HotAir Daily Express 03/14/2013



Video: Passerby with concealed carry in Wisconsin saves woman’s life 3/14/2013 10:01:27 AM  Ed Morrissey 6 Comments We hear plenty from gun-control advocates that firearms don’t prevent or stop attacks, and how they’re more likely to end up being used against victims instead. Tell that to Charlie Blackmore, who recently acquired a concealed-carry permit More... Biden to lead US delegation to papal inauguration Mass 3/14/2013 9:21:08 AM  Ed Morrissey 58 Comments (VATICAN CITY) Last night, after unexpectedly working a 14-hour day at the Vatican media center, I trudged back to my hotel exhausted, ate a quick dinner, and went to bed.  For most of my trip back, I wondered what more there might be to report on the More... Netanyahu reaches deal to form new government 3/14/2013 8:41:59 AM  Ed Morrissey 9 Comments Talk about timing.  With the first-ever visit to Israel by Barack Obama coming in just days, the Israelis have finally formed a government behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose Likud Party didn’t win enough Knesset seats to easily create More... Democratic “balanced approach”: $1.5 trillion in tax hikes 3/14/2013 8:01:36 AM  Ed Morrissey 37 Comments This came out late last night — at least here in Rome — and so I missed a couple of e-mails on this rather momentous occasion when Senate Democrats finally produce a budget.  It’s the first time in four years, and now it’s easy to More... Should Obama???s Tax Screw Up Lead to Impeachment? Obama just allowed 13 new tax increases to further slow the economy, wreck the stock market and make it even harder on the 12 million Americans already looking for work. Should he now face impeachment? Click here to share your views. Quotes of the day 3/13/2013 10:01:21 PM  Allahpundit 290 Comments Bergoglio, 76, reportedly got the second-most votes after Joseph Ratzinger in the 2005 papal election, and he has long specialized in the kind of pastoral work that some say is an essential skill for the next pope. In a lifetime of teaching and leading More... Video: George H.W. Bush’s first flash mob 3/13/2013 9:21:02 PM  Erika Johnsen 26 Comments Aw heck, it’s been a slow day and it’s kinda’ fun, so why not? Stopping in for what the Bush family no doubt thought would just be a routine photo op at the Texas A&M Bush School of Government and Public Service on March 1st (the More... Bobby Jindal slayed ‘em at the Gridiron Club Dinner 3/13/2013 8:41:32 PM  Mary Katharine Ham 51 Comments I’m a couple days late on this, but I was hoping some tape might by chance turn up. The Gridiron dinner is off-the-record and closed to most reporters, but we generally see clips of the president and presidential candidates doing their routines. More... Ruth Marcus: OFA is taking porous campaign finance laws and exploiting them to the max 3/13/2013 8:01:13 PM  Erika Johnsen 35 Comments It isn’t merely conservatives griping about the dubious nature of the Obama campaign outfit’s metamorphosis from election machinery to advocacy group. The president’s lieutenants have been busily fielding a defense of the group’s More... Jay Carney “contradicts” Obama: No, actually, it was the White House who canceled public tours 3/13/2013 7:21:05 PM  Allahpundit 45 Comments The GOP cut this clip earlier, now I’m seeing people tweet it as proof that Carney and Obama can’t get their story straight on who’s to blame for the cynical “Fireman First” decision that canceled White House tours over More... Good news: GSA exec fired in Vegas scandal getting his job back 3/13/2013 6:41:09 PM  Mary Katharine Ham 37 Comments With 11 months of back pay, y’all! Nice gig if you can get it. The General Services Administration was ordered this week to reinstate a senior executive who lost his job last year amid revelations of lavish spending at a Las Vegas conference. GSA More... Bad news: Most Transparent Administration, Evah gets a pretty poor grade on FOIA requests 3/13/2013 6:01:13 PM  Erika Johnsen 25 Comments And I quote: My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.  We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will More... Why would a gun-control advocate want to buy an AR-15? 3/13/2013 5:21:06 PM  Allahpundit 178 Comments We haven’t blogged this yet but many of you know about it, I assume, from reading Breitbart.com, which has been all over it. In a nutshell: Mark Kelly walked into a gun store a few weeks ago and bought two weapons, one a Sig Sauer 45 pistol and the More... Scarborough: Obama really trying to move beyond his extreme base and get some stuff done 3/13/2013 4:01:18 PM  Erika Johnsen 54 Comments Obama’s very recent “charm offensive” and the ostensible desire for a “grand bargain”: Sincere effort, or a total joke? Joe Scarborough, at least, is convinced that our infamously aloof president is in earnest: Is the More... Video: North Korean propaganda exposes hellish Orwellian experience of American life 3/13/2013 3:21:48 PM  Allahpundit 92 Comments Via Danger Room, a reminder that NorK propaganda is so over the top that it’s difficult to tell the real thing from a heavy-handed fake. Is this real or just someone’s idea of a goof? On the one hand, it makes sense as a crude way to keep up More... Live Video: The new Pope is … Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis I 3/13/2013 2:45:26 PM  Ed Morrissey 714 Comments … someone, that much is certain.  NBC News is carrying it live, and here’s the embed.  I’ll update as we find the answer.  I happened to be on a local Salem affiliate doing a taped radio hit when the smoke appeared; I have the audio and More... Joe Biden on domestic violence: Watch out for stuff that goes beyond your “garden-variety slap across the face”; Update: Full context added 3/13/2013 2:41:10 PM  Allahpundit 95 Comments Via the Free Beacon, don’t bother complaining. Skip the Ted Kennedy mentions and “what if a Republican…” hypotheticals in the comments. It’s pointless. Just pause a moment to absorb the double standard and go about your day. More... OFA e-mail: The sequester is not a list of numbers made up to scare you, but… 3/13/2013 2:01:09 PM  Erika Johnsen 35 Comments …but while we’re on the subject, we just wanted to send our Organizing for Action supporters this quick update about how your child is probably going to be less safe and not as well cared for at his or her public school now that the cuts are More... Smoke watch: Day 2 afternoon; Update: White Smoke! 3/13/2013 1:31:42 PM  Ed Morrissey 231 Comments (VATICAN CITY) The cardinals have returned to the Sistine Chapel for two more votes after lunch, and after an unusual press briefing from La Sala Stampa.  The Vatican moved the briefing for the first time to the center in which I’ve been working More... Rand Paul: Let’s get marriage out of the tax code 3/13/2013 1:21:16 PM  Allahpundit 407 Comments This isn’t news because it’s novel for a Paul to be saying such things — his dad once called for getting the government out of marriage on a GOP presidential primary debate stage — but because of Paul’s growing prominence in More... Faith, governance, and relevancy 3/13/2013 12:01:35 PM  Ed Morrissey 45 Comments (VATICAN CITY) I’ve been in Rome since Friday, reporting from the Vatican and one of its media centers.  I didn’t find out until yesterday that there are actually two media centers, packed with credentialed journalists, reporting on the papal More... FDA: Calorie-count mandate of ObamaCare “extremely thorny” 3/13/2013 11:21:55 AM  Ed Morrissey 70 Comments Who could have seen this coming?  Well, besides anyone who actually paid attention when it first became known that the ObamaCare law contained a hidden mandate that forced food-selling chains of 20 or more locations to post calorie counts of every item More... Obama: Hey, don’t blame me for those canceled White House tours 3/13/2013 10:41:22 AM  Allahpundit 93 Comments Via Byron York, skip to 2:33 for the key bit. And remember, not only did the GOP offer to give him extra flexibility on what to cut as part of the sequester — which he refused, naturally — but federal agencies already enjoy some inherent More...