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WaPo says “tax cuts” holding Obama back from tax overhaul, deficit reduction
Definitions. Tax cuts? What tax cuts? The only taxes that got reduced in the lame-duck session’s agreement were Social Security taxes in a one-year “holiday,” and the ability of businesses to write...
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Video: Should Congress pack heat?
Wrong question. The correct question should be, “Why shouldn’t Congress pack heat?” After all, as Rep. Louis Gohmert says to Steve Doocy on Fox today, elected officials are American citizens with the...
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Vote for new RNC chairman under way; Update: Steele drops out, endorses Cino;...
Endgame. There are five candidates in the race, but let’s face it: As far as most readers are concerned, this is a contest between Steele and Not Steele. After three rounds of balloting, with 85 votes...
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NFL players want Congress to intervene in contract dispute
Take the poll! As Hot Air readers know, I’m a big fan of NFL football, and my weekly football picks are one of my favorite regular features. I also love to follow and write about politics, too. That...
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Revolution: Tunisian dictator flees country after weeks of public protests
Change. This is a terrifying story for a blogger to write about because it’s (a) potentially hugely significant and yet (b) about a nation that’s almost completely obscure to most Americans, and by...
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Pat Caddell: I can’t help thinking Paul Krugman’s a bit of a sphincter
Tone. Via the Daily Caller. He didn’t say “sphincter,” actually, but in honor of the “new tone” and because this is, after all, a family-oriented blog, I decided to clean up his language a bit for the...
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Nation to heal by having congressmen from different parties sit next to each...
Gestures. Lisa Murkowski’s a big fan of the idea, so hey — how bad it could be? Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaksa) has joined Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) in spearheading Udall’s effort to have bipartisan...
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Maine governor to NAACP: “Kiss my butt”
Oh my. Why would a man engage in such undiplomatic language? My theory: After a week of incendiary and irresponsible rhetoric from the left over the Arizona shootings, his nerves were frayed by the...
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Chris Matthews: What’s with these crackers wanting to see Obama’s birth...
Terrific. Is this offensive? I ask that in all earnestness because, after this week, I don’t know what the rules are for political speech anymore. I thought “cracker” was a mild slur for whites, but...
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New Ron Reagan book: My dad had Alzheimer’s while in office
Nope. Reagan’s doctors and Alzheimer’s specialists have been debunking this myth for years, but no matter how many times they try to explain that occasional memory lapses in an elderly person do not an...
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New Tea Party Caucus launches in Senate — with three members
Hmmm. I didn’t quite understand why Bachmann felt the need for one in the House and I understand this even less. It’s good retail politics to wave the TP flag, I guess, but the point of a caucus is to...
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Quotes of the day
The week that was. “One of the wounded in the Tucson, Ariz., shooting that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically injured is blaming Sarah Palin, House Speaker John Boehner, Fox TV host Glenn Beck and...
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NARN, the New Tone Edition!
1-3 CT, live video & chat! The Northern Alliance Radio Network will be on the air today, with your hosts Mitch Berg and Ed Morrissey, on from 1-3 CT with live streaming video and chat. If you’re in...
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NFL open thread, Saturday divsional playoffs
Showtime. Thankfully, after going 0-2 on my Saturday picks last week, my Sunday picks brought me back to 2-2. Today’s games involve my favorite teams still left alive in postseason, so I’ll be picking...
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Bill Maher to tea partiers: The Founding Fathers would’ve hated your guts
Truthiness. Talk show host Bill Maher once again displayed his ignorance for America’s history and founding by telling Tea Partiers that the Founding Fathers would have “hated” their “guts.” As you’d...
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Post Office paid almost $32 million for Lance Armstrong sponsorship
Maybe the jersey should have been green. When wondering how the US Postal Service could find itself in a $7 billion hole, perhaps decisions like this might explain it. Court documents in a fraud probe...
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CBS poll shows tax hikes favored by … 9%
Mandates. The best part of this poll? The sampling follies at CBS don’t even really matter, although this poll’s sample is closer to reality than most. When given a choice between tax hikes or...
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NYT columnist blasts Left for “witch hunt” after Tucson shooting
"Any means necessary" fail. It’s not Ross Douthat or David Brooks, either, but Charles Blow — the same writer who once called black Tea Party activists a “political minstrel show.” Blow admits that...
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Video: Tucson shooter’s lunatic tour of campus
"What makes it illegal is -- the currency." The Los Angeles Times published the video last night that got Tucson’s mass murderer Jared Lee Loughner kicked off the Pima Community College campus, and...
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Is free wireless Internet the new entitlement right?
The danger of relying on the kindness of strangers. Let’s face it; at some point in time most of us have hijacked an unencrypted wireless connection to the Internet. We’ve done it because we’re...
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