HotAir Daily Express 08/13/2015

Obama's new climate plan is brilliant… at punishing his red state opponents 8/13/2015 10:01:58 AM  Jazz Shaw 24 Comments When the first draft of the EPA’s new “Clean Power Plan” came out it was pretty bad. Unfortunately, it didn’t capture much in the way of media attention because there were too many other shiny objects and squirrels out there for More... Dems in panic mode as Hillary's team lawyers up 8/13/2015 9:21:22 AM  Ed Morrissey 106 Comments As the Saga of the Secret Server continues to unfold, Democrats are finding Hillary Clinton’s reassurances and talking points less and less convincing. The FBI took possession of the server yesterday afternoon after retrieving it from Platte River More... Tom Steyer wants to know why the gas prices he jacked up are so high 8/13/2015 8:41:13 AM  Jazz Shaw 48 Comments Billionaire liberal activist Tom Steyer wants to be the next governor of California, at least according to west coast insiders. (Why on Earth anyone would want that job at this moment in history remains a mystery for the ages.) If you’re going to More... Trump promises detailed issue stances soon 8/13/2015 8:01:26 AM  Taylor Millard 72 Comments Donald Trump is promising he’s going to release detailed policy stances soon. He told reporters in Michigan yesterday why he wasn’t getting into a lot of specifics at the moment. I think you’re gonna see lots of plans and you’re More... Quotes of the day 8/12/2015 10:41:03 PM  Allahpundit 554 Comments 1) Trump’s success will shake up the political establishment — “I’m seriously thinking about voting for trump, and here is why. I firmly believe that our system of government is deeply flawed, if not completely broken. Yet we More... Video: NBC Nightly News isn't even buying the Hillary spin on the e-mail server 8/12/2015 10:01:51 PM  Mary Katharine Ham 92 Comments You’re telling me the Camp Hillary virtuoso of spin, Jennifer Palmieri, went to the trouble of sending out an op-ed length nonsense-gram to Hillary supporters today and she couldn’t even sway the network news? She may indeed be in trouble. As More... Jesse Ventura: I'd like to be Trump's running mate 8/12/2015 8:41:12 PM  Ed Morrissey 135 Comments Well, why not? One’s a pot-stirrer with occasional ties to professional wrestling, and the other is … the former governor of Minnesota. Those who don’t recall Jesse Ventura’s foray into statewide politics may not realize it, but More... A tiny tale of government accountability 8/12/2015 8:01:08 PM  Jazz Shaw 17 Comments We spend far too much time here talking about government waste and abuse, as well as the generally failed efforts to curb same. The government wastes so much money right under your noses that it must seem some days as if it’s just not worth More... Hot new theory: If Congress blocks the nuclear deal, will Obama lift sanctions on Iran anyway? 8/12/2015 7:21:28 PM  Allahpundit 50 Comments You know the drill. In post-constitutional America, when The Leader doesn’t get what he wants from Congress, he’s forced to simply take it instead. For the common good. In a saner age, the idea that Obama might defy Congress’s will More... Will Trump pull a Perot? WSJ sees no signs of it — yet 8/12/2015 6:41:33 PM  Ed Morrissey 68 Comments Twenty-three years ago, H. Ross Perot threw a historic monkey wrench into the two-party system, using his personal wealth to launch the most serious independent presidential bid in a generation. Thanks to a populist message and dissatisfaction with More... Video: "Klintonerdämmerung" 8/12/2015 6:01:57 PM  Allahpundit 70 Comments To cleanse the palate, a clever little hit on Hillary that’s making righties on Twitter laugh today. If you wanted another milepost that online culture is changing fundamentally, here you go — in the endless quest to mock our political More... CNN poll of Iowa: Trump 22, Carson 14, Walker 9, Cruz 8, Fiorina 7 8/12/2015 5:21:13 PM  Allahpundit 271 Comments This is, I believe, the first poll of the GOP race since the debate conducted by a major news network using traditional phone calls instead of the Internet, so if you’re looking for reasons to give this one extra credence, there you More... Finally, a complaint about "entitlement" we can all get behind 8/12/2015 4:41:24 PM  Jazz Shaw 59 Comments It’s yet another sign of the times that a perfectly serviceable word like “entitlement’ has gotten such a bad name. If you hear it or read it these days it’s either about entitlement programs or, more likely, a Check Your More... The fantasy of Right wing political correctness 8/12/2015 4:01:11 PM  Jazz Shaw 61 Comments Who exactly is shutting down speech in the name of political correctness in America today? I’d been comfortably sailing along thinking I knew the answer to that one, but then along comes Catherine Rampell to ruin my day. In a lengthy diatribe at More... Team Hillary: E-mail claims just campaign trail "nonsense" 8/12/2015 3:21:01 PM  Ed Morrissey 248 Comments The Hillary Clinton campaign tried a new tack in their defense of the former Secretary of State after she finally surrendered the Clintonemail server to the FBI. Earlier, Jennifer Palmieri tried implying that the State Department’s problems with More... Echelon Insights post-debate poll: Trump 29, Carson 10, Fiorina 9, Rubio 9, Bush 9 8/12/2015 2:41:34 PM  Allahpundit 287 Comments Alternate headline: “Blogger to start gaming out President Trump’s possible VP nominees.” On the one hand, as noted by my pal Karl, this poll was conducted using Google Consumer Surveys. If you’re wary of online polls, especially More... Trump on a wealth tax: A very conservative thing to do, if it's helping pay down the national debt 8/12/2015 2:01:03 PM  Allahpundit 307 Comments Nice catch by Jamie Weinstein from last night’s Trump interview with Hannity. Skip to 3:55 of the clip below for the key bit. To be clear, this an idea Trump proposed 15 years ago, not one he’s proposing now, and he stresses that he would More... Hillary shows Bernie how to deal with #BlackLivesMatter 8/12/2015 1:21:08 PM  Jazz Shaw 57 Comments This past weekend I talked about how Bernie Sanders has effectively surrendered his campaign to the Black Lives Matter movement and the shameful way that he allowed a handful of protesters to take over his events and boot him from his own stage. I may More... Video: O'Keefe bowls six strikes in a row with DHS 8/12/2015 12:41:39 PM  Ed Morrissey 86 Comments Not long ago, Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe embarrassed the Border Patrol by walking into the US across the Rio Grande dressed as Osama bin Laden without anyone stopping him.  That resulted in a dressing-down of DHS officials in a Senate More... Government contractor groups ask Obama to lay off the executive orders already 8/12/2015 12:01:52 PM  Jazz Shaw 34 Comments The President has probably significantly expanded the Oval Office budget just in the cost of pens with all of the new executive orders he’s been signing. One thing most of them have in common is that as soon as Barack Obama puts down the pen, More... Trump: If Black Lives Matter protesters try to take over my rally like they did Bernie Sanders's, there'll be a fight 8/12/2015 11:21:10 AM  Allahpundit 196 Comments I thought we’d already reached Peak Trumpmania but if his next speech ends with Trump’s bodyguards going toe to toe with left-wing black activists trying to commandeer his stage to rant against the police, we might yet see him crack 50 More... The spy satellite secrets in Hillary's e-mails Gallup: 65% favor path to citizenship for illegals Hillary requested a book on e-mailing that includes tips on how to delete messages for good Kasich: Conservatives need to define themselves as more "caring" Trump 'all for the concept' of female running mate FBI now has Hillary's old e-mail server — but there's no data on it anymore Roger Ailes to Donald Trump: 'We resolve this now … or go to war' Can Earth support 11 billion people? 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