Clik here to view.
Video: Charity fires director for Facebook comments on Tucson shooting
2000 clothed kids don't outweigh a couple of Facebook posts? Er, really? Glen Busch and his wife have clothed more than 2,000 poor children since starting the Chicago chapter of Coats for Kids in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NYT on Obama’s speech: Thank goodness he spoke out against this week’s...
Nuance. Before this week, I would have chalked this up to simple dishonesty. They know perfectly well who he meant last night when he talked about “pointing fingers or assigning blame” in a way that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Chris Christie: Obama’s speech was excellent, Palin needs to be more unscripted
Oh my. First he endorses a “path to citizenship,” then he endorses Mike Castle, now this. Dude, I think he might be the RINO messiah. “I think people need to be judged by the way they conduct...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Oh, by the way, Lebanon is on the verge of imploding
As usual. A hard dose of world news for you as we try to emerge from the “all Arizona, all the time” cycle. Has there been a single day since this site started five years ago where the above headline...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kay Bailey Hutchison: I’m retiring in 2012
No primary required. She claims she’s known since 2006 that this would be her last term. Could be, but (a) she’s changed her mind about the Senate before and (b) getting blown out by Rick Perry in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Media meme o’ the day: Obama’s speech was much more presidential than Palin’s
Aw. This is a useful way to wrap up (hopefully) the coverage of Our National Conversation On Rhetoric as it’s a stark example of how easily the propaganda about Palin’s culpability in the shootings was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Doctors on Giffords’s progress: “We’re wise to acknowledge miracles”
Hope. The perfect way to flush out a week’s worth of bad vibes. With every new hopeful prognosis, I feel excitement and happiness about her recovery yet nervous that there must, as a purely scientific...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pawlenty: Oh, you’d better believe I’d bring back DADT as president
Credentials. Via Jonathan Capehart, who wonders why T-Paw supports a policy opposed by Gates, Mullen, and most of the voting public. One word: Iowa. Bryan Fischer: “One last question, we have about 45...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Video: Krauthammer vs. Limbaugh on Obama’s speech
"Odd and condescending." I joked last night on Twitter that liking The One’s speech could be the new RINO litmus test. (Chris Christie flunked!) From this afternoon’s Rush: “Fox Loved it,” he said....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quotes of the day
Rhetoric. “Mr. Obama in some new way found the tone of the presidency in this speech, the sound of it. In a purely political sense he was talking to the center—to the great beating heart of the middle...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Obamateurism of the Day
Do as I say, etc. Recall that Barack Obama insisted last week that Republicans in Congress put off campaigning until 2012? That turned into a double-layer Obamateurism this week. First, let’s recall...
View ArticleClik here to view.
GOP ready to cut off NPR?
Catalysts. Republicans took a shot at defunding NPR in the 1990s after taking control of the House and Senate in the 1994 midterm elections, but the effort soon fizzled. Even though the GOP had good...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russian reporter claims Tucson shootings the result of American freedom
"The return of the Cold War"? You know what this country needs after a week of insanity on display in Tucson and inanity on display in the American media? We need someone with whom we can all be angry...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FBI finds another alleged home-grown jihadi in Pennsylvania
Bit two FBI agents, too. A federal judge denied Emerson Begolly a pretrial release to a halfway house yesterday after the FBI produced evidence that the 21-year-old “loner” had corresponded on a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blankley: Tucson is a teaching moment for the media
The conversation needed. In the aftermath of the shootings in Tucson, the media instructed us that we needed to have a series of national conversations — on “extreme rhetoric,” gun, and more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Great news: Elected officials know less about the Constitution than the public
Surprised? So claims the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, which just concluded a five-year study on the American public’s knowledge of its foundational legal document. The bad news: the general...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Video: Christie goes after tenure
"It is time to fight this fight ... and win." Whatever else anyone thinks of Chris Christie, one cannot accuse him of backing away from a fight. In his effort to restore excellence to public education,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Should GOP wait to tackle entitlement reform?
Courage. With the Republican takeover in the House, many fiscal conservatives and independents hoped to see serious budgetary reform as the focus of the 112ths session. Did that include entitlement...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Ed Morrissey Show: Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson and the Week in Review
3 pm ET! 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,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Video: Scarborough says Palin’s political career over
Double standards. Via Newsbusters, Joe Scarborough and Donny Deutsch consign Sarah Palin’s political career to the ash heap — certainly not the first time anyone’s done that — after her video response...
View Article