HotAir Daily Express 08/14/2015

Bill de Blasio gives unadvertised govt job to life partner of top aide 8/14/2015 10:01:09 AM  Jazz Shaw 15 Comments It’s a day ending in a Y so there must be another story of Democrat political shenanigans coming out of the Big Apple. This time it’s once again Mayor Bill de Blasio spreading the wealth and just doing what he does best… helping people. More... AP: Top secret e-mails on Hillary server discussed drone warfare 8/14/2015 9:21:56 AM  Ed Morrissey 47 Comments If anyone interested in our drone operations penetrated Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server, they hit pay dirt. In the small sample of 40 e-mails, two have already been found to have contained Top Secret/compartmented information, but until today, the More... How Hillary will probably shrug off the email server story 8/14/2015 8:41:34 AM  Jazz Shaw 58 Comments Every day this week, when the cable news outlets managed to find a few seconds to stop talking about Donald Trump, there were new details popping up about Hillary Clinton’s email server and the scandals surrounding it. The tale just seems to become More... Will DC "decriminalize" prostitution? 8/14/2015 8:01:50 AM  Ed Morrissey 50 Comments Some may wonder at the headline, having seen plenty of prostitution take place on Capitol Hill, the White House, and K Street, a tradition that goes back at least decades. In this case, though, we’re talking about literal prostitution, especially More... Quotes of the day 8/13/2015 10:41:09 PM  Allahpundit 525 Comments HENDERSON:  You know, so far, so good, right?  I mean, I think in that question he was talking about negotiating with Iran and negotiating with other countries, and he said of those other countries that they would do what he told them to do.  And that is More... Obama and Hillary both tripped up this week by memeified politics 8/13/2015 10:01:40 PM  Mary Katharine Ham 31 Comments The Obama White House’s dudebros of Hopenchange decided this week that an NWA meme was a great way to sell the Iran deal. Pretty much everyone decided they were wrong, with Buzzfeed leading the charge, essentially declaring, “Leave the memes More... Gallup: Obama approval on Iran stands at robust 33/55 8/13/2015 9:21:09 PM  Guy Benson 26 Comments Alternate headline: Solid majority of Americans making “common cause” with ‘Death to America’ fanatics. His numbers are worst on Iran, but they’re pretty bad across the board; he’s underwater on every issue polled, More... Jeb Bush: "I'll tell you, taking out Saddam Hussein turned out to be a pretty good deal" 8/13/2015 8:41:49 PM  Allahpundit 101 Comments Lefty media (both overt and covert), which has been back on its heels lately thanks to Hillary’s impending arrest and prosecution, is already buzzing about the line quoted above, uttered today by Bush in Iowa. Skip to 9:40 of the clip below for the More... Forget Biden: Dems reaching back to … Al Gore? 8/13/2015 8:01:06 PM  Ed Morrissey 67 Comments Five months ago, his team said he was out, but just when you think you’re out … they pull you back in. Maybe, that is, as Al Gore’s advisers aren’t actually saying he’s even thinking seriously about a presidential run. More... The 800-pound Fox (News) in the room 8/13/2015 7:21:07 PM  Leon Wolf 161 Comments Imagine the following scenario: in the first Democratic primary Presidential debate, Hillary Clinton is asked a series of unexpectedly blistering questions from debate moderator Wolf Blitzer. Imagine that Hillary walked in expecting a series of cakewalk More... Hot new meme from the White House: Iran will be "straight outta uranium" thanks to this nuclear deal 8/13/2015 6:41:33 PM  Allahpundit 44 Comments Read this BuzzFeed post if you’re not in on the gag. There’s a biopic coming out about the rap group NWA called “Straight Outta Compton” and people on social media have started photoshopping the poster to do their own More... Biden getting closer to presidential run as Hillary getting closer to going to prison 8/13/2015 6:01:36 PM  Allahpundit 183 Comments A Cruz/Warren race is the election America deserves. A Trump/Biden race is the election America wants. Dude, I think this is happening. From his vacation spot on Kiawah Island, Mr. Biden is giving the strongest signal yet that he is actively considering More... Victory: Ballot selfies in New Hampshire are now legal 8/13/2015 5:21:39 PM  Jazz Shaw 24 Comments You may have been unaware that if you live in New Hampshire (and some other states) and you take a selfie of yourself with your completed ballot in the voting booth and then post it to social media you could be fined. It’s the “ballot selfie More... Millennial hawk: Why the GOP needs to answer Hillary's $350B college subsidy plan 8/13/2015 4:41:34 PM  Ed Morrissey 68 Comments Forget the Twitter bleg for emoji responses to how millennials feel about student debt. As the New York Daily News’ Alejandro Alba notes, the condescending approach didn’t generate much respect from Hillary Clinton’s target audience. More... GOP insiders: C'mon, Trump's not really going to run third-party 8/13/2015 4:01:39 PM  Allahpundit 163 Comments If there’s anything we’ve learned from the last two presidential election cycles, it’s to always trust the judgment of GOP insiders. President Trump’s going to invite each of these guys up onstage at his inaugural ball and berate More... Thursday TEMS: Jim Geraghty, John Schindler, Reid Wilson 8/13/2015 3:21:44 PM  Ed Morrissey 8 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! Duane "Generalissimo" Patterson is out of the country, seeking treatment for his recurrence of cancer. Find out more on Caring Bridge, and be sure to More... Worse: Hillary's "inner circle" may have stripped e-mail classification markings, official theorizes 8/13/2015 2:41:35 PM  Allahpundit 230 Comments Now that you’ve read Taylor’s post and know, via John Schindler, how important the classifications are on sensitive government communications, you can guess that it’d be a very bad thing indeed if those classifications were to More... Hillary Clinton emails included very secret satellite images 8/13/2015 2:01:25 PM  Taylor Millard 84 Comments Hillary Clinton’s possibly unsecure, possibly secure, private server included emails featuring satellite images and other highly secretive information from the intelligence community. John R. Schindler at The Daily Beast has a rundown of what More... Video: What's the worst case for Hillary? 8/13/2015 1:21:02 PM  Ed Morrissey 98 Comments A perp walk? Oddly, that doesn’t come up in this clip from Bloomberg’s “With All Due Respect,” where John Heilemann and Mark Halperin focus more on the short-term worst-case scenarios for Hillary Clinton. If the scrubbed server More... San Diego tags Airbnb user for $15K in fines… after collecting taxes from her 8/13/2015 12:41:15 PM  Jazz Shaw 40 Comments The complicated question of what sort of “business” an Airbnb rental qualifies as has gotten even more sticky with a case currently pending in San Diego, California. 70-year-old retired schoolteacher Rachel Smith had decided to supplement her More... Obama admin to Louisiana, Alabama: You can't defund Planned Parenthood 8/13/2015 12:01:56 PM  Ed Morrissey 101 Comments Can states restrict Medicaid funding to keep it from flowing to the nation’s largest abortion-mill chain? The Obama administration says no, and has fired warning shots across bows of two states that moved to block funds to Planned Parenthood. More... Kasich: Yes on possibly allowing illegals to become citizens, no on attacking Hillary Clinton 8/13/2015 11:21:31 AM  Allahpundit 200 Comments I know what you’re thinking because I’m thinking it too: Sign. Me. Up. In fairness to him, grassroots conservatives aren’t his target audience any more than they are Jeb Bush’s. If you’re a moderate who’s looking for More... Where is Ayman al-Zawahiri? Trump is building one of the most extensive GOP campaigns in Iowa Could Hillary lose the primary? Probably not "I hope you live long on the backs of dead fetuses" Security experts: Suspend Hillary's clearance Chris Wallace: No call-ins from Trump if he wants to be on my show Exclusive: Top-secret e-mails on Hillary's server include information on drones Here's the nightmare scenario that could lead to Bush/Trump 2016 Stop stealing from strippers Megyn Kelly shows how low our political discourse has sunk [fixed]