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| Paul Ryan: It's too early to be talking about 2016 4/22/2015 10:31:05 AM Noah Rothman 0 Comments It would be hard to pin down precisely when it happened, but the coverage of the 2016 cycle certainly seems to have kicked into high gear earlier this month. Perhaps the shift in the tone of the press's coverage of the next presidential race took place More... McConnell pushes renewal of NSA mass-surveillance authorization to Senate floor 4/22/2015 10:01:41 AM Ed Morrissey 8 Comments The full Senate will soon take up the question of renewing Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, a curious move in two aspects. First, the bill would undercut efforts at reforming the NSA’s mass-trawling of communications data, two years after the extent More... (non)Human rights update: Judge grants habeas corpus to two chimps 4/22/2015 9:31:28 AM Jazz Shaw 44 Comments Last year we discussed the sad news that Tommy the chimp had been turned away in an appellate branch of the New York State Supreme Court, having been told that he’s not a human being and is not entitled to the same rights and privileges of his homo More... Apparently, no one at MSNBC pays taxes 4/22/2015 9:01:00 AM Noah Rothman 49 Comments Democrats are fond of accusing Republicans of being hypocrites on a variety of issues, but particularly when it comes to tax policy. The liberal comedian Bill Maher recently claimed that Republicans expose themselves to this critique when they champion More...
Video: Terrorist planning church attacks in Paris thwarted by … himself 4/22/2015 8:31:50 AM Ed Morrissey 31 Comments “This was a close call,” ABC’s Terry Moran says in this report from Paris, “a very close call.” At least one and possibly multiple churches in Paris narrowly avoided a bloodbath this weekend, in large part due to the More... As gas prices fall, drivers dump hybrids for SUVs 4/22/2015 8:01:00 AM Jazz Shaw 49 Comments Here’s a great story to start off Earth Day for everyone. Thanks to a boom in domestic energy production driven by new technologies such as hydraulic fracturing, the United States has become a global energy leader. Increased supplies have led to More... Quotes of the day 4/21/2015 10:41:00 PM Allahpundit 288 Comments In the wake of criticism that he has flip-flopped over illegal immigration, Gov. Scott Walker is now wading into the issue of legal immigration… “In terms of legal immigration, how we need to approach that going forward is saying, we will More... Even YOLO Obama won't call it Armenian genocide, gravely disappointing Armenians, Sen. Obama 4/21/2015 10:01:54 PM Mary Katharine Ham 54 Comments On the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, some activists had dared to hope that YOLO Obama, the man who had once after all promised to refer to the genocide as just that, might actually do so this year. Nope: President Barack Obama will not use More... Yet another poll: Americans don't trust the federal government, prefer state and local 4/21/2015 9:21:54 PM Mary Katharine Ham 25 Comments I’ve written about this before. For many, it is a disappointing, even depressing state of affairs. I, however, welcome it as a new state of awareness the American people have about the reality of the federal government. The feds are just lucky they More... Rick Perry: Yeah, I'd probably attend a gay wedding 4/21/2015 8:41:04 PM Allahpundit 114 Comments Where do we stand on this so far among the GOP field? Rubio’s a yes, Santorum’s a no, Cruz is noncommittal, Walker said he’s already attended a gay-wedding reception but not an actual ceremony. Anyone I’m leaving out? People are More... Obama goes to war with the left over trade 4/21/2015 8:01:24 PM Noah Rothman 14 Comments In a rare moment of unity between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans, both parties appear foursquare behind a proposal to provide the White House with trade promotional authority in order to fast-track an Asian free trade agreement. In More... Poll: America's got a fee-vah and the only prescription is more … ObamaCare? 4/21/2015 7:21:35 PM Allahpundit 67 Comments If you consider a 43/42 favorable rating a “fee-vah,” then yes, America’s got a fee-vah. Still, I suppose it’s noteworthy that the law is now seen favorably on balance. That hadn’t happened once since election day More... Team Hillary: It's the media's fault that Hillary's position changed on same-sex marriage 4/21/2015 6:41:25 PM Ed Morrissey 32 Comments Alternate headline: We’ve always been allies with EastGaysia. Even Chelsea Clinton has acknowledged that her parents have changed their positions on same-sex marriage over time, in part from her own lobbying on the issue. Hillary Clinton refused to More... Rand Paul: It's McCain and Lindsey Graham who are "lapdogs" for Obama's foreign policy, not me 4/21/2015 6:01:45 PM Allahpundit 34 Comments Via RCP, a smart, well prepared retort to superhawks like Graham, who’s already started beating on Paul during his quasi-2016 media tour. Rand seems to relish taking tropes that are common to interventionist critiques and turning them against his More... Saudis announce a new phase of the war in Yemen 4/21/2015 5:21:41 PM Noah Rothman 25 Comments Yemeni security officials revealed this week that forces loyal to the nation's president-in-exile have regained control of that country's coastline. But the cost paid by average Yemenis during what the Saudi Arabia-led coalition dubbed Operation Decisive More... Video: The last of the Nazi trials? 4/21/2015 4:41:48 PM Ed Morrissey 30 Comments It’s been 70 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp, and the anniversary may mark the last of the war-crimes trials from World War II. A German court will try the man dubbed “the accountant of Auschwitz,” Oskar More... Chris Christie: Maybe it's time to take a second look at NAFTA 4/21/2015 4:01:06 PM Allahpundit 30 Comments In case foreign policy wasn’t enough of a flashpoint, it’ll be fun watching Christie duke it out with Rand Paul at the debates over free trade. Maybe this is his concession to blue-collar workers after getting hammered by Huckabee for More... Why is there no liberal hunger strike for the victims of childhood sex trafficking? 4/21/2015 3:21:30 PM Noah Rothman 32 Comments Attorney General Eric Holder's chosen replacement, Loretta Lynch, has been waiting a long time for the U.S. Senate to confirm her as the next head of the Justice Department. The delay in confirming Lynch has prompted figures like Rev. Al Sharpton and More... Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, David French 4/21/2015 2:51:02 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! Andrew Malcolm joins us for Tuesdays with Andrew! The Prince of Twitter and I will discuss all of the hot political stories of the day. Plus, we’ll do More... Kirsten Powers to Obama: Stop hectoring Christians and start protecting them 4/21/2015 2:41:42 PM Ed Morrissey 315 Comments When will the Obama administration get serious about the persecution of Christians — or even acknowledge it? Kirsten Powers levels this blast at Barack Obama for his obsession with the crusades of a millenium ago rather than the systematic More... The ATF is awfully interested in racial profiling all of a sudden 4/21/2015 2:01:42 PM Jazz Shaw 56 Comments This government regulation game can be so darned confusing sometimes. I thought that it was the GOP who was all about the racism and the Obama administration wanted to move us to a post-racial society? And yet, since new background check rules from the More... Has Scott Walker's immigration flip-flop cost him the Koch primary? 4/21/2015 1:21:32 PM Noah Rothman 168 Comments What began as a banner day for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in his quest to secure his party's presidential nomination on Monday ended as a unique disaster. According to Nicholas Confessore's reporting in the New York Times on Monday, the libertarian More... "Quid pro dough": Clinton riches come under greater scrutiny 4/21/2015 12:41:20 PM Ed Morrissey 37 Comments Well, the New York Post always did have a talent for front-page grabbers (via Drudge): Severe thunderstorm watch for Brooklyn… pic.twitter.com/Er9kb1fugg — MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) April 21, 2015 The catalyst for this poster is Peter More... State AGs take EPA to court over proposed "clean power" plan 4/21/2015 12:01:18 PM Jazz Shaw 23 Comments The EPA is moving full steam ahead with their plans to clamp down on coal production in the name of reducing carbon emissions, regardless of how it impacts American energy independence or the costs which will be passed on to consumers. (And “full More... Hillary at meeting with economists: We need to "topple" the wealthiest one percent 4/21/2015 11:31:54 AM Allahpundit 122 Comments The first thing I thought of while reading this was Romney trying to impress CPAC a few years ago by calling himself “severely” conservative. Coming from a committed populist ideologue like Elizabeth Warren, this might sound ominous. Coming More... | 
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