HotAir Daily Express 02/19/2016

Trump in 2002: "I guess" I'd invade Iraq 2/19/2016 8:41:27 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Six days ago in South Carolina, Donald Trump blasted George W. Bush for invading Iraq, claiming that he had opposed the war all along. When pressed for specific instances of public opposition to the war, Trump insisted that he had made his feelings known More... Rubio bails on Conservative Review convention. Chaos ensues 2/19/2016 8:01:12 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In case you missed it, Conservative Review hosted a convention in South Carolina yesterday, only days before the hotly contested GOP primary election there. Hosted by the Boss Emeritus and conservative radio powerhouse Mark Levin, the event was very well More... Video: The Kasich hug 2/18/2016 10:01:47 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m not a fan of Kasich and I can’t imagine admiring any politician so much that a hug from him might feel meaningful but this is an affecting moment from a very sympathetic voter on the trail in South Carolina today. Humanity is a precious More... Did the Pope signal acceptability of birth control to prevent Zika? 2/18/2016 9:21:08 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Pope Francis didn’t just mix it up with Donald Trump (and other Republicans) on immigration and border security today. He also spoke off the cuff about the Zika crisis in the Western Hemisphere and the limits of the Catholic Church’s More... The "Show Me State" shows taxpayers they're serious about stopping welfare fraud 2/18/2016 8:41:05 PM  Kristina Ribali 0 Comments Welfare fraud is an expensive problem that taxpayers everywhere are paying for, but in Missouri there is a movement in the state legislature to help stop the fraud. State Representative Marsha Haefner has filed legislation that “will allow the More... Oh my: Rubio surges four points overnight in South Carolina, now in second place at 20% 2/18/2016 8:01:43 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s just one poll, but it’s a doozy. If that WSJ/NBC national survey yesterday was the best data Cruz has had this year, this new one from ARG must rank among the very worst. The silver-bullet explanation for the WSJ poll was that it was More... Reminder: Trump and Bush to appear on CNN candidate forum at 8 p.m. ET 2/18/2016 7:21:05 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Show of hands: Who woke up this morning expecting that the hottest topic at tonight’s CNN event would involve what Trump thinks about the Pope? Cruz and Rubio both did well in the first half of the forum. Now the rest of the field — Bush, More... Video: VA hospital in Cincinnati rocked by whistleblower claims of malpractice 2/18/2016 6:41:30 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Another VA scandal has erupted, this time for chronic and systemic failures to provide care, this time in Cincinnati. Scripps-Howard and WCPO report on a months-long investigation driven by almost three dozen whistleblowers who claim they have been More... Bonus grumble thread: "The Walking Dead," the honest trailer 2/18/2016 6:01:03 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments We need a palate cleanser and this can’t wait for the next real grumble thread on Monday night. If ever you’ve wondered, “Are all of these grumbles about the show really justified, AP?”, just watch the part here where they run More... Mizzou prof: You're missing all the good I've done 2/18/2016 5:21:45 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Melissa Click put herself at the center of national debate for her call to violently eject a student journalist from a demonstration at the University of Missouri, resulting in criminal charges, her suspension, and a probe by Mizzou. Earlier this week, More... Finally: New left-wing cult gets its own weirdly sinister iconography 2/18/2016 4:41:06 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Via Jim Treacher: "Can I get this shirt in brown?" https://t.co/kGr3rWwQzv pic.twitter.com/gBa8JYrxHt — jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) February 18, 2016 You’ll find a larger version in Sanders’s campaign store. Treacher calls it More... Why Apple's stance against government matters 2/18/2016 4:01:05 PM  Taylor Millard 0 Comments There’s a lot of reaction to the Apple vs. the FBI face off over whether the computer giant should allow the feds into the San Bernardino terrorist’s phone. Public opinion in San Bernardino appears to be in favor of the FBI, and Donald Trump More... Thursday TEMS: Salena Zito, John Allen, Jeff Dunetz 2/18/2016 3:21:16 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! Duane "Generalissimo" Patterson will not be on today’s show, but we hope he will have recovered enough from surgery today to join us next week. Keep More... Virginia looks at bringing back the electric chair 2/18/2016 2:41:58 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Earlier this month, the Commonwealth of Virginia saw the introduction of a bill in the state legislature which would send capital punishment convicts to the electric chair if lethal injection drugs were not available. This was in response to a growing More... Can Trump win it all? You bet 2/18/2016 2:01:55 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Earlier this week, John Hawkins asked on Twitter if anyone had made a case for Donald Trump’s path to victory in a general election, and whether such a case could even be made. I replied that the scenario was “not impossible to More... GOP primary reaches logical conclusion with new war of words between Trump and … the Pope 2/18/2016 1:21:52 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m conflicted. On the one hand, the thought of a would-be U.S. president trading shots with the Holy Father makes me want to unplug the computer and spend the next nine months watching “Forensic Files” re-runs. On the other hand, More... University of Montana student gets $245K settlement over false rape allegation 2/18/2016 12:41:21 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Those with long memories who have been following the “campus rape epidemic” story arc may remember the unusual case of Jordan Johnson. The University of Montana quarterback had one of the more promising collegiate football careers of the past More... Trump: I'll sign a bill to defund Planned Parenthood 2/18/2016 12:01:17 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Will this be enough to satisfy pro-life conservatives — or at least make them comfortable enough to consider Donald Trump? CBN’s David Brody confronts the Republican frontrunner on his repeated defenses of Planned Parenthood, the More... Back to normal: Trump leads Cruz by double digits in new national, South Carolina polls 2/18/2016 11:21:19 AM  Allahpundit 0 Comments In case you’re still wondering whether that bombshell WSJ/NBC poll last night showing Cruz ahead nationally was an outlier, here’s new evidence from CBS that it is. The numbers for Trump and Cruz here are right in line with virtually every More... NBC/WSJ, CBS polls: Americans tied on timing of SCOTUS appointment 2/18/2016 10:41:49 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It didn’t take long for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death to turn into a political football. It also didn’t take long for Americans to choose sides in the fight over the timing of his replacement. Two major media-based More... Feminists dread the inevitable sexism which will plague President Hillary 2/18/2016 10:01:34 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s quite possible that Alyssa Rosenberg at the Washington Post is putting the cart just a bit before the horse when worrying about President Hillary Clinton. (We just had another poll yesterday showing her losing to every major Republican More... Video: Obama to visit Cuba even after mass arrests of dissidents 2/18/2016 9:21:17 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Get ready to watch another check box on Barack Obama’s Legacy Tour to get checked — at the expense of Cuban dissidents. Fourteen months ago, Obama normalized relations with the Castro regime in Havana and expressed a desire to visit Cuba More... "What a kick in the balls": Bush machine running on fumes after exhausting donors Hmmm: Trump under 30%, leads Cruz by just five points in new South Carolina poll John McAfee offers to hack terrorist's iPhone for FBI In 2002, Trump said he supported invading Iraq Ancient history suggests that atheism is as natural to humans as religion How Obama totally blew it on marijuana reform Can the welfare state survive the refugee crisis? George Bush is leading Republicans off another cliff This Is how you beat Trump A social conservative case for Trump