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| NYT: Hillary e-mails included contradiction of early talking points on Benghazi 5/21/2015 10:01:48 AM Ed Morrissey 14 Comments Get ready for another round of “what difference at this point does it make?” The New York Times got a look at 850 pages from the first tranche of Hillary Clinton e-mails that the State Department will release shortly, after a court ordered More... Crude oil may be our most strategic weapon 5/21/2015 9:21:33 AM Jazz Shaw 14 Comments I was surfing through the news channels this morning and noticed a summer energy forecast which said that gas prices were getting ready to rise. But unlike recent years, the “high” this summer is forecast to still be well below $3 per gallon More... Kurtz on media questioning of Hillary: Seriously? 5/21/2015 8:41:45 AM Ed Morrissey 37 Comments It took 28 days for Hillary Clinton to take questions from the media, but Howard Kurtz wonders why after watching the performance of the reporters on her beat. Kurtz gives Clinton credit for “finesse,” and comes to the odd conclusion based on More... USA Today tries (and fails) to turn Jake Tapper into George Stephanopoulos 5/21/2015 8:01:46 AM Jazz Shaw 23 Comments In a sign of just how toxic the Clinton Global Initiative has become for any media figure in the wake of the George Stephanopoulos scandal, USA Today has been combing the activities of the group for new potential targets. This week they seemed to think More...
Quotes of the day 5/20/2015 10:41:15 PM Allahpundit 296 Comments Sen. Rand Paul has taken to the Senate floor to blast the nation's web of surveillance authorities just days before key parts of the PATRIOT Act are set to expire. Paul, who's made opposition to government surveillance a key tenet of his quest for the More... Fox and CNN lay out rules for GOP Debate Hunger Games 5/20/2015 10:01:19 PM Mary Katharine Ham 43 Comments Sixteen have volunteered as tribute. Perhaps only 10 will ever make it into the arena. And, ultimately, only one will emerge alive victorious. Here are the rules. Fox will hold the first debate August 6, and will allow the top 10 candidates in the five More... Video: Your daily dose of Hillary running from any and all questions 5/20/2015 9:31:49 PM Mary Katharine Ham 30 Comments Ed Henry stayed across the hall from Clinton this week but couldn’t get a quote: There were a couple of Secret Service agents outside the door of a room diagonal to mine. Wait, I thought, is Hillary Clinton in that room across the hall? Nah. But More... Khameini: Yeah, those nuclear inspections won't be happening 5/20/2015 8:41:12 PM Ed Morrissey 31 Comments What exactly has the P5+1 group won in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program? Barack Obama and John Kerry both insist that the framework for the deal ensures verification of compliance on restrictions against military use, while Iran has said More... Gallup: Majority of Republicans now view gay and lesbian relations as morally acceptable 5/20/2015 8:01:02 PM Allahpundit 237 Comments I’m old enough to remember an America where Boy Scouts could have water-pistol fights and most Republicans thought gay relationships were immoral. Which is to say, I’m more than a year old. This … may not be the best day to cite More... Report: Kitzhaber scrapped state Obamacare website to save election chances 5/20/2015 7:21:07 PM Jazz Shaw 26 Comments When the Cover Oregon state health care exchange site collapsed last year, few people were all that surprised. It wasn’t as if other efforts (including the national healthcare.gov site) weren’t running into massive problems themselves. More... Video: Jindal issues EO to defend religious liberty in Louisiana 5/20/2015 6:41:44 PM Ed Morrissey 38 Comments Bobby Jindal has threatened for weeks to act if Louisiana’s legislature didn’t move to protect businesses threatened with state sanctions for refusing to participate in same-sex weddings. When Democrats used a procedural move to sideline a More... Shocking: NJ Star Ledger fails to endorse Christie for President 5/20/2015 6:01:12 PM Jazz Shaw 21 Comments I must confess… “fails to endorse” doesn’t really do this justice. The largest newspaper in New Jersey actually goes into full blown freak-out mode and essentially declares the governor to be insane. In case that sounds More... Rice to Iraq War vets: Hey, we "ended two wars responsibly," y'know 5/20/2015 5:21:34 PM Ed Morrissey 45 Comments This claim from national security adviser Susan Rice stands in such contrast to reality that Foreign Policy’s Paul McCleary gave it the subheadline, “Really? Really?” Speaking to a group of Iraq War veterans who began the day wondering More... The White House is making a list of your POTUS tweets which are naughty or nice 5/20/2015 4:41:45 PM Jazz Shaw 54 Comments As Allahpundit noted earlier, the President is back on Twitter with his own account. And good for him! It’s a free country and he should be able to express himself in the social media universe just like anyone else. (Besides, there’s not much More... Disgrace: 51% of Democrats, 37% of Republicans support making "hate speech" a crime 5/20/2015 4:01:32 PM Allahpundit 182 Comments YouGov conducted a nearly but not quite identical poll (more on that in a minute) on this topic last October. I made a big deal about it at the time and have had liberal friends ever since telling me that it’s a fluke result, that most Democrats More... Marilyn Mosby's response to conflict of interest charges is unbefitting her office 5/20/2015 3:21:30 PM Jazz Shaw 138 Comments While the gaze of the media has moved on from Baltimore’s unrest – at least to some degree – in recent weeks, the drama surrounding their State’s Attorney is still drawing plenty of scrutiny. Following the release of the laundry More... Crisis averted: Boy Scouts ban … water pistol fights 5/20/2015 2:41:10 PM Allahpundit 70 Comments Via Mashable, I don’t get it. And by “I don’t get it,” I don’t mean that I’m outraged by such a blatant, ridiculous attempt to indoctrinate kids into hating and fearing guns. I mean I genuinely don’t get it. The More... DoJ: Actually, Section 215 surveillance will stop Friday unless Congress renews it 5/20/2015 2:01:09 PM Ed Morrissey 72 Comments So much for June 1. Congress thought they had eleven more days to deal with the Patriot Act reauthorization issue. Operationally, the Department of Justice advised members earlier today, they have about … forty-eight hours. Give or take, as More... Confirmed: Bin Laden was into conspiracy theories, including 9/11 conspiracy theories 5/20/2015 1:21:35 PM Allahpundit 53 Comments That’s the choicest morsel from this morning’s kinda interesting but not terribly newsworthy document dump by the feds of what they found in Casa Osama. The SEALs reportedly took more than one million documents from the compound in 2011, More... The Kentucky Gubernatorial primary is another blow to Mitch McConnell 5/20/2015 12:41:41 PM Jazz Shaw 46 Comments In case you missed the primary battle in Kentucky last night, there was enough excitement in the GOP governor’s race to fill the pages of politicos’ notebooks for quite a while in an odd numbered year. You probably remember Matt Bevin, who More... Gates: Hillary really blew it on Libya, huh? 5/20/2015 12:01:51 PM Ed Morrissey 29 Comments Jake Tapper couldn’t ask Hillary Clinton the kind of what-if hindsight questions that other media outlets are asking Republican presidential hopefuls about the 2003 decision to invade Iraq. She’s not taking those questions or any others at More... Knowing then what we know now, would Hillary still support Obama pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq? 5/20/2015 11:21:43 AM Allahpundit 117 Comments That’s Ron Christie’s counter to two weeks of Republican candidates being forced to answer Iraq war counterfactuals. In the liberal narrative of Iraq, advanced most recently last night on Twitter by Jonathan Alter, every horror that’s More... House's NSA reform bill comes to Senate — and gets blocked 5/20/2015 10:41:42 AM Ed Morrissey 56 Comments The odyssey of NSA reform just got a little more complicated. By late yesterday, Mitch McConnell realized that the House has no intention of passing a clean reauthorization of the Patriot Act, neither on a long- or short-term basis, and decided to allow More... | 
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