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May 14, 2013 — John Hinderaker
One striking feature of the multiple scandals in which the Obama administration is now enmeshed is how little responsibility President Obama takes for any of them. None, actually. Not only that, he professes to be entirely in the dark, to know only what he reads in the newspapers, and to have no control over his own cabinet officers and their departments. This was a major theme of Jay Carney’s press
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September 12, 2012 — John Hinderaker
There is no end to the chutzpah of the Obama administration and its enablers in the press. In the wake of violent attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and consulate in Benghazi that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including the first U.S. ambassador to be killed in the line of duty in 33 years, Barack Obama tries to pretend that the real story is Mitt Romney’s criticism
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May 22, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Republican leaders in the House are moving cautiously towards requiring Attorney General Holder to produce documents relevant to the investigation of DOJ’s “Fast and Furious” program, or else be held in contempt of Congress. Previously, Holder was to face a Memorial Day deadline for coughing up the documents. Now, a letter sent to Holder last Friday gives him until mid-June. Moreover, the scope of the documents demanded has been scaled
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May 18, 2012 — John Hinderaker
We have not yet commented on the release of evidence yesterday by the special prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin case. The evidence is highly illuminating, although it leaves at least one critical question unanswered. But, contrary to most press reports, the overall impact of the new evidence is to indicate that George Zimmerman has a strong claim of self-defense. Zimmerman says that Martin attacked him, knocked him down and was
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May 18, 2012 — John Hinderaker
We wrote here about MSNBC’s disgraceful attacks on Charles and David Koch and Koch Industries in connection with the Trayvon Martin shooting. Guest host Karen Finney said: Who was the Typhoid Mary for this horrible outbreak? It’s the usual suspects the Koch brothers…the same people who stymied gun regulation at every point who funded and ghost write these laws. A few days later, Van Jones, a guest on MSNBC, said:
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May 16, 2012 — John Hinderaker
ABC News has obtained a copy of a doctor’s report on a visit by George Zimmerman the day after the Trayvon Martin shooting. The report discloses that Zimmerman had a broken nose, two black eyes, two cuts on the back of his head, bruising on the upper lip and cheek and lower back pain. This revelation obviously bolsters Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense and sheds light on why local authorities initially
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May 8, 2012 — John Hinderaker
You can always tell when a political party is out of intellectual ammo. You can tell because it starts doing things like this: House Democrats said Tuesday they will offer an amendment to push to overturn stand-your-ground self-defense laws in states like Florida. Laws relating to self-defense are entirely a state concern. This is one of many areas where the federal government has no legitimate role. The amendment, which would
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April 24, 2012 — John Hinderaker
The news story is horrifying: after a trivial encounter with a group of youths who were playing basketball, a man in Mobile, Alabama, was set upon by a gang of twenty men armed with brass knuckles, chairs, pipes and paint cans. The victim, Matthew Owens, was attacked on his own front porch and beaten within an inch of his life. He is in critical condition and may die: As the
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April 22, 2012 — John Hinderaker
I wrote here about MSNBC’s campaign to tie the Koch brothers to George Zimmerman’s shooting of Trayvon Martin. That effort was, it is fair to say, insane, but it apparently inspired one or more liberals to take MSNBC’s theories a step farther. Someone wrote–I think it was on Facebook–that Koch Industries had paid for Zimmerman’s legal defense and/or put up his bail money. Other liberals happily repeated the claim, to
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April 19, 2012 — John Hinderaker
We wrote in MSNBC, the Faux News Network about MSNBC’s latest attack on the Koch brothers, whom guest host Karen Finney outrageously blamed for the Trayvon Martin shooting. Finney’s slander was repeated on MSNBC by former Obama administration official Van Jones, who said, “You’ve got all of the passion around Trayvon and what a horrible injustice that was and you can draw a direct line to the Koch brothers.” The
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April 14, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday we received a press release from Common Cause. Remember them? Left-wing front groups apparently never die. The press release announced that Mars had abandoned the American Legislative Exchange Council. Mars makes Skittles. This must have something to do with the death of Trayvon Martin, right? Sort of, but not exactly. The press release brags that Mars joins a list of major companies that have severed ties with ALEC including
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April 13, 2012 — John Hinderaker
I’m slow in getting to the Florida special prosecutor’s charging of George Zimmerman with second degree murder. I saw most of the press conference in which the prosecutor, Angela Corey, announced the charges. She came across well, I thought, although she seemed to be having a little too much fun, under the circumstances. When the Affidavit of Probable Cause supporting the second degree murder prosecution was made public, it was
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April 8, 2012 — John Hinderaker
John Derbyshire is a paleoconservative who has had a long association with National Review. For some years he has been, in my view, the most legitimately controversial of the writers associated with that magazine and web site. NRO’s relationship with Derbyshire has now come to an end, as a result of a piece that he wrote in Taki’s Magazine. The article is titled “The Talk: Nonblack Version,” and purports to
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April 2, 2012 — John Hinderaker
For the last month or two, news coverage has frequently been hysterical. The Republican war on women! Occupy the 1%! Ryan’s budget pushes Grandma over a cliff! Again! Trayvon Martin! The Republican war on hoodies! To some extent, of course, the hysteria is intended to stir up the Democrats’ base. But I think it is also intended to demoralize and confuse Republicans, and throw us off our game. Thus we
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April 1, 2012 — John Hinderaker
The Democrats continue to try to make political hay out of the Trayvon Martin case. The Hill reports that House Democrats–all members of the Congressional Black Caucus–are proposing a package of legislative “reforms” arising out of the Martin case: In the wake of the slaying of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, House Democrats are drafting legislation designed to prevent similar tragedies in the future. Actually, there are plenty of laws in
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March 30, 2012 — John Hinderaker
Liberals have been feverishly attacking Fox News for years now, irate that the Left’s monopoly on television news outlets has been broken. Conservatives, on the other hand, have tended to ignore MSNBC, even though that network is far more partisan, and less reliable, than Fox. Perhaps this is because of a perception that hardly anyone watches MSNBC. It is true, of course, that that network’s ratings are nowhere near Fox’s,
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March 29, 2012 — John Hinderaker
President Obama has fanned the flames of hatred in the Trayvon Martin case, and has not said a single critical word about the outrageous actions of the New Black Panthers, who offered a $10,000 bounty on George Zimmerman–the same New Black Panthers on whose behalf Eric Holder quashed a federal criminal prosecution; or of Spike Lee, who tweeted a wrong address for Zimmerman, presumably to facilitate harassment or even murder;
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