HotAir Daily Express New York City joins the mad dash to "transgender" rights laws

HotAir Daily Express New York City joins the mad dash to "transgender" rights laws New CNN national poll: Trump up 21 points over Cruz at 39% 12/23/2015 8:31:44 AM  Ed Morrissey 25 Comments The final CNN poll of 2015 looks … a lot like the rest of the CNN polls in 2015. Donald Trump dominates the national polling among registered Republican voters, more than lapping Ted Cruz at 39/18, his nearest competitor. Only two others score in More... Quotes of the day 12/22/2015 10:01:03 PM  Allahpundit 382 Comments In another sign of an escalating feud between the two presidential front-runners, Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton's bathroom break in Saturday's debate "disgusting" and used a Yiddish word for the male anatomy to describe her loss in 2008 to Barack More... New York City joins the mad dash to "transgender" rights laws 12/22/2015 9:01:31 PM  Jazz Shaw 46 Comments I suppose the real question here is how New York City wasn’t the first place where this cropped up. The fact that someplace in Texas had to deal with the “transgender” bathroom and pronoun issues before Manhattan did is likely just a More... Hold up: Emperor Palpatine has a positive favorable rating? 12/22/2015 8:01:04 PM  Allahpundit 126 Comments A holiday news-slowdown palate cleanser for you. The poll here is more than a year old but it’s been resurrected by Frank Luntz in honor of “The Force Awakens.” Congress has a lower favorable rating (15%) than Jar Jar Binks (29%). More... Big deal? Iran successfully hacked the controls for a dam in New York 12/22/2015 7:01:32 PM  Jazz Shaw 81 Comments The country still doesn’t seem to be taking the whole cybersecurity thing all that seriously, no matter how many times it’s brought up in Congress and on cable news. Of if we are taking it seriously, we need to get some better geeks. Ed More... Sorry, Obama: AP editors vote ISIS as top news story of 2015 12/22/2015 6:01:04 PM  Ed Morrissey 59 Comments When it comes to characterizing ISIS, it doesn’t usually take long for events to force Barack Obama to eat his words. He called them “jayvees” in January 2014, just a few months before seizing vast sections of Iraq and Syria to set up a More... Is there any reason for the GOP establishment not to go all-in for Rubio at this point? 12/22/2015 5:01:40 PM  Allahpundit 201 Comments Just something I was thinking about last night, and have to think about again today now that I see Lindsey Graham’s trying to decide between Rubio and — groan — Jeb Bush. One Graham confidante says the senator's instinct would be to go More... New Louisiana governor to undo welfare reform 12/22/2015 4:01:07 PM  Jazz Shaw 80 Comments Hope and change is coming to Louisiana after the defeat of David Vitter last month. John Bel Edwards swept to victory by a double digit margin and let everyone know that he was going to start changing up the game. Now, well before he’s even taken More... Tuesday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Andrew Malcolm, Jazz Shaw, and Merry Christmas! 12/22/2015 3:41:52 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for ring out 2015! Our two best TEMS friends come back for the final show of the year. We’ll look back at 2015, and look forward to 2016: Andrew Malcolm joins us for Tuesdays More... Jeb!: Immigration spat between Rubio, Cruz "typical of two Senators" 12/22/2015 3:01:52 PM  Ed Morrissey 61 Comments The executive experience argument for 2016 may only be mostly dead — and Jeb Bush hopes to be the bellows that gets a few last breaths out of it. In a clip from Face the Nation released yesterday by CBS, Bush mocks the feud between Ted Cruz as More... Video: The amazing SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket landing 12/22/2015 2:01:03 PM  Allahpundit 200 Comments The broad concept is the same as it was for the Space Shuttle: If you want to make space travel cost-effective, the vehicle needs to be reusable. The Shuttle was reusable but it was dangerous to the crews who manned it and not the cost-saver in practice More... Paul: I'll reintroduce bill to undercut Obama gun-control EOs 12/22/2015 1:01:45 PM  Ed Morrissey 88 Comments Barack Obama left for his Christmas vacation promising to use his executive authority to increase restrictions on gun sales, part of his response to the terrorist attack in San Bernardino. To that end, he met last week with Michael Bloomberg, the More... Mall of America files restraining order against Black Lives Matter 12/22/2015 12:01:59 PM  Jazz Shaw 217 Comments Remind me again… is this Christmas or Groundhog Day? Last year, just before Christmas, Black Lives Matter Minneapolis illegally shut down the Mall of America on one of the busiest shopping days of the year by flooding the mall with activists and More... Go figure: Centrist Chris Christie now has (almost) the same position on immigration as Ted Cruz 12/22/2015 11:21:58 AM  Allahpundit 93 Comments Via Breitbart, skip to 3:00 for the immigration bit. If he had said this three days ago, he’d have exactly the same position as Mr. Conservative: We don’t even talk about legalization until the border is secured, and then, once it is, More... Trump on Hillary 2008: "She got schlonged" 12/22/2015 10:31:30 AM  Ed Morrissey 543 Comments And thus does another term enter the political lexicon. Donald Trump offered this analysis of the 2008 Democratic primary race after a weird rant about Hillary Clinton’s extended bathroom break, in which he declared she did something so More... Kerry to Iran: Oh, of course those new visa restrictions wouldn't apply to you, my friends! 12/22/2015 9:41:24 AM  Jazz Shaw 47 Comments It seems like only yesterday that the Washington Post was calling the Obama administration weak in their dealings with Iran. (Oh, wait… it actually was yesterday.) But the empire had a chance to strike back when Iran complained about new visa More... Assad is reaching out to Washington insiders Evangelist Franklin Graham quits GOP over omnibus spending bill that funded Planned Parenthood Poll: Trump 39, Cruz 18, Rubio 10, Carson 10 Meaning in the age of selfie sticks The future of pets How America became obsessed with Star Wars and other childish things How people a century ago imagined we'd dress today Enough with the pity party for Jeb Bush Hey, at Christmas, remember that Jesus was a refugee Planned Parenthood says hiding your HIV status from a partner is a right