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| De Blasio's snow curse lives 1/27/2015 10:11:02 AM Noah Rothman 8 Comments There is no more vexing force of nature for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio than snow. It was only days after the former public advocate took the oath of office that he became embroiled in a fluffy white controversy. First, the mayor was sharply More... Live video: 70th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz 1/27/2015 9:50:47 AM Ed Morrissey 17 Comments Today marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, perhaps the most disturbing memorial in human history. Millions were put to death in Nazi camps, and Auschwitz was the pinnacle of their industrialized genocide. The world swore More... In Alabama, gay lawmaker threatens to out colleagues' marital affairs 1/27/2015 9:21:03 AM Jazz Shaw 88 Comments This sounds like “outing” in reverse. A gay state lawmaker in Alabama is sick and tired of hearing conservatives preaching about family values and is planning to air some dirty laundry if they don’t stop. Alabama’s only openly gay More... Video: Army has charged Bergdahl with desertion, but … Update: NBC confirms charges 1/27/2015 8:41:24 AM Ed Morrissey 77 Comments Whatever happened to the investigation of Bowe Bergdahl and his capture by the Taliban? Last year, the Obama administration traded five high-ranking Taliban commanders to get Bergdahl back, but men in his former unit immediately objected to the trade, More...  There's no need to freak out over a "national car-tracking database" 1/27/2015 8:01:09 AM Jazz Shaw 99 Comments Privacy advocates are in an uproar over the disclosure of the existence of a Justice Department database which uses cameras to capture in real time and temporarily store the license plate numbers of vehicles on the nation’s roads. The program, More... Quotes of the day 1/26/2015 10:41:35 PM Allahpundit 432 Comments Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin told The Washington Post in an interview Friday that she is "seriously interested" in running for the White House in 2016. "You can absolutely say that I am seriously interested," Palin said, when asked to clarify her More... Hope? Nope, cynicism is the reaction the Obama presidency has earned 1/26/2015 10:01:46 PM Mary Katharine Ham 39 Comments It has long been a theme of the Obama presidency, buffeted by bad economic winds and scandals of its own incompetence, that the only thing holding Obama back is the dark specter of cynicism. If only Congress could dream bigger and harder, and with more More... Everybody is running for president: The Bob Ehrlich edition 1/26/2015 9:21:08 PM Noah Rothman 23 Comments You might ask, "Who?" That's a perfectly understandable response for anyone who didn't live in the mid-Atlantic region in the last decade. Ehrlich is the former Republican governor of Maryland who managed to get elected in the pro-Republican 2002 More... EPA director warns of vanishing snow due to global warming as historic blizzard approaches 1/26/2015 8:41:11 PM Jazz Shaw 196 Comments In politics, much as with a Broadway chorus line, timing is everything. That’s a lesson that current EPA Director, Gina McCarthy will probably take to heart after this one. As the northeast braces for what is being described as a potentially More... Chart of the day: Why Christie's probably going nowhere in the primaries 1/26/2015 8:01:55 PM Allahpundit 44 Comments I hate to step on Jazz Shaw’s dream but this little masterpiece by Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight is the best evidence yet that the big guy’s a dead man walking. Amazing: Enten’s point is simple. For most major candidates, you can More... Good guy with a gun saves… Arby's 1/26/2015 7:21:51 PM Jazz Shaw 93 Comments Usually it’s the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun, but sometimes it happens to be a bad girl with a knife. A diner pulling up to the drive-through at Arby’s in Vernal, Utah, noticed something was amiss. His quick actions may have saved More... 'Not a new Cold War': NATO blames Russia for fighting in Ukraine, Moscow spy ring busted in NYC 1/26/2015 6:41:45 PM Noah Rothman 30 Comments President Barack Obama is determined to ensure that one of his presidential legacies be that the United States finally sloughs off the remaining vestiges of its Cold War policy. He promised then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he would have "more More... Hillary Clinton's numbers quietly crumble 1/26/2015 6:01:54 PM Jazz Shaw 76 Comments The conventional wisdom throughout 2014 was that the GOP was going to have to seriously buckle down if they were to find a candidate next year who could solve the Hillary puzzle. Many of the contenders have their own charms and a built-in camp of More... Is the legacy of the Bergdahl swap putting American national security at risk? 1/26/2015 5:21:16 PM Noah Rothman 25 Comments "Since I've been President," Barack Obama said during his 2015 State of the Union address, "we've worked responsibly to cut the population of GTMO in half." "Now it's time to finish the job," he continued. "And I will not relent in my determination to More... Gallup: Obama's job approval surges to 50/45, highest since May 2013 1/26/2015 4:41:15 PM Allahpundit 128 Comments It’s not just Gallup that’s seen a long drought. Per RCP, the last time he hit 50 percent approval in any poll was mid-May 2013, when he touched 50 in the ABC/WaPo survey. Here’s your daily reminder that there are few political sins More... The vlogger rebuttal: Legacy media is frightened of us 1/26/2015 4:01:50 PM Ed Morrissey 122 Comments And you know what? He has a point, and maybe not just about legacy media, either. Hank Green, one of the three vloggers chosen to interview President Obama by Google, found himself stunned to find he and his colleagues at the center of ridicule over the More... Obama's casual sacrifice of America's security and moral standing in the Middle East 1/26/2015 3:21:36 PM Noah Rothman 62 Comments In President Barack Obama's penultimate State of the Union address last Tuesday, there was no reference to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. This was the first time since 2011 and the eruption of the brutal Syrian civil war that Obama had not mentioned, More... It's as if nobody follows the rules anymore 1/26/2015 2:41:40 PM Jazz Shaw 92 Comments Having Congress invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak is, as we have discussed before, obviously the end of civilization as we know it. (In fact, God is clearly about to punish us by unleashing an historic blizzard on the evil More... Video: Semi-retired president gonna enjoy his gum during major photo op with important ally 1/26/2015 2:01:05 PM Allahpundit 214 Comments To cleanse the palate, I believe formal diplomatic protocol in this situation requires him to offer Narendra Modi a piece of his Bubblicious. Two points. One: Is it Nicorette he’s chewing? That would explain, at least, why he couldn’t refrain More... Monday TEMS: Guest hosting Relevant Radio 1/26/2015 1:31:06 PM Ed Morrissey 2 Comments Today I get to step outside the box a bit and guest-host for Drew Mariani at Relevant Radio! The Catholic talk-radio network has 34 stations, both O&O and affiliates, as well as an webstream and an app that plays live and podcasted shows. Today I More... Kurds push ISIS out of Kobani: monitors 1/26/2015 1:21:20 PM Ed Morrissey 34 Comments The day started off with a prediction that the four-month battle for Kobani was coming to an end — and a defeat for ISIS, whose victory seemed all but inevitable in the early autumn. The tide of war had turned for this Syrian town near the Turkish More... The Rick Perry boomlet is coming 1/26/2015 12:41:45 PM Noah Rothman 147 Comments The race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 is well underway. In the press, establishment-friendly candidates like Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Marco Rubio, and even Chris Christie have garnered the most attention. Among conservatives, More... Massachusetts wind farm may be dead in the water 1/26/2015 12:01:28 PM Jazz Shaw 59 Comments Forests of towering wind turbines filling the horizon off the shores of Massachusetts? Perhaps not. The Cape Wind Project was billed as America’s first offshore wind farm well over a decade ago, and it’s been the recipient of vast amounts of More... Why on earth would Senate Republicans want to abolish the filibuster for SCOTUS nominees? 1/26/2015 11:21:44 AM Allahpundit 128 Comments Jazz wrote about this on Saturday, but the more voices of bewildered disapproval there are on the right, the better our chances of derailing this crazy train before it builds up steam. We’re now three weeks into the term and the two most notable More... Dems see an oddly monochromatic consistency from Team Hillary 1/26/2015 10:41:16 AM Ed Morrissey 73 Comments It’s the kind of bean-counting that the media usually applies to Republicans when they run for high office, and which drive conservatives and libertarians up the wall. When the diversity inventory method gets applied to Democrats, though, it feels More... |    | |||||
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