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| Uncleared Secret Service new-hires working at White House? 6/10/2015 10:01:09 AM Ed Morrissey 15 Comments The Secret Service has had a bad couple of years, with prostitution scandals and security gaps that have embarrassed the agency — and in one instance, had an intruder running through the White House. As part of the effort to bolster security around More... Will Ohio be getting a tax cut thanks to John Kasich and… Amazon? 6/10/2015 9:21:14 AM Jazz Shaw 17 Comments Online shoppers in Ohio may have noticed a change in their electronic receipts this month, at least if they’re doing their shopping at Amazon. The online retailer has now made the Buckeye State the 25th location where they have begun charging More... UN: US, other nations strangely silent on Iranian sanctions violations 6/10/2015 8:41:36 AM Ed Morrissey 15 Comments How tough will the Obama administration be on Iran when it comes to holding them to the terms of a deal on nuclear development? If the track record on reporting sanctions violations gives any indication, we’re all in big trouble. Sanctions More... Justice Dept. subpoenas Reason Magazine to find anonymous commenters. Internet implodes 6/10/2015 8:01:16 AM Jazz Shaw 163 Comments The Libertarians are up in arms this week after the Justice Department served subpoenas to Nick Gillespie’s Reason Magazine over comments left on their web site by anonymous readers. The commentariat buzz in question erupted over an article dealing More...  Quotes of the day 6/9/2015 10:41:09 PM Allahpundit 239 Comments A review of the Rubio family's finances — including many new documents — reveals a series of decisions over the past 15 years that experts called imprudent: significant debts; a penchant to spend heavily on luxury items like the boat and the lease of a More... CNN: Yes, Hillary has serious problems with Libya 6/9/2015 8:41:27 PM Ed Morrissey 26 Comments No kidding, but it’s not just Hillary Clinton who will struggle with the outcome of the Obama administration’s Libyan intervention in 2011. Today’s story about the Christians captured by ISIS while trying to escape through Tripoli, and More... No, really: Why is the Times working so hard lately to make Rubio seem like an ordinary guy? 6/9/2015 8:01:14 PM Allahpundit 80 Comments First came the moronic traffic-tickets “expose,” then came today’s fishing-boat bombshell. There’s gotta be an angle to why they’d double dip on such underwhelming stories. We’re in a weird place where Glenn Greenwald More... Baltimore court rejects Mosby's request for gag order in Freddie Gray case 6/9/2015 7:21:34 PM Jazz Shaw 82 Comments We’ve been following the events in Baltimore coming out of the Freddie Gray case pretty closely and, as usual, the story seems to be swinging further and further away from the original incident and focusing on the city government. As you may More... Dozens of Christians captured in Libya — by ISIS 6/9/2015 6:41:22 PM Ed Morrissey 45 Comments This won’t end well. US officials acknowledged yesterday that ISIS affiliates in Libya seized a caravan attempting to move Christians out of the failed state, and now hold 88 hostages. Their intended destination was Tripoli, but it was their origin More... Chris Christie: We need a "military approach" to China's advances in the South China Sea 6/9/2015 6:01:00 PM Allahpundit 48 Comments War with China and a renewed federal war on drugs, even where states have legalized weed? I think I’ve found my candidate. Christie called for a “military approach” to China’s advances to “let them know there are limits to More... New York senate passes pointless repeal of portions of SAFE Act 6/9/2015 5:21:34 PM Jazz Shaw 18 Comments New York’s SAFE Act – the ludicrously named restriction on Second Amendment rights signed into law by Andrew Cuomo – effectively makes sure that the Empire State has as few law abiding citizens in possession of weapons as possible. That More... Video: Prison break an inside job? 6/9/2015 4:41:34 PM Ed Morrissey 33 Comments Residents in Dannemora remain on alert as police try to find two escaped murderers from the local prison. Did they get help from an inside source? The New York state police have named a prison employee in contact with both men “a person of More... Semi-retired president now smoking again apparently 6/9/2015 4:01:41 PM Allahpundit 81 Comments C’mon. He’s in Europe, he was talking to an Italian, and his ’08 image abroad as a global savior has been blown to hell by six years of foreign-policy drift. The guy had to do something to restore a little cool. Yesterday he had a beer More... Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Raffi Williams 6/9/2015 3:22:22 PM Ed Morrissey 2 Comments 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 political stories of the day. The RNC’s Raffi More... Dump the American Community Survey 6/9/2015 3:21:30 PM Jazz Shaw 65 Comments I’m fairly sure that I’ve never received the American Community Survey (ACS), which is sent out to roughly 2% of the population every year. It took the place of the “long form” census questionnaire which was used up until the 2010 More... Revealed: The Rubio "luxury speedboat"; Update: About the "luxury" house … 6/9/2015 2:41:53 PM Ed Morrissey 231 Comments Earlier today, the New York Times clucked its tongue over Marco Rubio’s “penchant for luxury,” embodied primarily in the purchase of an $80,000 “speedboat.” One man’s luxury is another man’s … fishing boat. More... Poll: Jeb Bush now at 21 percent in New Hampshire, ahead of the field by eight points 6/9/2015 2:01:04 PM Allahpundit 81 Comments A leftover from yesterday via Howie Carr and Gravis Marketing. We all knew the great sighing falling-in-line for Bush 8.0 would come eventually. We just didn’t know it would happen this soon. Nah, I’m just kidding. This is an outlier. More... Christie wins court battle over public worker pension payments 6/9/2015 1:21:44 PM Jazz Shaw 13 Comments I suppose this is a victory of sorts, but it’s bound to be a short lived one. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is still trying to balance tax cuts and economic stimulus with the albatross of a massive public worker pension plan hanging around his More... Video: TSA employment screening missed 73 airport workers with ties to terrorism 6/9/2015 12:41:24 PM Ed Morrissey 33 Comments The Senate Homeland Security Committee will hear testimony on the 95% failure rate in audits of their airport checkpoints, but another report will put even more pressure on DHS officials. The DHS Inspector General found that TSA, which screens More... CNN going deeper into "branded content" 6/9/2015 12:01:14 PM Jazz Shaw 43 Comments If you spend any time at all browsing web sites you are probably already familiar with “branded content” even if you hadn’t seen the term used. (This is not to be confused with “upworthy” clickbait techniques. You More... Black eyewitness to Texas pool-party incident: "I do not believe that this was about race" 6/9/2015 11:21:13 AM Allahpundit 200 Comments Behold as a thoughtcrime is committed before your eyes by a man who refuses to push the official progressive narrative of what happened this weekend in McKinney. His punishment: Death threats and demands that his radio show be canceled, natch. Benet More... Pentagon spokesman: Hey, we have a strategy against ISIS 6/9/2015 10:41:07 AM Ed Morrissey 37 Comments Pentagon spokesman Admiral John Kirby appeared on Morning Joe today to walk back Barack Obama’s contention that we don’t have “a complete strategy” against ISIS yet — after a full year of ISIS territorial gains and genocide More... |   | |||||
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