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Great news: First GOP presidential debate already set for spring
What could go wrong? The bad news: Like everyone else who read about it this morning, I shudder at the thought that we’ll be hip-deep in a bitterly divisive primary campaign fully 18 months before the...
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Tea Party Express chair to Romney: We’ll never forget RomneyCare
"You can't get away from that." I’ve got a crazy hunch that if Romney wins the nomination and the choice is between him and Captain Stimulus in the general, they’ll find a way to get past it on a...
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Alaska write-in fun: Is this ballot ambiguous?
Dude. Have a look at some of the “questionable ballots” being flagged by Joe Miller’s team. The one I posted in the thumbnail on the front page is being challenged, I think, because the “r” in...
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PPP: Palin now leading in Texas, Maine, Wisconsin, West Virginia
Surge? I touched on this in the RomneyCare post, but I know Palin fans would be angry if we didn’t devote a separate post to the results. So here you go. Just proving our fair-and-balanced bona fides...
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Report: Newsweek to merge with Daily Beast
What could go wrong? If you find Newsweek a provocative, unpredictable read now, just wait until they add the Beast’s stable of “sensible” leftists and RINO all-stars. Can the two co-exist, though? It...
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The obligatory “TSA screeners grabbing passengers’ asses now” post
"The pat-downs never used to go up a woman's skirt." People keep e-mailing or tweeting to ask why we haven’t written about this, but I don’t know what there is to say that isn’t completely obvious. (I...
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Fred Thompson: The Deficit Commission chairmen’s proposal is “breathtaking”
"I am shocked and amazed that they have come out with something that contains so much common sense." Listen to the clip here. It’s not that he’s sold on each and every particular, mind you, it’s just...
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Video: Japanese holograms now giving pop concerts or something
It's come to this. A palate-cleansing reminder from Snapped Shot that Japan is “different.” But then, longtime HA readers know all about that. Why is this going viral today, you ask, when the clip is...
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Tina Fey celebrates comedy award by dumping on Palin, of course
Of course. Depressing, and not just because it’s so lazy and predictable. There’s a history on SNL of prominent pols getting along reasonably well with the cast members who satirize them. Dana Carvey’s...
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Quote of the day
Assassinations. “She who can rouse the base like none other is now She to Whom Respect Must Be Paid. Like it or not… “Watching Palin drop foreign policy and economic nuggets into the twitterverse...
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Obamateurism of the Day
And a couple that are not OOTDs. Usually on a trip abroad, our President gives us a full panoply of OOTDs, and today we take one from the New York Post — while rebutting a couple of others. First,...
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Gallup shows only 20% thinks ObamaCare “about right”
Worst of all worlds. Democratic leaders and liberal pundits urged Democratic incumbents to run on their support for ObamaCare, but most of them had enough sense not to take that advice. And for good...
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Did Steele play the race card in the RNC chair race?
Er, not really. The Daily Caller accuses Michael Steele of playing the race card and hinting that racism might be the motive if he gets bounced from his position as RNC chair after a historic midterm...
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Obama fails to get G-20 to scold China for what Obama is doing with QE2
The whiff. For years, the US has protested China’s policy of keeping the value of its currency artificially low to boost exports and gain a competitive edge over domestic production throughout the...
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HHS falls short of pre-existing coverage prediction by … 97.8%
The crisis that wasn't. 255 million: The number of Americans with existing health insurance coverage. 20 million: The number of Americans without any health coverage at all due to economic...
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Closed market’s valediction ironically explains its failure
Arrogance is a lousy business plan. There are few things more annoying than people blaming their failures on others. There are few things more ironically humorous than watching a clueless person...
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Video: School tells student to remove flag from his bicycle
The "anonymous complaints" exception to free speech? Via JWF, this will probably be the outrageous outrage of the day. A 13-year-old boy has flown the flag on the back of his bike to and from his...
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Another AGW argument bites the, er, dust
Conclusions, jumping, etc. Climate-change alarmists have warned for years that rising temperatures they associate with higher levels of CO2 would radically reduce the Amazonian rainforests as water got...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: The Week in Review with Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson
3 pm ET, 90 minutes! Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we’ll take a look at the past week with Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson of the Hugh Hewitt Show. Duane and I will cover the fallout from...
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Breaking: Supreme Court refuses to stop enforcement of DADT
For now. Not that this should come as much of a surprise, but the Supreme Court ruled moments ago that it would not stop the US military from enforcing “don’t ask, don’t tell” while appeals of a...
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