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Less than a week before the midterms, Obama backs off deportations of illegal immigrants
10/30/2014 10:01:42 AM  Noah Rothman
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In a move that is surely related in no way to the fact that there is a national election next Tuesday which is not looking good for Democratic candidates across the country, President Barack Obama is reportedly considering scaling back deportations of
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Video: Doctor quarantined in California after return from Liberia
10/30/2014 9:21:46 AM  Ed Morrissey
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California was not one of the states that initially imposed a quarantine rule on people traveling from Ebola-impacted countries, perhaps in part because none of its airports are normal destination points for those arriving in the US from western Africa.
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Science: Nobel Prize-winning doctor backs Christie's quarantine plan
10/30/2014 8:41:49 AM  Noah Rothman
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This administration is fond of saying that its policy of opposing quarantining health care workers who may have come in contact with Ebola but embracing the internment of American soldiers in the same condition is based on "science." Administration
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The middle class can't afford to live in liberal cities
10/30/2014 8:01:24 AM  Jazz Shaw
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This is a curious piece at the Atlantic by Derek Thompson which studies why the “income inequality” problem is so much more challenging in densely packed, liberal enclaves like San Francisco and Manhattan. That’s progressive-speak for
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Quotes of the day
10/29/2014 10:31:31 PM  Allahpundit
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Conservatives in Congress are drawing up their wish list for a Republican Senate, including "pure" bills, like a full repeal of Obamacare, border security and approval of the Keystone XL pipeline — unlikely to win over many Democrats and sure to torment
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In two New York districts, two trouncings to warm your heart
10/29/2014 10:01:34 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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First up, the woman who would be the youngest-ever female representative in Congress, crushing her challengers in the latest poll. A win for Stefanik, a former Bush White House aide now running her family’s plywood business, would be a pick-up for
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TSA confiscates a toy ray-gun belt buckle. Because security.
10/29/2014 9:31:34 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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To go along with yesterday’s story about the public getting served good and hard, the tale of a friend who flew to Los Angeles with the temerity to wear a belt buckle that looks like a mid-century toy ray gun. This is, of course, a grave threat to
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Oh my: Plurality of Republicans think Mitt Romney should run for president
10/29/2014 9:01:39 PM  Allahpundit
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Is it relevant that his favorable rating among the general public is 36/47? Or that 58 percent think he doesn’t care about their problems versus just 42 percent who think he does? Or that 52 percent believe he’d lose again to Hillary, with a
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Video: 10 hours of catcalls in New York
10/29/2014 8:31:35 PM  Allahpundit
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Well, two minutes of catcalls over 10 hours. Still, you get the point — in America’s biggest city, a young woman is never without unwanted attention for very long. Most of this is boorish but seemingly benign, just loudmouths shouting
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Dems: It's going to be a bad cycle, and there's one reason why
10/29/2014 8:01:10 PM  Ed Morrissey
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We’ve had an avalanche of polling this week that shows Republicans making major inroads on the midterm electorate, both on the national level and in state-by-state surveys. Polling, however, isn’t an exact science but more of an art of
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Russians mount 'large-scale' maneuvers over Europe, attack White House computers
10/29/2014 7:31:29 PM  Noah Rothman
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Moscow apparently hopes that you haven't forgotten that they intend to pose a threat to Western stability. If you have, the Russians are making sure that they present the most menacing face to the West they possibly can in order to refresh your memory.
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How badly managed is the Red Cross?
10/29/2014 7:01:41 PM  Jazz Shaw
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Back in July I wrote a piece which questioned how effectively the Red Cross was spending the massive amounts of money which generous donors send to them to perform their missions of mercy. The answer, unfortunately turned out to be that it’s a
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White House won't even investigate who made 'chickens***' comment about Netanyahu
10/29/2014 6:31:51 PM  Noah Rothman
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It is fair to say that an unnamed administration official calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "aspergery" and a "chickens***," among other unflattering traits, has ignited a genuine diplomatic row. For the sake of public appearances, the
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Report: Immigration activists hearing that Obama will go small on executive amnesty
10/29/2014 6:01:21 PM  Allahpundit
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Don’t get too excited. “Small” in this case means as many as three million illegals get legalized. Amnesty shills wanted that number to be eight million or more. Could be that this is just a pressure tactic, scaring Obama by threatening
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Nearly 1/4 of doctors may opt out of Obamacare exchanges in 2015
10/29/2014 5:31:23 PM  Jazz Shaw
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Do you suppose any of the 2014 candidates will find time in the closing week to talk about Obamacare again, in the midst of all the other slow rolling disasters? (Aside from the occasional Root and Branch repeal call, that is.) If they do, they might
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Remember that Hitching Post gay wedding case? Yeah… never mind
10/29/2014 5:01:26 PM  Jazz Shaw
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Sorry I missed this earlier in the week, given all of the rush hour traffic clogging the lanes between ISIS City and Ebolatown. We previously covered the now familiar tale of the Knapps at the Hitching Post in Idaho. For the short version of the recap,
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Obama holds photo op with doctors who worked in west Africa — and who are still in the Ebola monitoring period
10/29/2014 4:02:01 PM  Allahpundit
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So here’s the big symbolic “screw you, Chris Christie” press conference that I thought was going to happen yesterday. Christie wants mandatory precautionary quarantines of health-care workers returning from the hot zone, so
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Terror warning: DHS steps up security at federal facilities
10/29/2014 4:01:12 PM  Noah Rothman
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After officials in both Ottawa and New York City conceded, albeit belatedly, that the violence visited on those cities by "lone wolf" terrorist actors was inspired by Islamist militants overseas, the United States is today acknowledging that the
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Video: Touch-screen voting machines in Illinois lean Dem?
10/29/2014 3:31:30 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Color me a bit skeptical, but there’s a bigger story in here anyway. The effort to modernize the American electoral system after the dispute in Florida in 2000 included an emphasis on new technology, especially touch-screen voting, which supposedly
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Wow: Walker opens up seven point lead among likely voters in final Marquette poll
10/29/2014 3:01:48 PM  Guy Benson
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A month ago, Wisconsin’s most respected pollster showed Walker at 50 percent and leading by nearly six percentage points. Two weeks ago, the race tightened considerably, with Democrat Mary Burke pulling into a tie with the incumbent — thanks
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Netanyahu responds to "chickensh*t" comments: "I'm being attacked simply because I defend the State of Israel"
10/29/2014 2:31:26 PM  Allahpundit
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Good politics here, both domestically and internationally, in taking the high road in l’affaire chickensh*t. There’s no sense getting angry and fighting publicly with Obama: Netanyahu has to live with him for two more years no matter how
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In Georgia, Democrats' last hope for preventing GOP takeover is collapsing
10/29/2014 2:01:40 PM  Noah Rothman
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The polls this cycle have been cruel to Democrats. A number of surveys have given the president's party undue hope that they could pull off the impossible on Election Day and retain control of the U.S. Senate. But, like Lucy van Pelt ripping the set
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Dems lost grip on millennials in midterms, says new Harvard poll
10/29/2014 1:31:58 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Who could have predicted this? I mean, wasn’t forcing younger Americans to buy expensive comprehensive health insurance they don’t need in order to subsidize premiums for older and sicker consumers exactly the kind of hope and change that
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Alaska group threatens to "out" non-voters
10/29/2014 1:01:54 PM  Jazz Shaw
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Here’s an interesting strategy you probably never considered in any races in your home district: engage in non-vote shaming. That’s what one GOTV effort in Alaska claims to be up to in response to tepid turnout numbers in previous midterms.
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Obama shifting America away from Israel and toward Iran
10/29/2014 12:31:42 PM  Noah Rothman
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This White House's relationship with Israel, and particularly Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has always been strained, but it is fair to assume today that American relations with the West's closest ally in the Middle East are downright hostile. The
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