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Suddenly, Obama administration looking into criminal charges for Wikileaks
A little late. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and his crew have spent the past few months releasing classified material purloined from the American government. After the latest round of leaks began...
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Video: Muslim author says, “Profile me!”
"Common sense should prevail, not political correctness." Asra Nomani from The Daily Beast hits the nail on the head with one statement to CNN, which is that the current security situation is set up...
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Home prices falling faster in September
Delayed pain. The housing bubble continues to deflate despite the Obama administration’s efforts to delay the inevitable. Housing prices sank faster in September than in any time this year after...
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Will the Slurpee Summit bring forth the bipartisan Millenium?
Or just another photo op? Today’s the big day in Washington DC, when two opposing forces collide in an attempt to set the table for the next two years, and it doesn’t involve the Redskins or the...
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Breaking: Senate rejects earmark ban in lame-duck session
Progress? This doesn’t exactly come as a surprise, since the Republicans only have 42 seats in the lame-duck Senate and most of the anti-earmark caucus won’t take their seats until January. Still, the...
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Carter: Obama will be one tough hombre in next two years
Consider the source. Of course, this statement is relative. Coming from the man who kissed Leonid Brezhnev’s cheek, insisted we had nothing to fear from Communism, and watched the Iranians take over...
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Russians targeting Wikileaks to stop new data dump
"They will be ruthless." Until now, Julian Assange has selected his adversaries rather well. Despite humiliating the Obama administration three times, the White House has done little except announce a...
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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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End of the line for ethanol?
No more pork-fed corn? Has the federal government’s appetite for ethanol ended? A bipartisan group of Senators signed a letter today calling for an end to subsidies and tariffs designed to protect and...
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Video: Democratic Senator complains lame-duck agenda “rigged” on hot mic
Irony. “It’s all rigged, the whole conversation’s rigged,” Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) complained today on the Senate floor — without realizing that someone had left the C-SPAN microphones hot. An...
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Lewis to EPA: We’ll gut your funding
Opening salvo. Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) wants to get the chair of Appropriations once Republicans take control of the House, and he’s campaigning hard to demonstrate his commitment to conservative...
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Video: Obama/GOP Slurpee summit a big bag of nothin’
Healing. Lots of pleasantries but no progress on tax cuts, although Obama announced that he’s sending Geithner and OMB Director Jack Lew to meet with members of each party’s caucuses to try to hash out...
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No surprise: Long-awaited Pentagon review sees little risk from repealing...
Now or never? Believe it or not, there may be greater support for repeal within military families than within the general population. In a Pew poll taken earlier this month, 58 percent of Americans...
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Video: Metal band sacrifices “Sarah Palin” onstage
Yep, it's Gwar. Via Gateway Pundit, the outrage du jour. I couldn’t name you a single Gwar tune but I’ve known of the band for years for precisely this reason — their costumes and stagecraft are so...
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Cantor: We’ll have a preexisting conditions provision in our new health-care...
Hmmm. Offered as a correction to this morning’s Headline item. Initially, the Hill reported that Cantor wanted to retain ObamaCare’s framework for preexisting conditions. Not so, as they now note in a...
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Wikileaks tool: Hillary must go; Update: New leaks raise worries about...
Whatevs. So says the moral leader who’s just been placed on Interpol’s most wanted list. Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange said, “should resign.” Speaking over Skype from an undisclosed location on...
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PPP poll: Romney voters a risk to switch to Obama if he loses nomination?
Oh my. I could have gone two ways with the headline here. One was to note that Palin’s now leading the field, albeit narrowly — 21 percent to Gingrich’s 19, Romney’s 18, and Huckabee’s 16. The other...
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Good news: Latinos set to form “tequila party” modeled on tea party
Schism. Sounds fantastic, actually. Having seen the way Democrats take black voters for granted, they’ve decided they’re not going to be treated the same way. Smart thinking. The solution: Organizing a...
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Fun new climate change solution: Let’s impose rationing on the developed world
Meltdown. Something to chew on from this week’s summit/tropical getaway in beautiful sunny Cancun. They haven’t decided on anything yet, mind you. They’re just sort of kickin’ around ideas. In one...
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Quotes of the day
Gauntlets. “What man or mouse with a fully functioning human brain and a résumé as thin as Palin’s would flirt with a presidential run? It makes the political biography of Barack Obama look more like...
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