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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 57 Comments

Via Business Insider: Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a "very senior person" at the White House warned him that he would "regret doing this," the same day he has continued to attack President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 9 Comments

Van Cliburn died today at age 78. The name lives on with the piano competition named after him. RIP, tall Texan: Renowned American classical pianist Van Cliburn died Wednesday morning at the age of 78 after a battle with bone cancer, publicist and longtime friend Mary Lou Falcone...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 8 Comments

We've delved the depths of the despicable Boycott Divest Sanction movement against Israel. We are dealing with real bottom-feeders who have worked their ways onto campuses almost everywhere, supported by vicious people like George Galloway. Given the sordid history of Leftist-Islamist anti-Israel campus agitation, particularly in Britain,...

Posted by Joel Engel on February 27, 2013 17 Comments

Hollywood is apparently unhappy with Seth MacFarlane’s hosting of the Oscars on Sunday night.  So says the New York Times: Post-Oscar Monday found the movie capital coming to grips with a 3-hour-35- minute ceremony that climbed in the ratings but at its best seemed to hide...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 27, 2013 5 Comments

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...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 19 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 21 Comments

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...

Posted by David Gerstman on February 27, 2013 12 Comments

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...

Posted by David Gerstman on February 27, 2013 8 Comments

1) It's been more than 20 years  Jonathan Tobin writes in The Day the War on America Began: Exactly 20 years ago on this date, a terrorist attack at the World Trade Center took the lives of six people and injured more than a thousand others. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2013 23 Comments

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...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 26, 2013 15 Comments

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...

Posted by Joel Engel on February 26, 2013 20 Comments

Secretary of State John Kerry (go ahead, just try to type those words) is making his first overseas trip since confirmation as a member of the president’s cabinet—and as fourth, dear lord, in the line of succession.  Via Heritage: Secretary of State John Kerry’s first overseas...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 26, 2013 10 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2013 46 Comments

A reader called to my attention the case of Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their children. The Romeikes are devout Christians from Germany who wanted to homeschool their children because of what they perceived as the secularist agenda in German public schools. In the United States, the...

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