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GOP needs to act immediately on entitlement reform
Pawlenty concurs. In my column today appearing at The Week, I look at the prospects of serious budget cuts without taking on entitlement spending — and come away more convinced than ever that...
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Iran: Not So Fast with the Mission Accomplished Banner
Enrichment versus weaponization. We have reached a crucial juncture in the progress of the Iranian nuclear-weapons program – and the nature and significance of that juncture are being overlooked in...
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Chris Christie “not arrogant enough” for POTUS run
Digs. We hope you’ll excuse the multitude of Chris Christie articles of late, but the man continues to fascinate me every time he shows up in the news. This time he was making the rounds of Sunday...
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Report: Lieberman to announce retirement tomorrow
Joe no. The Joementum’s been steadily slowing since Gore put him on the ticket and now he’s all but unelectable even in a deep blue state. No official word yet on his plans, but this site claims to...
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Video: Herman Cain challenges Bill Clinton on HillaryCare in 1994
Early adopter. Thank Joshua Green of the Atlantic, who recently profiled Cain, for digging this up. I’m not sure if the clip was considered “lost,” exactly, but I’d never seen it before and a quickie...
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Gingrich: Palin should “be more careful and think through what she’s saying”
Nuance. I’ll take “Advice Newt Gingrich Really Isn’t Qualified To Give” for $1,000, Alex. In fairness to him, he’s careful to qualify this with praise about how “formidable” she is, and the polls since...
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Audio: And now an important message from Lyndon Johnson
Palate cleanser. I know what you’re going to say. “A long-dead president talking about his ‘nuts’ isn’t news, AP.” That’s true. It’s not news. It’s history. But look at it this way: If the very same...
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Video: The very dumbest political soundbites about the Arizona shootings
Narratives. A time capsule from Reason TV that’s way, way shorter than it could have been. I assume the video editor planned something longer but had to stop after two minutes from his sheer...
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About that HHS Report on Pre-Existing Conditions
Big numbers Is the Department of HHS now reporting to White House political director Patrick Gaspard? It certainly looks that way based on the timely release of a new report today: As many as 129...
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Sheila Jackson Lee: Repealing ObamaCare is unconstitutional
Okay. Via Philip Klein, I can’t decide whether she’s serious or whether this is part of the Democrats’ new kitchen-sink approach to “messaging” about ObamaCare. She might be calculating that even an...
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It’s come to this: CNN apologizes … after guest uses “crosshairs” metaphor
"We're trying to get away from that kind of language." C’mon, can you blame them? Weren’t six people, one of them a little girl, recently murdered because Sarah Palin once used a crosshairs metaphor?...
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Ron Reagan on Alzheimer’s allegations: Mom told me she loved the book
Hmmm. Before you watch, go back and read Paul Bedard’s post at U.S. News fact-checking Ron’s allegations about his father’s illness. RR actually admits to a minor factual error here — it was Tucson, he...
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Quotes of the day
Deregulation. “This order requires that federal agencies ensure that regulations protect our safety, health and environment while promoting economic growth. And it orders a government-wide review of...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Mythologies. We have often heard President Obama assert in his speeches that the detention center at Guantanamo Bay serves as a major “recruiting tool” for al-Qaeda. And not just a major recruiting...
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Baby Doc going to the dock?
Vacation fail. You’re a former dictator with hundreds of millions of dollars, stolen from your former countrymen, living a life of luxury in France. You get a hankering to do some travel. With all of...
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Cantor to Reid: If you’re so confident ObamaCare repeal will fail in Senate …
... prove it. It’s been a while for me, so I’m no longer sure of the protocols of dog dares, but this seems like a jump right to a triple. Harry Reid has insisted that any attempt to pass a full...
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Gallup: Boehner suddenly a hot commodity
Pelosi ... not so much. The American public has taken its first long look at new House Speaker John Boehner — and so far, they like what they see. Gallup shows a sudden and significant rise in...
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Would mandatory mental-health reporting have stopped Loughner?
And should it be imposed on private and public sector organizations? After every tragic event, people try to figure out what could have stopped it. In the case of the Tuscon shootings, the debate has...
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Video: Calorie counts on menus don’t change behavior
As predicted. It’s been almost a year since we discovered one of the surprises in ObamaCare that Nancy Pelosi promised we’d find once we passed the bill — a new federal law requiring all restaurant...
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Repealing ObamaCare “first step toward restoring fiscal sanity”
CBO games. As Republicans in the House fight to repeal ObamaCare, the administration and its allies have fought back by claiming that ending the health-care law will increase the deficit. They point...
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