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| Going beyond self reporting for pilot mental health issues 4/1/2015 10:01:14 AM Jazz Shaw 22 Comments As more revelations come to light regarding the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, much of the focus as turned to the co-pilot’s alleged mental health issues. In this specific case, the pilot had told his employers several years ago about issues More... Video: Russian, French, Chinese negotiators bail out of stalled Iran talks 4/1/2015 9:31:39 AM Ed Morrissey 41 Comments Call this something less than a confidence-builder. CBS News reports that talks with Iran may go another 48 hours after the deadline for a deal passed last night, but the talks will be a lonelier exercise. Three of the nations in the talks have walked More... Has the fight over Indiana's RFRA set the GOP up for failure? 4/1/2015 9:01:24 AM Noah Rothman 49 Comments Over the course of this and last week, Indiana's Religious Freedom and Restoration Act has set the nation's hair ablaze as commentators and pundits on the left compete with one another in order to adopt the most disingenuously indignant posture over this More... Video: Reason TV's exclusive Obama interview 4/1/2015 8:31:35 AM Ed Morrissey 17 Comments “Groundbreaking.” “Fearless.” “Roasted lame duck.” That’s how the critics will be describing Reason TV’s exclusive interview with Barack Obama, in which the second-term gives the most cogent and honest More... Forget Indiana… let's move the fight to Arkansas 4/1/2015 8:01:41 AM Jazz Shaw 55 Comments Now that Mike Pence is “fixing” the RFRA in Indiana, it remains to be seen whether or not the Left will receive a sufficiently beefy pound of flesh to leave the Hoosiers alone. But as far as the media circus goes, it may not matter because a More... Quotes of the day 3/31/2015 10:41:44 PM Allahpundit 282 Comments Last week I signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, known as RFRA, which ensures that Indiana law will respect religious freedom and apply the highest level of scrutiny to any state or local governmental action that infringes on people's religious More... Meh: Rahm Emanuel opens up big lead in Chicago runoff 3/31/2015 10:01:13 PM Mary Katharine Ham 26 Comments It was fun while it lasted: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's lead over his rival in next week's mayoral runoff, Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, has swelled to a commanding 28-point advantage, according to a Chicago Tribune poll released this More... Video: Barometers of political conventional wisdom say Hillary has a big problem, even on MSNBC 3/31/2015 9:21:21 PM Mary Katharine Ham 49 Comments Today, we learned Madam Secretary did indeed have two devices, as Ed wrote about this morning. That destroyed Clinton’s ludicrous “convenience” explanation for her private e-mail address as a way to carry only one device, despite the More... Poll: Hillary hurt by scandals in key swing states 3/31/2015 8:41:50 PM Noah Rothman 55 Comments For the umpteenth time, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) stated unequivocally on Tuesday that she will not seek the presidency in 2016. In an appearance on NBC's Today, Warren issued a vague and barely committal endorsement of the Democratic Party's likely More... Rubio's pollster: If the GOP doesn't win more than 40% of the Latino vote next year, they'll lose the election 3/31/2015 8:01:52 PM Allahpundit 76 Comments Alternate headline: “GOP loses election.” “A Republican nominee is going to need to be somewhere in the mid-forties, or better, among Hispanic voters,” Ayres said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast. The pollster noted that More... In the fight against ISIS, two steps forward and one step back 3/31/2015 7:21:32 PM Noah Rothman 12 Comments The Iraqi government claimed on Tuesday to have won its most critical victory against the Islamic State militia since the insurgency exploded out of Syria in early 2014 when it announced the capture of the city of Tikrit. Despite a boycott of the attack More... Report: French, German FMs say they're leaving Iran talks in the morning as U.S. vows to extend into Wednesday 3/31/2015 6:41:16 PM Allahpundit 43 Comments Two possibilities here. One: The U.S. is playing a game of good cop/bad cop with France and Germany in the latter role. If the French and Germans threaten to observe the March 31st deadline for a nuke deal and walk away if nothing gets done tonight, Iran More... Video: VA scandals "far from over," as far as … Hawaii 3/31/2015 6:01:53 PM Ed Morrissey 24 Comments Has the change in management at the Veterans Administration had an impact on the performance within the organization? Not so anyone would notice, at least if the Hawaii VA offers any indication. Even after the initial wait-list fraud got exposed in More... Another fat "green" loan to an Obama connected company 3/31/2015 5:21:17 PM Jazz Shaw 20 Comments The Department of Energy’s fuel efficient vehicle and green energy loan program is back in business. You remember that spectacularly successful initiative, right? It was the one responsible for propping up companies like Fisker, Solyndra and Abound More... Will earmarks for taxpayers improve enthusiasm and compliance? 3/31/2015 4:41:06 PM Ed Morrissey 20 Comments Earmarks in Congress prompted a grassroots movement to stamp them out called Porkbusters, one that scored a surprising but incomplete success, and produced a few unintended consequences. Still, as taxpayer revolts go, it served as a remarkable More... CT Gov. Malloy: GOP candidates who defended Indiana's RFRA disqualified from the presidency 3/31/2015 4:01:19 PM Noah Rothman 100 Comments How do you know that you've won the argument? It's usually when your opponent expands the scope of the issues well beyond their deliberately narrow parameters in the pursuit of more favorable terrain. Connecticut's Gov. Dannel Malloy is desperately More... Left turns on new "Daily Show" host after one day because that's the world we live in now, America; Update: Comedy Central stands by Noah 3/31/2015 3:21:38 PM Allahpundit 81 Comments “From Progressive Icon to Villain in 24 Hours,” writes Dave Weigel, raising the question of how a guy known to American audiences for nothing more than a handful of “TDS” segments could have become an icon in the span of a few More... Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Phelim McAleer, Matt Schlapp 3/31/2015 2:51:20 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It’s the triumphant Return of the TEMS! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day: Andrew Malcolm joins us for Tuesdays with Andrew! The Prince of Twitter and I will discuss all of the hot More... With nuclear negotiations set to extend past deadline, Iran provokes U.S. Naval assets 3/31/2015 2:41:01 PM Noah Rothman 33 Comments President Barack Obama and his administration have repeatedly asserted that the final deadline for a framework nuclear agreement with Iran was set in stone. "We very much believe we can get this done by the 31st," a senior official aboard Secretary of More... We're "disappointed" in Indiana for passing RFRA, says … NASCAR 3/31/2015 2:01:57 PM Allahpundit 244 Comments A statement that says everything while saying nothing. NASCAR's Brett Jewkes, senior vice president and chief communications officer, issued a statement as Pence spoke Tuesday. "NASCAR is disappointed by the recent legislation passed in Indiana. We will More... Dairy farmers bemoan lack of illegal aliens 3/31/2015 1:21:21 PM Jazz Shaw 170 Comments This immigration story takes place far from the southern border and actually hits rather close to home for me, since it’s set in upstate New York. What’s that you say? We don’t have an illegal immigrant problem in the northeast? Think More... Hillary's private intel chief also an illegal lobbyist? 3/31/2015 12:41:58 PM Ed Morrissey 73 Comments Last week, Gawker and ProPublica revealed that Hillary Clinton ran a private intelligence network while Secretary of State, with longtime Clintonista Sidney Blumenthal at its top, e-mailing her updates through her private server. They have also uncovered More... An amusing struggle as the press tries to explain why RFRA is different from all those other laws 3/31/2015 12:01:59 PM Jazz Shaw 97 Comments While it’s certainly a serious topic which merits the debate going on around the country, there has been one exceptionally funny aspect to the entire RFRA discussion this week. It took some prodding from conservative outlets, but the media has at More... YouGov poll: Heavy majority opposes Obama's idea of mandatory voting 3/31/2015 11:31:58 AM Allahpundit 48 Comments That’s two polls in two days where opposition to one of President Overreach’s schemes is north of 60 percent. Two weeks ago, he told an audience in Cleveland that the surest way to counteract big money in politics is to require voting by law. More... WaPo/ABC poll: 59% support Iran deal, same percentage not confident it will prevent Iran nuke 3/31/2015 11:01:33 AM Ed Morrissey 41 Comments Maybe Barack Obama really does represent the American people best … or perhaps he’s left the electorate as confused as his administration. According to the latest Washington Post/ABC poll, 59% of respondents support a deal with Iran that will More... |   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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