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| You might want to sit down for this: GOP 'insiders' don't think Cruz can win 3/27/2015 10:01:57 AM Noah Rothman 37 Comments This might surprise you, but it appears that key GOP activists and influential party members do not see Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as having much of a shot at becoming the party's 2016 nominee. Now, anyone looking at the early state polls at this stage of the More... Is the Iran nuke deal the Obamacare of the president's second term? 3/27/2015 9:21:15 AM Noah Rothman 54 Comments As more and more information about the nuclear talks with Iran is revealed in the press, including yesterday's gem in which the nation learned that the White House might consider allowing Iran to proceed with enrichment at a hardened, underground More... Breaking: Harry Reid to retire 3/27/2015 8:31:39 AM Ed Morrissey 124 Comments “I want to be able to go out at the top of my game,” Harry Reid told the New York Times’ Carl Hulse in announcing his retirement. The former Senate Majority Leader, forced to the minority for the first time in eight years, has had More... Republicans pass budgets in both House and Senate, trim $5.1 trillion in spending 3/27/2015 8:01:41 AM Ed Morrissey 35 Comments Remember when a disagreement between Republicans on the budget was “cataclysmic” for GOP claims to governance? Democrats last passed a normal budget resolution six years ago, but Republicans went all of seven days before both chambers finally More...
Quotes of the day 3/26/2015 10:01:07 PM Allahpundit 277 Comments "Reagan can't win, Ford says." That's the 1976 version. The 1980 New York Times version, with the nearly identical headline: "Ford Declares Reagan Can't Win." Ford was really quite sure of himself: "Every place I go, and everything I hear, there is a More... Consensus of a dozen evangelical leaders: Huckabee is the most viable social conservative in the 2016 race 3/26/2015 8:41:03 PM Allahpundit 131 Comments Primary season’s not officially under way until someone publishes the quadrennial “divided social cons trying to unite behind single candidate” story. Here you go. Let the campaign begin! Mike Huckabee’s more viable than Scott More... Christie calls tax dollars derived from legalized marijuana 'blood money' 3/26/2015 8:01:11 PM Noah Rothman 53 Comments One of Chris Christie's most appealing traits as a leading voice within the Republican Party is his advocacy for the reformation of the sentencing guidelines for New Jersey drug offenders. "What we're dealing with most people here is an addiction, an More... Does the new minimum wage mean an end to tipping? 3/26/2015 7:21:46 PM Jazz Shaw 50 Comments Rushing through a steep increase in the minimum wage is going to have a number of effects on businesses, the prices consumers pay and employment. All of that is pretty much a given as we’ve discussed here on multiple occasions. At the LA Times, More... Good news! Putin claims he can't control his aggressive, anti-American military commanders 3/26/2015 6:41:50 PM Noah Rothman 35 Comments When Russian troops invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula, Western governments were understandably spooked. In a perfunctory display of dissatisfaction with Moscow's disregard for the international status quo, the United States sent More... Video: Catholic school requires pre-approval of prom dresses, world melts down 3/26/2015 6:01:14 PM Ed Morrissey 68 Comments Every once in a while, local news will report on an outraged student and parents who get booted from a public school dance because of inappropriate attire, with general clucking of tongues about either the appalling taste shown or the trauma of a ruined More... Video: John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi humiliate themselves for your amusement, intentionally this time 3/26/2015 5:21:03 PM Allahpundit 24 Comments To cleanse the palate. Come to think of it, I guess the DHS/amnesty defunding fiasco also qualifies as intentional self-humiliation by Boehner. As usual we’re playing catch-up with Obama, as he already did the “mean tweets” gag for More... Does Bergdahl's torture at Taliban hands count as time served? 3/26/2015 4:41:17 PM Noah Rothman 109 Comments With the announcement that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will finally face military justice for allegedly deserting his unit in Afghanistan with what some contend was his intention to join the Taliban, this alleged deserter's defenders have their hands full. More... Scott Walker to NH Republicans: Illegals should have a path to citizenship; Update: He doesn't support citizenship, says spokesman 3/26/2015 4:01:07 PM Allahpundit 251 Comments The WSJ’s headline: “Scott Walker Shifts Stance on Immigration at Private Dinner.” Is that right? What position did he “shift” on? I find myself in the unusual position here of having to defend Walker on grounds that More... National Guard solider and cousin arrested trying to join ISIS, plotting terror attacks 3/26/2015 3:21:33 PM Noah Rothman 48 Comments It was just a few weeks ago that President Barack Obama told his Vox.com fan club that he “absolutely” agreed with the premise that the threat of terrorism was over-hyped by the media. That is, the President of the United States saw terrorist More... Did the Obama administration declassify documents on Israeli nuclear program? 3/26/2015 2:41:24 PM Ed Morrissey 85 Comments For decades, the details of Israel’s nuclear defense have remained secret, as has American cooperation with it. According to Arutz Sheva, that changed a month ago, although few noticed it, in a decision to declassify a 1987 report that specifies More... TEMS Thursday: Guest hosting on Relevant Radio! 3/26/2015 2:35:07 PM Ed Morrissey 2 Comments Today I get to step outside the box a bit again, and guest-host for Drew Mariani at Relevant Radio! The Catholic talk-radio network has 34 stations, both O&O and affiliates, as well as an webstream and an app that plays live and podcasted shows. More... Great news: White House considers letting Iran run hundreds of centrifuges in, uh, fortified underground bunker 3/26/2015 2:01:33 PM Allahpundit 53 Comments Somewhere the Taliban is watching these negotiations with Iran and thinking, “We should have asked for Khaled Sheikh Mohammed in return for Bergdahl.” At this point, I’m wondering whether they would have got him. I asked on Twitter how More... Black business owners on board for repeal of death tax 3/26/2015 1:21:04 PM Jazz Shaw 300 Comments Life is beginning to imitate art yet again. It was more than 13 years ago when The West Wing aired the episode “Ways and Means.” In it, one of the key legislative battles taking place was the Democrats trying to shove through the death tax More... DoJ: DEA agents had sex parties with cartel-provided hookers in Colombia 3/26/2015 12:41:38 PM Ed Morrissey 62 Comments Move over, Secret Service, because another government agency has challenged for the party-culture championship. A Department of Justice Inspector General report accuses Drug Enforcement Agency personnel of having “sex parties” with hookers in More... Rejected by Iran-backed Yemeni rebels, Obama now supports Saudi-led coalition's war 3/26/2015 12:01:50 PM Noah Rothman 67 Comments You might think that United States grand strategy in the Middle East should be founded in an understating of long-term American interests, its traditional partnerships, and a careful review of the interwoven and often conflicting interests of regional More... Jen Psaki on Bergdahl: Of course it was worth swapping a deserter for five Taliban killers 3/26/2015 11:21:10 AM Allahpundit 87 Comments Never will you see a clearer example of government defending a bad decision simply to avoid having to admit a mistake. The best she can do here is mutter variations of “leave no man behind,” but even veterans who served alongside Bergdahl More... Why the collapse of Yemen is driving up oil prices 3/26/2015 10:41:36 AM Jazz Shaw 30 Comments Oil prices saw a marked jump of more than 3% to $49.31 per barrel on Wednesday and it will probably not shock anyone to hear that it has something to do with Yemen. This comes after very recent speculation that the prices might have eventually dipped to More... | 
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