HotAir Daily Express 02/03/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [January jobs report: 227K jobs added, 4.8% U-3 rate] 2/3/2017 10:01:33 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The US economy may have remained moribund in the fourth quarter and in 2016 as a whole, but hiring seems to have picked up in the first month of 2017. Today’s jobs report for January shows that the US economy added 227,000 jobs, and both the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Senate gets up awfully early on DeVos, but …] 2/3/2017 9:21:56 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Hurry up and wait? Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called the upper chamber into session at 6:30 am today in order to expedite the confirmation vote of Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary. And of course, when it comes to expediting, there’s [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] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: French soldier shoots machete-armed attacker near the Louvre] 2/3/2017 8:36:20 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments French security forces may have prevented a terror attack in the Louvre, the world’s most well-known art museum. One or more soldiers shot and wounded a man armed with a machete who tried to enter into some shops under the museum, but who went on [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Destroying” the Johnson Amendment is a poor idea, Mr. President] 2/3/2017 8:01:24 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The National Prayer Breakfast appearance by the President drew the usual rounds of pans and praise this week. (Just as a side note, it’s not really the best forum for stand up comedy and Schwarzenegger jokes.) One item which cropped up and drew a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Under pressure, Uber CEO drops out of Trump’s business advisory council] 2/2/2017 10:01:55 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Travis Kalanick, the CEO of Uber, dropped out of President Trump’s business advisory council today after mounting pressure from progressives to boycott the company. CNN reports: Kalanick said he was not participating because of the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [McCarthy: About that CNN claim of plagiarism on Monica Crowley … [updated]] 2/2/2017 9:21:48 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Please see updates at the bottom. No allegation does as much damage to a writer than plagiarism, or to an academic either. That became clear in the aftermath of a CNN probe into Monica Crowley, who is both writer and academic as well as being at the time [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Source: Voter fraud investigation no longer a top priority for Trump] 2/2/2017 8:41:28 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Such is the pace of the news cycle in Trump Year Zero, where the news of the day gets bumped by even bigger news of the day every six minutes or so, that I had completely forgotten he intended to sign an order opening a voter-fraud investigation. That [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Study: ‘Fake news’ did not change the result of the election] 2/2/2017 8:01:04 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A study released today by professors at New York University and Stanford concludes it is extremely unlikely that “fake news” changed the outcome of the 2016 election. A report by the Economist describes how the researchers went about [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo fact check: Two Pinocchios for “60-vote standard” on SCOTUS confirmations] 2/2/2017 7:21:03 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Do Supreme Court nominations have to meet a 60-vote Senate “standard” for confirmation? Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made that argument on the Senate floor, echoing an argument made by his deputy Dick Durbin on Morning Joe [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gallup: Americans oppose Trump’s travel ban, 42/55 — or do they?] 2/2/2017 6:41:31 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s tempting to read this in conjunction with the Reuters poll from a few days ago that showed 49/41 approval for the ban and conclude that public support has begun to collapse in the days since. But that’s not what’s happening. It [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Despite loads of media coverage, Neil Gorsuch never started a ‘Fascism Forever’ club in high school] 2/2/2017 6:01:13 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Consider this your left-wing freakout of the day. It seems to have started with a story in the Daily Mail after someone there got hold of Gorsuch’s high school yearbook. The Mail took what was a joking bit of self-reference written by Gorsuch and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Iraq archbishop: Where were all those protesters while ISIS committed genocides?] 2/2/2017 5:21:37 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments We’ve heard plenty of horror stories over the past few days about Donald Trump’s executive order pausing entries into the US for nationals of seven high-risk nations, many of which could have been avoided with a little more planning and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: NFL trash talk, “Bad Lip Reading” style] 2/2/2017 4:41:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate, imagine archaeologists thousands of years from now sifting through the digital rubble of our civilization in search of scant bits of cultural data — and finding this. They would probably conclude that it’s newsreel [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rotherham defendants yell ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they are sentenced for sexual abuse of minors] 2/2/2017 4:01:38 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Six members of a Rotherham sex-abuse gang, who groomed and then abused girls as young as 11, were sentenced to 81 years in prison today. The Telegraph reports two of the men yelled “Allahu Akbar” as they were led to prison: There were chaotic [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Katie Pavlich, Dr. Edward Sri] 2/2/2017 3:21:34 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...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Military sources try to blame Trump for botched Yemen raid that left one Navy SEAL dead] 2/2/2017 2:41:42 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’ve read the NYT, WaPo, and Reuters accounts of what happened but I can’t recall a single piece of hard evidence alleged that would suggest the White House, rather than military planners, screwed this up. You can blame Trump from a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [What happened with that phone call with Australia’s prime minister?] 2/2/2017 2:01:00 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments American politics increasingly feels like a novel whose events are retold by two unreliable narrators, Trump being one and the media being the other. The truth, or something close to it, is in there somewhere between the two of them. But where? Case in [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats boycott Pruitt vote, GOP advances his nomination anyway] 2/2/2017 1:21:10 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Yesterday, Democrats chose to boycott a committee vote to advance the nomination of Trump’s EPA nominee, Scott Pruitt. Today, Republicans responded by temporarily suspending the rules of the committee, which required that at least one Democrat be [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Clueless celebrity watch: Let’s fight fascism with … a military coup, or something] 2/2/2017 12:41:41 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments As I lamented on Twitter this morning, I’m so old that I can remember the celebrity Left lecturing conservatives on the need to respect election results. These days, they’re styling themselves as members of “The Resistance,” or as [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cincinnati becomes a sanctuary city… sort of] 2/2/2017 12:01:18 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Welcome to Cincinnati, or the Queen City as it’s known to the locals. That “welcome” message may be taking on an even broader meaning after a contentious City Council meeting this week resulted in a resolution to declare themselves a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Trump kicks off National Prayer Breakfast speech by mocking Arnold’s TV ratings, because why not] 2/2/2017 11:21:01 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments This isn’t any sort of outrage, just a neat example of Trump being Trump no matter the circumstances. I keep finding myself oddly impressed by how little he seems to worry about offending religious audiences. It used to be that Republican [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fight for 15? Meet the Big Mac machine] 2/2/2017 10:41:36 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Massachusetts is in the midst of debating the Fight for 15, with proposals on the table to raise the minimum wage that high at least for a few industries including big box stores and fast food outlets. That would have a serious impact on businesses such [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Distrust in Trump’s White House spurs leaks, confusion] [This is not a sustainable situation] [Trump wants health insurance for everybody. Here’s how the GOP can make it happen.] [Megyn Kelly expected to take top “Today” spot alongside Lauer] [White House thinks Crimea sanctions should stay until Russia returns it] [What went wrong? Inside the Navy SEAL raid in Yemen] [Will Lady Gaga’s politics ruin the Super Bowl?] [What each state Googled more frequently than any other state since the election] [Trump embraces pillars of Obama’s foreign policy, including on Israeli settlements] [What is the Democratic Party?] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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