This week the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Arizona’s law prohibiting abortion at or after 20 weeks of pregnancy -- a law that was based on uncontroverted medical evidence that abortion’s risks to maternal health increase dramatically...
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Readers and listeners to President Obama's speech today at the National Defense University, billed as a major address on terrorism policy, could be forgiven for thinking the speech just a re-hash of old policies. Believe me, Obama seemed to repeat,...
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Ted Cruz turned the tables on John McCain as the two sparred on the Senate floor this morning, with Cruz willingly embracing the "wacko bird" epithet the Arizona senator hurled at him and other conservatives earlier this year. Cruz objected to McCain's...
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In today's speech on counterterrorism at the National Defense University, President Obama said: "We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us, mindful of James Madison’s warning that ‘No nation could preserve its...
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President Obama took an interesting step in the War on Terror today. Rather than outline what he will do to address the setbacks America has suffered in its battle against the global Islamist insurgency, he promised an even more restrained effort and...
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In House Republicans' discussions over the upcoming debt-ceiling fight, conservative lawmakers are revisiting an agreement struck at the GOP's Williamsburg, Va., retreat in January. At the retreat, Republicans adopted a short-term debt-ceiling increase...
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My New York Post column today concerns the administration's war on the media, which should come as no surprise to anyone who's been following the gang from Chitown from its first appearance on the national scene. But now Chicago's chickens . . . comin'...
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Our friend Jason Trennert of Strategas continues his effort to revive, in the Wall Street community and elsewhere, the Memorial Day tradition of wearing a poppy flower to honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. We wish him well and tip our...
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The Thursday edition of the Morning Jolt looks at what it will take for the media to stop giving President Obama the benefit of the doubt on the recent scandals, more egregious behavior at the IRS, and then these thoughts on recent polling: A Delayed...
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You can always rely on the administration of Barack Obama, a former constitutional-law lecturer (or as his résumé-inflating fans put it, "professor"), to do the sleazy thing when it comes to the Constitution the president is sworn to defend. Thus,...
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Via — wait for it — The Nation: The Center for American Progress, Washington’s leading liberal think tank, has been a big backer of the Energy Department’s $25 billion loan guarantee program for renewable energy projects. CAP has specifically...
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Today’s Morning Jolt features a look at Lois Lerner pleading the Fifth, Anthony Bourdain’s recent trip to Libya, some transactional journalism at the White House, and then this development… Benghazi: The Story the Obama Administration Would Prefer...
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On a slow news month, the Washington Post manages a profile of Jay Carney's love a Dayton, Ohio band. On the walls of Jay Carney’s office: a photo of the Berlin Wall being dismantled. Snaps of his kids. His employer, President Obama, gracing the...
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"I find it strange that, with as much success as you’ve had in these Oscar caliber movies, you returned to The Hangover." This is an awkward -- crass in parts -- interview with Bradley Cooper about The Hangover III. The interviewer does have a point:...
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Earlier this week I read stunning article from Roger Simon of PJ Media contending that slain U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens was in Benghazi on September 11 to buy back Stinger missiles from al-Qaeda groups that had been originally provided to them by...
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The last Morning Jolt of the week features a look at Lois Lerner, and the cowboy hero that President Obama seeks to emulate, and... Eric Holder: Sure, I’m Cool With Snooping Around in James Rosen’s E-Mails Remember how Attorney General Eric Holder...
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In seventy lugubrious paragraphs, President Obama today asked America whether as commander-in-chief he should bomb terrorists. He concluded that sometimes he should, and sometimes he shouldn't. He couldn't quite make up his mind. Therefore, he would...
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After Congress called in Apple to testify about its offshore subsidiaries and why it paid only $6 billion in corporate income taxes last year, the Times published this interesting story, clearing up one misconception about how companies defer the payment...
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The Washington Post has published a letter from a group of New York school principals explaining that in their view the Common Core Assessment Tests were not in fact aligned with the Common Core Standards: In both their technical and task design, these...
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On Special Report, Charles Krauthammer exposed the “flaw at the center” of President Obama’s national security address delivered Thursday afternoon: “this notion [that] every war has to come to an end#...#. That is a naïve and utopian idea.”...
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A series of letters suggests that senior IRS official Lois Lerner was directly involved in the agency’s targeting of conservative groups as recently as April 2012, more than nine months after she first learned of the activity. Lerner, the director...
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Shortly after the president outlined in a speech today that drones should not be used on American citizens without "due process," Rand Paul backhandedly applauded the president's new stance on the matter: I'm glad the President finally acknowledged that...
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In a major national-security address on Thursday afternoon, President Obama reaffirmed his first-term promise to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. Saying that Gitmo has become “a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the...
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Pro tip: If you’re secretly able-bodied but collecting disability anyway, maybe don’t post a YouTube video of yourself dancing alone in a homemade foil robot suit. The video comes courtesy of the Utah Attorney General’s Office, which has been using...
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You’ve got to hand it to Orrin Hatch. Having been in the Senate since 1977, he knows how the game is played. Here he is in a debate last year when he was fighting for his political life against conservative challenger Dan Liljenquist: Well, I don’t...
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In a speech before the National Defense Univesity in Washington, D.C., this afternoon, President Obama justified the use of drones on Americans citizens, but explained that there is a "high threshold that we have set for taking lethal action." The president...
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Don’t call it a “global war on terror” any longer, President Obama said in his national-security address today. He encouraged the U.S. to “define our effort . . . as a series of persistent efforts to dismantle specific networks of violent extremists...
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Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service's director of exempt organizations, has been placed on administrative leave, according to a source in the agency's Cincinnati office. Lerner on Thursday afternoon sent an e-mail to employees in the exempt-organizations...
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Marc Morano has roundup of the rhetoric here. ...
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I write today about the uphill battle to fire Lois Lerner, and the statistical rarity of firing any federal employee. There's a tidbit buried on the second page that could become much more significant depending on how this plays out. There are a set...
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Did he really just say that?
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That's what I've been on my whirlwind visit. It's been a great time at the Hillsdale College symposium here, where I just spoke. Going to spend an hour in studio with the great Michael Medved -- starting around 4 Eastern -- before heading home. I wonder...
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No one explains reality in three pictures like Scott Adams.
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Prompted by Dan Pfieffer’s statement that it is “largely irrelevant” where the president was during the attack in Benghazi, I wrote my Politico column today on the president’s mystery night: He must have experienced the loneliness and responsibility...
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The “Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake” is a sporting event unlike any other. Each spring for two centuries, hundreds of competitors have gathered in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, in southwest England to chase a cheese wheel one foot in diameter...
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Pat's post is a bit of a spoiler. I was hoping to play my favorite game: Vice President Joe Biden or Onion Article? Here's the President of the United States Senate and statutory member of the National Security Council: “I believe what affects the...
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How does same-sex marriage affect marriage’s relationship to procreation, given that infertiles couple may marry? A reader writes to me: “I have yet to hear a satisfying explanation for why same-sex couples must be excluded from the institution...
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A young JFK thought the Nazis were really on to something. If only someone wrote a book that could explain how that's even possible....
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Jonathan points out the logical fallacy underlying Scheiber's piece for The New Republic. There are (at least) two other problems with the piece: another logical fallacy, and a factual mistake. The second paragraph begins, "As The New York Times reported this...
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I don't believe that we can't fix our budget problems by only focusing on "waste, fraud, and abuse." However, I find it very disheartening (not to mention annoying) to hear over and over again that lawmakers faced with a government program that's duplicative...
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The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which capsized last year killing 32 people and leaving dozens injured, will face trial for abandonment of his ship, causing a shipwreck, and multiple counts of manslaughter, among other charges. Captain...
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House oversight-committee chairman Darrell Issa has a new approach to paying down the national debt. Regarding former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman's testimony at yesterday's hearing, Issa quipped, "He must've said 'I don't remember' enough times...
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Bloomberg reports: Forms released online last night by the Office of Government Ethics show that Pritzker earned additional income for consulting work on hundreds of trusts, including family trusts, beyond what she disclosed last week. The omission,...
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Former Senator Fred Thompson, who was a tremendous trial lawyer long before he played one on TV, has an excellent column on the home-page this morning about Lois Lerner's gamesmanship yesterday -- first testifying to her fully exculpatory version of...
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If we can't agree on anything else, can we at least agree that Jonathan Rauch's noble dream (it was noble) that gay marriage could be part of strengthening a marriage culture generally is now demonstrably untrue? In the Daily Mail, Patricia Morgan asks...
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Professors at George Washington University support adding President Obama to Mt. Rushmore. Katherine Rodriguez of The College Fix has the story.
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Senator Lindsey Graham refuses to apologize to U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, despite calls from the White House for Republicans to do so after it was revealed that her take on the Benghazi attacks was the product of others. "Not only does she not deserve...
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Speaker John Boehner has serious doubts about Jay Carney's claims that the president had no knowledge of the IRS's targeting of conservative groups before he heard about it through news reports. "It's pretty inconceivable to me that the president...
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Jack: I prefer the Beatles, in "Taxman": If you drive a car, I'll tax the street If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet ... Now my advice for those who die Declare the...
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In Connecticut, reported Wednesday’s New Haven Register, “Some Democratic state lawmakers are proposing to raise the 1 percent tax on such products to match the state's 6.35 percent sales tax, making Connecticut one of nearly two dozen states to...
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