12:00 AM, Feb 11, 2012 • By IRWIN M. STELZERHappy days are here again, to cite the song favored by Franklin Roosevelt in his successful 1932 campaign for the presidency and the unofficial theme song of the Democratic party ever since.
Read more... 7:49 PM, Feb 10, 2012 • By JOHN MCCORMACKWe just received information about this proposal for the first time this morning; we were not consulted in advance," the United States Council of Catholic Bishops announce in a statement released Friday evening. The bishops say that the "the law and remains a grave moral concern" and is "unacceptable."
Here's the full statement:
Read more... 7:15 PM, Feb 10, 2012 • By JOHN MCCORMACKOn Thursday night, the Democratic party appeared to be in disarray over the Obama administration’s decree that private insurance plans, including those offered by religious organizations, must provide free coverage of contraception, sterilization procedures, and abortifacients.
Read more... 4:01 PM, Feb 10, 2012 • By STEPHEN F. HAYESHere are excerpts from Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s prepared remarks that he’ll deliver tonight at a dinner at CPAC in Washington, D.C. (Walker’s staff insists that the governor frequently deviates from prepared remarks.)
Read more... 3:12 PM, Feb 10, 2012 • By THOMAS JOSCELYNSeveral years ago, I was having drinks at an Irish bar with an intelligence official. (Al Qaeda is always best discussed while drinking Guinness.) He had brought with him several pages of publicly available statements made by leaders within Shabaab, a terrorist-insurgency organization that now controls large parts of Somalia. Shabaab’s leaders offered effusive praise for Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, he explained, but some of his colleagues refused to believe that Shabaab was closely allied with al Qaeda. “Why shouldn’t we take their own statements seriously?” he asked.
Read more... His rhetoric is improving, but he still needs to look up "rousing" in the dictionary. 2:45 PM, Feb 10, 2012 • By MARK HEMINGWAYMitt Romney's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference today was a step in the right direction for the candidate on many levels. He tacitly acknowledged that he wasn't steeped in conservative ideology at the same time he paid homage to it, noting that growing up he would have mistaken Burke and Hayek for members of the Detroit Tigers lineup. He all but micturated on the grave of compassionate conservatism by proclaiming that he was a "severely conservative" governor of Massachussetts.
Read more... 2:20 PM, Feb 10, 2012 • By WILLIAM KRISTOLHere's another interesting finding from the Fox News poll showing Rick Santorum surging nationally: Unlike GOP elites and large elements of the punditocracy, Republican primary voters are not eager to close down the race.
Read more... 1:58 PM, Feb 10, 2012 • By JOHN MCCORMACKRamesh Ponnuru notes that Senator Marco Rubio's statement on Obama's adjusted mandate "seems to suggest that this particular battle is over even if the war over Obamacare continues."
Rubio's statement:
Read more... 1:47 PM, Feb 10, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERFormer Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney played up his outsider status today in a speech delivered to CPAC in Washington, D.C.
Read more... 12:34 PM, Feb 10, 2012 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON
In the first Rasmussen polling taken primarily after Rick Santorum’s hat trick on Tuesday night, Santorum is faring 6 points better than Mitt Romney in their respective matchups versus President Obama.
Read more... 12:16 PM, Feb 10, 2012 • By JOHN MCCORMACKLate this morning, a senior Obama administration official talked to reporters about the latest tweak to its mandate that private insurers must cover of contraception and abortifacients:
Read more... 11:41 AM, Feb 10, 2012 • By JOHN MCCORMACKIn 2010, the Obama administration's FDA approved a new drug called 'ella' and classified it as a contraceptive. The drug now falls under the Obama administration's mandate of services that private insurers must cover free of charge. But there is a considerable amount of evidence that ella does not merely prevent conception--it can also cause the death of a human embryo after conception and even after implantation. In other words, the Obamacare mandate is not just a "contraception mandate" as many in the media portray it. The mandate also requires coverage of an abortifacient, as Jeffrey H.
Read more... 11:33 AM, Feb 10, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENA new Fox News poll, conducted between Monday and Thursday, shows that Rick Santorum's primary and caucus victories on Tuesday boosted him in the national Republican primary race. Overall, Santorum has moved into second place, at 23 percent, behind Mitt Romney at 33 percent. Newt Gingrich is not far behind in third place with 22 percent.
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