HotAir Daily Express 03/29/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Democrats are the major roadblock to congressional redistricting reform in Maryland] 3/29/2016 10:01:52 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I don’t imagine that many regular readers of this site would be shocked to hear someone complaining about the Democratic Party in Maryland. I could put dozens of issues on the wall and toss a dart at them to find something to criticize. But when [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [EgyptAir flight hijacker arrested, not considered a terrorist] 3/29/2016 9:21:00 AM Taylor Millard 0 Comments The hijacking of an EgyptAir plane to Cypress is over and not considered terrorism. Flight MS181 was on its way to Cairo when someone took control of the plane and had it land at Larnaca Airport. Via Al-Arabiya: Egyptian media reported that 10 US [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why Trump is winning in a few brief charts] 3/29/2016 8:41:05 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve all heard the endless refrains on cable news, in the editorial pages of the major newspapers and through social media feeds from conservative thought leaders: Donald Trump says crazy stuff. These are horrible, unworkable ideas which nobody [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why “green energy” people actually mean “no energy”] 3/29/2016 8:01:31 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Taking a short break from all of the presidential primary and terrorism news, let’s take a quick look at US energy policy and the ongoing battle over “green energy” subsidies and the goals of the various political entities debating this [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Walking Dead” grumble thread: The night they drove ol’ Dixon down] 3/28/2016 10:01:59 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments How lame has this show gotten about teasing the death of major characters after the Glenn/dumpster fiasco of a few months ago? So lame that they’re now spoiling their own cliffhangers just in case there’s one idiot watching somewhere who [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mississippi looks at bringing back the firing squad] 3/28/2016 9:21:34 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments All across the country we’re seeing legal battles taking place in legislatures and courtrooms over the idea of either ending capital punishment or severely restricting how and when it is employed. Not least among these are questions concerning the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [How the GOP failed the Rust Belt and let Trump rise] 3/28/2016 8:41:03 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments There’s a new piece from Charlotte Allen at USA Today talking about why she, a Stanford grad, is supporting Donald Trump. It’s the typical pro-Trump piece (he’s capitalizing on the GOP’s failures in immigration and the Rust Belt, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [PSA: It’s been at least 513 days since ABC, NBC, or CBS reported on the IRS scandal] 3/28/2016 8:01:56 PM Matt Vespa 0 Comments Cortney O’Brien wrote earlier this week how the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit pretty much took the Internal Revenue Service to the woodshed for withholding documents relating to the targeting scandal that has united conservatives in [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Shocker: University of Missouri facing budget shortfall after political correctness engulfed campus] 3/28/2016 7:21:12 PM Matt Vespa 0 Comments So, after the whole mess surrounding the poop swastika; instances of harassment that were allegedly racially-motivated, though unverifiable since they occurred off campus; and a professor who was charged with assaulting a student reporter at protests [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [California sets off down slippery slope on Fight for 15] 3/28/2016 6:41:05 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Despite what’s already happened in Seattle and other, more confined locations, the word on the street out on the left coast is that California has cut a deal to raise the statewide minimum wage to $15 per hour incrementally over a few years time. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [ICYMI:The NYT editorial board thinks AR-15s fire in ‘rapid bursts’] 3/28/2016 6:01:33 PM Matt Vespa 0 Comments The Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this month almost made me forget about this fancy piece of fiction from The New York Times editorial board, which is that the AR-15 is an automatic weapon. The board was voicing their support for [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: I may have to sue Cruz for “stealing” delegates in Louisiana] 3/28/2016 5:21:45 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A leftover from yesterday’s Sunday shows. Skip to 8:35 of the clip below for the key bit. (In Trump’s defense, Jon Karl of ABC uses the term “stealing the nomination” before Trump answers.) As Matt Lewis said elsewhere this [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Secret Service: No, you’re not allowed to bring a gun to the Republican convention] 3/28/2016 4:41:58 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If we’re going to have a floor fight, let’s do it right. Jokes aside, the Secret Service is doing Reince and the RNC a favor here by throwing their own authority behind the gun ban at the convention. Kevin Dye, spokesperson for the U.S. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The wrong sales pitch] 3/28/2016 4:01:31 PM Allan Bourdius 0 Comments This past weekend was Easter, the most important religious observance for Christians, and as one myself it got me to thinking about the current state of religious liberty in the United States and the incredible damage done to liberty by religious [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hispanic business owner threatened over Trump “support”] 3/28/2016 3:21:25 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I found yet another thing to like about Easter yesterday which I really hadn’t been anticipating. In addition to church and some refreshing spring gardening work, a day off from the political battlefield actually had me feeling more relaxed and in [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmm: Kasich pulling radio ads from some parts of Wisconsin?] 3/28/2016 2:41:23 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Biggish news from talk show host (and new Trump nemesis) Charlie Sykes: BREAKING: Kasich campaign immediately pulling all radio ads from Wisconsin markets. — Charles Sykes (@SykesCharlie) March 28, 2016 Not true, says Team Kasich. Or at least, not [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Can Nikki Haley stop plutonium from being shipped to South Carolina?] 3/28/2016 2:01:45 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Now that South Carolina has their primary elections and the uprooting of the Confederate Battle Flag out of the way they clearly need something new to worry about and this should certainly fill the bill. Thanks to a nuclear containment deal made with the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Glenn Beck: I’ll drop Ted Cruz like a hot potato if these affair allegations are true] 3/28/2016 1:21:35 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via RCP. My headline’s misleading, as I’ll explain in a sec, but it does capture the newsiest soundbite from this clip. Standard operating procedure when a politician’s caught in a sex scandal is for his close allies to rally around [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Political idolatry in 2016] 3/28/2016 12:41:16 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments The reaction to the “Ted Cruz has five mistresses” story is bringing out the worst of the Internet. Donald Trump supporters are clinging to conspiracy theories about Cruz’ jacket, while Cruz fans are calling Cruz “sent from God.” Angry Marco Rubio [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Georgia Governor vetoes religious liberty bill] 3/28/2016 12:01:04 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments You could almost see this one coming from a country mile away. In the face of a huge media backlash and threats of economic boycotts, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal held a presser today to let everyone know that he would veto the religious liberty bill [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Audio: When a #NeverTrumper interviews Trump] 3/28/2016 11:21:33 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Did … no one on Trump’s staff bother checking Charlie Sykes’s archives about Trump before booking this interview? The guy hasn’t been shy about his views. This piece went live on Sykes’s website just last night, for cripes [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sanders: Bernmentum will put superdelegates on the spot in Philly] 3/28/2016 10:41:42 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Suuuuuuuure it will. Bernie Sanders easily bested Hillary Clinton in three caucuses over the weekend in Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington. The margin of victory was 40 points or more in each state, and an exultant Sanders told ABC’s This Week that the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Trump, Ryan increasingly at odds over future of the GOP] [Iraqi Christians fear extinction, see no relief from ISIS] [Report: Kasich looking to coordinate with Cruz against Trump — but Cruz isn’t interested] [An open letter to Trump voters from his top strategist-turned-defector] [Ted Cruz calls on Donald Trump to debate him in Wisconsin] [EgyptAir plane hijacked] [The death of moral relativism] [The psychology behind the Trump phenomenon] [Why the future will disappoint] [What percentage of women have breast implants?] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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