HotAir Daily Express 03/08/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Why is the White House blocking access to puppy mill inspection records?]( 3/8/2018 10:41:45 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When a new president enters the White House there’s always a flurry of activity and extensive changes taking place in the first 100 days. That’s particularly true when control of the White House changes parties. But one of the changes which [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tackle football in Maryland schools won’t be going away after all]( 3/8/2018 10:01:51 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Last month we looked at pending legislation in Maryland which would have banned tackle football and “headers” in soccer for elementary and middle school students. It was an effort to address complaints about brain injuries which might be [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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: Seychelles meeting intended to set up back channel to Russia … right before the inauguration]( 3/8/2018 8:57:42 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Timing is everything — and especially so in the issues surrounding alleged collusion with Russian interference in the 2016 election. A meeting between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian official in the Seychelles had been passed off as a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WH: We may waive tariffs temporarily on Canada and Mexico; Delayed?]( 3/8/2018 8:41:48 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Donald Trump still plans on issuing his orders to apply tariffs on imported steel and aluminum despite a last-ditch effort to change his mind by advisors and Republicans in Congress. However, the order could now include temporary waivers for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trial begins for that Danish submarine murder guy]( 3/8/2018 8:01:36 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The murder trial of billionaire inventor Peter Madsen began in Copenhagen today. You may recall our previous coverage of this horrifying and bizarre tale, when we learned that Madsen was accused of torturing, murdering and dismembering the body of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Great news: Alexa devices are freaking people out by randomly laughing]( 3/7/2018 10:41:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I for one certainly wouldn’t wet the bed in terror if, in the middle of the night, a disembodied “chilling witch-like laugh” suddenly filled the room. Maybe Alexa just found out Bezos’s net worth? This was posted to Twitter two [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: 74% of Democrats want to ban all semiautomatic rifles — but youngest adults disagree]( 3/7/2018 10:01:10 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments For the second time in a week, I say to you: They are who we thought they were. This Quinnipiac poll isn’t as dire as the YouGov poll released last week, which put Democratic support for banning all semiautomatic weapons — not rifles, weapons [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Times: Trump spoke to two witnesses about their discussions with the Special Counsel]( 3/7/2018 9:21:23 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The New York Times reports that President Trump has spoken to two individuals about their questioning by Special Counsel Mueller. The story says the statements Trump made don’t add up to witness tampering but are still ill-advised: The special [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Michael Cohen obtained secret restraining order against Stormy Daniels eight days ago]( 3/7/2018 8:41:35 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Not a “stop stalking me” restraining order, a “keep Trump’s name out yo’ mouth” restraining order, in case that’s not clear. Daniels’s own complaint mentioned the arbitration proceeding last month that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Russian ambassador: It’s been pretty lonely here in Washington]( 3/7/2018 8:01:27 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments He throws parties. He plays bluegrass on his podcasts — Russian bluegrass, that is. But darn it, people in Washington DC just don’t like Russian ambassador Anatoly Antonov — or at least they don’t want to be seen near him. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CA Gov. Jerry Brown: AG Sessions is unleashing ‘a reign of terror’]( 3/7/2018 7:21:09 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Earlier today Jazz wrote about the lawsuit the Department of Justice filed against California over three specific laws involving immigration. In addition to the lawsuit, there has also been a fiery war of words today between AG Jeff Sessions and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Schadenfreude: Enviros’ lawyer from Chevron shakedown ordered to pay them “bigly”]( 3/7/2018 6:41:28 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Those of you who have been following our years-long coverage of what’s become known as the Chevron Shakedown are probably already familiar with Steven Donziger. He’s the New York attorney who worked with a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [State Dept: We’ve confirmed use of VX to assassinate Kim brother]( 3/7/2018 6:01:17 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Breaking news from March 2017, or something more significant? If this State Department declaration seems pro forma this long after Kim Jong-nam’s assassination, its consequences will likely be mainly symbolic, as NBC News notes — and may not [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Carve-outs”: White House open to granting Canada, Mexico exemptions from new tariffs?]( 3/7/2018 5:31:14 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The key words here are “national security.” Steve Mnuchin said yesterday that Canada and Mexico might be granted exemptions from the steel and aluminum tariffs — but only if they bow to U.S. demands in renegotiating NAFTA. That seems [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [‘Cannabis candidate’ in Illinois has alleged history of domestic abuse]( 3/7/2018 5:01:36 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Benjamin Thomas Wolf is a candidate for Illinois’ 5th congressional district. He has made legalizing cannabis and banning guns two of his central campaign promises and he’s also become the first congressional candidate to ever advertise on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Facebook, Google make the country safer by censoring ads for… gun locks]( 3/7/2018 4:31:34 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In the wake of the Florida school shooting, activists on the left have been in their standard mode of screaming for someone to “do something” without much of a clear idea as to what that “something” might be. With no government [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sessions: We’re finally going to release Fast & Furious documents withheld from Congress by Holder]( 3/7/2018 4:01:44 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Better late than never, I suppose, and this is late in more than one sense. Earlier today, the Department of Justice announced that it would finally give the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee access to documents related to Operation Fast [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Does Stormy Daniels have, er, photos from Trump?]( 3/7/2018 3:31:45 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Probably not, no, but Josh Marshall of TPM made some waves last night among lefty media with his reading of Daniels’s complaint against Trump. Here’s the document. The hush-money agreement between Daniels, Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [UK Police: Former Russian spy and his daughter were attacked with nerve agent]( 3/7/2018 3:01:01 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Monday, Ed wrote about former UK spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia who were found passed out in a shopping center over the weekend. The pair were suspected to have been exposed to an unknown toxic substance and were taken to a nearby hospital. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New Hampshire prepares to make women second class citizens (again)]( 3/7/2018 2:31:51 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Judiciary Committee in the New Hampshire House of Representatives is preparing to vote on a proposal which will have sweeping consequences for the citizens of the Granite State, and particularly for women. Like too many states before them, New [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Inspector General confirms: VA center in DC has chronic “failures to consistently deliver timely and quality patient care”]( 3/7/2018 2:01:47 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. The VA’s inspector general has released a final report on the status of the system’s center in the nation’s capital after having first issued an interim report nearly a year ago. Nothing [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN anchor to Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz: Why won’t you call your opponent by his preferred nickname?]( 3/7/2018 1:31:24 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Nothing Ted Cruz does is done without calculation. Do people really not understand the strategy here? The media started grumbling about this last night when he rolled out his new ad, pointedly using Democrat Beto O’Rourke’s given name in his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Utah high school student who attempted to detonate bomb was ‘researching’ ISIS]( 3/7/2018 1:01:29 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A smoking backpack was discovered in the cafeteria of Pine View High School in St. George, Utah Monday. Police later determined the backpack contained a bomb which could have done significant damage if it had gone off. An unnamed student was arrested and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Maryland state senate passes bill aimed at sinking Trump’s reelection]( 3/7/2018 12:31:59 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Maryland state senate just fired a broadside at President Trump in terms of his hopes for reelection… or so they think. Like many other blue states, the Old Line State’s upper chamber just approved a new bill which would require all [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo columnist: You know what time it is, kids? Socialism time!]( 3/7/2018 12:01:27 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This column might have made a lot more sense if the date on it was slightly different — say, March 6, 1918, rather than March 6, 2018. At that point, the economic utopianism from Karl Marx remained almost entirely theoretical, except for the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [No charges for agent whom Terry Crews says groped him at party]( [The autumn of the Oscars]( [Jeremy Corbyn was member of private Facebook group which posted anti-Semitic conspiracies]( [Russian trolls tried to torpedo Mitt Romney’s shot at Secretary of State]( [It’s come to this]( [Kushner leaves U.S. ambassador out of meeting with Mexico president]( [Conservatives have only themselves to blame for Trump’s tariffs]( [Exclusive polls: Big warning signs for Senate Dems]( [Mueller gathers evidence that 2017 Seychelles meeting aimed to establish back channel to Kremlin]( [Bones found on remote island may belong to Amelia Earhart, study says]( [Florida legislature backs new gun restrictions after Parkland school shooting]( [107 House GOPers urge Trump to target tariffs to bad actors]( [For 10 years, I read the comments]( [We’re letting mentally ill people walk around. 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