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Goolsbee: Get used to high unemployment
The new normal ... malaise. It’s a darned good thing that Austan Goolsbee is “young, energetic, and looks good on TV,” because otherwise this would look a lot like Jimmy Carter’s “Malaise” speech....
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Sebelius, WH tactics on ObamaCare dissent “thuggery”
Party like it's 1984. Last week, I wrote about the threat from Kathleen Sebelius to lock out insurers who dared to dissent from the official ObamaCare line of lower costs and bigger benefits for all....
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Reason TV: 9/12 rally smaller, but “stronger in spirit”
The Truman Trick. Nick Gillespie spent some time at the 9/12 rally yesterday for Reason TV, and found a somewhat smaller crowd than last year — but also more intense. Matt Kibbe tells him that instead...
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Want to kill 150,000 high-paying union jobs?
Pass those energy-sector tax increases. The Obama administration wants to pass two tax changes targeted at American oil and energy companies in order to pay for other tax breaks they want to offer as...
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Video: Brown attacks … Clinton?
Moonbeams. Meg Whitman has certainly started a war in her California gubernatorial campaign, but she’s not one of the combatants. Instead, by using video from the 1992 presidential campaign in which...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Kevin McCullough
3 pm ET! Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Kevin McCullough joins us again to discuss the intersection of faith and politics. Kevin and I will talk about the primary race in Delaware, as well...
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Pelosi took in twice as much lobbyist cash as Boehner
Stones, glass houses, and epic fails. The White House eagerly tweeted the link to a New York Times hit piece on John Boehner that accused him of taking in loads of lobbyist cash. They called his...
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Rank and file Dems to Pelosi: extend all the Bush tax cuts
Extreme. After John Boehner reiterated his call to extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts expiring at the end of the year, the White House once again tried hammering him as an extremist looking to protect...
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Video: Mark Kirk, the “Lame Duck Killer”
Change. Consider this a double down on change, from the state that sent Barack Obama to the Senate and then to the White House. The Senate election in Illinois will not just elect next session’s...
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If these trends continue, Republicans could gain 60 seats in the House
Momentum. Since April, I’ve been predicting a House GOP pick-up in the low 50s. Subsequent months of data seemed to strengthen the likelihood of a 52-seat-or-so outcome without greatly expanding the...
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FreedomWorks leaders refuse to endorse O’Donnell over Castle
"We stay out of that race because we're not convinced O'Donnell can win." Hey, who’s up for another vicious 800-comment Delaware thread? “We stay out of that race because we’re not convinced O’Donnell...
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British teen barred for life from U.S. for sending nasty drunk e-mail to...
Too dumb to check. Lots of buzz for this one since it fits neatly into the “Obama’s a thin-skinned autocrat” narrative, but I’m skeptical. Does the FBI normally dispatch foreign police every time a...
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Democrats pivot from Boehner, find exciting new villain for midterms
"The Democrats, starting with Mr. Harkin, practically salivated at the idea of it." I saw it coming last month. The only surprise is that it took this long. It was a telling moment at Senator Tom...
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Blogger sure is going to miss these freaky deaky ads after the election
Deaky. Yes, of course it’s directed by Ladd “Dale Peterson” Ehlinger, who’s carved out a sweet niche for himself as the go-to guy for little-known candidates desperately needing to make a splash. This...
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Michael Moore: Let’s build the Ground Zero mosque right on Ground Zero
Hmmm. Alternate headline: “Michael Moore figures out way to boost opposition to mosque from 65 percent to 95 percent.” “I want it built on Ground Zero. Why? Because I believe in an America that...
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Krauthammer: Palin’s and DeMint’s endorsements of O’Donnell are destructive,...
"It's a big mistake." Via the Right Scoop. There’s nothing here that you haven’t heard before, but since “true conservatives” are in RINO-stomp mode towards Paul Mirengoff and John McCormack and Jim...
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Video: Meet the man who won the Medal of Honor
Heroism. If this can’t bring us together after another long day of barroom brawling over Delaware, nothing can. I’ve already written about Giunta and will point you to that post as background; what’s...
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Good news: Feds spent $18,000 to monitor negative media coverage of BP oil spill
Image is everything. Actually, it was $18,000 over just two months, a six-figure rate as an annual salary. But it’s money well spent: Monitoring negative buzz about how Obama stacks up to Bush’s...
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Breaking: Obama now feeling America’s pain
Feel it. Via JWF, this is where it all starts to turn around, my friends. This is where the healing begins. President Obama told a small crowd in Fairfax, Va., on Monday that he would stand in the hot...
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Quotes of the day
Armageddon. “Bottom line is, if she’s nominated, Republicans lose the election automatically,” Castle said in an interview with NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell today from Wilmington, Del. “It’s that simple.”…...
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