HotAir Daily Express 03/09/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [State Dept closes Mexican consulate, warns Americans in Yucatan area]( 3/9/2018 10:41:01 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If you’ve planned to spend spring break in the tourist resorts of the Yucatan Peninsula, you may want to reconsider.The State Department abruptly closed the US consulate in the popular tourist destination of Playa del Carmen late Wednesday evening [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Are you ready for … Obamaflix and chill?]( 3/9/2018 10:01:36 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments To quote Instapundit, they told me if I voted for Trump we’d get a president who would use the office to launch a new media empire … and they were right! Forget Trump TV, though, and instead look for a new cultural trend of Obamaflix [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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: US added 313,000 jobs in February]( 3/9/2018 9:06:17 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Talk about beating expectations. Economists had expected to see another maintenance-plus level of job creation in February at around a net 200,000 jobs added. Instead, the US economy had its best month since 2016, adding 313,000 jobs in the middle of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN anchor: “No way around” Trump being a “great president” if he solves North Korea crisis]( 3/9/2018 8:41:36 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The news that Donald Trump has agreed to meet with Kim Jong-un has prompted some unusual reactions. Take for instance this amusing, if far too premature, conclusion from CNN’s Erin Burnett in her wrap-up of a panel discussion. Burnett notes that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Review: Women in Combat. Unnatural, Foolish, Immoral]( 3/9/2018 8:01:25 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is a review of the new book by Mark C. Atkins, Women in Combat. Unnatural, Foolish, Immoral. The title doesn’t leave much to the imagination in terms of either the subject matter or the author’s views upon it. But no matter your own take on the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Minnesota legislator authors bill to ban … “Bachelor” contestant?]( 3/8/2018 10:01:05 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate, I’m not even going to scold him for making a mockery of the legislative process. We elected a game-show host president, for fark’s sake. Besides, as a matter of self-promotion, this stunt isn’t half bad. Drew [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Deputy Scot Peterson heard shots coming from ‘inside’ the school, warned cops to stay back]( 3/8/2018 9:21:51 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Deputy Scot Peterson is the armed Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy who remained outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school during the shooting last month. Peterson was heavily criticized for his inaction and, through his lawyer, released a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Looks like Stormy Daniels might be ready to violate that restraining order]( 3/8/2018 8:41:37 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A picture, plus a few Twitter handles, is worth a thousand words. Michael Avenatti is Daniels’s lawyer, the man who filed the complaint in court a few days ago requesting a declaratory judgment that the hush-money agreement between her and Michael [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Important pro-tip from Russian embassy in UK: Skripal was a British spy, you know]( 3/8/2018 8:01:12 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The Russian embassy has a bone to pick with the British press over their coverage of the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal, but it’s not the complaint one might expect. The press in the UK have described Skripal as a “Russian [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obamacare premiums could spike 35-90% over the next three years]( 3/8/2018 7:21:14 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Covered California released a report today warning that Obamacare premiums could spike from 35% to 90% over the next three years. From the introduction to the report: Recent health care actions taken by Congress and the federal administration — [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Live: South Korea to make major announcement at 7 p.m. ET; Update: Trump to meet Kim by May]( 3/8/2018 6:41:22 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments That’s the word from a VIP source who would know. And it sounds like good news. President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday afternoon that South Korea would make a major announcement on North Korea at 7 p.m. EST… After Trump ducked into [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jeff Flake: I’m drafting a bill to nuke Trump’s tariffs]( 3/8/2018 6:01:14 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Bob Corker’s onboard too. What are the odds that the two lame ducks in the Senate would be among the most vocal opponents of the new policy? Will McConnell dare bring Flake’s bill to the floor for a vote? I hope so. We deserve to know how [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Oakland mayor’s warning in advance of ICE sweeps a ‘disgrace’]( 3/8/2018 5:21:35 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Today, President Trump reiterated criticism of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf made previously by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and ICE Deputy Director Thomas Homan. Trump called Mayor Schaaf’s decision to publicly announce a coming ICE sweep a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Axios: “Big warning” that Senate Democrats running into a midterm buzzsaw]( 3/8/2018 4:41:14 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Probably, although this indirect polling argument from Axios might not be the best evidence of it. Partnering with Survey Monkey, Axios polled ten states where Donald Trump won in 2016 to get a lay of the land for upcoming re-election bids by Senate [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: I’ve got a feeling my “globalist” friend Gary Cohn will be back]( 3/8/2018 4:01:32 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s never going to stop being weird that high public officials are using the term “globalist” unironically but at least they’re using it in good humor. Trump uses it in the clip below as an antonym for “nationalist,” [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Disney CEO: Joy Behar apologized directly to VP Pence, Jemele Hill was ‘disciplined’]( 3/8/2018 3:21:42 PM John Sexton 0 Comments At a Disney shareholder meeting today, CEO Bob Iger faced a tough question about the behavior of Joy Behar and also Jemele Hill. The question was asked by Justin Danhof of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative group based in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics on Relevant Radio: Oscars, Conscience Protection Act, “”Evil Empire” speech anniversary, and more]( 3/8/2018 2:41:45 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Once again, I get to step outside the box and guest host on Relevant Radio’s Drew Mariani Show from 3-6 ET today! The Catholic talk-radio network is heard nationwide on the air after its merger with Immaculate Heart Radio, as well as online and through [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Huh? Two SWAT officers suspended for responding to Parkland massacre]( 3/8/2018 2:01:50 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments One sheriff’s deputy has “retired” for not running to the fire during a mass shooting at a Parkland high school. The Miami Herald reported yesterday that two other police officers got suspended from their SWAT assignments because they [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [No, Trump’s not mad at Sarah Sanders for her answers about Stormygate]( 3/8/2018 1:31:45 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m as surprised as you are. Normally when Jim “Money” Acosta reports something, you can take it to the bank. From @Acosta: A source close to White House says Trump is upset with @PressSec Sarah Sanders over her handling of Stormy [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Women’s March co-founder: Don’t hold me responsible for ‘the words of others’ (meaning Farrakhan)]( 3/8/2018 1:01:04 PM John Sexton 0 Comments It has been nearly two weeks since Women’s March co-founder Tamika Mallory attended a “Saviour’s Day” speech by Louis Farrakhan in Chicago. CNN’s Jake Tapper highlighted some of Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic ranting at the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The end of male gynecologists?]( 3/8/2018 12:31:24 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Get ready for a walk down one of those less trodden paths. Our story today is based on a report from the LA Times which features Dr. Jerome Chelliah. He’s an OB-GYN doctor completing his residency training in Santa Clara, California. His main [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Farrakhan: You know that Jews control the FBI, right?]( 3/8/2018 12:01:55 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Perhaps Louis Farrakhan thought the time was ripe for a Nation of Islam campaign against the FBI, considering the controversies in which it’s been mired. Instead of sticking to a coherent and fact-based argument, though, the leader of the NoI [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [College paper editor defends explosive decision to … print a photo of Charles Murray]( 3/8/2018 11:21:19 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments I hate these little fascists so much. But as much as I hate them, they hate me, and you, more. I wouldn’t silence them or physically harm them, for instance, the way they shut down Murray and sent a faculty member to the hospital when he came to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Cornyn says he has the votes to pass a gun background check bill]( [What will Trump give up for peace with North Korea?]( [North Korea and South Korea snooker Trump]( [“Evangelicals still believe in the commandment: Thou shalt not have sex with a porn star”]( [Amazon knows why Alexa was laughing at its customers]( [Trump’s highest-stakes improvisation]( [U.S. allies see Trump’s steel tariffs as an insult]( [Obama in talks with Netflix for “production” deal]( [Disgraced Parkland deputy heard shots inside school building, told cops to stay away]( [Judge to Trump: Muting, not blocking followers, may end suit]( [Trump’s North Korea gambit blindsides U.S. diplomats]( [The $139,000 door]( [Trump’s unlikely allies on trade: Democrats]( [Parkland kids can protest, but they don’t know what they’re talking about]( [We’re all Russian bots now]( [The U.S. is about to be the world’s top crude oil producer. 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