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Sagging economy: Q1 GDP revised downward to -0.7%
5/29/2015 10:01:46 AM  Ed Morrissey
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Get ready to hear a lot about supposedly harsh winter weather in supposedly the warmest year on record, and port closings in a period where imports seemed to have no trouble coming on shore. The ballooning trade deficit contributed to a red-ink first
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Politinerds: Bill Karins
5/29/2015 9:21:59 AM  Jazz Shaw
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Our guest this week on Politinerds is probably already familiar to you if your normal news consumption includes either NBC, CNBC, MSNBC or The Weather Channel. Bill Karins is their chief meteorologist, but he mixes things up sometimes in politics and
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A drought of rainmakers for Rand Paul?
5/29/2015 8:41:02 AM  Ed Morrissey
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In today’s presidential marketplace, candidates seek out the wealthy to fund their PACs prior to entering the race. Successful candidates lock up enough to starve out their rivals; Hillary Clinton has managed to get a near-monopoly in this regard
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Hillary's Olympic grade flip-flop on ethanol is complete
5/29/2015 8:01:39 AM  Jazz Shaw
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If you’re Hillary Clinton and you get it into your head to publish an editorial, you can have access to pretty much any newspaper or magazine in the country… if not the world. The New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times… they
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Quotes of the day
5/28/2015 10:41:07 PM  Allahpundit
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Carly Fiorina on Wednesday hurled insults at Hillary Clinton, just out of the Democratic front-runner's earshot. Fiorina, who is trying to claw her way to the top 10 contenders for the GOP presidential nomination in order to secure a spot at the first
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Video: Chris Pratt teaches Pledge of Allegiance to his 2-year-old son
5/28/2015 10:01:30 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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Chris Pratt, a man who has gone from unlikely leading man to one of the most bankable in Hollywood, is laudable for many reasons. He’s married to the seemingly cool Anna Faris, seems unabashedly glad to be a family man, seems generally unassuming
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Comedian who plays wonderfully wooden Hillary on SNL finds actual Hill "resplendent"
5/28/2015 9:21:03 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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Hey, imagine what the impression would look like if she wasn’t “rooting for” the “resplendent” Hillary Clinton. I shudder to think. During a comedy round table with a group of other comedians, including Amy Schumer and Ellie
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Google announces Android M and tons of other cool stuff at I/O 2015
5/28/2015 8:41:45 PM  C.T. Rex
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Google’s I/O 2015 developer conference kicked off today, and they used their keynote address to announce some pretty neat new stuff for the coming year.  I’ll summarize some of the more interesting bits below, or you can watch the whole
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It's happening: Trump set for "major announcement" on June 16th
5/28/2015 8:01:03 PM  Allahpundit
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Not until he actually utters the words “I’m running” will I believe that he’s running, but admittedly this is the closest he’s ever been. I wonder which credible candidate will end up sitting home alone on the couch eating
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Did Clinton ask Blumenthal to look for information about Libya?
5/28/2015 7:21:39 PM  Matt Vespa
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ProPublica and Gawker uncovered a secret intelligence network that was feeding unsubstantiated intelligence to Hillary's private email server. The network included former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal who was prevented from taking a job at State in 2009
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Five years in, pizza chains find ObamaCare menu mandate still half-baked
5/28/2015 6:41:09 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Five years ago, we discovered one of those hidden items in ObamaCare that Nancy Pelosi promised we’d only see after the bill got passed — and she was correct. The bill included a federal mandate for restaurants with 20 or more locations to
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Money pit: The USPS has lost more than $46 billion since 2007
5/28/2015 6:01:37 PM  Matt Vespa
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The U.S. Postal Service has lost billions since 2007, but the move that could put it on the path towards solvency is to expand its operations into the financial sector. Oh, those aren't my words; it's the words of the Inspector General and Sen. Elizabeth
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Bad day in courts for Beltway progressives
5/28/2015 5:21:37 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Both the Obama administration and the District of Columbia went to court today to defend themselves from lawsuits over policies that arguably overreach their authority — and neither came out unscathed. The district tried to get a stay on a recent
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Of course: D.C. Metro suspends all issue-oriented ads for the year so that they won't have to run Pam Geller's Mohammed cartoon
5/28/2015 4:41:52 PM  Allahpundit
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A perfect example of how carving out a “small” exception to free-speech norms for cartoons of Mohammed ends up consuming free speech more broadly. Geller submitted the winning entry in her Mohammed cartoon contest to D.C. authorities, with
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Surprise, surprise: All-encompassing government mandate results in skyrocketing admin costs
5/28/2015 4:01:30 PM  Ed Morrissey
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I’ll bet Barack Obama will be mad as hell when he sees this on MSNBC today. Oh, wait … According to a new study by a group backing single-payer as an alternative, the Affordable Care Act has forced administrative costs in health care to
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Bernie Sanders 1972: Men fantasize about abusing women, women fantasize about being raped
5/28/2015 3:21:41 PM  Allahpundit
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In his defense, the odds that an avowed socialist writing in the early 1970s might have been high when formulating his opinions have to be north of 90 percent. According to various psychological surveys conducted over the past 40 years, somewhere between
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Chris Cuomo to Pam Geller: We don't show Mohammed cartoons for the same reason we don't use the N-word
5/28/2015 2:41:34 PM  Allahpundit
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Via the Blaze, the key bit starts at 3:50. This is transparently false, of course, but it’s telling that he’d reach for this analogy for the cartoons instead of another obvious example of blasphemy like “Piss Christ.” The word
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Jeb Bush: Unlike certain Republican candidates, I don't bend with the wind on immigration
5/28/2015 2:01:48 PM  Allahpundit
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He said this on a conference call hosted by the Alabama GOP, which counts as one of its most honored members the leader of the anti-amnesty caucus in the U.S. Senate. Say this for Jeb: When he promised not to pander to conservatives in the name of
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The World Health Organization's dishonest "World No Tobacco Day"
5/28/2015 1:21:37 PM  Jazz Shaw
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The World Health Organization is at it again, this time pushing the helpful and benign concept of World No Tobacco Day this coming Sunday. That’s an admirable enough goal, I suppose, since they’re ostensibly looking to address a wide variety
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New progressive mantra: Greed is good
5/28/2015 12:41:40 PM  Ed Morrissey
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I’m old enough to remember when this was considered an indictment of a generation — the Ronald Reagan generation, to be specific: In 2012, we got plenty of lectures about how the Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, was too wealthy to relate to
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Video: Carly Fiorina on how she would fight ISIS
5/28/2015 12:01:38 PM  Jazz Shaw
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As the various candidates made the media rounds this week, there was one interview which jumped out at me. It was Carly Fiorina sitting down with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC and taking one of the tougher questions facing every White House aspirant… if
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The dream begins: George Pataki announces for president
5/28/2015 11:21:19 AM  Allahpundit
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I don’t get this even as a stunt candidacy, designed as self-promotion for a talk-show gig or book deal. He’s older than Hillary, hasn’t held office in nearly 10 years, hails from a famously Democratic state, is wildly out of tune with
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Putin: These FIFA charges are a US plot to steal the 2018 World Cup from Russia
5/28/2015 10:41:29 AM  Ed Morrissey
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Actually, it’s the Swiss who are probing the 2018 World Cup award to Russia, and the US bid was for the 2022 World Cup that went to Qatar.  Vladimir Putin won’t let those facts get in the way of a good anti-American rant, of course. The
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