HotAir Daily Express Could Kevin McCarthy be pushed into becoming Speaker?

Could Kevin McCarthy be pushed into becoming Speaker? 9/16/2015 10:01:28 AM  Jazz Shaw 2 Comments Considering the number of stories I see on a monthly basis about the imminent demise of John Boehner’s position as Speaker I’m half expecting to see him show up on an upcoming episode of Fear the Walking Dead. While none of these predicted More... Fox: Bill Clinton asked permission for big-dollar speech for group with ties to Tehran 9/16/2015 9:21:23 AM  Ed Morrissey 17 Comments Give Bill Clinton this much credit — as a man running his own business, he aggressively sought new markets. State Department e-mails released earlier in FOIA demands showed that the former President sought permission to give speeches to the More... McConnell to dare Democrats to filibuster hostage-release condition for Iran deal 9/16/2015 8:41:03 AM  Ed Morrissey 45 Comments After getting 42 votes in support of Barack Obama’s deal with Iran on nuclear weapons, Harry Reid led two successful filibusters of the disapproval bill that would have gone down to a veto anyway. The House easily passed its version of the More... How will we vet more than 10K Syrian refugees? DHS has no idea 9/16/2015 8:01:40 AM  Jazz Shaw 43 Comments When we previously discussed the Syrian refugee crisis and the prospect of the Obama administration agreeing to vastly increase the number of migrants we take in, one question which arose immediately was how in the world we were going to screen out any More... Quotes of the day 9/15/2015 10:41:37 PM  Allahpundit 344 Comments We tend to take it for granted, but it really is remarkable how thoroughly Trump has dominated the Republican race so far. He has gotten far more earned media than everyone else and on top of that, almost every time another candidate gets on TV, he or More... Polls: Hillary slipping among young people and women 9/15/2015 10:01:25 PM  Mary Katharine Ham 30 Comments Obama Coalition, where art thou? The latest polls on Hillary Clinton, one in New Hampshire and one focused on college students, shows the former Secretary of State losing ground with two important groups of the powerful combination of voters that carried More... Canadian parents not so sure about sex education for 3rd graders 9/15/2015 9:21:27 PM  Jazz Shaw 49 Comments I can’t say precisely how similar Canadian families are to American ones, particularly when it comes to parents with small children. Some things seem to be universal though and this might be one of them. Canada recently implemented a plan where More... Eye on the ball: Democrat wants hearings on fantasy football websites 9/15/2015 8:41:56 PM  Mary Katharine Ham 36 Comments America, are you enjoying yourself? Are you ardently dedicated to a goofy pasttime in which you engage with friends, occasional booze, barbecue, and even exchange of money between mutually agreed parties on mutually agreed terms? Well, Congress More... A crime against liberalism: Matt Damon disagrees with black filmmaker about diversity 9/15/2015 8:01:50 PM  Allahpundit 75 Comments The left’s been wetting its pants over this for the past 24 hours so we can’t be more than a day away from a groveling Damon apology. Let’s get you up to speed so that you can enjoy the blue-on-blue while it lasts. CSM has the More... Bloomberg: CMS audit of ObamaCare federal exchange shows incompetence, waste 9/15/2015 7:21:58 PM  Ed Morrissey 37 Comments Let’s see a show of hands. How many people expected the Healthcare.gov exchange to work properly, given that the Obama administration had more than three years to develop and launch it? One would have assumed that with that kind of lead time, HHS More... Glenn Beck: If you're a tea partier who backs Trump, maybe you really were against Obama because he's black or a Democrat 9/15/2015 6:41:18 PM  Allahpundit 816 Comments Via Breitbart, I’m being charitable to him by including “maybe” in that headline. Beck doesn’t actually hedge. Nor is this the first time he’s lunged at a racial explanation for tea partiers backing a more moderate More... SCOTUS Justice Breyer likes to rely on the laws of other countries 9/15/2015 6:01:40 PM  Jazz Shaw 70 Comments This isn’t too disturbing. Nope. Not at all. Everything is just fine here, folks. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has a new book out in which he shares some of his many philosophical observations about law and the court. In it, as the latest More... NYT: Media may have underestimated impact of Hillary e-mail scandal 9/15/2015 5:21:05 PM  Ed Morrissey 94 Comments No kidding. For quite a while, the media either downplayed or flat-out ignored Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal, or cast it in terms of the danger of Republican overreach. The New York Times actually stands out as an exception to this, as they have More... New Jeb Bush ad: "Todos somos Americanos" 9/15/2015 4:41:48 PM  Allahpundit 241 Comments An implicit rebuke to Trump for scolding him a few weeks ago for speaking Spanish to a reporter. In fact, the Spanish spoken by Jeb here is so basic that even English speakers with a rudimentary grasp of the language can probably piece out what More... Out: Fat shaming. In: Trash shaming 9/15/2015 4:01:51 PM  Jazz Shaw 159 Comments We’ve probably had a “shaming” society pretty much as long as the country has been here. Seriously… if you were in Massachusetts in the 1600s and wore the wrong clothes they could lock you in the stocks overnight. But shaming has More... Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Salena Zito, Ryan Anderson 9/15/2015 3:21:57 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! 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. Salena Zito returns More... Two new polls show Jeb Bush trailing Trump by at least 15 points — in his home state of Florida 9/15/2015 2:41:28 PM  Allahpundit 94 Comments Chin up, Jeb fans. It could be worse. You could be fans of Marco Rubio, who’s trailing Trump by 18 or 28 points there depending upon whether you trust PPP or Gravis more. Trump’s primary-night victory party at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach will be More... Video: Club for Growth ad slams Trump as "just another politician" 9/15/2015 2:01:46 PM  Ed Morrissey 248 Comments If there’s one line of attack that actually hits at the core of Donald Trump’s popularity, it’s this shot from the Club for Growth’s Action PAC. The conservative budget hawks have launched their announced anti-Trump campaign today More... Liberals bemoan new campus rape law which could involve police in prosecuting crimes 9/15/2015 1:21:33 PM  Jazz Shaw 60 Comments Back in July, Congressmen Matt Salmon and Pete Sessions introduced legislation which suggests the radical, unique idea of bringing criminal cases to the police (or at least letting the principals have access to an attorney) in cases of sexual assault More... Pricing the Bern: WSJ puts Sanders' proposals at $18 trillion over 10 years 9/15/2015 12:41:06 PM  Ed Morrissey 91 Comments It took the United States almost 240 years to hit a national debt of $18 trillion, although to be more accurate it took us about the last 40 of those years to run up most of it. Bernie Sanders would like to double down on it over the next ten years. The More... How Donald Trump figured out the value of #SorryNotSorry 9/15/2015 12:01:07 PM  Jazz Shaw 63 Comments Because I clearly have no idea how to do anything better with my time, I sat last night and watched The Donald’s massive Trumpapalooza in Dallas which attracted more than 15,000 fans. As the event wore on and the crowds roared I took note of a More... NYT/CBS poll: Ben Carson now within four points of Trump, rest of field lags in single digits 9/15/2015 11:21:24 AM  Allahpundit 331 Comments Only once since the beginning of August had any poll showed Trump leading by less than double digits, and that poll had him up seven. Today’s four-point lead over Carson is the slimmest advantage he’s had since Trumpmania started to break big More... Video: Politically correct speech codes on campus are ridiculous, says … 9/15/2015 10:41:25 AM  Ed Morrissey 75 Comments Well, well, well. Have political correctness and speech codes at colleges and universities finally jumped the shark? If so, I’m happy to give credit to President Barack Obama for this scolding yesterday in Des Moines, Iowa. True, it comes in More... Donald Trump is a madman who must be stopped The debate we were supposed to have Can Mitt Romney save us from Trump? 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