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Treasury IG: New Lerner e-mails shows "potential criminal activity"
2/27/2015 10:01:51 AM  Ed Morrissey
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Remember when Barack Obama insisted that there wasn’t a “smidgen of corruption” in his administration related to the IRS scandal? Good times, good times. The discovery of tens of thousands of e-mails from Lois Lerner, the central figure
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Republican power brokers think Scott Walker just isn't ready. Do they have a point?
2/27/2015 9:21:51 AM  Noah Rothman
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The first instinct of many upon reading this headline will be to dismiss it. Presumably, "Republican powerbrokers" can be understood to mean Jeb Bush's stable of handwringers for whom nothing is more frightening than an outspoken conservative who governs
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SCOTUS to hear congressional redistricting case on Monday
2/27/2015 8:41:40 AM  Jazz Shaw
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Next week the Supreme Court will hear a case coming out of Arizona which everyone should be paying attention to, since it will have repercussions which affect virtually everyone in the nation. The gerrymandering issue in this country is well known enough
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Judicial Watch FOIA: State knew Ansar al-Sharia claimed Benghazi attack in first hours
2/27/2015 8:01:16 AM  Ed Morrissey
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What did Hillary Clinton know about the Benghazi attack, and when did she know it? After three years of Congressional investigation and demands for documentation, it took Judicial Watch and the Freedom of Information Act to get a clear answer. According
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Quotes of the day
2/26/2015 10:01:08 PM  Allahpundit
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Bush will return to the conservative gathering Friday as one of his party's leading possible presidential candidates — but one who still needs to find the right way to connect with the conservative activists who have not joined establishment donors in an
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Video: Inhofe throws snowball in Senate to demonstrate impact of climate change
2/26/2015 9:21:47 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Which is to say, there hasn’t been any. Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) recently took the gavel in the Environment and Public Works Committee from Barbara Boxer, and Inhofe has relished playing the role of climate-change skeptic even more than he did
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CPAC Interview: Rep. Marsha Blackburn on ObamaCare, Net Neutrality
2/26/2015 8:41:36 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Earlier today, I spoke with Rep. Marsha Blackburn at CPAC, who finds herself at the center of three key policy issues on Capitol Hill. Blackburn was preparing to grill HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell later in the day about the rolling disasters of
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Lawless: Treasury throws unauthorized $3 billion to insurers under Obamacare, won't say why
2/26/2015 8:01:32 PM  Noah Rothman
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It's right there in the Constitution: "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to
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The media seems eager to declare CPAC to be Rubio's "last chance"
2/26/2015 7:21:32 PM  Jazz Shaw
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I’ll confess that Marco Rubio hasn’t exactly been burning up the track in the latest polling. He’s taken a few positions which have seen some of his stalwart supporters jumping ship over the past twelve months or more and there are
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Video: Barbarians gonna barbarian
2/26/2015 6:41:35 PM  Allahpundit
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A reminder that outfits that operate their own einsatzgruppen tend to be into book-burning and statue-smashing too. Isis militants have reportedly ransacked Mosul library, burning over a hundred thousand rare manuscripts and documents spanning centuries
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Army investigated Medal of Honor recipient … over an Amazon book comment
2/26/2015 6:01:58 PM  Ed Morrissey
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If you think no one takes Amazon book reviews seriously, rest assured that the US Army certainly does. Jacob Siegel reports at The Daily Beast that the Army opened a probe of a Medal of Honor recipient after he was mentioned in a comment written by
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The GOP's remarkable foreign policy advantage
2/26/2015 5:21:55 PM  Noah Rothman
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When Americans are asked what they define to be the nation's most pressing security challenges, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (and Egypt, and Yemen, and Libya, etc.) is perhaps foremost on their minds. But the threat posed by ISIS is a near-term
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Boehner's new plan to resolve the DHS/amnesty standoff: Making kissy noises at reporters
2/26/2015 4:41:04 PM  Allahpundit
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Weird, but also the most coherent approach from a Republican leader on this issue thus far this year. Actually there are three plans being considered by the House. One: Cave now by passing a clean DHS funding bill. Two: Cave next week, after DHS has shut
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Laura Ingraham confronts Chris Christie on his limited appeal to conservatives
2/26/2015 4:01:41 PM  Noah Rothman
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Not long ago, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was the prohibitive frontrunner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Today, he increasingly looks like a longshot candidate. According to the Real Clear Politics average of polls, Christie
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Cruz on Clinton Foundation: "Hillary Clinton embodies the bipartisan corruption in Washington"
2/26/2015 3:21:16 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Earlier this afternoon, Senator Ted Cruz held an invitation-only conference with conservative media, and blasted Hillary Clinton for the activities of the Clinton Foundation during her tenure as Secretary of State. Cruz accused Clinton of being “on
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Republican sources tell BuzzFeed: Jeb Bush may be "evolving" on gay marriage
2/26/2015 2:41:20 PM  Allahpundit
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So clever of BuzzFeed to drop this today, with Bush set to sit down with Sean Hannity onstage at CPAC in 24 hours for Q&A. Think this story might come up? Think it’ll be talked about tonight at the local bars among conservatives already
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Dem Rep: You tea partiers want to bring back segregation and roll back women's rights
2/26/2015 2:01:43 PM  Noah Rothman
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Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), the former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus from 2011 to 2013, has a message for you tea partiers: You can't rob women of their rights or reinstate racial segregation, no matter how badly you would like that. Many
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Senate Judiciary Committee votes to confirm Loretta Lynch as AG — thanks to three Republicans
2/26/2015 1:21:17 PM  Allahpundit
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Because the GOP has a majority in the Senate, it also has a majority on all Senate committees — 12 to 9 in the case of the Judiciary Committee. But since Lynch’s confirmation has become a referendum on executive amnesty and the GOP is riddled
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John Boehner's exit strategy
2/26/2015 12:41:17 PM  Jazz Shaw
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AP already made a very persuasive case as to how much of a headache John Boehner has to deal with regarding DHS funding. With his Senate partner Mitch McConnell putting on every appearance of getting ready to cave to Harry Reid, the Speaker is going to
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Scott Walker talks over the heads of the media to denounce them
2/26/2015 12:01:45 PM  Noah Rothman
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In a simple and rather elegant opinion piece published in Thursday's USA Today, Scott Walker addressed the aggressive treatment he has received in the press that coincided with his rising fortunes in polls of Republican presidential voters. Walker has
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Mike Lee at CPAC: Beware of "unserious" presidential candidates spouting conservative platitudes
2/26/2015 11:21:02 AM  Allahpundit
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Via Raw Story, the buzziest line from the morning session of opening day, received tepidly by an audience that’s there precisely because they want to spend a few days gorging on ideological red meat. This is like standing up in a crowded steakhouse
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Something fishy at the Supreme Court
2/26/2015 10:41:18 AM  Jazz Shaw
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Providing yet more proof that the Justices on the Supreme Court can’t agree on anything, a ruling was handed down this week over a government fishing expedition. But in this case it was literal. There’s too much obvious humor in this story to
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The evolution of Chris Christie
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The governors Chris Christie supported aren't returning the favor
Jeb Bush campaign's demand for fidelity ruffles some Republicans
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