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Tapper: Yes, Nerd Prom has gotten out of hand
4/28/2015 10:01:17 AM  Ed Morrissey
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Yes it has, and it’s not a new development. I first wrote about the ridiculous pageantry of media celebrity a couple of years ago (complete with a Lindsay Lohan-themed poll), and Noah’s written consistently about the same problem for the last
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Chipotle drops GMOs. Healthy choice or smart for profits?
4/28/2015 9:31:07 AM  Jazz Shaw
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The popular Mexican food restaurant chain Chipolte announced this week that they will no longer sell food containing genetically modified organisms (GMO) even though this will lead to a small increase in prices. This led Fortune Magazine to ask whether
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The sickening few in the media who welcomed the Baltimore riots
4/28/2015 9:01:29 AM  Noah Rothman
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Days after Freddie Gray died prematurely in police custody, the city of Baltimore exploded in violence. Gray's family didn't want violence. The community that exploded didn't want violence. The owners and patrons of the local businesses the burned didn't
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Video: Freddie Gray family "really appalled" at paroxysm of violence
4/28/2015 8:31:03 AM  Ed Morrissey
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The family of Freddie Gray found itself in an almost unimaginable position yesterday. They had to bury the young man who had his spine snapped while in police custody, and at the same time found themselves under the media spotlight because of the
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CNN contributor tags Baltimore Riots as #BaltimoreRising while city burns
4/28/2015 8:01:46 AM  Jazz Shaw
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On Monday night we saw Baltimore burning. There were seven police officers down with injuries including broken bones, with that number growing to 15 by the morning. Stores were looted and police cars and emergency vehicles were stoned and destroyed. A
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Quotes of the day
4/27/2015 10:41:40 PM  Allahpundit
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I am shaken to my bones by the e-mails, texts, postings and phone calls of the past few days. I made a terrible mistake. I was ignorant, naive and much too quick in accepting a request to co-host a dinner with [Ted] Cruz at my home without taking the
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Baltimore ends day with burning church senior center, Hero mom delivers slap heard 'round the news
4/27/2015 10:01:49 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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Terrible. The fire in East Baltimore. Dozens of people out here crying and in disbelief: "This is our church!" pic.twitter.com/2DTf1m7sia — Yvonne Wenger (@yvonnewenger) April 28, 2015 CNN reports the senior center was newly built, part
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Rand Paul: Let's face it, it was a mistake to topple Saddam Hussein
4/27/2015 9:21:45 PM  Allahpundit
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Interesting, not because it’s a surprise that Ron Paul’s son feels this way — remember this? — but because this is a subject that every Republican in the field, Rand included, would probably prefer to avoid during the
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By the way, Hillary has answered…seven media questions since announcing White House run
4/27/2015 8:41:59 PM  Guy Benson
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Hillary Clinton has been an official candidate for the presidency of the United States for 16 days. Over that span, according National Journal’s tally, she has answered precisely seven questions from the media.  Total.   Pay special attention to
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Report: The six-figure link between the Clintons and Goldman Sachs
4/27/2015 8:01:57 PM  Noah Rothman
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Writing in Mother Jones on Monday, the liberal columnist Jonathan Chait has some bad news for Republicans: Attacks on Clinton's populist credentials are, he reveals, doomed to failure. Pay no mind to the fact that a variety of Wall Street veterans have
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Democrats finally found an Obamacare-related tax hike they hate…
4/27/2015 7:21:44 PM  Noah Rothman
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Talk to any inside-the-Beltway political consultant, and you'll learn that populism is totally hot right now. They're not wrong. Polls consistently show that the public has felt the pinch of the economic contraction for going on over six years, and they
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CNN: Ted Cruz thinks Democrats who support gay marriage are "fascist"
4/27/2015 6:41:38 PM  Allahpundit
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Does he? Via RCP, watch the CNN clip below excerpting Cruz’s speech on Saturday in Iowa. Quote: “Senator Ted Cruz, speaking before the Iowa Faith and Freedom Summit, called Democrats who support gay marriage ‘fascist.'” Then watch
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Video: Eleven strange "coincidences" from the Clinton Foundation
4/27/2015 6:01:31 PM  Ed Morrissey
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The big takeaway for ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in his interview with author Peter Schweizer was that the book Clinton Cash had no “smoking gun” on Hillary Clinton or the Clinton Foundation. ABC News did its own investigation of the
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GoFundMe shuts down another donations page for a Christian business owner accused of discrimination?
4/27/2015 5:21:32 PM  Allahpundit
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The question mark’s in the headline because they haven’t commented yet on where the page went or why, but you can guess what happened if you read Jazz’s post yesterday. A GoFundMe page for a different Christian-owned business, Sweet
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Live video: Protesters throwing rocks, bricks at cops in Baltimore during Freddie Gray demonstrations; Update: Fire hose cut
4/27/2015 4:24:50 PM  Allahpundit
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I watched it live on Fox News at 4 p.m. ET. When I say they’re throwing rocks and bricks, I don’t mean one or two projectiles. It was a barrage. One cop has apparently already been injured and taken away. The local CBS affiliate, WJZ, had a
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Quinnipiac: Americans really support Iran deal they think won't work
4/27/2015 4:01:28 PM  Ed Morrissey
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It’s not the first time we’ve seen this dynamic, although the situation becomes more acute as John Kerry and Barack Obama press on towards a deal with Iran. The latest poll from Quinnipiac shows a majority of Americans want to embrace a deal,
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In the press, panic over Hillary's self-destruction is growing
4/27/2015 3:21:54 PM  Noah Rothman
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How do you know that a Democrat has found him or herself embroiled in a particularly devastating scandal? When the press begins to ask when the Republicans will begin "overplaying" their hands. This weekend, you could feel the ground beginning to fall
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British Labour chief: I'm going to make Islamophobia an aggravated hate crime
4/27/2015 2:41:22 PM  Allahpundit
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Via Breitbart, a reminder that Britain’s left remains a few steps ahead of America’s in legally sanctioning thoughtcrime. Here in the good ol’ free-market U.S.A., we still prefer economic sanctions for deviating from ruling-class
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Is Google helping to assassinate cops?
4/27/2015 2:01:55 PM  Jazz Shaw
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You learn something new every day. I was just reading an editorial at CNN written by Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. and Jonathan Thompson which involves the public use of a Google owned app which may be placing law enforcement officers in danger. (I should
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Sunlight Foundation leader: Clinton Foundation a "slush fund"
4/27/2015 1:21:19 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Yesterday, the Clinton Foundation responded to a growing clamor for accountability with a statement from Maura Pally, the CEO of its unit focusing on programs for women and youth, admitting to “mistakes.” Pally denies that the errors intended
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Rand Paul defends the White House's botched drone strike
4/27/2015 12:41:51 PM  Noah Rothman
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It was only just over two years ago that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) captured the imaginations of millions and became the voice of a war-weary American public when he mounted a quixotic filibuster in opposition to the administration's reliance on drones as the
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The home ownership trap
4/27/2015 12:01:28 PM  Jazz Shaw
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Owning your own home and making it your castle is a key element of the American dream. Or is it? That’s become a more complicated question in recent years, particularly since the crash of 2007 and the bursting of the housing bubble well before
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Video: The Everest avalanche; Update: Eyewitness account from rescuer
4/27/2015 11:31:12 AM  Allahpundit
116 Comments
A surreal memento of the Nepal earthquake, viewed upwards of six million times yesterday. By my count it’s 25 seconds from the moment the man with the camera exclaims that the ground is moving to the moment that the snow and ice are crashing down
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Bush rips Obama foreign policy at closed-door Adelson forum
4/27/2015 11:01:23 AM  Ed Morrissey
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For more than six years, George W. Bush has maintained a professional silence on the actions of his successor in office. Bush has repeatedly said that the job of President is difficult enough without having former occupants of the White House criticizing
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