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Romney: Obama WH “most anti-investment, anti-jobs, anti-growth administration”
"There are some things I'd do differently." Mitt Romney expresses his delight in the court ruling yesterday that overturned ObamaCare in its entirety. When George Stephanopoulos presses Romney on the...
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Reason TV’s Nanny of the Month is …
Distractions. Reason TV had another round of tough choices for its Nanny of the Month in January 2011. I admit I hadn’t heard about the push to ban “beer pong” at bars in my former home city of...
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Huntsman 2009: I think maybe the stimulus should have been bigger
Terrific. Dude, I think this is the guy. On Obama’s $787 billion stimulus: It’s easy to criticize the bill and if you don’t like it, you don’t have to take the money. It’s pretty simple. I guess in...
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Mubarak: You know what? I was never planning to run for reelection anyway;...
Stupid. He wants to stay on until the next elections, which even he now acknowledges should be sped up from their scheduled date in September. I’m … reasonably sure that’s a non-starter for everyone at...
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Valerie Jarrett to uniformed officer at Alfalfa Club dinner: Get me a glass...
Too dumb to check. C’mon, this didn’t happen. No one’s this dumb and/or tactless. Are they? According to our tipster, Jarrett was seated at the head table along with several other big-name politicians...
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It’s time for a balanced budget amendment, says … Democrat Mark Udall
Oh my. I’m honestly shocked, and not just because after clips like this my expectations for fiscal sanity among Democrats are absolute zero. Two noteworthy aspects here. First, Udall may be from a...
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Chris Matthews: The tea party’s playing a role not unlike the Muslim...
Nuance. I know what you’re thinking, but no, his point here isn’t that tea partiers are dangerous regressive fanatics that must never be trusted with power. He’s already made that argument, silly; why...
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Video: Obama somehow manages to say nothing meaningful in Egypt statement
Just words. The money line that’s being picked up by news outlets and touted on Twitter is, “an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now.” But what does “now”...
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Bad news: Chuck Schumer snubbed by Snooki
Comedy gold. To cleanse the palate, via WaPo and Vimeo poster “PAPSFIRST,” an historic near-encounter captured live as it happened this morning at Reagan National Airport. In one corner: An obnoxious...
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Wikileaks doc: Al Qaeda on the brink of a dirty bomb, feds seeking missing...
Revelations. Drudge is giving this banner treatment but I’m not sure why. Of course Al Qaeda is on the brink of a dirty bomb. Their comrades-in-arms in the Taliban are the jihadist proxy of one of the...
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PPP: Obama leads Palin by eight … in South Dakota?
Plus: Huckabee leads in South Carolina? I’m highly skeptical — this is a state the GOP’s won in every election since 1964 — but their sample doesn’t seem obviously skewed to me. The partisan breakdown...
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Quotes of the day
No retreat. “Senate leaders from both political parties have agreed to hold a vote on legislation repealing President Obama’s health care overhaul — a top priority of GOP congressional leaders. “The...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Non-sequiturs. No doubt the ruling by Judge Roger Vinson eviscerating ObamaCare has the White House discouraged, but Barack Obama’s response to it was hardly presidential. Instead of expressing...
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Could the Supreme Court decide the 2012 elections?
Severability. The working title for my column at The Week, which appeared late yesterday, wondered whether Barack Obama would have political severability from ObamaCare if the Supreme Court grabbed the...
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Video: Egyptian protests turning violent; Update: Shots fired?
Answer. What happens when pro-government protesters meet anti-government protesters in the streets of Cairo? Predictably, both sides get violent. CNN reports that for the moment the violence consists...
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Nelson trailing in 2012 polling by double digits?
The bill comes due for the Cornhusker Kickback. If one Senator could qualify as a poster boy for the 2012 Democratic efforts to hold the Senate, it would be Ben Nelson of Nebraska. A one-time governor...
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Taxpayers on hook for legal bills of state officials in Gosnell case
Outrage. As if the case of Kermit Gosnell wasn’t ghastly enough for Pennsylvanians horrified by the state’s failure to stop the carnage at his abortion clinic, the taxpayers got another rude shock from...
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Planned Parenthood fires clinic manager in latest video
So much for the spin. Yesterday’s spin on the Live Action undercover video showing a Planned Parenthood clinic manager giving advice on sex trafficking with minors was that the national organization...
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Obama administration stonewalling Issa on document demand?
It's on. The epicenter of the Republican fight to roll back the expansion of executive power is at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee — and we’re already starting to see fireworks....
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Videos: First-hand accounts of skirmishes with “pro-stability forces” in Cairo
Army now demanding an end to protests? Two videos today report in more depth on the violence now breaking out on the streets of Cairo, and what is and isn’t being done to stop it. Anderson Cooper of...
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