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| Just when you thought MSNBC was giving up on calling everyone racist… 1/29/2015 10:01:14 AM Noah Rothman 28 Comments For a fleeting moment, there was hope. When MSNBC host Alex Wagner's guest Arsalan Iftikhar asserted last week that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was "trying to scrub some of the brown off his skin" in order to appeal to a GOP electorate, the 2012 More... Team Hillary to wait another three months for 2016 kickoff 1/29/2015 9:21:41 AM Ed Morrissey 40 Comments While the Republican presidential primary for 2016 ramps up to full speed, the Democratic side seems moribund. A few potential candidates have publicly toyed with the idea of running for the nomination, such as Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, but More... Castro to Obama: Reparations, Gitmo, and cutoff from dissidents the price for normalized relations 1/29/2015 8:41:08 AM Ed Morrissey 63 Comments The good news: The discomfort over the embargo of Cuba has led to a good bargaining position in talks with the US. The bad news: Raul Castro’s the one that thinks so. Far from being grateful for the diplomatic overture from Barack Obama, Castro More... Loretta Lynch meets Ted Cruz. A grand old time is had by all 1/29/2015 8:01:32 AM Jazz Shaw 46 Comments We’ll start off the day with some video goodness for you. As previously noted, confirmation hearings for Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee to replace Eric Holder, got underway this week. One of her inquisitors was Senator Ted Cruz (R More...  Quotes of the day 1/28/2015 10:41:18 PM Allahpundit 516 Comments She says she’s interested in running for president, but Sarah Palin is not backing that interest up with action… "I see no activity, no hires, no grassroots, and there is no structure to the volunteer organization for Palin that existed four More... Newsworthy: WaPo builds cute tool for comparing your home's size to Mitt Romney's 1/28/2015 10:01:58 PM Mary Katharine Ham 49 Comments I would really like to hear the argument for why this was worthy of significant newsroom resources, without any newsroom resources being expended on investigating the residences of any other potential candidates for president. What is vital about the More... Shameless: Harry Reid now demanding amendment votes he blocked for years 1/28/2015 9:21:31 PM Guy Benson 82 Comments The man’s an established liar, a bizarre obsessive, a remorseless slanderer — but you already knew that. He’s also, unsurprisingly, an exquisite hack. Ever since voters demoted Prince Harry in November, his views on various Senate More... Is Democratic infighting behind closed doors about to become public? 1/28/2015 8:41:51 PM Noah Rothman 26 Comments Republicans have grown used to their party's internal deliberations and squabbles spilling out into the streets and onto the politics sections of various media outlets. Family business does not stay private fare in the GOP for long. In contrast, the More... GoDaddy feels the sting of politically correct America 1/28/2015 8:01:21 PM Jazz Shaw 70 Comments A rather sad story comes to us on the eve of the Superbowl and the attendant fascination with the commercials that run during the big game. The website developer GoDaddy was prepared to run a bit of a parody of the famous Budweiser ads with their story More... CBO: 10 million will lose employer-based coverage under ObamaCare by 2021 1/28/2015 7:21:04 PM Ed Morrissey 74 Comments The new CBO projection on ObamaCare’s impact has a couple of counter-narrative epiphanies, and the impact on employer-based insurance is just one of them. When Democrats pushed the ACA through Congress on a party-line vote and with plenty of More... White House embarrasses itself with claim Taliban is not a terrorist group 1/28/2015 6:41:33 PM Noah Rothman 57 Comments While the White House is keen to pretend as though the War on Terror is over, the Cold War is ancient history, and the War on Poverty has been a glittering success, there is one war that the administration continues to prosecute vigorously: A war on the More... I guess the rent was too damn high 1/28/2015 6:01:59 PM Jazz Shaw 23 Comments Every election season I find myself debating which of two perennial hopefuls is my favorite. One obvious choice is Vermin Supreme, the continual candidate for both governor and the mayor-ship of cities in at least three states. But the other option is More... English Al Jazeera bans use of "terrorist, militant, Islamist" 1/28/2015 5:21:22 PM Jazz Shaw 71 Comments Earlier this month we covered the fragile nature of the egos at Al Jazeera and how they were dismayed by the world’s support of Charlie Hebdo. It turns out that the emotional wounds must have run fairly deep, because their English language editor More... Jordan to ISIS: We'll make the swap for our pilot 1/28/2015 4:41:17 PM Ed Morrissey 13 Comments Not long ago, the issue of negotiating with terrorists arose when three Americans got brutally beheaded by ISIS, which promoted the slayings on video. The families of the victims slammed the Obama administration and the Department of Justice for their More... Border agents told to ask illegals if they might qualify for Obama amnesty 1/28/2015 4:01:06 PM Jazz Shaw 64 Comments I guess it’s getting tougher and tougher to work the immigration beat on the southern border. In the old days, you looked for people sneaking across, tried to catch up to them, rounded them up and shipped them back home so we could begin the More... Plutocrat fight: Romney and Clinton brawl over who has the biggest mansions 1/28/2015 3:21:42 PM Noah Rothman 48 Comments Plunging deep into the American zeitgeist, Mitt Romney has put his finger on precisely what the nation needs at this moment: A final Armageddon between plutocrats. Team Romney is apparently moving beyond insular concerns like winning the Republican More... AG nominee Loretta Lynch: People have a right to work in America regardless of how they came here 1/28/2015 2:41:24 PM Allahpundit 201 Comments Did she misspeak or did illegals suddenly acquire the “right” to hold down a job in the United States when I wasn’t looking? Not even Obama goes that far, I think; the work permits being handed out under his new amnesty are a matter of More... Poll: 64% want Congress to restore ObamaCare subsidies if Republicans win the Halbig case 1/28/2015 2:01:47 PM Allahpundit 160 Comments Remember the issue in Halbig? There’s a section in the ObamaCare statute that says federal subsidies to pay premiums are available to anyone who buys their insurance through “an Exchange established by the State.” But that phrase is More... Is Facebook unliking Je suis Charlie? 1/28/2015 1:21:50 PM Ed Morrissey 48 Comments Old and busted: “Je suis Charlie!” Two weeks ago, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledged to defend free speech on his Facebook platform. “We all need to reject a group of extremists trying to More... Hillary to testify to Benghazi select committee? 1/28/2015 12:42:52 PM Ed Morrissey 73 Comments Oh, my. And according to ranking Oversight member Elijah Cummings, Hillary Clinton agreed to testify before the House Select Committee on Benghazi four months ago: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has agreed to testify before the House Select More... Politico invents nasty Mike Huckabee quote, mocks it 1/28/2015 12:01:32 PM Noah Rothman 50 Comments Mike Huckabee's approach to winning the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 has been … perplexing. He has taken to running as a culturally conservative candidate, but has defined cultural conservatism as that which stands in opposition to modern More... Good for her: Michelle Obama passes on headscarf during trip to Saudi Arabia 1/28/2015 11:21:09 AM Allahpundit 239 Comments She didn’t do anything that Laura Bush didn’t do (although Bush did once don a scarf in Jeddah when a group of cancer survivors presented her with one), but as the west’s elite slowly assimilate Islamic norms on blasphemy, affronting More... Video: Walker's first ad, Our American Revival 1/28/2015 10:41:52 AM Ed Morrissey 78 Comments Yes, Scott Walker is in, and is hitting the ground running after his successful debut in the Iowa Freedom Summit. “America stands on the brink,” his first campaign ad starts, and the only solution is to cast our eyes to those More... |    | |||||
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