HotAir Daily Express 02/18/2016

At MSNBC town hall, Trump says he will be "neutral" on Israel and Palestine 2/18/2016 8:41:38 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Last night there was a quickly assembled town hall on MSNBC which featured Donald Trump being interviewed in South Carolina by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. (Coincidentally going head to head against three candidates being similarly grilled on More... Best buds: Scalia, RBG, and the friendship that rose above progressive bloodlust 2/18/2016 8:01:52 AM  Matt Vespa 0 Comments Editor’s Note: This post was originally published at Townhall. In an End of Discussion era, Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsberg did something that few Americans of different views seem to be able to do: Get along. Both of them were More... Frustrated Jeb mocks media criticism: "I should stop campaigning maybe" 2/17/2016 10:41:21 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments I was thinking last night: Jeb 2016 would make for a dynamite movie about politics, wouldn’t it? You’ve got the smart, earnest, but awkward hero; the flawed but charming older brother in whose shadow the hero lives; the widely respected More... SecDef: Man, Russia's going to regret their Syrian strategy, eventually 2/17/2016 10:01:26 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Somehow I assume Russia sees this very differently. CBS’ Charlie Rose can’t quite swallow this either, reminding Defense Secretary Ash Carter that Russia has strengthened their hand in Syria and pushed the US aside to at least some degree as More... Scalia: The original New Originalist overshadowed by consequences of SCOTUS activism 2/17/2016 9:21:15 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments So much of the discussion of Antonin Scalia has focused on the political consequences of his death that his life — and his pioneering work as the Supreme Court’s original originalist — has been overlooked. For instance, the More... Whoa: WSJ/NBC national poll shows Cruz climbing past Trump to lead, 28/26 2/17/2016 8:41:24 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments I want to believe. But I don’t. “When you see a number this different, it means you might be right on top of a shift in the campaign. What you don’t know yet is if the change is going to take place or if it is a momentary More... Video: Hillary e-mail discussed Afghan national's ties to CIA 2/17/2016 8:01:13 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Does this blow up Hillary Clinton’s excuses about her secret and unauthorized home-brew e-mail server, or potentially validate them? Fox News’ Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne report that one of the 29 e-mail chains deemed too classified More... Reminder: Cruz and Rubio to appear on CNN candidate forum at 8 p.m. ET, Trump to appear on MSNBC 2/17/2016 7:21:58 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Last chance for the candidates to speak to a biggish TV audience at length before South Carolina votes, unless of course you’re Donald Trump and can dial in to “Morning Joe” on any day ending in “Y” to ramble for an hour More... Does MN ObamaCare exchange subsidize millionaires? 2/17/2016 6:41:15 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Congress created a complicated subsidy system in ObamaCare to offer price supports for health insurance premiums, which have skyrocketed since the law went into effect. But do those subsidies apply to more than just working- and middle-class consumers on More... Cruz to Trump: Go ahead and sue me for defamation over my ad. I'll depose you myself. 2/17/2016 6:01:02 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Two things about this. One: Cruz is entirely right that Trump’s lawsuit would be frivolous. Watch the allegedly “defamatory” ad below. It’s Politics 101: My opponent may say X now but he said Y before, so how can you possibly More... A new hope? VA refuses to reinstate fired worker despite board ruling 2/17/2016 5:21:17 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Color me gobsmacked at this news. Just as I’d pretty much given up all hope of any form of accountability or reform inside the VA, Sloan Gibson goes and surprises me. As I’m sure you recall, we’ve had plenty of coverage here about the More... Obama won't attend Scalia's funeral 2/17/2016 4:41:47 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Unless the Scalia family asked him not to attend for some reason, which I’d guess is unlikely, what’s a good excuse to miss it? Biden will be there, as will various Supreme Court justices past and present, so security will be tight More... How Economists and Criminologists view gun ownership 2/17/2016 4:01:57 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments A number of recent news items regarding proposed gun control legislation offer an opportunity to look at the way that the media covers the scientific side of such questions and the sources they rely on in their reporting. A few weeks ago, CNN ran a More... NBC: Jeb "roasted" after tweeting photo of engraved gun 2/17/2016 3:21:28 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Inform says that Jeb Bush has become “the talk of the Internet” after tweeting out a photo of a gun with his name engraved on the slide. NBC reported last night that Bush got “roasted” for the photo. The pistol was a gift from FN More... Here we go: Nikki Haley to endorse Marco Rubio 2/17/2016 2:41:48 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments First Trey Gowdy, then Tim Scott, now Nikki Haley: That’s not a bad crop of endorsements to have in South Carolina. This could be just the nudge Rubio needs to finish a very distant second to Trump. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio will win South Carolina's More... Elizabeth Warren's CFPB slammed by Native American leaders over racial bias 2/17/2016 2:01:09 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Sometimes the irony meter just shoots straight past the red line and fractures the glass. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been making headlines pretty much since its inception, frequently for all the wrong reasons. The brainchild of Senator More... Monmouth poll of South Carolina: Trump 35, Cruz 19, Rubio 17 2/17/2016 1:21:57 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Noteworthy not because the numbers here are different from the numbers in other polls but because they aren’t. Most of the surveys of SC this week follow this same trend — Trump safely ahead in the mid-30s and Cruz and Rubio neck-and-neck for More... Gowdy: Cruz' campaign lied about my endorsement 2/17/2016 12:41:49 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Shades of Iowa? The Ted Cruz campaign has found itself accused of a dirty trick in South Carolina, and popular Palmetto State Congressman Trey Gowdy is hopping mad about it. Gowdy endorsed Marco Rubio six weeks ago, but Facebook posts reported that Gowdy More... South Dakota poised to enforce bathroom privacy, but the Olympics will not 2/17/2016 12:01:00 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The ongoing battle over bathroom privacy and “transgender children” moves to South Dakota this year, potentially bringing us one step closer to an eventual showdown in the Supreme Court. The state government has now passed a bill mandating More... Another crack? GOP Sen. Thom Tillis fears party will be seen as obstructionist if it blocks Obama SCOTUS nominee sight unseen 2/17/2016 11:21:24 AM  Allahpundit 0 Comments What he said sounds much worse in The Hill’s account of his comments than the actual audio does. The remarks from the North Carolina Republican are the first crack in GOP unity since Saturday's stunning news of Supreme Court Justice Antonin More... Judge wants Apple to help hack into San Bernardino shooters' phone. Tim Cook not a fan of the idea 2/17/2016 10:41:52 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Break out the Privacy vs Security bumper stickers, folks. The battle is on yet again and this time it’s dragging some big players into the steel cage. Having failed to gain the needed information from the cell phone of the San Bernardino More... Hillary: GOP block on SCOTUS appointment is racist, y'know 2/17/2016 10:01:09 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments How interesting is it that the two most vocal politicians objecting to Republican opposition to a Supreme Court nomination both voted to filibuster an earlier one? Campaigning in Harlem yesterday, Hillary Clinton accused Senate Republicans of racism for More... The Ed Schultz Super PAC loses Ed Schultz after raising… $25 2/17/2016 9:21:43 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The last time we heard from dismissed MSNBC host Ed Schultz he had run off to join Russia Today. This followed a long run as the lead in to an evening lineup of talkers where he managed to rack up ratings which were frequently beaten by reruns of More... Donald Trump: I would '"force" Apple to hack San Bernardino killer's iPhone Harry Reid predicts McConnell will "cave" on Supreme Court nominee Trump: I'll be "neutral" on Israel and Palestine Trump is trampling over the GOP's corpse Mixed marriages are changing the way we think about our race Trump, lies, and bankruptcy Trump's secret? Channeling Andrew Jackson Why Bernie Sanders wins even if he loses Why Alexander Hamilton would hate the GOP's refusal to consider a Scalia successor Report: Obama to visit Cuba sometime in the next month