HotAir Daily Express 04/08/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Remember the withdrawal from Helmand? Never mind] 4/8/2016 10:01:17 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Eighteen months ago, the US and UK conducted a formal ceremony in Afghanistan’s Helmand province for our official withdrawal. We handed over two bases to Afghan security forces, lowered the flags for the final time, and duly exited one of the most [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The dangerous temptation of the “Clean Slate” crew] 4/8/2016 9:21:23 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Conservative talk radio host Michael Graham (who I failed to get a picture with at CPAC this year) has shown up in The Federalist this week with the latest Wile E. Coyote scheme to gain popularity in the #NeverTrump movement: Why A Clean Slate At The GOP [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did Pope Francis open the door to communion for divorced and remarried Catholics?] 4/8/2016 8:41:13 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “Consequently, I do not recommend a rushed reading of the text.” In the seventh paragraph of his new apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis warns observers to take their time in digesting what he has written — and perhaps [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Senate GOP just voted down airplane legroom standards] 4/8/2016 8:01:30 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’m normally one of the bigger fans of Congress doing nothing, which is fortunate because it’s one of their most frequent accomplishments. But every once in a while a story comes along where I’m tempted by the idea of one of them [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jihadists murder Bangladeshi blogger for his secular views] 4/7/2016 10:41:14 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A 26-year-old university student and secular blogger named Nazimuddin Samad was murdered in the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh Wednesday by a group of men believed to be Islamic militants. Samad is the 7th secular blogger murdered in Bangladesh since [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Should failed candidates be allowed to pledge their delegates to other candidates?] 4/7/2016 10:01:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments An interesting little aside from a Washington Times story about what Marco Rubio might be up to at the convention. Remember, Rubio’s taken the unusual step of requesting that the delegates he won in Alaska, Oklahoma, and Washington D.C. remain [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Security flaws identified in Obamacare exchanges, data hub described as ‘vulnerable’] 4/7/2016 9:21:37 PM John Sexton 0 Comments An investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found security flaws in 3 of 3 state Obamacare exchanges it examined, suggesting similar problems would likely be found at other state-based exchanges. The GAO released a report on its [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Cruz hit hard over “New York values” in tough new ad from … John Kasich’s Super PAC] 4/7/2016 8:41:25 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Check the polls in New York and you’ll see that having The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave hanging around might not be all bad this time. Kasich is ahead of Cruz in three of the last five polls there, which suggests a lot of resistance to Cruz [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [GOP Senator: I’m sort of endorsing Cruz, but only by default] 4/7/2016 8:01:44 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Elections boil down to choices, and sometimes none of them generate much enthusiasm. Senator Jim Risch, Ted Cruz’ Republican colleague from Idaho, explains his reasons for backing Donald Trump’s biggest challenger for the GOP [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pat Buchanan: Let’s face it, a Trump/Cruz ticket would set the country on fire] 4/7/2016 7:21:05 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via Breitbart, the key bit below starts at 6:30. When he says “set the country on fire,” does he mean people literally setting things on fire in rage over how much they hate a Trump/Cruz ticket? Because I can sort of see that. Trump’s [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmm: Q-poll of PA shows a rosy picture for Toomey, gloomy for Dems] 4/7/2016 6:41:39 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Every four years, Republicans salivate over the prospect of stealing a state or two from Democrats in a presidential election. They’ve come close in Wisconsin and might succeed this year, as I write in my upcoming book Going Red, but usually the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Whoa: Bill Clinton unloads on … Black Lives Matter protesters] 4/7/2016 6:01:17 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Good lord, says Sean Trende — he’s having another “Sistah Souljah moment. In 2016. After he’s already attacked Obama repeatedly and his wife’s come under fire from black activists over drug sentences mandated by Bill’s [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [AP Poll: Negative view of Trump nears 70 percent] 4/7/2016 5:21:27 PM John Sexton 0 Comments An Associated Press-GfK Poll released Thursday finds Donald Trump’s “unfavorable” numbers are nearing 70 percent. The AP reports: Seven in 10 people, including close to half of Republican voters, have an unfavorable view of Trump, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Liberal New York Republican to vote for liberal New York Republican] 4/7/2016 4:41:37 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments No no, that headline’s unfair. There are lots of differences between them politically. For one thing, Giuliani’s pro-choice whereas Trump is … pro-life-ish? Sort of? Trump, Giuliani, and Chris Christie are birds of a feather in that [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump spox: Polls showing issues with women are just liberal manipulation, y’know] 4/7/2016 4:01:20 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments When the polls favor Donald Trump, he and his media surrogates never hesitate to highlight them. When they cut against their preferred narrative, they suddenly become “manipulated.” In this, the Trump campaign sounds like … well, pretty [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Clinton struggles with subway turnstile, fortunately the media is eager to help her out] 4/7/2016 3:21:25 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Hillary Clinton is campaigning in New York this week and Thursday morning she decided to do a campaign stunt in which she would ride the NYC subway to show that she’s still a regular person. Keep in mind this is someone who has not driven a car in [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cruz set to crush Trump in battle for Colorado’s delegates] 4/7/2016 2:41:05 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This shouldn’t seem surprising after all the reports of Trump’s disorganization at the state level, but it does. How was this guy so ill prepared for a convention battle when political pros have been warning that a convention battle was [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Thursday TEMS: Guest hosting for Relevant Radio!] 4/7/2016 2:01:55 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today and the rest of this week, I get to step outside the box and guest-host for Drew Mariani at Relevant Radio from 3-6 pm ET! The Catholic talk-radio network is heard on over 40 stations nationwide, including affiliates and O&Os in New York, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sanders catches Clinton in national poll] 4/7/2016 1:21:16 PM John Sexton 0 Comments We’ve seen this coming for weeks and now it’s here. A PRRI/Atlantic poll released Thursday shows Bernie Sanders has erased Hillary Clinton’s national lead among Democrats. The results are within the margin of error so this is officially [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump, Kasich doing well in Maryland (not to mention New York)] 4/7/2016 12:41:52 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Part of the long awaited northeast swing in the primary race will feature Maryland on April 26th. If you’re a Republican, your first response is likely something along the lines of, “who cares?” It’s generally a fair question, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cruz in NY: I’d rather back small business than Trump University] 4/7/2016 12:01:50 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If Ted Cruz ducked a frontal attack on Donald Trump for most of the past year, he’s certainly not shying away from that fight now. Despite tracking around 30 points below Trump in New York, Cruz went after Trump in his power base of New York City, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: You want the new Star Wars “Rogue One” trailer so here’s the new Star Wars “Rogue One” trailer] 4/7/2016 11:21:49 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments “Rogue One” is catchy but Sonny Bunch’s title is better: “Mary Sue Steals the Death Star Plans.” Young? Check. Hypercompetent? Clearly. Destined to save the day? Indubitably. Same as Rey in “Force Awakens” [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Clinton will require employers to “review pay fairness”] 4/7/2016 10:41:18 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Who is Hillary Clinton pandering to this week? Ah yes… we’re back to the women and the gender wage gap. In her ongoing effort to put some daylight between herself and Bernie Sanders, Clinton is working to shore up her support with female [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Trump’s new magic number is 40% of the vote] [Geraldo Rivera blasts Ted Cruz for “stinking anti-Semitic” comments] [Journalists are giddy over the prospect of a contested GOP convention] [Clinton team blasts reporters with noise machine during Hillary fundraising speech] [Cruz apology to McConnell? “Ain’t gonna happen,” he says] [New hire signals a reboot in the Donald Trump campaign] [Basketball + gladiators = “Fightball”?] [Why you never want to duel with lightsabers] [Is porn culture to be feared?] [Would you park your dog in a locker while you eat brunch?] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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