HotAir Daily Express 07/27/2015

McConnell's wheeling and dealing shows what leadership and compromise aren't 7/27/2015 10:01:42 AM  Taylor Millard 42 Comments It really shouldn’t be a surprise to see Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell allow the Ex-Im Bank to be revived after it expired in June. Nor is it really surprising to hear McConnell apparently made a deal with three senators (two of them More... Video: Huckabee doubles down on Holocaust reference over Iran deal 7/27/2015 9:21:36 AM  Ed Morrissey 43 Comments “We really haven’t even heard language like that from Prime Minister Netanyahu,” CNN’s Elisa Labott noted yesterday after Mike Huckabee’s comments to Breitbart on the Iran deal. On Saturday, Huckabee told Alexander Marlow on More... With Iran squared away, it's time to show some of that "flexibility" to North Korea 7/27/2015 8:41:30 AM  Jazz Shaw 21 Comments Trigger warning: This is not an article from The Onion. What with the Iran negotiations being such an historic and staggering success, some members of Team Obama seem to be thinking that this fabulous operating model could be ported over to other More... Carson would dump all of Obamacare but one piece 7/27/2015 8:01:54 AM  Jazz Shaw 35 Comments Remember that neurosurgeon guy who said he wanted to run for President? If you work for one of the major cable news networks or the nation’s largest newspapers you probably don’t. I base this anecdotally on the fact that I was struggling this More... Quotes of the Day 7/26/2015 8:01:53 PM  Jazz Shaw 456 Comments But among all registered voters in these two presidential battleground states, the NBC-Marist polls finds that almost all of the major presidential candidates are unpopular – and that’s especially true for Clinton. The favorable/unfavorable More... The Last Ship open thread: If you thought this presidential campaign is bad … 7/26/2015 6:31:19 PM  Ed Morrissey 42 Comments Last week, I wondered how the submariner Immunes planned to “take America.” It turns out that they want to do it the old-fashioned way: by a demagoguish presidential campaign. (Hey, that could never happen here!)  The Immunes — oh, More... Film review: Pixels 7/26/2015 5:01:14 PM  C.T. Rex 32 Comments Suffice it to say Hollywood’s track record of creating video game-related movies is less than stellar, but video games are simply too popular to ignore so they keep trying again every few years.  Normally they pick a video game and make some More... Joe Lieberman may have Chuck Schumer over a barrel on Iran 7/26/2015 3:31:45 PM  Jazz Shaw 65 Comments I’ve yet to be convinced that anyone knows what the end game on the Iran nuclear deal will be, but its future in the Senate is going to be touch and go. The GOP seems to be in lockstep against it … mostly. But that doesn’t mean that a More... Videos: RNC Chair calls for a truce, Trump calls Reince "a terrific guy" 7/26/2015 2:01:51 PM  Jazz Shaw 63 Comments A couple of video specials for your Sunday consumption, each dealing with precisely how hot we would like the fire outside the frying pan to be this primary season. The first is a brief stop at Greta’s show on Fox this week where Reince Priebus was More... Don't believe the #cuckservative lie 7/26/2015 12:31:48 PM  Taylor Millard 503 Comments The pejorative du jour on social media these days is "cuckservative." The word is a combination of cuckold, i.e. the husband of an adulteress, and a conservative. There are those who promise it’s used to describe Republicans in Congress and More... Sunday reflection: John 6:1–15 7/26/2015 11:31:28 AM  Ed Morrissey 14 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... Trump tumbles from huge lead in polls to slightly less huge lead 7/26/2015 11:01:51 AM  Jazz Shaw 254 Comments CNN/ORC released their latest presidential polling results this morning, just in time for the Sunday show line-up. Their big tease prior to the reveal had been, “Have Trump’s comments about John McCain finally eroded his support?” The More... The GOP elite wants to put Ted Cruz in time out Planned Parenthood: Hey… we didn't break any actual laws you know Rick Perry: Gun free zones are not a good idea Woman who shot attacker may have taken out a serial killer Cruz needed McConnell for a sparring partner Amazingly, racist Swedish cops suspect Snoop Dog of having drugs Democrats abandoning Jefferson and Jackson says a lot Cuba has a hockey team? Well … not so much now Rand Paul: "Clintons think they live above the law" Senate fast-tracking bill to defund Planned Parenthood?