HotAir Daily Express 04/07/2016

One cheer for old Notre Dame? 4/7/2016 10:01:02 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Perhaps Notre Dame is due a half-hearted cheer, but a cheer nonetheless, for its decision to allow abortion advocate Wendy Davis an opportunity to speak on campus. The nation’s most storied Catholic university came under considerable fire for More... Will Seattle's gun tax survive a court challenge? 4/7/2016 9:21:47 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Starting in January of this year it became increasingly expensive to purchase a gun or ammunition in the city of Seattle, Washington. The municipal government instituted a new tax of $25 on the sale of every weapon and anywhere from two to five cents for More... New Field poll in CA puts Trump up 39/32 over Cruz 4/7/2016 8:13:12 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments In order to win the Republican presidential nomination on the first ballot, Donald Trump has to win approximately 62% 56% [see update] of the remaining delegates. With a few Cruz-friendly states still on the horizon, that means Trump has to win big in More... It's on: Bernie lists why Hillary Clinton isn't qualified to be President 4/7/2016 8:01:16 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Democratic hand wringing was painful to see this morning as liberals bemoaned the deteriorating tone of the presidential campaign. But for once they weren’t talking about anyone whose name rhymes with “bump.” The contest between More... De facto leader of #NeverTrumpers: Barack Obama? 4/6/2016 10:21:26 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments If you don’t like that headline, all I can tell you is that you’d better get used to it. You’ll be seeing and hearing a lot of it this fall from conservative media if Le Grande Orange becomes nominee. Would there be anything quite as More... Roger Stone on the delegate battle: Trump's campaign "has no infrastructure in the states" 4/6/2016 9:41:46 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Not the first time that Stone has complained publicly about Team Trump being out-organized, and not the first time, oddly, that he’s used pro-Trump Breitbart to do it. How come? Why would a man who has Trump’s cell phone number insist on More... North Korea capable of mounting miniature nuclear warhead on medium-range missile 4/6/2016 9:01:49 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments South Korean intelligence believes North Korea has the ability to mount a miniaturized nuclear warhead on a medium range missile. The missile’s range would allow it to strike all of South Korea and most of Japan. Reuters reports: “We believe More... Uproar in Switzerland after school excuses Muslim students from having to shake hands with women teachers 4/6/2016 8:21:55 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments In a different age, involving a different faith, this would be a curio about how different western values — religious tolerance and equality for women — can conflict. In this age, with this faith, amid a huge population transfer from the More... Report: Trump skips call-in to pro-life conference 4/6/2016 7:41:10 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Donald Trump was reportedly expected to call-in to a pro-life conference known as the 115 Forum Wednesday but never made the call. His decision not to speak to the group disappointed some who were attending the meeting. Politico reports: Three sources More... Mark Levin to #NeverTrumpers: The "Stop Trump" effort must not extend to the general election 4/6/2016 7:01:53 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Via Breitbart and the Right Scoop, you can grumble about this if you’re #NeverTrump but we all understand, I think, that the vast, vast majority of the party will come around to his position by November, right? Don’t get me wrong, stalwart More... Of jury nullification and prosecutorial responsibility 4/6/2016 6:21:02 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There’s a an op-ed in the Washington Post from Professor Glenn Reynolds this week which will surely have a few heads exploding in either the legal community or among law enforcement. (Perhaps both) The title of the piece is rather forcefully More... Gov. Rick Scott heckled at Starbucks: 'You're an a–hole!' 4/6/2016 5:01:26 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Governor Rick Scott of Florida was shouted at by an activist dubbed the “radical cheerleader of Lake Worth” when he stopped at a Starbucks in Gainesville for a cup of coffee. Self-described anarchist Cara Jennings told WFTS in Tampa Bay she More... Obama to banks: Offer mortgages to riskier clients; Update: Old news 4/6/2016 5:00:54 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Update: This got sent over to me last night and I didn’t check the date closely enough. It’s from April 2013 … which is probably why it sounded as familiar as it did. My apologies. Original post follows…. ======= What a great More... College special snowflakes jump shark, stomp on its remains 4/6/2016 4:31:34 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Every once in a while you stumble across something which is simply so amazingly obtuse or generally idiotic that you have to question where we, as a species, went so very, very wrong. It may have been when we communally decided that sending young people More... Cruz spokesman won't say whether he still considers Senate GOP leaders part of the "Washington cartel" 4/6/2016 4:01:00 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Anti-Trump unity has its price, my friends. Serious question: Why does Cruz want or need endorsements from congressional Republicans, including the leadership of his own caucus? How would it benefit him on balance, rather than cost him, to have Mitch More... Nat'l Journal: New brokered-convention fantasy candidate is … Scott Walker? 4/6/2016 3:31:52 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments In the next presidential cycle, I plan to team up with a major broadcast network to launch a fantasy politics website, complete with drafts, cuts, and (image) injury reports. Frankly, I’m kicking myself for not thinking of it last year; by now, More... Office of Congressional Ethics calls for full investigation of Alan Grayson 4/6/2016 3:01:30 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Last month Ed noted that the House Ethics Committee was opening an investigation into apparent moonlighting by Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson. Tuesday, the Office of Congressional Ethics published a 74-page report detailing its findings recommending the More... Union advocates: Sure the $15 minimum wage might kill jobs, but "that's okay" 4/6/2016 2:31:55 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments For quite some time now, liberal activists engaged in the “Fight for 15” have assured us that concerns over job losses resulting from a sudden rise in labor costs were simply right wing, fever swamp ramblings and scare tactics. Well, that More... Wednesday TEMS: Guest hosting for Relevant Radio! 4/6/2016 2:01:45 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today and the rest of this week, I get to step outside the box and guest-host for Drew Mariani at Relevant Radio from 3-6 pm ET! The Catholic talk-radio network is heard on over 40 stations nationwide, including affiliates and O&Os in New York, More... Wisconsin exit poll: More than a third of Republicans won't vote GOP if Trump — or Cruz — is the nominee 4/6/2016 1:31:21 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments A leftover from last night. In case you thought there’s even a whisper of a chance that the GOP will win this November, disabuse yourself of that now. It’s not just #NeverTrump that threatens to sink the party. It’s #NeverCruz too. When More... State Department seeks to limit discovery by Judicial Watch in Clinton email case 4/6/2016 1:01:06 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments In February a federal court granted Judicial Watch the right to question various State Department employees (and former employees) connected to Hillary Clinton’s private email server. The judge stated the questions should be “narrowly More... Hillary: You young people with your protest votes are so cute, you know 4/6/2016 12:31:12 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If Hillary Clinton wants to battle Bernie Sanders for the youth vote and “unify the Democratic Party,” what should her strategy be? Address their concerns, or tell them that they’re too caught up in their youth to listen to their More... As in America, the UK is wrestling with issues of women in combat roles 4/6/2016 12:01:22 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments For those of you saying that Barack Obama has failed to provide leadership on the world stage, think again. He’s been breaking new ground right and left on the Social Justice front and other nations are taking notice. Now that we’re opening More... Trump campaign: Cruz won Wisconsin by illegally coordinating with his Super PACs 4/6/2016 11:21:50 AM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Usually when Trump makes a wild accusation there’s some dubious peg on which to hang it, like when he claimed that Cruz was behind the ad in Utah from Liz Mair’s anti-Trump Super PAC targeting Melania Trump. That wasn’t true, as even More... Ford's decision to build a new factory in Mexico will be part of the 2016 campaigns 4/6/2016 10:41:45 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There was certainly plenty of big news breaking yesterday. If you tend to follow politics closely you no doubt saw most of it coming out of Wisconsin, but the rest of the world was still grinding along in its normal fashion. One bit of non-election news More... Ted Cruz is surging by design Even after Wisconsin win, Ted Cruz struggles to get establishment GOP support Megyn Kelly says of Trump coverage: Media need to "worry about our souls" Kasich should stay in through April Revealed: First trailer for new Star Wars movie "Rogue One" As contested convention looms, Trump to hire "seasoned operatives" to help Why you should keep backyard chickens What's the sexiest profession? I wore a suit designed to make me feel like an old person How will Trump the brand survive Trump the candidate?