HotAir Daily Express 02/11/2016

Video: Oregon standoff to end in surrender? 2/11/2016 8:41:03 AM  Ed Morrissey 7 Comments Late yesterday, the FBI moved personnel into position around the federal building occupied by the remnant of protesters at Malheur Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon, intent on ending the weeks-long standoff. That prompted a sometimes bizarre webstreamed More... Trump tells French magazine, "I always have a gun on me" 2/11/2016 8:01:00 AM  Jazz Shaw 60 Comments This is a story which has cropped up in the past, but it’s making the rounds again this month. Donald Trump gave an interview to the French magazine Valleurs Actuelles this month where he weighed in on how their nation has seen better days. Both More... Quotes of the day 2/10/2016 10:41:35 PM  Allahpundit 347 Comments On the day New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie dropped out of the presidential race, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said there are no hard feelings towards him for his damaging attack during the last Republican debate. "I like Chris," Florida Sen. Rubio said, More... Rush Limbaugh: Ted Cruz is the closest we've gotten to Ronald Reagan in our lifetimes 2/10/2016 10:01:04 PM  Allahpundit 323 Comments You can read his extended comments at his website. A Twitter pal tagged me this afternoon after Rush said this and claimed that he’d just endorsed Cruz; Redditors are interpreting it the same way. It does seem to follow logically that the biggest More... It's time to let go of Obama as a presidential-election target 2/10/2016 9:21:58 PM  Ed Morrissey 97 Comments Perhaps the bigger lesson from the Marco Rubio-Chris Christie contretemps is not about repetition, but about target selection. Barack Obama has served as a form of measuring stick for Republican candidates since taking office, and the 2016 primary fight More... 80,000 Ineligible ACA Enrollees Cost Minnesota Millions 2/10/2016 8:41:48 PM  Kristina Ribali 19 Comments A report by Minnesota’s Office of the Legislative Auditor released last month, found that more than 80,000 Minnesotans were enrolled in Medicaid, and the state’s Obamacare exchange even though they were ineligible for the services. That More... Cruz to GOP: It's either me or Trump 2/10/2016 8:01:44 PM  Ed Morrissey 318 Comments Premature or prophetic? While analysts tried to figure out who had a “ticket” coming out of New Hampshire, Ted Cruz told Salem’s Mike Gallagher that only two tickets exist — at least in first class. With a win in Iowa and a More... So, they made a secret "Art of the Deal" comedy starring Johnny Depp as Trump 2/10/2016 7:21:33 PM  Allahpundit 81 Comments To cleanse the palate. Trump fans should consider this a a victory prize of sorts: It was made, quickly and very quietly, months ago in anticipation that Trump would implode at any moment. When his lead in the polls kept holding, they decided to hold the More... Congress may make it easier to divest from anti-Israel companies 2/10/2016 6:41:47 PM  Jazz Shaw 17 Comments Whenever I see a headline with the words Israel and “divestment” in it I immediately feel tired. Of course, it usually involves students on various campuses who have taken time out from their demands for safe spaces and trigger warnings to More... How Bernie Sanders lost the New Hampshire primary 2/10/2016 6:01:26 PM  Jazz Shaw 85 Comments As you may recall, the Iowa Democrat caucus ended with Hillary Clinton allegedly holding a lead of roughly one quarter of one percent of the total number of micro-delegates or bitcoins or quarks or whatever it is they measure them in. (Not that it More... Spillage: Up to 30 accounts on Hillary server interacted with top-secret data 2/10/2016 5:21:00 PM  Ed Morrissey 219 Comments Pssst — can you keep a secret? Neither can Hillary Clinton … or her staff. According to an exclusive report from Fox News reporters Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne, the 29 e-mails considered too damaging to release even in redacted form More... Don't look now, but the post office just turned a profit 2/10/2016 4:41:28 PM  Jazz Shaw 47 Comments This is something akin to seeing a Pegasus in your horse stable one morning. I’d assumed that this was pretty much never going to happen again, but against all odds the United States Postal Service has recorded a profit. And no.. this is not an More... Carly Fiorina: I'm out 2/10/2016 4:01:35 PM  Allahpundit 185 Comments It’s a distant memory now but in the last two weeks of September, after her celebrated attack on Trump at the second Republican debate, she was in double digits nationally and in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina. Then everyone just … moved More... Let's face it: Chris Christie's smartest play now is to endorse Trump 2/10/2016 3:21:53 PM  Allahpundit 104 Comments Ed already covered the news of Christie’s exit but let me add three points. Specifically, three things I don’t understand about the conventional wisdom now on Christie. 1. “Christie’s takedown of Rubio at the debate was a More... Is Hillary's NH meltdown a wake-up call for Dems? 2/10/2016 2:41:47 PM  Ed Morrissey 157 Comments Eight years ago, Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire primary with 39.1% of the vote. That contest featured opponents such as Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, and Joe Biden, later elected Vice President. In last night’s primary, More... Dear Mexico: you might wind up paying for that wall after all 2/10/2016 2:01:55 PM  Jazz Shaw 316 Comments Over the weekend the former president of Mexico took a rather scoffing tone when he said that Mexico wasn’t going to pay one cent for Donald Trump’s “stupid wall.” This is a knock we’ve heard from plenty of The More... Is Cruz the frontrunner now? 2/10/2016 1:21:48 PM  Allahpundit 449 Comments Yep, says Philip Klein. I hope he’s right, but I’m not sure the takeaway from a blowout win for Trump in New Hampshire is that it’s now Ted Cruz’s race to lose. Though Trump’s victory in New Hampshire was no doubt More... Jeb Bush to go scorched earth on … Kasich and Rubio 2/10/2016 12:41:50 PM  Ed Morrissey 96 Comments Sure, it’s time for a dramatic offensive from Jeb Bush. After spending $36 million in New Hampshire, Bush and his allies ended up with a fourth-place finish in New Hampshire, so there doesn’t seem to be much reason to refrain from firing More... The "remarkably scandal free" Obama administration 2/10/2016 12:01:16 PM  Jazz Shaw 87 Comments Now that we’re past the Battle of New Hampshire and can return to some non-primary news for a while, it might be a good time to catch up on some other pressing questions of the day. One good candidate would be to find out whether or not David More... Is Rubio done? 2/10/2016 11:21:28 AM  Allahpundit 252 Comments Examine the chessboard. His best-case scenario in South Carolina, which he was aiming to win a few days ago as the capstone on his “3-2-1” strategy, now seems to be a strong third behind Trump and Cruz. If he pulls that off and then wins More... CNN: Christie talking with advisors about campaign, expected to pull out; Trump: "We had a long talk" last night 2/10/2016 10:41:18 AM  Ed Morrissey 143 Comments Chris Christie may have won a battle against Marco Rubio in New Hampshire, but he ended up losing the war. Despite having rattled Rubio enough during the debate to reverse his Iowa momentum, Christie wound up trailing Rubio by three points and finishing More... It's on: New Cruz ad ridicules Trump as fake Republican 2/10/2016 10:01:35 AM  Ed Morrissey 434 Comments Like Donkey Kong. Ted Cruz scored a surprising third-place finish in New Hampshire in yesterday’s first-in-the-nation primary, and now it looks like he’s going for a knockout before South Carolina. Cruz tweeted out the campaign’s latest More... Maine required healthy, childless food stamp recipients to work, and… 2/10/2016 9:21:34 AM  Jazz Shaw 91 Comments It’s a case of miracles and wonders up in the Pine Tree State, folks. A report from Rachel Sheffield and Robert Rector at the Daily Signal takes a look at welfare programs and efforts to reform them, particularly in the area of food stamps. They More... Trump: "I'm very capable of changing to anything I want to change to" Heidi Cruz argues forcefully for trade authority — something Ted opposes Rubio vows more aggressive approach in extended campaign Trump: "Pussy" incident "one of the reasons I won" New Hampshire Why the most highly confident young men have the least success in online dating Trump vs. Sanders? Sorry, we can't ban everything that offends you A vote for Trump is a vote for Roe v. Wade There are only two paths left for the GOP: Chaos or catastrophe Why black people should think twice before voting for Hillary Clinton