HotAir Daily Express 01/26/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Three-peat pass: Q4 GDP misses expectations at 2.6%]( 1/26/2018 10:41:03 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments As Donald Trump hailed the revitalized American economy at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Bureau of Economic Analysis delivered a minor disappointment. Despite expectations that the US would have a three-peat of 3.0% GDP growth in Q4, the actual [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [US Olympic Committee to USA Gymnastics board: Resign — or else]( 1/26/2018 10:01:31 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Or else what? The US Olympic Committee will decertify the disgraced USA Gymnastics unless all of its board members resign within six days, an action that will remove the organization from any involvement in official American participation in [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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Davos pitch: “America first is not America alone”]( 1/26/2018 9:21:50 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “Trump was at his best in the Davos speech,” NBC reporter and Shattered author Jonathan Allen concluded at the end of his address to the World Economic Forum, the first by a sitting US president since 2000. It capped off a week in which [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Economist concedes, sort of: Actually, Trump’s not been bad for the economy after all]( 1/26/2018 8:41:06 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments I say “sort of” because The Economist tries to position itself as far away from Donald Trump’s policies while making the observation that the US economy appears to be flourishing. The tag line on this piece is perfectly descriptive of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [False missile alert “button pusher” goes silent with investigators]( 1/26/2018 8:01:36 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This story was supposed to be over, except for the ongoing review of how the mistake was made and what can be done to prevent it in the future. When that doomsday alert hit every phone in Hawaii earlier this month, letting everyone know that the actual [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Weinstein’s former assistant: He made me clean up after his frequent sexual encounters]( 1/25/2018 10:41:03 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Sandeep Rehal worked as Harvey Weinstein’s assistant starting in 2013 when she was just 26-years-old. Rehal is now suing Weinstein and the Weinstein Company claiming her duties included taking dictation while Harvey was nude and preparing him for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Terrible football league to gain rival in new, even more terrible football league]( 1/25/2018 10:01:08 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The XFL: Where everyone stands for the anthem. And everyone is concussed. If you thought NFL play had deteriorated thanks to a dearth of dynamic quarterbacks, wait until there’s an entire league of undrafted scrubs playing sub-Alabama ball for the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Alt-weekly writer: Progressive call-out culture is a ‘dumpster fire of trash’]( 1/25/2018 9:21:57 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Tuesday a progressive opinion columnist at alt-weekly The Stranger, wrote a piece blasting the call-out culture which has become so popular on social media and college campuses. Katie Herzog considers herself a leftist in good standing but she’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Shep Smith: Let’s face it, the Nunes memo is a “weapon of partisan mass distraction”]( 1/25/2018 8:41:54 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I don’t know what he’s talking about it. Does this look like the face of a man interested in stoking suspicions about the FBI to run interference for his political idol? Hannity Goes Off on DOJ/FBI: People Must Be Investigated, Indicted, and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Stormy Daniels interviewed: C’mon, did you and Trump do the deed or not?]( 1/25/2018 8:01:46 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Watch the clip (it’s short) and then I’ll ask you a question. If she’s *not* under a nondisclosure agreement, why not give a straight answer one way or the other? If she wants media attention and money from the tabloids for juicy [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Soros: Trump administration ‘a danger to the world’]( 1/25/2018 7:21:32 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Speaking in Davos, Switzerland, billionaire George Soros said today that the Trump administration was a “danger to the world” but added that he expected it would be a very temporary one. Soros was speaking specifically of the risk of nuclear [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The new champion of Net Neutrality is…Burger King?]( 1/25/2018 6:41:18 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments There’s a new champion of Net Neutrality and his name is The Burger King. That’s right, Burger King is going all hip by putting together a PSA(?) explaining the “evils” of no Net Neutrality to customers in a video called Whopper [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Whoa: Stephen Miller tells Hill GOP that Trump would support amnesty for up to 1.8 million young illegals; Update: Anger on both sides]( 1/25/2018 6:01:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If you don’t believe NBC’s claim about this, would you believe the Daily Beast’s? How about Bloomberg’s? WaPo’s? Because they’re all reporting the same thing. It’s a testament to how much border hawks’ [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Closer Look: DACA, border wall, fake news, “Divine Creatures,” and more!]( 1/25/2018 5:21:45 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Once again, I get to step outside the box and guest host on Relevant Radio’s A Closer Look from 6-7 pm ET today! My friend Sheila Liaugminas is in Rome all week, and I will fill in for her Monday through Friday this week. The Catholic talk-radio network [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Journalist” helped suppress 2005 photo of Obama with Farrakhan for fear it would hurt his political career]( 1/25/2018 4:41:20 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If you’re suppressing truthful information, you don’t get to be called a “journalist” without scare quotes. TPM has a copy of the photo. This reaction is, of course, correct: The Obama-Farrakhan thing isn't about whether the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi, Wasserman-Schultz double down on “crumb”-y argument — literally]( 1/25/2018 4:01:52 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Give Nancy Pelosi, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Democrats credit for perseverance. Perhaps never before has one American political party so boldly clung to the “who are you going to believe, us or your lying eyes” approach. Despite a growing [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California proposes straw law, violators could be fined]( 1/25/2018 3:21:02 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Reason posted a story today about a recently proposed law which would make it a violation of California’s Retail Food Code to offer a customer a disposable straw with their drink. The law was introduced this month and, if passed, would make [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Shoes still dropping: MSU president resigns as Nassar scandal raises questions for Congress]( 1/25/2018 2:41:44 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Six days ago, the board of trustees for Michigan State University voted unanimously to stand behind its president Lou Anna Simon despite the school’s failure to address molestation accusations against Larry Nassar for years. Late yesterday, the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [DOJ inspector general: We’ve recovered the missing Strzok/Page texts]( 1/25/2018 2:01:34 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “Behind the scenes, Trump has been obsessing over the texts,” wrote Mike Allen this morning of the missing Strzok/Page correspondence. “He talks to plenty of people in his out-of-office hours, and in the residence, who fuel his sense [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Michigan Community College pays $55,000 to settle free-speech lawsuit]( 1/25/2018 1:21:39 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Kellogg Community College in Michigan has agreed to settle a lawsuit stemming from the arrest of students who were handing out free copies of the U.S. Constitution on the school’s campus. From the Battle Creek Enquirer: Kellogg Community College [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hey, violent crime was down last year! Well, except for, you know… murder]( 1/25/2018 12:41:24 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The new set of crime data for the first half of 2017 was just released by the FBI this week and it was… sort of a mixed bag. The Semiannual Uniform Crime Report compiles data on a number of different crimes, broken down by region and population [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [O a No: Oprah says presidential run “not for me”]( 1/25/2018 12:01:32 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Bad news: It looks like we won’t get Oprah Winfrey to participate in the Celebrity Grudge Match in the 2020 presidential race. Good news: We still have Cher as a possibility. The highest-profile Democratic prospect has seemingly removed herself [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Devin Nunes memo names Comey, McCabe, and Rosenstein]( 1/25/2018 11:21:07 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Want more details than that? Alas, you’re out of luck. The Daily Beast claims that all three men are mentioned in the memo but doesn’t elaborate. Since the memo is allegedly about Russiagate-related misconduct, the inference is that all three [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [How can Chuck Schumer say no? Trump just gave Democrats everything they wanted]( [Trump bristles under some of his orderly chief of staff’s restrictions]( [Defiant Republicans ready to send secret Russia memo to Trump]( [Judge Rosemarie Aquilina is no hero, she’s a bad example]( [I’ve watched Trump testify under oath. It isn’t pretty.]( [NBC staffers “horrified” Megyn Kelly will be cover SOTU]( [Trump ready to apologize for retweeting anti-Muslim videos from far-right British group]( [Dutch agencies provide crucial intel about Russia’s interference in U.S. elections]( [The art of the choke]( [Rep. 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