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Paul: Republicans "need to aggressively go after the Clintons"
3/24/2015 10:01:42 AM  Ed Morrissey
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Republicans need and “want someone who’s a fighter,” Rand Paul told Megyn Kelly last night, especially when it comes to one opponent in particular.  “I think we do need to go aggressively after the Clintons,” he said,
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Iran talks deadline passes without a deal… again
3/24/2015 9:31:25 AM  Noah Rothman
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It's déjà vu all over again. In November, the multilateral negotiations aimed at curbing Iran's march toward a nuclear weapon stalled and failed to culminate in an agreement before the scheduled deadline. But Iran and the P5+1 were reportedly so close
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Video: German passenger flight crashes after "abnormal situation" declared
3/24/2015 9:01:32 AM  Ed Morrissey
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A flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf on the discount airline Germanwings crashed in the French Alps despite good weather, and officials say that all 148 people on board have been killed. The pilot signaled that the flight had an “abnormal
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Obama admin: How dare Israel share intel on Iran talks with Congress!
3/24/2015 8:31:34 AM  Ed Morrissey
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As it turns out, the speech by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu wasn’t the communication to Congress that got the Obama administration most upset. Today’s Wall Street Journal reveals in a report from Adam Entous that Israel’s intelligence
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George Zimmerman: No regrets
3/24/2015 8:01:14 AM  Jazz Shaw
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George Zimmerman has released a new video through the office of his attorney which sums up his current situation and what he’s taken away from his tumultuous experiences with both the legal system and the media. It comes at a rather interesting
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Quotes of the day
3/23/2015 10:41:42 PM  Allahpundit
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Senator Ted Cruz of Texas announced on Monday morning that he would run for president in 2016, becoming the first Republican candidate to declare himself officially in the race. Linking the determination of his immigrant father with the resolve of the
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The day in Hillary: Nodding aggressively, addressing reporters without taking questions
3/23/2015 10:01:13 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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We shouldn’t let Hillary Clinton’s shenanigans go without commentary today, overshadowed though they will necessarily be by Sen. Ted Cruz’s big announcement. Today, the Empress of Inaccessibility made an appearance at liberal think tank
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Will there be room on the agenda to pass the Sportsmen's Act?
3/23/2015 9:21:22 PM  Jazz Shaw
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Given how many fires there are to be put out in Washington these days I’m not sure how much hope I’m holding out for this, but there is a bit of business which Congress could accomplish without much trouble which would actually help people.
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The future is today: Force fields and underground lunar colonies in the news
3/23/2015 8:41:37 PM  Noah Rothman
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It's 2015, so where is your flying car already? Well, you might not get one any time soon. What's more, global warming has not accelerated at a rate necessary to force us all into Mylar suits like those that were ubiquitous on the average 1960s-era
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After eight years of Obama, why would the GOP nominate a first-term senator?
3/23/2015 8:01:45 PM  Allahpundit
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A key question from Erick Erickson on Ted Cruz Day that applies to more than just Ted Cruz. Not only will GOP voters expect a snappy answer to this from him, Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio, I’d bet cash money that it’ll be put to one or all of
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"Walking Dead" grumble thread: Persona non grata
3/23/2015 7:21:09 PM  Allahpundit
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We’ve been waiting a long time for someone in the group to knock Rick’s ass out and we knew it was going to be either Michonne or Daryl who did the knocking. They’re the only members of the Grimes gang with heroic stature that
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Watch: CNN'ers having a hard time coming to terms with implosion of Rolling Stone's rape story
3/23/2015 6:41:20 PM  Noah Rothman
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Months after a platoon of journalists went to work dismantling the now discredited tale involving a gang rape initiation at a University of Virginia fraternity spun by Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Erdely, the Charlottesville Police Department has
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Video: The sad reality of corporate "conversations" activism
3/23/2015 6:01:20 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Sure, plenty of critics blasted Starbucks for its condescending Let’s have a conversation “RaceTogether” campaign, but how many of them tried it out to see how it would go? Give NRO’s Kathleen Timpf credit for dipping her toes in
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NY Times Public Editor "may have" had Hands Up Don't Shoot wrong
3/23/2015 5:21:18 PM  Jazz Shaw
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Last week we saw a remarkable moment in journalism when Washington Post columnist (and MSNBC commentator) Jonathan Capehart wrote a column in which he was finally forced to acknowledge that Hands Up Don’t Shoot was founded on a lie. Being not only
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Report: FEMA to withhold disaster-preparedness funds from states that don't plan for climate change
3/23/2015 4:41:16 PM  Allahpundit
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C’mon. This isn’t real, is it? The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making it tougher for governors to deny man-made climate change. Starting next year, the agency will approve disaster-preparedness funds only for states whose governors
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New trigger warning from TNR: "Taxpayers"
3/23/2015 4:01:17 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Politicians of both major parties, and even most of the minor ones, commonly refer to voters as “taxpayers,” usually to show that they remember who pays the bills … even if memory serves for only a short time during the campaign. The
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367 Traitors: Majority of U.S. House signs letter to Obama warning of opposition to Iran deal
3/23/2015 3:21:24 PM  Noah Rothman
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For liberals, opposition to Republicans is as much about defending President Barack Obama's honor as it is in opposing the GOP's policies. The left's antipathy toward the GOP is shared by many in the political press, which spent the better part of the
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How to scare Democrats into abandoning Obama's nuclear deal
3/23/2015 2:41:51 PM  Allahpundit
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A fun bit of cunning from Kurt Schlichter that deserves more attention. If Mitch McConnell finds himself stuck in the low to mid-60s on votes to override Obama’s nuke treaty with Iran, here’s a poison pill guaranteed to shake loose a few
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Video: Just how much influence did Obama administration exert in Israel's election?
3/23/2015 2:01:27 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Did the White House attempt to throw an election in an allied country for its own political ends? Over the last few decades, progressives have made that accusation against Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, but the shoe may be on the other foot —
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Ted Cruz's 2016 bid is good for the Republican Party
3/23/2015 1:21:27 PM  Noah Rothman
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In early January, The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol took a look at the expansive field of prospective Republican presidential prospects and called for three hearty cheers. Republicans, he noted, were the beneficiaries of an embarrassment of riches. With
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School achieves huge bump in graduation rate by just passing everyone
3/23/2015 12:41:09 PM  Jazz Shaw
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Looks like somebody may have finally come up with a better system than Common Core. John Dewey High School in Brooklyn, New York was having a lot of trouble with their numbers. Not enough students were graduating, and that’s bad for business. But
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Surprise: SCOTUS upholds Wisconsin voter-ID law
3/23/2015 12:01:52 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Or maybe not such a surprise after all. The path to today’s Supreme Court decision to refuse an appeal by the ACLU against Wisconsin’s voter-ID law has been strewn with appellate decisions that supported its implementation, although a
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Does Cruz have a path to the nomination?
3/23/2015 11:31:44 AM  Allahpundit
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He sure does, says Team Cruz. But the key to victory, Cruz advisers believe, is to be the second choice of enough voters in the party’s libertarian and social conservative wings to cobble together a coalition to defeat the chosen candidate of the
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NBC's Richard Engel: Yemen could be the next Syria
3/23/2015 11:01:47 AM  Noah Rothman
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It has become rote and tedious to observe that it was just six months ago that President Barack Obama held up Yemen as an example of how his administration's approach to counterterrorism was bearing fruit. Just 24 weeks later, Yemen is a basket case, and
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