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Uh oh: Olby-less MSNBC falls to third place
The worst network in the world? Somewhere, Keith Olbermann is smiling — or more likely, laughing his rear end off. In a week where viewers wanted breaking news, the new MSNBC prime-time lineup managed...
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McCain Hits Rummy Over Memoir
"Thank God he was relieved of his duties..." Former Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld is coming out with a new memoir on February 8. Early reports note he takes some shots at former colleagues, and...
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Video: Koch protests include calls to lynch Clarence Thomas
Oops! They did it again. Yes, these comments come from the attendees, not the speakers at the protest organized by Common Cause at the Koch political conference, but according to the media rules on...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Kerry Picket, Matt Lewis
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Kerry Picket of the Washington Times joins us to discuss the latest developments on Capitol Hill, as well as her conversation with an Egyptian...
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Egypt starts cracking down on journalists, human rights workers
Endgame? The Mubarak regime has begun to act more forcefully to shore up its power after days of protests pushed it to the brink of collapse. Security forces have begun arresting and intimidating...
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GOP: The Gay Old Party?
More elephants, bigger tents With CPAC 2011 almost upon us, plenty of discussion has taken place over who will or won’t be attending. CPAC is something of a litmus test in the conservative community,...
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Federal judge holds Obama administration in contempt over drilling “permitorium”
"Determined disregard" of court order. When Judge Martin Feldman ordered the federal government to end its moratorium on deep-sea drilling, he actually meant it. In a ruling earlier today, the federal...
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Van Jones: “We Will Not Live on an Economic Plantation Run by the Koch Brothers”
Meet Reds. Ed has already posted one video from the Koch brothers protest, but Van Jones never disappoints. This speech was recorded Sunday in Rancho Mirage, CA. Listen to as much as you care to. I’ve...
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Kirsten Powers: Americans Should Worry About ‘Islamic Power in Cairo’
Two words: Muslim Brotherhood Writing at The Daily Beast, liberal columnist and pundit Kirsten Powers (who has family in Egypt) noted, I spent much of yesterday interviewing American experts on the...
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Clipping the Wings of the FCC
Antiques It is not only the disastrous state of the national purse, but the changing role of government which has many Americans taking a look at trimming the fat in Washington and scaling back some of...
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Hammertime: How Four Loko became … ethanol
"This is the nanny state on steroids." Not only are we banning a combination of two perfectly legal consumables by banning the popular alcoholic drink Four Loko, we’re contributing to global warming in...
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Obama’s Ironic Trip to Pennsylvania
Jack Flash, it's a gas gas gas Following a brief delay for snowmageddon, President Obama visited the Keystone State today to continue his laser-like focus on jobs and the economy. The subject of his...
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Kaplan University: The Washington Post’s Golden Goose
Education bubble? Apparently this has been an issue since December when the story appeared on the Huffington Post. This helpful video summarizes the controversy: There’s actually another clip in which...
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Turley to White House: Quit whining
"A Ford Pinto law." Two days ago, MSNBC legal analyst Jonathan Turley told Lawrence O’Donnell that the Democrats and the White House played “a game of chicken” with ObamaCare by leaving out a...
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How Many Senators Does it Take to Write an Op-Ed?
History. Today Senators Ben Cardin, Chuck Schumer, Sherrod Brown and Debbie Stabenow share a byline on a Politico op-ed piece in defense of the health reform law. If you’re wondering why this dream...
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Wikileaks Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
Ugh. What’s next? I guess we shouldn’t be too surprised. The Nobel Committee probably needs a break from honoring people who actually fight for human rights, like Liu Xiabao, and really needs to get...
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Report: Political Correctness Prevented FBI, DoD from Stopping Maj. Hasan
A ticking time bomb. Today the Senate Homeland Security Committee released an independent report on the Ft. Hood shootings. The 91 page report is titled A Ticking Time Bomb: Counterterrorism Lessons...
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While he described President Obama as a very good man, he wavered when I asked him if he felt the U.S. had betrayed him. When I asked him how he responded to the United States’ veiled calls for him to...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Optics. If a “reset” button gets pressed in a media desert, does it make a noise? Maybe not, but the White House Correspondents Association certainly does: The White House Correspondents Association...
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Unemployment rate goes to 9.0%, only 36K jobs added; Update: 504K disappears...
Huh? The jobless rate fell by four-tenths of a point in January to 9.0%, the best downward revision in the post-recession environment, but it didn’t actually mean that the economy added more jobs. The...
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