HotAir Daily Express 02/15/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [2020 poll: Trump tops Warren by six points]( 2/15/2017 10:01:36 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Normally I wouldn’t waste my time with a poll about the 2020 presidential election at this stage, because I’m too busy gaming out the 2032 election. Would George P. Bush be able to hold onto Wisconsin and North California (after the Split of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hungary is accepting refugees… from liberalism]( 2/15/2017 9:21:55 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Victor Orban, the decidedly unconventional Prime Minister of Hungary, is staking out a new and markedly different approach to the refugee crisis currently engulfing the European Union. Like many other European leaders have done in recent years, Orban is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How much do you really know about the U.S. 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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT: FBI probing Russian intel contacts with several Trump campaign officials]( 2/15/2017 8:41:05 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Win by the leak … live with the leak? Democrats still blame the FBI for its very public investigation of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail system for her loss to Donald Trump in the presidential campaign, claiming that the constant leaks damaged her [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [That Obamacare individual mandate may now be… optional?]( 2/15/2017 8:01:39 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When is a mandate not a mandate? The answer to that question may turn out to be a bit more tricky than first meets the eye but it’s the new focus of the individual mandate under Obamacare. According to a report which broke last night at Reason [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Russia tests Trump, deploys ground-based cruise missiles in violation of arms treaty]( 2/14/2017 10:31:33 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments They tested Obama the same way for years, and of course, being Obama, he failed. Popular Mechanics lays out the timeline: In 2007, after two decades of intermediate-range ground-based cruise missiles being banned under the INF Treaty, Russia started to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Government ethics office recommends disciplinary action against Kellyanne Conway for touting Ivanka’s fashion line]( 2/14/2017 10:01:02 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The funniest part of OGE’s letter is when they point out that what Conway did almost perfectly matches a hypothetical example on their own website of what a federal official should never do. OGE can’t take action against Conway itself. All [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Humana announces it is dropping out of Obamacare in 2018]( 2/14/2017 9:31:28 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The collapse of Obamacare continues apace. Earlier today I wrote about the dissolution of two health insurance mega-mergers including the one between Aetna and Humana. This afternoon, Humana announced its plans for moving forward as an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NBC: Pence wasn’t told that Flynn misled him until February 9th, 15 days after the White House knew]( 2/14/2017 9:01:45 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Why would this information be withheld from him, particularly when he was the chief victim of Flynn’s deception? It can’t be that Trump’s inner circle is worried about Pence’s staff leaking, can it? If the leak situation is so [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did the Vatican OK communion for “some” divorced-and-remarried Catholics?]( 2/14/2017 8:21:59 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Ever since Pope Francis published Amoris Laetitia last April, debate has swirled around the issue which drove the Synod on the Family which produced it: did the pontiff approve of communion to divorced and remarried Catholics without first receiving an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A judge rejected a request to block construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline]( 2/14/2017 7:41:18 PM John Sexton 0 Comments U.S. District Judge James Boasberg rejected an attempt by tribes opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline to block its construction while they sue over decisions by the Army to allow the pipeline to proceed. The tribes had argued that having oil in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Apparently there is a double standard for the media when you call the First Lady a hooker]( 2/14/2017 7:01:09 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments John covered the story last night so there is really no need to go through all the tawdry details. The short version of the genesis of the story is that a New York Times reporter, out at a public but not political event, was overheard by someone fairly [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Former Obama officials leaked to take down Flynn because he wanted to expose the Iran deal]( 2/14/2017 6:21:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I get the first part of this story, not so much the second. The bit about Obama alumni targeting Flynn? Highly plausible if not likely. Flynn was a harsh Obama critic ever since O fired him from his position as DIA, and Flynn more than anyone else in the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oprah tapes and GOP doubts: Is Puzder in trouble?]( 2/14/2017 5:41:17 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Now that Mitch McConnell has filed for cloture on six of Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, the end of the slowest transition in American history may almost be in sight. Almost, though, is the operative word, because Labor Secretary Andrew Puzder will [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Two health insurance company mega-mergers collapsed today (Update: Humana out of Obamacare)]( 2/14/2017 5:01:28 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Two major mergers between leading health insurance companies collapsed today after months spent fighting the government in court. Earlier Tuesday a merger between Aetna and Humana was canceled by mutual agreement. Aetna released a statement from CEO Mark [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [I bet you thought the Democratic primary fight was over]( 2/14/2017 4:31:24 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If there’s any good news for the Democrats these days (and such tidbits are woefully hard to come by) it’s that the 2016 election is finally over. Even more to the point, that nasty drawn out primary between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Spicer: Yes, Trump knew weeks ago that Flynn hadn’t told the truth about his call with the ambassador]( 2/14/2017 4:01:43 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He’s known for weeks that Flynn could be blackmailed by Russia if it threatened to reveal that he’d misled Pence, and he let him stay on as national security advisor anyway? Huh. President Trump was informed weeks ago that his national [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Jon Ralston, Eli Lake]( 2/14/2017 3:31:49 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New York Times, Nancy Pelosi cite fake General Flynn tweets]( 2/14/2017 3:01:47 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The New York Times published a story on General Flynn’s resignation which included tweets sent from a parody account. In the tweets, someone pretending to be Flynn said he was a “scapegoat for what happened.” Later in the day, Rep. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New liberal talking point: The border wall will prevent illegal aliens… from leaving]( 2/14/2017 2:31:19 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The promotion of conservative policies by the new administration clearly seems to be sending some liberal thought patterns spiraling on a downward path toward what is either delusion or parody. Only yesterday we observed one author explaining why [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Berkeley activist: No, “fascists” don’t have a right to speak in public]( 2/14/2017 2:01:39 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A top-notch “bop-bag segment” from last night’s Tucker Carlson show, executed with the guest’s enthusiastic participation to demonstrate just how illiberal far-left liberalism is. The meat of this one comes in the middle when [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Whodunit: Brother of North Korea dictator murdered in Malaysian airport]( 2/14/2017 1:31:01 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “There’s a history of bloodshed within the family,” Reuters’ Julian Satterthwaite reports about North Korea’s Kim dynasty. That surely seems like an understatement after the apparent murder of Kim Jong-nam, the older [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [House Freedom Caucus wants Obamacare repeal now]( 2/14/2017 1:01:04 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Conservatives in the House are getting antsy about the slow progress toward the repeal of Obamacare. The House Freedom Caucus plans to urge Speaker Paul Ryan to move forward with the reconciliation bill that was sent to President Obama last year rather [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Has President Trump “roiled the sports world” this year?]( 2/14/2017 12:31:25 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The upcoming visit to the White House by the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots (pardon me while I gag just saying that) has taken on a far more twisted connotation in the media than the normal bread and circus atmosphere such public relations [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chaffetz: No need for Oversight to investigate Flynn now — but ….]( 2/14/2017 12:01:44 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments … that doesn’t mean that Congress has closed the case of Michael Flynn, either. House Oversight chair Jason Chaffetz responded to calls from Democrats on his committee to conduct a full investigation of now-former national security adviser [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump on Flynn’s resignation: The real story here is illegal leaking]( 2/14/2017 11:21:50 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Well, it’s *a* story. It’s a big story too, especially with rumors swirling of intelligence officials withholding sensitive info from the White House. As Ben Shapiro says, though, if leaks were the “real story,” why did Trump [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [House Democrats escalate effort to obtain Trump tax returns]( [America’s spies anonymously took down Michael Flynn. 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