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Quotes of the day

Allahpundit — Wed, 08 May 2013 02:41:23 +0000

Questions.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s whereabouts and activities during the attack in Benghazi are similarly mysterious. Clinton’s State Department repeatedly rejected requests for enhancing security at Benghazi, even as Ansar al-Sharia’s power in the area grew over the summer of 2012. Why did State not beef up the Benghazi mission’s security? The Benghazi attack was [...]

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New MSNBC promo: “We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents”

Allahpundit — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:41:40 +0000

"We haven’t had a very collective notion of 'these are our children.'"

Via Legal Insurrection, between this and Krystal Ball’s Socratic dialogue with a five-year-old about gay marriage, evidently it was indoctrination weekend at MSNBC. The novelty here isn’t the sentiment, it’s the candor. Hillary made this same point more digestible for the public by ladling on warm-fuzzy sauce about a “village” raising a child together. (Similarly, [...]

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Rand Paul: Let’s get marriage out of the tax code

Allahpundit — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:21:16 +0000

Compromise.

This isn’t news because it’s novel for a Paul to be saying such things — his dad once called for getting the government out of marriage on a GOP presidential primary debate stage — but because of Paul’s growing prominence in the GOP. If he could rally a hawkish party to oppose the president’s power [...]

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Poll: 64% of adults want federal government to defer to state marijuana laws; Update: So does Mitch Daniels

Allahpundit — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:38:21 +0000

Federalism.

The obligatory follow-up to Friday’s post wondering why Obama would want to sic the DOJ on weed users in Washington and Colorado when both states just voted to legalize it. Per Gallup, most Americans are wondering that too. On the underlying legalization question: My point on Friday was that the federalism angle gives the GOP [...]

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Did the first debate end up changing anything?

Allahpundit — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 02:21:29 +0000

Change.

One last election wrap-up post to finish off a grim week. Dave Weigel went back and looked at the national electoral map generated by one poll-aggregation site as it stood on October 3, the day of the Mile High Massacre. Result: It looked … exactly like the eventual electoral map did. If you’re using 10/3 [...]

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RCP poll averages predicted 49 of 50 states

Allahpundit — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:22:49 +0000

Results.

One last 2012 poll post for old times’ sake before we start in bright and early tomorrow morning with 2016 polls. (Joking, joking.) There was one basic meta-question in the sturm and drang over Nate Silver and statistical models: Were the state polls showing Obama sweeping the midwest correct or were the national polls, some [...]

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