HotAir Daily Express 06/22/2015

Meh-trage: Obama uses N-word to discuss progress on racial division 6/22/2015 10:01:28 AM  Ed Morrissey 30 Comments Lots of media outlets have written headlines like this to grab readers and troll for attention, but at least thus far the commentariat isn’t taking the bait. Obama uses N-word on @marcmaron's podcast while arguing US is not 'cured' of More... So now we have to worry about knife control laws? 6/22/2015 9:21:35 AM  Jazz Shaw 40 Comments At some point I’ll be forced to admit that the overarching strategy of the government (at all levels) is to just regulate, restrict or prohibit so many things that we simply won’t have enough hours in the day to fight them all. When it comes More... WSJ: Gruber worked far more closely with White House than previously acknowledged 6/22/2015 8:41:58 AM  Ed Morrissey 35 Comments Gruber’s baaaaaa-aaaaack, and badder than ever. The Wall Street Journal’s Stephanie Armour got 20,000 pages of e-mail from the House Oversight Committee that MIT professor Jonathan Gruber exchanged with the White House on ObamaCare, making it More... A Confederate monument defaced 6/22/2015 8:01:52 AM  Jazz Shaw 124 Comments Yesterday, in the midst of all the church services and speeches and emotional turmoil welling up in Charleston, South Carolina, protesters defaced a statue in White Point Gardens. The iconic piece, dedicated to the Confederate soldiers from the state, More... Quotes of the day 6/21/2015 8:01:38 PM  Allahpundit 401 Comments It took less than two days for the press to take a story about a white South Carolina man who shot and killed nine black churchgoers, and turn it into a story about the Confederate battle flag flying outside South Carolina’s state house. For media, More... Kasich reportedly getting testy as he fails to attract donors 6/21/2015 6:31:17 PM  Jazz Shaw 54 Comments Ohio Governor John Kasich is still officially unofficially running for President, at least until next month when he plans on making it officially official. But in the intervening time, it seems that he’s running into some headwinds when it comes to More... Rubio crime spree overshadowed by Trump crime spree 6/21/2015 5:01:47 PM  Jazz Shaw 41 Comments I don’t know how the political process could carry on without the New York City media. First the New York Times broke the story of Marco Rubio’s demonic record of traffic violations. The nation was rocked, but somehow we managed to heal and More... Mark Meadows gets the boot from subcommittee chair after bucking leadership 6/21/2015 3:01:00 PM  Jazz Shaw 105 Comments More than a week ago there was a procedural vote in the lower chamber where the leadership was pushing in support of Barack Obama's request for fast-track authority on the big Pacific trade deal. When the votes were counted, 34 Republicans bucked the More... Flashback: How we will be told to "fix things" after Charleston 6/21/2015 1:01:58 PM  Jazz Shaw 143 Comments As I wrote earlier today in a discussion on All the Crazy and All the Racism, dealing specifically with the plaintive cries over what we are to do about it, some of the usual targets will be in the sights of the liberal media. What we should expect to More... Milbank: Liberal is no longer a dirty word 6/21/2015 11:01:13 AM  Jazz Shaw 76 Comments After spending years on the shelf as a term used to describe your crazy aunt who took a few too many of the sugar cubes in the park back in the sixties, the moniker “liberal” is back in vogue. Or at least that’s the opinion of Dana More... Sunday reflection: Mark 4:35-41 6/21/2015 10:51:33 AM  Ed Morrissey 33 Comments "Sunday Reflection" is a regular feature, looking at the specific readings used in today's Mass in Catholic parishes around the world. The reflection represents only my own point of view, intended to help prepare myself for the Lord's day and More... Dem strategist: Don't be surprised if Bernie Sanders wins Iowa and New Hampshire It's come to this Poll: Jeb Bush now the top choice of 22% of Republicans, more than any other candidate "There will be a deal, Americans need it more than we do." Donald Trump's politics by hammer Revealed: Jon Gruber had larger role in ObamaCare than thought Beyond dinosaurs, what would we need to create a Jurassic world? "The reality is that we are all living not far away from one" The Shakespeare algorithm Donald Trump and the art of the con