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| Next big NYT scoop: Rubios struggled while in their twenties 6/9/2015 10:01:23 AM Ed Morrissey 43 Comments My goodness, American Bridge is busy these days. The Democratic oppo research firm uncovered the scandalous fact that Marco Rubio had four tickets in seventeen years, and with a rinse cycle in between saw that magically appear in the New York Times last More... Cleveland residents attempt to bypass DA in Tamir Rice case 6/9/2015 9:21:53 AM Jazz Shaw 22 Comments File this one under the category of, “Wait. They can do that?” The case of the shooting of Tamir Rice in Cleveland by officers responding to reports of a male pointing a handgun at cars has dragged on for more than six months now. It’s More... Another AUMF debate? 6/9/2015 8:41:40 AM Ed Morrissey 12 Comments Three months ago, Congress put aside the Obama request for a new authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria, even while the White House struggled to decide exactly how to do that. The effort got stopped by More... About that Obama "gag order" on firearm-related speech 6/9/2015 8:01:29 AM Jazz Shaw 92 Comments There’s been a lot of chatter in our comments section and across the web about a recent story regarding a new presidential executive order dealing with an overhaul of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). It’s being described More...  Quotes of the day 6/8/2015 10:41:29 PM Allahpundit 235 Comments President Barack Obama sought Monday to portray the latest lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act as baseless litigation founded in political animus—and warned that a Supreme Court ruling against his administration, which could come any day, would be More... Video: Blogger launches book and talks about pot with Bill O'Reilly, of course 6/8/2015 10:11:54 PM Mary Katharine Ham 26 Comments Mary Katharine Ham has written a book with Guy Benson, “End of Discussion: How the Left’s Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun)” It’s in bookstores tomorrow! Please order. More... Supreme Court rules against parents of child born in Jerusalem over passport birthplace 6/8/2015 9:21:26 PM Ed Morrissey 46 Comments Most Americans consider Jerusalem the capital of Israel. The US government officially takes no position on sovereignty, insisting that the final decision has to come from the Israelis and the Palestinians as part of the settlement from their decades-long More... Holdouts: Blacks oppose gay marriage, 41/51, in new Pew poll 6/8/2015 8:41:52 PM Allahpundit 57 Comments They’re not the only group still opposed, of course — senior citizens and white evangelicals also say no to SSM — but they’re the only group that’s under intense partisan pressure to conform that’s still resisting. More... Justice reform is a great thing for the right 6/8/2015 8:01:32 PM Taylor Millard 22 Comments Justice reform is a pretty hot topic for conservatives and libertarians right now, and for good reason. There have been major reforms in states like Texas, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Georgia over the last ten years. It’s been surprising for More... Video: "The Martian" trailer 6/8/2015 7:21:13 PM Allahpundit 60 Comments To cleanse the palate, how excited you are for this flick depends, I guess, on how well you tolerate long stretches of exposure to Matt Damon. My personal tolerance is low, but the premise is sufficiently gripping that I may tough it out. If you’re More... Video: Who were those "science advisors" behind the NY fracking ban? 6/8/2015 6:41:54 PM Jazz Shaw 27 Comments Last week we talked about the bombshell EPA report which said that fracking didn’t have any demonstrated, systemic effect on ground water quality. (Well, it was a “bombshell” unless you work at the NY Times, which didn’t find that More... Video of Boston terror suspect shooting released 6/8/2015 6:01:32 PM Ed Morrissey 20 Comments Just after the shooting of Usaama Rahim in Boston, law enforcement agencies took the unusual step of briefing the local Islamic group on the surveillance video that captured the death of the suspected terrorist. They publicly corroborated the police More... Thoughtcrime averted: TV network to cut Clint Eastwood's joke about Caitlyn Jenner at awards show 6/8/2015 5:21:30 PM Allahpundit 56 Comments You’ve got to be mighty quick to the memory hole to crimestop effectively in the digital age. Thanks to fast work by Spike TV, this impure thought was filtered out before it could ever contaminate the public. For real, I don’t understand what More... Christie pardons man over weapons charge after plea deal 6/8/2015 4:41:00 PM Ed Morrissey 22 Comments Steffon Josey-Davis wanted to work in law enforcement, but trusting law enforcement in an oversight over a legal weapon put Josey-Davis in danger of spending years in a New Jersey prison. Josey-Davis went to the NAACP for help, only to get ignored. More... How much SNAP fraud are we going to find? 6/8/2015 4:01:18 PM Jazz Shaw 47 Comments Apparently it’s government waste, fraud and abuse week here at Hot Air. (Then again, I suppose that’s pretty much every week these days if you’re masochistic enough to keep reading the news.) This time we check in with the the More... How to beat the bionic Clintons 6/8/2015 3:21:10 PM Jazz Shaw 50 Comments Former Bush 43 speech writer Matt Latimer has penned an editorial for Politico this week which offers what at first looks like a seriously dismal forecast for the battle to defeat Hillary. He notes that all of the GOP primary candidates are out there More... Will those Turkish elections really change anything? 6/8/2015 2:41:40 PM Jazz Shaw 32 Comments In case you missed it, Turkey held an election yesterday and it certainly looks like their polling process is on the up and up considering what a shock wave the results produced. There was plenty of news coming out of the final numbers, and none of it More... Lindsey Graham: Caitlyn Jenner's welcome in my party 6/8/2015 2:01:12 PM Allahpundit 62 Comments Via the Daily Caller, this question would be more interesting put to a Republican who doesn’t have skin in the electoral game. As it is, how can you trust you’re getting an honest answer? Rule one of being a politician: Never, ever tell More... NYT runs to Politico for comment on embarrassing Free Beacon story … again 6/8/2015 1:21:33 PM Ed Morrissey 50 Comments Last week, the New York Times got caught with its pants down on a nonsensical “scoop” about Marco Rubio and his four driving violations in 17 years. Not only was the story silly, but its provenance appeared to fully originate at American More... Semi-retired president: We … don't have a complete strategy against ISIS yet 6/8/2015 12:41:12 PM Allahpundit 54 Comments This is progress. Last August he said he didn’t have a strategy to stop ISIS in Syria. Ten months later, he merely lacks a “complete” strategy. He’s on track, hopefully, to have a strategy ready for beta testing by the end of his More... NYT: Team Hillary tracing friendly-only path in primary campaign 6/8/2015 12:01:15 PM Ed Morrissey 32 Comments Without a credible challenge emerging in the Democratic Party (yet, anyway), Hillary Clinton should feel free to break outside of traditional liberal strongholds to increase her reach in the general election. Instead, the New York Times discovers that More... Video: Texas cop wrestles teen girl to the ground, pulls gun on others 6/8/2015 11:21:15 AM Allahpundit 512 Comments Two questions here, and your take on the clip will depend in part on how closely you think they’re related. One: Did the cops have a good reason to be there? Two: Did the aggressive cop have a good reason to be aggressive? The answer to the first More... For liberals, the military is always the problem 6/8/2015 10:41:11 AM Jazz Shaw 65 Comments We are reliably assured by progressives in the modern era that spending, deficits and the national debt are no big deal and are generally just distractions and dog whistles tossed out by conservatives. After all, you can always just print more money or More... |   | |||||
