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Senate Dems throw in the towel on earmarks
Er, who gets the credit? Senate Denocrats conceded defeat on earmarks yesterday, and you won’t believe who gets top billing from Politico on the reversal: Senate Democrats dealt a near-fatal blow to...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Guy Benson, Jim Geraghty
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we’ll hear from Townhall political editor Guy Benson about the unrest in Egypt, the court ruling that threw out ObamaCare and what that means, and the...
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Video: Lack of severability in ObamaCare a “colossal mistake”
"A sort of game of chicken." Or was it? Larry O’Donnell blames Democrats for rushing the ObamaCare bill to a vote and forgetting to insert the severability clause, but Jonathan Turley isn’t buying the...
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Obama: I’ll veto anything that limits EPA greenhouse-gas authority
Veto #3? How disappointed will Republicans be to hear Barack Obama’s veto threat on bills moving through Congress to rein in the EPA? Not very. It isn’t the first time the White House has issued the...
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Video: My interview with Reason TV
Midwest passages. When I was in Washington DC three weeks ago, Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie invited me to their offices to sit down for a short interview. Nick, here with his biker moustache, talked with...
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Gibbs on Egypt: Violence against protesters is deplorable, transition must...
"'Now' means 'yesterday.'" With this, we’re now officially past the “orderly transition” phase of nudge-nudging. Last night, Obama issued a brief public statement that included just one line about a...
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Rand Paul’s first floor speech: “Is compromise a noble position?”
"Many ask, 'Will the tea party compromise?'" A savvy debut that’s getting lots of play online today, including at CNN (which continues to flirt with tea partiers after making a horrible first...
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Egypt: WWRD?
One for the Gipper. The Time cover depicting Ronald Reagan photoshopped with his arm around Barack Obama is inescapable this week. The timing is ironic; the image serves mainly to highlight the...
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Great news: Jerusalem now being invaded by UFOs or something
Palate cleanser. If you think the upheaval in Egypt is dangerous to regional stability, wait until E.T. lands on the Temple Mount and informs both sides that, no, in fact, this is his land and he’s...
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Shucks: GOP repeal vote on ObamaCare fails in Senate, 47/51
Bummer. All Republicans voted yes and every last Democrat voted no (Lieberman and Mark Warner missed the roll), which is a credit either to Reid and Durbin in keeping the caucus together or to the...
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Obama “very concerned” that Mubarak hasn’t started to transition yet
Feckless. Hey, champ? Maybe it’s time for you and your tream to stop talking for awhile. President Obama is “very concerned” that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak may not begin the process or an...
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“Progress”: New York City bans smoking in public parks for some reason
Nanny. What choice did they have? If you’re in the park and someone next to you lights up, your options are limited. You could, I suppose, step two feet away and solve the problem, but then that poor...
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Video: The skin gun
Awesome. Rarely do science vids go viral, but after 100,000 views in just a single day, this one’s on its way. And with good reason: It’s an astounding breakthrough, immediately relevant to soldiers...
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Harvard study: Hey, maybe we’re placing too much emphasis on a college education
Priorities. You think? Can it really be that incurring tens of thousands of dollars in debt to attend a private university where most of what you learn won’t be relevant to your career is a bad...
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Quotes of the day
Centrists. “The betting among Republicans is that Thune remains in the Senate, and the senator himself acknowledges he might stay put… “‘He’s young, he’s got time,’ said one veteran Republican close to...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Minionville. Ronald Reagan has become cool over the past few years, with the media giving him unusually fond treatment for his upcoming centennial. They have even started comparing Barack Obama to...
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The Obama waivers start to spread
Jeff's got friends in high places. We already have more than 700 waivers to the requirements of ObamaCare in place, with 40% of those affected being in unions. Now we see waivers beginning in another...
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Should the Army Have Seen Manning Coming?
Bonus: He's a Brit? As we continue to move toward the court martial phase in the case of alleged traitor Bradley Manning, disturbing new details are coming to light. One medical officer was concerned...
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Undercover video in Virginia PP clinic shows cooperation with “pimp”
Did they report it? Live Action released the second in a new series of undercover videos taken at Planned Parenthood clinics in recent weeks in which reporters pose as a pimp and prostitute to...
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Getting Ready for Oil Sands
Sticky Decisions A new report prepared for the Dept. of Energy is catching the attention of domestic energy advocates this week. With an eye toward the future it examines the potential of bituminous...
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