HotAir Daily Express 04/13/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [The MTV Movie Awards go “gender neutral”]( 4/13/2017 10:41:28 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The feeding frenzy on the left coast continues as Hollywood gets deeper and deeper into trouble with their own base of social justice warriors. Last week we looked at complaints lobbed at the Emmy Awards over who should or shouldn’t be considered [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Assad: I gave up all my chemical weapons. Trust me.]( 4/13/2017 10:01:55 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Hey, why not trust Bashar al-Assad? Hillary Clinton thinks he’s a reformer, after all. What could go wrong? AFP published a one-on-one interview with the Syrian dictator this morning, after teasing the highlights on Twitter: #BREAKING Syria's [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. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The hiring freeze is over, so do we lose all the ground we gained?]( 4/13/2017 9:21:03 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments One of President Trump’s first big moves upon taking office (wildly applauded around these parts) was a freeze on federal hiring with an eye toward dramatic cuts in the size of the federal government. This was supposed to usher in an era of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Of course: Notre Dame students now claim Pence speech makes them “feel unsafe”]( 4/13/2017 8:41:51 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Six weeks ago, the University of Notre Dame upended its self-professed tradition by declining to extend an invitation to the new US president at their May commencement. Rather than deal with the protests and media attention of having Donald Trump speak, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The media sure loves the term “deportation force”]( 4/13/2017 8:01:55 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments A couple of weeks ago, Allahpundit brought up the subject of plunging arrests of illegal immigrants on the southern border. One might argue that this was either a momentary blip in the data or even a suggestion that the coyotes were just getting more [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: 52% of Republicans “somewhat support” sending U.S. combat troops into Syria to remove Assad]( 4/12/2017 10:01:02 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Yeah, yeah, I know what Trump said. But the GOP’s got a fever and the only prescription is more regime change in the Middle East with no exit strategy! Not the first time we’ve had this fever, actually. You’d think we’d have come [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Suspect believed to be responsible for death of Brian Terry arrested in Mexico]( 4/12/2017 9:21:31 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Fox News is reporting that the man who is a suspect to be responsible for the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry has been arrested in Mexico: The cartel member suspected of shooting and killing Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in 2010 with a gun [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [#FireKushner? National Security Council staffers grumble about Jared’s interference in natsec policy]( 4/12/2017 8:41:11 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Time to play another round of Washington’s most popular pastime, “Who leaked?” Any theories on which Kushner frenemy, perhaps recently criticized himself for his outsized role in crafting national security policy, might want it known [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [China signaling North Korea to clean up — or else?]( 4/12/2017 8:01:36 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments No one needs to look for tarot cards to figure out why Donald Trump ordered the USS Carl Vinson task group to sail for the Korean peninsula — he’s sending a message to North Korea. That message was already received in Pyongyang, but as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [UN peacekeepers who created child sex ring in Haiti were never punished]( 4/12/2017 7:21:24 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Associated Press has an exclusive report on a long-standing problem involving United Nations peacekeepers who target women and children as young as 12 for sex in countries where they are stationed. The AP found thousands of accusations of sexual [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: On second thought, NATO is no longer obsolete]( 4/12/2017 6:41:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I say this with all sincerity and no mockery, despite my #NeverTrump pedigree: Trump fans, you have my sympathy on these many, many, many reversals. It’s natural for politicians to evolve in office. It’s not so natural for them to evolve, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: On second thought, China isn’t a currency manipulator and I like the Ex-Im Bank]( 4/12/2017 6:01:28 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Are we sure that Trump’s going to end up having to fire Steve Bannon? Between this and the Syria bombing, the nationalists in the White House may just up and quit. If you think these broken promises are big news, wait until Trump comes out in favor [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Nikki Haley: It’s ‘long past time for Russia to stop covering for Assad’]( 4/12/2017 5:21:16 PM John Sexton 0 Comments U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley gave a speech today in which she sharply criticized Russia, saying it was “long past time” for them to stop covering for the Assad regime in Syria. “To my colleagues from Russia, you are [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [VA inspector general warns: DC Medical Center patients “at unnecessary risk”]( 4/12/2017 4:41:55 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments At least this time veterans got a warning — some veterans, anyway. According to USA Today, the inspector general has reported that those veterans already at the Washington DC VA Medical Center are in “imminent danger” due to substandard [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Putin: Man, our trust in the U.S. has really dropped since Trump took over]( 4/12/2017 4:01:42 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Add this to the growing pile of things America never thought it would see during Trump’s first hundred days. Putin comparing Trump unfavorably to Obama is as close as you can get to a nuclear strike without the radiation. You realize that the two [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump took Social Security reforms out of his budget]( 4/12/2017 3:21:52 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney says President Trump removed elements of entitlement reform from a proposed budget. In an interview with CNBC’s John Harwood, Mulvaney said he presented the president with a list of budget [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Melania Trump wins $2.9 million in defamation lawsuit against the Daily Mail]( 4/12/2017 2:41:20 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments London’s tabloid Daily Mail has admitted in court and a written settlement that its 2016 story implying Melania Trump previously worked for an escort service was totally false. The innuendo will cost the publication almost $3 million in damages [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN: Dem, GOP sources say “unmasked” intel reviewed by Devin Nunes doesn’t show wrongdoing]( 4/12/2017 2:01:04 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Worth noting because it contradicts Nunes’s bombshell claim about improper “unmasking” of Trump staffers by the Obama administration, but frustrating because it relies on — ta da — nothing but anonymous sources. Maybe that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Venezuelan President Maduro pelted with objects at rally]( 4/12/2017 1:21:05 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Tuesday, the unpopular socialist President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, was pelted with objects at the end of a military event. From Reuters: State television footage showed a crowd mobbing the vehicle that Maduro was standing on as he waved goodbye at [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: We’re not going further on Syria]( 4/12/2017 12:41:12 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “Just so you understand, we’re not going into Syria,” Donald Trump told Maria Bartiromo this morning on Fox Business Channel while explaining why he ordered the military strike on Shayrat air base. Trump tells Bartiromo that he has no [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Book excerpt: Hillary blame-shifting a well-established procedure]( 4/12/2017 12:01:39 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Last week, Hillary Clinton provided her perspective on the root causes for her loss in November’s presidential election. She blamed misogyny (hateful voters!), James Comey, Russia and especially Vladimir Putin … all of which apparently [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Uh oh: Trump won’t say directly that he still has confidence in Bannon]( 4/12/2017 11:21:04 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments This sounds vaguely like something Michael Corleone would say about Fredo the day before taking him fishing. “Good guy, Fredo. But he was never supposed to have a role in the business. Frankly, we’ve never been very close.” Maybe I need [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Trump reversals hint at Wall Street wing’s sway in White House]( [Fake news is appearing in children’s homework, teachers warn]( [Bannon and Spicer, architects of their own demise]( [Ann Coulter on Syria: Assad is one of the better leaders in the region]( [Why President Trump really should be the world’s policeman]( [U.S. intelligence intercepted communications between Syrian military and chemical experts]( [Prime suspect in murder of Brian Terry caught in Mexico]( [Does Trump have a foreign policy? 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