HotAir Daily Express Game changer in Iowa? Cruz surges to virtual tie with Trump

Game changer in Iowa? Cruz surges to virtual tie with Trump 11/24/2015 8:41:17 AM  Jazz Shaw 26 Comments I seem to recall that just the other day I was saying that with the arrival of Thanksgiving week we were entering the political “dead zone” of the holidays where presidential races begin to stagnate until New Years. Looking at this More... Turkey shoots down Russian plane in airspace near Syria 11/24/2015 8:01:25 AM  Taylor Millard 77 Comments President Barack Obama’s meeting with France President Francois Hollande has probably gotten a bit more interesting after reports indicate Turkey shot down a Russian Sukhoi-24 bomber. Details are a little sketchy and depends on the source, but More... Quotes of the day 11/23/2015 10:41:38 PM  Allahpundit 245 Comments Congressional Democrats are trying to build support for an effort to bar gun purchases by terror suspects, hoping to take advantage of the same public anxieties about security that gave Republicans a ringing House victory… “By leaving this More... Mother Jones: Mocking Republican position on Syrian refugees make us look 'absurdly out of touch' 11/23/2015 10:01:03 PM  Matt Vespa 35 Comments It's no shocker that liberals either mock–or view with contempt–the Republican position on Syrian refugees. Governors from 31 states have refused to participate in relocation efforts due to security concerns, which isn't a small thing. The FBI has stated More... "Walking Dead" grumble thread: Did I tell you or did I tell you? 11/23/2015 9:21:10 PM  Allahpundit 105 Comments Let me quote. October 26: They're not sending Glenn out this way. Those weren't his entrails being torn out, they were Nicholas's. Glenn is underneath him, somehow "protected" even though the zombies are in a feeding frenzy and would be biting and More... Video: So this is the ad that Team Kasich thinks is going to take down Trump, huh? 11/23/2015 8:41:17 PM  Allahpundit 145 Comments Remember that story last week about Kasich’s Super PAC preparing to take the gloves off with Trump to the tune of $2.5 million in ads? They’re going to be the “tip of the spear” against him, part of a multi-PAC attack designed to More... New RNC ad: Can these Democratic weaklings be trusted to keep America safe? 11/23/2015 8:01:36 PM  Guy Benson 34 Comments Consider this the RNC’s pointed riposte to Democrats’ moronic ad painting Republican presidential candidates as a bunch of unhinged bigots for naming “radical Islam” as our enemy — a fringe stance with which only two-thirds More... Majority of D.C. residents want to reinstitute the gun ban 11/23/2015 7:21:55 PM  Matt Vespa 54 Comments The end of September was a grim milestone for Washington D.C., as the city reached 120 homicides, the most our nation's capital has experienced since 2010, according to WUSA9. In August, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier blamed the spike in crime to an More... RNC breaking fundraising records while DNC falls deeper in debt 11/23/2015 6:41:38 PM  Jazz Shaw 46 Comments In every American election we have a tendency to follow the money. More so than media coverage or poll numbers, donations tend to provide a leading indicator of which way the tides are moving. There are exceptions, of course, such as the fact that Donald More... Here we go: Centcom analysts who took negative view of progress against ISIS were told in e-mails to "cut it out" 11/23/2015 6:01:03 PM  Allahpundit 73 Comments I thought we already knew this, or at least knew the basics of it — defense analysts at Centcom were apparently pressured by their superiors to take a rosier view of the progress against ISIS than was actually warranted. Who precisely wanted the More... The truth about that Trump "black murder rate" chart on Twitter 11/23/2015 5:21:15 PM  Jazz Shaw 80 Comments I actually saw this on Twitter over the weekend and assumed that it was just going to blow over, but since it involved a chance to take a shot at GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and included the subject of race, well… obviously it exploded. The Hill More... Ted Cruz: "Are there some in the Republican Party whose rhetoric is unhelpful with regard to immigration? Yes." 11/23/2015 4:41:56 PM  Allahpundit 183 Comments Who could he possibly mean? “Tone matters,” Cruz, the son of a Cuban immigrant, told The Associated Press in an interview between campaign stops. “Are there some in the Republican Party whose rhetoric is unhelpful with regard to More... Sanders: Say… that Hillary sure sounds like a Republican, doesn't she? 11/23/2015 4:01:52 PM  Jazz Shaw 18 Comments Bernie Sanders is tired of hearing about Hillary Clinton’s damn emails… at least when he’s on the same stage with her and has to look her in the eye. At other times he’s happy to have the media doing his dirty work for him. The More... Video: Argentina rejects Peronists, moves to the Right 11/23/2015 3:21:07 PM  Ed Morrissey 16 Comments After more than a dozen years of Leftist rule which brought their economy to an inflation-plagued standstill and relations with the US to a low ebb, Argentinians have voted to clear the decks of the Kirchner legacy. Mauricio Macri, a pro-business and More... CBS poll: Only 23% think Obama has a clear strategy for defeating ISIS 11/23/2015 2:41:10 PM  Ed Morrissey 71 Comments Alternate headline: New low of 23% of Americans pay no attention to the news. A new CBS poll puts Barack Obama’s handling of ISIS at its nadir, with two-thirds of respondents rejecting Obama’s claims that his strategy is working against ISIS. More... Feinstein: Obama's policies are making ISIS issue worse, not better 11/23/2015 2:01:42 PM  Ed Morrissey 45 Comments Barack Obama has had an increasingly difficult time convincing Americans that his ISIS strategy is working — including the top-ranking member of his party’s Senate contingent on intelligence. Speaking on Face the Nation yesterday, Dianne More... Oh yes: Romney leads Trump 31/15 in New Hampshire poll 11/23/2015 1:21:34 PM  Allahpundit 216 Comments Given that the deadline to file for the New Hampshire ballot was three days ago, I’m not sure why the Globe felt this was necessary. Maybe they wanted to show people how soft Trump’s support in the state really is, despite all of the polls More... Surprise! General Electric lied about needing the Ex-Im bank to "save jobs" in PA 11/23/2015 12:41:29 PM  Jazz Shaw 20 Comments You probably recall with a bit of a bad taste in your mouth that the hard fought shut-down of the Export Import Bank was unceremoniously overturned in the House at the end of October when a large number of Republicans suddenly decided to switch sides and More... Report: Senate Democrats may try to add gun measure to Syrian refugee bill 11/23/2015 12:01:01 PM  Taylor Millard 109 Comments It looks like Senate Democrats are going to try to attach a new gun law onto the Republican bill trying to do more oversight on Syrian refugee entry into the U.S. Washington Examiner reports Democrats may try to slip that in the refugee bill next More... Trump: No, really, I saw thousands of people in New Jersey celebrating the attacks on 9/11 11/23/2015 11:21:48 AM  Allahpundit 463 Comments This weekend reminded me of how Leon Wolf described a typical Trump presser back in August: Watching Donald Trump speak and answer questions, though, is like watching a billion targets appear in the sky all at once, for a political opponent. Each thing More... Our "crisis of confidence" isn't with the police, but with our communities 11/23/2015 10:41:28 AM  Jazz Shaw 25 Comments Last night I was reading a piece at Yahoo News from Jason Sickles which paints a dire picture of American society, describing a nation where the citizens are increasingly losing faith in law enforcement. The title is, From Ferguson to Minneapolis: Crisis More... Sixteen arrested in raids across Belgium 11/23/2015 10:01:16 AM  Taylor Millard 45 Comments Belgian police are questioning 16 people after a swath of terrorism raids across the country. Federal police went into homes in the Brussels area and Charleroi Sunday night as they searched for one of the prime suspects in the Paris attacks. But RTE News More... Book review: Heavy Lifting – Grow up, get a job, start a family, and other manly advice 11/23/2015 9:21:33 AM  Jazz Shaw 125 Comments Over the weekend I finished reading Heavy Lifting, by Jim Geraghty and Cam Edwards. It’s impossible to share a review of a book such as this without a few spoilers, but I’ll do my best. Before getting to the meat of the tome, however, More... TV networks unite to fight Trump's restriction on journalists' access MSNBC's "no-fly list is Islamophobia" poster boy arrested in Turkey as part of ISIS cell Trump on waterboarding: "If it doesn't work, they deserve it anyway" No, NASA didn't take a picture of a UFO Today's whiny feminism is killing sex Helicopter parenting is really a symptom of underparenting Apocalypse pig: The last antibiotic begins to fail Donald Trump is the new Jesse Ventura The GOP's insane, inaccurate, bizarro history of Obama's Syria failure Why we should resettle refugees in their own lands