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Johnson requested scholarship money be sent directly to family members
Involved. Credit the Dallas Morning News for its determination to get to the bottom of the scandal surrounding Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and the nepotism of her CBC scholarship awards. After...
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Video: On Iraq, better get on our knees and pray
We won't get fooled again? “The war in Iraq is not over,” warns New York Times reporter John Burns, who as Cubachi notes was one of the best war correspondents in the field during combat phase in Iraq....
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The Rahm Roulette wheel begins spinning
Signals. With Mayor Richard Daley retiring, many assume that Rahm Emanuel will leave his White House chief of staff position to run in next year’s election. Emanuel, known more as a tough pragmatist...
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Boehner: Roll back spending to 2008 levels, extend all tax cuts
Pre-emption. With everyone focused on Barack Obama’s hard pivot to the economy — which has taken him nine months to accomplish — John Boehner appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America and stole a march on...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Jim Geraghty, Guy Benson
3 pm ET! Today on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Jim Geraghty brings us his Ledge Report look at all of the election news from the midterm campaign, and beyond. We’ll talk about Rahm Emanuel’s...
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RGA throws in the towel on Colorado
"We don't give to sure losers." The GOP looks to have an excellent Election Night in terms of gubernatorial races as well as in Congress. Estimates range from six to eight pickups in states, and...
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Judiciary Committee hearing next week on ATF modernization bill
No worries? This morning, I received a number of e-mails regarding a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled for next Tuesday with the ambiguous title, “Firearms in Commerce: Assessing the Need...
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AFL-CIO chief says ObamaCare “shoved down the Republicans’ throats” …
And accurately describes the eventual outcome. I’ll give AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka decent marks for accuracy, if not imagery, in this clip from a speech given in the bright afterglow of the passage...
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Reuters’ economist survey predicts lower growth in 2010, 2011
Unexpectedly. Hardest hit: Reuters’ reporters, who must now abandon the use of all forms of the word “unexpected.” Their latest survey of economists shows an expectation of lower growth than first...
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Here we go: Murkowski set to launch write-in campaign tomorrow?
Holding on tight. Roll Call thinks it’s a done deal, which can only mean that the Libertarians finally gave her a hard no about being the party’s nominee. Amazing. They had a chance to get a flawed...
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Video: Obama dumps on Boehner, says he supports “lean” government or something
Fear. Alternate headline: “Confirmed: Obama all but admits that Boehner will be Speaker next year.” This is vintage Barry O in a number of ways: (1) The giggle-worthy salute to “lean government” as a...
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Awesome: The Charlie Crist ad remix
Ambition. Pure perfection, although the gag is so straightforward that I’m kicking myself for not thinking of it yesterday. Watch the original spot first or else you won’t appreciate the punchline —...
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Palin, Romney denounce Koran-burning
Condemnation. Glenn Beck’s against it too, of course. The grand irony of this crank pastor’s publicity stunt is that he’s trying to force the public to confront a difficult issue — when, if ever, is it...
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Castro: The “Cuban model” doesn’t work anymore
"This struck me as the mother of all Emily Litella moments." A clammy encounter with the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg between lunch and an afternoon dolphin show produces a tantalizing tidbit: But...
View ArticleNinth Circuit: Feds can use “state secrets privilege” to block lawsuits over...
Amazing stuff. The Ninth Circuit is, of course, the most famously liberal appellate court in the country, and the policy in question is no mere Bush-era artifact. Team Barry announced more than a year...
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The stupidity of politics: Green fables, jobs, and the incandescent bulb
Dim. Hot Air’s headlines linked a Washington Post piece today on the closing of the last US manufacturing plant for the humble incandescent light bulb. The article’s focus is on the “irony” of US...
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Merkel honors Danish Mohammed cartoonist with freedom of the press award
Speech. Via Reason’s Michael Moynihan, who notes the media buzz over this today and wonders, “Why does a limited defense of free speech by the leader of a Western democracy provoke such astonishment...
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Ground Zero imam: I never would have done it if I knew it would create tensions
Misgivings. Wish I had the full transcript, but this will have to do for now. Rauf said that if he knew how controversial the project would be, he “never would have done this – not have done something...
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Quotes of the day
Big tent? Much has been made of the conservative “tea partyers” who look poised to send a posse of new senators to Washington – starting with Joe Miller of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Mike Lee...
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Obamateurism of the Day
When TOTUS strikes! Er … wouldn’t this introduction have been in Barack Obama’s prepared remarks? Did TOTUS get the day off? Via Ace, the President gets a little confused about which “great state” he...
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