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Obamateurism of the Day
Greatness. Following up on yesterday’s OOTD, the quest to close Gitmo as detailed by Wikileaks brought us another Dale Carnegie moment from Barack Obama in the foreign policy realm. He attempted to get...
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Food safety bill passes Senate, but dead in the water because …
... Senate Democrats can't read the Constitution. Apparently, no one told Harry Reid to check Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution before passing S510, the food-safety bill that Democrats hailed as...
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Federal judge upholds ObamaCare mandate
Warm-ups. In the second such ruling, a federal judge in Virginia has declared the federal mandate to purchase insurance constitutional. Jude Norman Moon, a Clinton appointee as noted by The Hill,...
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Ethics panel benches two attorneys in Waters probe
Hmmmm. While Maxine Waters demands an ethics hearing before the end of this session, the House Ethics Committee seems to have dissolved into chaos. The panel has indefinitely suspended the lead...
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“Gamechanger” weapon now deployed in Afghanistan
Uncovering the enemy. The Academy Award-winning film The Hurt Locker has a particularly memorable scene involving a standoff between an American sharpshooter and an Iraqi insurgent, where both have...
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Deficit panel releases final proposal
Which has no votes yet. Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson took their case directly to the public today by releasing the final version of the proposal to reduce the spiraling national debt and deficit...
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Senate Republicans promise filibusters until tax issue resolved
Unity. The Republicans in the Senate have decided to flex their muscles to get Harry Reid focused on the economy instead of DREAM Acts and expansion of environmental regulation. In a letter signed by...
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Obama to reverse position on offshore drilling
Seven-year moratorium. The Obama administration will reverse its policy on offshore drilling announced last March and bar further new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the Atlantic and Pacific...
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GOP readies rarely-used procedural attack on EPA aggression
Democrats to join in as well? When Republicans took control of the House in the midterms, they gained a powerful tool in combating regulatory excess with the power of the purse. Senate Republicans may...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Rob Neppell, Guy Benson
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Rob Neppell returns to talk about Kithbridge, the Tea Party movement and its future, and the lame-duck session. Afterward, we will discuss the hot...
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Gibbs: Obama not “scared” of Wikileaks
Finally. Greg Hengler scoffs at the explanation given by Robert Gibbs as to why Barack Obama has not yet personally responded to the Wikileaks exposure, but I think Obama may be playing it smart by...
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Republicans now outnumber Democrats: Rasmussen
Media pollsters hardest hit. I’m certain that as soon as media pollsters such as those who produce polls for Newsweek, the Washington Post and ABC, CBS, and NBC and the Wall Street Journal get this...
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Video: Sessions blasts Reid strategy for DREAM Act
Recurring nightmare. Have you ever had that recurring dream where you get to school and find your class in the middle of a final exam? How about four versions of a final exam? Senator Jeff Sessions...
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Huckabee: The Republican establishment dislikes me because I didn’t go to the...
"Don't somehow disqualify me because I haven't been to Harvard." That must be it. After all, when have prominent Republicans ever idolized someone who went to a small, lesser-known college? (Noted...
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Pentagon: We could have shut down Wikileaks but chose not to
Plus: Amazon dumps Wikileaks. I hope he’s telling the truth. Because if our cyberwar unit is so weak that they can’t hit a few servers in Sweden, then I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords. The...
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Debt reduction versus government reduction
Attacking the wrong problem. It isn’t surprising, when you think about it, that the president’s debt-reduction commission has come out with a plan that proposes to inflict the greatest pain on...
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Tea Party Nation chief: It makes sense in theory to limit voting to property...
Nuance. Via Mediaite, which soberly observes that Judson Phillips’s opinion proves nothing about tea party opinion generally. I’m not so sure that this clip proves anything conclusive about Phillips’s...
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Bad news: Kathleen Parker allegedly walks off set of “Parker/Spitzer”
Too good to check. Three possibilities. One: It’s all true. Two: It’s a lie planted by CNN brass who are upset about the show’s horrific ratings and looking for a pretext to dump her. Three: It’s a lie...
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Colin Powell to GOP: It’s time to ratify START
Pressure. I believe this means every Republican secretary of state dating back to George Shultz now publicly supports START. (Condi too, apparently.) Is that enough to soften GOP opposition in the...
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House GOP leadership cancels Pelosi’s committee on global warming
Heh. Why not? It was a vehicle for passing cap-and-trade, and the cap-and-trade bill is now so dead that it’s literally being used for target practice by centrist Democrats. If Boehner announced the...
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