HotAir Daily Express 09/25/2015

Boehner to resign from Congress on October 30th; Update: Wanted to retire last year? 9/25/2015 9:50:14 AM  Allahpundit 77 Comments Just last night The Hill reported that Boehner ally Patrick McHenry was sniffing around to find primary challengers for Mark Meadows, the GOP rep spearheading the “oust Boehner” movement in the House, presumably to scare Meadows into backing More... New Boehner strategy: Defund Planned Parenthood through reconciliation process 9/25/2015 9:21:40 AM  Ed Morrissey 43 Comments Why not? It worked for ObamaCare, didn’t it? The Hill reports that Speaker John Boehner’s latest strategy to thread the needle of demands to defund Planned Parenthood and yet avoid a government shutdown will take a page from the Harry More... Yep. Hillary Clinton was very involved in Huma Abedin's job at State 9/25/2015 8:41:14 AM  Jazz Shaw 30 Comments You may recall earlier this month when we talked about Huma Abedin’s payroll issues during her time at State and then later as a “Special Government Employee” (SGE) working off site for a major Clinton Foundation donor. The fact that More... NYT: FBI mulling whether Hillary aides broke the law by sending her classified material on private server 9/25/2015 8:01:11 AM  Ed Morrissey 68 Comments If this question involved anyone except Hillary Clinton, the answer would be an unqualified yes. As it is, though, the FBI has treaded very carefully on questions of suspected criminal action in the dissemination of sensitive material through More... Quotes of the day 9/24/2015 10:41:44 PM  Allahpundit 315 Comments GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said Thursday he doesn't mind being criticized if he does something wrong, but that he believes in correcting people when he's right or doesn't deserve criticism. "I don't mind being criticized, and I don't mind it More... Nuclear winter descends upon Scott Walker supporters 9/24/2015 10:01:34 PM  Matt Vespa 57 Comments Walker is gone. His presidential candidacy has been nuked, and his supporters are now left dealing with impact winter. So, what the hell happened? As I wrote in a previous post, Walker had the backstory and legislative record to formulate a narrative to More... Hypocrisy, thy name is union 9/24/2015 9:21:54 PM  Jeff Dunetz 22 Comments As part of its national effort to unionize Walmart stores called the “Our Walmart Campaign” the United Food & Commercial Workers International hired some non-union workers, but according to the New York Post on Thursday, a year and a half More... Team Clinton: Psst, Joe — please don't run or you'll get hurt 9/24/2015 8:41:53 PM  Matt Vespa 42 Comments This week, Politico reported that Team Clinton is quietly urging the vice president not to run. The big guns haven't been drawn yet, but the news publication noted that the mantra for the Clinton camp on Biden is "so sure, take your time, is the message More... If you can afford a jet ski and a motorhome, should taxpayers be paying for your food stamps? 9/24/2015 8:01:22 PM  Kristina Ribali 130 Comments Most people, especially hard working taxpayers, would likely say no. But it’s happening and reforms are needed in order to stop it. There's something disturbing about seeing someone buy groceries with an EBT card only to load them into the back of More... Google Ideas assembles the usual suspects to help combat online abuse 9/24/2015 7:21:18 PM  C.T. Rex 36 Comments At long last something convinced Google to set its sights on preventing all that awful harassment and abuse people get on the Internet, and naturally such a monumental task requires a group of extraordinary people: Fighting online abuse w/ More... Obama's lack of a Syria strategy and its consequences 9/24/2015 6:41:32 PM  Bruce McQuain 31 Comments One of the many lowlights of this administration has been its many foreign policy failures.  Many, if not most, are attributable to a lack of leadership and an abdication of the US’s role in world politics.  As most observers of international More... Senate spending bill that would defund Planned Parenthood fails badly, 47/52 — with eight Republicans voting no 9/24/2015 6:01:30 PM  Allahpundit 141 Comments Two of those Republicans, Rand Paul and Tom Cotton, opposed the bill not because of its Planned Parenthood provisions but because it didn’t meet their priorities on other government spending. Paul voted no because it would lead to another $400 More... Uh oh: Carly Fiorina supported an individual mandate for health coverage in 2013 9/24/2015 5:21:10 PM  Allahpundit 283 Comments Dude, it’s over. Unless, that is, someone can find a clip of Trump endorsing a mandate too, in which case that will instantly become the proper populist conservative position on mandates. She wasn’t endorsing the ObamaCare mandate, her More... Report: #DefundPlannedParenthood push in Congress could end Boehner's time as Speaker 9/24/2015 4:41:49 PM  Taylor Millard 63 Comments House Speaker John Boehner’s time with the big gavel may be coming to an end in the next week or so. The Hill reports some Republican lawmakers think they have a shot at getting Boehner out, if the government shutdown over the funding of Planned More... Kaiser Study: Deductibles under Obamacare rising seven times faster than inflation 9/24/2015 4:01:14 PM  Kristina Ribali 79 Comments We all remember the promise – President Obama famously told us time and time again that ObamaCare would lower health insurance premiums by $2,500 a year for families. But unless you’re receiving a giant subsidy from the government for your More... Here we go: Roger Ailes to meet with Trump next week to resolve "differences of opinion" over Fox's coverage 9/24/2015 3:21:55 PM  Allahpundit 242 Comments Trump wins again. "Fox News Chairman & CEO Roger Ailes and Donald Trump spoke this morning and plan to have a meeting next week to discuss their differences of opinion regarding Fox's coverage of Mr. Trump's presidential campaign. Ailes will be More... Marco Rubio: Let's face it, Trump is touchy, insecure, and doesn't know the issues 9/24/2015 2:41:40 PM  Allahpundit 338 Comments Via BuzzFeed, which Trump is Rubio talking about here? Surely he can’t mean Donald Trump. "First of all, he takes shots at everybody that gets anywhere close to him, in terms of a poll, or anytime he hits a rough spot that's what he does," the More... Antonin Scalia thinks the death penalty may be going away (again) 9/24/2015 2:01:38 PM  Jazz Shaw 48 Comments As the next entry in our continuing series on how nothing in the legal system is permanent, settled or a “done deal” (as Rachel Maddow likes to say about Obamacare) we stop by for a visit with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. His Honor More... Pope devotes one line to abortion in speech to Congress on immigration, climate change, wealth inequality 9/24/2015 1:21:56 PM  Allahpundit 275 Comments Believe it or not, the one line he devoted to abortion was one line more than he devoted to the subject of Jesus, who wasn’t mentioned at all in this morning’s speech according to the transcript. Maybe that was a deliberate choice made by More... So now it's offensive to call Hillary shrill? 9/24/2015 12:41:49 PM  Jazz Shaw 141 Comments BREAKING NEWS. [Insert Drudge siren here] Donald Trump said something to get everyone’s knickers in a knot. I know… I know… first time for everything, right? This particular round of outrage caught my attention when Katty Kay joined the More... ESPN: Coach admitted to principal that he ordered hits on ref 9/24/2015 12:01:19 PM  Ed Morrissey 51 Comments It appears that the Texas high-school football players involved in a vicious hit on a defenseless game official told the truth, at least in part. The assistant coach fingered by the two players actually admitted his role in directing players to attack More... Three new post-debate polls: Trump's lead is holding but not increasing 9/24/2015 11:21:13 AM  Allahpundit 266 Comments Something to please everyone in today’s trifecta. The topline numbers: Quinnipiac: Trump 25, Carson 17, Fiorina 12, Bush 10 Fox News: Trump 26, Carson 18, Fiorina 9, Rubio 9 Bloomberg: Trump 21, Carson 16, Bush 13, Fiorina 11 It’s fair to More... Hillary donors have a fevah, and the only prescription is more Bill 9/24/2015 10:41:58 AM  Ed Morrissey 44 Comments Go figure. Even Hillary Clinton’s donors are starting to notice that she’s “lacking a certain personal touch,” as well as a certain measure of gratitude for their efforts to put her back in the White House. If she wants to keep More... Breaking: Boehner to resign from Congress at the end of October Republican leaders hatch plan to avoid shutdown I no longer support a health-care mandate Trump lashes out at AP photographer who snapped empty chairs Sources: Boehner ally tried to recruit primary foe for Mark Meadows The decline and fall of American political debate Study: Fidgeting is good for you 490 billion gigabytes of data storage on a single gram of DNA Liberals are done debating To this secular Muslim, Ben Carson had a point