HotAir Daily Express 02/09/2016

Video: No Hillary votes in Dixville Notch? 2/9/2016 8:41:19 AM  Ed Morrissey 11 Comments For 66 years, the small town of Dixville Notch has led the voting for New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary. Fox’s Carl Cameron estimates that sixty reporters showed up for the midnight vote, which put the reporter-to-voter ratio at, oh More... Board reverses firing of another VA executive 2/9/2016 8:01:11 AM  Jazz Shaw 28 Comments This is a problem which has long since grown past the flaws of a single person, one regional office, or even the entirety of the Veterans Affairs Department itself. For the third time in a matter of weeks, the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) has More... Final CNN tracking poll of NH: Trump leads big, Rubio second, Bush and Christie in deep trouble 2/8/2016 10:01:17 PM  Allahpundit 473 Comments Another poll-related election-eve overnight thread for you in case you need to vent your anxieties before the big vote, especially after that bombshell Emerson College poll earlier. I can’t remember a primary where the order of finish — More... Here we go: Mike Bloomberg confirms that he's thinking of running for president 2/8/2016 9:21:30 PM  Allahpundit 60 Comments Interesting timing, what with the first votes in New Hampshire set to be cast just a few hours from now. Between Trump, Sanders, and Cruz, I did not realize that the problem with the 2016 primary campaign was that the discourse is too More... Strange bedfellows: spouses splitting the vote in their homes 2/8/2016 8:41:13 PM  Jazz Shaw 50 Comments Another of those strange little sidebar tales coming off the campaign trail popped up this week and it hits rather close to home for yours truly. Of course, the feature in this story from NPR Vermont is about two Democrats, but I have to wonder how much More... Oh my: Final Emerson College poll shows Bush second, Rubio slipping to fourth place at 12% 2/8/2016 8:01:03 PM  Allahpundit 129 Comments Why care about a poll from Emerson College? Because, as you may remember, they were the pollster that predicted Iowa most accurately. In fact, of the dozens of polls taken in Iowa in the months before the caucuses, the only one to put Marco Rubio north More... FBI confirms investigation into Hillary e-mail server 2/8/2016 7:21:23 PM  Ed Morrissey 59 Comments The FBI confirmed in a letter filed in court last week what nearly everyone already knew for months — that they have an open investigation into Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized home-brew e-mail system. The letter came as a necessarily belated More... Immigrants & refugees: a thought experiment 2/8/2016 6:41:15 PM  Allan Bourdius 270 Comments I’ve got a challenge for you. Try to imagine: you and your family are living somewhere the rest of humanity seems to have forgotten. You have no economic prospects, your children can’t get an education, your government controls your entire More... Salem Radio line-up shifts Hugh Hewitt to morning drive 2/8/2016 6:01:35 PM  Ed Morrissey 50 Comments Salem Radio Network, whose parent Salem Media Group also owns Hot Air, has had perhaps the most stable national network line-up in the business — but big changes are now afoot. My friend and mentor Hugh Hewitt, who has had his national profile More... Jeb Bush: I'd eliminate the Citizens United decision, and also I won't blame Obama for anything 2/8/2016 5:21:30 PM  Allahpundit 96 Comments My God, he’s gone full RINO. This is a little like Darth Vader vowing to outlaw Death Stars. “If I could do it all again I’d eliminate the Supreme Court ruling” Citizens United, Bush told CNN’s Dana Bash. “This is a More... Apparently Marco Rubio's stall is all Joe Scarborough's fault 2/8/2016 4:41:03 PM  Jazz Shaw 26 Comments Ever since Marco Rubio’s rather repetitive performance at Saturday night’s debate, much of the talk of This Town has been centered on the Marcomentum coming out of Iowa and whether the boom was about to turn into a bust. Rubio’s team More... Hmmm: Satellite photos show Iranian work on Parchin during and after agreement 2/8/2016 4:01:41 PM  Ed Morrissey 34 Comments Curious indeed. Didn’t John Kerry assure us that Tehran had negotiated the nuclear-technology agreement in reasonably good faith? Stratfor’s analysis of satellite imagery of the Parchin site, which was a hub of activity for Iran’s More... Rush Limbaugh defends Rubio's debate answer: He's absolutely right that Obama knows what he's doing 2/8/2016 3:21:04 PM  Allahpundit 342 Comments Via the Daily Rushbo, that’s the second time in a week that Rush has given Rubio a vote of confidence at a moment when the rest of the field (Ted Cruz very much included) is desperate to blow him up. That feels strange after so many months of More... Canadian union cozies up to Ecuador in Chevron Shakedown 2/8/2016 2:41:03 PM  Jazz Shaw 18 Comments As we previously reported, Canada has taken the unfortunate step of getting involved in Ecuador’s long running Chevron Shakedown effort with one of their courts agreeing to hear a case related to the ongoing lawsuits. Some of their prominent More... DoJ, DHS hacked; employee data exposed by "Free Palestine" hacktivists 2/8/2016 2:01:16 PM  Ed Morrissey 53 Comments The FBI’s jurisdiction and its digital presence have intersected in an embarrassing and highly damaging manner. Hackers penetrated networks at the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, gaining access to employee records at More... Time for Team Hillary to break out the gender card for young liberal women who prefer Sanders 2/8/2016 1:21:45 PM  Allahpundit 76 Comments I did not expect the “aggressive gender demagoguery” chapter of the campaign to begin until after she’d clinched the nomination, or at least had lost a single primary. But I suppose it’s never too early to start shaming your More... Hillary on speech transcripts: Show me yours and I'll show you mine 2/8/2016 12:41:22 PM  Ed Morrissey 38 Comments How can one tell when an issue has gotten under Hillary Clinton’s skin? She begins heaping scorn on those who question her on it. After trying for months to pose as more progressive on Wall Street than anyone else — and especially Bernie More... Are license plate readers a violation of your privacy? 2/8/2016 12:01:30 PM  Jazz Shaw 92 Comments This is one story I’ve wanted to get around to for a while now and since we’re waiting for the voting to start in New Hampshire anyway we might as well go for it. In one small town on Long Island, the police have been testing out a system of More... Who's up for some dubious internal polling showing Kasich passing Rubio for second in New Hampshire? 2/8/2016 11:21:20 AM  Allahpundit 176 Comments We’re 24 hours out from an election. At this point, there’s no poll too dubious to blog. Besides, there’s something here for everyone. If you’re a Rubio critic, you may commence high-fiving at the thought that his More... Ted Cruz "goes there" on proposal to force women to register for the draft 2/8/2016 10:41:06 AM  Jazz Shaw 303 Comments One of the lesser noted moments from Saturday night’s GOP debate was the conversation the candidates had about forcing women to register for the draft now that they’ve been approved for front line combat service. Most of the hopefuls quickly More... Pressure mounting on Lynch for special counsel on Hillary e-mails? 2/8/2016 10:01:42 AM  Ed Morrissey 59 Comments Will she or won’t she? That’s the question Loretta Lynch faces on the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized homebrew e-mail server, on two levels. If the FBI brings her a recommendation for indictments, will she pursue the More... Obama admin accused of forcing bank to pay baseless racial settlement 2/8/2016 9:21:12 AM  Jazz Shaw 75 Comments The New York Post had something of an overlooked bombshell report this weekend regarding a settlement reached between the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Ally Bank last year. This is a strange story and if it proves true it could seriously More... Ted Cruz is not eligible to be president, according to the most plausible interpretation of the Constitution Marco Rubio, lampooned for repeating himself, does it again at New Hampshire rally Trump repeats audience member's insult of Ted Cruz at rally: "He's a pussy" Are we due for an extinction event on Earth? Are we ready for the first human head transplant? The trick to finding life on distant planets This is why you can't afford a house Why drafting women would be a big mistake The uses of Marco Rubio How conservative elites disdain working-class Republicans