HotAir Daily Express 02/25/2015

Alert: Do Not File Your Taxes Yet If you HAVE filed your 2014 tax forms, please click here. If you HAVE NOT filed your 2014 tax forms yet, please click here. Either way, the research we have for you today could change everything you knew about taxes… And could instantly save you $1,000s this tax year, and every year for life. Simply click here for all the details.
McConnell under the microscope 2/25/2015 10:01:09 AM  Jazz Shaw 28 Comments It looked like the cave train was rolling at full speed last night, even through there were already some Republicans kicking and screaming. Mitch McConnell was inexplicably moving toward stripping the executive amnesty provisions out of the DHS funding More... Great news: State Dept official in charge of counterterrorism caught soliciting sex — from a minor 2/25/2015 9:21:36 AM  Ed Morrissey 57 Comments ISIS recruits thousands of Westerners to their jihad, many of whom might come home to continue the war. Al-Qaeda has attempted a number of attacks on the US and its facilities over the last several years, with one attack — Fort Hood, inspired by More... The left made Scott Walker a candidate, the press is turning him into a force 2/25/2015 8:41:04 AM  Noah Rothman 85 Comments While the members of the press are busily congratulating themselves for having "gotcha-ed" Scott Walker on a variety of matters utterly unrelated to his ability to serve as commander-in-chief, the governor of Wisconsin is quietly consolidating the More... Bibi RSVPs "with regrets" to Democrats for private meeting 2/25/2015 8:01:53 AM  Jazz Shaw 63 Comments By the time this speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes place before Congress next week, the actual content of the remarks may be the least relevant aspect of the story. As you may recall, some of the Democrats, apparently trying to More... Alert: Do Not File Your Taxes Yet   If you HAVE filed your 2014 tax forms, please click here.   If you HAVE NOT filed your 2014 tax forms yet, please click here.   Either way, the research we have for you today could change everything you knew about taxes… And could instantly save you $1,000s this tax year, and every year for life.   Simply click here for all the details. Quotes of the day 2/24/2015 10:41:08 PM  Allahpundit 336 Comments Gov. Scott Walker on Monday said news reporters had created "gotcha moments" that are of little concern to most people and that he would seek to build a campaign that addresses issues important to "everyday Americans." "You've seen in the media a lot of More... Fight for Obama presidential library in Chicago pretty much most Obama thing ever Related: Rahm forced into runoff 2/24/2015 10:01:28 PM  Mary Katharine Ham 87 Comments So, Chicago University is fighting with Columbia University (and the less-likely contender, Hawaii) for the honor of housing the Obama Presidential Library someday. Chicago, though it seems a natural home for Obama’s legacy palace, had fallen More... Durbin: Republican opposition to Loretta Lynch betrays the Selma anniversary, or something 2/24/2015 9:21:53 PM  Guy Benson 43 Comments It’s been a banner day for Senate Democrats.  First, minority (?) leader Harry Reid successfully bludgeoned GOP leadership into waving the white flag in the DHS funding fight, scoring a clean political win against shambolic Republicans.  Then, More... Bad news, guys: 'Research shows' white privilege is real and it's really irritating 2/24/2015 8:41:42 PM  Noah Rothman 47 Comments Those of you who are inclined to dismiss the notion of "white privilege" as an indicator of systemic inequality, not to mention a source of perpetual consternation for left-leaning college students and MSNBC's core audience, will be disappointed to learn More... Christian florist: Why I can't agree to provide service to gay weddings 2/24/2015 8:01:08 PM  Allahpundit 525 Comments She’s soft-spoken, has 23 grandkids, professes love for the gay customer who tried to hire her for his wedding and helped him find another florist when she politely declined (it was Washington’s AG, not the customer, who filed the More... The WHO would like to regulate what American kids can see on TV 2/24/2015 7:21:02 PM  Jazz Shaw 46 Comments I keep waiting to read a story about the World Health Organization where they’re actually doing something productive and helping people on issues of, well… health. Sadly, when they pop up in the news they seem to be either trying to control More... Joe Manchin: I'm voting with Senate Republicans to block Obama's executive amnesty; Update: No deal without Boehner, says Reid 2/24/2015 6:41:52 PM  Allahpundit 105 Comments I’m … not sure why we should still care about the great DHS funding debacle at this point, but for what it’s worth, McConnell’s tactic of splitting the Homeland Security bill from the GOP’s bill to roll back Obama’s More... NBC's Richard Engel: ISIS 'effectively taking over' Libya 2/24/2015 6:01:13 PM  Noah Rothman 51 Comments According to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, who has been diligently monitoring press reports regarding the status of the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, ISIS is losing momentum in their multi-front war to expand their nascent caliphate. The More... Non-shocker: No federal charges against Zimmerman 2/24/2015 5:21:34 PM  Jazz Shaw 60 Comments You remember how Eric Holder was going to step in and set things to rights on cases where local and state authorities weren’t going to do the right thing? He talked about it with Michael Brown, but that pretty much disappeared. There was still one More... Obama vetoes Keystone pipeline bill because … it infringes on the executive branch's prerogatives 2/24/2015 4:41:26 PM  Allahpundit 104 Comments A tip o’ the cap to O, after waging unauthorized war in multiple countries, rewriting various parts of the ObamaCare statute, and proclaiming by royal decree that amnesty hath come to America, for having the mammoth balls here to complain that More... Video: Net neutrality expert doesn't seem to know much about net neutrality 2/24/2015 4:01:17 PM  Noah Rothman 94 Comments The subject of Net Neutrality is a complex one. The plan to regulate internet service providers as public utilities, and impose new standards for internet speed and pricing, often confuses even public policy professionals. With the FCC set to vote on a More... Frontrunner: Scott Walker 25, Ben Carson 18, Jeb Bush 17 in new poll of Republicans 2/24/2015 3:21:15 PM  Allahpundit 128 Comments Impressive, but how long realistically can Walker resist the Ben Carson juggernaut? Actually — no fooling — I think Carson’s numbers are bigger news here than Walker’s, even though he’s the first guy in the developing field More... Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Hugh Hewitt, Duane Patterson, Salena Zito 2/24/2015 2:57:28 PM  Ed Morrissey 3 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! Andrew Malcolm joins us for Tuesdays with Andrew! The Prince of Twitter and I will discuss all of the hot political stories of the day. We’ll preview More... The curious case of CU-Boulder's settlement on Title IX action 2/24/2015 2:41:13 PM  Ed Morrissey 16 Comments Universities and colleges have come under increasing pressure during the Obama administration to prosecute cases of sexual harassment under Title IX, under threat to their funding. Rather than duplicate the due-process structures of courts, though, many More... The media deserves some slash and burn, Sherman's March treatment 2/24/2015 2:01:19 PM  Jazz Shaw 127 Comments If you’ve been paying attention, there’s been a bit of a running debate going on regarding how Scott Walker and other potential 2016 candidates should respond to the gotcha oriented media who seek to hold every Republican responsible for More... The View: Say, Senator Hillary's pay inequality looks a tad bit "damaging," no? 2/24/2015 1:31:16 PM  Ed Morrissey 33 Comments The weekend started off with Patricia Arquette’s call for income inequality that used the repeatedly-debunked “77 cents on the dollar” statistics, and ends up today with The View’s hosts explaining why it’s bogus. What More... One amnesty contract is quietly canceled 2/24/2015 1:01:02 PM  Jazz Shaw 38 Comments Even as the GOP prepares to cave in to the Democrats in the Senate on executive amnesty, the Obama administration has been quietly “readjusting” expectations and cancelling some plans which were in place to implement the plan. At the US More... The audacity of the media's Obama worship 2/24/2015 12:31:30 PM  Ed Morrissey 176 Comments By “audacity,” I of course mean “utter shamelessness.” Over the past week, media reporters have tried to hold Republicans accountable for any personal attacks by anyone on Barack Obama, going out of their way to demand that GOP More... Media: Post-Falklands War Argentina wasn't a war zone, but Ferguson was 2/24/2015 12:01:12 PM  Noah Rothman 63 Comments Still stung following the outing of the serial embellisher and former NBC News anchor, Brian Williams, the liberal press is apparently on a mission to exact a pound of flesh from the universe of conservative commentators. The target they have selected is More... Rubio privately telling donors: I'm running for president 2/24/2015 11:31:33 AM  Allahpundit 67 Comments Rubio 2016: Because every generation of Republican voters deserves its own John McCain. No no, that’s unfair. Rubio’s actually a hybrid of the two candidates from the 2008 election: Young, reform-minded, and racially pathbreaking like Obama, More... VA Secretary: Sorry about that whole "I was in Special Ops" thing, y'all 2/24/2015 11:01:23 AM  Ed Morrissey 67 Comments Barack Obama appointed Robert McDonald to restore the credibility of the Veterans Administration after years of corruption and cover-ups. How’s that working out? Oh, about as well as you’d expect. McDonald, a veteran who served in the 82nd More...		In Walker flap, the 'meta-media' coaches politicians to be more opaque Report: Saudis might help Israel attack Iran in exchange for progress in peace process Go ahead and say it, Mr. President: Republicans are your true enemy Will Boehner risk the Tea Party's wrath by proposing a clean DHS bill? Iowa poll: Walker 25, Paul 13, Carson 11, Huckabee 11 Will Rahm Emanuel win his mayoral runoff? Hillary Clinton will run 'as a female candidate' in 2016 "A 60 million year divergence is approximately equivalent to a human mating with a lemur" Hard feelings: Science's struggle to define emotions Unshackle the United Nations Alert: Do Not File Your Taxes Yet   If you HAVE filed your 2014 tax forms, please click here.   If you HAVE NOT filed your 2014 tax forms yet, please click here.   Either way, the research we have for you today could change everything you knew about taxes… And could instantly save you $1,000s this tax year, and every year for life.   Simply click here for all the details.