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Ted Nugent: I love Palin but I couldn’t vote for her right now
What? Dude, I think we just found our keynote speaker for RINOcon. “(Palin’s) coming from the street, she’s coming from the we-the-people rank-and-file, she makes sense when she talks, she says all the...
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Brian Williams to Boehner: Do you feel responsible somehow for the Birthers?
Terrific. The oddest part of this question is that Boehner’s nothing like the stereotypical tea partier, which of course is whom Williams has in mind in asking this. He’s a consummate Beltway insider,...
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Pelosi: I don’t plan to stay in this new, smaller office for long
Expectations. Candygram for Nancy from TNR’s Ed Kilgore: Get comfortable. We can’t be precise about how all of this will shake out. But it is reasonably clear that, to take back the House in 2012,...
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Quotes of the day
Battles. “As a result of changes in direct spending and revenues, CBO expects that [repealing ObamaCare] would probably increase federal budget deficits over the 2012–2019 period by a total of roughly...
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Obamateurism of the Day
A thousand words. Sometimes, further commentary is unnecessary, except to say … can you imagine the laughter if George Bush was photographed walking with his family dressed like this? And I fully...
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Unemployment drops to 9.4%, but only 103K jobs added
Odd. The nation’s unemployment rate dropped four-tenths of a point to 9.4% in December but the number of jobs added fell short of expectations. According to the Department of Labor, the economy only...
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Sperling to replace Summers at National Economic Council
Singular focus? President Obama has finally selected the replacement for Larry Summers on his economic team, one that won’t make the Left happy — and one that won’t give much reason for cheer to the...
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NH poll shows Romney with 23-point lead over Palin
The early show. It will be more than a year before New Hampshire voters trudge to the polls for the first primary in the nation, but the New Hampshire Journal feels it’s just the right time to take the...
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Republicans file bill to block EPA from greenhouse gas regulation
Bedfellows? It didn’t take long for House Republicans to start working on one of their biggest goals in 2011. Yesterday, the first full day of business for the Republican House, almost 50 Republicans...
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Do 41% of all New York City pregnancies end in abortions?
Appalling. Drudge has this headlined, and Twitter is buzzing over the appalling statistic reported by ABC and CBS stations in New York City over the abortion rate in 2009, as determined by the Big...
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The Ed Morrissey Show, Townhall edition!
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), I’ll be broadcasting live from the offices of Townhall! Today we’ll talk live from the Media Center with Danny Glover of Capitol Hill Tweet Watch...
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Sobering Numbers on American Energy
Energy reality check. This week the American Petroleum Institute (API) hosted a conference on “The State of American Energy” in Washington, which I attended. In it, API president Jack Gerard set forth...
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Was Gibbs pushed? Update: Daley says Gibbs did “a great job”
Signals. Robert Gibbs will leave the Obama administration after two years, which for press secretaries is not a particularly short period of time. As he exits, William Daley will take over the...
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NY Post: Rudy “rounding up” advisers for 2012 presidential run
Ego trip? Why not? The Republican nomination will be a wide-open affair, and more than one of the runner-up contenders from 2008 will return for another shot at the title. And Rudy Giuliani apparently...
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Video: Will court throw out law aimed at “unauthorized talking”?
They'll be watching you. The Institute for Justice updates followers on its efforts to overturn a licensing law in Philadelphia that requires tour operators to seek approval from the city for their...
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David Keene: Full steam ahead for CPAC
"Legitimate differences." Earlier this afternoon, I spoke with David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, about the controversy surrounding the inclusion of GOProud at CPAC and the...
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Video: Pelosi blames Dem loss in midterms on …
Three guesses. Via Jeff Dunetz, who says Nancy Pelosi has gone “mad,” but this isn’t madness as much as it is calculated denial. What’s she going to say — “Man, I really screwed up?” She got elected...
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ObamaCare repeal test vote: Just four Democrats side with GOP
Unity. Plus: CBO says repeal would save $540 billion in spending. This wasn’t the vote on the final bill (that comes Wednesday), merely the vote to proceed to consideration of it, but it’s still...
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Palin: Obama’s deliberately trying to weaken America by raising the debt ceiling
"I don't personally trust what comes out of the White House." I can’t tell if she’s being serious or just making a rhetorical point to rub his face in his Senate vote against raising the ceiling back...
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Video: Feelgood story of the day
Care. We’ve been chewing all week on palate-cleansing feelgood candy from the man with the golden voice, but I actually like this story better. Remember this much-buzzed-about piece from the Boston...
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