HotAir Daily Express 05/11/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Yates for Georgia governor? Stay tuned]( 5/11/2017 10:41:20 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Sally Yates is out of a job in the federal government and these can be tough times for job seekers anywhere. After her recent appearances you might expect her to show up with a gig on MSNBC as a political analyst, but perhaps her time in public service [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Woodward: This isn’t Watergate … yet]( 5/11/2017 10:01:56 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Do the allegations of Russian influence and potential collusion in the 2016 election amount to a new Watergate? Is it even a scandal at all? Bob Woodward, who along with Carl Bernstein chronicled the Watergate scandal, tells the Washington Post’s [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. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Los Angeles schools offer to blatantly break the law in opposing ICE]( 5/11/2017 9:21:10 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The folks on the left coast may want to kick those Calexit talks into high gear because the state of California is acting more and more like their own country at this point anyway. The latest shot fired in the race to “Resist! Trump!” and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ABC: Rosenstein nearly resigned after WH spin on Comey firing]( 5/11/2017 8:41:34 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments When the White House first announced the firing of FBI Director James Comey, their first narrative cast it as the culmination of an internal review of Comey’s actions by newly confirmed deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Later, though, the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Guess who’s coming to dinner at the White House (the AYFKM edition)]( 5/11/2017 8:01:26 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Let’s just get the headline out of the way right up front. President Trump will be hosting yet another world leader at the White House for a formal meeting next week. The guest of honor is none other than aspiring tyrant Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“I think that it’s a real possibility”: Let’s face it, “The Rock” is eventually going to be our president]( 5/10/2017 10:41:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We started this, so no complaining. It’s celebrity presidents all the way down now. The guy’s obviously cut out for the job. Easy charm, talks a lot about “inclusion,” self-described “feminist,” appealing multiracial [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Women aren’t “celebrating” their “many shapes and sizes” with Dove’s new ad]( 5/10/2017 10:01:11 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve probably spent enough time (for now, anyway) poking fun at or despairing over the airline industry, so let’s turn our attention to a different sector of the market. Dove is a well known brand which produces a range of bath and beauty [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oh, look, another campus hate hoax, this time in Minnesota]( 5/10/2017 9:21:23 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Another alleged hate crime has been revealed to be a hoax. At the end of last month a student named Samantha Wells said she found this racist note left on her car at St. Olaf’s College in Minnesota: this was at my college. this was put on a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Star power? GOP picks up celebrity candidate in CA House race]( 5/10/2017 8:41:23 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Can Republicans pick up a Democratic seat in deep-blue Los Angeles on star power alone? We’ll find out in the 26th district race, currently occupied by three-term Democrat Julia Brownley. Antonio Sabato Jr, the soap opera star and outspoken [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sen. Angus King: The Senate Intel Committee should hire Comey to lead its Russia investigation]( 5/10/2017 8:01:16 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Why not, says King? “Already has his clearances, knows the subject, man of integrity.” Man of integrity? We all knew last night when the word came down that Democrats (or Democratic-leaning independents like King) would instantly start [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Aetna will completely exit Obamacare exchanges in 2018]( 5/10/2017 7:21:43 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This has been coming for some time and today Aetna made it official. The company will not participate in any Obamacare exchanges in 2018. From Fox Business: “We will not offer on- or off-exchange individual plans in Delaware or Nebraska for 2018, and at [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Government employee unions looking to “influence” downsizing]( 5/10/2017 6:41:44 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Even though the federal hiring freeze is technically over, the executive order instructing all departments to prepare plans for downsizing is still in place and plans are underway to move forward with shrinking the federal behemoth. While this comes as a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Source close to Comey: He was fired because the Russia investigation was accelerating]( 5/10/2017 6:01:14 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Actually, says Jake Tapper’s source, there were two reasons. The Russia investigation was accelerating and Comey refused to give Trump any guarantee of personal loyalty. Which, if you were trying to cook up the most cartoonishly damning theory of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [At the FBI, shock and confusion over Director Comey’s sudden firing]( 5/10/2017 5:21:56 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Director James Comey was hated by the left for his actions regarding Hillary Clinton and by the right for failing to charge Clinton or her advisers with mishandling classified information, but he still had some support within the FBI itself. Many of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Shocking new DNA study reveals that human beings are divided into two genders!]( 5/10/2017 4:41:31 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There’s some additional bad news out there for the “party of science” (as the Democrats have taken to calling themselves) and particularly for transgender advocates. But even if you have no interest in such social justice topics, a new [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Will Senate version of AHCA defund Planned Parenthood?]( 5/10/2017 4:01:19 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Republican leaders hailed the House passage of the American Health Care Act last week not just for its fulfillment of the pledge to repeal ObamaCare, but also for its defunding of Planned Parenthood. Paul Ryan had told Hugh Hewitt and angry conservatives [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Education Secretary DeVos booed during commencement speech]( 5/10/2017 3:21:12 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Education Secretary Betsy DeVos received an honorary degree and gave a commencement address at Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black college in Daytona Beach, Florida, today. Throughout her speech, DeVos was booed by students upset that she [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Comey asked DOJ for more resources for Russia investigation days before he was fired]( 5/10/2017 2:41:19 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The DOJ insists this isn’t true but at least five different news outlets have sources whispering to them that it is. From the Times: Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department for a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Conway questions the timing of … questioning the timing]( 5/10/2017 2:01:03 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The Trump administration has some good arguments for the decision to fire James Comey, and some good arguments to make that the probe into Russian interference won’t be impacted by it. This … is not one of them. White House senior counselor [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrat Heath Mello loses Omaha mayoral race after abortion controversy]( 5/10/2017 1:21:55 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Heath Mello is the moderate 37-year-old Democrat who was going to help his party make inroads in GOP-controlled Nebraska by becoming the next Mayor of Omaha. Yesterday he lost that race to Republican Jean Stohert who will return to office for another [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chelsea Manning already working the press ahead of his release from prison]( 5/10/2017 12:41:40 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The seemingly endless saga of convicted traitor Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley) is moving into its next phase. After serving only a handful of the 35 years he was supposed to do for espionage, he had his sentence somewhat infamously commuted by Barack [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Time to play “Who Wants to be an FBI Director”?]( 5/10/2017 12:01:20 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Now that James Comey has unexpectedly entered into retirement as FBI Director, who will take his place? Given all of the drama and hyperbole in Washington DC, perhaps a better question would be who’d want to replace him? Comey made himself a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Colbert’s audience roars with cheers upon hearing that Comey was fired]( 5/10/2017 11:21:05 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, this is funnier when you realize that the liberals who stand in line for tickets to this show doubtless see themselves as better informed and more politically savvy than the average benighted American. How could they not be? They [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [For Trump supporters, the real outrage is the left’s uproar over Comey]( [Kushners quit property bid as pressures mount over conflicts]( [Democrats aghast at Comey’s firing, despite anger towards him]( [Dems want Sally Yates for Georgia governor]( [Sources: Comey sought to expand Trump-Russia probe of former campaign officials]( [Mike Lee: Trump should nominate Merrick Garland to replace Comey]( [Trump holds auditions for White House press secretary while Spicer’s away]( [“Mr. Comey was concerned by information showing possible evidence of collusion”]( [Aides: Comey infuriated Trump with refusal to preview Senate testimony]( [Trump preparing certified letter attesting to no Russia ties]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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