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December 10, 2014 — Paul Mirengoff
The Obama administration has instituted special security measures to protect U.S. facilities around the world in the event of attacks prompted by the release of Dianne Feinstein’s “torture” report. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that “there are some indications. . .that the release of the report could lead to a greater risk that is posed to U.S. facilities and individuals all around the world.” John Kerry was concerned enough
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December 9, 2014 — Paul Mirengoff
The big news today will be the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s interrogation policy during the Bush years, which has finally been made public. The mainstream media will see to it that the story dominates the headlines. It already dominates the Washington Post’s main page. I expect we’ll have lots to say about the report, whose contents have been leaked over the past months. For now, I’ll link
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November 16, 2014 — Paul Mirengoff
We have written about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s forthcoming “Feinstein Report,” an attack on the Bush-era CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques. By all accounts, the report will conclude that the CIA regularly tortured terrorism suspects, lied to Congress about it, and gained no valuable information as a result. I view the report as not only a political document — the latest salvo in the war between Democrats on the Senate Intelligence
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November 3, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff
Rep. Mike Rogers’ questioning of Kathleen Sebelius was a highlight of her appearance before the House Ways and Means Committee last Wednesday. Rogers used his questions to show that codes on the Obamacare website are constantly being “swapped,” and that as a result, the security of the system can’t properly be tested and the personnel information supplied by those who use it isn’t secure. Rogers is Chairman of the House
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March 24, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff
When Ted Cruz raised with Dianne Feinstein the question of the constitutionality of legislation she was proposing, the Senator from California reacted testily, stating that she is not a sixth-grader. I would have thought that, if anything, Cruz’s attempt to engage her in a discussion about the Constitution showed respect for Sen. Feinstein. Too often, Feinstein (a non-lawyer) has marginalized herself as a Judiciary Committee member by opting to play
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March 14, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff
As a pensioner, when I’m not blogging, I spend much of my time reading and watching sports on television. But nothing I do these days is more amusing than watching Ted Cruz annoy the legacy Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee and cause some of them to betray their foolishness. The latest victims were Dianne Feinstein and Chairman Patrick Leahy. Feinstein has proposed a ban on 157 different models of
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January 24, 2013 — John Hinderaker
Today Senator Dianne Feinstein unveiled her long-promised legislation to ban “assault weapons.” Since there is no such thing as an assault weapon, we will have to read the text of the law to see what it actually does. So far, I haven’t seen the text anywhere, but Feinstein’s web site has a fairly detailed description of the bill, including a list of the 157 weapons that are specifically banned. News
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February 16, 2009 — Paul Mirengoff
Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, recently stated that U.S. Predator hunter/killer drones “are flown out of a Pakistani base.” The launch location is supposed to be a secret. To be sure, the Washington Post had already reported Predators operating out of bases in Pakistan. However, as noted by the Washington Times editorial page, a newspaper report is not the same thing as a statement by
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July 1, 2007 — Scott Johnson
Today’s San Diego Union-Tribune reports on the results of its investigation of the allegations that Dianne Feinstein used her position on a Senate subcommittee to benefit contractors in which her husband had a financial interest. Matthew Hoy comments in “Trusting Feinstein.” The verdict: A Copley News Service review found no evidence that Feinstein had intervened in any clearly meaningful way on behalf of the two companies. But it also found
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June 14, 2007 — Paul Mirengoff
For the past 18 months Hans von Spakovsky has served as a recess appointee on the Federal Election Commission. According to John Fund, his record there has been relatively free from controversy. Yesterday, however, von Spakovsky faced the wrath of Dianne Feinstein and other Senate Democrats during hearings on his nomination for a regular appointment to the FEC. The Democratic ire stems from von Spakovsky’s time at the Bush Justice
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April 3, 2007 — Paul Mirengoff
I’ve written often about the ethically challenged House Democrats. Today, on the AOL blog, I take a look at the ethics issues that have arisen concerning Senate Democrat Diane Feinstein. I note that these issues were raised largely by liberal organizations and media outlets, who would like to see an investigation by an independent watchdog. Feinstein, however, has opposed the effort of Barack Obama to create such a position within
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April 4, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Two days after Audrey Hale’s mass murder in Nashville last year, Joe Biden proclaimed March 31 “Transgender Day of Visibility,” as he did again this year, taking no note that the date fell on Easter. As Steve noted, “it is not as though there aren’t enough official opportunities to recognize the alphabet people.” For example, in April we have International Asexuality Day, International Day of Pink, the Day of Silence,
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March 17, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
The Kamala conundrum comes down to this: She was picked because she was Black and female, a combo tantamount to job security. Now that she has become a burden to the Democratic ticket, Biden can’t fire her. He can’t risk alienating his base. Full stop. That was Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker, in a March 15 piece headlined “For the Country’s Sake, Vice President Harris Should Step Aside,” a move
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March 3, 2024 — Steven Hayward
• Reminder that once upon a time leading Democrats opposed illegal immigration and called for stronger border enforcement: Chaser—Once upon a time Democrats also understood that a surge of illegal immigrant depressed wages for unskilled labor. A reminder from Democrat economist and Obama alum Jared Bernstein: One thing we learned in the 1990s was that a surefire way to reconnect the fortunes of working people at all skill levels, immigrant
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February 26, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
By a unanimous vote, the San Francisco supervisors have made Kelly Wong a member of the San Francisco Elections Commission. The Chinese national is the first non- U.S. citizen to hold the post, and under U.S. law she is not allowed to vote. Wong’s priority is to ensure that voter materials are translated in a way that people can understand, work she already performs as an “immigrant rights advocate” at
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February 14, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Anyone who follows California politics will know that California adopted a “jungle” primary system some time ago, in which all candidates for an office in the spring primary run on a single ballot line, with the top two finishers advancing to the November general election. The Republican Party has fallen so low in California in recent years that several U.S. Senate races have come down to two Democrats in November.
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November 5, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
On his recent trip to China, California Gov. Gavin Newsom got into a pick-up basketball game and knocked over a Chinese student about half his size. In his own frequent falls, Joe Biden has yet to take down a bystander, but the two men have more in common than people might think. Consider, for example, their troubles with reading and writing. “For years, Newsom has been very open about the
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