of the United States Supreme Court's decision in Windsor v. United States – officials are balking at complying More... Kitzhaber: No, I'm not resigning from my scandal plagued administration. Why do you ask? 2/12/2015 12:01:47 PM Jazz Shaw 35 Comments Look, I’m not saying there’s any direct, causal relationship between the stench currently hanging over the Oregon Governor’s office and the state’s decision to legalize the wacky tobacky… it’s probably just a More... Report: State Department ordered U.S. Marines to disarm during Yemen embassy evacuation 2/12/2015 11:21:44 AM Allahpundit 123 Comments So claims Megyn Kelly in the clip below, citing a defense source. Question: Did State issue that order because it wanted to, or because it felt it had to? Houthi rebels took all U.S. Embassy vehicles parked at the Yemeni capital’s airport and More... Brian Williams probably won't be back 2/12/2015 10:41:13 AM Noah Rothman 67 Comments When NBC News imposed a six-month suspension on Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, they might as well have just let him go. Apparently, NBC executives were considering doing just that. The Washington Post reported on Thursday that an "intense debate" More... |   | |||||
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