Video: Al-Qaeda a “jayvee” team? « Hot Air

Video: Al-Qaeda a “jayvee” team? « Hot Air: "“If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Barack Obama told the New Yorker when asked whether al-Qaeda still represents a threat to the US. While Obama’s remarks on marijuana and his own falling poll numbers in this interview have commanded most of the attention from the media, Wolf Blitzer argues that this should get much more scrutiny than it has received. He asks former House Intelligence member Jane Harman whether Obama is too glib about the threat al-Qaeda poses. Harman clearly thinks so, although she tries to let him off the hook with a distinction between “core” AQ and the “horizontally-affiliated” networks."



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North Carolina NAACP president: Tim Scott is a ventriloquist’s dummy for the right « Hot Air

North Carolina NAACP president: Tim Scott is a ventriloquist’s dummy for the right « Hot Air: "It’s important to the “advancement” to which the NAACP is dedicated to try to belittle the first black U.S. senator from the south in more than 130 years.



Add “Is Tim Scott a ventriloquist’s dummy?” to the agenda for that big National Conversation on Race that America’s going to be having any day now."



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Wendy Davis: My paraplegic opponent Greg Abbott “hasn’t walked a day in my shoes” « Hot Air

Wendy Davis: My paraplegic opponent Greg Abbott “hasn’t walked a day in my shoes” « Hot Air: "Intentional shot at Abbott’s disability? Nah, almost certainly not. Would intent matter, though, if it were a Republican who’d made a tin-eared but innocent remark like that? Nah, almost certainly not. Specifically, if someone had taken a cheap shot of that order at Davis herself, you’d never hear the end of it."



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Former Gov. McDonnell and first lady indicted on 14 counts in gifts scandal « Hot Air

Former Gov. McDonnell and first lady indicted on 14 counts in gifts scandal « Hot Air: "Innocent until proven guilty, of course, but regardless, if McDonnell had any future political ambitions — either in the realm of a return to Virginia’s governorship or even 2016 contention — well… Oof."



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Krauthammer: SCOTUS overturning the Illinois union-dues mandate would be a “blow to organized labor from which they would not recover” « Hot Air

Krauthammer: SCOTUS overturning the Illinois union-dues mandate would be a “blow to organized labor from which they would not recover” « Hot Air: "Ed already covered the Harris v. Quinn arguments concerning forced unionization making their way through the Supreme Court, but here’s a quick food-for-thought addendum: As George Will points out, union participation has been dropping precipitously for decades, and they depend upon concentrated government support to keep their blue model going. If the Supreme Court were to rule against Labor in this case — a scenario that Krauthammer admits he thinks is unlikely — “they know it’s the power of the state that keeps them going, and in the absence of it, they really are looking at ruin.”"



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Wendy Davis writes open letter about her biography, doesn’t address the lying parts « Hot Air

Wendy Davis writes open letter about her biography, doesn’t address the lying parts « Hot Air: "“No false attack can take away [her] story,” but a decent fact-checking took away a few of the juicy parts. Throw her some cash, so she can have all of your stories once she’s an MSNBC contributor, Texas."



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Best of the Web Today: In Defense of West Virginia - WSJ.com

Best of the Web Today: In Defense of West Virginia - WSJ.com: "Yes, Reich actually makes the absurd contention that West Virginians "vote against their economic self-interest" because they don't want to lose their jobs. His actual contention is that they are willing to take noneconomic risks--to health and safety--in the pursuit of their economic self-interest. That, by the way, is the same sort of trade-off men make when they take dangerous jobs in industries like mining.



Reich is so blinded by ideology, and by prejudice against white Americans who are not part of the cognitive elite, that he fails to notice he has contradicted his very premise."



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