HotAir Daily Express 10/02/2015

September jobs report whiffs: 142,000 jobs added 10/2/2015 9:11:06 AM  Ed Morrissey 24 Comments Before today’s release of the September jobs report, analysts expected to hear moderately good news from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Reuters noted that economists thought that “US employers likely added jobs at a brisk pace,” and More... Hickenlooper goes off the leash on Hillary, Trump 10/2/2015 8:41:52 AM  Jazz Shaw 23 Comments During a speech at the FRED conference (?) in Denver this week, Colorado Democrat Governor John Hickenlooper took a friendly fire question from one of his supporters. Shouldn’t he consider running for president, given the current state of the More... Video: MN ObamaCare premium cost curve to bend upward as much as 49% in 2016 10/2/2015 8:01:18 AM  Ed Morrissey 21 Comments Remember how Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats promised that ObamaCare would bend the cost curve downward? Expect to see a lot of Minnesotans get bent over in the exchanges instead — again. Premiums will go up at least 14%, and in some cases as More... Quotes of the day 10/1/2015 10:01:53 PM  Allahpundit 315 Comments Hillary Clinton and her fiercest defenders couldn’t have said it better themselves. Instead, the Republican leading the race to replace John Boehner as House speaker said it for them, boasting Tuesday that his party has spent nearly three years More... Quit your complaining: The new Muppets show is amazing 10/1/2015 9:21:24 PM  Christine Rousselle 76 Comments Over at Townhall, I've made it no secret that I love all things Muppets. From the small stuffed Kermit the Frog who is my constant desk companion (and sometimes promotes my colleague's books), to my legitimate distress at hearing the rumors that Muppet More... YouGov poll: Trump still leads GOP field — but Rubio's now in second 10/1/2015 8:41:18 PM  Allahpundit 303 Comments Apart from one stray Rasmussen poll in early August that had Rubio tied with Jeb Bush at 10 percent, this is the first poll since the start of Trumpmania in June that’s placed him as high as second. And that Rasmussen one seems to have been an More... Carly Fiorina: It's time for the U.S. to impose a no-fly zone around American-backed rebels in Syria 10/1/2015 8:01:31 PM  Allahpundit 114 Comments Via Breitbart, I realize that every GOP candidate is under pressure right now to contrast themselves with Obama by showing how they’d stand up to Putin. I also realize that Fiorina, fairly or not (i.e. not), bears a special burden in proving how More... Obama: Let's start politicizing shootings, okay? 10/1/2015 7:21:51 PM  Ed Morrissey 379 Comments Shouldn’t we at least wait to get all the facts before doing so? In fact, even before President Obama urges people to politicize the shooting in Oregon this afternoon, he admits that “we don’t know all the facts yet,” and in fact More... Johnson, Clancy: We'll hold Secret Service agents "accountable" for intimidation tactics against Oversight chair 10/1/2015 6:41:15 PM  Ed Morrissey 31 Comments Suuuuuuuure they will. As Allahpundit noted last night, the Secret Service joins a long line of federal agencies to have played hardball with Congress and others to undermine its legitimate oversight function. How has accountability worked out in those More... Poll: Hillary still leads Democratic field, but people still think she's a 'liar' 10/1/2015 6:01:36 PM  Matt Vespa 32 Comments A new USA Today/Suffolk poll shows that Clinton maintains her double-digit lead nationally among Democratic primary voters. She currently leads the field with 41 percent of the vote, followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders at 23 percent, and Vice President Joe More... Turns out that reset button worked after all, with Russia and China 10/1/2015 5:21:20 PM  Jazz Shaw 49 Comments History is a harsh mistress at times, isn’t it? Back during the last campaign you probably recall Barack Obama telling Mitt Romney that the 1980s were calling to ask for their foreign policy back. The awkward joke was in response to Mitt warning More... Hillary vows to repeal key ObamaCare component: the Cadillac tax 10/1/2015 4:41:54 PM  Ed Morrissey 18 Comments Opposition to ObamaCare isn’t just for Republicans any more, it seems. After five years of lockstep orthodoxy on the brilliance of the Affordable Care Act, the Democrats’ leading contender for the nomination to replace Barack Obama will More... 45 seconds of silence: Netanyahu stares down UN General Assembly over Iran's eliminationism towards Israel 10/1/2015 4:01:24 PM  Allahpundit 253 Comments Via the Free Beacon, I think this was meant to be reproachful in a sit-there-and-think-about-what-you’ve-done way. But this audience being what it is, most of them were thinking, “If Iran had gotten on with it already, we wouldn’t need More... Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Ramona Treviño 10/1/2015 3:21:43 PM  Ed Morrissey 2 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. Ramona Treviño joins us More... Breaking: At least 10 reported dead in shooting at Oregon community college; Update: Shooter killed in gunfight with cops; Update: Shooter asked victims to state their religion? 10/1/2015 2:32:59 PM  Allahpundit 1018 Comments All details are in dispute at the moment, as is always the case in mass shootings, but the situation is dire. CNN BREAKING: Preliminary info: 10 deceased, 20 wounded at Umpqua Community College in Oregon -Oregon State Police — Vaughn Sterling More... Boehner: Of course we're not disbanding the Benghazi Select Committee 10/1/2015 2:01:05 PM  Ed Morrissey 50 Comments Consider this the end to the deeply unserious reaction to Kevin McCarthy’s ill-considered remarks about the impact that the Benghazi Select Committee has had on the presidential election — even if they’re true in a literal sense. The More... Here we go: Jeb Bush compares Rubio to Obama, says he followed Bush's lead in Florida; Update: Bush said Rubio was qualified to be president in 2012 10/1/2015 1:21:13 PM  Allahpundit 142 Comments That Obama comparison seems like a cheap shot. Just because Rubio’s a fortysomething first-term Senator and former state legislator with great rhetorical chops and little experience managing anything who’s running for president as a More... New York AG bemoans lost chance for people to pay taxes after major tobacco piracy bust 10/1/2015 12:41:52 PM  Jazz Shaw 44 Comments Earlier this year we saw New York State dealing with a rash of cigarette smuggling rings being busted by the Feds and local law enforcement alike. One of the biggest involved Basel Ramadan, who had cashed in to the tune of more than $10M by smuggling More... CNN: Biden out of Dem debate 10/1/2015 12:01:40 PM  Ed Morrissey 42 Comments According to CNN, Joe Biden will not appear at the first Democratic presidential debate, scheduled for October 13th in Las Vegas. The current Vice President has decided that he can wait even longer before making a decision about entering the presidential More... Humiliation: Kerry appears with Russian foreign minister after Putin bombs CIA-backed rebels 10/1/2015 11:21:49 AM  Allahpundit 136 Comments I’ve read upwards of a dozen stories in the past 12 hours about Russia skipping ISIS to bomb American-supported forces in Syria but I haven’t read a word yet about U.S. reprisals. Perhaps, in the endless quest for “international More... Third-degree Bern: Sanders nearly matches Hillary in latest quarterly fundraising 10/1/2015 10:41:07 AM  Ed Morrissey 26 Comments “Don’t look back,” Satchel Paige once advised, “something may be gaining on you.” For Hillary Clinton, that something is Bernie Sanders. The FEC filings from both campaigns show that donations to Team Hillary dropped More... Vatican source: Pope was blindsided by meeting with Kim Davis It's the abortion, stupid "A man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone" Correcting the New York Times's absurd vision of the modern man Game on: Bush vs. Rubio Vatican: Pope Francis's meeting with Kim Davis wasn't an endorsement of her views "He said, 'Good, because you're a Christian, you are going to see God in just about one second'" Army veteran charged the Oregon gunman, was shot five times trying to save others Why do narcissists lose popularity over time? Can Sweden make the case for a six-hour workday?