HotAir Daily Express 01/20/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Inaugural speech previews: “Philosophical,” “unifying”] 1/20/2017 10:01:35 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments What can we expect to hear from President Donald Trump after he takes the oath of office two hours from now? Will he sound like Candidate Donald Trump, who used his brash and aggressive rhetoric to belittle his opponents and fire up his base, or will the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [LOL, amigos: South Americans offer advice to U.S. on free elections] 1/20/2017 9:21:57 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments You need not have endured a college course in Latin American Politics to detect the humor in observers from down there offering a democratic los Estados Unidos advice on running free and fair elections. Still, that did not stop the Organization of [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] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Smoke bombs and profanity: How the Left welcomes a peaceful transition of power] 1/20/2017 8:41:32 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It’s already become a cliché, but this is one reason why we have President Donald Trump. As Trump supporters celebrated the eve of the inauguration with a dance at the National Press Club (called “The DeploraBall” as a play on attacks [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The bitter end of the Obama era] 1/20/2017 8:01:38 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments To our regular audience, if you are reading this at the time it is published I offer you salutations and congratulations. If you can somehow manage to hang on for another four hours you will have survived the era of Barack Hussein Obama. It may have [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jon Voight: Lincoln is smiling knowing that America will be saved by an honest and good man] 1/19/2017 10:41:37 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I like to imagine that Voight wrote this for the Romney inaugural in 2012, put it in a drawer, and then reworked a few lines for today. What can I say? We all cope with this alternate reality we’ve entered in our own way. Consider this an hors [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Michael Moore: ‘…a sociopath is in the Oval Office’] 1/19/2017 10:01:24 PM John Sexton 0 Comments At a protest held in New York City Thursday night, Michael Moore told the crowd they were living in a dangerous time because there was “a sociopath in the White House.” “I’m sorry to say this,” Moore said. “We’re [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: I think I know who my Supreme Court pick is] 1/19/2017 9:21:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If he thinks he knows, then I think I know too. “I think in my mind I know who it is,” he said at a leadership luncheon at his hotel in downtown Washington, according to cell phone video of the event obtained by CNN. “I think [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [What’s up with the timing of this El Chapo extradition?] 1/19/2017 8:41:23 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To follow on John’s post, is it pure coincidence that he’s en route to the U.S. the night before Trump is sworn in or something more? The Times makes it sounds like pure coincidence. A court ruled, his appeal was denied, the extradition [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why Trump’s Twitter feed should have an extra layer of security] 1/19/2017 8:01:50 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf published a story this morning suggesting that, for everyone’s peace of mind, Twitter should institute some kind of additional layer of security around Donald Trump’s Twitter feed. There is an argument [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [CA to legislature: Hey, we “deeply regret” that $1.9 billion miss on entitlement spending] 1/19/2017 7:21:05 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Hey, $1.9 billion here, $1.9 billion there … pretty soon you’re talking about entirely imaginary numbers. That’s the message that Governor Jerry Brown’s administration sent to the California legislature when they admitted that [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Drug lord ‘El Chapo’ extradited to the United States] 1/19/2017 6:41:48 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, is being extradited to the United States. From the Associated Press: Two senior U.S. officials confirmed that Guzman was on his way. One said the U.S. Drug Enforcement [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Russia starting to doubt whether it’ll have better relations with President Trump] 1/19/2017 6:01:02 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Assuming this is true (Bloomberg claims four different Russian sources), it makes it hard to believe that Russia has any damaging “kompromat” on Trump. If they did, there’d be no reason to fear that he might be noncompliant as [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Comity or comedy? Roberts offers Wyden a Valium in confirmation hearing] 1/19/2017 5:21:38 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments As Steve Martin titled one of his classic albums … comedy is not pretty. That may be doubly true in the Senate, which prides itself more on its comity than comedy. When Pat Roberts (R-KS) offered Ron Wyden (D-OR) a Valium in snark, the Senate [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Post: Trump aide wants him to save an inauguration dance for Caitlyn Jenner] 1/19/2017 4:41:31 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Before you dismiss this as tabloid trash, remember that Trump’s been leaking stuff to the Post and Page Six for ages. Before cable, before Twitter, this was his natural media habitat. Even so, I’m guessing that there will, in fact, not be a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rick Perry, Al Franken find an SNL moment during hearing] 1/19/2017 4:01:26 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Very few moments of actual humor come out of confirmation hearings, especially confirmation hearing for Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees. But today there was a light moment which had both sides of the aisle laughing. It started when Sen. Al Franken [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Sally Pipes, T. Becket Adams] 1/19/2017 3:21:11 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...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fox News’s ratings at 9 p.m. rise after Tucker Carlson replaces Megyn Kelly] 1/19/2017 2:41:43 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments No surprise. There must have been some Trumpers who watch Fox News regularly but were skipping Kelly’s show out of pique at her. Now they can tune in at 9 p.m. Among the wider public, some people are doubtless checking out Carlson’s show out [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Seventh Circuit strikes down Chicago restrictions on gun ranges] 1/19/2017 2:01:12 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Chicago’s latest attempts to ban gun ranges within its city has failed again in federal court, again at the Seventh Circuit. The three-judge panel upheld a lower court ruling that overturned zoning restrictions that clearly intended to keep ranges [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Facebook, Twitter sued for providing material support to terrorists] 1/19/2017 1:21:19 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Victims of terrorism are suing Twitter and Facebook, trying to hold the social media sites responsible for providing a propaganda platform for terrorists. From the Associated Press: “If you or I tried to send money to Hamas, you wouldn’t get [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Somber WaPo writer discovers the main problem with newspapers is the readers (a rant)] 1/19/2017 12:41:27 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments With the dawn of a new administration, some in the media clearly seem to be struggling with precisely went so wrong last November. A bit of a postmortem is always in order after such a jarring event and that’s clearly going on at the Washington [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Fake news” alert: NYT narrative on Perry blows up] 1/19/2017 12:01:54 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments How does “fake news” travel around the nation and the world? First, a source has to publish false stories, and then like-minded people already inclined to believe it have to transmit it through other sites and social media. In fact, as T. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Energy department nominee Rick Perry: I regret calling for the elimination of the Energy department] 1/19/2017 11:21:01 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments A key point from this morning’s confirmation hearing. To think, if only he’d had this epiphany sooner, the “oops” moment that helped sink him in 2012 never would have happened. There’s an easy joke to be made here about [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Turkish parliament literally comes to blows over Erdogan’s “reforms”] 1/19/2017 10:41:54 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As we discussed previously, among the many plans which aspiring tyrant Recep Tayyip Erdogan has in place for Turkey is a set of changes to the country’s constitution which would allow him to consolidate power in the executive branch and potentially [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Trump nation eagerly awaits the greatness he promised] [Obama staffers stare into the abyss] [As Trump takes the oath, many voters still can’t believe it] [It’s time to relax about Trump] [Trump to get the nuclear football this morning] [Mexico didn’t want Trump handling El Chapo extradition] [Intercepted Russian communications part of inquiry into Trump associates] [Why your risk for divorce is probably a lot lower than you think] [The next drug epidemic might start at your dentist’s office] [Should doctors treat “Trump anxiety”?] [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. If this newsletter no longer meets your needs we will be happy to remove your address immediately. [You can unsubscribe from the Hot Air Daily here]. Or Send postal mail to: Hot Air Daily Unsubscribe 1735 N. Lynn St - Suite 510, Arlington, VA 22209 --------------------------------------------------------------- * Copyright Hot Air and its Content Providers. All rights reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------