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HotAir Daily Express | Carl's Jr. CEO looks to automation as minimum wage hikes drive up labor costs Video: Will 2016 be the None of the Above election? 3/18/2016 10:01:19 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments While Republicans struggle with the potential for a massive dropoff in enthusiasm and party loyalty no matter who wins the nomination, a similar dilemma across the aisle has not drawn much attention. Voter turnout for Democratic primary contests have More... Carl's Jr. CEO looks to automation as minimum wage hikes drive up labor costs 3/18/2016 9:21:36 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We recently looked at how the “Fight for 15” had impacted employment in Seattle, with job numbers inside the affected zone plummeting as hiring spiked in the suburbs where wages and associated labor costs remained at relatively normal levels. More... Captured American ISIS defector: You know, I may have made some mistakes 3/18/2016 8:41:08 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments No kidding. Mohamad Jamal Khweis made an appearance on Kurdish television last night, as his captors broadcast what appears to be a confession from the 26-year-old American in interview style. Khweis’ account of his travel to ISIS and Mosul seems More... How we now know that Hillary Clinton will not be prosecuted for anything 3/18/2016 8:01:29 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments John wrote yesterday about how Barack Obama has been working behind the scenes to move large dollar Democratic donors away from Bernie Sanders and towards Hillary Clinton. This, combined with various attacks from his bully pulpit on Donald Trump, have More... RNC spokesman: The party will rally around Trump if he's the nominee "100 percent" 3/17/2016 10:41:54 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Yeah, as much as we’re all enjoying these fantasy scenarios in which the RNC wrests the nomination from Trump through some procedural chicanery and banishes him to the island of third-party losers, I think in the end they’ll convince More... Poll: John McCain leads challenger Ann Kirkpatrick by 1 point in AZ Senate race 3/17/2016 10:01:03 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments A poll released Thursday by Merrill Poll found John McCain is in a tight race for reelection this year. From the Merrill Poll press release: In a matchup between Sen. John McCain and Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, Arizona voters also are split. McCain draws 41 More... Huckabee to #NeverTrumpers: "When voters make a decision, you suck it up and accept it" 3/17/2016 9:21:16 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Is that right? If Trump, in his majestic wisdom, decides he needs to tack left for the general election and accordingly declares that he’ll do his best to protect Roe v. Wade, would stalwart pro-lifer Mike Huckabee feel obliged to support him More... Sanders concedes Missouri primary 3/17/2016 8:41:40 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Hillary Clinton won everywhere Tuesday but in Missouri her lead over Bernie Sanders was so narrow it seemed a recount would be necessary. Today, Sanders conceded the race rather than seek that recount. He told the AP the difference between winning and More... Rush Limbaugh: The media is smearing Trump by claiming that he's calling for riots 3/17/2016 8:01:42 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments The funny thing is, notes Becket Adams, that not one of the reporters cited by Rush on his show today actually accused Trump of “calling for” riots. They accused him of “warning” of riots or of “predicting” them if he More... Say, where is the African-American revolt against Democrats? 3/17/2016 7:21:37 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Republicans have been asking this question for years. The problem is that asking the question is almost all they’ve been doing. With the rise of Donald Trump widely perceived as the revolt of working-class white voters in the GOP, Thomas Edsall More... Fired Benghazi investigator drops claims about partisan focus on Hillary from lawsuit 3/17/2016 6:41:07 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments It was big news last October when an investigator with the Benghazi committee named Bradley Podliska claimed he had been fired after taking issue with the committee’s partisan focus on Hillary Clinton. Democrats seized on the allegation as proof More... Should #NeverTrump try to take over the Libertarian Party this year? 3/17/2016 6:01:18 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Forming a new party and meeting dozens of different looming deadlines to qualify for 50 state presidential ballots is way too tall an order organizationally with so little time left, argues Ben Domenech. If #NeverTrumpers are serious about finding a More... By the way, another Fast & Furious weapon used in murders of three Mexican police officers 3/17/2016 5:21:43 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It took a while to track this down, but the ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious program claimed three more lives last summer. USA Today reported on Tuesday evening that the Department of Justice acknowledged in a summary presented to Congress that a More... Rubio: I won't be anyone's vice president — and I'm not running for governor of Florida 3/17/2016 4:41:02 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Cheer up, Marco fans. He says a lot of things he doesn’t really mean, from insisting on Tuesday that he wouldn’t drop out of the race eight hours before he dropped out of the race to insisting in 2010 that earned citizenship is code for More... Obama going all in to ensure Hillary Clinton succeeds him 3/17/2016 4:01:19 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Hillary Clinton has a problem. She’s not a very good candidate. She doesn’t inspire the kind of wild, stand-in-the-sun-for-hours enthusiasm that President Obama did. There is no one passing out at her rallies. She’s raising less money More... Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Matt Schlapp, Eliana Johnson, Jerry Bader 3/17/2016 3:21:15 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 brings us up to date on the week's top stories and gives us a preview of tonight's Hugh Hewitt show. The American More... Marco Rubio: Let's face it, Ted Cruz is the only conservative left in this race 3/17/2016 2:41:08 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments The more I think about it the more I like my idea of Rubio endorsing Cruz on Monday night, when Fox will suddenly have a bunch of open airtime thanks to the debate cancellation. Hold a joint rally in Salt Lake City or Phoenix, invite all the networks, More... WaPo: Conservative #NeverTrump confab dispenses with independent bid, focuses on convention 3/17/2016 2:01:39 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments So much for the Grand Old, er, New Conservative Party. After leading conservative activists floated the idea of running a movement conservative in an independent presidential bid ahead of a strategy meeting, cooler heads prevailed. The Washington More... Dramatic shootout in Brussels connected to Paris attack 3/17/2016 1:21:13 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Police tracking down leads connected to the Paris terror attack last November engaged in a shootout in Brussels, Belgium Tuesday that lasted for several hours. One suspect was killed by a police sniper but two more escaped and are still on the run. The More... VA finally moves to fire disgraced Phoenix executives… but it could still take two more years 3/17/2016 12:41:49 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s been the better part of two years now since we first learned of the outrageous situation at the Phoenix, Arizona VA where veterans were kept on secret waiting lists for months or years to hide the fact that they weren’t able to get in to More... RNC weighs scrapping procedural rules at convention to head off … anti-Trump maneuvers? 3/17/2016 12:01:59 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments These aren’t the rules relating to whether delegates are bound or not, as Jazz wrote about earlier. These are procedural rules — how action on the floor will operate. The idea is to make the process more transparent so that, if Trump is More... Reuters poll: Half of US women have "very unfavorable" view of Trump 3/17/2016 11:21:38 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If this poll accurately reflects the US electorate, get ready for the mother of all gender gaps (so to speak) in November if Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential nomination. The frontrunner has a major problem with women, according to this More... How much will the convention rules change before the candidates arrive in Cleveland? 3/17/2016 10:41:30 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments With the possibility of a contested GOP convention in Cleveland this summer becoming more and more conceivable (if not probable) by the week, Republican voters have been looking for answers as to what they should expect. Arguments about the mandate More... GOP primary outcome is in Kasich's hands The Stop Trump movement limps forward GOP senators break emergency glass on Trump plans Cleveland one step ahead of Trump's convention riots prediction Petraeus speaks out: Hillary 'being treated fairly' over emails Using a lightsaber in virtual reality is everything I thought it would be Poll: Young men expected to trim their pubic hair How Sarah Palin led the GOP to Donald Trump The strange case of Dr. Carson and Mr. Trump There aren't enough white voters for the GOP to win