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Egypt in flames: Mubarak orders VP to begin talks with opposition for some...
Endgame. What is there to talk about? Is there some as-yet unexplored common ground between the protesters’ “let’s kill Mubarak” position and the regime’s “let’s not”? Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s recently...
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Video: And now, an important message from Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric...
Old school. Via Gizmodo, a palate-cleansing time capsule from the dawn of the modern media universe, a.k.a. 1994. I remember e-mail already being in full swing on campus at the time, but the wider...
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Coptic Christian pope to Mubarak: We are all with you
Hard choices. Not true, of course. There are multiple reports of some Copts joining the protests. But bear this in mind if/when the Muslim Brotherhood gets its seat at the table in the new government...
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Via HuffPo, a case study in why nothing short of fiscal catastrophe will bring about bipartisan congressional cooperation on entitlement reform. To put this into context, a choice excerpt from last...
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Surprise: No change in Obama’s approval rating after SOTU
Static. In a sane world, watching this guy cravenly avoid straight talk on America’s fiscal crisis in order to talk about salmon and high-speed rail would have lost him 10 points overnight. At the very...
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Israelis shocked by Obama’s “betrayal” of Mubarak; Update: NPR source says...
Surprises. I’m shocked that they’re shocked. What else is he supposed to do? Political commentators expressed shock at how the United States as well as its major European allies appeared to be ready to...
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White House “furious”: Huntsman resigns as Obama’s ambassador to China
2012. So this presidential run is really happening, huh? Maybe we’re inside the Matrix after all. Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the U.S. ambassador to China, sent a resignation letter to President Barack Obama...
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Yawn: Bush’s daughter endorses gay marriage
Zzzzz. This is biggish news in the Times and on Twitter, for reasons that utterly escape me. How can it still qualify as newsworthy that a Republican — actually, we don’t know if she’s a Republican —...
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Quotes of the day
Mandates. “The Obama administration pushed back forcefully on Monday afternoon against a Florida judge’s ruling that its signature health care law is invalid, calling the judgment a legally “dubious”...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Ditch 'em. During his State of the Union speech, Barack Obama warned Republicans about the futility of living in the past. When addressing the subject of ObamaCare, the President scolded Republicans...
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British gov’t advised Libya on freeing Lockerbie bomber in 2008
And the US knew. As it turns out, the release of the man responsible for almost 300 deaths in a terrorist attack from Scotland came as no surprise to either British or American officials. Leaked...
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Egypt’s Internet crackdown makes “kill switch” bill a wee bit less popular
Surprise! Imagine if the government had the power to disconnect an entire country from its Internet service. Actually, we don’t have to imagine it; we have seen it happen in the past week, as the...
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Video: Planned Parenthood offering advice to pimps? Update: Did PP call the...
"Keep us out of the loop." Live Action released another undercover expose of Planned Parenthood today, this time at the Perth Amboy, New Jersey clinic. Posing as a pimp and a prostitute, the pair asked...
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Congress gets bipartisan on Egypt
"One voice" strategy, minus a couple of nonentities. It’s good to see Republicans and Democrats coming together in a foreign-policy crisis. It’s only diminished slightly by the lack of any real...
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Jordan next?
Uh oh. Israel has grown accustomed to existing in a sea of hostile and unstable nations, but that may grow even worse with the news that King Abdullah II of Jordan has sacked his entire government in...
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Obama green-lighting Muslim Brotherhood participation in Egyptian government
Reality. Welcome to the new reality of cold, hard choices in Egypt, and the consequences of democracy in regions where radicalism thrives. In order to stay ahead of the crisis in Egypt, the Obama...
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Video: Guess who predicted the ObamaCare ruling?
Everything old is new again! I’ll give you a couple of hints. First, he’s a famous Constitutional scholar. Second, he’s rumored to be the smartest elected official evah. Third, he, er, obviously...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Andrew Malcolm
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we welcome the Prince of Twitter and LA Times blogger AndrewMalcolm for our weekly Tuesdays with Andrew discussion of media and politics! We’ll...
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Is South Dakota Trying to Mandate Gun Ownership?
Not really. This is yet another of those headlines which is custom designed as catnip to get all of the natives up in arms. (Pun intended.) Bill would require all S.D. citizens to buy a gun Five South...
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Breaking: Mubarak to announce retirement after current term?
Will that be enough? Fox News reports that Hosni Mubarak will address the Egyptian people on national television in a few minutes and will announce his retirement at the end of his term in office. At...
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