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January 2013

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In my Saturday Night Race Card post a few weeks ago, I mentioned that I was researching a book on real estate fraud and corruption. The main characters in my narrative are a couple who look like you and me and seem perfectly lovely.  But in...

A little over two years ago, the newly-minted Speaker of the House John Boehner essentially said that Tea Party freshman would soon have an “adult moment,” when their principles came in to contact with Beltway politics. Dawn Wildman is a state coordinator for the California Tea...

An edict was issued on Wednesday by Iranian authorities ordering Isfahan's 1.5 million residents to leave the city because pollution in the area "has reached emergency levels." Skeptical of Iran's explanation for the evacuation, some believe it to have been prompted by more than just your...

A year ago, sixteen scientists wrote an editorial for the Wall Street Journal to explain that there is “no compelling scientific argument” for “drastic actions on global warming", despite the fact that the media continues reporting there is "incontrovertible" proof otherwise. One of those scientists is...

Okay, I see you are. Yeah, we're following you. The vast right wing conspiracy is everywhere. From Bob, A misplace Californian, spotted at a Taco Bell drive-thru in Longmont CO. ...

I posted the other day about the lawfare threats against Canadian blog Blazing Cat Fur, In 2013, protect and support your local blogger more than ever. I didn't realize it, but they already have been sued by Michael Mann, who has sued National Review and Mark Steyn. As...

The Council on American Islamist Relations (CAIR) demanded the media drop the term "Islamist" in a commentary piece today from communications director Ibrahim Hooper, ISLAM-OPED: Media Urged to Drop Term 'Islamist' in New Year. In it, Hooper laments that the term "Islamist" is "used in an almost...

Emily Miller points out how David Gregory is receiving special treatment at the hands of the D.C. police, Two systems of justice: It’s been more than a week since police in Washington, D.C., opened an  investigation into NBC’s David  Gregory’s possession of a “high-capacity magazine” that’s...

Updates: John Boehner was relected, but just barely. It looked for a short while like he may not make it, but once it became clear he would get a majority of those voting, some "conservatives" who had not voted when first called decided...

The horror unfolding in Syria of late has been truly shocking. Tens of thousands of Syrians have died in an increasingly bloody civil war. The situation in Syria has become even more appalling lately, and one wonders if a bloodbath on the scale of Rwanda is possible, particularly...

Despite the large scale and outspoken dissatisfaction by many Republican lawmakers of Speaker Boehner following the fiscal cliff vote, most are in agreement that his speakership is not going to be legitimately threatened today. That being said, today's vote may not necessarily be the smooth sailing...

It's the fight the media is waiting and hoping for. What better sport than to start an intra-party Republican presidential nomination fight almost 4 years before the next presidential election and 3 years before the primaries. But it's inevitable, so if not now, when to start the...

Not just economically, but in academia as well. From a reader send after the fiscal cliff vote: Seen at the Toco Hills shopping center in Atlanta, Georgia - The only bright spot in my day after the disappointment last night. If you use this, please publish this anonymously...

Andrew Sullivan: And so, as we contemplated the end of our contract with the Beast at the end of 2012, we faced a decision. As usual, we sought your input and the blogosphere's - hence the not-terribly subtle thread that explored whether online readers will ever...

Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) returned to the Capitol today almost one year after he suffered a stroke. In a series of interviews with selected press, the Senator said that he would have voted against the fiscal cliff legislation, saying it was "overweighted with spending," but...