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How many journos actually fell into the reporter-registration trap? 1/20/2016 8:41:14 AM  Ed Morrissey 17 Comments Yesterday, a proposal by South Carolina state representative Mike Pitts floated the idea of requiring journalists to register with the state to ensure a responsible approach to the First Amendment. As someone who has more than a passing familiarity with More... Michael Moore determines that the Flint water crisis is racist genocide 1/20/2016 8:01:14 AM  Jazz Shaw 57 Comments We’ve got plenty of updates for you this morning on the unfolding disaster in Flint Michigan, but there are none quite so remarkable as a declaration coming from Flint’s favorite son last night. Michael Moore took to social media to announce More... Quotes of the day 1/19/2016 10:41:42 PM  Allahpundit 567 Comments Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential nominee who became a Tea Party sensation and a favorite of grass-roots conservatives, endorsed Donald J. Trump in Iowa on Tuesday, providing Mr. Trump with a potentially significant boost More... Comedy gold: New CNN poll of New Hampshire has Bernie Sanders leading Hillary … by 27 points 1/19/2016 10:01:36 PM  Allahpundit 67 Comments Who has the greater tolerance for electoral humiliation, Hillary or Jeb? Until recently I would have said Jeb. Sure, Hillary’s now struggled against upstart challengers in two different primaries where she was heavily favored, but she battled Obama More... Supreme Court to take up WH immigration executive-action appeal 1/19/2016 9:21:50 PM  Ed Morrissey 31 Comments Better sooner than later, or at least it might be for the White House. The Supreme Court agreed to add a challenge to the Fifth Circuit’s broad injunction against Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration to its docket, setting up a More... Gerson: We must stop both Trump and Cruz to save the Republican Party 1/19/2016 8:41:31 PM  Jazz Shaw 72 Comments As we draw closer and closer to the Iowa Caucuses, signs of desperation are setting in at the GOP establishment ranch. The polls are stubbornly refusing to budge in response to various exhortations on behalf of the more traditional candidates and cold, More... Video: Remember when Barack Obama said we couldn't just drill our way to lower gas prices? 1/19/2016 8:01:16 PM  Jazz Shaw 104 Comments Here’s a fun item for a Tuesday rather than the normal gloom and doom. Do you recall a couple of years ago when filling up your car required a loan application form? And during the debates over fracking, pipelines and all the rest, do you remember More... Gates: Man, I hope the next president doesn't surround himself with yes-men 1/19/2016 7:21:46 PM  Ed Morrissey 11 Comments Golly, who might Robert Gates mean? Actually, the former Secretary of Defense doesn’t keep it very mysterious in this discussion of leadership at the highest levels. Joe Scarborough comes to the point at about the three-minute mark in this panel More... Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad: Cruz delenda est; Update: Establishment Republicans are reaching out to me, says Trump 1/19/2016 6:41:10 PM  Allahpundit 219 Comments His kid’s an ethanol lobbyist and Cruz famously wants to phase out ethanol subsidies. Anything else we need to talk about here? All right, let’s talk a little more. “Ted Cruz is ahead right now. What we're trying to do is educate the More... President Sanders would quickly run out of other people's money 1/19/2016 6:01:07 PM  Jazz Shaw 38 Comments Say, do you remember that time when Vermont was going to use Obamacare as a jumping off point and build their own single payer health care system? Yeah, Bernie Sanders was all over that one at the time, promoting a socialist vision of the future which More... Did Hillary bet the farm on Iowa? 1/19/2016 5:21:51 PM  Ed Morrissey 67 Comments How bad has the 2016 campaign gone for Hillary Clinton? The New York Times takes note of the fact that the presumed coronation candidate now runs the risk of losing both opening contests in the Democratic primary season. Team Hillary laid down as much as More... Here we go: Palin to endorse Trump 1/19/2016 4:41:58 PM  Allahpundit 1265 Comments Jim Geraghty wrote this morning that the tea-party era began on Tax Day 2009, the day conservatives protested in cities across the country, but plenty of Palin fans will tell you that it actually began eight months earlier, when Palin flew into Dayton to More... Trump on Cruz's "rough temperament": You can't call your leaders liars on the Senate floor 1/19/2016 4:01:06 PM  Allahpundit 138 Comments Golly, I thought populists liked it when Cruz did that. Now it turns out that type of insolence is a liability in a president. Frankly, that attitude sounds … establishment-y. I guess it’s time for the “Donald Trump scolding other More... Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Fly Girls update 1/19/2016 3:21:16 PM  Ed Morrissey 2 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. Who were the WASPs of More... Oh my: New poll of New Hampshire puts Kasich at 20%, just seven points behind Trump 1/19/2016 2:41:38 PM  Allahpundit 136 Comments A Trump/Kasich two-man race for the nomination would, I think, trigger the End Times. And I’m an atheist. I’m not even supposed to believe in the End Times. Are there any conservative voters left in this party? Among Republican voters who More... IG: E-mails on Hillary server from highly classified "special access programs" 1/19/2016 2:01:03 PM  Ed Morrissey 228 Comments Hillary Clinton’s secret e-mail server contained more highly classified information than previously thought, according to a letter from the Inspector General overseeing the material. Fox News got an exclusive look at a letter from Thursday that More... So who's really to blame for the Oscars being "so white" again? 1/19/2016 1:21:46 PM  Jazz Shaw 115 Comments This story is a bit far afield from our normal political discussions, but it ties heavily into the entire Social Justice Warrior theme and seems like a very sticky question for the Great Liberal Motherland of Hollywood to wrestle to the ground. The Oscar More... CBS: Obama administration shocked that Iran still pursuing Americans as hostages 1/19/2016 12:41:35 PM  Ed Morrissey 53 Comments The kidnapping of three Americans in Iraq came after intelligence warnings that Iranian-backed militias sought US hostages, CBS News reported late last night. The intel surprised the Obama administration, according to CBS’ sources, because they More... EPA Chief: We "did our job" in the Flint water disaster 1/19/2016 12:01:03 PM  Jazz Shaw 83 Comments We previously discussed the fact that the hilariously named Environmental Protection Agency knew about the toxic levels of lead in Flint, Michigan’s water supply months before they let anyone know about it and the uproar that followed. At the time More... Cruz spokesman: I'd be "deeply disappointed" if Sarah Palin endorses a progressive like Trump; Update: Is this why people don't like Cruz, wonders Palin? Update: I love Palin, says Cruz 1/19/2016 11:21:57 AM  Allahpundit 774 Comments This makes me think it is Palin who’s going to endorse Trump today and that Team Cruz knows it. Otherwise Rick Tyler would have answered this question differently, in spokesman-ese. You know how it goes: “Oh, listen, I’m not going to More... Salon: Rubio's disqualified because of his "bizarre religious faith" … Catholicism 1/19/2016 10:41:45 AM  Ed Morrissey 112 Comments Yes, I know that Salon’s gotta Salon, but this is a remarkable example of progressive foaming-at-the-mouth Know-Nothingism. Marco Rubio released an ad in Iowa discussing his Christian faith in the context of politics, the kind of soft, personal More... Pentagon looking at demoting Petraeus over handling of classified material 1/19/2016 10:01:41 AM  Ed Morrissey 77 Comments The troubles for David Petraeus for sharing classified information with his paramour/biographer may not be over. Despite an Army recommendation that his criminal prosecution suffice as punishment, The Daily Beast reports that Defense Secretary Ash Carter More... Two murdered police officers teach a harsh lesson about criminal rehabilitation 1/19/2016 9:21:32 AM  Jazz Shaw 31 Comments Why does the United States lock up more people than anyone else in the world? That’s a question that gets asked a lot in Democrat circles and it’s a high priority subject in their primary debates. In some areas there is clearly room for a More... Sarah Palin's endorsement of Donald Trump may not matter in Iowa Rifle capable of taking down helicopter found at "El Chapo" hideout purchased … through Fast and Furious program Maybe the media was right about Sarah Palin, albeit for the wrong reasons Why I'm grateful God didn't answer my prayer Why won't science let us have night-vision eyedrops? Why it's not so hard to make an innocent person confess Why I'm going to write in Paul Ryan "He is the living expression of the silent majority" Poll: Satisfaction with acceptance of gays in U.S. at new high We are sick of paying the price for elitists to feel smug