HotAir Daily Express 07/11/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [NYC mayor’s trip to Germany was taxpayer funded so he could #RESIST Trump]( 7/11/2017 10:41:01 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Remember when New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio hopped on a jet and took off to Germany right when the city was in mourning over the assassination of yet another police officer? To say that this was a political misstep is the definition of an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT: Trump Jr told in e-mail that Russian gov’t behind potential Hillary dirt]( 7/11/2017 10:01:44 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments And so the plot thickens … but by how much? Three days ago, the New York Times reported on a previously undisclosed meeting between a Russian attorney with alleged Kremlin links and three members of Donald Trump’s inner circle for the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did our Ambassador to Turkey slam the U.S. fight against terror?]( 7/11/2017 9:21:42 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In any earlier, more “normal” era this probably wouldn’t be a very big deal, but anything having to do with Turkey is excessively complicated these days. Adam Kredo at the Free Beacon picked up an interesting bit of news out of Istanbul [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Iraqi News: ISIS announced death of “caliph” al-Baghdadi]( 7/11/2017 8:41:37 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Rumors of the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have floated for weeks, with Russia insisting that one of its air strikes took out the self-proclaimed “caliph” of ISIS last month. Just a few days ago, the terror organization executed one of its [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [US Post Office spent big OT bucks to cover workers while they campaigned for Hillary]( 7/11/2017 8:01:33 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Post Office lost $5.6B dollars in fiscal year 2016. (To be fair, they actually showed a small profit, but the federal government forced them to pony up $5.8B to fund future retiree pension costs. That’s a story for another day, however.) But [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gallup: Confidence in police drops below 50% among young, Hispanics, and Democrats, below 40% among liberals]( 7/10/2017 10:41:31 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Reading that headline, you might assume that confidence in cops is down among the general population too. Not so. It’s up five points since 2015. What Gallup’s seeing isn’t erosion in trust for the P.D. among Americans overall but [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Trump told people he’d spend $10 million to defeat Jeff Flake’s reelection bid]( 7/10/2017 10:01:00 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Meh. I get why this is newsworthy but it needs to be graded on a curve. Any other presidential nominee vowing vengeance on a member of his own party for not supporting him would be a big deal. With Trump, he probably swears revenge on his enemies 15-20 [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Soldier in Hawaii pledged loyalty to ISIS]( 7/10/2017 9:21:19 PM John Sexton 0 Comments An active duty soldier at the Schofield Barracks in Hawaii was arrested and charged with providing support to ISIS. Ikaika Erik Kang allegedly pledged loyalty to ISIS and then attempted to steal military documents. From ABC News: The criminal complaint [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Politico: Why does Rubio tweet the “most Republican part of the Bible”?]( 7/10/2017 8:41:24 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Come on, man. Everyone knows that the most Republican part of the Bible is Leviticus. (Numbers would have won the title except for Balaam’s talking donkey.) For some reason, though, Politico’s Joel Baden sees tweets from Marco Rubio about [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Fat ass”: Chris Christie’s sports-talk tryout goes as well as expected]( 7/10/2017 8:01:35 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate. Don’t ask me why this guy wants to do sports radio. He’s a Cowboys fan auditioning on a station that serves the New York/New Jersey market. Maybe, as a Republican in a blue state with an approval rating in the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Professor Weinstein’s sin: He stepped outside the progressive bubble and spoke to Tucker Carlson]( 7/10/2017 7:21:42 PM John Sexton 0 Comments It was Professor Bret Weinstein’s decision to step outside of the progressive bubble and speak to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that earned him the anger of many of his colleagues. Michael Zimmerman, a former provost at Evergreen College, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [You won’t see Colin Kaepernick begging for a QB job]( 7/10/2017 6:41:28 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s still 24 days until the NFL pre-season officially starts, but some of us can hardly wait. The rosters have been pretty much set for a while now, though some last minute changes always happen. One person who hasn’t been attending practice [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Nevada governor: State of emergency over a massive shortage of …]( 7/10/2017 6:01:45 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments … of what, exactly? Water? Tax revenues? NFL apologists? Casino chips? Harry Reid relatives in state government? What kind of shortage qualifies for a declaration of emergency in the great state of Nevada? You’ll never guess: Nevada’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Corey Lewandowski: Trump raised the hacking issue and Putin denied it so the issue is dead]( 7/10/2017 5:31:12 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A leftover from yesterday. What did Lewandowski mean to say here? Because it sounds like he’s saying that a perfunctory denial from Bond villain Vladimir Putin is worth its weight in gold. And I know he can’t be saying that. On Fox, Corey [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Majority of Republicans believe colleges have a negative impact]( 7/10/2017 5:01:39 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Pew Reseach published the results of a survey today looking at various institutions and what people on the right and left think of them. This graph, created by Pew, shows the results: As you can see, Republicans tend to feel churches have a strong [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Media gears up to combat voting integrity laws]( 7/10/2017 4:31:20 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s still nearly sixteen months until the midterm elections, but the usual list of suspects is already hot on the trail of any states which may be attempting to safeguard the integrity of elections with new voter ID laws and related measures. This [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Iraqi PM: We shocked the world in Mosul]( 7/10/2017 4:01:16 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “The world did not imagine that Iraqis could eliminate Daesh,” Haider al-Abadi said as the Iraqi prime minister declared victory in Mosul, and for a long time, those critics were correct. In fact, the victory celebration may still be a little [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Deja vu: Some of Comey’s memos may have been “retroactively classified,” source tells Politico]( 7/10/2017 3:31:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments There’s something soooo familiar about this. The way we’re going, the Comey saga can only end with soon-to-be new FBI director Christopher Wray calling a press conference to pronounce him “extremely careless” in handling [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Defense Secretary Mattis grants interview to high school student (and it’s pretty good)]( 7/10/2017 3:01:08 PM John Sexton 0 Comments When the Washington Post accidentally published Defense Secretary James Mattis’ phone number in May, high-school sophomore Teddy Fischer, who lives in Washington State, wrote down the number. Fischer called the number to see if it was real but [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [San Francisco and California take additional steps toward lawlessness]( 7/10/2017 2:31:09 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Remember when Kate’s Law passed the House of Representatives a few weeks ago? That was a pretty good day and gave many of us hope that some progress was being made on the law and order front. Not everyone was thrilled about it, though. One of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: Feds stepping up pace of probe into Jane Sanders]( 7/10/2017 2:01:19 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Did Jane Sanders commit fraud in a land deal involving Burlington College in 2010? Questions about the role that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ wife played in the collapse of the school have percolated for over a year, and two months ago the website VTDigger [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [35 minutes: Kellyanne Conway vs. Chris Cuomo on Trump Jr., Russiagate, and CNN]( 7/10/2017 1:31:12 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments How long did it go? Cuomo starts talking about wrapping things up around minute 20, slightly more than … halfway through. At least watch until 8:00 or so, when he challenges Conway on the dwindling credibility of a man to whom some in Trump’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Times: Campus protests ‘a disaster’ for Mizzou]( 7/10/2017 1:01:17 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The 2015 protests that rocked the University of Missouri campus and eventually led to the ouster of the school’s president “has been a disaster for the university.” That’s the conclusion of the NY Times which published a story [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The opposition in Turkey isn’t slowing down their tyrant at all]( 7/10/2017 12:31:34 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments While it doesn’t attract all that much press attention in the rest of the world, there is still (somehow) an active and vocal opposition group in Turkey which opposes the rise to absolute power and tyrannical control of the population being [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Take 3? Toomey announces new Senate health-care bill coming]( 7/10/2017 12:01:00 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Third time’s the charm? Over the July 4th recess, it’s become clear that the Senate’s ObamaCare repeal, the Better Care Reform Act (BCRA), has become a dead letter in its present form. The number of Republicans who announced opposition [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Donald Trump Jr publishes email exchange regarding meeting with Russian lawyer]( [Why replacing Obamacare is so hard: It’s fundamentally conservative]( [U.S. prepares to act alone on sanctions against North Korea]( [U.S. successfully tests THAAD missile system amid North Korean tensions]( [Russian lawyer says she was summoned to Trump Jr. meeting]( [Fox & Friends addresses false Comey memo report: “We were mistaken”]( [We knew Japan’s sex problem was bad. 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