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The Ed Morrissey Show: Kerry Picket, Spirit of America’s Jim Hake
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Kerry Picket of the Washington Times joins us from Capitol Hill to bring us up to the moment on the latest news for Barack Obama’s tax deal. Will...
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Graham: Say, this President’s kind of whiny and immature
Long memories. Over the next two years, Barack Obama will have to work with Republicans on Capitol Hill in order to get anything accomplished. If this week is any indication of how Obama handles...
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Report: Palin planning first extended overseas trip
2012. It’s not just the fact of the trip itself that suggests she’s running, it’s the destinations on her proposed itinerary. If you were an aspiring Republican nominee, which foreign hotspots would...
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Conservative Dems: Progressives are holding tax deal “hostage”
More hostage-takers? I think we officially have an official analogy fad now, thanks to President Obama: Although the resolution solidifying the revolt was approved by House Democrats Thursday “nearly...
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DeMint no longer committed to filibustering Obama’s tax cuts deal?
Hmmm. I’m confused. First he told Hugh Hewitt this: HH: I’ve got some quick questions for you. The first is if the deal reached between the President and the Republican leadership yesterday makes it to...
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Crash and burn: DADT repeal fails, 57-40
Unbelievable. They had 60 votes in the bank, with Brown, Collins, and Murkowski all promising to vote yes if they could reach an agreement with Reid on debate time and amendments. He spent a day...
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Good news: Climate change summit attendees sign petition to ban “dihydrogen...
H2O. To cleanse the palate via CFACT and Watts Up With That, an old joke but a good one. As always with these gags, there’s no telling how many people caught on and refused to sign or how many of the...
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Oh my: House Dem drops F-bomb on Obama at caucus meeting on tax cuts
Rage. I join with Ace in condemning this shocking example of extremist hatemongering incivility. Seriously, though, look at it this way: If we had a parliamentary system, The One would be packing his...
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Fox News “scandal”: They called the public option the “government option”...
We'll do it live. A fine item to obsess about on a day when Chris Matthews is insisting that Hardball is “absolutely nonpartisan” and Mediaite is chronicling the top ten Nazi analogies used by Keith...
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Video: British students attack Prince Charles’s car over tuition hikes
It's come to this. Riveting stuff, not only as a portent of European unrest in the age of austerity — note the guy shouting “off with their heads” in the second clip — but as an unlikely confrontation...
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Friday Palin op-ed in the Journal: I endorse Paul Ryan’s roadmap on entitlements
Whoa. It’s no secret that she’s a Ryan fan (see here and here for starters, as one Twitter pal reminded me) but as far as I know, this is the first time she’s explicitly endorsed his roadmap as her...
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Too good to check: Stuxnet still out of control at Iranian nuke facilities
Awesome. In which the second-greatest story ever told gets an epilogue. It’s like the Bible, book two! The American and European experts say their security websites, which deal with the computer worm...
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Peace in our time: Obama, House Dems strike bargain on tax cuts deal?
That was fast. Does this mean … no impeachment? Because I’ve got to tell you, after this morning’s unpleasantness, my expectations were sky high. The AP’s vague on the precise terms — and cost — of the...
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Quotes of the day
Regrets? “After agreeing to kill earmarks, some of the most conservative GOP lawmakers are already starting to ask themselves: What have we done?… “So some Republicans are discussing exemptions to the...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Those who fight and run away live to run away another day, too. Among the absurdities unleashed at the President’s press conference earlier this week was a pledge that no one took seriously, and for...
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Nader: Obama’s a “con man,” hints at indie run in 2012
Just when you thought he was out ... No good progressive rebellion would be complete without hearing from Ralph Nader, and the two-time presidential candidate and notorious spoiler finally weighed in...
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House Democrats strip funding for Gitmo civilian trials in retaliation for...
"I don't know where the f*** Obama is on this or anything else." Anger among Democrats over Barack Obama’s tax deal continues to percolate unabated, and now even some of the leadership has taken it...
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Video: Los Angeles bans new fast-food restaurants in South LA
Poor hardest hit? “This is not an attempt to control what food people put in their mouths,” LA city council member Jan Perry insists, but of course the new ban on new fast-food restaurants in South LA...
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The Big Loser: Media Polling
Credibility. The Twin Cities’ conservative blogging community, going back to its earliest days in the early 2000s, has had a common rallying point; the amazing inaccuracy of the Twin Cities’ media’s...
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Climate-change giveaway pledges looking pretty iffy these days
"From where?" Last year at the climate-change conference in Copenhagen, Hillary Clinton promised lots of cash for the cause, presuming that Democrats would control the budget process for FY2011....
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