HotAir Daily Express 02/16/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Priebus, Bannon push back hard on “turmoil” report from …]( 2/16/2017 10:01:06 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments We’ve seen quite a bit of anonymous-sourced reports of a White House in disarray over the past three weeks, fueled by a clumsy rollout of Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration and the exit of Michael Flynn. One in particular fueled [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [South Carolina Boeing workers reject unionization bid]( 2/16/2017 9:21:04 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It appears that somebody is getting the message, at least in South Carolina. A growing movement around the nation in support of right to work policies has dealt one blow after another to organized labor. The latest edition of the story comes to us out of [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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Top intel chief: We’re not withholding intel from POTUS]( 2/16/2017 8:41:53 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Have intelligence agencies cut the Oval Office out of the loop? The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that agencies have withheld sensitive information from Donald Trump despite his status as head of state and government. The alleged move came over [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [It’s time for the duplicitous “day without immigrants”]( 2/16/2017 8:01:39 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you happen to be in Washington DC, New York City or a few other major metropolitan areas today you may find some of your favorite restaurants and watering holes closed. No, it’s not a national holiday that you forgot about which is causing [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Huh: Pew poll shows Americans feeling warmer to nearly all religious groups — especially atheists]( 2/15/2017 10:31:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Sorry for going ultra-hippie with the front-page thumbnail but I wasn’t sure how else to illustrate this fascinating, and counterintuitive, new survey from Pew. The conventional wisdom for at least the past year has been that America is as divided [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Evacuation over but evacuation warning still in place as more storms arrive at Oroville Dam]( 2/15/2017 10:01:08 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The emergency evacuation of residents living below the Oroville Dam was ended yesterday, however Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea stressed today that an evacuation warning was still in place for the region below the dam and encouraged people to sign up [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dan Rather: This Trump thing could be bigger than Watergate]( 2/15/2017 9:31:37 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments When the man who blew the lid off the Bush National Guard memos tells you the country is facing a mega-scandal, you can take that to the bank. How are these people going to last four years with their sanity intact when they’re already at DefCon 2 [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Vatican: No, the Pope did not announce opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline]( 2/15/2017 9:01:44 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments When is an invitation to the Vatican an endorsement? And when does a pontiff endorse domestic political positions? As the Vatican itself rushed to explain earlier today, the answer to both is rarely, if ever — but Pope Francis’ remarks at his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Here we go: Pentagon considering sending group troops to northern Syria]( 2/15/2017 8:21:54 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Here’s where having someone with Mattis’s credibility in charge at Defense means everything to Trump politically. With him overseeing this, the proposal becomes a nervous “well, let’s wait and see what the plan is” thing for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California Community College suspends student who recorded professor’s anti-Trump rant]( 2/15/2017 7:41:32 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A student at an Orange County, California community college has been suspended after he recorded one of his professors telling her class the election of Donald Trump was an “act of terrorism.” From the LA Times: In a Feb. 9 letter, Victoria [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dear GOP: Cancel the town hall meetings]( 2/15/2017 7:01:29 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s a sad statement on the current condition of our democracy but the recent unending tide of well-funded and carefully coordinated “protests” by liberals angry over the defeat of Hillary Clinton have led me to one inescapable [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ABC: Malaysia officials arrest one suspected Kim assassin]( 2/15/2017 6:21:52 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments An assassination that started off like James Bond may have turned into The Man with One Red Shoe. ABC News reported this morning that Malaysian authorities have caught up with one of the super-spies that took out Kim Jong-nam in the airport yesterday. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“The fix is in”: Media annoyed that Trump is only calling on conservative outlets lately at pressers]( 2/15/2017 5:41:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The guy to read on this is Rory Cooper, who’s honoring the occasion of today’s guild shrieking by recalling some of the media’s greatest press-conference hits during the Obama era. Read his Twitter timeline for more examples. The [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Trump to sign executive orders related to EPA’s climate work once Pruitt is confirmed]( 2/15/2017 5:01:12 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Inside EPA reports that President Trump plans to sign executive orders involving climate change at an EPA swearing-in ceremony set to take place once his nominee to head the agency, Scott Pruitt, is confirmed. From the Hill: At that event, an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump to Netanyahu: “Hold back on the settlements a bit”]( 2/15/2017 4:31:48 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Want to bet Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t see this one coming? During their joint press conference at the first summit meeting between Israel and the US, Donald Trump hailed Netanyahu as a man of peace and strength and his country as worthy of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Debunking Time’s “fact check” on non-citizen voting]( 2/15/2017 4:01:04 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The new status quo in the mainstream media is a generally accepted insistence that Donald Trump and the White House staff are a group of unrepentant liars and that proper reporting must always include clear statements when falsehoods are uttered. This is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Mike Flynn has been treated very, very unfairly by the “fake media”]( 2/15/2017 3:31:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You would think rule one for a populist president would be to not let the “fake media” bully him into firing (or accepting the resignation of) an able officer who’d been treated “very, very unfairly.” So for the fourth time [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Aetna CEO on Obamacare: ‘It is in a death spiral’]( 2/15/2017 3:01:52 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The CEO of Aetna, Mark Bertolini, says Obamacare is in a “death spiral.” Bertolini was speaking at an event hosted by the Wall Street Journal Wednesday. Asked about the future of Obamacare, Bertolini replied, “I think you will see a lot [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New FOIA release: Obama admin knew immediately Benghazi was “direct breaching” terror attack, not “under cover of protest”]( 2/15/2017 2:31:41 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Perhaps the subject of the terror attack on the US consulate in Benghazi will become more academic than political after the 2016 election denied Hillary Clinton the presidency. For now, though, documents continue to emerge that contradict the narrative [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump’s Mar-a-Lago trips are costing the local sheriff’s department a fortune]( 2/15/2017 2:01:59 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments President Trump’s weekend sojourns to the “Southern White House” at Mar-a-Lago have attracted considerable media attention thus far. The same press corps which never seemed to make a big deal out of Barack Obama’s record-setting [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mattis warns NATO: Start paying your fair share on defense or the U.S. will “moderate its commitment”]( 2/15/2017 1:31:02 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Of all Trump’s policy unorthodoxies, demanding that Europe boost defense spending is the most justifiable. Among 28 members, just five — five — complied with the NATO guideline last year of devoting two percent of GDP to defense. Now [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Puzder’s ex-wife: ‘I have become the victim of the media’s malice’ (Update: Puzder withdraws)]( 2/15/2017 1:01:37 PM John Sexton 0 Comments President Trump’s Labor Department nominee, Andy Puzder, is facing old accusations of domestic abuse against his ex-wife Lisa Fierstein. As Ed pointed out yesterday, those accusations have been denied by Fierstein since the early 1990s. She claims [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [FP: Harward offered nat-sec job, but still deciding]( 2/15/2017 12:31:29 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments According to the White House, the search for a replacement to Michael Flynn commenced Monday evening after Donald Trump asked the national security adviser to resign. According to veteran military-affairs reporter Thomas Ricks, the decision got made on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Russian fighters “buzzing” our ships (and vice versa) is nothing new]( 2/15/2017 12:01:37 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Allahpundit wrote last night about how the Russians are “testing Trump” with missile deployments and fighter jets buzzing our ships. The missile deployment question is a serious one to be sure and I think we’ve covered it fairly well. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mika Brzezinski: Kellyanne Conway is barred from “Morning Joe” for lacking credibility]( 2/15/2017 11:21:19 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is at least the third time in eight days that Brzezinski has made a show of her contempt for Conway. The first was on February 6th, when it came out that CNN had declined to have Conway on its Sunday show because of questions about her credibility. 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