HotAir Daily Express 11/16/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [The next liberal brainstorm: let’s just do away with states in America] 11/16/2016 10:01:43 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Before the dust had even settled on Hillary Clinton’s defeat we were already hearing rumblings from liberals about the urgent need to do away with the electoral college. That’s a given, since she won the popular vote while still taking a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Newtown families are still trying to restart their lawsuit against Remington] 11/16/2016 9:21:28 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’d thought that this story was pretty much over back in June, but apparently the tenacity of the gun grabbing crowd truly knows no limits. Over the summer a Connecticut judge tossed out the lawsuit brought by family members of the victims of the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Be Exempt from the Mandate. Join Medi-Share] Christian Care Medi-Share SPONSORED Your faith, your family, or your conscience? Don’t compromise! Join 209,000+ Christians protecting their faith, their family, and their conscience by choosing Medi-Share for their healthcare. [Read More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obama is confusing his personal likability with support for his policies] 11/16/2016 8:41:22 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments President Obama appeared to be in full denial of last week’s message sent by voters during a press conference in Greece Tuesday. Despite the obvious repudiation to his legacy by having to hand over the keys to the White House to a man he personally [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Media freaks out when Trump goes to dinner without them] 11/16/2016 8:01:26 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Because I frequently wake up at a depressingly early hour I sometimes wind up catching the replays of late night cable news hosts. That was the case today, and when I first tuned in I became concerned that some sort of constitutional crisis was engulfing [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [A group of children are being allowed to sue the U.S. government. Can you guess why?] 11/15/2016 10:01:56 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This was a story which first popped up a week ago, but I’d originally assumed it was an article from The Onion. Hey, who knew? Turns out it’s real. CNN covered it last Friday and it deals with a group of mostly children (plaintiffs ranging in [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [DNC charter specifies a full-time chairman] 11/15/2016 9:21:43 PM John Sexton 0 Comments It turns out the DNC charter specifies that the chairman of the party be a full time position. The Hill reports that the party ignored that rule during the tenure of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and appears poised to ignore it again to select Rep. Keith [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmm: Ted Cruz meets with Trump in New York; Update: Cruz for AG?] 11/15/2016 8:41:31 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments That’s surprising. Did he go to kiss the ring, or is something up? Statement on Ted Cruz's meeting with Donald Trump in NYC today via spox @catblackfrazier pic.twitter.com/KYD37CchBP — Alan He (@alanhe) November 15, 2016 Cruz is worried [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: I would have won the election even in a popular-vote system] 11/15/2016 8:01:09 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Don’t ask me why he’s tweeting about this when he has a transition to worry about. Maybe the grumbling about his win being illegitimate, dumb though it is, is getting to him. It’s an interesting question, though. Is he right? If the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Harry Reid blames Trump for ‘wave of hate crimes’] 11/15/2016 7:21:34 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Outgoing Senator Harry Reid continues to do his best to divide the country and invalidate the mandate of the incoming president. Tuesday Reid took to the Senate floor and blamed Trump for a crime wave. “A man who lost the election by two million [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Irritated O’Reilly on Megyn Kelly’s new book: I’m not interested in anything that makes my network look bad] 11/15/2016 6:41:14 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Who’s up for some dopey Fox News drama to cleanse the palate on a post-election news day? This feels less like annoyance at Kelly becoming the network’s highest-profile star this year (she finished ahead of O’Reilly in the 25-54 [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ben Carson spokesman: He won’t take a cabinet position because he doesn’t want to cripple Trump’s presidency] 11/15/2016 6:01:54 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments His name’s been kicked around for Education and for Health and Human Services, the latter of which will be an especially important, immensely difficult technocratic job if the GOP follows through on repealing ObamaCare and replacing it with a new [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Progressives gearing up to create ‘significant backlash’ over Obamacare repeal] 11/15/2016 5:21:43 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Ron Pollock, the director of Families USA, gave an interview to Vox in which he revealed that Democrats are already gearing up for a fight over the future of Obamacare. With repeal a real possibility after the election of Donald Trump, Pollock has put [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [New group forms to help save transgender passports from Trump or something] 11/15/2016 4:41:10 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I suppose this was inevitable. A group has arisen since the election with a stated goal of… okay. I’m not entirely sure what the heck these people are up to, but they’re going by the name of the Trans Relief Project. Rather than [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Paul Ryan re-nominated unanimously by House GOP for Speaker] 11/15/2016 4:01:11 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Golly, it was just 11 days ago that rumors were flying that Ryan would step down as Speaker after the election, believing that his new majority might be so narrow that he wouldn’t be able to get to 218 votes if there were even a handful of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Senator Boxer introduces bill to amend the constitution and end the electoral college] 11/15/2016 3:21:49 PM John Sexton 0 Comments If you’ve been watching the progressive whining on Twitter for the last week, you probably knew this was coming. Today, Senator Barbara Boxer will introduced a bill to amend the U.S. Constitution and end the electoral college: The presidency is the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [So I guess we’re seriously discussing a pardon for Hillary Clinton now] 11/15/2016 2:41:07 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Lock her up! How many times did you hear that during the endless campaign of 2016? I lost count long ago. With the President Elect not tipping his hand at this point as to whether or not there will actually be a special prosecutor looking into Hillary [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rand Paul: I won’t vote for John Bolton or Rudy Giuliani for Secretary of State] 11/15/2016 2:01:28 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Here was the state of checks and balances on the president among House Republicans this morning… @HouseGOP ready to Make America Great Again. @cathymcmorris giving hats to members this AM. #MAGA pic.twitter.com/6AQmSjdgba — Nate Hodson [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democratic mayors vow to fight for sanctuary cities] 11/15/2016 1:21:06 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Democratic mayors of some of America’s largest cities are vowing to fight for sanctuary city policies and promising they will not cooperate with federal immigration agents under incoming President Trump. From the Associated Press: New York’s [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Some of our #NeverTrump friends need a Thanksgiving intervention] 11/15/2016 12:41:54 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I had been, perhaps foolishly, thinking that most of these conversations would be done now that the election has been won, but it seems not. While there are certainly elements of the conservative movement who will justifiably retain doubts about if and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hong Kong court validates China’s interference in local elections] 11/15/2016 12:01:36 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Last week we talked about the election of two pro-independence members of Hong Kong’s municipal government and the immediate move by China to invalidate the election and bar them from taking office. Now a court in the city (where the ruling [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Natsec advisor Mike Rogers resigns as Trump culls transition team of Christie allies] 11/15/2016 11:21:16 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’ve read three stories about this today and still can’t find a clear explanation for why they did it. This isn’t just a case of kicking Christie off the transition team that he led until Friday; this is, in Politico’s words, a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sweeping raids in Germany shut down major Islamic group] 11/15/2016 10:41:14 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’ll confess that I didn’t see this one coming. In dozens of cities across Germany, people woke up to a blistering series of police raids shutting down a large Islamic group which is suspected of recruiting fighters for ISIS. 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