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As I suspected, last week’s kerfuffle over a report that Mitt Romney had bullied a student while in High School nearly 50 years ago, isn’t exactly registering with the voters: A nearly 50-year-old bullying allegation against Mitt Romney doesn’t faze many voters, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Most Americans see the incident [...]
After suggesting last week that he might bar Barack Obama from the ballot, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has relented and now says he’s satisfied the President was born in the United States: President Obama will be on the ballot in Arizona after all. Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett (R), who earlier this [...]
The GOP has a serious problem with the Latino vote, and it may too late to fix it.
The margin between Barack Obama and Mitt Romeny is razor-thin, and it’s likely to stay that way for quite some time.
Ilya Shapiro asks, “If luxury stadiums were hugely profitable, why would the savvy businessmen who own the teams let the politicians in on the windfall?”
Figuring out how much of the opposition to a black president is based on racism is . . . complicated.
While there are legitimate questions about the extent to which our government overly classifies material as “secret,” or higher, there’s something about this that doesn’t sound right at all: Just weeks after Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency officials warned publicly of the dangers posed by leaks about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, top officials at [...]
It is considered de rigueur for people who may be on the Vice-Presidential short list to be standoffish in public about the possibility of being on the Presidential ticket, but Mitch Daniels seems to be not only closing the door on the possibility of being the nominee, but slamming it shut and locking it: Asked today [...]
Another reason to give everyone adiditional pause (as there already ought to be some) for anyone looking to Breitbart’s empire for good information.
Steve King has been the leader of the anti-immigrant caucus on Capitol Hill, so it’s not surprising to hear him say this: Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), arguably the most conservative member of the House, was chatting to small crowd in Pocahontas, Iowa the other day, laying out his vision for picking good immigrants from the [...]
The Pakistani physician who helped American agents find Osama bin Laden has been convicted by a Pakistani court of treason: A Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama Bin Laden has been sentenced to 33 years in jail, officials say. Shakil Afridi was charged with treason for running a fake vaccination programme to gather [...]
Two weeks after losing ten West Virginia counties to a Federal Prison inmmate name Keith Judd, yesterday President Obama found himself running into similar trouble in the Democratic primaries in Arkansas and Kentucky: President Barack Obama continued to have trouble on Tuesday performing in Democratic primaries in traditionally conservative states, barely eking out wins in [...]
Jennifer Rubin accuses Colin Powell of political opportunism for hedging on whether to renew his endorsement of Barack Obama.
Buzzfeed passes along the news that Donald Trump is apparently lobbying to get himself a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention: Donald Trump is beginning to campaign for a big speaking slot at the Republican National Convention in Tampa this year, asking his Twitter followers to “imagine him speaking at the RNC Convention” today. [...]
Apparently, pretended overpriced pomegranate juice is a magic healing elixir is more than the law will allow.
Scientists are hard at work on figuring out how not to spill coffee. MailOnline (“It’s all in the walk: Scientists explore the physics behind NOT spilling coffee“): Researchers are a step closer to understanding the science behind one of life’s common pitfalls – spilling coffee. Scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara, decided to [...]
Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, has died aged 96.
As part of the ongoing absurdity that is Bretbart.com’s series “The Vetting,” Charles C. Johnson is demanding to see the President’s SAT scores: President Barack Obama is hailed by his supporters and the mainstream media as one of the most brilliant men ever to hold the office. However, his refusal to release his academic records, [...]
In a preview of the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that will be released today, Mark Murray notes that President Obama’s announced change of position on same-sex marriage has had little impact with voters: Two weeks after President Obama announced he supports gay marriage, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that his announcement — politically — [...]
A North Carolina teacher screamed and cursed at students for criticizing President Obama.
Among the items blasted into orbit today by SpaceX was a canister containing the ashes of James Doohan, who had played Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek: Scotty has finally been beamed up. The ashes of the actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on the 1960s television series “Star Trek,” were launched to space [...]
The “Clinton-Biden Switcheroo” Scenario is the pundit’s fantasy that will not die.
States actually have constitutional authority over the selection of electors, not of the president.
Apparently, Ronald Reagan’s blood isn’t the only odd thing being auctioned off these days: Queen Elizabeth’s dirty, old undies will have a new home … after a mystery panty raider snatched ‘em up at an Internet auction for $18k. The knickers had been placed on eBay by the estate of the late ”Baron” Joseph de Bicske [...]
This has to be one of the oddest auction items I’ve seen in quite awhile: Thirty-one years after Ronald Reagan was shot and nearly killed by a would-be assassin, an online auction house on the island of Guernsey (an autonomous British protectorate and controversial tax haven just off the northern coast of France) is making available to the highest [...]
The Catholic Church has fired a legal shot across the bow of the Affordable Care Act.
You probably only need to turn on C-SPAN to realize this, but a new study finds that the level of discourse on Capitol Hill has gotten dumber: Most congressional observers agree that the level of discourse on Capitol Hill is coarser and more partisan than ever before. A new study suggests it’s also dumber. Congress [...]
After two false starts, the most recent being just last week when an engine sensor caused a launch abort at the very last second, SpaceX succeeded with a launch that promises open an entirely new era of commercial development of space travel: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private cargo rocket headed to the International Space [...]
The Oklahoma City Thunder is making their first trip to the Western Conference finals after ousting the Los Angeles Lakers in five games. Naturally, rioting and gunplay ensued.
The people who gave us the “war on Christmas” are now touting an upsurge on black-on-white crime.
The Gods Must Be Crazy, Again Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over.
One California Democrat is making a rather unusual campaign promise: Andy Caffrey, a candidate for Congress in California, has made a rather unusual campaign promise: If he wins, he’ll smoke a joint — right on the steps of Capitol Hill. The 54-year-old is running on a seven-step platform that prioritizes battling the climate crisis, but [...]
A surprisingly short sentence in a case that caused a nationwide sensation.
Yesterday, Cory Booker committed the rookie mistake of saying what was on his mind.
Google may be anticipating some interesting First Amendment issues it will have to deal with in the future given who it hired recently to advise on First Amendment issues: IS Google search an intermediary like the phone company — simply connecting people with the information they seek? Or is Google search a publisher, like a newspaper, which [...]
Alan Dershowitz thinls the charges against George Zimmerman should be dropped. With due apologies to the good Professor, he’s wrong.
Innocent people have gone to jail, and some of them are still sitting there.
While the United States has some serious problems with policing, we’re not a police state.
Google’s Chrome browser has overtaking Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to become the most used browser in the world.
The private office is quickly becoming a relic, despite the loss of morale and productivity that comes from open floorplans.
Robin Gibb, who along with his older brother Barry and twin brother Maurice, comprised the Bee Gees died today in England after a long battle with cancer: Robin Gibb, one of the three singing brothers of the Bee Gees, the long-running Anglo-Australian pop group whose chirping falsettos and hook-laden disco hits like “Jive Talkin” and [...]
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only man ever convicted in the terrorist attack that took down Pan Am Flight 103, has died in Libya: BENGHAZI, Libya — Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday nearly three years after he was released from [...]
Private college degree mills have come under intense scrutiny. But many public institutions have similar statistics.
It’s been 34 years since the world of Thoroughbred horse racing had a Triple Crown winner, since then 11 horses have won the first two legs of the test only to fall short at the Belmont. This year, a horse with a name that appeals to bar patrons everywhere has a chance: The 2012 Preakness [...]
Well, to be more precise, his official portrait: George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, are expected to return to the White House later this month to be honored by President Barack Obama with the unveiling of their official portraits that will hang at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The White House confirmed on Friday that the [...]
One of those things you learning in history class that isn’t necessarily true: It is a little-known but undisputed historical fact that Johannes Gutenberg did not invent the printing press. Though the Gutenberg Bible was certainly the first mass produced printed work, it was hardly the first printed book — nor was it even the [...]
The blind Chinese dissident who set off a diplomatic broohaha after seeking refuge at the U.S. Embassy in Bejing is headed to the United States: BEIJING — Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal defender who made a dramatic escape from house arrest and whose decision to seek refuge in the American Embassy here jolted American-Sino relations, [...]
