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| NYT to Menendez: Time to go 4/3/2015 10:01:20 AM Ed Morrissey 14 Comments Yesterday, Robert Menendez sounded defiant, telling constituents in New Jersey that he would stay in the Senate while fighting an indictment for corruption. “This is not how my career is going to end,” he said in a speech after entering a More... Politinerds: Michael DiMauro and Tim Lanning – web based small business start-ups 4/3/2015 9:21:32 AM Jazz Shaw 5 Comments Another topic / issues show this week on Politinerds. Doug and I are joined by Michael “Thrifty Nerd” DiMauro and his partner Tim Lanning, the founders and proprietors of Geekly Inc. They have taken a low investment start-up idea for a More... March jobs report a "big miss": 126,000 jobs added, 5.5% jobless rate 4/3/2015 8:36:14 AM Ed Morrissey 68 Comments The job market soured significantly in March, following weeks of economic indicators showing a slowing economy. While analysts expected to see job growth in the 245,000 range, the BLS report shows it came to only about half of that — 126,000 jobs More... WaPo: The Iran deal is a cave — by Obama's own standards 4/3/2015 8:01:49 AM Ed Morrissey 124 Comments The Washington Post editorial board embarrassed itself yesterday, but today they score a direct hit on Barack Obama and the deal he cut to escape the vigilance required to contain Iran. The editors remind readers about the principles that the US — More...
Quotes of the day 4/2/2015 10:11:34 PM Allahpundit 397 Comments Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush continues to lead the pack of Republican presidential hopefuls, but one candidate is making moves. Texas Senator Ted Cruz, the only GOP hopeful to formally announced his candidacy thus far, has shot up in the rankings in More... Christie pardons Philly mom arrested for her concealed weapon in New Jersey 4/2/2015 9:21:15 PM Mary Katharine Ham 47 Comments Shaneen Allen, a single mother of two young children, had a concealed carry permit in her home state of Pennsylvania. But when she crossed the line into New Jersey and was pulled over for a minor traffic infraction, the ensuing discovery of her weapon, More... Corker: Still full speed ahead on Iran bill 4/2/2015 8:41:32 PM Ed Morrissey 69 Comments The attempt by the Senate — bipartisan in nature — to assert its jurisdiction has taken a couple of body blows in the last twenty-four hours. First, the main Democratic sponsor of the bill just got indicted, and stepped down from the Foreign More... Has Hilary Clinton surrendered the Democratic monopoly on empathy? 4/2/2015 8:01:07 PM Noah Rothman 26 Comments As Republicans peered bleary-eyed and hung over at the 2012 exit polls, one unforgiving figure stared remorselessly back at them. On issues, the GOP had successfully made their case to the electorate. Exit polls showed that voters trusted the Republican More... Video: Two women charged in New York for attempting ISIS plot 4/2/2015 7:21:00 PM Ed Morrissey 24 Comments Propane tanks and pressure cookers formed the core of a bomb plot by two women in New York, an indictment unsealed today reveals, in what investigators say was an ISIS-inspired conspiracy. Noelle Velentzas and her one-time roommate Asia Siddiqui decided More... 51 votes: Republican Mark Kirk signals he'll vote for Loretta Lynch as AG, ensuring confirmation 4/2/2015 6:41:36 PM Allahpundit 113 Comments Did anyone think one of the Senate’s most reliable RINOs, who’s up for reelection next year not just in a very blue state but in Barack Obama’s home state, and who supported the Schumer/Rubio Gang of Eight amnesty bill, was going to go More... Al Franken to David Letterman: You're not funny anymore either, so why not run for Senate? 4/2/2015 6:01:38 PM Noah Rothman 26 Comments What do comedians do once they've given up on being funny? What happens to the comic once he or she sense that the inevitable slide into irrelevance has begun? Run for political office, of course. That was the course that Minnesota Sen. Al Franken set More... Lerner and Menendez: A curious contrast from the DoJ 4/2/2015 5:21:31 PM Ed Morrissey 25 Comments Yesterday, the Department of Justice offered a curious contrast in their fight against corruption, with actions in two cases sending competing messages. Apart, each case has its own highlights, and cover very different kinds of alleged corruption. Put More... Obama on Iran deal: You're welcome, America 4/2/2015 4:41:28 PM Allahpundit 169 Comments We really don’t thank him enough, you know. Here’s all I’ll say for his deal: If the inspections provisions are applied as written then there’ll be plenty of UN oversight over their program, which is more important than even the More... Evidence mounts that Germanwings pilot was on a mission to commit mass murder 4/2/2015 4:01:54 PM Noah Rothman 52 Comments The tragic death of 150 air travelers over the French Alps last week when Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed into the side of a mountain is looking less and less like a tragedy and more like an atrocity every day. Millions of depression sufferers scoffed More... Revealed: U.S. releases "fact sheet" on nuclear deal; Update: No need to spin with "fact sheets," says Iran 4/2/2015 3:21:27 PM Allahpundit 155 Comments The other thread’s too cluttered and too full of speculation about what was and wasn’t actually agreed upon. Here’s the answer from the parties themselves: A “fact sheet” of what the embryonic agreement requires. It’s More... Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Rep. Tom Marino, Jessica Fawson 4/2/2015 2:51:17 PM Ed Morrissey 1 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. Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) More... Watch: Nevada's Jon Ralston condemns Las Vegas media for protecting Harry Reid in 2012 4/2/2015 2:41:02 PM Noah Rothman 27 Comments The execrable and unscrupulous Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid will retire from the U.S. Senate in 2017, and few on the right will miss him much. The Nevada senator, who set his legacy on fire in 2012 by making unfounded allegations of fraud against More... Indiana state senator on Memories Pizza: That kind of thinking has no place in this town 4/2/2015 2:01:07 PM Allahpundit 625 Comments I flagged this story last night on Twitter but Matt Welch already wrote the post I wanted to write this morning about State Sen. Jim Arnold. I wonder if this schmuck is misinformed about what the pizzeria owners said, as so many people burning them in More... Report: U.S., Iran agree on "outlines of an understanding that would open the path to a final phase" of nuclear talks; Update: Obama to speak 4/2/2015 1:21:48 PM Allahpundit 248 Comments If I’m reading this correctly, we’ve reached a shared consensus on broad parameters to guide future conversations. Or we’ve agreed upon an outline setting forth common principles pointing us to a next step in the dialogue. Either way, More... Support for Jeb Bush falling in Florida, Rubio rising 4/2/2015 12:41:18 PM Noah Rothman 50 Comments Outside of the class of conservative activists, it is not hard to find political analysts and observers who are convinced that the Republican presidential primaries are essentially over, and Jeb Bush won. The argument for why Bush has already sewn up More... WaPo editorial board slams presidential candidates who "mock the law," with one huge exception 4/2/2015 12:01:54 PM Ed Morrissey 54 Comments It all starts off so well. The headline on the Washington Post editorial board’s thundering homily today reads, “Candidates who mock the law,” certainly an issue pulled from many other headlines. Even the lead paragraph builds hope that More... Two new polls show Ted Cruz in top tier of 2016 GOP field 4/2/2015 11:21:51 AM Allahpundit 124 Comments Some high-five material for Cruz fans from WaPo and PPP. A little post-announcement bounce here or something more? In the contest for the Republican nomination, Bush tops the field with 20 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents saying they More... Indiana RFRA "fix": protecting existing public-accommodation laws 4/2/2015 10:41:03 AM Ed Morrissey 127 Comments Can the state of Indiana resolve the state of hysteria that has one pizzeria closed and every politician across the country rushing to weigh in on its actions? With the controversy and anger surrounding the passage of a rather common version of the More... | 
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