***UPDATE: Kansas Senator Jerry Moran just jumped in. Thus far this has been a brilliant filibuster: Measured, respectful, thoughtful. Senator Rand Paul is not only exposing President Obama’s breathtaking hypocrisy on the issue of drones, he’s also giving a Master
After three-hours and ten minutes of Kentucky senator Rand Paul employing a good old-fashioned talking filibuster, Utah senator Mike Lee has stepped in to relieve his Republican colleague. Currently, both men are holding a discussion on the Obama Administration’s drone
— #RandPaul is asking a legit question of Holder.Why so hard for them to just give straight answer?Almost like they feel it is beneath them. — Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) March 6, 2013 — why is it so hard for POTUS
True to form, Politico and MSNBC once again became one just a few minutes ago. Here’s Politico’s national political reporter, James Hohmann, explaining Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster motivations on MSNBC: Rand Paul’s concern is his own base of support. He
Rand Paul’s filibuster should only ensure Obama sticks to this: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told a Senate committee Wednesday that he expects President Obama to explain the legal rationale underpinning the use of armed drones to target and
Republican Senator Rand Paul started his old-fashioned filibuster at 11:47 am ET. He just hit the two-hour mark, which means he’s only 22 hours and 18 minutes away from breaking the all-time filibuster record set by a Democrat in 1957
This is the brutal splash across The Huffington Post right now: — — Paul picked the exact right issue to filibuster on; bringing right and left together against Obama. John Sexton has more here.
Did Bob Woodward’s noble decision to bolt from the Narrative Plantation prove to a brave few in media that you could indeed report honestly about Barack Obama and survive? Obama’s serial sequester lies haven’t become The National Narrative yet, but
In response to The 5 Stupidest Decisions in My Life: Consider it topped. 5.. “Maybe I’ll give this bill collector thing a try.” Seventeen years later… 4.. “I’m not spending all this money on Rogaine.” Seventeen years later… 3. “We’ve
…convincing the American people that the economic health of 30 multi-national companies is some kind of indicator of the domestic economy. Sure, the Dow Jones hit a new record yesterday, but the Dow is made up of only 30 multi-national
Try as hard as they might, a just-released ABC News poll proves that Obama and his media have failed miserably in their attempt to scare Americans over a measly 2% cut in a federal government budget currently banking annual trillion-dollar deficits.
To his great credit, the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler continues to hold the White House responsible for spreading sequester falsehoods. This morning, Kessler did what good reporters are supposed to do: fact-checked a White House claim — again about Capitol
Being caught lying again and again and again is never a good thing for a U.S. president. A number of recent polls have proven that point, and the point that Obama was not able to get away with dishonestly blaming
In response to Sell Me On This Pod-Coffee Deal: It’s the taste of the coffee. For thirty-years I drank coffee-maker coffee, but once I had this Keurig, I couldn’t go back. With a cheap adapter, you can use your old
ADDED: Financial Times communication manager Ryann Gastwirth emailed some clarifications to this story. His full email is below: The cuts and restructuring outlined by John Fallon are Pearson-wide and not specific to the FT. Also, the second sentence refers to
The same Howard Kurtz who mercilessly ridiculed the idea that Fox News would hire the very successful and charismatic Herman Cain, today published a gushing love letter to the “ubertalented” Keith Olbermann that begged ESPN to re-hire him: I’m going
It was just last week that the once-legendary Washington Post ended the four decade run of its Ombudsmen. Patrick Pexton was the last person to hold that role. Now that he’s gone, so is the role of an independent watchdog
The once-legendary Washington Post has been caught once again correcting a high-profile article without noting the correction. The Daily Caller reports that in an investigative piece looking into the prostitution scandal surrounding Sen. Robert Menendez, the original Post article read:
Other than Obama, the one thing you can always count on the media to skew in favor of the left is the issue of abortion. For example, it is pro-lifers presented as extremists by the media when it is Democrats
For some wonderful reason, 20th Century-Fox sent me 23 titles from its new archive service that allows you to order DVDs of lesser known older titles not available elsewhere. Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I
For weeks and weeks, the media aided and abetted President Obama’s crying of wolf over sequester. As Obama hit the campaign trail (literally) to blame Republicans for the upcoming spending cuts that would result in the end of America as
In response to Are You Claiming….: That not only was the bit pre-recorded (obviously), but that the reactions of Naomi Watts and Charlize Theron were also pre-recorded? And staged? Are the people visible in the background of these pictures… That
Few things about Ace’s interesting rebuttal, starting here: I didn’t like MacFarlane’s “Boobs” sketch because it was born of the pleasure of malice — a genuine pleasure[.] I sensed no malice. Like I said in my original piece, it was a
Though there have been examples of statistical noise over one or two days, for most of the year, Gallup has consistently recorded Obama’s job approval rating at or above fifty-percent. Since Friday, though, the three-day average dipped to a startling 46%. 02/27-03/1 : 47
