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Social Issues
Ben Carson for POTUS!
I would certainly vote for Dr. Carson, and so would the WSJ editorial board: Ben Carson for President The Johns…
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Law and Government
How badly did Chuck Hagel do?
How badly did the nominee for Secretary of Defense flub his job interview today? Suffice it to say that if…
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Law and Government
BlackHawks over Brickell, & hovering over Houston
Imagine BlackHawk helicopters firing in a high-density, high-traffic area in a major American city. Something out of a movie, done…
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Foreign Affairs
'New special ops command in Mexico politically motivated, analysts claim'
The goal, moreover, is “to bolster President Obama’s reelection campaign.” Imagine that! The Hill reports: [E]-mails, released by WikiLeaks last year, chronicle…
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Law and Government
Appeals court rules Obama's NLRB recess appointments unconstitutional
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today ruled that President Obama’s so-called “recess” appointments to the…
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Unyielding
New Jersey: Lautenberg wants to give Cory Booker "a spanking"
88-year old Frank Lautenberg (Senator for my district), who went back to the Senate in 2003 thanks to the Torricelli…
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Venezuela, Cuba: Chavez deathwatch
Hugo Chavez has not been seen in public for a month, after departing for Cuba where supposedly he went for…
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Foreign Affairs
Hagel on Cuba: Feel the love
Jennifer Rubin posts on Hagel’s Cuba problem: Much of the focus on Chuck Hagel’s record has been on his views…
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Foreign Affairs
LatinAfghanistan: Hugo Chavez's legacy is The War of All the People
David Frum exposes How Hugo Chavez brought Afghanistan to South America. Frum, who’s been to Afghanistan and Iraq, traveled to…
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Foreign Affairs
Venezuela: Oh, peachy, now the Obama admin's cozying up to Maduro
Now that Hugo Chávez doesn’t need to be sworn in to start his new six-year term, there’s this from The…
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Foreign Affairs
Venezuela: Twitter raid
A raid has been conducted on the home of a Twitter user who is suspected of telling tales out of…
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Foreign Affairs
Cuban regime orchestrating Venezuelan transition
The power struggles in Venezuela are on, and Raul Castro and his cronies are stepping in: Today’s Nuevo Herald reports…
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Foreign Affairs
Argentina: Diplomacy by advert
Argentina’s president Cristina Fernandez took out an ad in the UK’s Guardian and the Independent basically telling UK Prime Minister David Cameron to…
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Foreign Affairs
Chavez on life support
Anthony Bond writing at the UK’s Daily Mail reports that Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is in a coma ‘only kept…
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Law and Government
Benghazi: Hillary should still testify once she recovers
Hillary Clinton hospitalized after doctors discover blood clot Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was hospitalized Sunday after doctors discovered a…
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Economy
Hillary shall remain concussed while in Punta Cana
Hillary, who shall remain concussed until next week, has taken her concussion on holiday to Punta Cana in the Dominican…
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Foreign Affairs
Mexico: 120-yard tunnel near the Nogales entry into Arizona
CBS Houston reports: Mexican authorities have discovered a sophisticated smuggling tunnel equipped with electricity and ventilation not far from the…
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Foreign Affairs
Where will Assad go?
A little while ago, I was asking, Assuming Assad asks asylum . . . will he go to Cuba, Venezuela,…
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Foreign Affairs
Benghazi: 4 Still on the payroll, resignations were fake
Benghazi penalties are bogus: The four officials supposedly out of jobs because of their blunders in the run-up to the…
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Foreign Affairs
Argentina: Squeeze and "creativity"
Following last week’s looting of supermarkets, and facing currency exchange restrictions and 20% annual inflation, Argentine Firms Get Creative Many…
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Social Issues
Robert Bork, RIP
Judge Robert Bork, 1927-2012, died today, age 85. His friend John Podhoretz writes his obituary: Perhaps the most important legal…
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Foreign Affairs
Venezuela: Chavistas take all the states except 3
Capriles is still governor of Miranda, but Venezuelans voted heavily for Chávez allies in regional elections Allies of Venezuela President…
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Economy
Tax less, spend less, grow more jobs
Economic growth and job creation do not come from government spending: States that Spend Less, Tax Less — and Grow…
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Sports and Culture
Gentlemen, don't Gangnam until you drop!
‘Gangnam Style’ death prompts warning to middle-aged men not to attempt the vigorous dance. “Let the lady dance around you,”…
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Politics
Obamacare: theory vs reality
Theory: Obama: “Your employer is estimated to see his premiums fall by as much as 3,000%, which means they could…
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Foreign Affairs
Post-Chavez Venezuela: Corruption and chaos
Andres Oppenheimer writes about the most corrupt countries in our hemisphere (emphasis added): Among the world’s 20 least corrupt countries…
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Media
Uninvite Psy!
Korean rapper Psy, he of Gangnam Style, is scheduled to perform at the White House tomorrow. It turns out that…
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Foreign Affairs
Assuming Assad asks asylum…
…will he go to Cuba, Venezuela, or Ecuador? The embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is considering the possibility to claim…
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Foreign Affairs
Cuba: US won't swap 5 spies for Alan Gross
Alan Gross, the American prisoner held in Cuba, won’t be released soon; he was arrested on December 3, 2009, and…
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Foreign Affairs
Assange: Freedom of expression for me, but not for Ecuadorians…while he hides at the Ecuadorian embassy
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, possibly [language warning] the most annoying and arrogant person in the whole world, is still hiding…
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Law and Government
The crisis of American self-government
Famed political scientist Harvey Mansfield is the WSJ’s weekend interview, The Crisis of American Self-Government Harvey Mansfield, Harvard’s ‘pet dissenter,’…
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Unyielding
Argentina: Broken Bad
No, he wasn’t making 99 and 44/100% pure anything; Paul Frampton just got duped by a babe in bikini* into…
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Unyielding
Venezuelan immigration to the USA quadrupled over the past 15 years
Venezuelan journalist Carlos Subero researched immigration patterns from Venezuela to the US since 1997 and found that it has surged…
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Foreign Affairs
Mexico: No Iran or Hezbollah here
Last week the US House of Representatives Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management issued a report updating its…
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Economy
More post-election info: 28% Latino poverty rate
Latino Poverty Rate Climbs to 28% The numbers released Wednesday a week after the election by the Census Bureau are…
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Unyielding
Benghazi: Petraeus to testify
As one of the most wonderfully front-loaded distraction campaigns in recent memory keeps on rolling along and we get to…
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