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11/9 Truth: Mystery missile was just a plane, says Pentagon
Loose change. I have nothing left to say about this dopey story, but after two posts yesterday and upwards of a thousand comments, we need closure. Let’s call this … the official version: The...
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AP poll: Palin’s favorable rating highest in almost a year
Hmmm. Actually, Rasmussen put her favorables at 48 percent back in September, but Nate Silver’s argued at length lately that Ras polls showing rosy numbers for a Republican should be taken with a...
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Dems wonder: Should we replace our wizened, widely hated leadership with...
Hmmm. And so, my friends, the time has come for yet another Scooby Doo mystery. Today’s episode: “The Case of the Alienated Swing Voters.” A younger generation of Democrats is chafing at being asked to...
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Bad news from Jesse Jackson: Repealing ObamaCare would mean “creeping genocide”
Terrific. Via Greg Hengler, a sneak preview of the smart, sober rhetoric we can expect from the Party Of Ideas after the new GOP House is seated. What this means, I take it, is that “creeping genocide”...
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Michele Bachmann drops out of race for GOP Conference chair, endorses Hensarling
Endgame. Politico reported a few hours ago that the votes simply weren’t there and that Hensarling was close to locking up the majority he needed. Quote from an aide: “This race is all but over.” And...
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Great news: FDA ready to require photos of corpses on cigarette packs
Not a joke. Don’t blame them. It was your elected representatives, in bipartisan fashion, who passed an anti-smoking statute last year requiring the FDA to impose more “graphic” health warnings on...
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Quotes of the day
Conclusions. “A Pentagon study group has concluded that the military can lift the ban on gays serving openly in uniform with only minimal and isolated incidents of risk to the current war efforts,...
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Obamateurism of the Day
A little late. More than a year after proposing to completely revamp the American health-care sector and watching voters erupt in anger over the takeover, Barack Obama finally admitted that it did him...
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Poll in LA: The truth is out there
Way, way, way out there. Allahpundit has done a great job of covering the Mystery Contrail story, which most experts agree came from an airplane flight and not a rocket, especially since the phenomenon...
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Video series: The Great Americans
Veterans Day tribute. Meet John Finn, a veteran of World War II, Pearl Harbor survivor, and a living recipient of the Medal of Honor for his valor on December 7, 1941. Hit by shrapnel in 21 places, the...
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Time says Tea Party will cause hyperinflation
Uh, sure. If hyperinflation arrives, Time Magazine wants its readers to know who the real culprits are. It won’t be the federal government that hiked annual spending by 38% in three years and began...
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Russian spy leader defected to US
Mystery solved. This summer, the US exposed and rounded up a ring of so-called “sleeper” spies working for Russia, whose activities later seemed rather innocuous for counterespionage efforts to have...
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Obama surrendering on tax rates?
And the base isn't happy about it. The message from Barack Obama’s post-midterm press conference on tax rates wasn’t just spitballing. P0litico reports that the White House has followed it up with...
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Videos: Whither the Tea Party after the wave?
Bright future? The big question after the midterms is how the Tea Party stays coherent and effective after their big victory in the midterms. Glenn Reynolds and PJTV hosts a discussion with Tea Party...
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Pentagon to report “minimal risk” in rescinding DADT
Lame-duck Congress ready to act? The Pentagon has concluded its study on the impact that a repeal of the “don’t-ask, don’t-tell” policy would have on military readiness in the middle of two wars, and...
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Amazon pulls pedophilia manual after protest
Retreat. Amazon has apparently conducted an about-face over its sales of a book that allegedly promotes pedophilia after a national outcry over its policy. ABC News reports now that the book, while...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Kerry Picket, Brian Reich, Jim Geraghty
3 pm ET! We have a full house on The Ed Morrissey Show today at 3 pm ET! First, we’ll check in with Kerry Picket of the Washington Times, who will regale you with tales of my drunken sobbing when the...
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Stimulus panel probes Porkulus waste — at the Ritz Carlton?
In Arizona? Rest assured that Sheriff Joe Biden has kept an eagle eye on waste in the Porkulus package, just as he promised. In fact, the panel in charge of fighting waste plans to meet later this...
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Reason TV: Is payday lending immoral?
Or does it fill a vital need in the margins? This is no easy question. In any other context, the interest rates charged for payday lending would be considered usurious, even loan-sharking — minus the...
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Democrats not the only ones nervous in the Senate for 2012
Another round of incumbent targets in the GOP? Now that the Tea-nami has swept through the House of Representatives, the activists in the Tea Party are already looking at 2012. Democrats will be...
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