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Does Georgia vote Democratic in 2014?
10/24/2014 10:01:45 AM  Noah Rothman
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It is not a mirage. In the Deep South, Democratic Senate candidate Michelle Nunn is surging. Of all the polls in the field in October in the Peach State, Nunn has tied or enjoyed a slight lead over Republican nominee David Perdu. On Friday morning, a
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Martha Coakley's campaign seems to be in mid-collapse
10/24/2014 9:21:09 AM  Jazz Shaw
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If you’re a Democrat in a statewide race in Massachusetts, you really almost have to try to lose. It can happen – and it has – but you seem to need a particular set of conditions. It takes either a remarkable GOP candidate, a crushing
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Half of Americans willing to pay zero additional dollars for EPA carbon regs
10/24/2014 8:41:21 AM  Jazz Shaw
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We’ve had plenty of time for the discussion of the EPA’s new green energy initiatives and carbon restrictions to sink in to the American collective consciousness. (Even if it does get shoved out of the news on a daily basis.) It’s also
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Video: Hatchet-wielding attacker has "Islamic extremist leanings"
10/24/2014 8:01:29 AM  Ed Morrissey
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Yesterday, a man wielding a hatchet attacked four New York City police officers, inflicting a head wound on one that left the officer in critical condition. The other officers opened fire on the attacker, killing him and wounding a bystander. At first,
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Quotes of the day
10/23/2014 10:41:52 PM  Allahpundit
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Until this week, the Palin family "brawl" that went down last month at an Anchorage house party last month has been treated like an excellent tabloid story with just enough political relevance to be covered by non-entertainment media outlets. But with
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Video: Canada's Sergeant at Arms gets standing ovation after shooting terrorist while wearing tails
10/23/2014 10:01:07 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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Portrait of a badass. This is Kevin Vickers moments after he brought down a suspect who had already claimed one victim. He’s Mr. Carson with a pistol, dusting off his jacket and rebuffing any notions of heroism with the declaration that this is
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Poll: Republican gubernatorial candidate up two points in…Illinois?
10/23/2014 9:21:55 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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From the Chicago Tribune, news that in the President’s homeland, a Republican may be doing more than nipping at the heels of sitting DEmocratic Gov. Pat Quinn. And, a lot of his support comes from gains among suburban women? All this with a
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Breaking: New Ebola case in NYC
10/23/2014 8:56:20 PM  Ed Morrissey
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A doctor who recently returned to New York City from a Doctors Without Borders mission in western Africa — and who also went bowling the night before – has tested positive for the Ebola virus after developing a high fever, according to ABC
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Obama: Hey Georgia, do me a solid and elect Michelle Nunn
10/23/2014 8:41:01 PM  Guy Benson
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After President Obama compounded his ‘every single one of my policies are on the ballot’ assertion by praising vulnerable Congressional Democrats as staunch water-carriers for his agenda, I joked that the only way he could assist Republican
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FBI warns ISIS trying to kidnap journalists abroad
10/23/2014 8:01:20 PM  Noah Rothman
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Several weeks ago, unconfirmed reports began to surface that the terror group ISIS was plotting against targets in the United States. The dispatches indicated that reporters and journalists as well as police and sources of government authority were among
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Gun control loving Missouri state senator shows up at Ferguson protest with 9 mm
10/23/2014 7:21:36 PM  Jazz Shaw
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The continuing protests in Ferguson, in the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown, have been an educational experience for the entire nation. But not all of the lessons have to do with race relations or the conduct of the police. One well known Missouri
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Five months after Shinseki resigned, the VA is still an abominable disaster
10/23/2014 6:41:55 PM  Noah Rothman
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It was less than five months ago that President Barack Obama accepted the resignation of his Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Eric Shinseki, in the wake of the scandal involving a systematic cover-up of waiting times and related deaths at VA hospitals. It
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Politico: Retirements the key to a GOP Senate win
10/23/2014 6:01:04 PM  Ed Morrissey
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“If Democrats lose,” reads the Politico Magazine headline, “blame these guys.” The “guys” in question are five Democratic Senators who announced retirements since 2012 rather than face re-election, all of which are in
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Canadian, British leaders struggle with homegrown Islamic radicalism
10/23/2014 5:21:36 PM  Noah Rothman
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In the space of less than one week, two Canadian citizens described as Muslim coverts attacked sources of government authority. In two separate attacks, radicalized Muslim men using low-tech weaponry claimed the lives of two Canadian soldiers.
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NYC doctor who recently treated Ebola patients rushed to hospital with 103-degree fever
10/23/2014 4:41:21 PM  Allahpundit
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People are inured to “possible Ebola case” stories at this point because of how many silly false alarms there have been over the past few weeks. Every time a passenger gets sick on a trans-Atlantic flight, local media starts breathing into a
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Revealed: ICE released some illegals charged with violent crimes — after telling Americans they hadn't
10/23/2014 4:01:51 PM  Allahpundit
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Via Guy Benson, the key point is the lying, not the fact that they’re putting dangerous people who have no right to be here back onto America’s streets. After all, they do that all the time. The new records, including spreadsheets and
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Latest viral video: Priests doing a dance-off in the Vatican*
10/23/2014 3:43:19 PM  Ed Morrissey
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I can finally claim to have been at the cutting edge of a viral video — because I saw this one in Rome a couple of weeks ago with one of the priests in the clip. I’m not sure that’ll impress too many people, but I’ll take what I
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Arbiter orders NFL commissioner to testify in hearing on Rice appeal
10/23/2014 3:21:09 PM  Ed Morrissey
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An ugly chapter in this year’s NFL season may get even uglier in a couple of weeks. Former Baltimore running back Ray Rice and the NFL Players Association filed an appeal of the additional punishment Rice received when explicit video of his assault
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TEMS Thursday: Duane Patterson, John-Henry Westen, Jason Mattera
10/23/2014 3:01:23 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! Duane "Generalissimo" Patterson brings us up to date on the week's top stories and gives us a preview of tonight's Hugh Hewitt show. LifeSiteNews.com
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"Machete-wielding mob" hinders Ebola relief effort
10/23/2014 2:41:36 PM  Jazz Shaw
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In the usual American way, our nation continues to go to great lengths to assist the people of western Africa as they deal with the latest Ebola outbreak. We have any number of doctors, nurses and volunteers in country providing relief, performing
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WaPo factchecker to Grimes: You should be ashamed of yourself
10/23/2014 2:01:36 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Does this qualify as a fifth Pinocchio from Glenn Kessler? Actually, his fact check on a new ad from Alison Lundergan Grimes delivers an eighth Pinocchio to the Democratic challenger to Mitch McConnell. Her claim that the Senate Minority Leader has
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Crumble: Wendy Davis trails by 16, down two among women, leads by just two with Latinos
10/23/2014 1:21:11 PM  Allahpundit
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Via Sean Davis, it’s a comfort to know that if everything else goes to hell on election night — Hagan holds on, Georgia breaks for Nunn, Grimes stuns McConnell in Kentucky — we’ll still have the satisfaction of watching one of the
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Circular firing squad: Democrats ready to dump on Obama if they lose the Senate
10/23/2014 12:41:07 PM  Noah Rothman
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While the race for control of the U.S. Senate is not over yet, and Democrats are aggressively defending embattled incumbents as well as supporting capable candidates in traditionally Republican states like Kentucky and Georgia, the situation is looking
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US training Syrian opposition for defense only against ISIS
10/23/2014 12:01:52 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Almost two months ago, Barack Obama pledged to “shrink ISIL’s sphere of influence … to the point where it’s a manageable problem.” When Americans scoffed for a week at the idea that an incremental approach would work against
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Video: Who's up for another lecture from Shep Smith about how to properly react to a crisis?
10/23/2014 11:21:52 AM  Allahpundit
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Via Mediaite, has he been doing this more lately or is it just that media-watchers have been noticing more, for whatever reason? I was with him, sort of, on last week’s Ebola lecture. Americans are new to the disease, so the vast, deep ocean of
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