HotAir Daily Express 12/15/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [When One America News called the Alabama election for Roy Moore]( 12/15/2017 11:01:15 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments I could understand if they’d prepared a package beforehand announcing Moore’s likely victory and then someone in the control room had hit the wrong button and inadvertently put it on the air. (Although why would they need to prepare a victory [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Say, maybe Roy Moore should hang it up now]( 12/15/2017 10:11:43 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It’s not the fabled “fat lady,” but Donald Trump thinks the soap opera in Alabama is over — and Roy Moore should admit it. “He tried,” Trump answered when asked about Moore’s refusal to concede in a presser on [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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Painful: Trump judicial nominee’s no-good, very bad day]( 12/15/2017 9:21:08 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It’s not often when a Democrat in the Senate calls a performance by a Republican colleague “must watch,” but this definitely qualifies for the exception. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) honed in on Matthew Spencer Peterson during a Judiciary [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Senate parliamentarian: Thou shalt not repeal the Johnson Amendment by reconciliation]( 12/15/2017 8:41:50 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Live by the parliamentarian, die by the parliamentarian? The effort to include a repeal of the ban on partisan activities by churches and other charities got blocked from the Republican tax bill in the Senate after a challenge from Democrats. That puts [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How the administration used Twitter to go on a crime spree]( 12/15/2017 8:01:03 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It wasn’t exactly the tweet heard round the world, but it was apparently enough for the GAO to conclude that the Department of Transportation had broken the law. In one of the stranger stories to cross our virtual desk this week, the Government [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump to Ryan: Don’t quit, Paul!]( 12/14/2017 10:41:27 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Good lord. It’s one thing for him to whiff on building the wall, but practically begging America’s foremost “globalist” not to give up his grip on the House? I knew the Alabama results would sour Trump on Bannon but bear-hugging [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fox News obtains draft of Comey’s statement on Clinton’s email server]( 12/14/2017 10:01:36 PM John Sexton 0 Comments We learned last month that an early draft of Comey’s statement on the Clinton email investigation concluded she was “grossly negligent” in her handling of classified information. Then, earlier this month, we learned that the person who [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [McConnell-backed Super PAC: Steve Bannon did much worse in Alabama than Jeff Sessions did … when he ran unopposed]( 12/14/2017 9:21:24 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments C’mon, man. I know McConnell wants “to destroy Bannon politically” and that he and his cronies are therefore duty-bound to dunk on him savagely over Alabama. But this GIF is hackery. The Bannon Effect. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dutch bureaucrat to man with Down’s syndrome: Do you know how much you’re costing the state?]( 12/14/2017 8:41:59 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is making the rounds on Twitter today, to the horror of many a conservative. My God! People! People!!! Do you not see where this goes??? Do the Dutch, who suffered under–and in many cases heroically resisted–Hitler's domination, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New allegations against Dustin Hoffman including exposing himself to a 16-year-old]( 12/14/2017 8:01:41 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Thursday afternoon Variety published an exclusive report on three new allegations of sexual misconduct by actor Dustin Hoffman, including one account that involves a minor. Cori Thomas was in high school when she says Dustin Hoffman exposed himself to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Doug Jones, Scott Brown: Separated at birth?]( 12/14/2017 7:21:45 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Doug Jones caught lightning — and a large amount of Republican incompetence — in a bottle on Tuesday. Does that mean that Democrats have gained a foothold in Alabama? The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins warns that the days of reliable [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: CIA captured Putin’s specific instructions on Russian campaign interference operations last year]( 12/14/2017 6:41:29 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A spicy morsel from a loooong behind-the-scenes WaPo piece about Trump doggedly resisting the idea that Russia helped him, intentionally or not, by taking “active measures” against Hillary and the Democrats. Precisely how the CIA [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Nikki Haley: Here’s proof Iran has been supplying weapons to militants in Yemen]( 12/14/2017 6:01:35 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Standing before remnants of an Iranian made, short-range missile, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley she was offering indisputable proof that Iran was supplying weapons to militants in Yemen in violation of UN Security Council resolutions. She said this [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Grassley to DoJ: You’d better explain Strzok’s “insurance policy” against Trump]( 12/14/2017 5:21:00 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Just what did two FBI agents, both of whom ended up on Robert Mueller’s special counsel probe, mean by having an “insurance policy” against a Donald Trump victory? Mueller later removed Peter Strzok when the text messages emerged from [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Marco Rubio: I will tank this tax reform bill if I don’t get a bigger child tax credit]( 12/14/2017 4:41:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Spoiler: He will not, in fact, tank the tax reform bill. Rubio is not so bold that he’d blow up the GOP’s best chance at passing major legislation because it didn’t do enough to help lower-class families. Rubio is … not so bold, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [FCC repeals net neutrality rules after delay caused by bomb threat]( 12/14/2017 4:01:21 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The FCC has voted to repeal Obama-era net neutrality rules, a decision the Washington Post describes as a “sweeping act of deregulation.” Federal regulators voted Thursday to allow Internet providers to speed up service for some apps and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Alabamageddon, tax reform getting done?, Kurt’s dating tips, and more]( 12/14/2017 3:21:53 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. (If it’s muted, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hungary still unimpressed with EU’s “limitless and permanent migrant” policy]( 12/14/2017 2:41:18 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We haven’t checked in on Viktor Orban’s government in Hungary lately to see how their rather rocky relationship with the European Union has been going. As you may recall, the EU has been insisting on quotas of migrants and refugees for all of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oh my: Rumors on the Hill that Paul Ryan might quit as Speaker]( 12/14/2017 2:01:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments No, no, this isn’t related to Pervnado. Good lord, at least I hope not. Can you imagine the disillusionment if our boy-scout Speaker of the House got taken down for whipping it out or grabbing asses at the office, or worse? It’d be like [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Daniel Shaver was a real ‘Hands up, don’t shoot’ police killing and it wasn’t about race]( 12/14/2017 1:21:11 PM John Sexton 0 Comments We all remember “Hands up, don’t shoot.” That was the phrase popularized after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson. It was shorthand for a collection of beliefs about his death, i.e. he was an unarmed black man murdered by a racist [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Guess who the Palestinians would like to take over the peace process?]( 12/14/2017 12:41:48 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has apparently had enough of the Trump administration’s efforts at moving the peace process forward. This obviously isn’t the first time that the respective parties have grown impatient with an American [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Smiley lashes out: This witch hunt has “gone too far”]( 12/14/2017 12:01:06 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Has the rush to “believe the women” created a witch hunt atmosphere that creates injustice on its own? Tavis Smiley, who just got fired from PBS over what he calls a “consensual relationship with a colleague years ago,” adamantly [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Roy Moore: This isn’t over]( 12/14/2017 11:21:38 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s over. Even Trump, a man not known to turn down a good “rigged!” conspiracy theory, acknowledges it. Most of MAGA-land seems to have accepted Alabama’s verdict too, apart from a few dimwits on social media scratching their [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Jesus’s hometown cancels Christmas over … Trump?]( [To save the GOP, Republicans have to lose]( [Trump to visit FBI academy after saying agency “in tatters”]( [Music promoter dangled possible Putin meeting for Trump during campaign]( [Trump allies say Tillerson has “not learned his lesson” and cannot continue in job for long]( [Democrats draw vivid lesson from Alabama: Mobilize black voters]( [Oops]( [ESPN accused of a culture of sexism and sexual misconduct against women]( [What if America won a war and no one cared?]( [John McCain described as increasingly frail, Senate sources say]( [Lindsey Graham: There’s a 30% chance Trump attacks North Korea]( [Is it time to ban children from using smartphones?]( [Is there a limit to scientific understanding?]( [Anakin Skywalker should’ve been removed from the Jedi Order for sexual harassment]( [Now that it’s over, I can say I never cared much for Roy Moore]( [The limits of Bannonism]( [11 things every real conservative should ask on a first date]( [Whatever happened to scandal?]( [The Flight 93 decade]( [Democrats risk overplaying their hand on sexual harassment]( [It’s time to cut off financial support to Abbas]( [Trump should consider a post-Twitter presidency]( [Democrats cool to Trump’s infrastructure pitch]( [Why we go Christmas caroling outside abortion facilities]( [Report: Strzok, other FBI employee also bashed Bernie Sanders, Chelsea Clinton in texts]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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