Happy Hour Links

Byron York: Mark Pryor is not used to answering questions.

National Review editors: What's the GOP's case for 2014?

Continetti: Remilitarize the world police.

The death of James Foley has changed Obama's foreign policy.

Iowahawk: "'Yazidi' is Kurdish for 'unarmed Israeli.'"

John Bolton reviews Hillary Clinton's book.

The government-provided health care utopia is here.

Abandoning the Sons of Iraq.

Obama is the man who broke the Middle East.

Norman Podhoretz: "Iraq: What We Know Now and What We Knew Then."

Tom Joscelyn discusses ISIS on Fox News.

Continetti: Obama's YOPO philosophy.

American spies: Qatar may "magically lose track" of released Taliban.

Eli Lake: Al Qaeda grows in Afghanistan.

Poll: Penalties drove healthcare sign-ups. 

America is not Amerika.

Inequality myths. 

RIP, Keystone XL. 

"The Real Africa." 

Boko Haram and the problem of corruption. 

A taste of Gov. O'Malley's Reddit flop. 

The downfall of Obama's Pay As You Earn student loan program. 

Passover, a festival of freedom.

What Ayaan Hirsi Ali would have said at Brandeis.

John Podhoretz: “The Shame of Brandeis.”

On Eich, dissidence, and totalitarianism.

“We have a responsibility to make sure Jeb runs.”

An interview with George W. Bush on his new art…

National Review interviews McConnell on his role in McCutcheon.

Leland Yee and the hypocrisy of the media.

Military veterans give Obama bad grades.

“Is your fortune teller licensed?”

Schumer calls the Iran deal a mistake.

Joni Ernst: "I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm. So when I get to Washington, I’ll know how to cut pork."

Scott Pruitt vs. prairie chicken.

Beyond the spin, the numbers are stacked against Obama. 

New surveys: Obamacare signs up few uninsured.

Poll: one in three Americans believe they've been harmed by Obamacare.

Matthew Continetti on Jim Messina, empire builder.

After delivering remarks on Ukraine, and warning Russia, President Obama headed over to DNC where it's "officially happy hour with the Democratic party."

The GOP's frontrunner for Vice President in 2016.

Majority of Americans now think foreign leaders don't respect Obama.

Not just Kiev: Photos from protests in Venezuela.

George F. Will on the end of unions.

An 18-year slump.

Poll: Voters wish Obamacare had never passed.

How Republicans should respond to Obama's lawlessness.

Kristol, and others, on who will be in the GOP's 2016 primary field.

Mitch McConnell down in a new poll.

Kerry invokes Vietnam experience in push-back against Israeli cabinet member.

Betrayed by Obamacare.

We can be proud of what we achieved in Iraq.

Sean Trende: What are Republicans thinking on immigration?

The best scam they can come up with?

Report: Iran deal kept in "super secret location."

Philip Klein on the Senate GOP's Obamacare alternative.

Debbie's defenders.

Max Boot on Obama's choice in Afghanistan.

Republicans shouldn't abandon the cause of life.

Will the individual mandate survive?

A war against immobility, not inequality.

Say no to bailing out insurance companies.

U.S. weakness strengthens al Qaeda.

Tim Carney: The de Blasio war against inequality hurts the little guy.

New Iran foreign policy chief approved 1994 attack on Jewish center.

Is 2014 a good year for another Great War?

AP: "Iran says it is developing new centrifuges."

10K Iowans in health insurance limbo?

John Bolton: Nero in the White House.

The ad every Democrat up in 2014 should fear.

Can Obama bounce back from a terrible year?

Michael Barone: Obamacare hurts Dems, helps GOP in 2014.

Howie Carr on the Obama selfie.

Obama, inequality, and the great MacGuffin.

Max Boot on Nelson Mandela's character.

Obamacare causing "chaos" for doctors.

Peggy Noonan on low-information leadership.

Capretta: Obamacare will narrow doctor networks, too.

Could Obamacare flip the Senate next year?

Continetti: Meet our secret masters.

From "Four Score" to "Yes We Can."

Florida Republican congressman charged with coke possession.

Isn't Obama more like Lincoln's adversaries?

Ponnuru and Levin on a conservative alternative to Obamacare.

Health insurers trying to get around healthcare.gov.

"Obamacare or Kafkacare?"

So much for al Qaeda "in retreat."

The fact-check of "you can keep your plan."

President Obama hasn't heard.

NRO: No, you can't keep your insurance.

Peggy Noonan on the Obamacare disaster.

Don't like Obama's drones? Blame liberals.

Obamacare's death spiral?

Will the Obamacare revolution be televised?

Insurers getting the wrong data from Obamcare exchange site.

Don't expect to see cuts for programs like these in the shutdown "deal."

Things are going pretty terribly for the Obamacare exchanges.

Earth to the GOP: It's about Obamcare, folks.

James Grant: "America’s default on its debt is inevitable."

Daily Caller: "Sister of Obama administration official featured in Obamacare ad."

Hillary Clinton, wrestler.

It's make or break for immigration reform.

The conservative quest for political purity.

Seniors push for repeal of Obamacare provision.

The Washington Post's updates on the Navy Yard shooting.

On Petraeus's harrassment at CUNY.

Marco Rubio: America is too an exceptional nation, Volodya.

How Assad wooed the American right.

Americans are more interested in Cyrus than Syria.

Six reasons to approve the Keystone Pipeline.

Dempsey: Syria could retaliate with cyber attacks.

Syria and Germany's culture of reluctance.

Kimberley Strassel: "A Test of GOP Resolve on ObamaCare: Congress begged for a White House handout and got one. Republicans ought to reject it."

These Obamacare navigators could encourage identify theft, you know.

For Obama, a different world than expected.

Matthew Continetti: The Clintons of the Hamptons.

This Obama guy's starting to look familiar... 

Whoops!

Let's not get carried away with party makeovers.

Don't forget faith in God inspired MLK.

Michael Bloomberg: Stop and frisk saves lives.

Peggy Noonan on how Obama won over the middle class.

Harry Reid: I hope Republicans don't oppose Obama because he's black.

Rick Snyder, the man who would reinvent Detroit.

Racial polarization in politics is a two-way street.

So much for "cheap" insurance plans under Obamacare.

Ramesh Ponnuru breaks down the 2016 GOP presidential hopefuls.

Paul Ryan knocks Obama's corporate tax plan.

On Obamacare, Paul Krugman ought to know better.

Matthew Continetti: Obama's speech wasn't about the economy, it was about politics.

Bobby Jindal and Scott Walker: Obamacare isn't working.

Health insurers fleeing markets because of Obamacare.

Did Mitch McConnell's campaign "try to threaten" primary opponent?

Obama gives senators just one day before vote on NLRB nominees.

118 House members, including 15 Republicans, urge Obama to engage with Iran.

Introducing libertarian populism.

The problem with piecemeal immigration legislation.

Wendy Davis, the pro-choice Todd Akin.

Danniel Henninger: The day big government died.

How community can save conservatism.

GOP Rep: Another shoe to drop in IRS scandal?

Suspend and replace.

Philip Klein: A defense of resisting Obamacare.

Kaus on immigration: Amnesty is interested in you.

The Supreme Court's rulings are worse than they sound.

Citizens flooding Senate with calls urging opposition to immigration bill.

Ross Douthat on the great disconnect in Washington.

Why Snowden's motives matter.

It begins.

Jeffrey Anderson: Swedencare isn't a fair comparison to Obamacare.

Neoconservatism: The idea that won't quit.

IRS official: "Tea Party" could mean "liberal," you know.

George F. Will: The scowling face of the state.

Remembering "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

Kaus to conservatives: Wake up to what's happening with immigration.

Roy Blunt: "The IRS didn’t just target conservative non-profits."

It's not fair to Nixon, as the boss has warned, but ...

Peggy Noonan on why the IRS scandal is different.

What Lee Rigby's murder says about Western society.

Clinton's scandals were way worse than Obama's.

The varying tax rates of the S&P 500 companies.

Gary Schmitt: "The lighter-than-air commander-in-chief."

ROTC back at CCNY.

55 percent see Benghazi cover-up. 

Ethan Epstein: "One Tough Nutter: Philadelphia’s Democratic mayor has cracked down on crime, reformed the city’s finances, and spoken frankly about black family breakdown."

Noonan: No ordinary scandal.

Chris Christie, the Republican Bill Clinton?

The growth of Obamacare, in frightening chart form.

Iran will chair the U.N.'s disarmament conference.

Continetti: Why does the Obama White House avoid the truth about terror?

The difference it made.

The House GOP leadership's ballooning problem.

The deadly sound of silence.

Eight months is a long time to release the Benghazi photos.

Lindsey Graham responds to President Obama.

Mark Steyn on the collapsing of the American skull.

Noonan on the turn of the presidential wheel.

The fight for the Senate will happen in working-class states.

Yuval Levin on liberalism's radical individualism.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, fake tough guy.

James Taranto on the need for a new abortion regime.

Republicans should remember: Tax cuts aren't everything.

Matthew Continetti on Obama's agenda for the elite.

Kirsten Powers on the media silence over Kermit Gosnell.

Surprise: Democrats the only ones who like our tax system.

Sebelius did not anticipate opposition to Obamacare.

Margaret Thatcher and muscular feminism.

Obama's Prague speech meets reality.

Why isn't Obama going after Hollywood for gun violence?

U.S. embassy in Cairo shuts down Twitter account.

Actually, North Korea's pretty dangerous.

The social conservatives strike back.

Ashley Judd will not challenge Mitch McConnell.

The reductio ad absurdum of American jurisprudence.

Marco Rubio: Repeal Obamacare.

Defending defense.

Understanding the Ryan and Murray budgets.

Tom Cotton's truths about Iraq.

The New York Times Magazine glosses over reality.

Justin Amash is considering running for Senate in Michigan.