Opposition grows to… fingerprinting illegals?

Most of the stories I cover involving my home stomping grounds of New York are uniformly negative, I’m sorry to say. (And yes, that includes...

Julia: A paean to subservience in the Hubby State?

You’ve come a long way, baby. The old advertising motto that targeted women who thought of themselves as liberated in the 1970s came with n...

Blind shooter gets his guns back

Is justice blind? Sometimes. And so is New Jersey resident Stephen Hopler, a gun collector and enthusiast from the Garden State. (Hat tip to...

Video: Get off of Jonah Goldberg’s lawn, you darned kids

I love a curmudgeonly rant, and so this interview of National Review’s Jonah Goldberg is right up my alley. This excerpt of a longer intervi...

Quotes of the day

Former President George W. Bush’s pollster for his 2004 re-election, Jan van Lohuizen, has put out a memo to Republican operatives suggestin...

Politico: Dems soliciting ads from lobbyists for its “official” convention magazine, corporate donations as well

Barack Obama insists that corporations and lobbyists will have nothing to do with funding the Democratic National Convention, a requirement ...

Yet another plastic bag ban to save the world

It’s all the rage today, sweeping the nation from coast to coast. As we reported back in March, municipalities across the country are saving...

Jay Rockefeller on rocky ground with coal

As Ed already reported this week, the Obama administration has taken belated notice of the fact that coal still provides a lot of the nation...

Film review: Dark Shadows

In 1776, a witch cursed Barnabas Collins for rejecting her in favor of another woman, transforming him into a vampire, and caused him to be ...

Quotes of the day

“I saw it with my own eyes,” Phillip Maxwell, a lawyer who was Romney’s high school pal at the elite Cranbrook School in Michigan, told ABC ...

Mother’s Day idea from Kirsten Gillibrand: Why not donate to a pro-choice group?

This Mother’s Day, thank mom for the gift of life by helping to ensure that other kids don’t receive it. Honestly, the only surprise is that...

Oh my: Audience member yells “traitor” at mention of Romney’s name during Obama rally

What do you think, guys? Do we let The One slide on this or should we indulge in a little end-of-the-week outrageous outrage over a shiny ne...

Obama only up 4 in SurveyUSA poll in … Oregon?

With all of his other competition out of the way, no one should be surprised how Mitt Romney stacks up against other Republicans in the Oreg...

The Ed Morrissey Show: Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson & the Week in Review

Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we’ll take a look at the past week with Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson of the Hugh Hewitt Show. ...

Fast response: RNC already up with Obama-forgot-the-recession spot

Yesterday, Barack Obama told an audience at a campaign rally that “sometimes I forget” the magnitude of the recession … and today, the RNC w...

Hmmm, Harvard apparently touted Elizabeth Warren’s status as a Native American in the New York Times

Throughout the controversy over Elizabeth Warren’s claimed Native American ancestry, Warren has maintained she was unaware that Harvard Law ...

Scarborough: I question the timing of the WaPo hit piece on Romney

Not just the timing, either. Joe Scarborough also questions the prominence of the Washington Post hit piece, as well as its relevance. Med...

Jobless benefits end for 230,000 this weekend

Eight states will cut off long-term jobless benefits this weekend, which comes from an agreement in Washington to dial down the length of be...

Romney unites social-conservative base through … evolution

Hey, who would have dreamed that Mitt Romney could use evolution to unite the social-conservative base? Thanks to Barack Obama’s “evolution...

New book explains why Hillary won’t be replacing Biden on the ticket this year

Still think that Barack Obama might pull a convention surprise and put Hillary Clinton on the ticket and bounce the human gaffe machine Joe ...