HotAir Daily Express 04/12/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Did Democrats win a moral victory in Kansas?]( 4/12/2017 10:41:11 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments In the end, the race to fill now-CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s seat in Congress wasn’t as close as some thought, but closer than it normally would have been. Republican Mike Estes beat Democrat James Thompson by nearly seven points in the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Would you pay $30,000 to hear a Valerie Jarrett speech?]( 4/12/2017 10:01:37 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments As public speakers go, Obama aide Valerie Jarrett comes pretty cheap. She lined up a commencement gig next month at Chicago’s Northeastern Illinois University for 30-grand. By all estimates, she’s a multi-millionaire anyway, although the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [God-Honoring 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. --------------------------------------------------------------- [German prosecutors arrest suspect with “Islamist links” in soccer-team bombing]( 4/12/2017 9:21:55 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Until this morning, investigators in Germany had remained tight-lipped about the motive behind the targeted triple-bombing of a soccer team yesterday, which seriously injured one player. The takeover of the probe by prosecutors suggested that terrorism [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [To tell you the f****** truth, swearing has gone political mainstream]( 4/12/2017 8:41:31 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Swearing has likely been a social phenomenon since an early caveman caught his thumb between a rock and a hard place. Yes, it was long considered uncouth and a certain sign of a weak vocabulary. But as society has coarsened in recent times, so has the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: Obama admin got FISA warrant on Carter Page during campaign]( 4/12/2017 8:01:51 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Welcome to today’s political Rorschach test. The Washington Post reported last night that the Department of Justice sought out and received a FISA warrant to conduct surveillance on Carter Page last summer while he was still connected to Donald [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obama to reemerge publicly for event on “democracy” and “responsibility” with Merkel on May 25th in Berlin]( 4/11/2017 10:01:43 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The Breitbart headline made me chuckle: “Barack Obama and Angela Merkel Plan Globalist Reunion at Brandenburg Gate.” The organizer of the event says O was invited last year, but when did he finally commit to attend? The circumstances seem too [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kansas special election results (AP calls it for Estes)]( 4/11/2017 9:21:39 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The special election for Mike Pompeo’s seat in Kansas will be decided tonight. Pompeo was selected by President Trump to run the CIA so now we have a contest between Republican Ron Estes and Democrat James Thompson. As Andrew Malcolm wrote earlier [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gingrich on Syria strikes: If the Russians get in our way, they’re going to get hit]( 4/11/2017 8:41:29 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Here’s Newt last year at the convention, back when Trump was in “America First” mode, imagining a confrontation between NATO and Russia over Estonia… …and here’s Newt last night, at a moment when Trump is in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [United’s CEO: Very sorry, now watch me dance]( 4/11/2017 8:01:08 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments That forcible eviction of a United Airlines passenger the other day is destined to become a prime case study in every Public Relations 101 class of what not to do if you’re in the business of selling something to people who have a choice. The ugly [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Justice Ginsburg: Sen. Lindsey Graham one of the ‘women of the Senate’ (Correction added)]( 4/11/2017 7:21:46 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Update: Got a tweet this morning pointing out that Allegheny College made an award in 2014 to the “Women of the Senate” as a group and in quotes just like that. The previous year the college gave the same prize to Senators Feinstein and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi on Spicer’s Hitler comments: Spicer must go; Update: Spicer apologizes]( 4/11/2017 6:41:41 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Oh, for fark’s sake. Just because the executive branch’s PR guy needlessly Godwins an indictment of Bashar Assad, refers to concentration camps as “Holocaust centers,” and then has to clarify his point four times while still not [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pentagon on Syrian airstrike: ‘We didn’t crater the runway’]( 4/11/2017 6:01:48 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Over the weekend there was a report from Reuters that seemed to really excite people on the left who were eagerly looking for a reason to pronounce the airstrike on a Syrian military base a failure: JUST IN: Syrian warplanes take off from air base hit [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump to snub Pope Francis at G-7?]( 4/11/2017 5:21:56 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments International diplomacy has its complexities and challenges, but also has a few easy lay-ups. Among the latter are head-of-state meetings with the current pontiff when circumstances permit — a request which never gets refused by the Vatican, and a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Eric Trump: I think Ivanka helped convince dad to bomb Syria]( 4/11/2017 4:41:24 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “Compassionate conservatism 2.0: When Ivanka hurts, government has got to move,” tweets Jim Antle. Out: #FireKushner. In: #FireIvanka? “Ivanka is a mother of three kids and she has influence. I’m sure she said: ‘Listen, this is horrible [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Freedom Caucus: GOP close to a deal on Obamacare replacement]( 4/11/2017 4:01:32 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Rep. Mark Meadows, chair of the House Freedom Caucus, told a radio show Tuesday that Republicans were close to a deal on a replacement for Obamacare. According to Meadows, there are “two options” currently on the table but he didn’t go [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Stuart Taylor, David Limbaugh]( 4/11/2017 3:21:53 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Spicer on Assad: Even Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons]( 4/11/2017 2:41:56 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Two clips from today’s presser, one more unfortunate than the other. Spicer knows his World War II history, I’m sure (although the term “Holocaust centers” is a new one on me). The error here is an excess of zeal in trying to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem rep: What if Trump and Putin coordinated on the Syria strike to cover up their other collusion?]( 4/11/2017 2:01:13 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments In which the “wag the dog” crankery on the left escalates from MSNBC hosts to Democratic congressmen in less than a week. I wonder how far Moulton’s prepared to stick with this possibility, though. If Assad gasses more civilians next [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [White House to release refutation of Russian claims about chemical weapon attack]( 4/11/2017 1:21:15 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Russia has been lying about the chemical weapon strike in Syria since shortly after it happened. As Ed noted earlier today, Vladimir Putin has decided to personally double down on his disinformation campaign and continue his calls for a UN investigation [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Heitkamp: I supported Gorsuch on his merits — and my constituents thank me for it]( 4/11/2017 12:41:56 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Will voters in red states like Missouri and Montana reward their Senate incumbents in 2018 for attempts at obstructing Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominees, and punish those who did not? Clearly that’s what progressive groups think, and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Putin: Chemical weapons reports a false-flag op like Iraq, you know]( 4/11/2017 12:01:25 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments As Rex Tillerson lands in Moscow, Vladimir Putin has decided to escalate the war of words over the US response to a chemical-weapons attack on civilians in Syria’s Idlib province. The Russian president again denied that any such attack took place, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump administration to continue ObamaCare’s cost-sharing subsidies despite House lawsuit]( 4/11/2017 11:21:10 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Another victory for Kushner over Bannon. According to Politico, Bannon wanted to end the cost-sharing subsidies, which help defray the out-of-pocket expenses for lower-income people who buy silver plans on the O-Care exchanges, on the theory that it [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [How the Middle East is depleting American power]( [Rolling Stone settles with former UVA dean in defamation case]( [Poll: Republican approval of Congress drops by nearly half since January]( [It’s come to this]( [Censure the president for his illegal airstrike in Syria]( [Report: James Murdoch wants O’Reilly off the air at Fox News]( [Trump: “We are not going into Syria”]( [Exclusive: Classified docs contradict Nunes surveillance claims, GOP and Dem sources say]( [Trump won’t definitively say he still backs Bannon]( [Susan Collins mulling Maine gubernatorial run]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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