HotAir Daily Express 03/03/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Gallup: Over a third say Trump speech boosted confidence in presidency]( 3/3/2017 10:01:18 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Mission accomplished? This week’s address to a joint session of Congress offered Donald Trump a chance to reset the public narrative after a first month filled with policy wins and process problems. Rather than tackle the first major presidential [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [US accelerating attacks on AQ in Yemen]( 3/3/2017 9:21:18 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The curious case of the supposed failure of a January raid in Yemen continues to get … curiouser. Initial leaks from sources in the intel community have called it a bust, but subsequent leaks have called it a major success that could lead the US to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Affordable, Biblical Healthcare--Watch How Medi-Share Works]( Christian Care Medi-Share SPONSORED With Medi-Share, you never worry about tax penalties, enrollment periods, confusing systems, ethical issues, finding a doctor, rising deductibles. Medi-Share is affordable, Biblical healthcare that is available from coast-to-coast with over 250,000 members and accesses one of the largest networks of providers in the country. --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: Don’t count on a perjury charge sticking against Sessions]( 3/3/2017 8:41:48 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Will prosecutors — or Congress — force Jeff Sessions to face perjury charges? Don’t count on it, writes Philip Bump at the Washington Post, for a few reasons. Bump more or less skips the obvious one, which is that Sessions didn’t [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [EU seeks to help prosecute Marine Le Pen for… Tweeting]( 3/3/2017 8:01:20 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Clearly French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is making all the right enemies in high places. The established political class in France clearly despises her but the European Union is now getting in on the act, no doubt because of her less than [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pew: 49% of Republicans say freedom of news orgs to criticize leaders is very important to democracy]( 3/2/2017 10:41:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Welp, my mistake. Last fall, around two weeks before the election, Pew asked Clinton and Trump supporters whether they thought various civic institutions were important to the strength of American democracy. Some, like open and fair elections and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Everyone met with the Russian ambassador, let’s all panic!]( 3/2/2017 10:01:49 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The entire Republican party appears to have met with the Russian ambassador but the news is being dribbled out a few names at a time. The latest revelation from USA Today indicates J.D. Gordon and Carter Page met with Ambassador Kislyak in July [emphasis [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Go figure: New free agent Colin Kaepernick decides to stand for national anthem next season]( 3/2/2017 9:31:31 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He told the world he was opting out of his 49ers contract to test the market two days ago. Two days later, meet the newly de-woke-ified Colin Kaepernick. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick will stand during the national anthem next season, sources told ESPN on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Too weird to check: Valerie Jarrett moves in with the Obamas to plot Trump’s downfall]( 3/2/2017 9:02:54 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m skeptical — of the moving-in part, not the “plotting against Trump” part. But I’m less skeptical than I’d be if this story were about any other politician and his top advisor. Obama is being aided in his political [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [LA Times to Democrats: Stop “resisting” Trump long enough to get our infrastructure pork, please]( 3/2/2017 8:41:59 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It’s amazing what the promise of federal pork can do, eh? The editorial board of the LA Times has been anything but friendly to Donald Trump, but the president’s insistence on a trillion-dollar works-project bill has them asking California [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Veterans in severe pain spend hours waiting for help at VA hospital]( 3/2/2017 8:01:11 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A VA hospital in North Carolina kept veterans waiting for hours even as they were writhing in pain and lying on the floor for relief. Images of the vets were posted on Facebook by the wife of another Veteran who arrived at the waiting room with her [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [U.S. working to identify hundreds of Al Qaeda contacts discovered from material seized in Yemen raid]( 3/2/2017 6:41:39 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The aftermath of the Yemen raid exists in two separate dimensions right now. In the blue dimension, it was a total bust. No fewer than 10 different U.S. officials across different departments told NBC yesterday that no actionable intelligence had been [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democratic Congressman makes sexual ‘joke’ about Kellyanne Conway]( 3/2/2017 6:01:32 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Rep. Cedric Richmond spoke yesterday at the Washington Press Club Foundation dinner. His attempt at a comedy routine wound up being an example of what not to do. Few of his remarks were funny but he really face-planted when he brought up Kellyanne Conway [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Malaysia escalates diplomatic rift with North Korea over assassination]( 3/2/2017 5:21:00 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Guess Malaysia isn’t buying the “heart attack” claim from their soon-to-be-former friends in Pyongyang, eh? After staging an assassination with a weapon of mass destruction in their largest airport, North Korea has lost its status as a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: Sessions to recuse himself from investigations related to last year’s presidential campaigns]( 3/2/2017 4:41:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The right call, and really the only call. How was he supposed to oversee a probe of contacts between Russia and Trump campaign officials when he’s already been, however briefly, one of the subjects of it? A conversation with Russia’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Snopes revises misleading fact check on the standing ovation for Carryn Owens]( 3/2/2017 4:01:40 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Snopes is a well-known fact-checking site that looks at “rumors, urban legends, myths and misinformation.” That includes stories that involve politics. Yesterday the top story on the site was a fact check of claims that Democratic [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Ashley McGuire, Andrew McCarthy]( 3/2/2017 3:21:36 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rand Paul outside secure room: Why can’t I see the House GOP’s secret ObamaCare plan?]( 3/2/2017 2:41:22 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I agree with Drew McCoy: This is obviously a stunt, but for a good cause. (Since when do senators have a right to see a House bill that’s still in progress?) Paul was inspired by this report that House Republicans have a new plan to replace [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Will entitlement reform split the GOP’s conservo-populist coalition?]( 3/2/2017 2:01:45 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Donald Trump’s successful and well-received presidential address to the joint session of Congress had a notable omission from a mostly traditional-Republican laundry list of White House legislative priorities. Roll Call’s David Hawkings [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ted Cruz: Here’s how to repeal Obamacare]( 3/2/2017 1:21:31 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Ted Cruz has a piece at Politico today in which he lays out a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. He opens by citing two principles he says need to guide the Republican party: First principle: Honor our promise. When you spend six years promising, “If [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How I learned to stop worrying and ignore Alec {NAME}]( 3/2/2017 12:41:10 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Alec {NAME} is back in the news again, something which has become a regular feature of cable programming these days. It seems you can’t turn on the television without seeing his grizzled countenance splattered across your screen. When he’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi, Schumer demand Sessions’ resignation]( 3/2/2017 12:01:44 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The person in charge of the Department of Justice, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer declared earlier this morning, has to be impartial and above reproach. That’s why Attorney General Jeff Sessions must resign after his testimony in the Senate [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: U.S. intelligence probed Sessions for contacts with Russians last year]( 3/2/2017 11:21:06 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Among the agencies involved: The FBI, which now answers to … Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Hence the calls for his recusal in Russia matters even from some Republicans today. It sure is interesting that so many different major papers had Russia [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Federal union leader: It’s time to “rally for your benefits”]( 3/2/2017 10:41:31 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments That federal hiring freeze which President Trump announced almost immediately upon taking office really has the public employee unions setting their hair on fire. This week there was a call to arms issued by Tony Reardon, president of the National [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [You may want to marry my husband]( [FBI makes arrest in connection with threats to Jewish community centers]( [The whole Jeff Sessions story is rooted in fake news]( [GOP Governors forming plan to keep Obama’s Medicaid expansion]( [White House pushing back against Mattis appointment Anne Patterson]( [George W. Bush explains his fondness for Michelle Obama]( [Top Trump advisors are split on Paris Agreement on climate change]( [The site where readers must pass a test before posting comments]( [Is the firing squad more humane than lethal injection?]( [Why Californians should vote to secede from the union]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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