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Wikileaks tool: I’d love to expose Russia’s and China’s secrets too
Hmmm. I’m starting to believe him, not because I think he’s genuinely indifferent to which country’s information it is that he’s freeing but because he seems like enough of an egomaniac to maybe...
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New liberal ads: Don’t sell out to the GOP on the Bush tax cuts, Obama!
Aw. A little late evening schadenfreude from MoveOn and Bold Progressives for Change via HuffPo and RCP, respectively. Gibbs hinted to Stephanopoulos this morning on GMA that a temporary...
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Quotes of the day
Prognoses. “The Globe’s editorial board rightly argued yesterday that Mitt Romney should defend his record as the governor of Massachusetts — including the state’s landmark health care legislation — as...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Identity crisis. Barack Obama must be having one hell of an identity crisis. He campaigned for office as a post-partisan moderate, but has governed as a big government tax-and-spender. When talking to...
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Women finally get seats in the House
Hypocrisy. If a woman’s place is in the House, why then did it take until now for female Representatives to get the same access to bathroom facilities as men? In one of John Boehner’s opening moves as...
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Mixed data on joblessness ahead of monthly release
Status quo? It’s a good news/bad news situation in the preliminary reports for unemployment in November. The markets rose on an indicator of private-sector growth from ADP, the large payroll firm,...
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New process on appropriations in GOP-run House promises spending cuts
"Professional appropriators"? Two of the last three budgets have (or will) passed Congress in omnibus form. Democrats played keep-away with FY2009 in order to avoid dealing with George Bush, and...
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Deficit commission: ObamaCare savings are a myth
Plus five other truths the report exposes. AOL Opinons editor John Merline notes that the deficit commission titled its proposal “The Moment of Truth,” and perhaps rarely for a government effort, it...
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WSJ: Food safety bill a corporate welfare program?
Balance. And when the Wall Street Journal complains of corporate welfare via regulatory expansion, it’s worth noting. In an editorial today scolding the GOP for playing ball on S510, the food-safety...
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Video: Football player penalized for thanking God
Huh? We’re getting some e-mail about this story, which means that there’s a conversation to be had about it — but what exactly is that conversation? Referees are inconsistent in calling penalties?...
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Deficit commission: What ObamaCare needs is … death panels
Vindication? The good news for Barack Obama: the Associated Press reports today that Obama’s deficit commission wants to keep most of ObamaCare in place. The bad news: they pronounce it unsustainable...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Kerry Picket, Jon Henke
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Washington Times reporter Kerry Picket returns to update us on the top stories inside Congress as the lame-duck session picks up steam. Jon Henke...
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Reason TV’s Nanny of the Month sacks Lingerie Football League
Wholesome. Reason TV selected its Nanny of the Month for November, and as usual, the competition among government scolds was heated. In fact, the fires of Hell plays at least indirectly into the...
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Did the FCC cave on Net Neutrality?
The ceiling on regulation? Yesterday, FCC chair Julius Genachowski gave a speech in which he proposed greater government regulation of the Internet, calling it a “modified” Net Neutrality plan....
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Florida to propose Arizona-style immigration enforcement law
Showdown in 2012. Florida may follow in Arizona’s footsteps to control illegal immigration in its state — and may start attracting fire from the Obama administration. The Florida Senate now has a bill...
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Graham: Keep Gitmo open, hold commission trials there
Reversal. Laura Ingraham start off talking tax policy with Senator Lindsey Graham, but winds up getting a big reversal on terrorist detention instead. Graham was one of the few Republicans pushing hard...
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Good news: NASA discovers freaky deaky arsenic-based life form
Deaky. No, they didn’t find it in space. They discovered it somewhere even stranger and more exotic, the place from which all bizarre life forms originate: California. If, per NASA’s breathless...
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House passes “chicken crap” bill limiting Bush tax cuts extension to the...
Gestures. The Weekly Standard’s headline: “House Democrats Vote to Increase Taxes.” 234-188, with only three Republicans voting yes — Walter Jones, Jimmy Duncan, and our old friend Ron Paul. This bill...
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Obama: FIFA should have given us the 2022 World Cup instead of Qatar
Heart-ache. Er, no, they shouldn’t have, although of course Obama’s answer was the smart one politically. For starters, soccer was, is, and always will be a lost cause in the U.S. FIFA’s better off...
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez: If Democrats can’t pass the DREAM Act now, it’s time for...
"I haven’t thought this out completely." Why, yes, this is the same Luis Gutierrez who recently told Newsweek, “I have only one loyalty and that’s to the immigrant community.” Sounds like he meant it,...
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