HotAir Daily Express Cruz control: post announcement edition - Swing-state voters don't trust Hillary Clinton

Have myths about Clinton's inevitability made Democrats complacent? 4/10/2015 10:01:38 AM  Noah Rothman 16 Comments Talk to any of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's devoted supporters for longer than five minutes, and it's easy to walk away with the impression that many of them have bought into her team's carefully cultivated hype. The nomination is her More... Politinerds: Andrew Malcolm on the Rolling Stone debacle 4/10/2015 9:21:32 AM  Jazz Shaw 5 Comments We’re back with the long overdue part 2 of our interview with legendary newsman Andrew Malcolm. (You can listen to part 1 here if you missed it.) Because of his breadth of experience in the news game we wanted to get Andrew’s take on how More... Video: Hillary campaign will be Operation Duck and Don't Cover 4/10/2015 8:41:37 AM  Ed Morrissey 65 Comments As Business Insider reported last night, so too have CBS New York, Reuters, and the New York Daily News. Hillary Clinton will announce the official start of her presidential campaign on Sunday — a day when most people are paying no attention to the More... WaPo writer: 'Today's GOP is the party of Jefferson Davis' 4/10/2015 8:01:52 AM  Matt Vespa 65 Comments Yesterday, it was the 150th anniversary of Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendering to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. It signaled the end of the American Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in our history. So, how does More... Quotes of the day 4/9/2015 10:11:32 PM  Allahpundit 282 Comments Moments after the struggle, Officer Slager reported on his radio: "Shots fired and the subject is down. He took my Taser," according to police reports. But the video, which was taken by a bystander and provided to The New York Times by the Scott family's More... Outrage of the day: Clorox lambasted for allegedly racist tweet about emoji 4/9/2015 9:21:21 PM  Mary Katharine Ham 99 Comments Here’s the set-up. The kind of folks who get outraged over a bleach company sending a tweet have been outraged for several years that the iPhone doesn’t offer more emojis of color— and truly there were vanishingly few. Apple has sought to More... Uh, Joe, You're Supposed To Kiss The Babies, Not Suck On Their Pacifiers 4/9/2015 8:41:50 PM  Duane Patterson 48 Comments Never let it be said that the left doesn’t start young in explaining the proper role of government in your life. One of these two people is naïve, not yet in control of all their faculties, clearly delusional in thinking the entire world revolves More... Chris Christie tests truth-teller image in town halls as 2016 looms 4/9/2015 8:41:21 PM  Noah Rothman 13 Comments Once the Republican Party's prohibitive 2016 frontrunner, speculation abounds as to whether New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will even chose to mount a campaign for the White House. Christie lags behind a variety of prospective and announced Republican More... Obama's personal vendetta against climate change began when Malia had an asthma attack 4/9/2015 8:01:08 PM  Matt Vespa 99 Comments President Obama is making combating climate change a priority. He plans to try and cut greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 30% by 2025, which could cannibalize American jobs. Nevertheless, the president said it became a personal struggle when his More... Video: Anti-war candidate gives speech in front of big-ass warship 4/9/2015 7:21:56 PM  Allahpundit 47 Comments I know, I know, “He’s not anti-war, he’s anti-intervention.” Although he’s not really anti-intervention either, at least not anymore. His speech today in South Carolina (which starts at 13:15 below) sounds a lot like the one More... Business Insider: Hillary to announce this weekend 4/9/2015 6:41:58 PM  Ed Morrissey 76 Comments Looks like someone needs a narrative change. Business Insider’s Hunter Walker reports from a source within Clintonland that Hillary Clinton will finally announce her intent to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, perhaps as soon as More... Reuters poll: Majority says businesses shouldn't have the right to refuse service based on religious beliefs 4/9/2015 6:01:05 PM  Allahpundit 166 Comments Of fully 40 different demographic subgroups measured, the only one in which more people think businesses should have that right than shouldn’t is Republicans. And even among Republicans, it’s only a plurality who say so. There were no clear More... Latest example of Democratic extremism: Support for inheritance taxes 4/9/2015 5:21:00 PM  Noah Rothman 48 Comments In 2010 and 2012, the charge that the GOP was too "extreme" for the American public was propagated by Democrats and their supporters in the media alike. How times change. On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) showed that he could deftly respond to More... Confirmed: Men are more willing than women to go back in time and kill Hitler 4/9/2015 4:41:25 PM  Allahpundit 239 Comments I … guess this qualifies as a palate cleanser? If you read only one news story today about traveling back in time to kill Hitler, let it be this one. Researchers from the US, Germany and Canada analysed data that asked 6,100 people a range moral More... Rouhani: Any deal has to lift all sanctions on Day One 4/9/2015 4:01:40 PM  Ed Morrissey 69 Comments To paraphrase a fictional political leader who got similarly snookered, this agreement-of-a-framework-that’s-not-really-a-deal is looking worse all the time. While Barack Obama and John Kerry make their full-court press here at home to assure More... Megyn Kelly to Rand Paul: You're coming off as pretty thin-skinned in your interviews, you know 4/9/2015 3:21:09 PM  Allahpundit 164 Comments She phrases this as a question, of course — are you too thin-skinned, as your critics say? — but it’s clear what her opinion is. Tell me this: Why are we even talking about it? What deeper insight into Rand Paul’s character does More... Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Dennis Prager, Ashe Schow 4/9/2015 3:09:50 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! Duane "Generalissimo" Patterson brings us up to date on the week's top stories and gives us a preview of tonight's Hugh Hewitt show. Ashe Schow of the More... News from the front: Pro-Russian rebels plan spring offensive, conduct summary executions 4/9/2015 2:41:38 PM  Noah Rothman 41 Comments Offensive operations in Ukraine from Moscow-backed pro-Russian rebel groups have largely stalled over the winter months, but that de facto ceasefire is about to end. Upon returning from a fact-finding mission in Ukraine last week, former NATO Supreme More... Cruz control: post announcement edition 4/9/2015 2:01:26 PM  Jazz Shaw 90 Comments Yesterday Ed shared the news that the community of political experts was rather gobsmacked to find out that PACs associated with Texas Senator Ted Cruz had brought in a “record haul” in no time flat following his campaign announcement. While More... Quinnipiac: Swing-state voters don't trust Hillary Clinton 4/9/2015 1:21:13 PM  Ed Morrissey 45 Comments Earlier this year, I wrote that Hillary Clinton’s favorability dropped into negative numbers during almost every campaign in which she has taken part. Now it appears the campaign doesn’t have to be officially under way for the trend to More... Quid pro, uh oh: Hillary stopped opposing trade deal after Clinton Foundation's foreign donations 4/9/2015 12:41:34 PM  Noah Rothman 66 Comments Another day, another scandalous tale involving the Clinton Foundation's suspect ethics. The number of controversial practices in which the Clinton Foundation is alleged to have engaged is growing too numerous to recount in a single post. Just this week, More... Are you ready for … President Lincoln Chafee? 4/9/2015 12:01:08 PM  Ed Morrissey 62 Comments He used to be Republican. He used to be an independent. Now Lincoln Chafee wants to assume a new role — as contender for the Democratic party nomination for President. Chafee dropped the surprise announcement today, in both a campaign video (posted More... Fiasco: Iran's supreme leader says U.S. "fact sheet" on nuclear deal is full of lies 4/9/2015 11:21:37 AM  Allahpundit 79 Comments How much of a sham is the “deal”? This much: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday he neither backed nor rejected an interim accord with six world powers on Tehran’s disputed nuclear program but demanded all More... Obama tackles the hard stuff: Gay conversion therapy, transgender bathrooms 4/9/2015 10:41:01 AM  Noah Rothman 156 Comments Without making a value judgment about the seriousness of these issues to millions of Americans, the importance of leading one of America's patented "national conversations" about them today – right at this minute – is suspect. As Barack Obama flails in More...		Rand Paul's grand deception The GOP presidential field looks chaotic. It's not. 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