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Good news: State seizes newborn baby after mom eats poppy seed bagel
Terrific. Via Jacob Sullum of Reason, consider this less a palate cleanser than a public service announcement for the HA faithful. If you’re pregnant and happen to live in Pennsylvania, avoid Dunkin...
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Jim DeMint: “You can’t be a fiscal conservative and not be a social...
Dude? That’s the money line from tonight’s Fox News “12 in ’12″ presidential profile; skip ahead to 3:00 if you don’t want to watch it all. He made this same point, albeit in a more elaborate way, at...
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Video: Indonesian Muslim minister bummed that he had to shake First Lady’s hand
Cleanliness. A fantastic moment, really, as not only is this fanatic tool put on the spot in full view of dozens of cameras, but the fact that he’s smiling all the while shows that even he doesn’t...
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Video: Modern-day Murrow returns
"But back to the subject of me." C’mon, I have to post it. It’s the closest thing we’ve had to news today. Except, of course, for the missile-that-isn’t-really-a-missile story. (No, really, it isn’t!)...
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Quotes of the day
Legacies. “Gallup just announced that Americans’ favorable opinions of George W. Bush have risen. This comes as the Obama presidency ages, and now their favorable views of the Republican nearly match...
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Dems to Pelosi: What’s the rush?
Consistency. Old and busted: Republican worries that Nancy Pelosi would try to use the lame-duck session to shove more of her radical change through Congress before losing her grip on power. New...
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IG report shows Obama WH rewrote Gulf spill report to support moratorium
Confirmation. When the Obama White House announced its moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP-Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in April, the administration insisted that they followed...
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Federal bureaucrats earning $150K up tenfold in past five years
Boom times. While the rest of America has been dealing with high unemployment and stagnant wages, at least one sector of the economy can thank Barack Obama and Democrats for boom times, and no, it’s...
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Exclusive interview: Sen. James Inhofe pushes back on earmark moratorium
"Give me a chance to pass real reform." In a wide-ranging interview this morning exclusive to Hot Air with one of the leading conservative voices in Congress, Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma explained...
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Great news: Jobless rate expected to drop in 2012 to … 8.5%
Salesmanship. In a measure of just how much the lack of economic growth under Barack Obama has impacted expectations, The Hill predicts that Obama may have a much better re-election campaign in 2012...
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New ag reports point to inflation in food prices
Where have we heard this before? Fresh on the heels over the debate of whether and when inflation hit food prices, the Department of Agriculture warned yesterday that, well, inflation will hit food...
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Bush denies report of supposed “endorsement” of Obama
"Ridiculous and untrue." Did George Bush tell a visiting delegation from the UK that he wouldn’t vote for John McCain and would have endorsed Barack Obama if asked? The Financial Times says yes: The...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Andrew Malcolm
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we welcome the Prince of Twitter and LA Times blogger Andrew Malcolm for our weekly Tuesdays with Andrew discussion of media and politics! We’ll...
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Video: Christie names names in fight against inflated education salaries
"The new poster boy for all that's wrong with the public-school system..." As part of his efforts to reform public school systems in New Jersey and apply resources more directly to students, Governor...
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Palin: Riding the QE2 will require a lot of Dramamine
Avoiding the debt responsibilities. Emboldened by her successful debate with a Wall Street Journal reporter over monetary policy, Sarah Palin continues today to blast the Federal Reserve and the Obama...
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NRCC gears up for recounts and election challenges
Not quite over. It ain’t over ’til it’s over, Yogi Berra famously advised, and that’s as true in elections as it is in baseball. While the Senate race in Alaska gets most of the attention in the...
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Boehner insists on making all current tax rates permanent
Plus, an end to Air Pelosi. What a difference a couple of weeks — and a historic “shellacking” in a midterm election — makes. In October, John Boehner had to answer whether he would accept extensions...
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DOA: Deficit Commission likely to reject chairmen’s plan to reduce national...
Sigh. We’re not serious. Yet. Leaders of President Barack Obama’s bipartisan deficit commission on Wednesday proposed reducing the annual cost-of-living increases in Social Security, part of a bold...
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Report: 98% of write-in ballots counted thus far are for Murkowski
Heart-ache. Only an anecdotal report (from a Democrat, no less), but if that rate holds true, it’d mean almost 2,000 votes knocked off her presumptive lead. Not an insignificant amount. Here’s the...
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Change: White House backing off July 2011 date for Afghanistan drawdown
Sort of. You have to read carefully to recognize the change in policy here, but it’s a doozy. From the very beginning of The One’s surge last year, July 2011 has been held out as a set-in-stone date on...
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