HotAir Daily Express 05/10/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Wisconsin Democrats still blaming voter ID laws for Clinton’s loss]( 5/10/2017 10:41:19 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The subject of “Why did Hillary lose” has become the 21st century replacement for Why Can’t Johnny Read, and there will likely be even more books written about it before this issue ever settles into the dustbin of history. Everyone [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Turkey to Trump: Don’t send weapons to terrorist Kurds]( 5/10/2017 10:01:23 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Next week, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan will come to Washington to meet with Donald Trump, and despite the calendar, the weather prediction already looks … mighty chilly. The White House announced yesterday that the US would arm the YPG, [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. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Baltimore prosecutor who botched Freddie Gray trials still thinks she won]( 5/10/2017 9:21:35 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The professional standing of Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby should, in any rational world, be in tatters. Her history of working with former Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake during the Freddie Gray riots and her subsequent, disastrous [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump to Dems: Why so sad over cost-us-the-election Comey?]( 5/10/2017 8:41:42 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Jonah Goldberg may have captured this weird moment in American politics best. In response to Donald Trump’s jibe at Democrats raging over the firing of James Comey, Goldberg tweeted, “If hypocrisy were helium, Washington would be in low earth [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Emmanuel Macron’s election was something of a pyrrhic victory]( 5/10/2017 8:01:47 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve had a few days to digest the results of the French elections now, with observers from around the world weighing in on “what it all means.” Marine Le Pen didn’t just lose… she was slaughtered at the polls by any modern [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The most important thing I’ve ever writ…Oh! Look at that!]( 5/9/2017 10:41:48 PM Allan Bourdius 0 Comments In the evening hours of Monday, May 8 the conservative blogosphere was rocked with the news that prominent pro-Second Amendment blogger Bob Owens took his own life earlier that day. His final words were recorded by his last status update on Facebook; a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Obama: You get the politicians you deserve]( 5/9/2017 10:01:15 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We deserved eight years of him and then four of Trump? Good lord. This may be the single most cutting thing he’s ever said about Americans. Well, second-most. Buried in the subtext of his remark is his theory of the election: Democrats didn’t [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Border apprehensions dropped 9% in April to another historic low]( 5/9/2017 9:21:41 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The number of people caught trying to illegally cross the southern border dropped another 9% last month. CNN reports apprehensions are at their lowest point in the past 17 years: In April, there were 11,129 total apprehensions at the Southwest border. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Shot clock on regulation repeal running out — or is it?]( 5/9/2017 8:41:20 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The renewed Republican control of Washington DC has produced one unique outcome — an unprecedented use of the Congressional Review Act. Congress passed the CRA in 1996 as a legislative veto on regulations passed within a particular time frame, but [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did you hear the electoral college is almost extinct?]( 5/9/2017 8:01:08 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments One of the biggest complaints among supporters of Hillary Clinton regarding the fact that she lost the election is that… she lost the election. That probably sounds a bit oversimplified, but in the end it’s what it comes down to. And absent [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Spicer: We didn’t know whether to trust Sally Yates on Flynn because she was a “political opponent of the president”]( 5/9/2017 7:21:22 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If they didn’t trust her enough to believe her when she told them Flynn was at risk of being blackmailed by the Russians, why the hell did they allow her to serve as acting Attorney General in the first place? Yates was in that role for all of 10 [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [President Trump fires FBI Director Comey]( 5/9/2017 6:15:43 PM John Sexton 0 Comments FBI Director James Comey was fired by President Trump. ABC News has a brief statement released by Sean Spicer: BREAKING: FBI Director James Comey has been fired, White House says. pic.twitter.com/U3Mxx8LY2p — ABC News [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Erdogan calls on Muslims to “flood the mosque” in Jerusalem]( 5/9/2017 6:01:56 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Some events this week involving both Turkey and Israel got me to thinking back to when Recep Tayyip Erdogan first ascended to the presidency in Turkey in 2014, having formerly been the Prime Minister. Back in those days I was still just guest blogging [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Times publishes an op-ed critical of abortion]( 5/9/2017 5:21:29 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The NY Times published an op-ed Tuesday by Lori Szala, the national director of client services at Human Coalition. The Human Coalition is a pro-life group which hopes “abortion will become unthinkable and unavailable in our lifetime.” [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Christie: Naah, Trump won’t defund the drug war]( 5/9/2017 4:41:45 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Will Donald Trump cut 95% of the budget for the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the midst of an opioid epidemic? Bloomberg and other news agencies reported from a leaked document that the White House will consider that budget cut, which [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Jared Kushner called Canadian officials, begging them to phone Trump and talk him out of ending NAFTA]( 5/9/2017 4:01:23 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments There are two versions of this story, the boring one and the juicy one. The boring one, from the White House: Canada’s leadership freaked out when rumors began swirling last month that Trump was going to withdraw from NAFTA to mark the end of his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Amie Parnes]( 5/9/2017 3:21:58 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Connecticut insurer requests rate increase of 34%]( 5/9/2017 2:41:29 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last week I pointed out that an insurer in Maryland had requested rate increases as high as 59% for next year. Monday, the Connecticut insurance department announced rate requests as high as 34 percent. From the CT Mirror: The state’s health insurers are [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The growing “gun gap” in American politics]( 5/9/2017 2:01:40 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Do you think that gun owners played a major role in getting Donald Trump elected last November? The default answer would be yes for most of us, I’m sure, but there’s plenty of evidence to back up any anecdotal observations we might make. The [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats plan ‘visceral’ theatrics in defense of Obamacare including mock funerals]( 5/9/2017 1:21:41 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Are you ready for the mock funerals in defense of Obamacare? One Manhattan real estate investor has started a super PAC aimed at defending the law using shock tactics. From Politico: “We must be far more visceral,” said Jason Haber, a Manhattan real [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Concessions: Moon wins South Korea election in a landslide]( 5/9/2017 12:41:08 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments At first, all we had were exit polling for the South Korean elections — and we all know just how infallible exit polling is at predicting outcomes, right? In this case, though, the gaps were large enough to guarantee a big win for Moon Jae-in, the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A new wrinkle in the removal of a Confederate-era monument in New Orleans]( 5/9/2017 12:01:34 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We previously discussed how the first of four Confederate era monuments in New Orleans had been torn down in the middle of the night by anonymous contractors and municipal workers wearing body armor and face masks to hide their identity. There are three [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ACLU lawyer: Trump’s travel ban might be constitutional if ordered by Hillary Clinton]( 5/9/2017 11:21:39 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via NTK and Powerline, a memorably awkward moment from yesterday’s Fourth Circuit hearing on the travel-ban order. Alan Dershowitz warned of this bizarre scenario, in which the same executive order might be constitutional or unconstitutional [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [“After Spicer spent several minutes hidden in the bushes behind these sets…”]( [It’s come to this]( [To fire Comey, Trump team waited for Rosenstein]( [Kellyanne Conway: It’s inappropriate for the media to question the timing of the Comey firing]( [Israel denies reports that Trump has ruled out moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem]( [Six reasons why Trump fired Comey]( [WH spokesman Sarah Huckabee Sanders: It’s time to let go of the Russia probe and move on]( [Jimmy Kimmel is everything that’s wrong with America’s health-care debate]( [German soldiers allegedly planned assassinations to be blamed on migrant]( [U.S. increasingly convinced that Russia hacked French election: sources]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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