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Beeler on Wikileaks
Deflation. Most of the Wikileaks data has proven to be titillating gossip rather than revelatory exposé, but it does expose one fact: the Obama diplomatic effort has been an embarrassment. It started...
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Quotes of the day
Indulgences. “Don’t touch my brownies! A child nutrition bill on its way to President Barack Obama — and championed by the first lady — gives the government power to limit school bake sales and other...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Unguarded moment. One would hope that the Commander in Chief would realize that the Coast Guard is a branch of the military, but Barack Obama needed to be reminded of it during his visit to Bagram Air...
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Dems to try passing omnibus environmental bill in lame-duck session
Priorities. When voters sent 63 Democrats in the House and six more in the Senate packing in the midterms, the message seemed fairly clear. Voters had become disgusted with the progressive agenda...
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Wikileaks: Assange kind of like … Osama bin Laden?
Delusions of grandeur. Last week, I criticized Rep. Peter King’s proposal to list Wikileaks as a terrorist organization, but who knew I’d get a rebuttal from — Wikileaks? The Daily Caller says...
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New Fed study suggests net job creation from Porkulus was … zero
Obvious. Via Reason, the economists at e21 take a long look at a new study by Daniel Wilson at the San Francisco Fed on the effect on employment from the Obama administration’s stimulus plan, which...
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FCC commissioners demand authority over campaign financing, free Internet
The insult to private property. Here’s your FCC at work, ensuring that freedom of speech and property rights are defended on America’s airwaves. Just kidding! The Blaze and Naked Emperor News has two...
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DREAM Act turning into nightmare for Reid
Clarifying moment. Normally when a political leader announces a big effort to push a bill through Congress, the requisite support has already been found or is close enough to it for a public-relations...
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Video: Servicemembers boo Griffin for attacking Bristol Palin
Stay classy. Here’s a little change of pace for a mid-day Monday, courtesy of TV Squad, which clipped a short segment of VH1′s tribute to America’s fighting men and women. Former Levi Johnston...
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Obama inks South Korea free-trade agreement
But will Congress ask, "Where's the beef?" When Barack Obama came back empty-handed from his trip to South Korea, we noted the failure to get a free-trade agreement as a major and embarrassing failure....
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Timothy Dalrymple, John Wohlstetter
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), our friend Kevin McCullough won’t be able to make it due to a scheduling conflict. Instead, we will explore the intersection of faith and politics...
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Video: Dem calls for pitchforks if GOP extends current tax rates in deal?
Is a deal near? Say, remember when Tea Party displays of pitchforks demonstrated the violence inherent in the Right? Meet Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) .. Tea Partier and radical right-winger. Fox...
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Rasmussen survey shows 60% support offshore oil drilling
54% expect higher gas prices, economic damage from ban. Last week’s reversal on offshore oil drilling by Barack Obama didn’t go over well with likely US voters, according to a new Rasmussen survey....
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Rather: Obama will face primary challenge if he caves on taxes
"Political nightmare." Dan Rather warned today on MSNBC that a deal to extend all of the current tax hikes would create a demand for a primary challenge to Barack Obama from the Left in 2012. Big...
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Supreme Court to hear key climate-change appeal
Plus one recusal. The Supreme Court signaled its interest in the debates over global warming, the use of courts to impose costs on energy producers, and potentially the reach of executive branch...
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Huckabee on 2012: Let’s face it, no one’s better positioned to challenge...
Respect. I knew you guys hated him, but not until I saw the results of this weekend’s Hot Air mega-poll did I realize how much. Out of 17 presidential candidates named, he finished … 15th, just eight...
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Video: “The Beaver” trailer
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Alternate headline: “Video: Second-worst thing ever recorded in any medium.” (You know what the worst is.) Strange but true: There was an episode of the “Golden...
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Palin rejects Tea Party Nation idea of running for RNC chair
No dice. Didn’t really make sense for either side. “I respect the desire to have someone in charge of the RNC who understands the wishes of the conservative grassroots and understands that power...
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Report: Obama set to announce deal with GOP on tax cuts?
Oh my. And not just the tax cuts, either. According to ABC, CNN, and the Daily Caller, they’ve agreed to a two-year extension of all the cuts, a temporary two percent cut to the payroll tax and a...
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Wikileaks tool to turn himself in to British police
Lockup. Has any single Wikileaks revelation gotten as much media coverage this past week as Assange himself? The one about Hillary ordering spying at the UN arguably did, but that was a one- or two-day...
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