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Cheney: Maybe we should limit size of pistol magazines
"Maybe it's appropriate to re-establish that kind of thing." To be fair, former VP Dick Cheney finally points out that the real proximate cause of the Tucson massacre was the insanity of the gunman,...
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Housing starts in December worst in a year
Expected. Does anyone still hope that the housing market will lead a new recovery, or rather continue to handicap it? Bloomberg reports that the numbers for new housing starts in December sank to a...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Jim Geraghty, Guy Benson, Charles Blahous
3 pm ET, 90 mins! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we go for bonus minutes instead of a doubleheader! First we’ll hear from National Review’s Jim Geraghty, who will update us on all of the...
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House Dem exemplifies New Tone by comparing GOP to Nazis on House floor
From someone who should know better. Steve Cohen (D-TN) has merely updated his repertoire on his attacks against the Tea Party and Republicans. Nine months ago, they were the Klan with better fashion...
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Abortionist faces eight counts of murder in Philadelphia; Update: How did he...
Ghastly. This may be as ghastly a story outside of the Tucson massacre as we’ll see all year … I hope. An abortionist arrested in Philadelphia faces eight counts of murder, one for the death of a...
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Video: Robinson wants Obama to explain why regulation creates jobs
Do tell. I’d love to hear that explanation as well. The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson worries that Barack Obama’s pledge to reduce damaging and redundant legislation will give up too much...
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Video: Reid calls Chinese president a “dictator”
Hmmm. I’m trying to muster some partisan outrageous outrage over his impolitic language, but … he’s right, isn’t he? At the very least, he’s closer to the target than the diplospeak being used by Obama...
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Michael Moore: Americans love guns because we’re racist, right?
Okay. Via Eyeblast. On a busy news day, no way does Michael Moore doing his Michael Moore shtick make the cut for the blog. On a slow news day like today, when I’m scrambling for content? You betcha....
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Video: Time for another bizarre Democratic constitutional theory of ObamaCare
"You talk about the pursuit of happiness." Yet another embarrassing detour into constitutional theory, progressive-style, via CNS. Serious question: Isn’t it high time for Pelosi to call a caucus...
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Chinese president: Hey, we’re all about human rights
Nuance. The key part comes at 2:30 but make sure to watch from the beginning or else you’ll miss Hu being called out by Bloomberg’s reporter for pathetically refusing to answer a question on human...
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Change: House repeals ObamaCare, 245-189
Hope. Here’s the roll. Just three Democrats voted with the GOP, which may seem surprising in light of the number of Blue Dogs who voted no on O-Care back in March but really isn’t surprising given the...
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Steve Cohen on GOP/Nazi analogy: All I meant is that Republicans are liars...
New tone. Of course he’s not sorry. As Ed noted this morning, not only has Cohen proved himself fully capable of vicious demagoguery before, but the last time he stooped this low he tossed in a little...
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Video: Democrats walking around with their own ObamaCare interview backdrops now
Victims. From today’s Cavuto, a chat with noted constitutional scholar Sheila Jackson Lee on location at the Capitol. I know, it doesn’t look like the Capitol, but that’s because she has an aide...
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Good news: Study confirms that college is pretty much a total waste of time
"These are really kind of shocking, disturbing numbers." You don’t even need to read the article; just follow the link and check out the graph in the left-hand sidebar. What’s tuition up to these days...
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Big news at state dinner: Obama announces China will let U.S. keep pandas for...
Achievements. Even the normally mild-mannered Jake Tapper can’t resist sneering: “forget the Falun Gong, Tibet and Liu Xiaobo….WE GOTZ PANDAS FOR 5 MORE YEARZ ZOMG.” My friends, it’s come to this....
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Quotes of the day
Favorability. “Even James Carville’s polling firm cannot get Obama to get 50% against Governor Palin. She trails him by a reasonable ten points considering that it’s Carville’s firm (go ask re-elected...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Ig-Nobel. President Barack Obama threw a lavish state dinner for Chinese premiere Hu Jintao last night. For the right perspective on just how objectionable this particular decision was, I’ll turn to my...
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Bummer: Pima County Attorney muzzles Supercop
MSNBC hardest hit. I fully expect the “Free Clarence Dupnik” movement to start in 3 … 2 … 1 … The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has suddenly turned off the flow of information in the January 8th...
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NBC/WSJ poll shows Obama bounce of eight points to 53%
Interesting methodology. The White House has to like the top-line results from the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, which shows Barack Obama getting an eight-point bounce over last month to 53% and...
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GOP set to roll out $2.5 trillion in cuts over next 10 years
Too much or not enough? First came the ObamaCare repeal vote, and now Republicans on Capitol Hill will roll out their next effort to fulfill their midterm campaign pledges: massive budget cuts. The...
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