HotAir Daily Express 05/09/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Chicago’s gang violence problems credited to… the police]( 5/9/2017 10:41:53 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As we’ve already discussed here, the Windy City is already well on their way to potentially breaking yet another long standing record in terms of the number of people being shot and murdered this year. Clearly action is called for, but what to do? [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Source claims Comey testimony about Huma Abedin forwarding emails was “inaccurate”]( 5/9/2017 10:01:35 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The most recent round of hearings on the Hill have provided plenty of blogging fodder and subjects for cable news roundtable discussions, but it wasn’t all focused on Flynn. Ted Cruz managed to once again raise the issue of Huma Abedin and all of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Now is the Time for Christians to Explore other HealthCare Options]( 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. --------------------------------------------------------------- [RIP, Bob Owens — a colleague, and a friend]( 5/9/2017 9:21:30 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It is with heavy hearts that we regret to inform our readers that our friend and Townhall colleague Bob Owens, editor of Bearing Arms, has passed away. For more than a dozen years, Bob Owens has been part of the New Media world, arguing passionately and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Airport brawl as airline cancels several flights in Fort Lauderdale]( 5/9/2017 8:41:10 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments At least this time it didn’t happen on the plane. Spirit Airlines is in the middle of a legal fight with its pilots, but yesterday afternoon found itself in the middle of an actual fight in the Fort Lauderdale airport. The airline had canceled nine [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California: Hey, maybe communism isn’t so bad after all]( 5/9/2017 8:01:03 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It may be a tad bit easier to land a state government job in California soon, at least for some people. With a new bill recently passed (by the skin of its teeth) in the state assembly, the Golden State may be taking down the dusty old sign which reads, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Support for GOP health-care bill surges among Trump voters, but…]( 5/8/2017 10:41:15 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The version of the AHCA that failed in late March was so unpopular that not even half of Republicans at the time told YouGov that they supported. The split went 45/31 — again, among Trump’s and Ryan’s own party. Among the wider public, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Yep, the new “Blade Runner” movie looks a lot like “Blade Runner”]( 5/8/2017 10:01:13 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate. Plot details are scarce so all we have to go on is visual style, but that much at least is on point. And no surprise — Ridley Scott’s producing and the guy who did “Arrival” is directing. This is technically [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Times: Maybe the Comey letter didn’t determine the outcome of the election]( 5/8/2017 9:21:16 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Did FBI Director James Comey’s letter to Congress announcing an ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal cost her the election? That’s the argument that FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver has made and which Hillary [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Shocker: Pruitt pruning advisory board at EPA]( 5/8/2017 8:41:47 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Did Scott Pruitt commit an outrage against Science!™, or conduct a normal transition between administrations? The Washington Post reports that the new EPA administrator has chosen not to renew terms of half the appointees on a scientific review board. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [John Kasich on primarying Trump in 2020: I can’t predict the future]( 5/8/2017 8:01:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via WaPo, I’m taking this semi-seriously only because Kasich proved once before that he’s willing to run a totally futile campaign against Trump. The prospect of losing badly in state after state doesn’t seem to bother him the way it [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California AG will not open investigation into UC President Janet Napolitano]( 5/8/2017 7:21:54 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Xavier Becerra, the California AG who charged the Center for Medical Progress with 15 felony counts for its undercover reporting on Planned Parenthood, will not be opening an investigation into the millions of dollars kept hidden by UC President Janet [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmm: FBI investigating Jane Sanders for bank fraud?]( 5/8/2017 6:41:57 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Almost exactly a year ago, Burlington College announced its closure over a “crushing weight of debt” it had accrued under the leadership of Jane Sanders. The school borrowed heavily during her years as its president, as Sanders planned an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Doctors need to be more honest with families facing critical care choices]( 5/8/2017 6:01:32 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is something of a sensitive topic and though we’ve tackled similar ones before, these stories always give me pause. At issue is a frankly heart wrenching story in the Washington Post from last week by Doctor Yvette Youssef. When she was [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sally Yates: “We believed that General Flynn was compromised with respect to the Russians”]( 5/8/2017 5:31:05 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This has been the DOJ’s defense since the beginning as to why they went to the White House with their concerns about Flynn. It wasn’t that he’d broken the law — although Yates says below that that subject did come up at her second [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [This NY Times Magazine profile of Keith Olbermann isn’t very complimentary]( 5/8/2017 5:01:11 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Whatever happened to Keith Olbermann? Once a leading progressive voice on MSNBC, he is now doing a series of You Tube commentaries for GQ.com titled ‘The Resistance.” A not-especially-kind profile published Monday by NY Times Magazine [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Norway looks at banning child circumcision on boys. Antisemitic?]( 5/8/2017 4:31:06 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’ll never cease to be amazed at some of the laws which wind up on the books in other countries, but that’s probably the result of taking the American system of justice for granted. One recent story however has gotten me to thinking. It comes [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [More Flynn: Never disclosed RT payday before renewing DIA clearance in 2016]( 5/8/2017 4:01:41 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Why perform background checks and security vetting on advisers who already have high clearance from the government? This story from NBC News about embattled former national security adviser Michael Flynn gives another pretty good answer to Sean [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Uh oh: Knives out for H.R. McMaster?]( 5/8/2017 3:31:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The only job with less security than “NSA for Trump” is “drummer for Spinal Tap.” Actual quote from reporter Eli Lake: “[I]n recent weeks, Trump has privately expressed regret for choosing McMaster.” There’s a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [At Vox, Code Pink activist claims she was convicted of disrupting Congress for ‘a bit of laughter’]( 5/8/2017 3:01:40 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last week I wrote about Code Pink activist Desiree Fairooz who was convicted on two counts related to her disruption of the confirmation hearing of Jeff Sessions. Today, Vox has published a defense written by Fairooz herself titled “I’m [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Emma Watson receives tribute for being genderless or something]( 5/8/2017 2:31:18 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Hey, did you happen to catch the MTV movie awards? Or Television and Movie Awards or whatever they’re calling it now? No? Me neither. I’d love to, you see, but we just got a new dog a couple of weeks ago and he needed a bath. Only so many [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Does Tribune Media sale signal the rise of a new conservative TV network?]( 5/8/2017 2:01:12 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The biggest owner of local TV stations just got bigger — and 21st Century Fox may have left the door open to the rise of a competitor. Sinclair reached a deal to acquire Tribune Media, adding dozens of local stations to its line-up as well as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Obama warned Trump in Oval Office meeting not to hire Mike Flynn as national security advisor]( 5/8/2017 1:31:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I guess Team O got tired of Trump using them as cover for his decision to hire Flynn: General Flynn was given the highest security clearance by the Obama Administration – but the Fake News seldom likes talking about that. — Donald J. Trump [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obama urges ‘courage’ in defense of Obamacare]( 5/8/2017 1:01:14 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Speaking at the John F. Kennedy Library where he was accepting a Profiles in Courage award, former President Obama urged Democrats to show courage in defending his health care law. “I hope that current members of Congress recall that it actually [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [National Front looking at “rebranding” their image after Le Pen defeat?]( 5/8/2017 12:31:47 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As we discussed here yesterday, the French elections wound up going pretty much as the polls had predicted and the results were a very unpleasant surprise for Marine Le Pen and the National Front party. The margin of defeat was one of the largest seen in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rice: We really dodged a bullet in France, n’est-ce pas?]( 5/8/2017 12:01:21 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “It’s good news out of France,” former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told CBS’ This Morning today about the election of Emmanuel Macron. “No one, I think, who believes in globalization or immigration or free trade [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Paul Ryan: The Senate could pass its own health-care bill in as little as “a month or two”]( [“I like the way you talk sh*t while I’m walking away”]( [Comey: 15% of terror cases came as refugees]( [Sally Yates changed her tune yesterday about why she wouldn’t enforce Trump’s travel ban]( [Rush Limbaugh pushing French election conspiracy theory]( [GOP congressman: Republicans were “irresponsible” to celebrate AHCA passage at White House]( [ACLU lawyer makes it official: The only thing wrong with Trump’s travel ban is Trump]( [White House advisors called Ottawa to urge Trudeau to help talk Trump down from scrapping NAFTA]( [Steve Bannon’s former Hollywood partner breaks silence: “He’s not a racist”]( [Comey’s testimony on Huma Abedin forwarding emails was inaccurate]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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