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With Speakership on Line, Should Boehner Rest Easy?
The key isn't disgruntled Republicans so much as a lack of speakers-in-waiting in the wings.
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2013: Welcome to Very, Very Scary Times
Utopias such as Greece, Libya and Mexico are possible for America too, if only we would just junk that evil Constitution.
Amazon Editors Name A Killer in the Wind Among the Month's Best Books
Check out this exclusive excerpt from Andrew Klavan's new novel.
House Passes Fiscal Cliff Deal, 257-167
Boehner votes yes. Cantor votes no. Yet no one in the GOP leadership takes the floor during debate.
Dem Senator Voted Against Deal for Not Including Entitlement Reform
Carper also decries the can-kicking aspect in explaining why he took a stand.
Why Occupy Values Lead to Occupy Violence
The postmodern seeds of radical criminality.
CNN Rings in the New Year...
...As only they can. Another year, another train wreck debacle featuring Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper. Update: RIP CNN, Michael Walsh adds.
Dem Senator Voted Against Deal Because It Doesn't Reduce Deficit
A surprise from incoming DSCC chairman Bennet.
Senate Quickly Passes 157-Page Deal on Fiscal Cliff
GOP makes concession on spending cuts and White House makes concession on estate tax. Breaking: Cantor Opposes Senate Bill
The Incompatibility of Obamanomics and Human Happiness, Christmas Edition
The Left's Scrooge-like worldview of life as a zero-sum game.
Conservative Senator Lashes Out: 'This Place is a Joke'
Johnson also slammed the reign of Harry Reid as "a one-man dictatorship."
Isakson: Negotiations at Point Where 'Revenue is No Longer a Question'
The senator wouldn't confirm if it's the $450,000 threshold offered by Dems, but said talks have moved on to spending.
Les Miserables's Old-Fashioned Values
I also liked the songs much better when I saw them in context.
Last-Minute Fiscal Cliff Blame Game: The 'Yes' Men
Obama on GOP: "The offers that I've made to them have been so fair that a lot of Democrats get mad at me."
Compromise Still Eludes Senate Cliff Negotiators
Where is Jack Bauer when we need him? More: Senator Graham on Obama Cliff Stand: ‘He Won’
'Gun Control Fails,' Say Statistics from ... Gun-Control Advocates
All you need to know: the key gun statistics, straight from the gun-control groups themselves. Related: Happy New Year! Chicago Murder Tally Hits 500 for 2012
With Django Unchained, Is QT Devolving Into the Weird Al Yankovic of Cinema?
If Tarantino never really outgrew the comic books-and-cowboys stage of adolescence, he certainly fits the profile of millions in his generation.
An Anatomy of a Most Peculiar Institution
The college of the 21st century sees itself as boot camp for the progressive army, where new recruits are trained and do not question their commissars.
Our Advocacy-Obsessed Apparatchik MSM
One more thumb jammed down hard on the left side of the scale, and a cynical man might just decide that the MSM is ever-so-slightly biased.
No Luck for Senators Trying to Rein in FISA Powers
Sen. Rand Paul said Americans have become "lazy and haphazard in our vigilance" of the Fourth Amendment.
McConnell: Obama to Meet Congressional Leaders for First Time in More Than a Month
"The president chose, instead, to spend his time on the campaign trail. This was even after he got re-elected."
I Liked Scrooge Better Before: 3 Christmas Movies I Hate
If you can't afford all those kids, stop having them, Cratchit. You're lucky you have a job.
5 Psychological Defense Mechanisms You Probably Use Without Realizing It
Not reading this article may be a sign of a defense mechanism trying to preserve itself.
Thomas Friedman and His Terrible Advice
He supports Chuck Hagel for secretary of Defense. Because Friedman is a friend of Israel, of course. Related from Barry Rubin: The Schoolmarms Tell the Terrorists to Play Nice
The State of the Internet Revolution in International Affairs: Less Progress Than You’d Think
How international affairs writing has been changed since 2000.
Amish Mafia: When Reality TV Finally Jumped the Shark
Real criminals don't brag about their exploits on the Discovery channel.
New Year's Resolutions
First, stop getting upset by politics, it doesn't help. Second, quit doing any work that is hard or upsetting.
GOP Draws Out the Suspense as Dems Demand Vote on Deal
UPDATE: House Rules Committee moves forward Senate bill, clean of amendments. Vote will be late tonight.
Missing Breitbart
When will conservatives take the fight to the left as Andrew did?
7 New Year's Resolutions I Invite Others to Steal
The year we send the Hamburglar to Jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
Cliff Diving: No House Votes on Fiscal Deal Expected Tonight
Even GOP senators are alluding to a deal not being far away, though... (UPDATE: House Republicans told to stay close to Capitol tonight, just in case)
Girding for 2013
Could 2013 be the year that Americans finally begin to recall the virtues of capitalism?
Two Views of Gun Control...
To the feeble-minded losers who fancy themselves Keanu Reeves in The Matrix, everything looks like a black trench coat.
2 Biblical Lessons on Foreign Policy and Statism
The ancient Israelites understood leadership truths our modern politicians have forgotten.
Netanyahu Faces Divided Opposition in Israeli Elections
National security is the key issue.
And It's Biden in the Fiscal Cliff Home Stretch
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is now negotiating with the veep as talks with Harry Reid go nowhere fast.
Republican Hopes Rest on Suburban Comeback
Regaining dominance in northern suburbia is the GOP's best path to victory.
Dostoevsky's 6 Nightmare Prophecies That Came True in the 20th Century, Part One
"However much you tinker with the world, you can't make a good job of it, but by cutting off a hundred million heads and so lightening one's burden, one can jump over the ditch of transforming society more safely..."
The Greatest Subversive of Our Times
Happy birthday to the only Russian barred by special law from running for president. I'm smoking a cigar in his honor.
So, Pat Buchanan Endorsed Chuck Hagel. Is the Left Still On Board?
Buchanan sees Hagel as tough on Israel and soft on Iran, the opposite of Obama's stated policy. Hmm.
Hello, Debt Limit: Geithner Plans 'Extraordinary Measures'
One more thing weighing on the year-end fiscal cliff as last-ditch talks begin. Also read: House Likely to Offer Amendments to Any Senate Cliff Deal
Giving in to the Call of Adventure in a 2013 Jeep Wrangler Moab
I'm high on new-car smell. Or that could be the United Auto Workers reefer.
Don't Hate Me: I Vote in the Oscars
Despise Oliver Stone and Sean Penn all you want, but don’t cede the playing field to them.
The Sleep-Deprived Doctor Saving Your Life
I would certainly not have wanted to be treated by me at the end of one of my forty-eight hour shifts...
Poynter Journalism Scholars Criticize Paper for Publishing Gun Owners' Addresses
Conclusion: The Gannett paper was too lazy to do any reporting that would come close to justifying the invasion of privacy.
Math Is Coming
Math is remorseless, and it will eventually balance its numbers, not caring who is hurt in the process. More: Fiscal Cliff, the 11th Hour: GOP Says Dems Can Amend House Bills If They Like
The CIA Goes to the Movies
They need to spend more time defeating our enemies, and less writing convoluted movie reviews.
Can Congress Avert a Plunge Off the 'Dairy Cliff'?
Farm Bill provisions have already expired, the lame duck is nearly at an end, and the holdup hasn't been worked out.
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