HotAir Daily Express 03/21/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Dear Ben Carson: please stop talking about tablegate]( 3/21/2018 10:41:11 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Are there more important stories we could be discussing today than the new office furniture for HUD Secretary Ben Carson? You might be tempted to think so, but what should have remained in the pages of The Onion as one of the dumber stories out of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN: Trump, Kelly furious over “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” leak]( 3/21/2018 10:01:03 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments No kidding. Presumably, this leak won’t be tough to find, either, although in a White House this garrulous, it might not be as easy as one might guess: President Donald Trump was infuriated after it quickly leaked that he had been directly [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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Parkland shooting victims’ families supporting STOP School Violence Act]( 3/21/2018 9:21:54 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you spend much of your time watching the coverage of the upcoming March for our Lives event and the rest of the fallout from the Florida school shooting last month, you might think that David Hogg (one of the students from the school) was the voice of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Lettergate scandal finale: Vatican comms director resigns]( 3/21/2018 8:41:22 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments How much spin is too much? Here in the US and other Western nations, the spin never seems to end, and there never seems to be any consequences for it. At the Vatican, however, an attempt to finesse a letter from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI into a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Austin bombings may be over but the city is changed]( 3/21/2018 8:01:12 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments While most of us were sleeping, the ongoing wave of bombing attacks in Austin, Texas seems to have come to an end with the death of the domestic terrorist responsible for the blasts. NBC News, confirming reports from multiple outlets, is reporting that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Flake: I’m begging you, Mr. President, don’t make us remove you for firing Mueller]( 3/20/2018 10:41:36 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Who’s “we,” kemosabe? What’s the over/under on Senate votes to remove Trump if he’s impeached for firing Mueller? Fifty-two, maybe? Now that I mention it, what’s the over/under on House votes to impeach Trump in the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Endgame: Majority of millennials say they … somewhat enjoy filing their taxes]( 3/20/2018 10:01:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We’ve failed as a people to raise our children right. And now? Now we face a generation of monsters. Next stop: Full communism. Two possible explanations. One: Younger adults “somewhat enjoy” doing their taxes because they all use [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: I congratulated Putin on his election victory]( 3/20/2018 9:21:25 PM John Sexton 0 Comments President Trump called Putin today and congratulated him on his election victory. This afternoon, the Washington Post reported that White House staff specifically warned the president against offering his congratulations to Putin, in all caps no [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ralph Peters: I’m quitting Fox News because it’s intentionally undermining the rule of law for profit]( 3/20/2018 8:41:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He’ll no longer tolerate sharing a network with certain unnamed hosts who have never served their country cynically running interference for Trump by blaming every problem he has on the “Deep State.” Which can mean only one thing. When [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [It begins: McCaskill challenger runs ad with Hillary take on red-state voters]( 3/20/2018 8:01:48 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Did Hillary Clinton give Republicans a gift during her trip to India? Josh Hawley wants to be the first to find out, as The Hill reported yesterday from its sneak peek at his new web ad. The Republican challenger to Sen. Claire McCaskill wants all [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [6th bomb identified in Austin, mailed at the same time as one that exploded early this morning]( 3/20/2018 7:21:55 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Earlier today Ed wrote about the explosion inside a FedEx facility in Schertz, Texas. Authorities immediately suspected that package was probably sent by the same serial bomber responsible for four previous attacks in Austin. Later, authorities confirmed [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Boy Scouts remove boy with Down’s syndrome from Eagle Scout program]( 3/20/2018 6:41:33 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It appears that I’ll be waiting a while longer before I have some good news to report about the Boy Scouts of America. The latest headline the group has managed to garner is once again not exactly covering them in glory. A local troop in Utah [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Karen McDougal sues to cancel NDA regarding alleged Trump affair as NY judge allows Zervos defamation suit against him to proceed]( 3/20/2018 6:01:46 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The headline doesn’t even capture all of the craziness today involving women Trump allegedly either slept with or assaulted. NBC got a copy of the results from the polygraph test Stormy Daniels took for In Touch when she gave them the interview [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [AP: Sarkozy under arrest for suspicion of Qaddafi funding in 2007 campaign]( 3/20/2018 5:31:23 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If true, it wasn’t just the US that shivved Moammar Qaddafi in 2011. Police arrested former French president Nicolas Sarkozy in a years-long corruption probe that involves an alleged payoff of €50 million from the Libyan dictator to Sarkozy’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary’s 2016 Communications Director: ‘She vexes people’]( 3/20/2018 5:01:54 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Hillary Clinton’s former Director of Communications Jennifer Palmieri has a new book out which means she’s making the rounds giving interviews to promote it. Today she gave an interview to NPR in which she seemed to be subtly responding to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Update: Student booted for “two genders” speech is reinstated]( 3/20/2018 4:31:37 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Yesterday we looked at the situation of Lake Ingle, a student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania who had been ejected from one of his classes for telling his professor that there are only two genders. He was scheduled to appear before the Academic [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [McCain rips Trump for congratulating Putin on election victory]( 3/20/2018 4:01:00 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Not that Barack Obama should be Republicans’ yardstick for proper presidential diplomatic behavior, but… Pres. Obama phoning congratulations from AF-1 to Pres-elect Vladimir Putin of Russia. — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 9, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Chappaquiddick, Muellermania, SCOTUS arguments, major-party dysfunction, and more!]( 3/20/2018 3:31:17 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rep. Scalise and Rep. McCarthy join those calling for a second special counsel]( 3/20/2018 3:01:24 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Monday, Rep. Steve Scalise joined the growing chorus within the GOP calling for a second special counsel to investigate possible FISA court abuse. From Fox News: “I agree with the many others who have called for the appointment of an additional special [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The buzz around splitting up some of the states continues]( 3/20/2018 2:31:27 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments You probably thought it was just me, right? I’m the crazy one saying we should allow California to break up into smaller, more manageable and representative states. (And if we tossed up some walls around a few of the cities in Snake Plissken [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [SCOTUS primed to strike down CA law on forced abortion-service advertising?]( 3/20/2018 2:01:40 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Looks like conservatives had a rare moment of success today at the Supreme Court. After losing on DACA and the Pennsylvania redistricting cases over the last few days, the high court heard arguments on NIFLA v Becerra, in which plaintiffs have challenged [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Paul Ryan: I’ve received assurances that Mueller’s firing isn’t even being considered]( 3/20/2018 1:31:30 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments That settles it then. Mueller is safe. Because when Donald Trump makes a vow, that vow is unbreakable. Ryan’s gambling a lot on these “assurances.” NEW: Speaker Ryan tells @marykbruce Special Counsel Robert Muller should be allowed to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Keith Ellison: The right is using Farrakhan to divide black and Jewish communities]( 3/20/2018 1:01:32 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Sunday, Rep. Keith Ellison wrote a post on Medium about his past association with Louis Farrakhan. Ellison admits to being in the room with Farrakhan as recently as 2013 but denies meeting him at his hotel in 2016. He also claims the entire story is a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [EPA ends the use of “secret science” in crafting regulations]( 3/20/2018 12:31:08 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Just in case liberals didn’t already have enough reasons to pin EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s picture to their dart boards, he’s just rolled out another policy change which will force the “party of science” to rely on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Angus King: Firing Mueller not an impeachable offense by itself, you know]( 3/20/2018 12:01:35 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It may be a moot point, since everyone — well, everyone except John Dowd, anyway — insists that Donald Trump isn’t going to fire Robert Mueller. But even if he did, Sen. Angus King told Hugh Hewitt this morning, it wouldn’t be [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [If Trump fires Mueller, will he reap the whirlwind?]( [The anti-Trump effort backfires]( [CNN cancels interview with pro-gun Parkland survivor]( [A stunning leak rattles Trump and his aides]( [Border Patrol refuses to turn over wanted felons because of California’s sanctuary laws]( [Anti-abortion Dem wins primary fight]( [Report: Austin bomber identified]( [Small-town America has gotten an economic jolt under Trump]( [Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica’s collection of Facebook data, according to former employee]( [A man of few words, McConnell tiptoes around issue of Mueller]( [Trump admin considering expelling Russian diplomats over UK poisoning]( [Austin bombing suspect dead after police chase]( [Let’s embrace robot relationships]( [Empty half the Earth of its humans. 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