HotAir Daily Express 11/22/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Trump cancels meeting with NYT — and then re-ups?] 11/22/2016 10:01:36 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments How do you know when your meeting with Donald Trump has been canceled? According to Reuters, it’s when you check your Twitter feed. The New York Times had scheduled a series of meetings with the president-elect following his meeting the day before [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Must-read viral post: ‘Hate didn’t elect Donald Trump; people did’] 11/22/2016 9:31:21 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments A blog post about the disaffected voters who made up the difference in the Trump victory over Hillary Clinton two weeks ago is making the rounds on social media and it is worth your attention, Big League. The post, written by “Tori” who [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Constitution Quiz -- test your knowledge] 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? [Read More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Four more years of Merkel?] 11/22/2016 9:01:29 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Given all the attention we’ve paid to the regional elections in Germany this year and the beating that the Christian Democrats (CDU) have taken there, it may come as a surprise to learn that their titular leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel, will be [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [McCrory still hanging on in North Carolina — but for how long?] 11/22/2016 8:31:55 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Just when you thought the 2016 election was over, they pull you back in. Or rather, they want to kick you back out. Democrats in North Carolina have begun calling for Governor Pat McCrory to concede his re-election bid against Roy Cooper after coming up [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Source: Trump will not seek to prosecute Hillary Clinton] 11/22/2016 8:01:18 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is just coming out this morning and it’s only attributed on background to “a source” with knowledge of the transition team’s thinking, but Donald Trump is supposedly not going to pursue any prosecution of Secretary Hillary [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Walking Dead” grumble thread: Punching the clock] 11/21/2016 10:41:07 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I saw this tweet from Ben Howe last night before I started watching. And then I knew it was going to be one of those episodes. When Game of Thrones comes on, I can’t wait to start, and i dread the end. When Walking Dead comes on, I feel like I’m clocking [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [California has how many ballots left to count?] 11/21/2016 10:01:15 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Imagine that California had remained a competitive state in elections — and imagine the crisis we would have had for the past two weeks as a result. YouGov’s Will Jordan noted last night that the state has 2.8 million ballots still left to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump releases video outlining his agenda for the first 100 days] 11/21/2016 9:31:02 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Under pressure from the news media to hold a press conference, Donald Trump released a video Monday afternoon in which he announced his plans for his first 100 days in office. “My agenda will be based on a simple principle: putting America [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Funny: SNL on the liberal “bubble” after Trump] 11/21/2016 9:01:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate, this is the flip side of the already famous “Black Jeopardy” sketch that aired last month. That one was a sympathetic look at what blue-collar Trump supporters have in common culturally with the black working class. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Colleges preparing “legal” defense of Sanctuary Universities for illegal immigrants] 11/21/2016 8:31:13 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We recently discussed how some Ivy League college students and faculty members were petitioning to turn their schools into Sanctuary Universities where illegal immigrants could be hidden from the prying eyes of ICE and possible deportation. If I were [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Business-model collapse? Clinton Foundation donations fell 37% in 2015] 11/21/2016 8:01:24 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The headline from the New York Post on the falling fortunes of the Clinton Foundation doesn’t quite do this story justice. The foundation took a big hit in donations, which might make sense for a pay-to-play operation after the defeat of its [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Major earthquake off the coast of Japan] 11/21/2016 7:21:07 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A tsunami warning is in effect after a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Japan near where a major quake damaged a nuclear power plant in 2011. The quake was initially reported to be a 7.3 magnitude. The USGS has since downgraded it to 6.9 but [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mother of “transgender teen” sues school, health clinic over son’s “transition”] 11/21/2016 6:41:44 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’ve been waiting for a lawsuit like this to make the news and to be honest I’m shocked that it took this long. (It’s probably already happened but just not shown up on a national level.) A mother in Minnesota is going to court against [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [“It was like a f***ing firing squad”: Trump rips into news anchors in meeting at Trump Tower] 11/21/2016 6:01:29 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments One voice in my head says, “Yep, this sounds like something he would do.” Another voice says, “Yep, this sounds like something his team would claim that he did knowing how well it would play with Republican voters.” We’ll [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard willing to work with Trump administration] 11/21/2016 5:21:15 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Democrat Tulsi Gabbard met with Donald Trump Monday at Trump Tower, sparking speculation that she could be offered a job in the Trump administration. One job that is being mentioned in connection with Gabbard is U.S. ambassador to the United [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [ObamaCare advocates: Repeal might cause collapse of individual-plan markets, you know] 11/21/2016 4:41:33 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Of all the dire warnings about Republican governance, this might be the worst case of projection yet. As the GOP plans to offer a repeal of ObamaCare and will get Donald Trump’s signature after January 20th to make it stick, its defenders have [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Uh oh. DoJ issues guidelines for “smart guns”] 11/21/2016 4:01:08 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve done a number of reviews of recent smart gun technology here and none of them have been particularly promising. Still, the work continues and if there’s a market for it, caveat emptor as far as I’m concerned. But once you get the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obama: ‘People should take a wait and see approach’ on Trump] 11/21/2016 3:21:29 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Allahpundit wrote yesterday about Obama signaling he may be involved in political resistance to the Trump administration after he leaves office. In his last international press conference Sunday in Peru Obama publicly counseled a “wait and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Argentine president: No, Trump didn’t ask me about a building permit during a diplomatic phone call] 11/21/2016 2:41:56 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Lots of buzz about this story on social media today, but Mauricio Macri’s office says it’s garbage. “Trump and President Macri only spoke about maintaining the institutional relationship between the two countries,” Ivan Pavlovsky, Macri’s [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hamilton cast stunt “just awful” says … former DNC chair] 11/21/2016 2:01:35 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “This is New York City!” Joe Scarborough exclaimed in fake shock this morning when opening up the topic of Hamilton‘s cast lecture at Mike Pence on today’s Morning Joe. “I thought people in the flyover space were supposed to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Megyn Kelly: Certain pro-Trump cable news hosts coordinated with him in advance about tougher coverage] 11/21/2016 1:31:13 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments What’s funny about this is that she pointedly doesn’t name any names, yet everyone who watches it immediately thinks “Hannity” — including Hannity. Here’s how he reacted on Twitter when Mediaite’s post about this [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dakota Access Pipeline ‘water protectors’ get doused] 11/21/2016 1:01:06 PM John Sexton 0 Comments There was another clash between protesters and police on a road outside Cannonball, North Dakota Sunday night which police described as a “riot.” The protesters, who call themselves “water protectors” are upset some of their [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Study: No, white cops are not more likely to shoot black suspects] 11/21/2016 12:31:45 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you’re not familiar with the work of John Lott (@JohnRLottJr on Twitter) and the Crime Prevention Research Center then you haven’t been paying attention. John is the author of The War on Guns (which I previously reviewed here) and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Conway to Cuomo: Why do you care if Trump tweets?] 11/21/2016 12:01:18 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Kellyanne Conway provides a nearly perfect answer to the latest crisis du jour emerging in the national media — Donald Trump’s Twitter addiction. CNN host Chris Cuomo tangled with Conway over Trump’s tweeted ripostes to the cast [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pew: 65% of Democrats want Dems in Washington to stand up to Trump on key issues — even if less gets done] 11/21/2016 11:31:24 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments The latest in a continuing series on whether Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer (and Barack Obama) will try to cultivate Trump or declare war from the outset and obstruct on everything, forcing a hard think by Mitch McConnell on the future of the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Here’s why conservatives should (but won’t) be freaked out about the Trump University settlement] [Nearly half of Trump voters think whites face a lot of discrimination] [NYT: We did not change the “ground rules” of our canceled meeting with Trump, as he claims] [How the left created Trump] [Hamas leader: Trump possibly a Jew] [Mike Pence is right about “Hamilton” cast lecturing him] [Only the crooked media makes it a big deal that I have properties all over the world] [The personality of political correctness] [We are men and we moisturize] [If we find E.T., we might not want to talk to it] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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