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Newtown spawned a zombie lawsuit which simply won't go away
11/15/2017 10:41:41 AM  Jazz Shaw
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One month from now we will reach the five year anniversary of the horrific mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. By this point you’d think that most of the major questions would have been answered but there’s one piece of unfinished business
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Senate tax bill: Corporate cuts permanent, but individuals … not so much?
11/15/2017 10:01:32 AM  Ed Morrissey
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The Senate has finally produced its proposed version of tax reform nearly halfway through this session of Congress, and it’s clear that Republicans in Congress don’t talk much with each other. Not only did Finance chair Orrin Hatch include a
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The Australian plebiscite on gay marriage is finally over
11/15/2017 9:21:52 AM  Jazz Shaw
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It took a couple of months and was filled with charges and countercharges of dirty tricks and the suppression of free speech, but the Australian plebiscite on gay marriage is finally finished. The people responded in large numbers and in the end, the
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Hannity to Moore: You've got 24 hours to explain yourself
11/15/2017 8:41:28 AM  Ed Morrissey
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Roy Moore is running out of defenders, and the one with the biggest platform of them all issued an ultimatum last night. Either come up with a better explanation that eliminates all of the inconsistencies in Moore’s previous responses to
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Zimbabwe and the "bloodless correction"
11/15/2017 8:01:18 AM  Jazz Shaw
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When is a coup not a coup? That’s the rather tricky question that the military of Zimbabwe is trying to avoid this morning. In just the past day the army seized control, took President Robert Mugabe and his wife into detention and deployed troops
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Bryan Cranston: There may be a path back to Hollywood for Weinstein and Spacey
11/14/2017 10:41:37 PM  Allahpundit
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I’d imagine that for a Christian this is a difficult question. If the stories about Weinstein are true, he’s the worst of the worst, a tyrant and a rapist many times over. But if what Cranston suggests came to pass — real repentance,
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Woman says George H.W. Bush groped her in 2003, when she was 16
11/14/2017 10:01:30 PM  Allahpundit
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A leftover from last night but also a pick-me-up for Roy Moore fans dejected by the news of the past week. It’s not just Mr Populism who allegedly got handsy with 16-year-olds. Mr Establishment supposedly did too. If the accusers are to be
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Too bad to check: Robocalls from 'Bernie Bernstein' seek dirt on Roy Moore
11/14/2017 9:21:41 PM  John Sexton
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Alabama’s WKRG News 5 reports that they received from a viewer what may be a robocall offering money for damaging information about Roy Moore: "Hi, this is Bernie Bernstein, I'm a reporter for the Washington Post calling to find out if anyone at
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"The fight has just begun": Moore reportedly telling aides he intends to finish the race
11/14/2017 8:41:29 PM  Allahpundit
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Why wouldn’t he? He’s 70, he’s been trying for years to win political office, and he’ll never have a better chance than he does now notwithstanding the allegations against him. This is a guy who twice — twice — forced
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Did USCCB push back against Vatican on abortion fight emphasis?
11/14/2017 8:01:18 PM  Ed Morrissey
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The Catholic Church’s fight against abortion has a new leader, and his election may be a signal from American bishops to the Vatican on their intention to hold to a hard-line approach. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops elected Archbishop Joseph
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Williams College president: The real threat to free speech isn't far-left students silencing speakers on campus
11/14/2017 7:21:03 PM  John Sexton
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Williams College is a private liberal arts schools in Massachusetts. Today the Washington Post published an opinion piece by Williams’ president Adam Falk titled, “Williams College president: Don't ignore the real threats in the debate over
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Video: It's confirmed. The killer robots are coming
11/14/2017 6:41:14 PM  Jazz Shaw
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There was a short film scheduled to be shown today at the United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons. It was produced and presented by a group named the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. (No… believe it or not that wasn’t a joke.) This
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Rush: Roy Moore was a Democrat when he was allegedly chasing teenaged girls, you know
11/14/2017 6:01:29 PM  Allahpundit
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Not until this moment did I realize Moore is truly done for. If even talk radio has shifted from “he’s innocent” to “this is how Democrats behave,” then Moore’s populist base has begun to crumble beneath his
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Hmmm: FBI opening probe into fetal-tissue sales?
11/14/2017 5:31:36 PM  Ed Morrissey
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David Daleiden may still find vindication — and Planned Parenthood may not yet have escaped legal scrutiny over its commercial partnerships with fetal-tissue brokers. The Hill’s John Solomon reports that the FBI has asked to review the raw
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Republicans adding individual mandate repeal to tax bill
11/14/2017 5:01:50 PM  John Sexton
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Republicans are adding a repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate to their tax bill. The Washington Post reports: The major change was discussed Tuesday by Republican senators during a closed-door lunch. They decided attach a provision to their tax
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Our shifting standards of reporting assault allegations
11/14/2017 4:31:46 PM  Jazz Shaw
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This past weekend I found myself wrestling, very likely in vain, with some of the ethical questions arising from the snake pit that the sexual assault stories coming out of Hollywood and the media have become. There was a time – I think it was as
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Jeff Sessions: I'm not going to appoint a special counsel for Hillary just because my party wants me to
11/14/2017 4:01:59 PM  Allahpundit
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The frustration is palpable in his response to Jim Jordan, although it’s not Jordan who’s the cause of that frustration. We all know who is. POTUS jammed him up badly by calling publicly for the DOJ to investigate Hillary. If the Department
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Today's hot topics: Double Trump, double special counsel, backdoor ObamaCare repeal, Moore meltdown, USCCB message to Vatican, and more!
11/14/2017 3:31:53 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. (If it’s muted,
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Corey Feldman names another of his abusers
11/14/2017 3:01:24 PM  John Sexton
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Monday, Corey Feldman appeared on the Dr. Oz show where he was presented with a photo of a man who Dr. Oz said matched some of the previous statements Feldman had made about one of his abusers. Feldman confirmed he recognized the man at which point Dr.
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The pros and cons of police officers reviewing their own body cam footage
11/14/2017 2:31:35 PM  Jazz Shaw
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One of the biggest and potentially most beneficial results from efforts at “police reform” over the past several years is the much wider use of body cameras by law enforcement officers. Given that activists suspicious of law enforcement
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Poll: Just 26% of Republicans want Moore to stay in Senate race
11/14/2017 2:01:06 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Should Roy Moore drop out after a series of allegations involving sexual misconduct? Morning Consult tested the waters with a poll conducted late last week, and reports this morning that the overwhelming majority of voters say yes. In fact, only 26%
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Juanita Broaddrick: It's nice to finally be taken seriously by Democrats
11/14/2017 1:31:22 PM  Allahpundit
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We’ll see. It’s nice to read the op-eds about a “reckoning” with Clinton and tweets like this one… As gross and cynical and hypocrtical as the right's "what about Bill Clinton" stuff is, it's also true
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Russian Defense Ministry uses video game screenshot as proof US is cooperating with ISIS
11/14/2017 1:01:34 PM  John Sexton
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Tuesday the official social media account of the Russian Defense Ministry accused the U.S. of cooperating with ISIS. As proof, the Defense Ministry published screenshots which, it claimed, were drone images of an ISIS convoy on the ground last week.
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College students remain confused about the definition of sexual assault
11/14/2017 12:31:38 PM  Jazz Shaw
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As awful as the recent flood of sexual assault stories have been, there remains hope that this may turn out to be a teachable moment for our society. The first and most obvious lesson is that sexual assault and harassment are far more prevalent than many
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Ryan to Moore: Time to go
11/14/2017 12:01:47 PM  Ed Morrissey
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“If he cares about the values that he claims to care about,” Paul Ryan said of Roy Moore at his daily presser this morning, “then he should step aside.”  The House Speaker continues the tsunami of Republicans distancing themselves
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