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| Hillary's next flip-flop: the death penalty? 4/30/2015 10:01:05 AM Jazz Shaw 14 Comments With so many other controversies sucking all of the oxygen out of the room, the nascent 2016 campaign hasn’t offered much time for candidates to stake out and clarify their positions on some of the traditional, “old news” issues which More... Just how big of a problem is Bernie Sanders going to be for Hillary Clinton? 4/30/2015 9:21:14 AM Noah Rothman 32 Comments The conventional wisdom shared not just by conservatives but many Democrats is that self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is so unrepresentative of mainstream American political thought that he cannot pose a serious threat to Hillary More... NYT, Globe: Clinton Foundation used Byzantine organization to hide donors 4/30/2015 8:41:21 AM Ed Morrissey 24 Comments When the sleazy connections surrounding the Uranium One/Rosatom deal and the Clintons first emerged, the Clinton Foundation chose a very odd hill to defend — the privacy of the donors of the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership. Frank Giustra had More... Did Freddie Gray try to injure himself? Too soon to say 4/30/2015 8:01:55 AM Jazz Shaw 76 Comments We’re finding out this morning that there will be no complete, official police report forthcoming in Baltimore tomorrow regarding the death of Freddie Gray. The city seems to be doing a fairly good job (for a change) in getting the word out in More...
Quotes of the day 4/29/2015 10:41:58 PM Allahpundit 148 Comments On marriage, just under half of Americans want it to be legal for gay and lesbian couples to wed in their states, while just over a third are opposed, according to the poll. There is a significant partisan divide over that issue, too, but it could be a More... Oh my: Harry Reid says GOP budget is 'no more balanced than the earthquakes they've had in Nepal' 4/29/2015 9:21:32 PM Matt Vespa 70 Comments As the death toll rises from Nepal's horrific earthquake over the weekend, leave it to Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) to say that the GOP budget that was unveiled today is "no more balanced than the earthquakes" that have struck the Asian nation. Yet, one can More... Are young people finally giving up on Democrats? Don't bet on it 4/29/2015 8:41:18 PM Noah Rothman 43 Comments Republicans will take heart in McClatchy's latest headline. On Wednesday, the news outlet asserted definitively that Democrats are "losing" their "grip on young voters." They made this pronouncement after perusing the results of the latest Harvard More... Fiorina gaining some traction in Iowa 4/29/2015 8:01:20 PM Jazz Shaw 34 Comments I’m still not seeing a lot of movement in the second tier polling this early in the game, but some of the local reporting out of Iowa seems to hold good news for Carly Fiorina. She’s been working on her ground game, hitting some of the less More... Charlie Hebdo cartoonist: I will no longer draw Mohammed 4/29/2015 7:21:48 PM Allahpundit 37 Comments He’s lost interest in the subject, he says. And who can blame him? Having fortuitously overslept on the morning of the massacre at Charlie Hebdo HQ and probably facing future attempts on his life, he’s already living on borrowed time. If More... Democrats take aim at another American ally over 'shocking and shameful' address to Congress 4/29/2015 6:41:02 PM Noah Rothman 52 Comments It was only weeks ago that Democrats were engaged the dismantling of America's historically strong bilateral relationship with the state of Israel. Apparently, the damage wrought to that longstanding alliance by Democratic boycotts, blackouts, and More... Martin O'Malley hurts nonexistent presidential chances with Baltimore visit 4/29/2015 6:01:38 PM Jazz Shaw 24 Comments In case you haven’t heard, Martin O’Malley is looking at challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democrats’ nomination next year. (And judging by the media coverage, you may not have heard unless your last name is O’Malley.) Another More... The U.S. doesn't negotiate with terrorists… but the FBI does 4/29/2015 5:21:57 PM Noah Rothman 13 Comments Apparently, the fundamental transformation of the United States that Barack Obama promised as a candidate also includes America's longstanding policy of refusing to negotiate with terrorists under any circumstances. Tragically, Dr. Warren Weinstein was More... Fox News source: Baltimore's mayor ordered the police to stand down 4/29/2015 4:41:19 PM Allahpundit 94 Comments In a segment yesterday, Bill Hemmer said a Fox News producer told him that when he asked Baltimore cops why they weren’t more aggressive in confronting the brick-tossers on Monday, the response was “Talk to the mayor.” Is this what they More... What you won't hear from the media and gay activists about same-sex "marriage" 4/29/2015 4:01:23 PM Dustin Siggins 914 Comments Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard what could be the defining case on whether marriage in America is legally restructured from a relationship between people of the opposite sex with an eye towards procreation to an “anything goes” system. The More... No apologies: Yes, says White House, the rioting in Baltimore was "thuggish" 4/29/2015 3:21:48 PM Allahpundit 40 Comments Via the Daily Caller, I cannot believe that not only is this moronic issue a minor media preoccupation as an American city burns but that the first black president is actually being concern-trolled about racial insensitivity for daring to use the word More... Our burning inner cities won't be fixed from the outside 4/29/2015 2:41:12 PM Jazz Shaw 67 Comments Perhaps even more painful than watching the unfolding scenes of burning and looting which took place in Baltimore on Monday night was the inevitable parade of commentators on cable news who immediately showed up, wringing their hands and asking what we More... Oh, by the way, the Clinton Foundation knowingly refused to disclose 1,100 foreign donations 4/29/2015 2:01:41 PM Allahpundit 41 Comments Remember back in 2010, when the big red midterm wave was building and Democrats got desperate for a theme to run on? Remember what they ended up settling on, for a few weeks at least? It was “secret foreign money in politics,” specifically More... John Kerry to Iran, reportedly: Barack Obama is great and all, but he's no Ayatollah Khamenei 4/29/2015 1:21:58 PM Noah Rothman 27 Comments As backhanded compliments go, this latest via Secretary of State John Kerry is a remarkable achievement. Despite the Islamic Republic of Iran's destabilizing regional agenda — including its support for Houthi rebels in Iran, its backing of More... Slouching into stagnation – advance read of 1st-quarter GDP +0.2% 4/29/2015 12:41:51 PM Steve Eggleston 66 Comments The economic experts had anticipated the slowdown of the US economy to continue in the first quarter of 2015, after the 5.0% annualized real GDP growth in the 3rd quarter of 2014 slipped to 2.2% growth in the 4th quarter, with the consensus being +1.0% More... Slush: Hillary donors go on safari with Bill on the Clinton Foundation's dime 4/29/2015 12:01:10 PM Ed Morrissey 49 Comments Earlier this week, Sunlight Foundation official Bill Allison said that the mixture of big dollars, political influence, and stingy charitable outlays made “it seem[] like the Clinton Foundation operates as a slush fund for the Clintons." More... Reuters poll: 56% of Republicans would attend a loved one's gay wedding 4/29/2015 11:21:36 AM Allahpundit 536 Comments Finally, an answer to the most important question of the 2016 election. Kidding aside, though, this is a bit surprising. The question of whether or not a candidate would attend the gay wedding of a loved one has become an increasingly common litmus test More... Hillary Clinton to address racial disparities in criminal justice system in speech 4/29/2015 10:41:45 AM Noah Rothman 42 Comments According to an otherwise unremarkable report in The Hill on a characteristically milquetoast speech, Hillary Clinton finally and belatedly addressed the ongoing violence in the city of Baltimore. But that dispatch also contained a series of perfect More... | 
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