HotAir Daily Express 02/18/2013



Video: CBS “can confirm” FBI probing Menendez for prostitution claims 2/18/2013 9:31:10 AM  Ed Morrissey 20 Comments On Saturday, a CBS News website article merely pointed to a Washington Post report on the FBI probe of Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) expanding to include allegations of engaging in prostitution.  Today on CBS This Morning, the story gets the full video More... Video: “Do you care, David? Do you care, David?” 2/18/2013 8:31:44 AM  Ed Morrissey 69 Comments If I had tried to guess on Saturday which Sunday talk show would get the most contentious, the pairing of John McCain with NBC’s David Gregory on Meet the Press would have come in last on my most-likely list.  After all, this clip starts off by More... Quotes of the day 2/17/2013 8:01:28 PM  Allahpundit 461 Comments A draft of a White House immigration proposal obtained by USA TODAY would allow illegal immigrants to become legal permanent residents within eight years… According to the White House draft, people would need to pass a criminal background check, More... Germany and Spain are backing off on the green-energy subsidies 2/17/2013 6:31:46 PM  Erika Johnsen 46 Comments For me, one of the most perplexing moments (out of the many) of President Obama’ State of the Union address last week was when he insisted that “as long as countries like China keep going all-in on clean energy, so must we.” So… More... So how did that big python roundup go? 2/17/2013 5:01:08 PM  Jazz Shaw 94 Comments It seems the results are in from Florida’s latest great experiment in environmental adventurism. For those who somehow missed the story, the Sunshine State has been seeking ways to deal with the new, imported alpha predator in their swamps… More... The “media conclave,” the Nun Pope, and other thoughts 2/17/2013 3:31:54 PM  Ed Morrissey 73 Comments Over the past seven days since we first heard about Pope Benedict XVI’s historic retirement (or resignation, or abdication, whatever one wants to call it), we’ve heard plenty of discussion about what direction the Catholic Church should take More... Woodward: Senate Dems calling WH to ask if Hagel is withdrawing 2/17/2013 2:01:31 PM  Ed Morrissey 42 Comments The answer, for the moment, is “an emphatic no,” Bob Woodward tells the Fox News panel today, but the problem for Hagel is the other question that they’re asking (via Daniel Halper): “I think there is another dimension here and More... The age of the “fertility panic” arrives 2/17/2013 12:31:22 PM  Jazz Shaw 114 Comments When we think of governments getting involved directly in the business of modulating population growth, one of the first – and most horrible – examples that comes to mind is China. But they’re looking to reduce the population. What More... Concerned citizens rally in support of … Dorner? 2/17/2013 11:01:21 AM  Jazz Shaw 419 Comments I first expressed some concerns over this growing meme one week ago, and MK Hammer found it cropping up in other places a few days later. Now it’s apparently spilling out into the streets of California, as people attempt to make the recently More...