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| NYT: Gowdy to subpoena Sid Blumenthal for Benghazi committee 5/19/2015 10:01:30 AM Ed Morrissey 17 Comments To quote Wilford Brimley in Absence of Malice: “Wonderful thing, subpoenas.” Don’t set your DVR just yet, as this subpoena will serve as an “invitation” to a closed-door but transcribed hearing. Still, the move to collar More... FOP accuses Obama of playing politics with the safety of cops 5/19/2015 9:21:55 AM Jazz Shaw 14 Comments Yesterday we discussed the announcement from the White House which set forth new restrictions on issuing excess military equipment to local police forces. At the time I reached the following conclusion: This is a public relations stunt to show that they More... NY Post: Stephanopoulos gets $105M from ABC 5/19/2015 8:41:40 AM Ed Morrissey 52 Comments When it emerged that George Stephanopoulos had failed to disclose $75,000 in donations to the Clinton Foundation to either the network or viewers while repeatedly covering the organization, ABC News declared that it would stand by its “chief news More... State Department to release Hillary emails in January 2016 5/19/2015 8:01:35 AM Jazz Shaw 24 Comments You may recall that when this whole Hillary Clinton email business started, the former Secretary of State had turned over all of her emails to the State Department. Or, more correctly, all of the ones she deemed pertinent to serving the public. They More...
Quotes of the day 5/18/2015 10:21:50 PM Allahpundit 202 Comments After capturing the capital city of a major Iraqi region, ISIS is claiming one of its biggest victories. According to local officials, Islamic State militants likely killed up to 500 people in the city of Ramadi, and forced 8,000 to flee from their More... Hillary's two-pronged money problem: The scale and the slime 5/18/2015 9:31:42 PM Mary Katharine Ham 32 Comments Far be it from me to suggest that speaking about politics in public is not a marketable skill. It is, and it’s one of the wares I happen to sell. I also drive myself around town in a beat-up stick-shift sedan, so I’m not exactly in this More... Video: Elian Gonzalez wants to return to US … as a tourist 5/18/2015 8:41:20 PM Ed Morrissey 36 Comments Those old enough to recall the Elian Gonzalez case may always picture him as a six-year-old boy shrieking in terror as federal marshals retrieved him at gunpoint from relatives in Florida. The case became a cause célèbre in the US, and especially in the More... Surprise: 9th Circuit en banc reverses, rejects forced removal of anti-Muslim film 5/18/2015 8:01:18 PM Ed Morrissey 25 Comments Perhaps the biggest shock here isn’t that the 9th Circuit reversed itself en banc, but that they managed to get this question correct at all. Earlier, a three-judge panel upheld a challenge to the controversial YouTube video “Innocence of More... Jeb Bush: We must be stalwart supporters of traditional marriage, whatever the Supreme Court says 5/18/2015 7:21:56 PM Allahpundit 49 Comments Via the Brody File, if you’re worried that the rumors about Jeb “evolving” on gay marriage are true, this should put you at ease. Not much wiggle room left in this answer. David Brody: Conservative Christians are real concerned about More... So we're seriously talking about a John Kasich POTUS run? 5/18/2015 6:41:44 PM Jazz Shaw 38 Comments Earlier today, Allahpundit lit the candle on the exciting news that Ohio Governor John Kasich was virtually certain to be running for president. In that article, AP listed a number of items which would speak well of such a plan. (Aside from filling the More... NYT: Banned from State Dep't, Clinton Foundation crony advised Hillary on Libya anyway — while pursuing business there; Update: Another e-mail lie 5/18/2015 6:01:16 PM Allahpundit 110 Comments The crony in question is Sid Blumenthal, former White House advisor to Bill and longtime hatchet man for the pair. We already knew Blumenthal was running his own off-the-books intelligence operation for the Secretary of State. We also knew that More... Grim milestone: Semi-retired president now on Twitter 5/18/2015 5:21:42 PM Allahpundit 53 Comments To cleanse the palate, Obama’s arrogance in a nutshell: He actually thinks he can govern the country and manage an unholy time-suck like Twitter at the same time. Give him a month for the addiction to take root. By the end of the summer, More... A view of Generous George from the Left 5/18/2015 4:41:03 PM Jazz Shaw 38 Comments I’ve heard a couple of folks on political talk radio and cable news already starting the countdown clock until George Stephanopoulos steps aside at ABC News, but I’m really not so sure that’s going to happen. We all knew that Brian More... Clinton Foundation got millions in union money — as "political" activity 5/18/2015 4:01:17 PM Ed Morrissey 30 Comments At least give the unions marks for more honesty than the Clintons. The Department of Labor records perused by the union watchdog group National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) includes disclosures of millions of dollars going from Big More... Report: RNC quietly settling on cap of 12 candidates for first GOP debates 5/18/2015 3:21:01 PM Allahpundit 81 Comments I liked Team Jindal’s idea of splitting the field into two groups and holding back to back debates. (Or, since it’s the Internet age, of holding them at the same time and simulcasting one on TV and the other on the network’s website.) More... Jindal: Wait… we're all declaring now? 5/18/2015 2:41:51 PM Jazz Shaw 34 Comments Hey, do you remember back last year when everyone was talking about the Governor of Louisiana as a likely POTUS contender, if not a favorite to be an early frontrunner? Yeah… whatever happened to that guy? Well, it turns out that he’s still More... Total collapse: "Elite" Iraqi units routed in Ramadi counteroffensive 5/18/2015 2:01:04 PM Ed Morrissey 123 Comments Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. When ISIS began its attack on Ramadi last week, the Iraqi government threw in its elite units, hoping to stem the tide of the radical Sunni advance and the overall targeting of Baghdad proper. Instead of More... Video: Chris Wallace spends three minutes trying to get Rubio to say whether the Iraq war was a mistake 5/18/2015 1:21:30 PM Allahpundit 113 Comments Yesterday I saw a post at Mediaite comparing this to an Abbott & Costello routine, forgot about it, then thought of it instantly when I got around to watching the clip this morning. It’s thisclose to “Who’s on first?” And More... Report: Hillary has already picked her VP, so there's one less thing to worry about 5/18/2015 12:41:41 PM Jazz Shaw 71 Comments I’ve heard of being a little quick on the draw to order new curtains for the Oval Office, but Hillary Clinton may be skipping a few steps in the normal process if she’s already setting up living quarters for her Vice President. Still, you More... Fox: Newly released Benghazi documents show Obama admin lied about attack 5/18/2015 12:01:55 PM Ed Morrissey 110 Comments And quite a bit more, including the potential for ISIS to rise to seize ground and declare a caliphate. In a memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to the National Security Council, the CIA, and the White House five days after the attack on the More... ABC: John Kasich "virtually certain" to run for president 5/18/2015 11:21:26 AM Allahpundit 60 Comments At this point, with new candidates cannonballing into the GOP’s 2016 pool every week, maybe the question shifts from “Why would a guy like Kasich run?” to “Why wouldn’t he?” Iowa might be winnable this time with less More... Give it up, Republicans. Your base is dying off 5/18/2015 10:41:07 AM Jazz Shaw 197 Comments As we “all know” from listening to cable news spokesmodels, the GOP is the party of old white people. They’re a reliable bunch as voters go, and can usually be counted to show up on election day and make their voices heard. Aside from More... | 
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