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Breaking: Olbermann announces the end of “Countdown”; Update: Settled...
Shock. Why? No idea. There was no inkling of it on Google News earlier today. It sounds from the clip like he was let go, but he signed a four-year contract extension in 2008 so I’m not sure how the...
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Choices. “The question for Furedi, Berer, Yanow, Herold, and anyone else who asserts an indefinite right to choose is whether this part of the indictment should be dropped. You can argue that what...
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NARN, the Repeal and Replace Edition!
1-3 pm CT, with live video and 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...
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Cohen: You know, Pence is like a bad guy from last century I can’t name
"Sure." Gee, who might that be? Lavrentiy Beria? Lin Biao? Che Guevara, perhaps? Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) continues his Republicans are (shhhhh!) Nazis Tour, taking it to the...
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Was Olbermann a “victim of his own success”?
Lesson: No one is indispensable. Many years ago, one of my closest friends told me that the small company for which he worked at the time couldn’t afford to fire him for taking a weekend off because he...
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NEA Gave More Than $13 Million to Advocacy Groups
Disclosure. An Education Intelligence Agency analysis of NEA’s financial disclosure report for the 2009-10 fiscal year reveals the national union contributed more than $13 million to a wide variety of...
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Corbett demands probe of failure to regulate abortion clinics in Pennsylvania
Bald-faced lie. Hundreds or thousands of live, viable babies have been slaughtered over three decades in a Pennsylvania clinic, and now the two agencies that supposedly regulate medical facilities...
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Nuclear talks with Iran collapse
Surprise! Not only have talks between Iran and six Western nations on nuclear non-proliferation collapsed, no one has any idea when Iran will come back to the table. Iran refused to open discussions...
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Idaho, 6 Other States, to “Nullify” ObamaCare
Sovereignty debate. Idaho, the first state to sue the federal government over the health care overhaul, has announced plans to resort to an obscure 18th century legal remedy that recognizes a state’s...
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Quotes of the day
Winners. “On Thursday, NBC’s news division staged an elaborate presentation for advertisers, seeking to sell commercial time in NBC’s news programs over the next year. All the members of MSNBC’s...
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Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?
Rules and tools. It’s time to break all the rules and vote for the Obamateurism of the Week! This week’s #1 recruiting tool for Republican voters probably won’t come with a state dinner, though. At...
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NFL Championship Sunday open thread
Penultimate. Before we get to my picks for today, let’s take a look at just how much pull we have in pro football. Nine days ago, I wrote a post and added a poll about the NFL Players Association’s...
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Video: One Gosnell victim speaks
Tragic. CNN interviews LaToya Ransome, one of the victims of Kermit Gosnell, who faces eight counts of murder and other charges for his gruesome abortion practice in Philadelphia. Ransome, clearly...
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Cantor: No debt-ceiling increase without “serious spending cuts and reform”
"Everything is on the table." House Majority Leader Eric Cantor reaffirmed the Republican position on budget cuts this morning on Meet the Press this morning, and NBC’s David Gregory gave us a taste of...
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Video: 30-year anniversary of Iran hostages release
The Carter hangover. On Thursday, while some celebrated the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy and lamented the two-year anniversary of President Barack Obama’s, one...
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Quotes of the day
Elites. “But it’s not just his policy outlook that titillates the elites. The diminutive Hoosier has nurtured a profile as a mature politician whose outlook extends beyond the next news cycle and whose...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Good ol' what's-her-name. Barack Obama dropped by a GE plant on Friday to announce the appointment of their CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, to a new advisory board on job creation, and to talk about some of his...
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Palin: We need another lifeguard like Reagan to rescue us from malaise
Look forward. Like Sarah Palin, I came of age in the era of Ronald Reagan, although for me, that process began more in 1976 as a 13-year-old fascinated by national politics than four years later as a...
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Breaking: Blast at Moscow airport reportedly kills 10; Update: 31 dead, 130...
Dozens more injured. This is just coming across the BBC wire and details are sketchy, but a blast has reportedly killed 10 people at Moscow’s busiest airport, Domodedovo. Early hints are that it might...
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GOP eyes UN funding for cuts
Especially the Human Rights Council. Of all the targets for fund-cutting, the idea from Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) might be the most popular — and the most appropriate. Ros-Lehtinen wants to save...
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