HotAir Daily Express 05/11/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Music licensing company sues Cruz campaign over usage rights] 5/11/2016 10:01:39 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments First it was the Rolling Stones going after Donald Trump (with very dim prospects for success) and now the music licensing bug seems to have struck the suspended presidential campaign of Ted Cruz. This one, however, may be coming from much more solid [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [How high is “too high” for smoking pot while driving?] 5/11/2016 9:21:01 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I didn’t see this one coming from AAA of all places, but questions are being raised about DUI laws when it comes to people smoking marijuana as opposed to drinking alcohol. How accurate is the testing used to determine when a pot smoker is [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: I’ll invest in rallies, not a robust ground game] 5/11/2016 8:41:03 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Can Donald Trump win a general election by using the same strategy he employed in the primaries? Instead of shifting from an earned-media, national-messaging model to a battleground model, Trump told the Associated Press that he will mainly use big [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary Clinton has a lot of donors in the Justice Department, with some in high places] 5/11/2016 8:01:59 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When James Comey concludes his FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email affairs he will have to decide whether or not to turn the case over to the Justice Department for prosecution. Assuming he does so, the ball will be in Loretta [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump campaign selects white nationalist as delegate, then blames ‘database error’] 5/10/2016 10:21:32 PM John Sexton 0 Comments If you’re trying to step away from the controversy of a contentious primary fight and present a more presidential face to the electorate it is really not helpful to make a mistake like this. From Mother Jones, which broke the story Tuesday: On [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Budweiser to rename its beer “America” until the election. No, really.] 5/10/2016 9:41:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate, they’re taking a risk by renaming a brand that’s universally known, even temporarily, but I think the risk is small. We all know what the can design looks like; you could rename the beer “Farts” and people [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Winners and losers: Live election recap of WV, NE primaries] 5/10/2016 9:01:24 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Will Ted Cruz step back into the race with a win in Nebraska? Will West Virginia coal country feel the Bern? Find out at 9:30 pm ET tonight on our Hot Air/Townhall live Primary Night coverage on the Hot Air Facebook page! Katie Pavlich and Ed Morrissey [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump 2006: Don’t forget that Hillary’s vote for war in Iraq was based on lies given to her] 5/10/2016 8:21:23 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You have to admire the sheer efficiency of a Republican nominee who can let Hillary Clinton off the hook for her Iraq vote and attack the last Republican president for having “lied” in the span of a single sentence. Here’s why [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cheryl Mills walked out on FBI interview after question about email sorting procedure] 5/10/2016 7:41:44 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Washington Post reported Tuesday afternoon that Hillary Clinton’s former Chief of Staff at the State Department, Cheryl Mills, walked out on an FBI interview that was part of the email investigation: Near the beginning of a recent interview, an [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rubio: I stand by what I said about not trusting Trump with the nuclear codes, and also I’ll keep my pledge to support the nominee] 5/10/2016 7:01:31 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Doesn’t work that way, champ. John McCormack writes: Back in February, Rubio was saying of Trump that we should not hand “the nuclear codes of the United States to an erratic individual.” He likened the idea of Trump to the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [EPA immediately yanks study showing weed killer doesn’t cause cancer] 5/10/2016 6:21:56 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Before jumping into this rather odd story, one quick question: is the EPA really the appropriate agency to oversee a study on whether or not some product causes cancer? I mean, if the Center for Disease Control wants to be in the business of studying gun [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [House committee: Obama admin official lied to Congress about ObamaCare exchange grant funding] 5/10/2016 5:41:11 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Did a key official in the ObamaCare chain of command lie to Congress about funds recouped from state-based exchanges? Andy Slavitt, acting Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) testified in a House Energy and Commerce [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [German authorities: Attacker who stabbed 4 while shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ not motivated by extremism] 5/10/2016 5:01:06 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A German man who attacked four strangers while shouting “Allahu akbar” is mentally-ill but probably not a terrorist according to German authorities. The stabbing took place Tuesday morning in a suburb of Munich. One person was stabbed on the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cruz delegates push to add transgender bathroom issue to RNC platform] 5/10/2016 4:31:20 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Assuming Ted Cruz doesn’t “unsuspend” his campaign after tonight’s caucus results are in, he won’t be going to the convention in Cleveland as a potential candidate to be nominated from the floor. But he’s still holding [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sen. Tim Scott, tea-party star, on whether he can support Trump: “Oh yeah”] 5/10/2016 4:01:59 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Man, if you’d told me that only one of South Carolina’s two Republican senators would end up walking away from Trump on principle, Lindsey Graham is not the one I would have guessed. Scott endorsed Rubio before the South Carolina primary but [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Steven Crowder, Salena Zito] 5/10/2016 3:31:48 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page as well as on our Ustream channel. Join us as we welcome: Andrew Malcolm joins us for Tuesdays [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Senator Thune demands answers from Facebook CEO about news bias] 5/10/2016 3:01:28 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The story which broke yesterday about possible suppression of conservative news at Facebook has taken a new and worrisome turn. Senator John Thune, chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, has sent a letter to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: 85% of Republicans (and leaners) already set to back Trump] 5/10/2016 2:31:06 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Is the #NeverTrump movement becoming primarily a shell which is rapidly hollowing out? The national polling is beginning to inevitably shift away from the primaries and more to the general election in November, hopefully providing some clarity as to the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Facebook scandal: Conservatives should flood the zone] 5/10/2016 2:01:19 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Yesterday, my friend Steven Crowder promised that he would not stand idly by after the Gizmodo exposé of Facebook’s suppression of conservative points of view in its trending topics. Today, Steven announced his next move — a legal demand from [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Glenn Beck to Cruz: Will you un-suspend your campaign if you win Nebraska tonight?] 5/10/2016 1:31:47 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The media’s already hyping Cruz’s answer — he’s not ruling anything out! — but you need to listen to the clip below (at 4:30) to appreciate how jokey it is. Beck and his crew are laughing through the question and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [State Dept. edited video to remove admission about Iran negotiations (Updated)] 5/10/2016 1:01:09 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The State Department cut a section of a daily briefing video from December 2013 in which Department spokesperson Jen Psaki admitted her predecessor had misled a reporter about the administration having direct negotiations with Iran. The missing minutes [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oil eating bacteria may be better at cleaning up spills than people] 5/10/2016 12:31:04 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments After the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010 there was a huge amount of oil released into the Gulf of Mexico. There’s simply no way to sugarcoat the news on that one… we lost a lot of oil into the water. A number of containment technologies [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fleecing Flint? Lawsuit alleges mayor diverted charity donors to her campaign fund] 5/10/2016 12:01:16 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It may not just be the water that’s not right around Flint. Former city administrator Natasha Handerson got canned in a strange closed-door city council meeting in February, and a new lawsuit alleges that the firing took place as retribution for [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Cruz tells backers on conference call that he’ll attend the convention] 5/10/2016 11:21:22 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Why is this news? Because an awful lot of Cruzers on social media seem to believe that him endorsing Trump is not only unlikely but grounds for political divorce. “It’ll prove he isn’t the person I thought he was!” they keep [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Corruption probe into Cuomo, de Blasio expands] 5/10/2016 10:41:58 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There’ been an interesting twist in the ongoing corruption investigation swirling around New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo. The Mayor has apparently had enough of all these pesky questions and he’s no longer going [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Joe Biden: “I would have been the best president”] [Flint mayor diverted water-crisis money to political PAC, suit says] [Perry and other Republicans sell their souls to Trump] [ISIS claims responsibility for deadly Baghdad bombing] [The Senate has no business investigating Facebook] [Queen caught on camera saying Chinese officials were ‘very rude’] [Ben Carson is off Trump’s VP vetting team] [A letter to friends about my choice for president] [The mystery of why black Americans are living longer] [The five Trump supporters you meet in the green room] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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