HotAir Daily Express 11/17/2015

Putin: Metrojet crash was a terror attack 11/17/2015 8:41:50 AM  Ed Morrissey 9 Comments Vladimir Putin announced last night what most people assumed for the last couple of weeks — that the Metrojet charter carrying Russian tourists back home from Sharm el-Sheikh was brought down by a terrorist bomb. Putin called it the bloodiest act More... Colorado Governor apparently unaware of more than 1,000 FBI ISIS investigations 11/17/2015 8:01:51 AM  Jazz Shaw 34 Comments There’s something of a disconnect going on out in Colorado this week, where Governor John Hickenlooper has apparently missed a few memos from his law enforcement community. The headline for the Governor was his rejection of the position taken by 26 More... Quotes of the day 11/16/2015 10:41:36 PM  Allahpundit 197 Comments Governors across the country are scrambling to close off their states to resettled Syrian refugees in the wake of the deadly terror attacks in Paris that are linked to Islamic State extremists. The list of states climbed quickly to 23 by Monday evening, More... Those calling for a law getting Wall Street out of politics are forgetting they don't have to accept corporate donations 11/16/2015 10:01:59 PM  Taylor Millard 44 Comments There’s a big push on the Democratic side to try to get Wall Street out of politics. Bernie Sanders took to the Senate floor in August to rail against Citizens United and declare it was "legalized bribery." He then went to his campaign website in a More... "Walking Dead" grumble thread: Yes, of course that was Glenn's voice on the walkie-talkie at the end 11/16/2015 9:21:35 PM  Allahpundit 68 Comments Yeah, I know, Norman “Daryl” Reedus claims that it isn’t. But c’mon. He’s not about to blab and spoil the big “Glenn’s alive” reveal that’s coming, even though it barely qualifies as a reveal at this More... Video: MN Democrat ends campaign after bizarre ISIS tweet during debate 11/16/2015 8:41:28 PM  Ed Morrissey 58 Comments Given my status as a Minnesotan, it’s impossible to let this story pass unremarked. When CBS’ John Dickerson grilled Democratic presidential candidates on national security and policy related to ISIS, a local Democratic candidate for the More... Video: Asked who the "standout" candidate in the GOP field is, Palin names Trump 11/16/2015 8:01:14 PM  Allahpundit 161 Comments Skip to 6:00. I’m really surprised. Not that she’s favorable to Trump — they’ve been populist allies for awhile now — but that she’d make a clear choice when prompted. After all, her other ally, Ted Cruz, is not only More... Obama allies quick to warn us not to overreact to that little incident in Paris 11/16/2015 7:21:33 PM  Jazz Shaw 165 Comments I watched the President’s comments from the G20 summit earlier today and listened with a growing sense of weariness and depression as he announced that he would double down on his current, er… for lack of a better word I’ll say More... O'Malley: Hillary's 9/11 comment was "shameful" 11/16/2015 6:41:14 PM  Ed Morrissey 22 Comments Point of order: One has to actually be capable of feeling shame in order to be shamed. Alisyn Camerota notes that the moment got a big round of applause from the audience, but Martin O’Malley says, “She had a lot of friends in the room More... WSJ: Syrian passport of Paris jihadi was a fake 11/16/2015 6:01:35 PM  Allahpundit 220 Comments I’m seeing fans of Merkel’s open-borders policy on Twitter celebrating this as some sort of grand debunking of the “great right-wing freakout” about refugees. Okay, but … I don’t think this says what they think it More... Rand Paul introduces bill to pause all Syrian immigration 11/16/2015 5:21:51 PM  Jazz Shaw 78 Comments It was apparently a race to see who was going to do this first. After a number of governors have said, not only no but hell no to more Syrian “refugees” coming into their states, senators are working at putting such a ban – or at least More... Democratic governor demands halt to refugee settlement in US 11/16/2015 4:41:30 PM  Ed Morrissey 57 Comments As the Daily Beast says, it’s not just Republicans. After more than a dozen GOP governors announced plans to block the relocation of Syrian refugees to their states, New Hampshire’s Democratic governor joined the group. Maggie Hassan’s More... 2013 e-mail from Huma Abedin: Hillary is "often confused" 11/16/2015 4:01:02 PM  Allahpundit 57 Comments Via the Weekly Standard, this would explain her insane “Wall Street donates to me because of 9/11” remark at the debate on Saturday night. As well as the totality of America’s Libya policy between 2011 and 2012. In fairness to Hillary, More... Obama: Wanting to accept only Christian refugees from the Middle East is un-American 11/16/2015 3:21:00 PM  Allahpundit 474 Comments As about a million people, not all of them conservatives, noted on Twitter during this morning’s presser, he was more animated when lecturing Americans about what is and isn’t proper for them to think than he was discussing the “JV More... Special snowflake syndrome spreads to University of Kansas and beyond 11/16/2015 2:41:22 PM  Jazz Shaw 71 Comments Is anyone really surprised? In what is quickly beginning to look like a bad case of copycat hysteria, yet another American campus of higher learning has produced an uprising. It’s taken root among students who find certain people to be More... Feinstein: "Clear" that Obama's ISIS strategy is "insufficient" 11/16/2015 2:01:06 PM  Ed Morrissey 65 Comments The ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee actually said this in a released statement on Saturday, but Barack Obama doubling down on failure today makes it especially noteworthy now. No one expects John McCain and Lindsey Graham to have More... Iowa Rep. Steve King endorses Ted Cruz: "A candidate whom God will use to restore the soul of America" 11/16/2015 1:21:14 PM  Allahpundit 78 Comments This makes two major endorsements for Cruz in Iowa, the first being talk-radio host Steve Deace back in August. Probably the biggest among Iowa social cons is Bob Vander Plaats, head of the Family Leader, which is hosting its presidential forum this More... "Nightmare" scenario of non-establishment GOP candidate looms large 11/16/2015 12:41:24 PM  Jazz Shaw 144 Comments With the Thanksgiving break and the holiday season almost upon us (and the attendant lack of movement in election news which usually attends this period) I’m noticing some serious panic beginning to set in among fans of politics as usual. A pair of More... Ben Rhodes: Heck yeah, the U.S. is still planning to take Syrian refugees 11/16/2015 12:01:18 PM  Allahpundit 166 Comments Skip to 2:15 to watch Rhodes, responding to the news that one of the Paris bombers washed up onshore in Greece just six weeks ago, claim that it’s full speed ahead on the U.S. accepting 10,000 Syrian refugees of its own. The Democratic More... Obama: Yeah, we're not going to change our ISIS strategy after Paris 11/16/2015 11:21:31 AM  Ed Morrissey 235 Comments Speaking from the G20 conference in Turkey today, Barack Obama wants everyone to know that he plans to stay the course on his strategy to “decapitate” ISIS. Three days after declaring ISIS “contained” only to see the group launch More... Suspected OBL bodyguard, four others released from Gitmo two days after Paris 11/16/2015 10:41:32 AM  Ed Morrissey 92 Comments Barack Obama is certainly committed to closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, even if it’s still an unpopular idea with everyone else. With Congress repeatedly blocking Obama’s attempts at moving the detainees to US soil, the More... Obamacare repeal dying the death of a dozen cuts in the Senate 11/16/2015 10:01:07 AM  Jazz Shaw 55 Comments If you’ve been following the health care news, Obamacare remains on the rocks. State exchanges are going broke and closing around the nation because there was a complete failure to anticipate the costs they would encounter with a flood of sick More... Video: France conducts widespread counter-terrorism raids under emergency powers 11/16/2015 9:21:17 AM  Ed Morrissey 76 Comments In new signs that France has taken their “pitiless” war against ISIS more seriously after the Mumbai-style attack on Paris, the government has used its state of emergency to conduct 170 raids across the country. More than 100 suspects have More... Clinton Foundation amends four years' worth of tax returns Trump: I'll 'go to war' with Cruz if he rises higher Ted Cruz to offer bill banning Syrian Muslim refugees Paris mastermind boasted of freely crossing Europe's borders The most extensive facial transplant in medical history Science finally explains slackers Freedom from speech End college football The crisis is Islam Conservatism's essential element is experience