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Tax reform the next triangulation strategy?
Reaganesque? Will Barack Obama take a page out of Ronald Reagan’s recovery in his next strategy to triangulate resurgent Republicans on Capitol Hill? The New York Times reports that Obama and the...
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Video: India “outraged” over TSA patdown of ambassador
Embarrassing. As it turns out, the new security protocols from TSA don’t just make American travelers unhappy. India has lodged a formal protest after an incident in a Mississipi airport in which their...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson & the Week in Review!
3 pm ET, 90 mins! Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we’ll take a look at the past week with Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson of the Hugh Hewitt Show. Duane and I will discuss the week’s events,...
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EPA suddenly retreating on emissions rules enforcement
Now needs more time to "analyze studies." As if Barack Obama didn’t have enough trouble with the progressive revolt this week after the tax compromise, the New York Times reports today on another...
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Kaine: Obama’s brilliantly made tax cuts for the rich the 2012 issue, or...
Rerun. Because that strategy worked so well in November … right? DNC chair Tim Kaine seems to forget that Democrats refused to take action on the tax rates while Congress was in session in September...
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Audio: Dem Rep says Obama should “create a real crisis” to hike taxes on wealthy
Hostage taker? That’s not the only piece of hilarity from Minnesota’s Keith Ellison, the Democrat who recently won more than 70% of the vote in his House re-election. Ellison suddenly discovered his...
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New poll indicates 40% of physicians will retire or find other work under...
Vindication? During the ObamaCare debate last summer, Investors Business Daily took a survey of practicing physicians to see whether they were contemplating “going Galt” if ObamaCare passed. Their...
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Video: The empty chair
Defiance. A grand moment from today’s poignant Nobel ceremony, the first since 1936 where neither the Peace Prize winner nor a close relative was permitted to attend. Choosing Liu Xiaobo was the Nobel...
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Video: Bernie Sanders going to talk until this country turns socialist, damn it
"This reckless uncontrollable greed is like a disease." Believe it or not, he’s now into his sixth hour of ranting about the tax cuts deal on the Senate floor. It’s like “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,”...
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Great news: Bill Clinton apparently now president again
Hope. The depressing truth: Given the alternative, it really would be great news. I can’t do justice to what you’re about to see. The spectacle of the president bugging out of his own press conference...
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Gamechanger: Navy railgun reaches new level of freaky deaky awesomeness
Deaky. The “official explanation” is that this has been in development for years, but read this piece and I trust you’ll agree that we must have gotten it from the same cyborg time travelers who gave...
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Rock bottom: Obama hits 42% approval in new McClatchy poll
Sinking. Something to chew on for the David Brooks fans of the world, who were duly informed this morning that The One’s new embrace of pragmatic Brooksian centrism means that “Obama and the Democrats...
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NYT: White House advisors totally surprised by Obama-Clinton press conference
Surprise! Oh, I’ll bet they were. Say what you will about Axe, Gibbsy, and the rest of the crew, but I’d like to think they have the basic political common sense to avoid photo ops where the president...
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Mitch Daniels: Pro-life legislation is okay as long as it doesn’t “get in the...
Groan. He was talking specifically about a bill pending in the Indiana state legislature, not proposing a new federal “truce” on social issues, but even so, this guy must understand that he’s under a...
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Palin’s book sales slower than expected?
Hmmm. “Slow” in this case is a relative term. She’s number five on the New York Times bestseller list this week and was as high as second last week, missing the top spot only because she had to compete...
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Congressional panel: It’s time to let women serve in combat
Equality. If you thought the endless arm-wrestling over DADT was fun, wait until feminists have this on their plate. The Navy already opened up submarines to women sailors earlier this year, but Army...
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Quotes of the day
Swindle? “Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 – and House Democrats don’t have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negotiated the biggest stimulus in...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Just walk away, Renee ... you won't see me follow you back home. Normally I don’t do OOTDs on the weekend, but I suspect that if this isn’t on the list for tomorrow’s poll, the comment section will be...
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Van Jones: We are coming for the media and that’s not all
Demonizing instead of governing. Tell me something I don’t know. The big take-away that people are getting from this is how they want to take over the media. We already know that Al Not-So-Sharpton is...
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Frum: Lockerbie bomber release “the scandal of the decade”
And we knew when Megrahi flew, too. David Frum peruses the Wikileaks cables pertaining to the release of the Lockerbie bomber in August 2009 and finds that the British government lied about its role in...
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