HotAir Daily Express 10/03/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Shockingly, Venezuela’s president has an approval rating close to that of the U.S. Congress]( 10/3/2017 10:41:25 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you’ve been following our coverage of the implosion of any semblance of democratic government in Venezuela these days you know that the situation there is beyond grim. Dictator Nicolas Maduro has disbanded the elected legislature, stocked the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mulvaney: You’re darned right we need “new deficits”]( 10/3/2017 10:01:41 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Back in the day, Mick Mulvaney made his reputation as a deficit hawk in Congress the hard way. He twice ran afoul of John McCain by demanding troop drawdowns in Afghanistan in 2011, and supporting defense cuts in 2013. McCain held that grudge all the way [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Measure your knowledge of the U.S. Constitution with this short quiz]( Hillsdale College SPONSORED Many Americans know the Constitution well -- they understand how it protects their freedoms and paved the way for a great nation to be built. But many more Americans don't know enough about it. How much do you know about the Constitution? [Take The Quiz Now]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Canada’s welcoming refugee policy questioned after terror attack]( 10/3/2017 9:21:42 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments With everything else going on in the past few days it was probably easy to miss the other terror attack that happened over the weekend. No, not the knife attack in France, though that was alarming as well. This one was in Canada. A Somalian [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bannon: “End of everything” if Trump folds on gun control]( 10/3/2017 8:41:56 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Will Donald Trump hold the line against gun-control efforts, or look for a way to cut another “big deal” with his political opposition? It only took hours for gun-control advocates to ramp up the pressure on Republicans after the Las Vegas [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Australia upgrading their navy for missile defense]( 10/3/2017 8:01:16 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Say what you will about Rocket Man, but he’s having a major impact on the rest of the world before firing a single shot in anger. Kim Jong-un’s development of ICBMs and hydrogen bombs has spurred not only political rhetoric, but actual [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: 8% of Americans think it’s okay to shut down a speaker with violence]( 10/2/2017 10:01:13 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If that headline sounds familiar, there’s a reason. A survey of college students conducted by John Villasenor for the Brookings Institute made waves online two weeks ago when Villasenor claimed to have found that no fewer than 19 percent of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CBS executive fired over social media post about Vegas shooting]( 10/2/2017 9:21:08 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A CBS attorney who said she had no sympathy for the victims of the Las Vegas shooting because they were likely ‘Republican gun toters’ has been fired. From the Daily Caller: “If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pew: Media coverage of Trump through first 60 days vastly more negative than last three presidents]( 10/2/2017 8:41:38 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A fine companion piece to the factoid Bob Schieffer dropped yesterday on “Face the Nation,” that one out of every five reporters in the U.S. now lives in either New York, Washington, or Los Angeles. In 2004, claims Schieffer, it was one out [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: “Bump stocks” found in Vegas shooter’s hotel room]( 10/2/2017 8:01:09 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We may have an answer to the question I asked this morning. The Wall Street Journal reported hours ago that cops found 18-20 guns in Paddock’s hotel suite at Mandalay Bay, “some fully automatic.” That seems hard to believe, though. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Supreme Court back in session amid rumors Justice Kennedy could retire]( 10/2/2017 7:21:01 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Supreme Court is back at work starting today and there is ongoing speculation that Justice Anthony Kennedy, now 81, could retire after this term. Saturday Fox News reported on the months of rumors: Sources close to Justice Anthony Kennedy say he has [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Roman Polanski finally admits to child rape but says, “It’s over”]( 10/2/2017 6:41:22 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments For reasons which escape me in the 21st century when talking about relations with countries which are supposed to be our allies, noted pedophile and convicted child rapist Roman Polanski is giving interviews from the Zurich Film Festival rather than the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tom Petty hospitalized and clinging to life, report he had died has been ‘clarified’ (Update: Dead at 66)]( 10/2/2017 6:01:02 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Update: Petty’s manager just released a statement confirming he passed away Monday night. Breaking: Tom Petty has died, family announces in a statement pic.twitter.com/Fca6emZwXc — Jon Passantino (@passantino) October 3, 2017 [End [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“You’re all going to die tonight”: Who was the strange woman at the Vegas concert before the shooting started?]( 10/2/2017 5:21:30 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Has there been any update on this exceedingly odd clip since it started making the rounds online last night? I can’t find any police statements about it even though it seems like an astounding coincidence that some woman was warning concertgoers [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Outraged Democrats” don’t even wait 8 hours before calling for more gun control]( 10/2/2017 4:41:03 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Well, this was sadly predictable, even when the day started with a lot of people calling on their fellow citizens to not jump into politicizing the Las Vegas shooting while the injured were still being tended to. NBC News is reporting that some of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN: NFL owners have seen surge in request for ticket refunds, data showing declining ratings]( 10/2/2017 4:01:10 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, this is noteworthy but not surprising. If you’ve heard the boos at the games, you know there’s displeasure even among fans who aren’t boycotting. The Raiders were apparently so concerned about Marshawn Lynch [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ISIS triples down on claims of responsibility for Vegas attack, FBI says no evidence of terror connection]( 10/2/2017 3:21:55 PM John Sexton 0 Comments ISIS claimed credit for the attack in Las Vegas Monday, however, an FBI agent involved in the investigation said there is no evidence of a connection to terrorism at this point. NY Times correspondent Rukmini Callimachi says it’s not true that ISIS [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [That FBI report is making the Ferguson Effect hard to ignore]( 10/2/2017 2:41:33 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve already looked at a couple of items from the latest FBI crime report and some of the dark news revealed within. But when you match up some of their numbers with recent historical facts, even more trends become evident. As the Daily Caller [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary: Imagine if the Vegas shooter had had a “silencer”; Update: Shooter used automatic weapon?]( 10/2/2017 2:01:32 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments An A+ tweet, demonstrating not just ignorance but her trademark terrible political instincts. The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get. — Hillary Clinton [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [President Trump’s statement on the Vegas shooting: ‘It was an act of pure evil’]( 10/2/2017 1:21:05 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This morning President Trump gave a brief, solemn speech about the shooting in Las Vegas. The focus was not on the details of the attack, but on the sense of loss. “My fellow Americans, we are joined together today in sadness, shock, and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hungary’s socialists seem to be throwing in the towel]( 10/2/2017 12:41:19 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Change seems to be afoot all across the European Union these days. While Chancellor Angela Merkel may have held on to power, her centrist socialist coalition lost a lot of ground and the right wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party gained a strong [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Steve Scalise describes what it’s like to nearly die]( 10/2/2017 12:01:50 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments “The first thing that came to my mind. I prayed, God, please don’t let my daughter have to walk up the aisle alone.” Rep. Steve Scalise, the No. 3 ranking Republican in House leadership, recalled Sunday night that morning last summer, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mystery Cuban sonic attacks targeted American spy network]( 10/2/2017 11:21:37 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Moves by the White House to curtail various activities by Americans in Cuba may not have been premature at all. Slowly, more details have been emerging over the strange ailments striking down our diplomats in Havana… perhaps too many details, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Keith Olbermann: The NRA should be branded a terrorist organization]( [10 million people saw Facebook Russia ads]( [C’mon, let’s pass some gun control]( [Vegas gunman was a high-stakes gambler who “kept to himself”]( [Trump faces political danger in visit to Puerto Rico]( [Hundreds of White House emails sent to third Kushner family account]( [Trump: “We’ll be talking about gun laws as time goes by”]( [Bannon warns: “End of everything” if Trump supports gun controls]( [Russians used Facebook tool to ID and influence voters]( [Gunman’s vantage point and preparations opened the way for mass slaughter]( [Breitbart’s photo of Weiner’s wiener helped Trump become president]( [When it’s good to be antisocial]( [Poll: Support for active government increases]( [Gorsuch could disappoint conservatives on immigration]( [Rich men with extreme politics have the happiest marriages]( [Deciding to skip the NFL season]( [This is the real schism in the GOP]( [Black federal workers should sue Trump]( [GOP leaders have completely lost control of their base]( [The choice between kneeling and winning]( [Is H.R. 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