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| Video: Early favorite for Mother of the Year speaks 4/29/2015 10:01:49 AM Ed Morrissey 30 Comments Yesterday, I wondered on Twitter whether the assumption made by the media and everyone else was correct, and that this viral video really showed a mother taking a son to task for attempting to join the Baltimore riots. CBS News finally identified both More... Pentagon lawyers discover we don't have to defend our allies if threatened by Iran 4/29/2015 9:21:25 AM Noah Rothman 63 Comments Since the conclusion of the final round of nuclear negotiations, Iran has been engaging in conspicuous displays of aggression. The U.S. Navy revealed on Tuesday that four Iranian Revolutionary Guards ships intercepted a Maersk cargo vessel in the Strait More... WaPo: Three Pinocchios for latest Clinton Foundation excuse 4/29/2015 8:41:39 AM Ed Morrissey 35 Comments A particularly slimy series of “coincidences” led (a) the State Department to allow interest in half the world’s uranium to fall into Russian hands while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, (b) Bill Clinton to pocket $500,000 from More... 6,500 Lois Lerner emails recovered from backup tapes 4/29/2015 8:01:14 AM Jazz Shaw 35 Comments It’s an April miracle, Charlie Brown! While the old and largely forgotten IRS scandals have been replaced by whole news sets of scandals, I guess there was still some work going on in the background. The Inspector General for the Treasury announced More...
Quotes of the day 4/28/2015 10:41:34 PM Allahpundit 252 Comments With a dozen incidents in a year and a half, all around the country, the frustrations appear to transcend local conditions. And though local officials keep blaming round-the-clock cable news coverage for encouraging the violence, the speed and intensity More... Video: Overalled local news hero stops motorcycle chase with his body, apologizes for cursing 4/28/2015 10:11:49 PM Mary Katharine Ham 60 Comments There’s plenty in the news to make one depressed today. Here’s something tomake you smile. Out of Chickasha, Okla. comes the man who should be the next viral local news hero—Floyd Briggs. Wearing a camo hat and overalls tucked into one More... Finally: Bernie Sanders will announce for president tomorrow 4/28/2015 9:21:19 PM Mary Katharine Ham 75 Comments Longtime Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders will jump into the 2016 fray tomorrow, presenting the first official challenge to Hillary Clinton from her left. Liberal activists have been quite anxious for such a challenger, though the one they wanted was a More... Don't let urban unrest derail conservative criminal justice reform 4/28/2015 8:41:07 PM Noah Rothman 66 Comments After nearly a year of urban violence, anti-law enforcement demonstrations, and racial riots that shook America's cities to their foundations, it would be easy for conservatives to abandon the project of reforming the nation's criminal justice system. More... Ban the box? Koch Industries stops asking job applicants about criminal background 4/28/2015 8:01:30 PM Jazz Shaw 21 Comments After reading this article from Dave Weigel at Bloomberg I’ve been trying to remember the last time I filled out a job application where I’ve been asked about my criminal background. I know I’ve been asked that question, particularly More... YouGov poll: Plurality wants next president to rescind Obama's executive action on amnesty 4/28/2015 7:21:53 PM Allahpundit 27 Comments Seems like good news at first blush, but c’mon. Realistically, how high would these numbers need to be for a Republican president to feel politically safe-ish in tossing several million newly legalized illegals back into limbo? Sixty percent More... Big: Hillary debuts new, even gayer campaign logo 4/28/2015 6:41:30 PM Allahpundit 115 Comments To cleanse the palate, I paraphrase “Spinal Tap”: It’s like how much gayer could this be? And the answer is none. None more gay. Every loving couple & family deserves to be recognized & treated equally under the law across our More... Why is Jeb Bush campaigning in Puerto Rico? 4/28/2015 6:01:17 PM Ed Morrissey 40 Comments Republicans badly need to win Florida in the 2016 election if they want a return to the White House, but the demographics and politics of the Sunshine State have shifted significantly since George W. Bush carried it in 2004. The GOP has to adjust its More... CNN anchor: Maybe some of this police brutality is coming from young veterans "eager to do battle" 4/28/2015 5:21:06 PM Allahpundit 66 Comments Via the Free Beacon, after 24 hours of some searing “hot takes” about Baltimore’s riots, this may be the very hottest. Show of hands: Who thought that several days of people looting, burning things, and throwing bricks at cops’ More... Budweiser: The official beer of 'rape culture' 4/28/2015 4:41:23 PM Noah Rothman 45 Comments The latest in insipid, manufactured internet controversies comes to us courtesy of, of course, BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed news reporter Rachel Zarrell has whipped up a familiar frenzy by targeting that most famous of American beers, Budweiser, for its new More... Poll: Scott Walker now leads by double digits in Iowa 4/28/2015 4:01:29 PM Allahpundit 181 Comments Via the Washington Times, this is worth blogging if only because, despite the field being ridiculously crowded, there are realistically only two or three guys who could win both Iowa and New Hampshire. Rand Paul could do it if the Ron Paul rEVOLution in More... Obama on Baltimore riots: Blame Republicans 4/28/2015 3:21:21 PM Noah Rothman 370 Comments On Tuesday, Barack Obama admitted that the situation faced by the impoverished residents of American urban centers like Baltimore is a hopeless one. Oh, he didn't say that outright. The president waxed noble about police excesses, the aspirations of More... Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm 4/28/2015 2:51:18 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. We’ll also do More... Democrats setting up moderate GOP governors for failure 4/28/2015 2:41:40 PM Jazz Shaw 34 Comments As has been noted here before, the Democrats didn’t just take a beating in the House and Senate during recent election cycles. They’ve been losing ground at the state level as well, with more legislatures seeing Republican majorities or More... Scarborough rant rips media's hypocritical double standard for discussing Clinton corruption 4/28/2015 2:01:14 PM Ed Morrissey 35 Comments Earlier today, Joe Scarborough uncorked a much-needed rant about double standards in the media for scandal coverage. One Twitter follower of mine said he “stood and applauded” at the end of this 91-second speech. Mika Brzezinski had More... Supreme Court oral arguments on gay marriage: Kennedy a surprise skeptic on SSM? 4/28/2015 1:21:30 PM Allahpundit 194 Comments Imagine if this case ends up as a re-run of the ObamaCare ruling, with squishy Anthony Kennedy shocking everyone by joining the conservatives Scalia, Thomas, and Alito — only to have John Roberts form a majority with the Court’s four More... Smoking gun: Report alleges the Clintons personally profited from Hillary's tenure at State 4/28/2015 12:41:29 PM Noah Rothman 101 Comments As investigations into the Clinton Foundation's fundraising practices intensify, the indications that improprieties occurred while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state have become impossible to ignore. The Clintons' self-defense is the same as More... Video: Saudi Arabia announces 93 arrests in ISIS plot against US embassy 4/28/2015 12:01:30 PM Ed Morrissey 18 Comments Last month, the US embassy in Riyadh shut down its consular services for a week, citing security issues without offering many details. Today, the Saudis announced that they had rolled up an ISIS terrorist ring, arresting 93 people linked to a plot that More... Video: Vietnam veteran stands up to Baltimore rioters 4/28/2015 11:31:24 AM Allahpundit 35 Comments Via the Standard, an island of sanity in last night’s maelstrom. There were others — Freddie Gray’s family, some Christian ministers, the mom in the yellow shirt, even the Nation of Islam(!), who were praised by Megyn Kelly on air for More... Breaking: Al-Arabiya reports Iranian forces seize US cargo ship, Pentagon confirms; Update: Marshall Islands-flagged ship; Update: DOD: Ship was in Iranian waters; Update: Released? 4/28/2015 11:01:17 AM Ed Morrissey 298 Comments Bloomberg and Reuters are picking up on this report from al-Arabiya, which at least thus far appears unconfirmed by other sources. As Bloomberg’s anchor notes here, though, the Iranian foreign minister has just made an unplanned change to his More... | 
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