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Quotes of the day

Allahpundit — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:37:43 +0000

“I never lost consciousness, and I refused to.” [...] Read the rest »

Breaking: Obama rejects all current troop options on Afghanistan?

Allahpundit — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:55:20 +0000

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Palin hints to Oprah: I might consider a talk show

Allahpundit — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:00:33 +0000

The great convergence hath come to pass, my friends. [...] Read the rest »

Video: Lou Dobbs quits CNN

Allahpundit — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:20:52 +0000

Verrrrry curious. [...] Read the rest »

Video: Media’s new favorite Republican breaks her silence

Allahpundit — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:43:43 +0000

Naturally, not a single question is asked about how she repaid the GOP’s $900,000 investment in her campaign by endorsing a Democrat — not even when she mentions the need for a “unified party.” [...] Read the rest »

Pelosi: ObamaCare is our Christmas present to America

Allahpundit — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:06:05 +0000

Via Greg Hengler, this is like “borrowing” a friend’s credit card, buying a car with it, then presenting them with the car on Christmas morning as their “gift.” [...] Read the rest »

Video: Gunning down civilians in “Call of Duty 4″

Allahpundit — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:36:04 +0000

Interest in the game generally and this sequence in particular is sky high so here’s some free publicity. [...] Read the rest »

Bombshell: Walter Reed shrinks thought Hasan might be nuts since last year

Allahpundit — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:53:27 +0000

In case the victims’ families weren’t planning to sue the military, this ought to solve that problem. [...] Read the rest »

Video: Veterans Day at the World War II Memorial

Allahpundit — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:59:23 +0000

A low-key tribute from Reason TV that’s no less moving for being so. [...] Read the rest »

Pew poll: Anti-incumbent sentiment nears highest levels in two decades

Allahpundit — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:19:03 +0000

A little gravy to go with that hunk of red meat cooked up by Gallup this morning. [...] Read the rest »

More Porkulus 3-card Monte in Colorado, Washington

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:35:42 +0000

This comes as no surprise to anyone who gave the notion of “saved or created jobs” any thought at all, except to the extent that media outlets have begun to challenge the numbers proclaimed by the government. We’ve already seen the deceptive and misleading statistics challenged by local and regional newspapers in several states, as well as by some of the national media. We can now add Colorado and Washington to that list, where Porkulus job numbers have been seriously inflated by adding in jobs that were never at risk in the first place. [...] Read the rest »

Uh-oh: Jon Stewart catches Fox News’ creative editing

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:55:04 +0000

Had CNN spliced footage of a sparsely-attended Capitol Hill rally to discredit the reports of large numbers of attendees to the 9/12 rally in September, conservatives would have rightly howled about media bias. [...] Read the rest »

Reid tossing cap-and-trade under the bus?

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:20:10 +0000

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Video: Scenes from the Tucson Tea Party

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:36:46 +0000

If Democrats think that the House has muscled its way past the Tea Party activists by passing the ObamaCare bill, the Tucson Tea Party sent a message yesterday. [...] Read the rest »

The Ed Morrissey Show: Jim Geraghty, Chuck DeVore

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:18 +0000

Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Jim Geraghty of Campaign Spot joins us to talk about all of the campaign-related news of the week, including a new poll in Ohio that suggests another Democratic governor could be in serious political trouble. [...] Read the rest »

Walpin vindicated, will demand job back

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:55:30 +0000

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Video: 3 reasons ObamaCare will be a budget buster

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:15:21 +0000

Cato’s Dan Mitchell returns to explain what should be obvious: the creation of the new ObamaCare entitlement will behave like every other entitlement that preceded it. [...] Read the rest »

AP to Americans: Stop being “grouchy”

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:36:40 +0000

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More jihadist ties to Hasan?

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:55:55 +0000

As if a pen-pal relationship with a suspected 9/11 plotter wasn’t bad enough, ABC News now reports that the suspected shooter in the Fort Hood massacre may have had other ties to jihadists. [...] Read the rest »

Gallup: Republicans edge Democrats on generic Congressional ballot

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:12:06 +0000

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Pentagon: No one told us Hasan was e-mailing the enemy

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:30:37 +0000

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Obamateurism of the Day

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:48:50 +0000

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Happy Veterans Day!

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:05:13 +0000

I’d just like to start off today with a big salute to our veterans — the men and women who have kept this nation safe for over 233 years. I have not had the privilege of serving, but my father (Army) and my wife’s father (Marine Corps) both served in wartime, as have several of my uncles on both sides of my family. My cousins, and now their grown children, have served in both peacetime and war, and with this generation having served in Iraq in the present conflicts. [...] Read the rest »

Quotes of the day

Allahpundit — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:34:19 +0000

“The recent attack on the military base in Texas warns that if the occupation policy of the American rulers continues in this way, without them folding the carpets of occupation and transgression in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is natural then that incidents and attacks similar to Texas will spread to the Pentagon and other American military centres. [...] Read the rest »

D.C. sniper executed

Allahpundit — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:52:39 +0000

Honestly, it’s amazing that there haven’t been copycats. [...] Read the rest »