HotAir Daily Express 01/06/2016

AP fact check: Obama gun-control actions wouldn't have stopped any mass shooting 1/6/2016 8:41:15 AM  Ed Morrissey 17 Comments To paraphrase Samuel Johnson: media fact-checks on Barack Obama’s claims about guns may not be done entirely well … but one is surprised to find them done at all. Following Obama’s emotional press conference yesterday, both the More... Boom: North Korea claims to have detonated a hydrogen bomb 1/6/2016 8:01:25 AM  Jazz Shaw 32 Comments North Korea has been threatening this for a while and now, at 10 am local time, they claim to have detonated a hydrogen bomb. The only real indication that something happened thus far is that they managed to trigger a 5.1 magnitude earthquake. (CNN) The More... Here we go: Trump says Cruz's Canadian birth could be "very precarious" for the GOP 1/5/2016 10:01:05 PM  Allahpundit 534 Comments To some lefties, Trumpmania is a form of karmic payback for the GOP establishment having spent the past seven years pandering to conservative populists in their hatred of Barack Obama. They nurtured the tea-party monster for their own ends, the theory More... Hmmm: Rep. Steve Israel retires … to write novels 1/5/2016 9:21:22 PM  Ed Morrissey 39 Comments As retirement excuses go, Steve Israel’s is novel … figuratively and literally. The rapid rise of Israel in House Democratic circles will come to an abrupt end in 2016, as the Long Island Democrat wants to trade writing legislation for More... MO legislators to Mizzou: Fire professor who tried to "muscle" reporter 1/5/2016 8:41:06 PM  Ed Morrissey 39 Comments Legit sanction for abuse of authority, or an infringement on academic freedom? Missouri state legislators want Melissa Click canned for her actions in a protest at the University of Missouri, in which she threatened a student journalist by calling for More... Christie rips Rubio: A reliable conservative wouldn't have backed amnesty and then run away; Update: Rubio camp responds 1/5/2016 8:01:00 PM  Allahpundit 48 Comments A brutal counterattack after Rubio’s Super PAC dropped not one but two ads on him yesterday. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but: Second look at Chris Christie? "I just don't think Marco Rubio's going to be able to slime his way to the More... Nikki Haley to deliver GOP rebuttal to Obama's final State of the Union speech 1/5/2016 7:21:57 PM  Allahpundit 95 Comments After a year of Boehner quitting and Scott Walker fading and Trump rising to the top of the party, the GOP finally enjoys a moment of predictability. Haley will become the first South Carolinian to offer the response, which comes after she was thrust More... Video: Suddenly, the NFL loves LA again 1/5/2016 6:41:05 PM  Ed Morrissey 31 Comments Do they love LA, or are they using LA as a prop to wring concessions from their home-town politicians? That has been the modus operandi of NFL franchises ever since the Rams packed up and moved to St. Louis. Now owner Stan Kroenke says he wants to bring More... In NY, Cuomo raises the minimum wage to $15 for yet another subset of workers 1/5/2016 6:01:25 PM  Jazz Shaw 42 Comments This is turning into something of a bad habit in New York. Last year we saw the Empire State’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, unilaterally push through a minimum wage increase to $15 per hour only for certain fast food workers. In November – once More... Oklahoma looks at regulating fracking to reduce earthquakes 1/5/2016 5:21:11 PM  Jazz Shaw 34 Comments No, the title was not a typo. And perhaps even more strangely, they’ve got a point, but there may be just a bit of an overreaction here. Areas with large amounts of high volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) taking place have experienced low grade More... Did Hillary e-mail contain information marked classified? 1/5/2016 4:41:31 PM  Ed Morrissey 43 Comments The Washington Examiner says yes, as does my colleague and pal Guy Benson. The truth in this case is a little more … nuanced. Let’s start with the Washex’ Sarah Westwood’s report from New Years Eve on the massive State Department More... Video: Teary Obama announces empty gesture on guns 1/5/2016 4:01:37 PM  Allahpundit 824 Comments Ed already dug into the meat of today’s executive action on guns in two separate posts, but when the president cries in public, I guess we’re duty bound to put up an extra thread. Whether you think the tears were calculated or earnest, the More... Germany stunned after scores of women in Cologne attacked on New Year's Eve by groups of Middle Eastern men 1/5/2016 3:21:21 PM  Allahpundit 192 Comments It took a few days for the details to trickle out, possibly because German authorities were eager to keep them quiet, but this is officially international news now that the BBC and New York Times have picked it up. According to Cologne police, upwards of More... In an attempt to curb suicides, Barack Obama essentially regulates Christmas 1/5/2016 2:41:58 PM  Jazz Shaw 38 Comments Now that I’ve completely confused everyone with that title, allow me to explain. (You may want to grab a drink and a comfortable chair for this one.) If you either watched or heard about President Barack Obama’s tearful speech today, in which More... Ted Cruz: Unlike Donald Trump, I won't let deported illegals back in to become citizens 1/5/2016 2:01:30 PM  Allahpundit 151 Comments Via BuzzFeed, I wonder if Cruz knew he was being recorded here or if he didn’t and went further in criticizing He Who Must Not Be Shamed than he otherwise might have. He strikes me as the sort of pol who operates on the assumption that he’s More... Obama: Hey, forget what I said about Australia (twice) — no one's looking to take away your guns! 1/5/2016 1:21:42 PM  Ed Morrissey 129 Comments Says the man who promised, “If you like your [health insurance] plan, you can keep your plan,” and who promised to lead a new era of post-partisan comity in his presidency — and then decided to spend years rehashing the gun-control More... Finally. Somebody makes the connection between Trump and Joseph McCarthy 1/5/2016 12:41:28 PM  Jazz Shaw 142 Comments I’ve long since given up trying to predict what will happen with the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. He’s either on his way to being the GOP nominee in a bum’s rush or there’s some truly spectacular saga of American More... US-aligned regimes in Middle East cutting ties to Iran 1/5/2016 12:01:51 PM  Ed Morrissey 47 Comments Most of the reporting on the diplomatic dominos falling in the Middle East focuses on Saudi Arabia’s efforts to isolate Iran, which appear to be succeeding. As the Washington Post notes in two different articles this morning, Riyadh’s More... Horrifying new Ted Cruz ad: What if the border were being overrun by … journalists? 1/5/2016 11:21:12 AM  Allahpundit 184 Comments Two words, my friends: Electric fence. This is clever spot, especially as a contrast to Trump’s first ad. The hardest problem in political advertising right now, with TV in Iowa and New Hampshire saturated, is to get your clip to stand out. More... Hackers take down power grid in Ukraine in a troubling sign of things to come 1/5/2016 10:41:37 AM  Jazz Shaw 36 Comments Just last month we looked at an instance where hackers, possibly of Russian origin, briefly took control of computer systems at a hydroelectric dam in New York. That’s a worrisome development to be sure, but it was hardly an isolated incident. This More... CBO: ObamaCare repeal bill would reduce deficits by half a trillion dollars over 10 years 1/5/2016 10:01:52 AM  Ed Morrissey 27 Comments Plenty of Americans choose to reject ObamaCare to save themselves a boatload of money. Republicans in Congress believe the US budget should have that choice, and the CBO agrees with them that it would work, too. Their latest analysis of a bill that would More... King Corn's attacks on Ted Cruz don't seem to be gaining traction in Iowa 1/5/2016 9:21:38 AM  Jazz Shaw 64 Comments There are too many current poll results at this point to ignore the impression that the GOP nomination battle in the early states is currently coming down to two people: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. The one place where Cruz may be in the lead is Iowa, and More... If Marco Rubio is "establishment" then "establishment" has lost its meaning Donald Trump, the anti-bully Cologne mayor tells women how to act in public to prevent future assault North Korea: We've detonated our first hydrogen bomb When are you really an adult? Video: Eight times Obama blamed his problems on messaging The GOP has stopped hiding its identity politics We need a conservative Alinsky Nowadays, we marry our grad-school sweetheart Obama's legacy will be executive abuse