HotAir Daily Express 09/01/2015

Now we'll switch to "how do we explain Ben Carson?" 9/1/2015 10:01:17 AM  Jazz Shaw 52 Comments Ever since the news broke about the new Monmouth poll showing Ben Carson tying things up with Donald Trump in Iowa, a sort of fire drill has gone on in the liberal media. After spending months trying to explain why in the world anyone could possibly More... New CMP video: Sometimes babies just "fall out" 9/1/2015 9:21:59 AM  Ed Morrissey 33 Comments The latest video from the Center for Medical Progress takes viewers on the inside of a tissue-procurement competition between for-profit StemExpress and not-for-profit Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR), Inc. Two discussions with undercover More... Breaking: Pope still Catholic 9/1/2015 8:41:26 AM  Ed Morrissey 78 Comments Later this month, Pope Francis will arrive for his first visit to the US as pontiff, an event which has already started a media frenzy. Consider this “breaking” news headline from NBC, which takes what is in essence a procedural change and More... Baltimore cancels leave for cops during Freddie Gray hearings 9/1/2015 8:01:55 AM  Jazz Shaw 49 Comments Tomorrow marks the first hearing in the case of the six Baltimore police officers currently charged in relation to the death of Freddie Gray. The judge will hear motions to dismiss, as well as to have State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby recused. While More... Quotes of the day 8/31/2015 10:41:58 PM  Allahpundit 373 Comments Headlines blared this weekend that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said he favors building a giant wall along the northern border, but his camp claims he never said this. “Despite the attempts of some to put words in his mouth, Gov. Walker wasn’t More... NYC might solve expensive, mandated scaffolding problem with more expensive mandates 8/31/2015 10:01:07 PM  Mary Katharine Ham 24 Comments New York City is covered with sidewalk shed— those gross, dark, often shoddily built overhangs meant to shield pedestrians from the dangers of construction sites and falling facades. The sheds are meant to protect, but they can also harbor their own More... "Fear the Walking Dead" grumble thread: Zombie lives matter 8/31/2015 8:41:11 PM  Allahpundit 77 Comments It’s rare that I disagree with Lileks, but let’s face facts: The teenagers are not the weak link on this show. The 1st part of "Fear the Walking Dead" ep2 is really scratching that itch I had to see a teen-focused zombie More... Open thread: Who's up for another 150 Hillary e-mails containing classified information? 8/31/2015 8:01:43 PM  Allahpundit 104 Comments The latest batch of e-mails, 7,000 pages in all, is going live on the State Department website at the unusual hour of 9 p.m. ET, which certainly isn’t an attempt to bury this info later in the evening when most Americans aren’t paying More... Federal judge: Moral objections enough to override HHS contraception mandate 8/31/2015 7:21:55 PM  Ed Morrissey 67 Comments In a stunning decision, a federal judge permanently barred the Department of Health and Human Services from enforcing the contraception mandate under ObamaCare against an employer for moral rather than explicitly religious grounds. Judge Richard Leon, More... Video: Biden should run, says … Dick Cheney 8/31/2015 6:41:48 PM  Ed Morrissey 35 Comments Alternate headline: Former Vice President prepares to launch new career in blogging. After ripping Hillary Clinton’s use of a private, unsecured, and unauthorized e-mail server out of her home as “sloppy and unprofessional,” Dick Cheney More... "I'll put them in camps": Rand Paul mocks GOP field for hardline rhetoric towards illegals 8/31/2015 6:01:39 PM  Allahpundit 149 Comments A nice catch by Sam Stein of HuffPo from Rand’s interview with Boston Herald Radio. Skip to around 11:00 for the key bit. I … did not expect a competition between Hillary Clinton and Rand Paul over who could conjure up a better Nazi allusion More... Does Deputy Goforth's alleged murderer have an alibi? 8/31/2015 5:21:55 PM  Jazz Shaw 69 Comments The horror show in Texas seems to have settled back down to the building of memorials and a period of mourning in the community following the assassination of Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth. After too many tense hours of wondering while many of More... Alcee Hastings: Instead of signing Iran deal, let's give Israel bunker-buster bombs 8/31/2015 4:41:03 PM  Ed Morrissey 37 Comments The White House had better mark Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings as a firm “no” on the Iran deal. In a lengthy speech to Nova University in Davie, Florida at an AIPAC event, the liberal Democrat blasted Barack Obama and John Kerry for cutting a More... It's still pretty hard to hate Uber… unless you're a union 8/31/2015 4:01:45 PM  Jazz Shaw 65 Comments Danny Cevallos is a legal analyst for CNN and he’s published an opinion piece regarding ride sharing service Uber which finally peels back some of the constant establishment criticism of of the company. (By way of disclosure… I use Uber. I More... New Trump ad: When Jeb Bush talks about an "act of love," does he mean illegals murdering Americans? 8/31/2015 3:21:22 PM  Allahpundit 219 Comments Via William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection, who calls this “Willie Horton part two.” Trump clearly does mean to imply that murder is what Bush has in mind when he talks about “acts of love,” which of course is false. The More... Scarborough: Cable news has put lives at risk, including MSNBC, for "a few ratings points" 8/31/2015 2:41:56 PM  Ed Morrissey 61 Comments Fair point, or misdirected outrage? In the wake of the assassination of Deputy Darren Goforth (and the live-televised murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward), Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski asked Amy Holmes where this open-season More... Judge to IRS: turn over the White House email information 8/31/2015 2:01:06 PM  Jazz Shaw 41 Comments Man, the IRS just can’t catch a break, can it? Some days I actually start to feel bad for them. (Okay… that was a lie, but I reflexively want to say it for some reason.) One aspect of the Lois Lerner fiasco which has gotten slightly less More... Steve Schmidt: Let's face it, Trump is "emasculating" Jeb Bush 8/31/2015 1:21:35 PM  Allahpundit 85 Comments The best description I’ve read of Jeb’s mien on the trail came from Rich Lowry, who said “he looks and sounds like a sensitive dad from a contemporary sitcom.” Right? I imagine him walking offstage after a speech and crossing More... Let's face it… the only winners from Obamacare were the insurance companies 8/31/2015 12:41:23 PM  Jazz Shaw 85 Comments Last week Ed talked about the large, looming spikes in health insurance premiums which are coming our way. For anyone who has been paying attention since roughly 2008 this really shouldn’t be any sort of surprise. We had plenty of warning from More... Oh my: Carson ties Trump in Iowa in new Monmouth poll 8/31/2015 12:01:17 PM  Ed Morrissey 242 Comments Get ready for a new context shift in the Republican presidential sweepstakes. There could be no greater contrast in the GOP primary race than the brash bluster of Donald Trump and the calm, philosophical demeanor of Ben Carson. Both approaches seem to be More... No confidence: Public opposes Iran deal, 25/55, believes it will make world less safe, 28/56 8/31/2015 11:21:05 AM  Allahpundit 46 Comments Lucky for Obama that we don’t live in a country where voters care about foreign policy or else this might matter. The only demographic group that supports this grand sellout is O’s own party and they’re conspicuously tepid in backing it More... Still pining for Mitt: Some GOP donors hope Romney will jump in "It's now or never": Texts reveal teen's efforts to pressure boyfriend into suicide Kentucky clerk defies courts, invokes "God's authority" in refusing to issue marriage licenses to gays Petraeus: Use Al Qaeda fighters to beat ISIS Koran thought to be the oldest in the world could predate Muhammad 10 things that make me okay with Donald Trump's plan to soak the rich New attack ad from Jeb Bush: "The real Donald Trump" Cruz may reject rivals' requests to Join Trump at Iran deal rally I used physics to calculate how much Yoda weighs Pediatricians' group to parents: Have the "booze talk" by age nine