HotAir Daily Express 08/04/2015

COMING SOON: Oct 20, Are you prepared for the upcoming financial storm? 5 Best and Worst IRA / 401(K) Rollover Decisions ever made Special: 6 Banks in America Backing New Form of Currency, Will Render Your Money Useless! New CMP video: Intact fetuses "just a matter of line items" for Planned Parenthood 8/4/2015 10:32:45 AM  Ed Morrissey 5 Comments As suspected, that temporary restraining order isn’t restraining Center for Medical Progress from continuing to release videos about Planned Parenthood, even if it might delay material from the National Abortion Federation. CMP just dropped a new More... Federal judge extends TRO on Planned Parenthood videos to end of August; Update: New video dropping today? 8/4/2015 10:01:23 AM  Ed Morrissey 35 Comments Is this a blow for Center for Medical Progress, or a short toss into a briar patch? Last week, a federal judge in San Francisco placed a temporary restraining order on CMP that enjoined it from releasing any more of its videos, specifically those More... WSJ/NBC poll shows Hillary favorability shrinking across the board 8/4/2015 9:21:46 AM  Ed Morrissey 41 Comments Democrats like to argue that demographics are destiny. If so, they’re headed for disaster, as long as Hillary Clinton remains the front-runner for the nomination. A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows her favorability ratings shrinking, More... Some "political speed dating" in New Hampshire 8/4/2015 8:41:25 AM  Jazz Shaw 21 Comments Like many of the hopeless political addicts around the nation, I turned on C-SPAN last night and sat through the first “unofficial” debate of the GOP primary season, the Voters First summit in New Hampshire Sean Sullivan of the Washington More... Special: 6 Banks in America Backing New Form of Currency, Will Render Your Money Useless! 5 Best and Worst IRA / 401(K) Rollover Decisions COMING SOON: Oct 20, Are you prepared for the upcoming financial storm? Making sense of the TX AG indictment 8/4/2015 8:01:42 AM  Taylor Millard 18 Comments The indictment against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is pretty straightforward, but also leaves plenty of questions. Paxton turned himself into Collin County authorities on Monday after a grand jury indicted him on securities fraud violations. More... Quotes of the day 8/3/2015 10:41:47 PM  Allahpundit 280 Comments Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his associates have begun to actively explore a possible presidential campaign, which would upend the Democratic field and deliver a direct threat to Hillary Rodham Clinton, several people who have spoken to Mr. More... Real TIME headline: "Charles Koch Says U.S. Can Bomb Its Way to $100K Salaries" 8/3/2015 10:11:12 PM  Mary Katharine Ham 25 Comments You won’t be surprised to learn that the libertarian Koch said…exactly the opposite. What he was pointing out as a “monstrous measure” was the amount of spending, particularly government spending on among other things military More... Democrats manning the walls to defend sanctuary cities 8/3/2015 9:21:57 PM  Jazz Shaw 54 Comments Last month, trying to strike while the iron was hot, some members of Congress – most notably Chuck Grassley – drafted legislation to reign in the so called “sanctuary cities” where illegal immigrants are regularly released back More... "True Detective" grumble thread: Playin' out the string 8/3/2015 8:41:39 PM  Allahpundit 23 Comments In hindsight I’m embarrassed that I’ve pushed theories on you guys about huge twists to come as season two tumbled to its end. Between the complexity of the plot and the endless detours into humdrum personal drama, like Frank’s IVF More... The Brits struggle to deal with their own illegal immigrant problem 8/3/2015 8:01:17 PM  Jazz Shaw 40 Comments We make plenty of news here in the United States for our “hateful policies of exclusion” when it comes to trying to keep people from illegally entering the country, but we’re actually not the only ones dealing with the issue. In merry More... Having solved all other problems, NY fines companies selling toy guns 8/3/2015 7:21:57 PM  Jazz Shaw 27 Comments New York’s Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, in cahoots with his boss, Andrew Cuomo, are very big into solving problems. Not to confuse anyone here… they’re not dropping the murder rate in New York City or staunching the the More... Open thread: Are you ready for the first GOP non-debate debate? 8/3/2015 6:41:19 PM  Allahpundit 406 Comments The things you learn when you return from vacation: Not only is the first candidate forum of the primary campaign being held tonight at 7 p.m. ET, three days before the Trump show/GOP debate on Fox News this Thursday, but virtually every candidate will More... The latest from the campaign trail: Machine-gun bacon 8/3/2015 6:01:28 PM  Ed Morrissey 52 Comments I’m certain that Ted Cruz offered this look into Texas-style bacon as a celebration of his leading status within the Hot Air survey, so …. you’re welcome. What could appeal more to conservatives than a demonstration of appreciation for More... Video: Adorable hitchhiking robot brutally murdered in Philadelphia, of course; Update: Video emerges 8/3/2015 5:21:55 PM  Allahpundit 123 Comments To cleanse the palate, he made it across Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands without incident. In the U.S.? Rubble in less than two weeks. His safe travels were a “huge test of human kindness,” per NBC, all but guaranteeing that the robot More... Video: Team Biden "ramping up," but is Hillary worried? 8/3/2015 4:41:19 PM  Ed Morrissey 40 Comments ABC’s Jon Karl calls this a “possible bombshell” in the 2016 sweepstakes, but it would have been little more than a footnote had it not been for the epic failure of Hillary Clinton as a candidate. The polling woes of Hillary have lured More... Hillary begs forgiveness from abortion warriors in new video: I am with you, Planned Parenthood! 8/3/2015 4:01:52 PM  Allahpundit 570 Comments Five days later, she’s still doing penance with the left for calling the CMP videos “disturbing,” eh? She must be in some awfully hot water behind the scenes: Josh Jordan’s right that she’s taking a risk here by stepping up More... Video: Navy won't rule out charges against Chattanooga defender 8/3/2015 3:21:45 PM  Ed Morrissey 125 Comments Honestly, this development seemed so bizarre that it screamed “hoax!” Apparently, though, the US Navy investigation into the mass shootings in Chattanooga might result in charges against one officer who returned fire in defense of his More... Texas AG officially indicted 8/3/2015 2:41:19 PM  Taylor Millard 74 Comments Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is officially under indictment on securities fraud allegations. Word leaked out over the weekend on a Collin County grand jury decision which faces the hefty potential prison sentence of up to 99 years, if Paxton is More... Light reading: Khamenei pens book on how to outfox US, destroy Israel 8/3/2015 2:01:53 PM  Jazz Shaw 28 Comments Ed announced earlier today that Americans are not wild about the proposed Iran nuclear deal and generally oppose it by a wide margin. Americans certainly are a skeptical and suspicious lot, aren’t they? And why would everyone have so many More... Monmouth poll: Trump now leads GOP field by 14 points, biggest margin to date 8/3/2015 1:21:04 PM  Allahpundit 294 Comments Good catch by my pal Karl: If you look at RCP’s poll round-up, you’ll see that most national surveys lately fall into two groups. One group has Trump up by just three or four points, the other has him up 11 or 12. What’s interesting More... The "Draft Jon Stewart" train rumbles on 8/3/2015 12:41:08 PM  Jazz Shaw 42 Comments While it’s not the first time it’s been brought up in liberal circles (generally in jest) there is a bit more serious tone to an editorial which found its way to the pages of CNN this week. The unapologetic title says it all… Jon More... Open thread: Senate debate on defunding Planned Parenthood; Update: Manchin supports defunding 8/3/2015 12:01:02 PM  Ed Morrissey 132 Comments The bill to defund Planned Parenthood, S.1881, comes to the floor at 1 pm ET today. It faces a cloture vote in the near term and an almost certain Barack Obama vote in the long term, and it’s not certain that the bill’s supporters have enough More... Trump: I don't think I'll be throwing any punches at Thursday's GOP debate 8/3/2015 11:21:54 AM  Allahpundit 76 Comments Alternate headline: “Blogger loses all interest in Thursday’s GOP debate.” I’m less interested in watching Trump throw punches than seeing who’ll throw the first punch at him. Most people would say “Perry,” but More... Cash-strapped Rick Santorum campaign reshuffles staff California city appoints two illegals as commissioners on advisory boards Jon Stewart became what he once denounced Poll: Trump 21, Bush 10, Walker 8 The Fox debate format isn't that much of a disaster Another poll shows Hillary's popularity fading, especially with white women Can Sarah Palin sell Donald Trump to 'Joe Six-Pack'? The disgusting secrets of smelly feet My wife's one-way trip to Mars Republicans shouldn't fear a third-party Trump Special: 6 Banks in America Backing New Form of Currency, Will Render Your Money Useless! 5 Best and Worst IRA / 401(K) Rollover Decisions COMING SOON: Oct 20, Are you prepared for the upcoming financial storm?