HotAir Daily Express 07/14/2015

Can Congress stop the Iran deal? 7/14/2015 10:01:10 AM  Ed Morrissey 34 Comments Now that the P5+1 and Iran have inked a deal that will unleash Tehran from decades of international sanctions, the agreement has to go before the legislatures in Iran and the US. The former is a mere formality; if Supreme Leader Ali Khameini likes the More... Video: Israel, Arabs agree on something — and you'll never guess what it is 7/14/2015 9:21:44 AM  Ed Morrissey 58 Comments Benjamin Netanyahu erupted in anger after the announcement of a deal with Iran, and he was far from alone in the region. NBC’s Richard Engel tells Morning Joe that Sunni allies of the US in the region have also reacted in anger and disbelief at the More... Obama: Trust me, Iran won't build a nuclear weapon 7/14/2015 8:41:55 AM  Ed Morrissey 115 Comments “Because of this deal,” Barack Obama said this morning from the White House, “we have stopped the spread of nuclear weapons in this region.” Want to bet? With Iran unleashed economically and militarily, this deal may end up More... Iran deal announced, gets over $100 billion in sanctioned assets 7/14/2015 8:01:55 AM  Ed Morrissey 124 Comments Iranian president Hassan Rouhani declared that his nation’s “prayers have come true.” The rest of us have to wonder if our worst nightmares may soon be fulfilled. The P5+1 group and Iran announced that they have reached a deal in which More... Quotes of the day 7/13/2015 10:01:17 PM  Allahpundit 473 Comments Scott Walker, the political phenomenon who rose to national fame by taking on unions in one of the most blue-collar states, announced Monday that he’ll seek the Republican nomination for president, using his kick-off rally to throw red meat to his More... "True Detective" isn't going to get better, is it? 7/13/2015 9:21:29 PM  Allahpundit 30 Comments Here’s what occurred to me during the big shootout last night, which, for all its gore, wasn’t half as tense as that long tracking shot last season where Rust Cohle made his getaway from the stash house: This isn’t going to improve. More... Video: A return to Bloom County? 7/13/2015 8:41:21 PM  Ed Morrissey 39 Comments Alas, this may just be temporary, but as creator Berkeley Breathed tweeted out today, it “feels like going home.” A quarter century after the departure of the comic strip Bloom County, Breathed plans to bring readers back to the fanciful More... Slate shocked, shocked that ObamaCare didn't fix cost curve 7/13/2015 8:01:03 PM  Ed Morrissey 79 Comments This is a few days old, but it’s still instructive on how those who have supported ObamaCare will defend it now that premiums have skyrocketed out of sight. Slate headlines the Helaine Olen piece as “ObamaCare’s Bill is Due,” but More... "Walking Dead" grumble thread: "Fear the Walking Dead" trailer lookin' surprisingly not too bad 7/13/2015 7:16:01 PM  Allahpundit 23 Comments To cleanse the palate, an ICYMI from Comic Con this weekend. “Fear the Walking Dead” is AMC’s attempt to franchise TWD, an immense ratings juggernaut. Why give up easy money when “The Walking Dead” is on hiatus when the More... Arby's responds to low-level vegetarian outrage with cheeky help line instead of caving 7/13/2015 6:31:05 PM  Mary Katharine Ham 82 Comments This month, Arby’s introduced a tempting new bacon product to the already generously bacon-infused fast-food market—brown sugar bacon. Arby’s was true to its slogan— “We Have the Meats.” But not everyone is excited that More... Webb: Warren-Sanders-Hillary leftist tilt "not my Democratic Party" 7/13/2015 6:01:36 PM  Ed Morrissey 49 Comments If Jim Webb could be bothered to campaign, he’d make a much more formidable opponent to Hillary Clinton than Bernie Sanders. The Democratic Party has all but abandoned working-class voters in middle America, Webb told Bret Baier yesterday on Fox More... Open thread: What is best in life, Scott Walker? 7/13/2015 5:21:34 PM  Allahpundit 124 Comments Live at 6 p.m. ET from crucial Waukesha County, the last top-tier Republican finally joins the race. Ironically, the most succinct statement of Walker’s appeal to righties comes from the country’s most famous labor leader: AFL-CIO President More... New Trump ad: Even my enemies know I'm for real in this race 7/13/2015 4:41:50 PM  Allahpundit 94 Comments Via Mediaite, a quickie that cost nothing to produce, is destined to end up embedded on thousands of Facebook pages, and proves that Trump knows exactly what his appeal is. Like I said Friday, even if he’s not the most conservative candidate in the More... Steel-melting hot take from Rolling Stone: AFL-CIO destroyed Walker … with a press release 7/13/2015 4:01:48 PM  Ed Morrissey 117 Comments What’s most amusing about this 2600º F take from Rolling Stone over a press release? Answer A: The magazine’s own utter lack of journalistic credibility. Answer B: The greasily obsequious fanboy-ism of Rolling Stone toward Richard Trumka, More... Amazon backs Ted Cruz: We've seen no bulk purchases that should keep him off the NYT bestseller list 7/13/2015 3:21:05 PM  Allahpundit 79 Comments Hard to believe the Times would be so petty in its disdain for Cruz that they’d kick him off the list and then lie about it, especially when, as their spokesman notes, right-wing authors like Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter routinely make the cut. But More... ABC: Son of Boston police captain held in ISIS-inspired plot 7/13/2015 2:41:07 PM  Ed Morrissey 64 Comments Given the history of Islamist terror plots in Boston, this breaking news item from Beantown seems even more disturbing. The FBI arrested the “estranged” son of a police captain on July 4th after he bought firearms from an informant working More... Video: Would you rather have a Hershey bar or a 10-ounce bar of silver? 7/13/2015 2:01:50 PM  Allahpundit 86 Comments Via the IJR, a timewaster while we wait for John Kerry to secure peace in our time in Vienna, the terms of which are reportedly shaping up exactly as you’d expect. This clip is interesting (assuming the interactions are genuine, which I think they More... Hillary speech: HSBC for we, but not for thee 7/13/2015 1:21:02 PM  Ed Morrissey 80 Comments After spending most of the year offering little in specifics on any issue, Hillary Clinton gave a major economic policy speech earlier today. She focused on middle-class wages, which have remained stagnant over the last six years of recovery, telling her More... All crimes are equal, but some crimes are more equal than others 7/13/2015 12:41:58 PM  Jazz Shaw 56 Comments I would like to send my thanks to our friend Jim Geraghty at National Review for pointing out something which I’m sure a lot of you have noticed and ruminated upon but really needed to be stated loudly in a public forum. There are definitely More... Maybe the GOP needs a No Labels movement 7/13/2015 12:01:01 PM  Ed Morrissey 282 Comments Republicans have had a number of successes over the last few years, even if the successes have been eclipsed by two national failures in presidential elections. The GOP holds more state-legislature seats now than at any time since Herbert Hoover was More... Christie: How many times does the media need me to say Trump's immigration comments were inappropriate? 7/13/2015 11:21:31 AM  Allahpundit 129 Comments Via RCP, a nice frame for this morning’s data crunch from BuzzFeed: From Monday to Friday of last week, “Trump” was said on the air more than a thousand times combined by CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, hundreds of times more than More... Give up and go home. The 2016 election is already over 7/13/2015 10:41:29 AM  Jazz Shaw 111 Comments We’re probably going to suffer through quite a few of these over the next fifteen months so let’s just get used to it now. Doug Sosnik at Politico has a lengthy “think piece” on the subject of how most presidential elections are More... Planned Parenthood director caught on tape selling aborted 'baby parts' Report: One-third of vets on pending medical care list already dead Taxing churches is a form of religious persecution — and liberals need to stand against it Republicans need to stop panicking about Trump It's come to this Rush Limbaugh to GOP: Stop bashing Trump or Hillary will win Israel blasts Iran deal as 'dark day in history' We have a nuclear deal with Iran The difference between Scott Walker and Marco Rubio Trump isn't the first left-wing bogeyman and he won't be the last