The son of a former aide to President George W. Bush is charged with killing a man with a hatchet in Montgomery County, Md. Claude Alexander Allen III, 20, was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder Friday. Police say Allen killed a man at a home owned by his father, Claude A. Allen. The elder Allen was a domestic policy adviser in the Bush White House who resigned in 2006 after being arrested for shoplifting at a Target store in Gaithersburg, Md. He pleaded guilty to theft and told the judge at his sentencing hearing that he had lost perspective while working long hours and getting…
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Bush Aide's Son Charged in Murder
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Massachusetts Senate Candidates Trade Barbs One Month Before Election Day
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Who Are the Real Climate Deniers?
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Obama’s Attorney General Hypocrisy: Alberto Gonzalez vs Eric Holder
Wizbang24 May 2013 | 12:28 pmIn 2007 when Barack Obama was running for President the first time there was a controversy raging over whether U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez was right to accede to President Bush’s order to fire a handful of U.S. attorneys. Obama then criticized the AG for politicizing the office. Flash forward to 2013 and he’s now [...] -
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
feeds.feedburner.com25 May 2013 | 2:27 pmIt seemed like the one thousandth call I’d taken from a Tea Party activist attempting our well-known strategy of putting our people in voting seats in our local county and state parties. This activist and his Tea Party cohort had actually had far more success than he fully realized. In a well known county in Colorado, they had put several Tea Party members in | Read More »
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Bush Aide's Son Charged in Murder
25 May 2013 | 4:33 pmThe son of a former aide to President George W. Bush is charged with killing a man with a hatchet in Montgomery County, Md. Claude Alexander Allen III, 20, was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder Friday. Police say Allen killed a man at a home owned by his father, Claude A. Allen. The elder Allen was a domestic policy adviser in the Bush White House who resigned in 2006 after being arrested for shoplifting at a Target store in Gaithersburg, Md. He pleaded guilty to theft and told the judge at his sentencing hearing that he had lost perspective while working long hours and getting… -
Self-Assembling Flu Nano-Vaccine Effective
25 May 2013 | 3:31 pmNature: Under the microscope, they look like simple jacks, with eight spikes jutting out of a central ball. But these protein nanoparticles are science's latest weapon against influenza: a new breed of flu vaccine that provides better and broader protection than commercially available ones -- at least in animal tests. "This is taking us on the road to a universal vaccine," says Gary Nabel, now at the biotechnology firm Sanofi in Cambridge, Massachussetts, who led the work in his former lab at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland. -
Rick Scott Donor Scores $52M Deal
25 May 2013 | 2:33 pmTampa Bay Times: Two months after contributing $110,000 to Gov. Rick Scott's (R) re-election campaign, an upstart property insurance company is likely to reap a $52 million windfall, paid from the coffers of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Sitting on a record cash surplus of $6.4 billion, Citizens is hoping to sign a special deal today with Heritage Property and Casualty Insurance Co., a St. Petersburg firm that opened nine months ago and has made significant political contributions. -
Snooki Beefs with Chris Christie
25 May 2013 | 2:15 pmNicole "Snooki" Polizzi of MTV's Jersey Shore argued with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Friday at the reopening of the Seaside Heights' boardwalk. After both appeared seperately on NBC's Today Show, Polizzi, 25, approached the governor about his past remarks that her show was bad for the state. At one point during the conversation she says to him, "Why are you standing so close to me?" He leans in further for comic effect and replies, "You asked for my opinion." -
Robinson: A Mission on Climate Change
25 May 2013 | 1:25 pmEugene Robinson: President Obama should spend his remaining years in office making the United States part of the solution to climate change, not part of the problem. If Congress sticks to its policy of obstruction and willful ignorance, Obama should use his executive powers to the fullest extent. We are out of time. With each breath, every person alive today experiences something unique in human history: an atmosphere containing more than 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide. ... [A]tmospheric carbon dioxide has increased by a stunning 43 percent since the beginning of the…
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Massachusetts Senate Candidates Trade Barbs One Month Before Election Day
25 May 2013 | 1:00 pmMud-slinging, character assassination, and below-the-belt cheap shots are staples of American politics; after all, just look at what’s happening... -
Cuomo on NYC Mayoral Race: “Shame On Us” if We Elect Anthony Weiner
25 May 2013 | 10:00 amAndrew Cuomo’s comments about the mayoral candidacy of former Congressman Anthony Weiner may be a few days old but his assertion is still worth... -
Former Abortion Doctor Tells Congress to Ban Them
25 May 2013 | 7:24 amDr. Anthony Levatino performed roughly 1,200 abortions in his career as an OBGYN—some after the 20-week mark—before having a change of heart about... -
Surprise: Vast Majority of 2013 College Graduation Speakers Are Liberals
25 May 2013 | 5:00 amIt’s springtime again and we all know what that means: hundreds of thousands of college students from across the country will attend (if they... -
Republicans Want Obama to Meet With Border Enforcement Union
24 May 2013 | 4:00 pmThe House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Senator Jeff Sessions wrote a letter to President Obama this week arguing his...
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Who Are the Real Climate Deniers?
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Illinois Dem Tells PJM How the IRS Scandal Is Like the Bible
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The Case Against Congressional ‘Comprehensive Reform’ of Anything
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Barack Obama, World’s Greatest Gun Salesman
24 May 2013 | 12:00 amStunning statistics suggest he has done as much to increase private gun ownership as anyone in U.S. history. More: Tyrant: Cuomo Threatens to Remove Sheriffs If They Publicly Oppose His Gun Law -
Gohmert’s Scandal Fix: ‘Special Counsel and Dismantle the IRS’
23 May 2013 | 2:39 pmTexas Republican talks to PJM.
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Obama’s Attorney General Hypocrisy: Alberto Gonzalez vs Eric Holder
24 May 2013 | 12:28 pmIn 2007 when Barack Obama was running for President the first time there was a controversy raging over whether U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez was right to accede to President Bush’s order to fire a handful of U.S. attorneys. Obama then criticized the AG for politicizing the office. Flash forward to 2013 and he’s now [...] -
Nancy Pelousie: An Example of the Stupidity & Lies One Must Perpetrate to be a Democrat
24 May 2013 | 12:26 pmHaven’t ranted for a while, so here we gooooo…. There are dozens of examples every day of the lack of logic, ignorance of facts, downright dishonesty, and stupidity one must employ to be a Democrat in America, but today we must focus on a particular example of lunacy perpetrated upon the public by the loud-mouthed, [...] -
Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™
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The Conservative Hispanic Society: IRS Targeted Us Too
23 May 2013 | 12:16 pmThe Conservative Hispanic Society has joined the growing list of conservative groups that feel that they, too, were targeted by the Internal Revenue Service in its recent campaign of harassment. In a statement, CHS is “expressing outrage” over what it feels is Obama’s “infiltration of every aspect of our government.” In a statement the Conservative [...] -
Obama’s Yemeni Detainee Problem
23 May 2013 | 7:51 amThis week, President Obama announced his intention to lift the ban on the transfer of prisoners from GITMO to Yemen. President Obama will announce Thursday that the White House plans to lift the ban on sending detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen, Fox News confirms, a move that could effectively resume efforts to close down [...]
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Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
25 May 2013 | 2:27 pmIt seemed like the one thousandth call I’d taken from a Tea Party activist attempting our well-known strategy of putting our people in voting seats in our local county and state parties. This activist and his Tea Party cohort had actually had far more success than he fully realized. In a well known county in Colorado, they had put several Tea Party members in | Read More » -
Reuters: Eric Holder signed off on the raid of reporter James Rosen’s email account.
24 May 2013 | 2:30 pmSuch a bald statement from Reuters about the Department of Justice’s targeting of Fox News reporter James Rosen: “The Justice Department said on Friday that officials up to Attorney General Eric Holder vetted a decision to search an email account belonging to a Fox News reporter whose report on North Korea prompted a leak investigation” (Bolding mine). But there are three things that we can | Read More » -
The social triangle
24 May 2013 | 12:32 pmThree great forces shape a society: culture, politics, and economics. Each of them influences the other. The late Andrew Breitbart famously observed that politics are “downstream” of culture. In other words, culture shapes political expectations. People tend to vote in favor of issues and candidates that enjoy cultural approval. Political commentators often refer to the “Overton window,” which covers the range of “acceptable” positions candidates | Read More » -
Biden Slips and Reveals True Aim of Government “Studies”
24 May 2013 | 11:00 amAt a recent meeting at the White House between Biden and faith-based leaders Billy Graham’s son Franklin proposed the idea of taxing violence and funneling proceeds to “help victims.” To which Biden replied that there was “no reason why they couldn’t do that.” Now the unconstitutionality of this has sparked no small amount outrage among those who value the First Amendment. But what he says next should alarm them even more. Biden continued by saying, “They really need a good scientific study, which they’ve done on things like smoking.” -
China Is Shocked By The Death of a 2-Year Old. Why?
24 May 2013 | 10:12 amThat kid got run over twice and those people just did nothing! We should denounce the People’s Republic of China. They are evil. They are malignant. They are materialists who have no value for human life what so ever. They could totally care less about someone else’s kids. Or not unless hypocrisy is the bow vice makes to virtue. You see, the PRC is an | Read More »
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House Republicans Launch Another Hispanic 'Outreach' Program
25 May 2013 | 3:10 pmHouse Republicans have launched another "Hispanic outreach" initiative. Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) is spearheading the most recent "comprehensive" outreach program. As Roll Call reports, the initiative will focus on a "Spanish-language social-media initiative" in addition to getting the GOP's message out to various Hispanic media platforms. For instance, the "Conferencia GOP" recently released a video in which Hispanic Republicans — such as Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) — "spoke about Republican energy initiatives and how they would help… -
NYT: Insiders See Weiner as Path to Future Hillary Presidential Campaign
25 May 2013 | 1:55 pmAccording to the New York Times, "several political aides have been tempted to sign onto a Weiner mayoral campaign" because of the "ample access the job would provide" to his wife Huma Abedin. Now that disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner has formally launched his mayoral bid, political operatives may consider working for his campaign just so they can get close to his wife. Abedin, the Clinton loyalist, is seen as a gateway to jobs on a potential Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. In fact, Danny Kadem, Weiner's current campaign manager, was hired because Abedin… -
MEOW: PETA Goes After Online Commenters
25 May 2013 | 1:35 pmPETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is searching for the personal information of anonymous commenters who allegedly defamed group's euthanasia policy on an article published at the Huffington Post. The group has filed a civil lawsuit. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the court to release names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other private details about three bloggers who reacted to an April 2 posting by a no-kill shelter advocate that's received almost 5,000 comments and 240,000 "likes" on Facebook. PETA needs to identify the anonymous commenters in… -
Weiner Admits Seeing Shrink, Denies 'Sex Addiction' Treatment
25 May 2013 | 1:03 pmThis week, disgraced former New York Congressman and current mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner admitted he went to see a therapist in Texas in 2011 at the height of the scandal that lead to his resignation and the vindication of the late Andrew Breitbart. He said it was not "rehab" and denied he had been treated for sex addiction. “I didn’t go to rehab anywhere,’’ he told the New York Post. “A couple of days I worked with a therapist in Texas I was referred to. Two days, twice, for a total of four days. Or, it might have been three.’’… -
Sessions: Immigration Bill Will 'Hammer' Americans
25 May 2013 | 12:51 pmSen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said Friday the Senate's immigration bill will "hammer working Americans." Sessions has been a vocal opponent to the immigration reform bill, stating that the bill gives preferential treatment to foreign-born workers over US job seekers. “This is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down wages of people unemployed and underemployed right now,” Sessions, a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Fox Business. “It's really, really dangerous.” The bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on…
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A Basic Civics Lesson for Pseudo-Historians
19 May 2013 | 8:00 pmI confess, I’m not really a “Tenth Amendment” guy. Not that I don’t recognize its importance in our founding and our ongoing freedoms. I definitely do. It’s just that First (and sometimes Second) Amendment rights are usually those that catch my attention. But, with the recent, national attention to certain issues — e.g., gun control [...] -
Is Bigger Always Better?
12 May 2013 | 6:57 pmWhile I work on a new series of articles, I’d like to offer you a little economics lesson this week, courtesy of Jay W. Richards and his terrific book, Money, Greed, and God (2009). In the midst of a chapter discussing capitalism, consumerism, and the local vs. global issue, Richards gives a little perspective on [...] -
Can You Accept “Revealed Wisdom” and Still Be “Scientific”?
5 May 2013 | 7:39 pm“[S]cience and religion are two essential components in the search for truth. Denying either is a barren approach.” — Dr. Martin Andreas Nowak, mathematical biologist Once upon a time (actually, it was about a year ago) in a land far, far away (OK, it was here in NE Florida), I had a brief but interesting [...] -
But It’s Only Natural
27 Apr 2013 | 9:01 pmPeople make excuses. Nobody likes to be blamed or accused of doing something bad or wrong. We don’t like to be punished or embarrassed. We don’t like to be made to feel guilty — even if we are guilty of wrongdoing. We usually realize that what we were caught doing (or habitually do) is illegal [...] -
Atheism is Patriotic? What the…?
7 Apr 2013 | 8:23 pmThe title of this post is in reference to an article I came across several months ago: “Atheists Claim ‘Religion Is Unpatriotic’”. When I read the headline, my first reaction was, “Are they serious?” If we’re talking about America, then I think the sentiment is, well, questionable, to say the least. It seems that, for [...]
