HotAir Daily Express 01/31/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Massachusetts quietly begins rethinking that whole sanctuary thing]( 1/31/2018 10:41:22 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments While you won’t catch any Democrats admitting it publicly, the Bay State may be getting ready to roll back some of their “sanctuary state” status. The Governor, Charlie Baker, has submitted draft legislation which would allow (though [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [DNC SOTU data dump: By the way, we’re nearly broke]( 1/31/2018 10:01:56 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “Interesting timing,” Kenneth Vogel wrote on Twitter about the latest DNC filing with the FEC — but it’s perfectly understandable. The first year full year under the leadership of Tom Perez and Rep. Keith Ellison has been [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Toxic Vegetable Is #1 Danger In Your Diet]( Beverly Hills MD SPONSORED Dr. Gundry reveals the #1 toxic vegetable you should never eat. --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN poll grudgingly admits most viewers liked Trump’s SOTU speech]( 1/31/2018 9:21:29 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The web is drowning in reactions to the State of the Union speech at the moment, so there’s no need for a lengthy analysis here. What may be far more interesting is the reaction of the media, not so much to the speech itself, but how it was [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump SOTU hardball: “Americans are dreamers, too”]( 1/31/2018 8:41:31 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments So much for “reaching out,” eh? Donald Trump delivered his first official State of the Union address last night — last year’s speech was technically not a SOTU — and nearly set a record for its length at 80 minutes. Like all [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Donald Trump is not, and never has been, a libertarian president]( 1/31/2018 8:01:51 AM Taylor Millard 0 Comments The long knives are again out for libertarianism, as opponents hope to slay the philosophy which preaches freedom and liberty for all, and the weakest government possible this side of anarcho-capitalism. The latest alleged chevalier to attempt an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Trump’s State of the Union (and the Dem response)]( 1/30/2018 11:50:57 PM John Sexton 0 Comments If you missed the speech tonight you have a lot of catching up to do. It ran about an hour and 20 minutes not including all the pomp and circumstance before and after. I’ll incluse some brief clips of the highlights but the full video is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Open thread: The very tremendous State of the Union]( 1/30/2018 8:41:07 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You know where I stand on it. All I can say to try to hype it and make it worth your while to watch is that, when it comes to all things Trump, you never know. There’s a 99 percent chance that he’ll stick scrupulously to the script, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Next up for the SOTU response curse: Kennedy dynasty’s latest greatest hope]( 1/30/2018 8:01:24 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Was Chelsea Clinton unavailable? Maybe she’s just smarter. Tonight, the Democrats will offer their official response to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, an honor from the opposition party which has a reputation for being a millstone [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chelsea Manning: I’m running so I can “challenge the establishment”]( 1/30/2018 7:21:17 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Somebody needs to get this guy a whip and a chair because everywhere convicted traitor Chelsea Manning goes these days there seems to be something of a circus. As we recently learned, the Army private (he’s still technically on active duty while [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ESPN host: Now that Chief Wahoo’s gone, ban the offensive mascot of … Notre Dame?]( 1/30/2018 6:41:36 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Color me shocked, shocked that getting rid of Chief Wahoo didn’t appease revolutionary iconoclasts. ESPN’s Max Kellerman takes a victory lap after MLB “convinced” the Cleveland Indians to get rid of its controversial logo after [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [DOJ Inspector General focused on McCabe’s role in the final weeks of the 2016 election]( 1/30/2018 6:01:21 PM John Sexton 0 Comments We had word yesterday that Andrew McCabe’s exit from his post at the FBI was prompted by something FBI Director Christopher Wray saw in a forthcoming DOJ Inspector General’s report. Today the Washington Post reports the DOJ IG has been [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Paul Ryan: It’s time to “cleanse” the FBI]( 1/30/2018 5:31:10 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments His quote is less, shall we say, “Soviet” than it sounds in context but he may have stumbled onto Trump’s endgame here, wittingly or not. House Speaker Paul Ryan called Tuesday to “cleanse” the FBI as he openly backed the release of a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Atlantic: It’s pure ‘fantasy’ to think Mueller will indict President Trump]( 1/30/2018 5:01:42 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Atlantic published a piece today titled “There’s No Way Mueller Will Indict Trump” written by attorney Paul Rosenweig. Twenty years ago, Tosenweig was involved in the investigation of President Clinton by the House of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: China and Russia both close to being able to trash all of our satellites]( 1/30/2018 4:31:07 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Of course, claiming that you can doesn’t actually mean that you should. The Pentagon is raising serious concerns this week over advancements in both Russian and Chinese capabilities in a potential fight in low Earth orbit. While most of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Good lord: Hawaii emergency alert worker who triggered false alarm really thought a missile was inbound]( 1/30/2018 4:01:08 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments So that’s why the worker responsible for America’s collective panic attack a few weeks ago didn’t want to be interviewed by the FCC about it. Turns out this wasn’t a terrible yet understandable mistake in which an overworked clerk [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: SOTU preview, Dems’ late-term abortion endorsement, Fighting Irish offensive, and more!]( 1/30/2018 3:31:42 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Border wall prototypes almost impossible to breach, climb over]( 1/30/2018 3:01:31 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Fox News reports that breach testing of the border wall prototypes was a success. Special Ops soldiers attempted to climb them but only one person was able to climb to the top and he had to be lowered down with a cherry picker: The wall will be based on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chuck Schumer is torpedoing the infrastructure plan before it’s even announced]( 1/30/2018 2:31:53 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments A new year and a new chance for progress. That’s the hope of at least some people observing the gridlock in the United States Senate these days, where rounding up a single Democratic vote for anything the President has supported is akin to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Grammy prez: If women want to win awards, they need to “step up”]( 1/30/2018 2:01:00 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that Neil Portnow will either (a) donate a large chunk of cash to #TimesUp, (b) suddenly discover a desire to spend more time with his family, or (c) both. The president of the Recording Academy responded [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [RNC chair: We won’t give back Steve Wynn’s donations until he’s had due process]( 1/30/2018 1:31:34 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Yes, well, Harvey Weinstein hasn’t had due process either. And yet. If the DNC truly stands up for women like they say they do, then returning Weinstein's dirty money should be a no-brainer. — Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) October 6, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi to CNN’s Chris Cuomo on the memo: ‘You don’t know what you’re talking about’]( 1/30/2018 1:01:55 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Nancy Pelosi appeared on CNN with Chris Cuomo Monday and attempted to lay out the case against releasing the Nunes memo everyone has been talking about for weeks. She made all the same points that Adam Schiff and others have been making, i.e. the memo is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo offers Trump “a chance” to be loved. Don’t fall for it]( 1/30/2018 12:31:09 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Everyone is setting expectations for the State of the Union address this evening and the Washington Post editorial board is no exception. After more than a year of relentlessly attacking the President (even prior to his inauguration), the Post offers [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oh my: FBI working on second Trump dossier?]( 1/30/2018 12:01:19 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments A second dossier relating to Russian “collusion”? Should Donald Trump be shaking in his boots? Naah, at least not from the description by The Guardian. But the FBI may have more questions to answer if this second dossier got used to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump campaign to put donors’ names onscreen during SOTU livestream]( 1/30/2018 11:21:30 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Meh. All presidents monetize the State of the Union via fundraising pitches from their campaign arms but literally emblazoning donors’ names over POTUS’s image as he talks national policy for a price is an unusually direct way to shake loose [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Source: DOJ gives special counsel internal docs on thwarted Sessions resignation]( [Devin Nunes won’t say if he worked with White House on anti-FBI memo]( [Senators don’t share House Republicans’ rnthusiasm for #ReleaseTheMemo]( [FBI director opposes memo release because of inaccuracies, source says]( [Disagreement on North Korea policy derails White House choice for ambassador to South Korea]( [Andrea Tantaros says Roger Ailes had secret surveillance of Fox News women changing]( [DOJ officials appealed to White House to halt release of Nunes memo]( [Trump wants Nunes memo released as quickly as possible]( [Instant poll: Trump gets least positive SOTU reaction in at least 20 years]( [If I had to handle the Burns Strider incident again, I’d do it differently]( [Overnight poll: SOTU viewers approved of speech, 75/25]( [Was that drool coming out of Joe Kennedy’s mouth?]( [What does Hollywood’s reverence for child rapist Roman Polanski tell us?]( [Are we living in a hologram?]( [Where were the parents in the gymnastics sex abuse cases?]( [Jeff Sessions is the most underrated member of the Trump administration]( [Trump and the Republican Congress have plenty to brag about after first year]( [How anti-feminism is shaping world politics]( [They’ll clap, but will they campaign with Trump?]( [How to talk like Trump]( [Populism is poisoning the global liberal order]( [The conversation #MeToo needs to have]( [Liberals have lost their minds over immigration]( [Jeff Sessions’s pot policy may backfire in Congress]( [Why are we Britons so eager to be Trump’s, and America’s, doormat?]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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