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Poll: Trump’s entry into the race would hurt Palin the most

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2011/03/23...mps-entry-into-the-race-would-hurt-palin-the-most/

Posted: March 23, 2011

If the Trump vote is coming from people who are simply looking to spoil a ballot as a kiss-off to the top contenders in the field, I would think he'd be pulling more from someone like Ron Paul (who actually finished two points behind Trump) than from her. … "Removing Trump's name from the list and allocating his voters to their second choice gives Huckabee 21 percent and Romney 19 percent - essentially unchanged from January. … and 2008 White House hopeful Mitt Romney at 18 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 14 percent, and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin at 12 percent…

Video: Obama’s WHCD speech

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Posted: May 2, 2010

As for the section of the speech about Politico, CNN's camera inexplicably didn't cut away to the photoshopped Politico covers that the White House prepared for the event. … "Speaking of undeserved honors,'' the president said in his stand-up routine, "a few weeks ago, I was able to throw out the first pitch at the Nationals game.... It was high and wide. … You can watch the whole 16-minute speech in high-rez at the White House's YouTube account, but since most people won't do that, I'm giving you Politico's four-minute highlight reel…

Video: Arizona governor signs controversial immigration bill; Update: Corrected

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Posted: April 23, 2010

The alarmist theory, I guess, is that merely being Latino will be treated as "reasonable suspicion" and that if you don't have a driver's license or birth certificate with you when the cop asks for it, then it's to jail you'll be going. … B. FOR ANY LAWFUL CONTACT MADE BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR AGENCY OF THIS STATE OR A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS STATE WHERE REASONABLE SUSPICION EXISTS THAT THE PERSON IS AN ALIEN WHO IS UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES, A REASONABLE ATTEMPT SHALL BE MADE, WHEN PRACTICABLE, TO DETERMINE THE IMMIGRATION STATUS OF THE PERSON. … Obama will use this to mobilize Latinos against the GOP's nativistically nativist nativism and the GOP will use it as an object lesson in why Congress needs to ratchet border enforcement waaaay up so that states don't have to take this into their own hands…

Confirmed: Obama related to Palin, Limbaugh

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2010/10/13/confirmed-obama-related-to-palin-limbaugh/

Posted: October 13, 2010

(b) The department shall not permit inspection of public health statistics records, or issue a certified copy of any such record or part thereof, unless it is satisfied that the applicant has a direct and tangible interest in the record. … (a) To protect the integrity of vital statistics records, to ensure their proper use, and to ensure the efficient and proper administration of the vital statistics system, it shall be unlawful for any person to permit inspection of, or to disclose information contained in vital statistics records, or to copy or issue a copy of all or part of any such record, except as authorized by this part or by rules adopted by the department of health. … And a leadership gene clearly runs through Samuel Hinckley's family, because Obama, Palin, and former president George W. Bush are all related through common ancestor Hinckley, who was among the first wave of settlers in America in the 1600s…

Whoopi Goldberg: It’s time to play the race card on Trump

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2011/04/27...goldberg-its-time-to-play-the-race-card-on-trump/

Posted: April 27, 2011

The whole liberal narrative about the tea-party GOP is that it's insane, and since O has nothing to show centrists and independents after two and a half years in office, he quite reasonably concludes at this point that he's better off trying to scare them into preferring him over the GOP as the lesser of two evils. … Trump's numbers are already turning toxic nationally and among independents in swing states; maybe Obama and Plouffe wanted to encourage him to run at a decisive moment by handing him a big "victory," which will keep the media focused on him and similar kooky material. … Thanks to Trump mainstreaming this issue, it may have been starting to bite politically -- not necessarily among true-believing Birthers, who'll never be dissuaded from their position, but among people who hadn't followed it until someone with a media profile as high as Trump's started talking about it…

Quotes of the day

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Posted: April 11, 2011

Dan Rather and 60 Minutes wanted so badly to believe that the president had fudged his service that they aired the most obvious forgery of all time in primetime." … Every minute we spend discussing if Obama was born in Kenya is a minute we don't spend saying that our weakling, perpetually golfing president has only made our economy worse and led us into a third war with nary a word of discussion. … "'There is no issue that irritates the White House more than the birther issue,' said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics…

House of Cards is back, baby! But without you know who…

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2017/12/05/house-cards-back-baby-without-know/

Posted: December 5, 2017

How about one episode done entirely through a series of flashbacks where it's revealed that reporters learn his birth certificate is fake and he's actually a native of some South African nation? … (I specify "your" instead of "our" because I've still never seen more than the first two episodes.) As expected, accused child molester Kevin Spacey will not be involved. … The award-winning series House of Cards on Netflix is resuming filming next month, so the sixth and allegedly final season will indeed make it back into your streaming queue…

Colorado GOP candidate: These tea-party dumbasses need to stop asking me Birther questions on camera

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2010/07/26...eed-to-stop-asking-me-birther-questions-on-camera/

Posted: July 26, 2010

Buck also took a dig at Norton last week -- in response to one of her ads in which she said, "You'd think he'd be man enough to [criticize me] himself" -- by telling voters to vote for him "because I do not wear high heels. … Consider this the flip side of the Angle post, in fact, insofar as it's an example of someone who's so eager to get rid of the rough edges that he's willing to dump on a part of his core constituency when chatting with an aide. … Asked about the comments on Sunday at a political rally in Adams County, Buck said he wishes he had used different language and that he had not lumped all Tea Party members into one statement, but that he remains frustrated that some people are focusing on birth certificates rather than the country's $13 trillion debt and its $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities…

Best wishes to Madelyn Dunham

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Posted: October 21, 2008

Team O ridiculed John McCain for doing just that in the midst of a national crisis, and it would be the worst kind of hypocrisy to demand that kind of treatment in the middle of a personal crisis. … Team O can certainly run the campaign in his absence for 48 hours, and there shouldn't be any calls to suspend the campaign or to stop running comparative advertising in the final two weeks. … I believe he's her next of kin, and if the issues are that serious, then he has a responsibility that transcends a couple of campaign appearances, and he's doing the right thing…

Obama congratulates Trump; White House meeting set for Thursday

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Posted: November 9, 2016

The President invited the President-elect to meet with him at the White House on Thursday, November 10th, to update him on the transition planning his team has been working on for nearly a year. … The President will make a statement on Wednesday at the White House to discuss the election results and what steps we can take as a country to come together after this hard-fought election season. … White House press secretary Josh Earnest had told reporters traveling aboard Air Force One last week that the president was leaving his schedule open on Wednesday and Thursday for a possible meeting with the president-elect…

Kellyanne Conway: Trump now believes Obama was born in the United States

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2016/09/09...onway-trump-now-believes-obama-born-united-states/

Posted: September 9, 2016

A well-prepared GOP nominee would be ready to turn a Birther attack from her into a comprehensive counterattack on Clinton's own supposed progressivism on racial matters, but Trump being Trump, you probably won't get much more than "She started Birtherism! … If you thought the left's brutalizing of Matt Lauer was a spectacle, wait and see what happens if Trump makes it through five hours without a moderator mentioning that he was the Birther-in-chief for a few months in 2011. … If it were just Conway saying this I'd chalk it up to her trying to wriggle out of a tough spot in an interview but Rudy Giuliani made the same claim last night when Chris Matthews came after him over Birtherism: "Donald Trump believes now that he [Obama] was born in the United States…

Trump to China: “Listen, you motherf***ers, we’re going to tax you 25 percent”

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2011/04/29...n-you-motherfers-were-going-to-tax-you-25-percent/

Posted: April 29, 2011

If he walked out and admitted that this has all been a goof aimed at seeing just how far he could get in the GOP polls using lowest-common-denominator populist rhetoric, it'd be one of the great pranks of all time. … Even as reporters assailed him with questions this week about the president's birth certificate, Mr. Trump sought to dispel any notion that his candidacy is a public relations gimmick. … (That number might already be slipping.) He knows he's too compromised on conservative principles to get traction with the base so he overcompensates with tell-it-like-it-is populist bravado aimed at framing himself as the ultimate regular-guy outsider…

Trump: The polls are crooked, Paul Ryan made a sinister deal, and ISIS might take over this country if Clinton wins

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2016/10/12...inister-deal-isis-might-take-country-clinton-wins/

Posted: October 12, 2016

But if he's looking for an argument that electing Hillary would mean the literal end of the United States, why not follow the lead of his buddies in the Kremlin by warning that Russia will nuke us during Clinton's presidency? … I would have stuck with the Supreme Court as my go-to "Clinton apocalypse scenario" anecdote since it has the virtue of being true, but it's perfectly defensible of him to say that she'd be better for ISIS. … I'm not joking when I say this: I am legit excited to see what sort of accusations he makes at his rallies during the last week of the campaign, especially if he's far enough behind that he feels he has nothing to lose…

In California you may soon be able to pick from three genders on official documents

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2017/04/30/c...y-soon-able-pick-three-genders-official-documents/

Posted: April 30, 2017

This leads to the obvious question of whether or not others in the aforementioned "transgender" category would want to start making this selection on their identification documents, but that's an argument for another day. … At least as it's being presented, this option would be intended (and intended is the key portion) to offer a more accurate choice for individuals who are born with a genetic abnormality resulting in a condition which is currently referred to as being intersex. … Sara Kelly Keenan made international headlines last year when New York City issued her the first ever birth certificate with an "intersex" classification in the gender field, instead of male or female…

Worse and worse: New e-mails show White House rushed OMB to approve Solyndra loan

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2011/09/13...w-white-house-rushed-omb-to-approve-solyndra-loan/

Posted: September 13, 2011

" Andrew Stiles makes a good catch: Until now, the White House has insisted that it didn't intervene in the deal, but what else would you call it if, due to time constraints, OMB was forced to use a possibly sub-standard model that led to approval of a loan that everyone else knew shouldn't have been made? … Another OMB staffer, when asked by Rahm Emanuel whether there was anything the White House could do to help speed things along, told him flat out that he thought Biden's announcement should be postponed so that OMB could have "all hands on deck to make sure we get it right. … In response, OMB officials expressed concern that they were being rushed to approve the company's project without adequate time to assess the risk to taxpayers, according to the e-mails, which were provided by Republican congressional investigators…

Good news: GutsyCall.com now redirects to Obama campaign site

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Posted: May 5, 2011

On the other hand, given the sluggishness of the economic recovery and the fact that, until Sunday, his big accomplishment this year had been releasing his birth certificate, the risk was less than it might have been. … There'd be huge risk involved under any president, of course: The choppers could have been shot down; the SEALs could have been stranded and forced to fight their way out a la Mogadishu; the compound could have ended up belonging to some random family in a case of mistaken identity. … So unless the White House bought it and reserved it for some sort of future OBL-themed campaign webpage -- which would be the consummate example of, ahem, "spiking the football" -- then I'm thinking the guilty party is probably just some random adoring O-bot or mischievous conservative Obama critic…

Hey, who’s up for another poll showing Trump leading the GOP field?

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Posted: April 12, 2011

The Donald is signaling as loudly as he can to the base that as nominee he'd attack Obama without fear of media disapproval, which earns him a "strong conservative" merit badge even though he's, er, never really been a strong conservative. … I don't know what's scarier for Mitt -- the idea that his support is so soft that it'll melt from two weeks of the guy from "The Apprentice" talking about Obama's birth certificate, or the possibility that his decline isn't Trump-related at all and is apt to persist even when Donaldmania cools. … (Why on earth would he admit that publicly, anyway?) So by all means, let's continue to ooh and ahh at the Giuliani Effect while it lasts -- the man gives good soundbite, and if nothing else, his surging polls are a nifty way to express dissatisfaction with the state of the GOP field -- but I think we can stop planning the Trump inauguration now…

Maine Supreme Court locks in transgender student bathroom rights

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Posted: February 2, 2014

They're going through their formative years and facing a lot of changing, confusing things in their world where they should be not only supported, but guided and directed by their parents to the best of their abilities. … "This sends a message to my children that you can believe in the system," Wayne Maines, the father of Nicole Maines, the girl at the center of the case, said Thursday afternoon in a conference call. … It is the first time any court in the nation has ruled it is unlawful to force a transgender child to use the school bathroom designated for the sex he or she was born with rather than the one with which the child identifies, according to the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders of Boston, which represented the girl and her family…

Video: Wisconsin voter-ID law reinstated by federal court for midterms

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Posted: September 13, 2014

Had Democrats in Wisconsin focused on broadening access to IDs rather than trying to obstruct a rational and reasonable measure to prevent vote fraud, everyone would already be prepared for this election to take place under these rules. … After the district court's decision, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin revised the procedures to make it easier for persons who have difficulty affording any fees to obtain the birth certificates or other documentation needed under the law, or to have the need for documentation waived. … The court ruled that recent changes that give citizens more options to gain easier access to qualifying identification make the law legitimate and non-discriminatory, and noted that the statute in Wisconsin is "materially identical to Indiana's photo ID statute, which the Supreme Court held valid in Crawford v…

NC school will stop referring to students as “boys” and “girls”

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2016/08/11/n...will-stop-referring-to-students-as-boys-and-girls/

Posted: August 11, 2016

It's true that some families have obviously fallen into this trap and are going along with the idea of their offspring impersonating the gender opposite to their chromosomal structure, but unless they involve a doctor and start pumping chemicals into the kids to thwart their physical development there's not much we can do about it. … It's easy enough to try to shrug your shoulders or laugh this off as yet another case of Social Justice Warriors running the system off the rails, but there are serious concerns to be dealt with here. … The latest news to pop up this week was a pending decision by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System (CMS) to adjust their policies so that teachers and administrators will no longer refer to students as boys or girls…

The tears of Alex Jones

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2018/04/14/tears-alex-jones/

Posted: April 14, 2018

Eventually POTUS will question Obama's birth certificate again or say something cutting about Mexicans being rapists or whatever and Jones and Coulter will remember why they fell in love with him in the first place. … Here's a little more from last night's rant, in which Jones makes history by becoming the first person to suggest at any time, in any context, that Donald Trump was "pure. … All he'd have to do is dial it back, say, 20 percent (or maybe 10 percent, given the state of right-wing media) by dumping the 9/11 Truth/crisis-actor idiocy and he'd be one of the biggest names in mainstream media…

One state is rethinking offering “x” as a gender on licenses

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/03/23/one-state-rethinking-offering-x-gender-licenses/

Posted: March 23, 2019

Until someone can come up with a verifiable medical test to tell us if someone is transgender without asking them or to identify more than two, binary genders, this is all smoke and mirrors. … Personally, I don't care what any adult wants to call themselves, but at least for purposes of law enforcement, we should have accurate public records, particularly when it comes to identification documents. … "United is determined to lead the industry in LGBT inclusivity, and we are so proud to be the first U.S. airline to offer these inclusive booking options for our customers," said United's Chief Customer Officer Toby Enqvist in a statement…

Obama: Democrats are running on some good new ideas this year — like single-payer

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2018/09/07...ats-running-good-new-ideas-year-like-single-payer/

Posted: September 7, 2018

That doesn't excuse the right's own lurches towards fringiness, but let's please be done with pretending that this is a one-sided development in American politics. … On many major issues, American politics now is a game of (1) Republicans accusing Democrats of having far-left maximalist ambitions, (2) Democrats scoffing that Republicans are paranoiacs forever accusing them of being radicals, and (3) Democrats then turning around and pursuing far-left maximalist ambitions. … Condition Americans to believe that the federal government should have a greater role in health insurance and you're 80 percent of the way home on "Medicare for all…

GOP rep to John Kelly: Assange can prove Russia didn’t hack during the campaign — if Trump pardons him

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2017/09/16...an-prove-russia-didnt-hack-campaign-trump-pardons/

Posted: September 16, 2017

Trump just proved with Joe Arpaio that he's not afraid to issue a controversial, politically unpopular pardon; he's on a deal-making kick right now with traditional opponents, and therefore might be especially susceptible to the idea of a deal with Assange; and he's insisted doggedly for months, despite his entire intelligence bureaucracy claiming that Russia is behind the campaign hacks, that we can't know for absolute certain who was really behind it. … And who maybe doesn't trust him, period: One obvious explanation for why Kelly didn't share the offer with Trump and why the Journal's source wanted it *known* that the offer wasn't shared with him is because they fear he really might consider it and they know that much of the public also fears he really might consider it. … A U.S. congressman contacted the White House this week trying to broker a deal that would end WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's U.S. legal troubles in exchange for what he described as evidence that Russia wasn't the source of hacked emails published by the antisecrecy website during the 2016 presidential campaign…

SCOTUS strikes down citizenship provision in Arizona’s voter registration law

https://hotair.com/archives/erika-johnsen/2013/06/...ship-provision-in-arizonas-voter-registration-law/

Posted: June 17, 2013

Alabama, Georgia, and Kansas all have similar laws to Arizona's proof-of-citizenship requirement and joined Arizona in their suit, and the Court's ruling (written by Justice Scalia) pointed out that their next recourse action-item would be to petition the federal government to allow for state-specific instruction on the form and/or beef up the federal law altogether, and then go to court if the government declines to do so. … The border state has been fighting to be allowed to ask for evidence of prospective voters' citizenship ever since, but in a major decision released this morning, the Supreme Court struck down Arizona's Proposition 200 as an attempt to override the federal "motor voter" law in a 7-2 ruling, with Justice Kennedy concurring and Justices Thomas and Alito dissenting … In a 2004 ballot initiative, Arizona voters decided that they wanted their state to go one step further on the requirements of a 1993 federal law that allows people to register to vote via a single form accepted by all the states, on which they must "swear" that they are citizens of the United States, by asking people to instead actually present documentary proof of citizenship like a birth certificate, passport, or tribal ID card before registering in order to prevent voter fraud…

The Ed Morrissey Show: Andrew Malcolm, Jim Geraghty

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/04/2...the-ed-morrissey-show-andrew-malcolm-jim-geraghty/

Posted: April 29, 2009

(And if the log-in prompt doesn't come up in the chat box below, use this link instead.) Jazz Shaw of The Moderate Voice moderates the chat, and he has his Troll Gun Trivia Contest running before the show, for those who get there early -- and are registered! … Below is the PayPal button for donations to this non-profit, which tries to build stronger communities by strengthening marriages. … Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Jim Geraghty and Andrew Malcolm join us to talk about 100 Days of Obama and the Arlen Specter switch…

LA Weekly wets itself over Obama/Joker poster: “The only thing missing is a noose”

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2009/08/03...amajoker-poster-the-only-thing-missing-is-a-noose/

Posted: August 3, 2009

MICHELLE MALKIN: Well I think he's a racial opportunist, he took that moment, used a health care conference that was a debacle basically and took this story, which is really just a local parochial law enforcement story to try and insure some sort of moment of his racial authenticity. … Take the birthers, the group that's on the Internet and TV claiming that Barack Obama's birth certificate is phony, that he was really born in Kenya and that week-long flap over the Harvard professor's arrest was used by other voices on the far right as an excuse to push this stuff about the President. … CHRIS MATTHEWS: Welcome back, six months after President Obama's inauguration, racial comments from the far right have worked their way from below the surface to open season…

Poll: Few support citizenship for anchor babies

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/05/16/poll-support-citizenship-anchor-babies/

Posted: May 16, 2019

If we don't have a law against coming into the country and giving birth for purposes of obtaining citizenship for the baby, how can it be illegal to offer a service helping a woman to do that? … Three men were charged with facilitating the temporary entry of pregnant women, mostly from China, for the purpose of giving birth in American hospitals and obtaining birth certificates for their babies. … So at least for the moment, a child born on American soil is considered a citizen and the mother can't be prosecuted for coming to the country for the purpose of skirting immigration law…

Texas jumps straight back into the transgender bathroom issue

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2017/05/22/t...as-jumps-straight-back-transgender-bathroom-issue/

Posted: May 22, 2017

Since we're eventually going to need the Supreme Court to rule as to whether or not science has any place in questions of gender as well as whether or not the law in this country still protects privacy, perhaps the Texas case can be the one that finally makes it all the way to the halls of SCOTUS and forces some answers out of them. … The reason this case may prove useful in the larger debate over this subject is that it's not dependent on anything to do with Title IX. In the previous cases, schools were pushing back against rules forcing such mixing of the genders imposed by the Obama administration on pain of losing their federal funding. … (I'll get to the reason why this is a good thing and how that distinction matters below.) The Texas House of Representatives pushed through an amendment this past week which is far less sweeping than their earlier effort to cover all public bathrooms, instead restricting this set of instructions to public schools…

Trump on Woodward’s book: When will Congress act to tighten up libel laws?

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2018/09/05...odwards-book-will-congress-act-tighten-libel-laws/

Posted: September 5, 2018

And if it really is true that Woodward "totally ma[d]e up stories and form[ed] a picture of a person that is literally the exact opposite of the fact," Trump doesn't need to change the law to sue him. … Although he's probably not serious about it: Even if Congress could lower the bar from "actual malice" to negligence for public figures to recover damages, he'd still need to prove Woodward was negligent. … 1. He keeps wondering why Congress won't act on libel even though (a) libel isn't a federal concern and (b) the "actual malice" standard in defamation cases that involve a public figure was set by the Supreme Court, as a constitutional matter…

Triggerism, Trutherism, and Birtherism

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2008/12/05/triggerism-trutherism-and-birtherism/

Posted: December 5, 2008

The most prominent crusader against Obama's American citizenship claim, lawyer Philip Berg (who, not coincidentally, is also a prominent 9/11 Truther), disputes that Obama was born in Hawaii and claims that Obama's paternal grandmother told him she saw Obama born in Kenya. … There may be a seed of a legitimate constitutional issue to explore here (how is the citizenship requirement enforced for presidential candidates, anyway?) And at least Donofrio concedes that Obama was born in Hawaii. … Whether one thinks that Sarah Palin has to prove her maternity of Trig or that Barack Obama has to produce a witness to his birth in Hawaii or that the 19 al-Qaeda terrorists actually flew commercial jetliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the real truth is that these conspiracy theories become belief systems based on conjecture and speculation rather than actual facts and evidence…

Steve Bannon: Bob Corker has trashed the commander-in-chief when we have troops in harm’s way

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2017/10/14...b-corker-trashed-commander-chief-troops-harms-way/

Posted: October 14, 2017

Meanwhile, on Earth 2, Marco Rubio won the election and Bannon's giving a speech today arguing that it's the height of patriotism to accuse the commander-in-chief of treason for selling out America on immigration. … If he can add a little spice to that indictment by accusing Corker of fragging the head of the armed forces with the tacit consent of the rest of McConnell's caucus, so much the better for populist turnout next spring. … He knows there are gaping holes in this complaint, starting with the fact that we on the right trashed Obama at every opportunity despite the fact that there were troops in harm's way every day of his two terms…

Illinois judge cites “cisgender” subjects in transgender bathroom ruling

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2016/10/19/i...es-cisgender-subjects-transgender-bathroom-ruling/

Posted: October 19, 2016

"A transgender person's gender identity is an important factor to be considered in determining whether his or her needs, as well as those of cisgender people, can be accommodated in the course of allocating or regulating the use of restrooms and locker rooms," he continued. … A federal magistrate judge recommended Tuesday that a transgender girl at the center of a lawsuit over restroom and locker room access be able to use the girls' locker room at her Illinois high school, writing that the Constitution doesn't protect students against having to share such facilities with their transgender peers. … This is a case which dates back to last winter when the families of girls in Illinois school District 211 went to court asking for an injunction against a new federal mandate saying that boys who "identify" as girls should be allowed in their toilet and changing facilities…

Obama: The people at Beck’s rally are filled with anxiety

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2010/08/30...my-birth-certificate-to-my-forehead-or-something/

Posted: August 30, 2010

" I don't know what The One was thinking, but dismissing what ended up being a big revival meeting as a byproduct of economic anxiety is not the way to ingratiate oneself with religious voters. … A financial system that was not, you know, operating in a way that maintained integrity and assured that the people who were investing or who were buying a home or were using a credit card weren't getting in some way cheated. … For mosque supporters/opponents, confusion when he suggests that he supports Park51 being built where it is (since we'd let a church or synagogue be built there), then hedges once again by emphasizing that he's not endorsing any particular project…

Colbert punks … self?

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2011/05/19/colbert-punks-self/

Posted: May 19, 2011

I'm not sure that's what the founders had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment, but I do believe that it's the best possible satire Colbert could have created from his efforts -- and it's in the exact opposite direction of what he set out to prove. … Mr. Potter delivered some unfunny news: Mr. Colbert couldn't set up his PAC because his show airs on Comedy Central, which is owned by Viacom, and corporations like Viacom cannot make contributions to PACs that give money to candidates. … If anyone doubts that, just ask Esquire, which might face a lawsuit for libel over its clumsy attempt to skewer WND this week on the birth-certificate controversy, although I share James Taranto's skepticism that the case will succeed…

CNN anchor: Is Trump’s July 4th speech going to be one of these “foaming at the mouth” things where people in the crowd want violence?

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/05/13...e-foaming-mouth-things-people-crowd-want-violence/

Posted: May 13, 2019

This is going to be one of those things where Trump is pilloried by critics for upending another minor norm, in this case inserting himself into the otherwise apolitical July 4th celebration, and yet every one of his successors will end up seizing on the precedent he sets to justify doing it themselves. … The president has received regular briefings on the effort in the Oval Office and has gotten involved in the minutiae of the planning — even discussing whether the fireworks should be launched from a barge in the Potomac River, administration aides said. … President Trump has effectively taken charge of the nation's premier Fourth of July celebration in Washington, moving the gargantuan fireworks display from its usual spot on the Mall to be closer to the Potomac River and making tentative plans to address the nation from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, according to top administration officials…

Wait… one illegal alien bilked us out of how much money?

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2018/03/05/wait-one-illegal-alien-bilked-us-much-money/

Posted: March 5, 2018

(No clue what or who else he was bringing with him on all those trips.) In fact, authorities now believe that he was actually living in Mexico most of the time for the past few years and simply commuting to pick up all of his government benefits. … Andres Avelino Anduaga, 66 – who hails from Tijuana, Mexico – admitted in San Diego federal court on Thursday that he assumed the fake identity of a Texas resident named Abraham Riojos in 1980 after obtaining a fraudulent birth certificate, and then successfully applied for a California driver's license, Social Security number and passport. … Fox News is reporting that a single illegal alien in California has been committing identity theft for nearly forty years and he managed to run up well over a quarter million dollars in fraudulent benefits collected under an assumed alias…

Team O: No way is Obama’s closing message all about negativity

https://hotair.com/archives/erika-johnsen/2012/10/...ay-is-obamas-closing-message-all-about-negativity/

Posted: October 28, 2012

But once he took office, he pushed through a tax cut that overwhelmingly benefitted 278 of the wealthiest families in the state, and then he raised taxes and fees on middle-class families to the tune of $750 million… Now, when he's asked about this, he says, no these weren't taxes, these were fees. … In the presidential campaign's closing days, Mitt Romney's messaging has taken on an overwhelmingly positive message based on the good that conservative policies can have for our economy and our society, and his criticisms of the president are non-personal, serious, adult-sounding issues with the results of his policies. … Taking their all-too-familiar "maybe if we just keep saying it loudly and bullishly enough, people will be convinced that it's actually true" strategy, David Axelrod proclaimed on CNN on Sunday that the president is focused on pushing his agenda for the next four years over denigrating Mitt Romney, and that while the race is close, the Mitt-mentum -- oops, I meant momentum, of course -- is by-and-large on President Obama's side…

Kelli Ward goes “moderate”: I believe Obama was born in the U.S. and I don’t talk to Steve Bannon

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2018/01/11...ate-believe-obama-born-u-s-dont-talk-steve-bannon/

Posted: January 11, 2018

McSally will do her best not to get muscled too far to the center by Ward and Arpaio, but she'll have McConnell's endorsement and probably Jeff Flake's (and maybe Mitt Romney's) and she'll be forced by the reality of Arizona as a purple state not to move too far right. … One: Because Arpaio is so divisive, It's destined to end up as the nastiest proxy war next year in the "Trumpism versus Mitt-ism" conflict -- far more nasty than Romney's own Senate race in Utah, ironically, which I imagine will involve him avoiding the subject of Trump as much as possible. … All that gauzy post-2012 talk of Republicans reaching out to Latino voters and championing "compassionate" immigration reform seems like a distant memory now—replaced by a climate in which the godfather of the birther movement can become president by promising to keep Mexican rapists out of the country with a massive border wall…

A modest proposal: let’s keep track of who dies

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2016/10/16/modest-proposal-lets-keep-track-dies/

Posted: October 16, 2016

That information could be promulgated to the voter registration system, Social Security, the DMV and all other record keeping authorities where concerns exist over misuse of the identities of the dead. … When a person passes away there is almost always somebody - generally a doctor, coroner or other public official - who has to make a formal declaration that someone's life has ended. … Once you're dead, the government sort of counts on you remaining dead, and your friends and relatives are pretty good about acknowledging this unless you happen to live in one of those unfortunate zombie apocalypse areas…

Trump on today’s jobs report, per Spicer: “They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now”

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2017/03/10...have-been-phony-in-the-past-but-its-very-real-now/

Posted: March 10, 2017

Most Republicans who questioned the official unemployment rate under Obama took to citing the U-6 rate instead, which, unlike the more publicized U-3 rate, includes people who've given up looking for work. … Trump accusing Obama of wiretapping him, though, is interpreted through a filter of accusations over the past six years about birth certificates and the size of his inauguration crowd and massive voter fraud by illegals on election day and a 42 percent unemployment rate, etc etc. … If all you do is read the quote, you might think Spicer was making this point seriously -- that after months of Trump questioning the actual unemployment rate on the campaign trail, at one point even suggesting it might be as high as 42 percent(!!), he suddenly turned on a dime and decided to accept the official figure so long as it was good news for him politically, which today's data was…

Piers Morgan: Trump can show he cares about race relations by taking a knee in the Oval Office on live TV

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2020/06/09...es-race-relations-taking-knee-oval-office-live-tv/

Posted: June 9, 2020

Somewhere in a parallel dimension new chief of staff Piers Morgan has somehow managed to persuade Trump to do this and the big debate right now in the West Wing is whether he should wear kente cloth when he does. … He's really imagining the white-identity-politics president mimicking Colin Kaepernick's protest gesture against police brutality despite the fact that Trump continues to grumble about it sporadically even now, four years later. … No, if President Trump really wants to make a statement about race and unity, one that rocks the entire world, then with the American people watching live on TV, he should simply take the knee in the Oval Office…

Disaster strikes beer summit: Biden decides to attend; Update: Obama issues statement; Update: “Toast” photo added; Update: Gates issues statement; Update: Obama played only a small part, says Crowley

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2009/07/30...aster-strikes-beer-summit-biden-decides-to-attend/

Posted: July 30, 2009

I'm also grateful that we live in a country where freedom of speech is a sacrosanct value and I hope that one day we can get to know each other better, as we began to do at the White House this afternoon over beers with President Obama. … It is incumbent upon Sergeant Crowley and me to utilize the great opportunity that fate has given us to foster greater sympathy among the American public for the daily perils of policing on the one hand, and for the genuine fears of racial profiling on the other hand. … Narratives about race are as old as the founding of this great Republic itself, but these new ones have unfolded precisely when Americans signaled to the world our country's great progress by overcoming centuries of habit and fear, and electing an African American as President…

Oregon’s new “transgender equity” law should shield many criminals nicely

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2017/06/01/o...ansgender-equity-law-shield-many-criminals-nicely/

Posted: June 1, 2017

In New York for example, as with most places around the country, the steps you need to follow include numerous court inquiries and a requirement to publicly publish the name change announcement in applicable newspapers as ordered by the court. … The measure, which takes effect next year, makes Oregon the second state after California to adopt laws specifically designed to help mitigate potential discrimination against transgender individuals from employers, landlords or anyone else who is otherwise able to dig up birth-record changes through public record. … Gov. Kate Brown has signed a bill that will make it easier for transgender people in Oregon to shield any updates they make to their birth certificates, a process typically conducted through the court system without privacy from public view…