HotAir Daily Express 01/18/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Trump to CNN: Retract “blatantly false story” on Tom Price] 1/18/2017 10:01:46 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Does HHS Secretary nominee Tom Price have a conflict-of-interest problem — or does CNN have a credibility problem? Two days ago, CNN’s Manu Raju reported that Price had purchased stock in a company that would benefit from legislation he had [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Police association leader: “Nobody is sorry to see” Obama go] 1/18/2017 9:21:17 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments So who’s looking forward to noon on Friday when Barack Obama leaves office once and for all? (I could probably pause here for several hours while our various readers weigh in.) The President has his fans and supporters to be sure, as demonstrated in the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Defending the Constitution begins with knowing the Constitution. Take this 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] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Who else will get clemency in Obama’s final hours?] 1/18/2017 8:41:11 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Three days from the end of his term, Barack Obama used his clemency power to commute sentences for a notorious terrorist, and an even more notorious source for a website that Obama has spent the past two months attacking as a Russian intelligence front [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The aftermath of the disgraceful Chelsea Manning commutation] 1/18/2017 8:01:09 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Yes, I could have jumped on this story last night before Allahpundit did, but I chose not to for a couple of reasons. First, I wanted the chance to make sure that this was a real story and not just some fever swamp nightmare induced by a bowl of three [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: John Kerry predicts the Trump administration will last “a year, two years, whatever”] 1/17/2017 10:31:12 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “Another thing he will be wrong about,” quips Ben Shapiro. Question: Did Kerry mean this the way it came out or did the audience detect a joke that wasn’t really intended? JOHN KERRY: We’ll have injured our own credibility in, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Airbus: 2018 will be the Year of the Flying Car] 1/17/2017 10:01:17 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments An escape from gridlock, or the start of three-dimensional bad driving? Having grown up on futuristic movies that feature flying cars — perhaps most especially in the Back to the Future trilogy — we often lament the lack of this technology as [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmmm: Trump met with Judge William Pryor on Saturday] 1/17/2017 9:31:24 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Do we have a nominee? President-elect Donald Trump has met with one of the judges on his short list for potential Supreme Court nominees, less than two weeks before he is expected to announce his choice for the nation’s highest court. Judge William [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gloria Allred files defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump on behalf of Summer Zervos] 1/17/2017 9:01:42 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred has filed a defamation lawsuit against President-elect Trump on behalf of Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “The Apprentice.” Zervos is one of several women who came forward with accusations of sexual [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: NeverTrumpers worried that they’re “blacklisted” by administration they opposed] 1/17/2017 8:21:24 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments What does “never”mean? According to Merriam-Webster, it means “not ever, at no time, not in any degree, not under any condition.” Declaring one’s self to be “never” associated with someone or something by [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obama commutes sentence of FALN member Oscar López Rivera] 1/17/2017 7:41:17 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The commutation of Chelsea Manning’s sentence is getting all the attention today but President Obama also commuted the sentence of Oscar López Rivera, a former Chicago community organizer turned FALN terrorist who was convicted of “seditious [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [If you want to run over those annoying protesters, move to North Dakota] 1/17/2017 7:01:51 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments For the majority of us who live in other parts of the country, we’re simply not used to efficient government that gets things done without all the pesky nuance of the progressive community. Not so in North Dakota, however. These people know how to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo poll: 57% think that, er, Trump is treating the media unfairly] 1/17/2017 6:21:09 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Forget the Democratic number here, as that’s predictable partisanship. The interesting one is the GOP number. Before I saw this, I would have expected near-unanimous GOP support for the alternative in any poll question pitting “X” [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Driver who shot and beat Arizona Trooper was in the country illegally] 1/17/2017 5:41:40 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last week I wrote about Arizona State Trooper Edward Andersson who was shot while placing flares down on the road at the scene of a car wreck. Fortunately, a passing motorist saw Andersson being beaten by the shooter and stopped to help. The motorist [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obama commutes bulk of Chelsea Manning’s sentence, now set for release in May] 1/17/2017 5:04:55 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We spent the last two months hearing that Wikileaks is a tool of the devil and that Trump has nothing but contempt for America’s intelligence community, and Obama’s parting gesture as he steps out the door is … to groin-punch the IC by [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NASA doesn’t seem all that worried about SMOD anymore] 1/17/2017 4:31:13 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Just a brief hit on a story which cropped up earlier this month but didn’t draw a lot of attention. In the first week of January, NASA announced a couple of new programs which were being funded, both to the tune of nearly half a billion dollars. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Survey: Abortion rate now lowest since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973] 1/17/2017 4:01:26 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Great news, if not surprising news. As contraceptive technology has improved, as the taboo against using it has shrunk, and as new restrictions on abortion have passed in various red states, it’d be odd if the rate weren’t declining. The [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Matt Margolis, Joel Pollak] 1/17/2017 3:31:02 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...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [FBI: Fort Lauderdale shooter says he was motivated by ISIS] 1/17/2017 3:01:21 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Some big news about the shooting at Fort Lauderdale airport which took place earlier this month. From CNN: Esteban Santiago, the man charged with killing five people at the Fort Lauderdale airport, told FBI agents he carried out the attack on behalf of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The clemency train is ready to pull out from the station again] 1/17/2017 2:31:36 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It was almost exactly one month ago when John Sexton covered the December episode of Barack Obama’s pardon and commutation binge, where 231 convicts had their sentences ended or reduced. But you didn’t really think it was going to stop there, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Flying pig watch: McCain leaning toward supporting Tillerson?] 1/17/2017 2:01:48 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Less than two weeks ago, John McCain had a short and pungent response to the question of supporting Rex Tillerson’s nomination by Donald Trump as Secretary of State. McCain told the media that Tillerson had a chance of earning his support, but that [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [CBO: GOP’s 2015 ObamaCare repeal bill would mean much higher premiums, 18 million without insurance in first year] 1/17/2017 1:31:06 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Meh. The 2015 bill called for repealing the individual (and employer) mandate immediately and then, within two years, eliminating subsidies for consumers on the exchanges as well as the Medicaid expansion provisions. However, it kept the regulations [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [More than 50 Democrats have announced they will skip Donald Trump’s inauguration] 1/17/2017 1:01:24 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This morning Jazz highlighted some of the protests that are planned around the inauguration but perhaps the most significant protest won’t be who shows up but who doesn’t. From the Washington Post: There are now more than 50 House Democrats — [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fed agencies warned against a “hiring binge” before Trump takes office] 1/17/2017 12:31:44 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Toward the end of last year we talked about a sudden flurry of hiring going on inside of federal agencies. The reason for the surge in new workers was Donald Trump’s threat to impose a hiring freeze once he got into office and then clear out some [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN debate: Does Trump’s diversity effort consist of “mediocre Negroes”?] 1/17/2017 12:01:27 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Oh my. Donald Trump and campaign tried to respond to attacks on its diversity by making that a priority, putting small businessman Bruce LeVell in charge of those efforts. LeVell has become part of the transition as well, reaching out to minority [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN poll: Most say information released by Russia’s hackings didn’t change the outcome of the election] 1/17/2017 11:21:31 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Trump grumbled about the polls on Twitter this morning because three that came out within the last 24 hours — Gallup, ABC/WaPo, and now CNN — have him at exactly 40 percent in either favorability or job approval during the transition. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Edward Snowden’s residence permit in Russia extended by a “couple of years”] [Republican senator would let states keep Obamacare if they want] [As Trump era arrives, a sense of uncertainty grips the world] [Snoop Dogg dares “Uncle Tom” black people to perform at Trump’s inauguration] [Rep. Steve King: John Lewis trades on status as civil rights icon, hasn’t contributed since] [Report: Defense Secretary Ash Carter opposed commutation for Chelsea Manning] [Republicans say they assume Trump didn’t really mean to promise insurance for everybody] [A president’s first 100 days really do matter] [Student debt now affects a staggering number of elderly Americans] [Even pro-Trump celebs are skipping Trump’s inauguration] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? You can get your own free subscription to the #1 blog delivered to your email inbox early each morning by visiting: [] This newsletter is never sent unsolicited. It was sent to you because you signed up to receive this newsletter on Hot Air OR a friend forwarded it to you. We respect and value your time and privacy. 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