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| Obama "strongly" urges Senate to get back to D.C. and renew surveillance powers 5/27/2015 10:01:45 AM Gabriel Malor 15 Comments President Obama is still pounding the drum for NSA surveillance powers that have been hung up in Congress. Without legislation, key portions of the PATRIOT Act, including the section that NSA argues authorizes cellphone metadata collection, will expire More... One person, one and a half votes? 5/27/2015 9:21:00 AM Jazz Shaw 27 Comments The Supreme Court has agreed to take on a thorny, if somewhat constitutionally wonky case which could have a huge impact on state legislatures across the nation after the 2020 census. They will be tasked with coming up with a ruling and a definition of More... The #GamerGate saga continues with assassins, expulsions, and bomb threats 5/27/2015 8:41:11 AM C.T. Rex 33 Comments I mentioned #GamerGate briefly in my last post, and no doubt some readers were thinking “wait, that’s still going on?” (For those of you saying “I still have no idea what that is”, check out this piece I wrote way back when More... Video: Swiss arrest FIFA officials, US corruption indictment announced 5/27/2015 8:01:51 AM Ed Morrissey 51 Comments Let me get this straight. FIFA, the world governing body, awarded the next two World Cups to Russia and Qatar, and now we hear that bribery may have occurred? Get. Out. Swiss officials arrested a number of high-ranking FIFA officials as both Switzerland More...
Quotes of the day 5/26/2015 10:41:44 PM Allahpundit 289 Comments A federal appeals court on Tuesday declined to let the Obama administration proceed with its plan to defer deportations for millions of undocumented immigrants… The White House condemned the appeal court's ruling on Tuesday, repeating its position More... Heilemann: Shady Clinton financials could be 'quite big and quite threatening' 5/26/2015 10:11:06 PM Mary Katharine Ham 27 Comments The liberal line on the incredibly wealthy and notoriously opaque Clintons is that, sure, Hillary Clinton’s rich like Mitt Romney with half the charm and none of the business acumen, but she cares about the issues of working men and women. And, how More... Good news: IRS says hackers stole tax info on 100K Americans 5/26/2015 9:31:01 PM Mary Katharine Ham 41 Comments This will, no doubt, cause the shameless Commissioner John Koskinen and his Democratic enablers to argue that they just need more of our money to take our money and personal information as securely as possible after yet another fundamental breach of More... Marco Rubio: We're at the water's edge of mainstream Christian teachings being branded "hate speech" 5/26/2015 8:41:51 PM Allahpundit 60 Comments Via the Brody File, hard to believe a country that’s 70 percent Christian would acquiesce in a legal regime like that, but then I look at this poll and remember we’ve already reached the point where Christian-owned businesses can be More... ObamaCare drafters: We never intended to limit federal subsidies to state exchanges 5/26/2015 8:01:57 PM Allahpundit 49 Comments A strange story from the NYT in that it tries to debunk the conservative position in King v. Burwell and, if anything, ends up supporting it. At the Finance Committee, which thrashed out its version of the bill in September and October 2009, senators More... Dems hitting the panic button in PA? 5/26/2015 7:21:05 PM Ed Morrissey 15 Comments Democrats see great potential to win back control of the Senate in 2016, thanks to the kind of imbalance in the upcoming class that Republicans exploited in the previous one. Republicans will have to defend more seats, 24 compared to 10 for Democrats, More... Second look at George Pataki? 5/26/2015 6:41:24 PM Jazz Shaw 39 Comments Assuming the reports we’re seeing in the New York media and a couple of calls to state party leaders this morning, I need to start this article off with an admission which is fairly rare among both politicians and political pundits: I was wrong. I More... Are you ready for … President Bloomberg? 5/26/2015 6:01:41 PM Ed Morrissey 43 Comments If not Hillary, then who? That question haunts Democrats in this cycle, perhaps increasingly so with all of the revelations about the Clinton Foundation that keep emerging and they keep trying to excuse. The connections to arms sales is just the latest More... Sure, why not: Hillary never disclosed secret shell company that funnels income to Bill Clinton 5/26/2015 5:21:14 PM Allahpundit 41 Comments This story had to wait for a slow news day because “Clintons hide information from public about possible conflicts of interest” barely qualifies as “news” anymore. Unlike Hillary’s deleted e-mails and the Clinton More... The voting rights of ex-felons are under examination 5/26/2015 4:41:17 PM Jazz Shaw 36 Comments Should convicted felons be able to vote? How about when they have finished serving their time and returned to civil society? It’s a subject which has been handled in various fashions by different states, but the most recent debate took place in More... Reminder from Obama: This is the first Memorial Day in 14 years that we're not fighting a major ground war 5/26/2015 4:01:01 PM Allahpundit 91 Comments Robert Tracinski calls this line from yesterday’s speech at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier “almost triumphalist.” That’s not the word I’d use after watching the clip; he says it somberly before reciting the number of troops More... Tuesday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Andrew Malcolm 5/26/2015 3:15:50 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments 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. Andrew Malcolm joins us More... Breaking: Fifth Circuit upholds injunction against executive amnesty 5/26/2015 3:11:55 PM Ed Morrissey 156 Comments It’s not a final ruling on the merits of the challenge to executive amnesty, but it’s a decent indication of where the courts will end up on the question. Given the opportunity to lift the temporary injunction against Barack Obama’s More... Scott Walker: Hey, maybe I'll pass on the hugely important Florida primary 5/26/2015 2:41:29 PM Allahpundit 44 Comments Ah, I see he’s considering the daring “reverse Giuliani” strategy, in which an aspiring GOP nominee competes everywhere except Florida. No, seriously: What? "If we chose to get in, I don't think there's a state out there we wouldn't More... Video: Iowa Republicans don't seem to agree on what "conservative" means 5/26/2015 2:01:45 PM Jazz Shaw 121 Comments On Morning Joe today the panel featured another video segment from a series of Bloomberg Politics/Purple Strategies Iowa focus group interviews in which they sought to find a broad mix of voters from each party and find out what it is they’re More... Great news from the AP: ISIS subsidizes jihadi honeymoons, you know 5/26/2015 1:21:46 PM Ed Morrissey 36 Comments Nancy Pelosi may have had a difficult time explaining how the Obama administration’s strategy against ISIS was succeeding, but she did get one thing right — the need to counter ISIS propaganda. The terrorist marauders have poured money and More... Baltimore is breaking records… for violent crime 5/26/2015 12:41:33 PM Jazz Shaw 86 Comments Earlier today we noted the fact that the city of Cleveland is, at least for now, managing to keep things mostly peaceful in the streets amid tensions between police and the community. That’s a very positive sign, and here’s to hoping they can More... NYT discovers "family-friendly" labor policies oddly not cost-free after all 5/26/2015 12:01:40 PM Ed Morrissey 27 Comments The axiom Those who cannot do, teach needs a companion rule: Those who cannot understand, regulate. We saw the outcomes of this in ObamaCare, when people who could not grasp the basics of risk pools took it upon themselves to completely upend the More... Surprise: Most Clinton Foundation donors got larger weapons deals from Hillary's State Department 5/26/2015 11:21:55 AM Allahpundit 69 Comments Of 20 nations that donated to the Foundation, 17 had more robust weapons transactions in the three fiscal years that State was led by Hillary than in the last three years of the previous administration. How do you convince a president who got elected in More... Bernie Sanders: A 90% tax rate sounds fine to me 5/26/2015 10:41:32 AM Jazz Shaw 123 Comments This week Vermont Senator and self-avowed socialist Bernie Sanders sat down with CNBC’s John Harwood for an interview on the issues facing all the 2016 candidates. Sanders is technically running for President, and is at least keeping up the public More... | 
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