HotAir Daily Express 01/25/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [Secret Service: We’re taking “swift and appropriate” action on agent’s refusal to defend POTUS] 1/25/2017 10:01:01 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments A Secret Service agent with an overdeveloped sense of sharing finds herself in hot water with her superiors after posting a note on social media that she’d “take jail time over a bullet” and refuse to protect Donald Trump if so [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Can Trump really “send the feds in” to Chicago?] 1/25/2017 9:21:30 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’ve long since lost track of how many stories we’ve covered here about the skyrocketing murder rate and gang violence problems in the Windy City. (Talk about American carnage.) It seems that the new President hasn’t forgotten about it [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] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump tweet watch: Voter-fraud probe & SCOTUS deadline] 1/25/2017 8:41:42 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Give Donald Trump credit for this much — he knows when a strategy works. The new president has continued his practice of setting the narrative of the day through his early-morning tweets in his first week of office. Today’s topics include [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Here comes the wall] 1/25/2017 8:01:21 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments For everyone who insisted that it was never going to happen, it looks like today will be the day. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an order which will begin the process of Building the Great Wall On Our Southern Border. If those words sound [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Trump down to three finalists in Supreme Court search] 1/24/2017 10:21:28 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We knew about William Pryor and we knew about Neil Gorsuch — and we thought we knew about Diane Sykes, who just wrote a big Second Amendment decision for the Seventh Circuit and who comes from a state (Wisconsin) that Trump would very much like to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [DNC chair candidate: My job is to shut down white people when they’re not woke enough] 1/24/2017 9:41:14 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Daily Caller. “I am from Idaho,” she says late in the clip below. “We are so white!” I think that mostly explains this ostentatious journey into wokeness at last week’s DNC candidate forum. When you’re from a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Law Enforcement: Project Veritas infiltration may have stopped plans to shut down DC Metro] 1/24/2017 9:01:53 PM John Sexton 0 Comments One person has been arrested in response to the Project Veritas undercover video in which activists discussed plans to release a stink bomb at an inaugural ball. In addition, law enforcement tells the Washington Post the infiltration of the DisruptJ20 [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Politico: Say, why did Obama free “one of the most violent extremists of our time,” anyway?] 1/24/2017 8:31:53 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments When Barack Obama commuted the sentences of hundreds of people serving long prison sentences for drug crimes, few were surprised or even that critical of his lame-duck effort to exercise the plenary power of the presidency. Two other commutations should [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [U.S. immigration services: Yes, we’re still issuing new work permits to DREAMers under Obama’s executive amnesty] 1/24/2017 8:01:10 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Good work, everyone. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Tuesday in an unsigned e-mail from its media office that it has continued to issue new work permits since Trump’s inauguration. The agency said it is still processing applications, as [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Philly mayor mandates bias training for businesses in the “Gayborhood”] 1/24/2017 7:31:41 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Here’s a story you probably didn’t see coming. The City of Brotherly Love has a problem with bias in certain businesses and organizations and the Mayor has decided to do something about it. The troubles are centered in one particular district [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Trump administration clamping down on some government social media accounts] 1/24/2017 7:01:52 PM John Sexton 0 Comments According to a report at Politico, social media accounts belonging to federal agencies like the EPA and USDA are being restricted by the incoming Trump administration. Case in point, earlier today an account for Badlands National Park tweeted out some [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The uninvited former president is re-invited to the country club] 1/24/2017 6:21:11 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When we last visited the story of Barack Obama’s incredible journey into retirement golfing adventures, the situation at the Woodmont Country Club in Maryland was melting down. After initially planning to offer a free membership (though not exactly [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gold Star families: Anti-Trump protesters pushed, spat on us outside the American Legion inaugural ball] 1/24/2017 5:41:19 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments John touched on this yesterday as part of a longer round-up of “the Resistance” acting like dirtbags but it deserves an extra thread. Imagine the thought process involved in (a) setting out to accost people (b) at an event devoted to the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Secret Service agent wrote she would not take a bullet for Trump] 1/24/2017 5:01:00 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Washington Examiner has a scoop on a Secret Service agent who wrote a Facebook post saying she wasn’t prepared to take a bullet for Trump. In the same post, she endorsed Hillary Clinton despite knowing that doing so could violate the Hatch [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ajit Pai for FCC chairman creates yet another confrontation] 1/24/2017 4:31:27 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I was expecting a bit of angst and infighting over some of Trump’s cabinet appointments, particularly at State, EPA and Justice, but somehow I thought the new Chairman of the FCC would be a non-event. That may not be the case, however, because the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sean Spicer: Yes, Trump believes that millions of illegal votes were cast in the election] 1/24/2017 4:01:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Here’s how Spicer could have played this, if he hadn’t been directly ordered by his boss to back him up on what was said at last night’s meeting with congressional leaders. Which, let’s face it, is almost certainly what happened. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Elizabeth Scalia, Grazie Pozo Christie] 1/24/2017 3:31:55 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...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [One-third of Californians support Calexit] 1/24/2017 3:01:43 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Reuters has a poll out which found a surprising number of Californians are ready to secede from the union now that Donald Trump is president: One in every three California residents supports the most populous U.S. state’s peaceful withdrawal from [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmm: Obama admin sent $221 million to Palestinians despite Congressional block] 1/24/2017 2:31:07 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Is this legal? Congress had held up foreign-aid funds allocated to the Palestinian Authority after Mahmoud Abbas tried an end-run around direct and unconditional peace talks with Israel for a two-state solution, by having international organizations [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Great news, you guys. “Take back our country” is now patriotic again] 1/24/2017 2:01:44 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s not unusual for the political party which was just kicked out of power to try to rally the troops and prepare for the next battle. This year is no exception and the Democrats are ginning up their voters to mobilize in advance of the midterms [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump told congressional leaders: I would have won the popular vote if not for the millions who voted illegally for Hillary] 1/24/2017 1:31:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Hey. We all have our favorite conversational icebreakers. It makes me sad that history will never know the looks on the faces of Ryan, Pelosi, Schumer, et al., as it dawned on them that grumbling about millions of illegal votes isn’t just something [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [About that Atlantic piece on politics and ultrasound] 1/24/2017 1:01:20 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Atlantic has published a piece on fetal ultrasound by Moira Weigel. Apparently the original title of the piece was “How the Ultrasound Pushed the Idea That a Fetus Is a Person” but at some point it was changed to the far less dramatic [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [SCOTUS pick coming soon? Trump to confab with Senate leaders] 1/24/2017 12:31:43 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Looks like Donald Trump has come very close to reaching a decision on his first Supreme Court appointment — or has already made it. Earlier this morning, the new president invited the media to watch him sign the orders approving the Keystone XL and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The liberal, Dutch Prime Minister is sounding awfully nationalist all of a sudden] 1/24/2017 12:01:37 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As we previously observed, Dutch MP Geert Wilders has really turned the upcoming elections in the Netherlands upside down. The polls show a very tight race, but concerns have already been raised that even if Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV) carries the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump to keep Comey on as FBI chief] 1/24/2017 11:21:40 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m curious to see how Democrats react to this. As much as they hate Comey for his role in the campaign, they have the same dilemma here that the Senate has with Tillerson. Namely, the alternative might very well be worse. There’s at least a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Trump poised to lift ban on CIA “black site” prisons] [Dow cracks 20,000 for the first time ever] [Poll: 65% viewed Trump’s inaugural message positively] [Top Trump officials watch Spicer closely] [Report: Trump’s Supreme Court pick down to Gorsuch and Hardiman] [Trump to sign executive orders enabling construction of proposed border wall and targeting sanctuary cities] [Trump to ask for “major investigation into voter fraud”] [The future of the left is female] [How Trump is remaking the “culture war”] [An odd disorder convinced this man that all strangers were his crush in disguise] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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