HotAir Daily Express 03/08/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Video: “Affordable” care in Minnesota for you — but not for your kids] 3/8/2016 8:41:55 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Entitlement programs in general spend tomorrow’s money on payments today — in essence, picking the pockets of our children and grandchildren for our own benefit. Here in Minnesota, the state takes that more literally. The NBC affiliate in the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rumors swirl as Netanyahu passes on meeting with Obama] 3/8/2016 8:01:19 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Relations between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu haven’t been spectacular (to put it mildly) and recent developments seem to hint that they’re not getting any better. There was supposed to be a meeting in [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Did Bush lie about Iraq?] 3/7/2016 10:21:22 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments As Peter Allen once sang, Everything old is new again — including the claim that George W. Bush lied about Iraq to get us into a war. Last month, Donald Trump revived the allegations as an attack on Jeb Bush, whose candidacy was already fading out [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Walking Dead” grumble thread: The Grimes doctrine] 3/7/2016 9:41:50 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Fully automatic weapons are surprisingly easy to come by in post-apocalyptic rural Georgia, huh? If you’re willing to sit through enough snoozers, eventually they reward you with an episode like last night’s. The cutesy beginning with Carol [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bret Baier: There are already D.C. Republicans saying privately they’ll support Hillary to stop Trump] 3/7/2016 9:01:19 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Normally a story like this would be a five-alarm fire in grassroots conservative media, evidence that the RINO rat bastards in Washington were preparing for the ultimate back-stabbing. This time, though, per the #NeverTrump rallying cry, even some [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump holds narrow lead over Kasich in Ohio] 3/7/2016 8:21:12 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A poll published Monday by PPP shows Trump holding a narrow lead over Governor John Kasich, but with 31% of respondents saying they haven’t made up their minds yet that lead could change over the next week: Trump leads with 38% to 35% for Kasich, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN source: Some Rubio advisors want him to quit the race before Florida] 3/7/2016 7:41:01 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Nothing signals that you’re on the brink of a campaign-reviving win in your home state like having someone on the inside whispering to the media that maybe you should be an ex-candidate. Team Marco and its many supporters are screaming on Twitter [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Does Twitter owe its users free speech or safety?] 3/7/2016 7:01:49 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The #FreeStacy controversy found its way into Conservative Political Action Conference, thanks to an innovative new effort by the Heritage Foundation called CPAC Fight Club. Heritage’s Daily Signal paired up commentators on the Right to debate a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mexican President compares Trump to Hitler, Mussolini] 3/7/2016 6:21:23 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Trump has had an ongoing war of words with former Mexican president Vicente Fox over who will pay for a new 1,000 mile long border wall. Now the current president of Mexico is weighing in and comparing Trump to Hitler and Mussolini. From the AP: Asked [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chelsea Clinton tapped to launch transparently political effort to help Flint, Michigan] 3/7/2016 5:41:03 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Raise your hands if you didn’t see this one coming. After making several trips to Michigan to bolster her numbers there against Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton seemed to be all in on the Flint water crisis as a tool to help bolster her campaign. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Surprise: Cruz to unveil endorsements this week from more than four senators; Update: Or not] 3/7/2016 5:01:45 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “More than four senators” is an odd way to phrase it — does that mean five? 10? — but that’s how Elaina Plott reported it so that’s what I’m passing along. So much for Trump’s talking point that he has more [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Great news: Iran deal monitors can’t disclose violation details] 3/7/2016 4:31:58 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Old and busted: Trust but verify! New hotness: Ask me no questions, I will tell no lies … The Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo discovers that the new nuclear-weapons deal with Iran has a brilliant new innovation in compliance — [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Anti-Trump ad focuses on his use of vulgarity] 3/7/2016 4:01:19 PM John Sexton 0 Comments American Future Fund Political Action, a GOP supporting group, is airing this new ad in the Florida panhandle in a bid to damage Trump’s support there. The ad contains a series of statements Trump has made at rallies around the country and places [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Social justice expert warns employers that #BlackLivesMatter may be coming to your offices soon] 3/7/2016 3:31:58 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve watched as the nascent Black Lives Matter protests in cities around the nation have spread over the last couple of years to the nation’s campuses. There, they matched up neatly in many cases with already aggrieved college students who [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Monmouth poll of Florida: Trump leads Rubio by eight — but Rubio leads Trump in early vote by 25] 3/7/2016 3:01:16 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Rarely will you hear a poll called “good news” for a candidate when it has him down eight in his home state, but this really is the most encouraging news Rubio’s had in ages. And the best news anti-Trumpers have had since, well, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bombshells? CBS, Bloomberg, Yahoo hit Trump’s business dealings] 3/7/2016 2:31:26 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Yesterday, Ted Cruz accused the media of shielding the public from Donald Trump’s track record as a businessman. Cruz alleged that the media was waiting until after the nomination to perform its due diligence and drop “bombshells” on [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obamacare to begin rating network size of health plans] 3/7/2016 2:01:36 PM John Sexton 0 Comments If you like your doctor, HHS will create a rating system to show you that your doctor isn’t covered under the new, narrower network. That’s what the President promised us, right? HHS is moving to make it easier for consumers to find out the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Uh oh. Two NASA researchers say they saw the OPM hack coming a decade ago, were ignored] 3/7/2016 1:31:03 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve been covering the massive data breach at OPM since it was first exposed and there’s never been very much in the way of good news. The incident exposed not only the personal records of huge numbers of people, but the potentially [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmm: Trump 36, Cruz 23, Kasich 21, Rubio 13 in new Monmouth poll of Michigan] 3/7/2016 1:01:24 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Why the “hmmm”? Two reasons. One: With one dubious exception, 36 percent is the lowest haul Trump has had in any poll of Michigan this month. In three of the previous five surveys, his lead has been 19 points or better. I’m skeptical [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [North Carolina Republicans worry about down-ballot races with Trump ticket] 3/7/2016 12:31:24 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments North Carolina provided one of the few bright spots for Republicans on Election Night 2012, a night that saw several swing states that the GOP hoped to win fall back into Barack Obama’s hands. After narrowly losing to Obama in the Tar Heel State in [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Brokered convention proponents are missing the point] 3/7/2016 12:01:20 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Right off the bat I’d like to reiterate that I’m still far from convinced that the GOP nomination process is heading for a brokered convention scenario, no matter how certain it seems to be in the eyes of some of my colleagues. That’s [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Excuse me, I’m talking”: Gasps at Dem debate when Bernie Sanders refuses to let Hillary interrupt him] 3/7/2016 11:21:17 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments From last night’s battle in Michigan, this is what passes for rudeness at a Democratic event. Meanwhile, at our debates, candidates are telling dick jokes. The way Rubio’s been going, I fully expect him to tell Trump to “shut your [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Susan Sarandon: Bernie Sanders supporters silent for fear of Hillary backlash] 3/7/2016 10:41:37 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Ah, Hollywood. Is there no end to the treasure trove of stories you generate each and every time the Los Angeles elite dip their toes into the political pool? This weekend we learned something new about the fight currently going on between Bernie Sanders [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cruz: Media deliberately hiding “bombshells” about Trump until general election] 3/7/2016 10:01:36 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments How much responsibility does the national media bear for the Donald Trump phenomenon? Ted Cruz told John Dickerson on CBS’ Face the Nation yesterday that they not only have created the movement through an avalanche of free publicity for Trump, but [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Singapore demonstrates what happens when you allow the government to crack down on “xenophobia”] 3/7/2016 9:21:54 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Whether it’s here in the United States or across Europe, immigration has become a flashpoint in policy discussions. Legitimate concerns are expressed over factors ranging from potential competition for jobs or resources to feed the needy, to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Glenn Beck’s foolish case against a contested convention] [Hmmm: Mitt Romney records phone message for Marco Rubio’s campaign] [Poll: Trump leads GOP race nationally but with weaker hold on the party] [Correction: Ted Cruz has no pending Senate endorsements to announce] [The earliest date Trump could lock up the nomination: April 19th] [Why you might just miss old-time political bosses] [Trump supporters want their own safe space] [Why evangelicals support Trump] [The world has a problem: Too many young people] [Don’t underestimate Donald. He will win.] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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