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Video: Pakistani government near collapse?
No confidence. The administration of Prime Minister Yousef Gilani is near collapse today after a key parliamentary coalition partner defected to the opposition. The MQM bailed out of the PPP-led...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Kevin McCullough
3 pm ET! Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Kevin McCullough joins us again to discuss the intersection of faith and politics. Kevin and I will talk about the controversy at CPAC this year, the...
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Senate Dems to Boehner: You shall not pass (ObamaCare repeal)!
Triple dog dare. Among the top priorities for the new Republican majority in the House will be the repeal of ObamaCare. Speaker-to-be John Boehner has already scheduled a vote on a repeal bill, which...
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Rasmussen poll shows GOP lead on party affiliation largest in years
Republicans peaking, Democrats tanking. As a new Republican majority prepares to take control of the House, a new Republican plurality has broadened its advantage since the midterms. In their monthly...
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Obama dilemma: Wall Street guru or academic for key economic post?
Focus. In his weekly radio address and in a press conference just before Christmas, Barack Obama promised to train his “singular focus” on job creation and economic expansion. However, as has been...
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Are you ready for President Huntsman?
Huh? I wonder if there’s any alternate reality in which this guy winning the Republican nomination is plausible. Are there presidential primaries in, say, the Matrix? If he lands the coveted Neo...
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Steele at RNC chair debate: “My record speaks for itself — we won”
Terrific. To paraphrase Pyrrhus, “Another such ‘victory’ and we are lost.” And if you think I’m exaggerating, read this. Like HA alums Bryan Preston and the boss emeritus, I’m not sure what the point...
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Report: House to vote on repealing ObamaCare on January 12
It begins. Save the date! Via Bill Kristol: I’m told the Speaker’s office is about to announce that the House Rules Committee will meet on Thursday, and that a rule to consider the repeal of Obamacare...
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Great news: New Obama chief of staff might be … William Daley
Windy. I know what you’re thinking. When I first saw the name, I thought, “The guy who just retired as mayor of Chicago?!” Silly: That’s Richard Daley. Besides, do you really think The One’s political...
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Left ready to launch own version of Operation Chaos for Palin?
Hmmm. A fun idea, partly because it creates all sorts of strategic wrinkles, partly because it raises the possibility of a colossal backfire on Democrats in the general election, and partly because it...
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Red State editor: Mike Pence for president
Oh my. Yes, it’s an endorsement of him, of a sort, but it’s also a vote of no confidence in Palin’s chances. But right now I am not excited by or inspired by any of them save Sarah Palin and, as much...
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Video: NYC sanitation “snow slowdown” caught on tape?
Money for nothing. There are major tragedies to this story, but here’s a minor one to chew on: Because it happened in NYC, nothing much will change because of it. If this were New Jersey, Christie...
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Finally: National debt crosses magical $14 trillion threshold
Grim milestone. The perfect companion piece to this essay in the new issue of Foreign Policy. American decline: It’s real and it’s spectacular. The U.S. Treasury website today reported that as of last...
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New study: Monogamy linked to … alcohol?
Goggles. Via Reason, something frothy and delicious on a slow holiday hangover news day. Here’s the abstract from the paper; their hypotheses begin on page 23. Alternate headline: “Confirmed: Monogamy...
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Glenn Beck: Raising the debt ceiling is the beginning of the end for Republicans
Hmmm. A surreal clip, not because they don’t understand the consequences of failing to raise the ceiling but because they do — and Napolitano, at least, seems prepared to accept them. From the myopic...
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Quotes of the day
The beginning. “John Boehner takes the Speaker’s gavel from Nancy Pelosi today, and the transfer represents much more than a change in partisan control. It marks perhaps the sharpest ideological shift...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Do as I say ... Yesterday, we noted that Valerie Jarret told Meet the Press that Barack Obama wants to spend even more time out of Washington DC than the 48% of the days of his first two years. Obama...
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Video: Lee, Spitzer on taxes and ObamaCare
Skin in the game. Eliot Spitzer last night got into an odd argument last night with Senator-elect Mike Lee over ObamaCare and taxes that ended up using contradictory logic. Lee catches the fallacy on...
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Horrors: Dems forced to try … bipartisanship?
Desperation time. Well, maybe if they’d practiced more of it in the last four years, they wouldn’t need to have that strategy forced on them now. The Washington Post reports on the extremity in which...
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Retail numbers continue to show strength in holiday season
Consumers trading up again? The just-concluded holiday retail season continues to look strong, at least in top-line numbers provided by Spending Pulse. Sales increased more in 2010 than any time in...
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