HotAir Daily Express 04/13/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [California unions arrange to cut their own members out of wage increases] 4/13/2016 10:01:14 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Out in California there’s been huge “progress” in the Fight for 15 and raising the minimum wage. Obviously it’s not just grassroots activists and disaffected workers getting all of this done because they generally don’t have [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Brady Campaign responds to NRA fairy tales by… shooting a child in the face] 4/13/2016 9:21:50 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We owe a hat tip to Aleister at Progressives Today for this one because the debate over Second Amendment rights may have just hit a new low. You may recall that we previously covered the release of some Second Amendment friendly reboots of Grimm’s [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Q-poll: Trump gets 55% six days out from primary] 4/13/2016 8:41:21 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments In Wisconsin, Ted Cruz managed to engineer a 25-point flip in the gap against Donald Trump with intense campaigning — and no small amount of help from Trump himself. Six days out from the New York primary, however, no such momentum has [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [It’s foolish to blame Reince Priebus for a schism in the GOP] 4/13/2016 8:01:05 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s still far too soon for projections of a lasting, irreparable split in the Republican Party. In every election season we see tempers running well above ambient as supporters of different candidates joust for position and exchange the occasional [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Was the riff for Stairway to Heaven taken from another band’s song?] 4/12/2016 10:41:36 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin are facing a copyright lawsuit after a judge ruled Friday that the question of whether the opening riff for Stairway to Heaven was pilfered from another band can go before a jury. CNN reports: The lawsuit was [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Audio: Ted Cruz goes off on Trump — and Chris Christie — for 20 minutes] 4/12/2016 10:01:42 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The man ate his Wheaties this morning. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him attack Trump in this sort of sustained way, on so many different subjects, from Trump’s whining about the delegate debacle to Roger Stone’s thuggery towards [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NBC/SurveyMonkey poll: Hillary leads Trump by just two points head to head while leading Cruz by five] 4/12/2016 9:21:24 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A little treat for the Trump fans out there who are tired, I’m sure, of being reminded that he polls terribly among the general electorate. This is the first survey I’ve seen in awhile showing him within shouting distance of Hillary; even [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Joe Scarborough on Clinton email investigation: ‘Rigged, rigged, rigged, rigged’] 4/12/2016 8:41:41 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This clip gets off to a slow start but once it gets going there is a solid 6+ minutes of everyone at the table attacking President Obama’s decision to talk about the Clinton email investigation at a time when the FBI still has dozens of agents [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Even Krugman thinks Sanders is ‘over the edge’] 4/12/2016 8:01:33 PM Matt Vespa 0 Comments Up is down; black is white; Trump is the GOP frontrunner; and a self-described democratic socialist has performed way beyond expectations. Oh, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) could snatch the GOP nomination away from Trump. This whole election cycle is full of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Why is it easier to buy a gun than it is to buy the NRA’s mascot outfit?] 4/12/2016 7:21:14 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s “Daily Show” alum Samantha Bee, now with her own show serving up the same comedy comfort food for liberals that her alma mater did. Deep question: Why is it that you can walk into a gun store anywhere in America and buy a lethal [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sanders hits Clinton’s ‘credibility gap’ over gun control argument] 4/12/2016 6:41:18 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Yesterday I wrote about the misleading gun control claim being made by Hillary Clinton, i.e. that guns from Vermont were causing crime in New York. Today, Bernie Sanders took a shot a Clinton’s “credibility gap” over the same [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: The “zombie apocalypse” wisdom teeth prank] 4/12/2016 6:01:10 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate, a viral sensation that raises an important question: How do you pull a prank like this and not arrange for someone in full zombie make-up to pop out from the side of the road and come shambling towards the car? Were they afraid [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Trump hits 60 percent in New York] 4/12/2016 5:21:06 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A NY1/Baruch College poll of New York found Donald Trump has hit 60 percent support and leads his nearest rival in the state by 43 percent. NY1 News reports: Running in his home state, Trump is supported by 60 percent of likely Republican voters, the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Paul Ryan speaks: We need a rule at the convention barring anyone who hasn’t run from winning the nomination] 4/12/2016 4:41:49 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Here’s his presser, as promised this morning. The line you’ll hear most often on the news tonight is “I do not want, nor will I accept, the nomination for our party,” but that’s not the most interesting line. The most interesting [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [A rape survivor’s road to recovery started with firearms training] 4/12/2016 4:01:27 PM Matt Vespa 0 Comments Meet Autumn Parkin. She’s a mother of three from Boise, Idaho–and she’s a gun rights advocate. She didn’t always use to be this way. In her profile video with The Blaze, she admits that she comes from a liberal background, she did not grow up with [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bryan Adams cancels Mississippi concert over new “anti-gay” law after playing Egypt last month] 4/12/2016 3:21:04 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments For the benefit of younger readers wondering, “Who’s Bryan Adams?”, he had some hits before you were born. Ask mom and dad. I missed this yesterday but BizPac Review, along with various conservative tweeters, were all over it. This is [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Grassley meets with Garland, says no movement on nomination] 4/12/2016 2:41:19 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Senator Chuck Grassley had breakfast with President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, Tuesday morning. After the meeting, Grassley announced there would be no change with regard to moving forward with confirmation hearings [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [She’s baaaaack. Rachel Dolezal is working on a new book on racial identity] 4/12/2016 2:01:16 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There’s a name you probably haven’t heard in a while and thought you might never hear again. (Or would “hoped” be a better word there?) Rachael Dolezal is, for better or worse, back in the news and she’s allegedly writing a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Study: Unemployment erodes belief others have a right to keep what they earn] 4/12/2016 1:21:45 PM John Sexton 0 Comments So this is an interesting finding with some obvious application to our political system. A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) found that unemployed people are less likely to believe others have the right to keep [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Finally: Paul Ryan to rule out presidential run at RNC press conference this afternoon] 4/12/2016 12:41:46 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Let’s review: He’s not running. He was never going to run. You’d need to be a borderline imbecile to believe that a convention packed with delegates loyal to Trump and Cruz would turn to Ryan barring anything short of a bitter, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ed Morrissey on Morning Joe, discussing the release of Going Red] 4/12/2016 12:01:15 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As we announced earlier this morning, today is the day when Ed Morrissey’s new book, Going Red: The Two Million Voters Who Will Elect the Next President — and How Conservatives Can Win Them, went on sale. (Order yours at the link!) As part of the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Colorado Trump delegate who burned his party registration: I may have missed a meeting] 4/12/2016 11:21:09 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments In a better world, this media whirlwind would end with an admission that an honest mistake had been made and everyone would let it drop. In the world we live in, so much emotion has been invested in the narrative that an average joe was cheated out of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Illegal alien disappears in Nebraska after killing local woman] 4/12/2016 10:41:25 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Precisely how many more of these stories do we need to see? Out in Nebraska, Senator Ben Sasse is up in arms after an illegal immigrant accused of killing a woman with his car while driving drunk was released from custody and then failed to show up for [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Trump’s strategy to counter organizational deficiencies: Complain that the system is rigged] [Supreme Court meetings fail to sway Republicans] [Drudge goes all in for Trump] [Trump fights to fend off Cruz in upstate New York] [Cruz close to ensuring that Trump can’t win on the second ballot at the convention] [Does watching porn make people less religious?] [Thirteen anonymous genetic superheroes walk among us] [How killer robots will save us all] [The case for making Donald Trump king of America] [The GOP has two fevers that need to break] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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