7:44 AM, Apr 3, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPERSteve Hayes, with Kirsten Powers and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News:
Read more... 6:22 PM, Apr 2, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPERNext week Justin Timberlake, Al Green, Queen Latifah, and many others will perform at the White House in a "Memphis Soul" concert, the White House announced today.
Read more... Hosted by Michael Graham.4:32 PM, Apr 2, 2013 • By TWS PODCASTTHE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with Bill Kristol on the North Korea problem and the Obama Administration's missile defense policy failure. Hosted by Michael Graham.
Read more... 2:43 PM, Apr 2, 2013 • By MICHAEL WARRENRepublican congressman Bill Cassidy will run for Senate in Louisiana in 2014, the Associated Press reports. Cassidy will be the first major GOP candidate to enter the race to challenge sitting Democrat Mary Landrieu. The AP has more:
Cassidy, a Baton Rouge doctor elected to Congress in 2008, will release a video Wednesday announcing his candidacy.
Read more... The director delivers the 2013 Jefferson Lecture.1:30 PM, Apr 2, 2013 • By VICTORINO MATUSLast night at the Kennedy Center concert hall, Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese delivered the 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecture. He spoke of the importance of preserving film and lamented the studios' fixation with box office grosses. The end of celluloid saddened him, but he reminded us that there were exciting new developments in film technology we shouldn't overlook. But mostly Scorsese focused on protecting the old movies—90 percent of silent films are now gone. It's an important subject, don't get me wrong, but couldn't he have talked about Goodfellas or Casino a little bit? I mean, c'mon!
Read more... 1:16 PM, Apr 2, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPERAt a "workshop" for the film 42 in the State Dining Room of the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama told the assembled guests that "this is your house, too."
Read more... 12:52 PM, Apr 2, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPERCollege basketball player Kevin Ware's compound fracture in Sunday's Elite Eight game has gained widespread media attention. And now a Kentucky group is trying to capitalize off the Louisville player's injury.
On its website, boldprogressive.org, the group Progressive Change Campaign Committee has posted this:

Read more... 11:05 AM, Apr 2, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPERAt a speech this morning at the White House to outline a new science initiative, President Barack Obama named himself "Scientist-in-Chief."
"I’m glad I’ve been promoted Scientist-in-Chief," Obama said to laughter at the White House. "Given my grades in physics, I’m not sure it’s deserving. But I hold science in proper esteem, so maybe that gives me a little credit."
Read more... 9:56 AM, Apr 2, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPERThe federal government will now allow companies that sell "nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products," such as Nicorette, not to put warning labels on their merchandise, the Food and Drug Administration announced. The change, the FDA now admits, is because the warnings, which were mandated for the last 30 years, were misguided from the very beginning.
Read more... 8:48 AM, Apr 2, 2013 • By GEOFFREY NORMANSenator Charles Schumer has discovered a new cash crop that requires taxpayer support. As Pete Kasperowicz writes in the Hill:
Read more... 7:46 AM, Apr 2, 2013 • By JERYL BIERAs the sequester bore down on Washington, the dire warnings from the Obama administration gave the impression that wild horses couldn't drag another dime out of the treasury for a whole host of vital government services. Aircraft carrier refueling, the Head Start program, and White House tours were among the high profile victims.
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