HotAir Daily Express 12/14/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Kasich vetoes “fetal heartbeat” abortion ban, signs 20-week limit instead] 12/14/2016 10:01:57 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments In Kings 3:5-14, King Solomon threatens to split a baby in order to force the truth to the surface in a dispute over its parentage. John Kasich tried to do something similar yesterday when faced with two pro-life bills limiting abortion — one to 20 [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The federal government may finally be getting smaller… literally] 12/14/2016 9:21:23 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Interested in smaller government? It’s a key premise of conservatism but actually shrinking the size of the federal behemoth is far easier said than done. One area where progress could be made however is in getting rid of some of the unused federal [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Too many Americans are NOT passing this Constitution quiz. Can you?] 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] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Politico: How Hillary blew Michigan, and the election] 12/14/2016 8:41:46 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It wasn’t James Comey. It wasn’t the Russians. It wasn’t misogyny either, according to Politico’s Edward-Isaac Dovere. Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election because of the incompetence of Hillary Clinton and her team. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump effect? IBM announces U.S. hiring surge prior to tech summit] 12/14/2016 8:01:31 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is a headline that I’ve been hoping to see for more than fifteen years, assuming it actually comes to fruition. One of the earliest and biggest leaders in the process of dumping American workers in high paying, manufacturing and tech sector [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [“I fell in love with him”: Jim Brown now on the Trump train after meeting] 12/13/2016 10:31:46 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Gotta give the man his due. Donald Trump may be the only person alive equally capable of charming Kanye West, Jim Brown, and Mitt Romney. However you may feel about his shtick on the stump, the guy must have a genius-level quotient of personal charisma [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [So, when is Romney officially free to start criticizing Trump again?] 12/13/2016 10:01:28 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The short answer: Not until he’s sure that Rex Tillerson isn’t getting Borked. If T-Rex goes extinct, Trump will need a Plan B at State. Giuliani and Bolton probably can’t get out of committee due to Rand Paul’s opposition, and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Marijuana legalization is making it harder for kids to find pot] 12/13/2016 9:31:19 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Every time I read a story about drug use which is full of survey results and statistics I find it hard to suppress the urge to wonder if the people compiling all of the data have been sampling the product. Still, this report at US News & World [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi: Republicans won’t repeal Obamacare now that people have found out what’s in it] 12/13/2016 9:01:39 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Nancy Pelosi, who used her position as House Speaker to help pass Obamacare, is now saying Republicans will have second thoughts about repealing the law. From the Hill: “There’s division among the Republicans within their own ranks as to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Combined age of top three Democrats in new 2020 poll: 216 years old] 12/13/2016 8:21:52 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Their current combined age is 216, I should specify. Tack another 11 years on there if you’re looking for their combined age as of Election Day 2020. (Biden will turn 78 a few weeks after the next election.) Are we still pretending, by the way, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [OPEC is still openly plotting to suppress U.S. shale oil production] 12/13/2016 7:41:29 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you’ve been watching the oil market half as closely as Wall Street in general you’ve seen something rather remarkable happening this week. At the end of last month, OPEC finally decided that they were getting beaten badly enough with [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Number of electors demanding intelligence briefing jumps to 40 after Podesta endorsement (Update)] 12/13/2016 7:01:14 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Monday Allahpundit noted the letter from a group of electors demanding a briefing from the Director of National Intelligence on Russian involvement in the election. At the time there were 10 signatories to the letter, 9 of whom were Democrats. Today, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: 2016’s Unhinged Grinch award goes to …] 12/13/2016 6:21:48 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments As an imperfect and always-struggling Catholic Christian, I can certainly appreciate the spirit of evangelism. As a father and grandfather, I can also appreciate the the nuances of time, place, and audience. All of those eluded David Grisham Jr, a Texas [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cybersecurity expert to Trump: Actually, we did catch Russia in the act when they hacked the DNC] 12/13/2016 5:41:55 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Ah, I’d forgotten about this when I wrote this post yesterday about Trump’s odd skepticism towards cyberforensics. Here’s what he tweeted yesterday morning: Unless you catch "hackers" in the act, it is very hard to determine [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [EPA: Fracking has contributed to drinking water contamination but overall risk uncertain] 12/13/2016 5:01:54 PM John Sexton 0 Comments An EPA report which was six years in the making concludes there is evidence fracking has contributed to drinking water contamination in some specific cases but says there is not enough information to judge the widespread risk to ground water. Because the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [U.N. chief: Yeah, we probably shouldn’t have started a cholera epidemic in Haiti] 12/13/2016 4:31:49 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There’s been plenty of tragedy in Haiti for a long time now, but one of the most recent disasters was the earthquake which leveled significant portions of the island in 2010. The world pulled together to send help in rebuilding and providing clean [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [McConnell, Ryan enthusiastic about Rex Tillerson for State as Condi Rice and Bob Gates back pick] 12/13/2016 4:01:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Ryan’s support technically doesn’t matter, of course, since confirmation is a matter for the Senate, but it’s useful to Trump in building the perception of a unified party behind a controversial nominee. The more the White House can [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm and your questions!] 12/13/2016 3:31:45 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...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Karen Finney wants to talk about Russian attempts to ‘undermine our election’] 12/13/2016 3:01:27 PM John Sexton 0 Comments If you had any doubt that the Clinton camp is going all in to highlight Russian involvement in the election, this clip of former Clinton campaign spokesperson Karen Finney should settle it. Fox Host Shannon Bream asks Finney about a request by a group of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Stein to recount donors: Vote on how you want me to waste your money next] 12/13/2016 2:31:50 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Well, why not? Donors to Jill Stein’s ludicrous efforts to recount states with too-large-to-change gaps wasted their money while promising the undeliverable. Her fantasies about roving bands of hackers carrying floppy disks visiting every voting [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Can Uber finally break through in New York State?] 12/13/2016 2:01:34 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments A brief story: A few weeks ago I had a physical therapy appointment at my doctor’s office but our car was going to be out of town due to a conflicting appointment my wife had. My appointment was at 1:30 in the afternoon, so I called the local [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obama: America should have cared more about Russian meddling than the substance of the Democrats’ hacked emails] 12/13/2016 1:31:17 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Well, one Republican did. Coincidentally, it was the Republican Senate candidate whom Obama attacked more viciously on the stump than any other. From mid-October: Sen. Marco Rubio tells ABC News that Republicans are making a mistake by jumping on [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [David Brock: Hillary should have treated the media like ‘animals’] 12/13/2016 1:01:39 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Media Matters’ founder David Brock knows why Hillary Clinton lost the election. It was the “animals” in the media and the failure of her advisers to respond to them appropriately. In an interview with Politico, Brock says Democrats are [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: No new deals for Trump Inc during my term] 12/13/2016 12:31:04 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments After putting off a promised explanation of how he would deal with business conflicts while in office, Donald Trump tried clarifying his approach on Twitter late last night. Trump pledged to have his sons run the family business, and to have them enter [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Here’s what happens when a woman fails to wear a hijab in an actually repressive country] 12/13/2016 12:01:51 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve had our fair share of hijab news in the United States this year. You may recall that back during the Olympics, one Muslim athlete said that she didn’t feel safe in our country while wearing her traditional Muslim garb. In the heat of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: President-elect Trump meets with Kanye West because 2016, man] 12/13/2016 11:21:50 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments C’mon, they’re a natural pairing. One’s a hip-hop icon, the other’s Kanye West. Katie Pavlich notes that if Obama were missing intel briefings and had just postponed a press conference to address his business conflicts of interest [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Why are so many Americans dying young?] [Putin is a threat to democracy, and Democrats want to invalidate the election to prove it] [The election was about racism against Barack Obama] [Congress can’t decide how to probe charges that Russia aimed to help Trump] [How McConnell can rescue Tillerson] [Files show Trump national security advisor Mike Flynn shared secrets without permission] [Harry Reid: The electoral college should get an intelligence briefing on Russia] [Yes, men view women as sex objects] [Three-year-olds can be identified as criminals of the future] [The Trump show] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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