Krauthammer’s Take: ISIS Trying to Draw Jordan Into a War It Can’t Win | National Review Online On Fox News’s Special Report Tuesday, columnist George Will expressed doubt that the savage execution would either demoralize the terrorists’ enemies or win over recruits. … Continue reading
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Media celebrates massive success of Charlie Hebdo’s defiant new issue by refusing to publish the cover « Hot Air Update: And one more point worth remembering on Charlie Hebdo day in France: Every media outlet that refuses to publish the … Continue reading
The weasels of ‘free speech’ need strangling | The Times Let’s be clear: there is no justification for limiting what people say or express unless serious damage would result Cute. What he just said is that there is justification for … Continue reading
Female Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist Calls Out Cowardly Anglo-American Corporate “Journalists,” Displays Issue’s Cover; Sky News Immediately Cuts Away and Apologies The camera then panned out as Fourest reached for a copy of the magazine and continued: “It is completely crazy … Continue reading
Boehner on Obama’s executive amnesty: “Our goal here is to fund the Department of Homeland Security” « Hot Air Long story short, executive amnesty is here to stay. But we all knew that. Yeah, but many of us didn’t pretend … Continue reading
Liam Neeson Doesn’t Think You Should Have A Right To Bear Arms – Bearing Arms Actor Liam Neeson is thrilled to rake in millions of dollars acting in violent films where vigilantism is at the core of the plot, but … Continue reading
Kerry: Criticism of U.S.’s absence in Paris is ‘quibbling’ – NY Daily News Obama leading from behind as fast as he can run. … Continue reading
Why Does The Mainstream Media Call Muhammad ‘The Prophet’? In all the coverage of the barbaric terror attacks in Paris Wednesday, one fact of the story kept getting repeated in a curious way on network news, cable news, and in most … Continue reading
4 People Who Gave the Paris Jihadis Exactly What They Wanted | PJ Media Cowardice is its own reward, I guess. … Continue reading
Equating Prudence with Cowardice by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal 7 January 2015 According to this perverted logic, if the relatives of the 12 murdered men were now to storm into the offices of the Financial Times and shoot 12 staff … Continue reading
Obama amnesty fight belongs in Congress, judge – Washington Times While refusing to overturn President Obama’s amnesty herself, a federal judge said this week that Congress can fight the president by using its power of the purse, pushing the battle … Continue reading
Did the Cruz/Lee plan to stop executive amnesty in the Senate backfire? « Hot Air Only 22 senators voted with Cruz. Another 74 senators voted against him, many of whom were Republicans who rejected his characterization of that vote on … Continue reading
UCLA law professor learns Ferguson-related exam question taboo | Fox News Other law professors say there should be no need to apologize for such a straightforward exam question. “If there are some law students who are such delicate flowers that merely … Continue reading
What “The Bulldog” Trey Gowdy Just Said About Benghazi Could Mean The End For Obama Trey Gowdy, the head of a House special committee on Benghazi, has said he will press ahead with his investigation–despite the findings of a different … Continue reading
Moe Lane » Three practical things to do if the Cromnibus collapses. There. Problem solved… what’s that? “What if the government shuts down, Moe?” Well, bless the Democrats’ hearts… what if it does? We just had an election, remember? – … Continue reading
Senate GOP divided on filibusters – Burgess Everett and Seung Min Kim – POLITICO “I saw senior members arguing against themselves,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) of the meeting. He favors moving the voting threshold back to 60 votes — … Continue reading
Obama wants to put sanctions on Israel? Congress is fighting back « Hot Air It is unclear if the administration’s outlook on this issue has changed in the wake of the dissolution of Netanyahu’s Cabinet, which indicates that new national … Continue reading
Republicans Leave Town Without A Plan To Fight Obama “That’s the hundred million dollar question,” said Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-OH), “How do you stop an inaction? That’s the tough question that I don’t have the answer to today….Just to go … Continue reading
Grubez “Invited” To Testify Before Issa’s Committee on Transparency Awesome. If Grubez refuses the invitation, he might get a subpoena instead. If they were serious, they’d have subpoenaed him right out of the box. Now we get the usual song-and-dance: … Continue reading
Barack Obama, American Caudillo – Rich Lowry – POLITICO Magazine The last 400 years of Anglo-American political history can be read as a successful effort to establish and maintain a system tethering the executive to the law. What President Obama … Continue reading
GOP Strategy to Stop Obama’s Executive Amnesty Emerging The biggest obstacle to congressional Republicans standing up to Obama’s planned executive amnesty has been Republican leadership in both chambers. “Speaker John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and their top aides … Continue reading
On Obama and the Nature of Failed Presidencies | Stratfor The president has few domestic options. Whatever Obama does with his power domestically, Congress can vote to cut funding, and if the act is vetoed, the president puts Congressional Democrats … Continue reading
White House taunts GOP on climate change: ‘I don’t believe they can stop us’ – Washington Times But legal analysts say the Republicans have little ammunition to fight back, short of shutting down the federal government to stop Environmental Protection … Continue reading
Summit fashion: Apec world leaders step out in silky, high-collared ‘Mao suit’ tunics – East Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times BEIJING (AFP) – Beijing rolled out a gleaming red carpet for Asia-Pacific leaders garbed in sleek, … Continue reading
Senate Democrats plan a legislative rush before power shifts to the GOP – The Washington Post For starters, Boehner said, Obama should not follow through on his pledge to take unilateral action in the next few weeks to protect undocumented … Continue reading
A Lame-Duck Showdown in the House Looms | National Review Online House majority leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) unnerved Congress’s conservative rank-and-file with the agenda he revealed last week, to the point that they are already looking to undermine his … Continue reading
Ben Rhodes audio: An Iran nuclear deal will be the ObamaCare of our second term « Hot Air No one, including the GOP’s hawkiest hawks, thinks a war to oust Iran’s regime is in the offing, and many experts have … Continue reading
U.S. Immigration Laws Face New Scrutiny After Killings – NYTimes.com LOS ANGELES — It would seem to be a worst case that opponents of the Obama administration on immigration had long forecast: An illegal immigrant — one who had been … Continue reading
Obama official calls Bibi Netanyahu chickenshit : Fire Andrea Mitchell! OK. I’m speechless. … Continue reading
Five-Year-Old Boy In Isolation at Bellevue, Undergoing Test for Ebola She threatened to file a lawsuit (and still might). Chris Christie defended his decision to put her into mandatory hospital quarantine yesterday, but now he’s reversed himself and has ordered … Continue reading
Toxic Partisanship? Bill Clinton Says He Had It Worse, Yet Got Things Done – NYTimes.com President Obama heads into midterm elections in which he may face crushing losses. He has been spurned by his own party, whose candidates do not … Continue reading
The Emergency Preps Store at Amazon This is where you start. Big Savings on Standby Power for the Entire House My sister has one of the big propane Generac models, and she never stops thanking me for talking her into … Continue reading
Islamic State lacks key ingredient to make ‘caliphate’ work: eunuchs – The Washington Post Oh, they have plenty of eunuchs to support ISIL. The problem is, they’re all here in America. … Continue reading
NJ man accused of eating raccoons – New York News OCEAN TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) – Authorities say a Monmouth County man illegally trapped and ate raccoons and squirrels. Police have charged Aleksandr Borykan, 30 of Ocean Township with animal cruelty. … Continue reading
House Speaker John Boehner and 40 others in Congress — including 3 Democrats — demand commercial flight bans from Ebola-stricken nations as White House tries to quell panic | Daily Mail Online House Speaker John Boehner joined that group on … Continue reading
Army Refuses to Release Findings of Bergdahl Investigation Bergdahl, who was released in May of this year, is currently stationed at Fort Sam Houston U.S. Army North in San Antonio, TX. The army report was authored by Brigadier General Kenneth … Continue reading
George W. Bush was given the opportunity to criticize Obama on Islamic State and Iraq. Here’s how he handled it. | WashingtonExaminer.com Former President George W. Bush declined to criticize President Obama’s handling of Iraq and the rise of the … Continue reading
New ISIS video claims beheading of British hostage Alan Henning « Hot Air Nothing we’ve done thus far seems to be slowing these terrorists down. In fact, beyond what I’ve already suggested here, there doesn’t seem to be much more … Continue reading
BBC News – Alan Henning ‘killed by Islamic State’ A video purporting to show the beheading of British hostage Alan Henning has been released by Islamic State militants. The Salford taxi driver was delivering aid to Syria in December when … Continue reading
‘Security Moms’ Are Back—and That’s Bad News for Democrats – The Atlantic Once again, women are more afraid than men. Yeah. That’s the way they are wired. According to a CNN poll last week, women are 18 points more likely … Continue reading