HotAir Daily Express 12/18/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Turkey: Oh yeah? Well maybe we’ll move our embassy to the other side of Jerusalem]( 12/18/2017 10:41:56 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The President’s decision to move the United States embassy in Israel to Jerusalem lit any number of rhetorical fires around the world. The Palestinians were so upset that they actually called for the United Nations to take over as moderators of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Politico: Obama let Hezbollah run cocaine into the US for Iran deal — and more]( 12/18/2017 10:01:56 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Did the current administration “collude” with Russia? So far no evidence at all has emerged to support that hypothesis, but Politico’s Josh Meyer digs deep into another curious set of circumstances in the Obama White House and its own [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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem Senators: On second thought, maybe Franken should stay]( 12/18/2017 9:21:36 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Raise your hands if you didn’t see this one coming. Over the weekend, it seems that some Democrats in the upper chamber have had second thoughts about calling for Al Franken’s resignation in the wake of sexual assault allegations made against [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Who’s talking about firing Mueller?]( 12/18/2017 8:41:29 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments So much for the Friday Showdown at the Special Counsel Corral. On his return from Camp David, Donald Trump told reporters last night that firing Robert Mueller was not even under consideration, let alone having the ax ready to fall. Trump seemed to enjoy [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Columnist: GOP tax bill is, “worst law…since the Fugitive Slave Act”]( 12/18/2017 8:01:41 AM Taylor Millard 0 Comments The push to derail the Republican tax bill is getting so frenzied, opponents are going beyond hyperbolic in their opposition. The latest of these bloviating, hyperventilating malcontents is Philly.com columnist Will Bunch, who hurriedly typed over the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [HHS denies banning words at CDC, says they’re “recommendations”]( 12/17/2017 8:01:59 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments The federal government is kinda, sorta pushing back at the notion it’s banning certain words within Centers for Disease Control halls by telling The New York Times they’re just suggestions. “The assertion that H.H.S. has ‘banned words’ is a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NBC paid compensation to woman who accused Chris Matthews of sexual harassment in 1999]( 12/17/2017 7:01:44 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Daily Caller reported Saturday night that an unidentified woman received compensation after complaining she had been sexually harassed by host Chris Matthews in 1999. Two sources familiar with the situation told The Daily Caller that Matthews paid [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The ridiculously awful push for Twitter, Facebook regulations]( 12/17/2017 6:01:23 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments One of the fallouts from the election of President Donald Trump is the decision by some pundits the government should, nay, has to get its fat, piggy, regulatory fingers into Facebook and Twitter. I’ve been chronicling this for a while, beginning [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Anita Hill demands a comeback and Hollywood obliges]( 12/17/2017 5:01:14 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments The 90s called. They want second wave feminists back. Not only are Americans remembering with fresh eyes what a sleazebag former President Bill Clinton was in office, but Democrats have reached back even further and resurrected Anita Hill. You may [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How to earn sweet, green energy subsidies by burning toxic trash]( 12/17/2017 4:01:24 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Last week we learned about the Maryland paper mills which are raking in big taxpayer dollars in green energy subsidies by burning a foul-smelling byproduct from their manufacturing process known as “black liquor.” If that story wasn’t [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [DC Metro defends its war on Catholics this Christmas]( 12/17/2017 3:01:26 PM Rachel Mullen 0 Comments The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority threw down the hammer on the Catholic Church last month when it rejected a rather benign Christmas ad for the Church’s website FindThePerfectGift.org. The Church turned around and sued the DC Metro [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem rep: There’s a rumor on the Hill that Trump’s planning to fire Mueller on Friday]( 12/17/2017 2:01:12 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This rumor’s oddly specific, no? “Trump’s going to fire Mueller” has been daily chatter since May. “Trump’s going to fire Mueller this Friday” has not. That suggests Democrat Jackie Speier, a member of the House [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NFL week 15 open thread]( 12/17/2017 12:31:41 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Ed: Looks like Santa arrived early in our weekly football threads … and dropped a couple of big lumps of coal in our stockings. My picks last week resulted in a 2-5 showing, dropping my season record to 56-42 and within range of a potential [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Who are you to baptize? Sunday reflection]( 12/17/2017 11:46:08 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This morning’s Gospel reading is John 1:6–8, 19–28: A man named John was sent from God. He came for testimony, to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to testify to the light. And this is the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Amid firestorms, Trump has year of solid policy accomplishments. 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