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| WaPo: Hey, let's take representation out of representative government, or something 3/17/2015 10:01:58 AM Ed Morrissey 20 Comments Another nation is having an election today, which means it’s time for Why Can’t The US Be Like ____ Day. Today, the Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor fills in the blank with “Israel,” whose parliamentary elections use party More... Earnest: Rejecting Medicaid expansion is basically condemning Americans to death 3/17/2015 9:31:19 AM Noah Rothman 40 Comments The Party of Science has struck again. Conservatives who are either programmatically or philosophically allergic to the notion that expanding access to Medicaid is tantamount to providing the poor access to health care will be surprised to learn that More... Walker: I didn't flip flop on ethanol 3/17/2015 9:01:38 AM Jazz Shaw 73 Comments After the Iowa AG summit, I expressed some disappointment in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s answers on ethanol subsidies and the Renewable Fuel Standard. It turns out that I wasn’t the only one who had some questions about it. During a More... CNN poll on Hillary: Unfavorable views rising, trust dropping, but … 3/17/2015 8:31:28 AM Ed Morrissey 45 Comments Yesterday’s CNN poll on Hillary Clinton presents a confused picture of the electorate’s response to her e-mail scandal, but not too much of it is unalloyed good news. CNN leads with the rise in unfavorable views and mistrust, but also note More...
Is a Boehner – Pelosi doc fix deal about to emerge? 3/17/2015 8:01:37 AM Jazz Shaw 25 Comments It looks like there’s another fight brewing on the hill. Unfortunately, rather than a battle where the Republicans are leveraging their numerical superiority over the Democrats, it seems that it will once again be an internecine scrap between More... Quotes of the day 3/16/2015 10:41:56 PM Allahpundit 258 Comments Days before millions of Israelis head to the election booths, a Channel 2 poll published Friday night revealed that the Zionist Union led by Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livini is set to win 26 seats. Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud trails with a projected More... Krauthammer: Hillary's new scandals mean she reeks of '90s shenanigans 3/16/2015 10:01:18 PM Mary Katharine Ham 59 Comments What do you think? He says her chances are “greatly diminished.” In a just world, sure. But in this world? A couple tea leaves about where media coverage might head on this issue. There’s a long and good piece in Politico Magazine More... Heart-ache: You won't have Charlie Crist to kick around in 2016 3/16/2015 9:21:15 PM Mary Katharine Ham 45 Comments I was going to let Allahpundit report this news, but he was too distraught by the loss of potential blog content and turned immediately to rationalizing a Romney run. Look upon him, ye doubters of the Orangest man in Florida, and weep. How have we More... The dream of "Romney 2016″ is alive and well, thanks to … Marco Rubio? 3/16/2015 8:41:38 PM Allahpundit 38 Comments A few days old, but it’s so rare that I’m right that I need to showcase it. A month ago I argued that Rubio’s best/only shot to gain a foothold among the establishment against Jeb was to (a) show that he’s the strongest candidate More... Despite criminal charge, David Petraeus emerges as key White House advisor on Iraq 3/16/2015 8:01:12 PM Noah Rothman 19 Comments Earlier this month, General David Petraeus pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge related to his decision to pass on classified secrets to a biographer who also happened to be his mistress. The Justice Department passed on recommending jail time for the More... "Walking Dead" grumble thread: What's grosser than gross? 3/16/2015 7:21:03 PM Allahpundit 53 Comments T-Dog, Bob, Tyreese, now Noah: A black man’s safer at a Klan rally than he is on this show. Michonne’s probably untouchable, but if I’m the actress who plays Sasha, I’m updating my resume right now. Why didn’t anyone put More... The dawn of the anti-robot movement is upon us 3/16/2015 6:01:26 PM Jazz Shaw 99 Comments Clearly I watch too many robot movies. Terminator, I Robot… you name it. But some of what these guys are saying makes sense. “I say robot, you say no-bot!” The chant reverberated through the air near the entrance to the SXSW tech and More... HBO director: We were stunned by alleged killer's admission … once we heard it 3/16/2015 5:21:19 PM Ed Morrissey 24 Comments One of the most strange moments in television history nearly got missed on a cutting room floor. And if it hadn’t been for the strange predilection of a multimillionaire to talk to himself constantly — and forgetting that he was miked up More... Coincidence: As U.S. gropes for Iran deal, Hezbollah scrubbed from list of terror threats 3/16/2015 4:41:24 PM Noah Rothman 49 Comments Over the weekend, Democrats and administration officials maintained their excitable overreaction to a letter signed by 47 Republican senators in which they warned the Islamic Republic of Iran that a bad nuclear deal that will be unlikely to outlast the More... AP reporter to Psaki: Why is it so hard to find out whether Hillary signed the separation form when she left State? 3/16/2015 4:01:32 PM Allahpundit 191 Comments Via the Right Scoop, if you’re following the Hillary e-mail saga you already know which form he means. It’s OF-109, which, per former DOJ lawyer Shannen Coffin, requires the employee to declare under penalties of perjury that she’s More... Video: He's baaaa — aaaack 3/16/2015 3:21:51 PM Ed Morrissey 34 Comments Alternate headline: Putin hits reset button on rumors. Russian strongman Vladimir Putin put an end to days of speculation about his status at the Kremlin — and his status among the living — when he showed up to a meeting with Kyrgyzstan More... Today's top story: Three-year-old hears Ted Cruz say that the world is on fire 3/16/2015 2:41:03 PM Allahpundit 62 Comments To cleanse the palate, I’m not joking with that headline. Thanks to lefty boredom on a slow news day, the fake outrage over this has propelled it to the toppermost of the poppermost on Memeorandum. (Sample hed via Dave Weigel: “Ted Cruz More... Don't panic, but US oil rig count just hit the lowest level since 2011 3/16/2015 2:01:49 PM Jazz Shaw 29 Comments We’ve been preparing everyone here for news like this for a while now so it probably won’t come as much of a shock (or a significant worry at the moment) for anyone who has been paying attention. Still, it is worth noting that there are more More... Al Gore: Liberal redeemer 3/16/2015 1:21:04 PM Noah Rothman 79 Comments While Hillary Clinton's unsustainably inflated presidential campaign continues to implode at an appropriately cosmic pace, Democrats are beginning to compel themselves to contemplate the eternal black abyss that would result from the collapse of her More... Marco Rubio's "house of horrors" and other spooky political tales 3/16/2015 12:41:20 PM Jazz Shaw 29 Comments I saw this story dredged up from the depths once again on Morning Joe today, when Politico’s John Heilemann showed up ready to raise the specter of all sorts of monstrous news about Marco Rubio. At issue was what Heilemann called – and I am More... New story from Hillary camp: Sure, we read all 32,000 deleted e-mails first 3/16/2015 12:01:56 PM Ed Morrissey 106 Comments Hillary Clinton flack Nick Merrill calls this a clarification; the rest of the political world may find other terms for it. Last week, her team distributed a document of the process they used to delete 30,000 supposedly personal e-mails from More... Democrat Tim Kaine to White House: This Iran deal will need to be reviewed by Congress 3/16/2015 11:31:43 AM Allahpundit 58 Comments Via RCP. Given the state of separation of powers in year seven of Hopenchange, prosaic reminders like this one that Congress has a role to play in approving major international agreements actually do qualify as newsworthy, especially coming from a More... John Kerry wants Assad to go… right after he negotiates a ceasefire with U.S., opposition 3/16/2015 11:01:31 AM Noah Rothman 62 Comments This is the job John Kerry has wanted all of his life, and he's blowing it. It has been, and ostensibly remains, the policy of Barack Obama's government that "Assad must go." The president made this pronouncement in the summer of 2011. Now, five years More... | 
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