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A former colleague of mine from Regnery Publishing wrote today to say that our old sister company, Human Events, had shuttered its print edition today. While the digital version will continue, much of the staff will have to seek employment elsewhere, and it may be...

This is mightly rich. Donna Brazile was a big defender of Obamacare, despite warnings that it would drive up insurance rates: Guess who's now complaining about private insurance rates rising? You broke it, you own it.  As for the rest of us, we're the victim, not you. What's on...

How low will this administration go on the sequester political jockeying? This low, As sequester nears, immigration detainees are released: The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it had released hundreds of illegal immigrants held in detention facilities, saying it could no longer afford to house them because...

Jon Stewart mocks the sequester hysteria. Yes, he targets Republicans towards the end. But it's still pretty funny.(h/t my wife) I'm not a Jon Stewart fan, but he wouldn't be popular if he wasn't tuned in. Does his cavalier approach to the sequester reflect a popular skepticism...

It's one Man versus The Chicago-Bloomberg Machine in #IL02...

It looks like Paul McKinley, who Legal Insurrection has been writing about for months, will pull out a victory in the Republican primary in the 2nd Congressional District in Illinois, for the seat vacated by Jesse Jackson, Jr. The Democratic nominee is Robin Kelly, the insider...

Forgive me for forsaking the Tip Line. It's not that I don't read it, I do. I just have neglected promoting items: donb -- Paul Rahe in Obama’s Next Move:  "The name of the game for our President is to force a crisis that will eventuate in...

It's clear who made up Soledad O'Brien's niche audience base at her former employer CNN now that "Left Action" has issued an alert and created a petition to save their number one heroine in the media. Left Action, a "network of 1,000,000 progressive," must not...

In a press conference Monday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago expressed his "100 percent" support for Police Chief Garry McCarthy, who recently referred to law-abiding gun owners as agents of political corruption and has been under attack by the black caucus of aldermen for his inability...