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Shutdown Saturday?
Showdown on Pork Chop Hill. Harry Reid’s introduction of an omnibus spending bill yesterday launched a game of Congressional chicken, and it looks as though both sides may be digging in their heels...
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Reid to DeMint and Kyl: Stop whining about having to work over the holidays
"Sanctimonious." I can give you several good reasons why the GOP should slow things down in the lame duck. The idea that it’s “sacrilegious” or “disrespectful” to have Senators working during Christmas...
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Video: A flogging in Sudan
Brutality. We’re a day late to this but it shouldn’t be missed. The scene: A street protest in downtown Khartoum (or is it Tehran, or post-U.S. Kandahar?), organized to fight … violence against women....
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Bill Hemmer to Cornyn: Why do you have earmarks in the new spending bill if...
Hmmm. A darned good question. Inserting them into the bill in the first place is bad enough, but at they very least he could have yanked them after the Senate GOP caucus passed DeMint’s earmark...
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Oh my: Standalone DADT repeal bill passes House as Olympia Snowe flips to yes...
Momentum. They already passed an amendment to repeal DADT back in May, but that was part of a broader defense bill. Today’s vote was on the standalone DADT bill that Lieberman and Collins are hoping to...
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Huckabee: I never supported cap-and-trade regulation
Hmmmm. Dave Weigel did all the googling on this, including finding the clip below, so rather than reprint the key quotes I’m going to make you read his post. Huck’s claiming today that while he did...
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Dem rep: Obama told us if the tax deal doesn’t pass, it’s the end of his...
Plus: Chris Christie supports the deal. Alternate headline: “Blogger now opposes tax deal.” Seriously, though: Is this true or a clever lie by DeFazio? “The White House is putting on tremendous...
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WSJ poll: Obama leads Romney by seven, Palin by 22
Comeback? It’s a poll of adults, not even of registered voters, and the sample’s probably tilted a bit too far towards Democrats (42/33 if you include leaners), so scale the Republican numbers up by...
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Video: “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” trailer
Treasure. After the catastrophe that was “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Blah Blah Whatever,” this is now the gold standard in swashbuckling throwback adventure serials, yes? I ask because … I’ve...
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New theory: Stuxnet was actually created by … China?
Dude? Darned compelling, and darned depressing. Not only because it snatches away our vicarious pride in U.S./Israeli ingenuity, but it feeds into western jitters about Chinese omnicompetence. Why,...
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Quotes of the day
Travesty. “Well, we all know what most of our senators are having for Christmas… pork. “The Omnibus spending bill will cost us over a trillion dollars, is nearly 2000 pages long, and is filled with...
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Poll: Obamateurism of the Year, Flight 1
Choose the OOTY! It’s time to go through all of the year’s Obamateurisms of the Week and choose the biggest gaffe, blunder, or misstep as the Obamateurism of the Year! Last year’s OOTY was the Fort...
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Senators up for re-election in 2012 oddly united in support of tax deal
Message received? The roll call votes of Senate Democrats voting in favor of the tax deal hammered out by the GOP and Barack Obama reads like a Who’s Who of the 2012 election cycle. Jon Tester (MT),...
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WaPo/ABC poll shows public “souring” on Afghanistan war
Searching for support. A new poll from the Washington Post and ABC shows support for the war in Afghanistan hitting its lowest level yet, with 60% of respondents deciding that it wasn’t worth fighting....
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Gallup shows base erosion for Obama
The (mininum) wages of triangulation. In case anyone didn’t know that Barack Obama’s liberal base didn’t like the deal he cut on tax rates, Gallup’s new poll shows more erosion in his standing on the...
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Breaking: Brown to back DADT repeal
61. ABC News reports that Scott Brown has announced that he will support a stand-alone repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” ending the expulsion of gay and lesbian troops from the military. Brown’s...
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Senate GOP to FCC: Don’t even try it
Warning shot. Next Tuesday, the FCC commissioners will meet to attempt to pass new Internet rules proposed by Julius Genachowski despite not having been explicitly granted that authority by Congress....
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NH Democrats accuse Republican of “Bible Belt agenda” for asking people to...
Tolerance. The party of tolerance strikes again in New Hampshire. According to the spokesperson of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, Harrell Kirstien, the speech below by state Rep. David Bates is...
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Video: AQ plotting Christmas attacks?
Vigilance. Didn’t they already start? The only reason more people aren’t dead in Stockholm was the incompetence of the bomber, who inadvertently killed himself after the first blast without killing...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Kerry Picket, Steven Crowder
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Kerry Picket of the Washington Times updates us on all of the happenings on Capitol Hill. Will the Senate get a budget bill passed before Shutdown...
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