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| Tense: Rand Paul clashes with Today host over his foreign policy flip-flops 4/8/2015 10:01:55 AM Noah Rothman 15 Comments The fight of Rand Paul's life will not be against the Republican Party’s "establishment," nor will it be against Hillary Clinton should he become his party's presidential nominee in 2016. No, the great adversaries against which Paul will be More... Obama: What really concerns me are those "less-than-loving expressions by Christians" 4/8/2015 9:21:52 AM Ed Morrissey 97 Comments The good news: After a number of atrocities that have victimized Christians from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and Kenya over the past few months, Barack Obama finally has spoken explicitly about Christians. The bad news? At the Easter prayer breakfast, Obama More... A bad cop in South Carolina 4/8/2015 8:41:47 AM Jazz Shaw 187 Comments Yesterday, when I wrote about a police shooting in the northeast corner of Illinois, I received some of the same questions which always come up after the cops kill a suspect. Why, some readers ask, must you always defend the police? Why don’t you More... Vice President Dick Cheney Rules Out Chance On Assessing Barack Obama 4/8/2015 8:01:10 AM Duane Patterson 67 Comments So who’s up for a little red meat for breakfast? The former Vice President, along with his very capable daughter, Liz, herself no slouch on the foreign policy front, have teamed up on a new book due out two weeks before the GOP presidential debates More...
Quotes of the day 4/7/2015 10:51:27 PM Ed Morrissey 288 Comments *** All of which is to say that when Rand Paul, 52, stands before a carefully chosen crowd at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville on Tuesday, it will prove one of the most anticlimactic presidential announcements of modern times. The Kentucky senator More... Government still wrong about salt, still doesn't care 4/7/2015 10:11:43 PM Mary Katharine Ham 48 Comments For years, some scientists and nutritionists have been pushing back on the government’s salt guidelines. The notion that the average amount of American sodium intake is dangerously high and must be lowered tremendously through recommendations and More... Despite Obama's hostility toward Israel, most American Jews are still Democrats 4/7/2015 9:31:00 PM Noah Rothman 70 Comments For those of us in the business of talking about political trends for a living, the Pew Research Center's latest "deep dive" into the politics of demography is a must-bookmark post. Pew looked into the polling data from 1992 to today and found that the More... Harry Reid isn't as 'Ready for Hillary' as he is 'Ready for Boldness' 4/7/2015 8:41:09 PM Noah Rothman 28 Comments It's not an especially well-kept secret that the Democratic Party's left-wing is… suspicious of Hillary Clinton's progressive bona fides. It is a testament to the party's leftward drift that Hillary Clinton represented the Democratic Party's "liberal More... Winning: Mitt Romney's bracket was in the…top 1 percent of brackets, natch 4/7/2015 7:51:07 PM Mary Katharine Ham 29 Comments It’s no leader of the free world, but it probably is the thing President Obama cares more about losing to Mitt. Chalk one up for Willard. This is pretty amazing. Six of the Elite Eight, a perfect Final Four and championship game. Since everyone More... By the way, Cuba will no longer be considered a state sponsor of terrorism 4/7/2015 7:01:49 PM Jazz Shaw 36 Comments We must be getting some pretty good stuff in return from Cuba. Or at least I assume that’s the case, since we’re still handing out presents. The State Department is expected to recommend that Cuba be removed from the government’s list More... Marco Rubio: The hawk's hawk 4/7/2015 6:11:35 PM Noah Rothman 34 Comments Two weeks ago, I wrote a post asking whether former Secretary of State James Baker deserved to be disowned by the Republican Party as a result of his controversial support for the Palestinian position vis-à-vis the peace process with Israel. While More... Hot new medical trend: Routine exams are kind of worthless after all 4/7/2015 5:21:44 PM Ed Morrissey 54 Comments One of the arguments made for forcing everyone into comprehensive health insurance plans relied on the cost savings that would occur once all Americans began getting routine wellness checks and diagnostic tests. Democrats, including Barack Obama, More... New gun grabbing plan: pay people to turn in their weapons 4/7/2015 4:31:56 PM Jazz Shaw 85 Comments As if we don’t have more important things to deal with, one Connecticut Democrat in Congress would like to allot $2K of your tax money to anyone around the country who turns in a so called “assault rifle” to the local authorities More... Bill Clinton: The scandalous Clinton Foundation might need some reform if Hillary wins 4/7/2015 3:41:42 PM Noah Rothman 33 Comments Just like any suspect philanthropic organization, the Clinton Foundation does do some good work. The Foundation's labors in Haiti and the Dominican Republic are credited with mitigating a humanitarian disaster, but the Foundation's ethical lapses and More... Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Eliana Johnson, Senator Mike Lee 4/7/2015 3:01:47 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. NRO’s Eliana More... Kurtz: Rolling Stone scandal "one of the worst journalistic catastrophes" 4/7/2015 2:51:11 PM Ed Morrissey 42 Comments “They still don’t get it,” Fox News critic Howard Kurtz told Megyn Kelly last night when asked about the decision by Rolling Stone not to fire anyone involved in what Kurtz calls “one of the worst journalistic scandals in the last More... Friendly reminder: 'Champions of women' still obstructing anti-human trafficking bill over abortion funding 4/7/2015 2:01:00 PM Guy Benson 83 Comments Lost in the swirl of political activity over recent weeks is the fact that an important bill to curb the inhumane practice of human sex trafficking remains stalled in the United States Senate. That’s because Harry Reid’s minority caucus has More... That time a lawyer warned how colleges could become a 'snake pit of injustice' 4/7/2015 1:21:00 PM Matt Vespa 43 Comments Ed and Christine wrote about Rolling Stone's stunning failure on verifying key facts in their widely discredited–and now retracted–story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia on September 28, 2012. It was a story that captivated a nation, More... Former DIA chief: Highly likely Hillary's e-mails got hacked by friends and foes alike 4/7/2015 12:41:47 PM Ed Morrissey 30 Comments “If you’re using one device,” former Defense Intelligence Agency chief Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn told Megyn Kelly last night in a discussion of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails, “then nothing’s personal.” Of course, we More... California's 'man-made' environmental disaster 4/7/2015 12:01:01 PM Noah Rothman 95 Comments The United States, a vast nation of near unparalleled natural beauty, might have no more stunning an environment than that which characterizes the state of California. Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of taking a brief trip to the Bay Area where I More... Open thread/live stream: Rand Paul announces for 2016 presidential primary 4/7/2015 11:21:37 AM Ed Morrissey 319 Comments The speech itself will start at 11:30 this morning, but like so much of the dramatic set pieces of presidential campaigns these days, the event itself will have an air of anti-climax. After all, it’s not as much of an announcement as it is a change More... Another police shooting to be picked apart 4/7/2015 10:41:41 AM Jazz Shaw 119 Comments Since this will almost certainly be lumped into the #BlackLivesMatter narrative which is still gripping the media’s attention, a recent incident in Zion, Illinois (near the Wisconsin border on the shores of Lake Michigan) merits attention. Police More... | 
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