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Video: Whatever happened to the anti-war movement?
Proxy for partisanship. Remember when opponents of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq used to hold massive rallies with lots of media attention, and newspapers like the New York Times warned that the...
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Immelt to head revamped recovery advisory panel at WH
Volcker out. Barack Obama promised a “hard pivot” to jobs in the third year of his presidency, and he has decided to shake up his advisory staff to demonstrate his commitment to it. The old Economic...
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Verizon files challenge to FCC’s “Open Internet” order
Adventurism. It didn’t take long for one of the telecoms to challenge the FCC on its latest arrogation of regulatory jurisdiction over the Internet. Verizon went to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals,...
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Obama at 49% in CBS poll
Gallup shows precipitous drop in second-year average. As President Obama starts his third year in office, pollsters — especially media pollsters — have an interest in taking the temperature of the...
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NJ school district proposes random drug testing for middle school students
Take the poll. “It’s a proposal that is raising some eyebrows,” CBS reports from New Jersey, where one school district proposes to start random drug testing of students in middle schools. And some...
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No bail for Philly abortionist on murder charges
The second-story cover-up. This comes as no great shock, considering the number and nature of the charges filed against Kermit Gosnell by prosecutors. The man who ran the most infamous abortion center...
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Stewart blasts Cohen for Nazi comparison
"You said there'd be a pool!" Jon Stewart gave Steve Cohen a lesson in rhetoric and in hyperbole last night in condemning the Tennessee Democrat’s use of a Nazi analogy to attack Republicans on the...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson and the Week in Review
3 pm ET, 90 mins! 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 talk about the New Tone in...
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Ryan slated to deliver SOTU response on Tuesday
Strategy. Did Paul Ryan lose a bet with John Boehner? Being honored with the task of responding to a State of the Union speech is somewhat akin to following Justin Bieber on stage to sing a medley of...
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South Korea seizes ship back from pirates, kill eight
Hostages all alive. Last year, when pirates seized a South Korean oil tanker off the east coast of Africa, Seoul ended up paying a $9 million ransom to get it back after nine months. The decision to...
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Video: Giffords flown to Houston for evaluation and rehab
Long road to travel. Gabrielle Giffords continues to make remarkable progress after surviving an assassination attempt by a lunatic in Tucson. In less than two weeks since being shot in the head at...
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Blair: Stop apologizing for Iraq, already
"Wretched policy." Tony Blair appeared for the second time before an inquiry panel on the Iraq War in the UK with a specific and blunt message: Get over it. The former Prime Minister advised them to...
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NYT: Congress quietly looking at ways to create bankruptcy option for states
What could go wrong? Forget the economics of it for a moment and think of the politics. Are we actually going to have a bizarroland national debate in which the right is defending federal legislative...
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Michele Bachmann to deliver Tea Party Express response to SOTU
Why? Here’s the official announcement. I don’t get it. We thought the speaking lineup for next Tuesday had been finalized, but there’s been a late addition. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) will deliver...
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Giuliani: I’m more likely to run in 2012 if Palin runs
Oh my. I know what I said about Christie, but I’ve changed my mind. Clearly, it’s this guy who’s the ultimate RINO. “The more Republicans in which I can show a contrast, probably the better chance, the...
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Dopey Hawaii governor figures out new way to tease Birthers
Stupid. I started writing about this yesterday, got sidetracked by something else, and now Dave Weigel’s written the post I wanted to write. Half a dozen people e-mailed us the link to Abercrombie’s...
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Jim DeMint to join boycott of CPAC by some socially conservative groups
Absence. His spokesman doesn’t offer a specific reason, but it’s not hard to figure out why a guy who famously insisted that “you can’t be a fiscal conservative and not be a social conservative” might...
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Report: Gingrich tells pols in Georgia that he’s running for president
In? Not a surprise, but this is as close as he’s gotten so far to a formal announcement. In the last 24 hours, former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich has touched base with several prominent...
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WaPo columnist: Hey, let’s make February “Nobody Write About Palin Month”
Withdrawal. Or, as I like to call it, “Blogger Totally Out Of Content Month.” As with any addiction, the first step is admitting you have a problem. I have written about her in 42 columns since Sen....
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Murkowski: I’m worried that Republicans are spending too much time on ObamaCare
"We’re in a situation where there’s some messaging going on." My annoyance here isn’t because her point is invalid — I said the same thing last night about taking care to keep Congress’s priorities in...
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