HotAir Daily Express 03/02/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Fox OJ interview in 2006: If I did it, I had an accomplice and I was covered in blood]( 3/2/2018 10:41:26 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Remember the ill-fated OJ Simpson project If I Did It? The former NFL star turned murder suspect turned armed robber attempted to pass off as fiction a thinly veiled recap of the murder of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in a book by that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NRA after Trump meeting: No, he doesn’t want gun control]( 3/2/2018 10:01:49 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments On Wednesday, Donald Trump castigated his fellow Republicans for being “petrified of the NRA.” Last night, the group attempted to bail him out of a jam. After a private meeting with President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, the executive [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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Putin: We’ll use nukes if anyone attacks Russia with anything]( 3/2/2018 9:21:17 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Vladimir Putin bragged about Russia’s supposedly new nuclear capabilities yesterday, but does he really ever envision using them? NBC News’ Megyn Kelly posed that question to the Russian strongman in an exclusive video after his presentation [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oh my: IG to accuse McCabe of misleading investigators, approving leak]( 3/2/2018 8:41:15 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Misleading investigators? Isn’t that what Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos are getting prosecuted for doing? According to a Washington Post report last night, the Department of Justice Inspector General will accuse former FBI deputy director [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [One Army family shows us that sometimes you don’t have to deport everyone]( 3/2/2018 8:01:31 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments For your consideration on Friday morning, we have a slightly different story involving illegal immigration and deportations. This one comes to us from The Military Times and it involves a woman named Elia Crawford. She’s the wife of retired Army [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump at opioid summit: Countries that kill drug dealers have much less of a drug problem, you know]( 3/1/2018 10:01:43 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m trying to locate this on the spectrum between “take him seriously but not literally,” as his supporters do, and “take him literally but not seriously,” as the media does. I think it falls somewhere in the gray zone of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: 82% of Dems favor banning all semiautomatic weapons, evenly split on banning all guns]( 3/1/2018 9:21:07 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments They are who we thought they were, as Dennis Green once famously said. No one show this data to our supposedly populist right-wing president, as it might give him more ideas. YouGov asked people whether they favor or oppose banning semiautomatic weapons. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Media organizations sue Sheriff’s Office for video from outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School]( 3/1/2018 8:41:16 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Three media organizations have sued the Broward County Sheriff’s Office in order to get access to surveillance video from outside Stoneman Douglas High School. But the office, run by Sheriff Scott Israel, is refusing to release the video claiming [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Putin: Feel the power of our fully operational super-nukes, or something]( 3/1/2018 8:01:41 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Can Russia defeat US anti-ballistic-missile “shield” systems? Vladimir Putin unveiled two new nuclear-weapons systems, claiming that he has restored Russia’s status as the world’s greatest nuclear power. “Nobody listened to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chuck Schumer opposes Trump judicial nominee because he’s … white]( 3/1/2018 7:21:03 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Daily Caller, you know a Democrat’s screwed up badly when Lindsey Graham has an unkind word to say about him. “I’ve known Chuck Schumer for years. He is not a racist, but this was an absolutely shameful reason to vote against a very [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Mueller to charge Russians who hacked DNC, Podesta emails]( 3/1/2018 6:41:55 PM John Sexton 0 Comments NBC News is reporting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is planning to charge one or more Russians responsible for the hacking, theft, and distribution of Democratic emails. NBC’s sources don’t seem to clear on when these charges might be [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NBC: Five sources say White House preparing to replace McMaster as NSA]( 3/1/2018 6:01:02 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If you were going to bet on anyone as the next White House departure, you’d bet on McMaster. The media’s been reporting on his personality clashes with Trump since the day he took the job. But … Kelly and Mattis teaming up against him? [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Was Parkland shooter enabled by Obama-era Dept of Education policies?]( 3/1/2018 5:21:44 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments How did Nikolas Cruz rack up twenty-five disciplinary actions in high school without getting a referral to law enforcement? And how did law enforcement in Broward County go through as many as forty-five contacts with Cruz and his family without an arrest [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ADL: Say, Louis Farrakhan seems pretty popular with Women’s March founders]( 3/1/2018 4:41:49 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last Sunday, Louis Farrakhan gave his “Savior’s Day” speech at a 10,000 seat arena in Chicago. As expected, Farrakhan peppered the speech with racist references to Jews and whites and some of those comments were highlighted by [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The last straw? Hope Hicks reportedly quit after Trump “berated” her for admitting to telling “white lies” for him]( 3/1/2018 4:01:50 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Meh. Lots of buzz about this but I don’t buy it. Trump berates all of his staffers, no matter how august. John Kelly was reportedly chewed out so badly early on in his time as chief of staff that he told confidants he’d never been addressed [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Gun control, Brexit roll, arrested troll, protectionist tolls, and more!]( 3/1/2018 3:21:11 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gun control march bumped from National Mall by existing ‘talent show’ permit]( 3/1/2018 2:41:47 PM John Sexton 0 Comments As we learned yesterday, the Florida high school students who have been the face of a push for gun control aren’t really the ones organizing things behind the scenes. A host of progressive gun control groups are actually taking care of most of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rubio: My legislation will actually fix the failures that led to Parkland massacre]( 3/1/2018 2:01:09 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments That certainly would provide a change from most Congressional responses to mass shootings. Usually, those involve (a) posturing and pandering to political activists, (b) demanding ridiculous legislation that are non-sequiturs to the catalyzing event, and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [U.S. declares trade war: Trump surprises staff, announces new tariffs on steel and aluminum]( 3/1/2018 1:31:11 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments What a great 24 hours. Yesterday we got a snoutful of gun control, today we get job-killing protectionism. Well done again, everyone, on our carefully considered, very conservative deliberations in the 2016 primaries. Almost as alarming as the new [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [DC’s projected high school graduation rate drops to 42%]( 3/1/2018 1:01:20 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Washington, DC’s high school graduation rate is projected to drop by as much as 31% this year, with just 42% of seniors currently on track to receive a diploma. From the Washington Post: Data released Thursday by D.C. Public Schools show that 42 [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oakland Mayor still unapologetic over committing felony, obstructing justice]( 3/1/2018 12:31:57 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Yesterday John talked about the ICE response to Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf tipping off the illegal aliens in her community to an impending immigration enforcement sweep. A request has been made to have the Department of Justice look into this act of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: Arrest made in letter attack on Trump Jr family; Update: Other victims identified; Update: Suspect cooperating?]( 3/1/2018 12:01:42 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Seventeen days after Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law opened a letter that contained white powder and a threatening note, federal investigators have found their suspect. A Massachusetts man will go to court later today for the hoax attack aimed at [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another leak: Kushner’s business got $500+ million in loans after he met with banks at White House]( 3/1/2018 11:21:33 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments You have to feel for poor Ben Carson, who’s watching the extended Trump family convert their political influence into riches while he gets raked over the coals for $31,000 in dining room furniture. You have to feel for Omarosa too. She took a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Survey: The generation gap in American politics]( [Oops]( [Trump’s tariff war nudges Cohn toward White House exit]( [NRA members on Trump’s plans for gun control: “Every word of it was a betrayal”]( [“Every time I do it now, it’s like agony”]( [Kushner’s business sought Qatar loan weeks before he supported blockade]( [FBI counterintel investigating Ivanka Trump business deal]( [Exclusive: Secret documents from Russia’s election trolls leak]( [DOJ report expected to criticize Andrew McCabe over media disclosures — about Hillary]( [Trump ignored “bright line” on discussing Russia with Hicks]( [“Imagine if Barack Obama had said that? 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