HotAir Daily Express 02/25/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Trump spending no money on Super Tuesday ads?] 2/25/2016 8:41:27 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Hillary Clinton and her PAC will spend $4.1 million in 11 states. Bernie Sanders has laid out over $1.2 million in Colorado alone. Marco Rubio’s PAC will pour $1.2 million into eight states, while Ted Cruz’s campaign will cough up $185,000 in [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Spy agencies: Clinton emails contain info which “closely matches” Top Secret documents] 2/25/2016 8:01:25 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Wouldn’t it be nice if this were some sort of groundbreaking, top of page one type story instead of a headline which only appears on days ending in a Y? US intelligence agencies have been reporting to Congress on the material which has turned up in [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [GAO: Obamacare gave subsidies to 11 of 12 fictitious applicants] 2/24/2016 11:01:27 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report which concludes the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) did little or nothing to prevent various types of Obamacare fraud throughout 2014. According to the GAO analysis, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Coping mechanism of the day: How about Rick Perry as the nominee of a conservative third party?] 2/24/2016 10:21:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We all cope with the reality of a Trumpist GOP in our own way. Most righties I follow on social media are busy these days sketching out elaborate scenarios for how Rubio might have a path to the nomination if he finishes 3-5-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-3-2-3-3-2 or [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ryan: House will block Obama’s Gitmo closing plan in court as well as in Congress] 2/24/2016 9:41:32 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments That should prove relatively easy, since transferring Gitmo detainees to the US remains illegal — under a law signed by Barack Obama. Paul Ryan promised a fight in both the legislative and judicial arenas to stop Obama’s latest iteration of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Atlas robot can pick up boxes and terrify small children but mostly terrify small children] 2/24/2016 9:01:12 PM John Sexton 0 Comments If you’ve watched the various Boston Dynamics videos released over the last few years you’ve already seen the 4 legged robot called “Big Dog” that can keep its balance when being kicked from one side. Then there was the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [9 p.m. ET: Megyn Kelly’s voter forum with Cruz and Rubio (and Kasich and Carson)] 2/24/2016 8:21:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments In case you can’t wait for tomorrow’s night debate to watch Cruz unload on Trump and Rubio not unload on Trump, Fox News brings you a forum featuring two guys who have zero chance of winning the nomination and another two guys who … [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Emerson poll of Texas: Cruz 29, Trump 28, Rubio 25; Update: New poll shows Cruz and Trump tied] 2/24/2016 7:41:39 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Not good for Cruz, notwithstanding the fact that he leads narrowly. To refresh your memory, Texas is winner-take-all with a huge windfall of delegates (155) if the winner takes a clear majority of the vote. If he doesn’t, it’s proportional. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Texas appeals court directs lower court to dismiss all charges against Perry] 2/24/2016 7:01:25 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Only in Travis County, Texas, could a governor get indicted for issuing a veto in a case involving no hint of corruption. The indictment, which carried a potential 109-year prison sentence for Governor Rick Perry, haunted him through his brief bid for [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [President Obama brushes off Biden’s comments on Supreme Court nominees] 2/24/2016 6:21:50 PM John Sexton 0 Comments President Obama seemed to be amused as he brushed off recently uncovered comments by his own Vice President from back in 1992 suggesting an election year was not the time for a lame duck President to nominate a Supreme Court Justice. After a meeting [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mitt Romney: I have good reason to believe there’s a bombshell lurking in Trump’s taxes] 2/24/2016 5:41:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, isn’t this, er, exactly the same dirty trick that Harry Reid pulled on him four years ago? Suggesting, without evidence, that Trump is some sort of tax cheat? Verrrrry interesting to have Romney suddenly back in the game and on [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [CPAC: Rubio now committed to appear] 2/24/2016 5:05:01 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It’s the right move. It would have been even more right two days ago: CONFIRMED: Grassroots activists will hear from @marcorubio at #CPAC next week — be part of history! #tcot pic.twitter.com/l2opz7k5Pq — Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [VA hides failed hospital chief on the other side of the world] 2/24/2016 4:31:00 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments How many more of these stories are out there waiting to be told? The Daily Caller has struck again in their ongoing investigation of corruption at the VA, as well as the impossibility of getting rid of anyone who is failing at their job, incompetent or [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Surprise: Obama vetting GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval for Scalia’s Supreme Court seat] 2/24/2016 4:01:05 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Gotta give credit where it’s due. Obama and his pal Harry know how to troll Republicans. Brian Sandoval, the centrist Republican governor of Nevada, is being vetted by the White House for a possible nomination to the Supreme Court, according to two [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [No, there won’t be a revolt on the floor of the GOP convention] 2/24/2016 3:31:20 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Despite Marco Rubio’s assertion that you don’t win the nomination by how many states you win, the candidates are going to be racking up points wherever they can. Unfortunately for pretty much everyone but The Donald, those points have been slowly [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Quinnipiac Poll: 4 GOP candidates top Hillary in Ohio match-ups] 2/24/2016 3:01:23 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A Quinnipiac poll of the bellwether state of Ohio finds the GOP with a slight edge in most potential head-to-head match-ups, though the advantage in some cases is within the margin of error. “The four leading Republican candidates either tie or [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [After Nevada win Trump picks up first two congressional endorsements] 2/24/2016 2:31:18 PM John Sexton 0 Comments After his convincing win in Nevada, Trump received his first two congressional endorsements Wednesday. Rep. Chris Collins of New York had previously endorsed Jeb! but with Jeb! out of the race was a free agent once again. Wednesday he released a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Lynch: Hillary e-mail investigation will get an “independent” review … to a point] 2/24/2016 2:01:28 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Sounds great. Anyone buying this, though? Attorney General Loretta Lynch told a House committee that the Department of Justice will conduct a review of any recommendations from the FBI on its probe of Hillary Clinton’s secret e-mail system, and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Both parties should hope that Bernie Sanders hangs in there to the bitter end] 2/24/2016 1:31:32 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments One of of the key logistical differences between the Democratic and Republican primaries this year is the number of competitors and the rate of shrinkage we’ve seen in the two fields. The GOP started out with somewhere between 16 and 900 candidates [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Forget George W. Bush… Maryland Democrats have Hogan Derangement Syndrome] 2/24/2016 12:31:20 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When Larry Hogan was elected as the next Governor of Maryland in November of 2014 I’ll confess that you could have knocked me over with a feather. If there was ever a place that wasn’t going to put a Republican in office in the era of the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Twitter’s “Trust and Safety Council”: Orwellian, or just a really bad idea?] 2/24/2016 12:01:37 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Does that distinction matter? After watching Twitter’s new “Trust and Safety Council” push Robert Stacy McCain off the platform, suppress the hashtag #FreeStacy used to protest the decision, and offer no accounting of its decision, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rubio on attacking Trump: “I didn’t run for office to tear up other Republicans”] 2/24/2016 11:21:33 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments In that case, good news: Trump’s not really a Republican so attacking him should pose no problem. Also, hasn’t Rubio spent the better part of four months attacking Ted Cruz? Did I dream that, or is this part of some lame [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Canada’s new Prime Minister cracks down on smuggled American guns] 2/24/2016 10:41:55 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There’s trouble on the southern border friends, and it involves, guns, violence, smuggling and various other criminal activities. Lives are at risk and action is called for. But before you jump to any conclusions here, the trouble isn’t being [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [McConnell, GOP Judiciary members: No hearings for Obama SCOTUS nominee] 2/24/2016 10:01:10 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Since the reporting of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, most Republicans have rallied around the pledge to hold no hearings or votes on any potential replacement nominated by Barack Obama. The media has tried to find cracks in the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [A lack of leadership, not technological prowess, doomed the healthcare.gov launch] 2/24/2016 9:21:48 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Anyone with even a smidgen of interest in politics or government affairs recalls all too well the disastrous launch of healthcare.gov when it finally went live, behind schedule and way, way above budget. 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