HotAir Daily Express 05/06/2016

West Virginia Coal Association endorses Trump over Clinton 5/6/2016 9:21:57 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments During the debates, Hillary Clinton somewhat famously told that nation, "we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business." Do you suppose the people in West Virginia noticed? Even if they missed the live coverage of the More... More great VA moments: Convicted fraudster goes from prison to running purchasing program 5/6/2016 8:41:05 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This may seem like déjà vu, but then again, many issues at the Veterans Administration feel like recurring nightmares anyway. The VA hired Braxton Linton almost immediately after his release from prison, where he served fourteen months for defrauding his More... New polling shows majority of Germans feel Islam has no place in their culture 5/6/2016 8:01:32 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments To say there’s been something of a cultural shift in Germany over the past 24 months is at the same time both an understatement and a bit of a mischaracterization. The crisis brought on by the flood of primarily Muslim migrants and “economic More... Hannity: I'm not ready to support Paul Ryan 5/6/2016 7:21:34 AM  Larry O'Connor 0 Comments Fox News host Sean Hannity lashed out at Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and other Republicans who haven’t pledged their undying support to presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump. In a direct rebuke of Ryan’s Thursday announcement that More... FBI interviewing Clinton aides about private server, Hillary is next 5/5/2016 10:41:57 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments An afternoon exclusive from CNN. According to a story with three reporters in the byline, Huma Abedin and other Clinton aides have already been interviewed by the FBI in connection with the email investigation. Clinton herself will be interviewed in More... Romney to skip the convention this year. Who else will? 5/5/2016 10:01:08 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments The media’s treating this as newsy. Why? Why would Romney want to be there, and why would Trump want him there? It’d be newsy if he decided to show up. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, plans to skip this summer’s More... Justice Department to no longer refer to people as "felons" or "convicts" 5/5/2016 9:21:46 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments You may recall a recent change at the Library of Congress wherein they decided to abandon the term “illegal alien” in favor of “noncitizen.” Clearly words matter these days, and we wouldn’t want to hurt anyone’s More... WaPo: Four Pinocchios for Team Bernie over superdelegate-switch claim 5/5/2016 8:41:40 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments On such fairy tales do Team Bernie’s hopes for the Democratic presidential nomination rest. As of Tuesday evening, Hillary Clinton leads the Democratic race to the nomination by 774 delegates over Bernie Sanders, and there are only 804 delegates More... Trump on tax cuts for the rich in his tax plan: "I am not necessarily a huge fan of that" 5/5/2016 8:01:06 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Greg Pollowitz is keeping a list. Trump flip-flop list (updated):Minimum wage ??Self funding ??Tax plan ??WallAmnestyMuslim banEnd Obamacare Pro-Life2A — Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) May 5, 2016 Yep, although Trump choosing a finance chair More... Massive Canadian wildfire destroys 1,600 buildings forces evacuation of 88,000 5/5/2016 7:21:39 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada has experienced the kind of disaster you only see in movies. A forest fire was whipped up by strong winds forcing the evacuation of the town. CBC News reports on the damage so far: Alternatively described by officials as More... Question for Josh Earnest: Are Hillary and Trump seriously going to get classified briefings? 5/5/2016 6:41:36 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Typically the two nominees start getting briefed after the conventions so that they can hit the ground running once one of them is elected president, but … maybe that’s a tradition worth reconsidering. After all, says Yuval Levin, the choice More... Trump posts message of 'love' to Hispanics on Cinco de Mayo 5/5/2016 6:01:27 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Donald Trump has a special outreach to Hispanics on Cinco de Mayo. He posted this photo and message on his Facebook page today: There’s a certain charm in how blatantly Trump is pandering to “Hispanics” here–the smile, the thumb, More... An indie-conservative presidential bid is doomed to failure — in every sense 5/5/2016 5:21:20 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Just because a thing can be done does not mean it should. And even before one considers that, it helps to verify that the thing can be done at all. In the wake of the Indiana primary and the concession of the Republican presidential nomination to Donald More... Wow: I'm not ready to endorse Trump, says Paul Ryan; Update: I'm not ready to support Ryan's agenda, says Trump 5/5/2016 4:41:47 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments I know he was Mitt’s guy in 2012 but wow. A reigning Republican Speaker, declining to endorse the presumptive Republican nominee — a day after McConnell capitulated? Wow. This is going to put the brakes on the Trump train rolling through More... Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Gene Kopelson, Matt Lewis 5/5/2016 3:21:03 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! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page as well as on our Ustream channel. Be sure to join us as we welcome: Duane "Generalissimo" More... Good news: Trump's new finance chair has given more than twice as much to Democrats, worked for George Soros 5/5/2016 2:41:29 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Imagine how embarrassing this would be if the GOP were still a conservative party instead of an independent center-left nationalist program under the Republican label. “Given more than twice as much” is a kind way of putting it, actually. More... McCain: Trump will make it tough for me to get re-elected in AZ, y'know 5/5/2016 2:01:49 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments On second thought, maybe some of those “wacko birds” weren’t too bad after all, eh? It sounds like John McCain might even have benefited from a hobbit or two succeeding in the 2016 primary race. The former Republican presidential More... Illegal immigration surges once again at southern border 5/5/2016 1:21:48 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Two years ago there was a surge of unaccompanied minors at the southern border which became national news just as President Obama was trying to roll out his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) plan. Now it seems the number of minors and More... In wake of special snowflake protests, University of Missouri enrollment plummets 5/5/2016 12:41:06 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments One habit I’ve maintained when covering all of the special snowflake protests taking place at college and university campuses around the nation these past couple of years is pointing out the tuition which is being paid at each of them for the More... Video: Did Trump reverse his position on a minimum-wage hike? 5/5/2016 12:01:51 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments No, not exactly, despite what CNN and The Hill reported last night.  CNN’s Wolf Blitzer challenged Donald Trump in an interview yesterday about Trump’s claim that he would attract many of Bernie Sanders’ supporters in a general election More... Ben Sasse: We can do better than these two terrible candidates 5/5/2016 11:21:36 AM  Allahpundit 0 Comments “The people deserve better than these two terrible choices,” he tweeted last night. But why? The people nominated these two dial-tones (or will soon, in Hillary’s case). If the majority of Republicans who didn’t vote for Trump More... Bill Kristol is actively wooing candidates for 3rd party run 5/5/2016 10:41:02 AM  Larry O'Connor 0 Comments Former Bush (41) Administration official and Editor of The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol, is working with other establishment Republicans in Washington DC to identify a viable, third party candidate for president. Kristol dropped the bombshell on More... Democrats See Danger in Trump's Developing Anti-Clinton Strategy Norman Lear Calls on Hollywood Democrats to Unite Behind Hillary Clinton Support For Defense Spending Reaches Highest Point Since 9/11 Rick Perry endorses Donald Trump for president Claim: Joe Paterno was told of Sandusky abuse as early as 1976 Romney: I won't back Trump Kerry draws red line, says Syria better start removing Assad by Aug 1 Donald Trump is much, much harder to run against than you think Let's all stop trying to make Trump happen Gary Johnson for President? The case for — and against — the likely Libertarian nominee