HotAir Daily Express 07/13/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Our largest newspapers would like an anti-trust exemption if you don’t mind]( 7/13/2017 10:41:31 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Some of the nation’s largest newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal have a problem on their hands. They’re having a hard time competing against new media outlets such as Google and Facebook. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ban bypass? Trump grants waivers to Afghan girls’ robotics team]( 7/13/2017 10:01:36 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Welcome to today’s political Rorschach test. Does Donald Trump’s personal intervention to grant entry to the US for a group of Afghan girls to compete in an international robotics competition show his leadership skills and humanity? Or does [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How much do you know about the U.S. Constitution? Take this quiz!]( Hillsdale College SPONSORED Many Americans know the Constitution well -- they understand how it protects their freedoms and paved the way for a great nation to be built. But many more Americans don't know enough about it. How much do you know about the Constitution? [Take The Quiz Now]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Baltimore celebrates “victory” in release of illegal aliens]( 7/13/2017 9:21:51 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The residents of Baltimore and their representatives on the City Council are celebrating a big win this week. But it’s nothing to do with curbing their record setting murder rate or fixing their imploding budget. The festivities center around a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Twist: Obama DoJ granted visa waiver to Russian lawyer in Trump Jr meeting]( 7/13/2017 8:41:11 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments As twists go, it’s not exactly on par with finding out who Keyser Söze really is, but it’s intriguing. The Hill’s John Solomon reported late last night that the Russian attorney who met with Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner, and Paul [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Former airline industry lobbyist now lobbying for ATC privatization from inside the FAA]( 7/13/2017 8:01:51 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve been covering the air traffic controller privatization plan being pushed by Pennsylvania GOP Congressman Bill Shuster (and now the Trump administration as well) for some time now. It goes by the name of H.R. 2997, or the “21st Century [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Let’s face it, Russia would have been happier with Hillary as president]( 7/12/2017 10:41:17 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments There are grains of truth here, particularly in Trump’s point about energy, and there’s no doubt that Russia may come to regret backing a militaristic American nationalist. But prefer Hillary? Putin hates Hillary. That Russian hacking [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How to further ruin Hollywood with the Bechdel Test (a rant)]( 7/12/2017 10:01:38 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This week I learned about something which has been around since the 80s without my ever having heard of it. (And believe me, I could have gone the rest of my life quite happily remaining in that blissfully ignorant state.) It’s called The Bechdel [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Whoopi Goldberg to Deray: ‘Get over yourself’]( 7/12/2017 9:21:39 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Black Lives Matter protest leader Deray McKesson made a fool of himself yesterday. He suggested on Twitter that a new poster for the movie War for the Planet of the Apes was mocking him because the poster features a chimp wearing a blue [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmm: House taking action on Russia sanctions?]( 7/12/2017 8:41:35 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Have House Republicans decided to act on the overwhelmingly bipartisan Senate bill — or are they just getting pushed into it by House Democrats at a very tricky political moment? Reuters reports that Paul Ryan plans to move a “strong [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Question for Paul Ryan: Would you meet with a foreign adversary who offered you campaign dirt?]( 7/12/2017 8:01:01 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments For fark’s sake. If you’re going to shill for Don Jr, at least do so forthrightly by answering the question instead of lamely dodging like Ryan does here. Say that he’s “new to politics” or whatever and may not have [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN: Video shows Trump meeting with Agalarov family]( 7/12/2017 7:21:05 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Before he was even a candidate, Donald Trump had dinner with Russian billionaire Aras Agalarov, his pop-star son Emin and Emin’s publicist Rob Goldstone. The meeting, which took place in Las Vegas in 2013, was videotaped and someone has now given [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Senate parliamentarian: Thumbs-up on reconciliation for ObamaCare repeal]( 7/12/2017 6:41:24 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Great news, right? Now all they need is a bill, and 50 votes to pass it. Don’t hold your breath: Senate Republicans have won an argument before the parliamentarian that will allow a House-passed health care reconciliation bill to be taken up and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Here we go: House Dem introduces Articles of Impeachment against Trump]( 7/12/2017 6:01:25 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments For … firing Jim Comey? Something even Jim Comey admitted Trump had every right to do? Dem Rep. Brad Sherman is under no illusions that this is going anywhere. He’s just laying down a marker after the Don Jr emails blew up and seizing an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Looks like Kid Rock is running for Senate, because why not]( 7/12/2017 5:33:40 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is the celebrity political culture ye wanted, this is the celebrity political culture ye shall have. I have had a ton of emails and texts asking me if this website is real… The answer is an absolute YES. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Linda Sarsour raised $100,000 to restore a Jewish cemetery, months later it hasn’t been delivered]( 7/12/2017 5:01:47 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Back in February when bomb threats were being phoned in against Jewish Community Centers around the country, there were also several incidents of vandalism at Jewish cemeteries. I wrote about the Vice President’s visit to one vandalized cemetery [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [GOP voters to Republican leadership: Keep your promise on ObamaCare]( 7/12/2017 4:31:12 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Easier said than done, as Mitch McConnell has discovered this summer. After promising a repeal of ObamaCare for seven years, Republicans in the Senate have developed a case of cold feet now that they have the opportunity to get it accomplished, thanks to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [North Carolina wants to legislate free speech on campus]( 7/12/2017 4:01:48 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Toto, I’m pretty sure we’re not in Kansas anymore. In fact, I’m no longer entirely sure that we’re in the United States. The same nation which was founded by a group of upstart pamphleteers who dared to challenge the conventional [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Who won the Tucker Carlson/Ralph Peters cable news fight last night?]( 7/12/2017 3:31:50 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If you don’t want to watch it all, things start crackling at around 5:00 below when Peters compares Tucker to a Lindbergh-style America Firster apologizing for Hitler in the 30s. Per Godwin’s Law, I believe that makes Carlson officially the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mark Zuckerberg visits North Dakota, learns about fracking]( 7/12/2017 3:01:58 PM John Sexton 0 Comments When last we checked in with Mark Zuckerberg he was visiting the state of Alaska and writing about the need for a national basic income. Yesterday, he spent the day in North Dakota talking with people employed by the oil and gas industry about fracking. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oregon’s full-tilt mandate for abortion-on-demand insurance coverage, public funding almost complete]( 7/12/2017 2:31:40 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Oregon’s legislature wants to cement the state’s status as the most abortion-friendly in the US — and its governor is champing at the bit to finalize it. Last week, lawmakers passed a bill that would require insurers to pay 100% of all [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [So Los Angeles is actually going to host the Olympics, eh?]( 7/12/2017 2:01:18 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The International Olympic Committee has made (or as good as made) their final decisions about upcoming Summer Olympic Games and the “lucky” cities which will get to host them in 2024 and 2028. I suppose it shouldn’t come as too much of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oh my: It was Jared Kushner’s legal team who “discovered” Trump Jr’s emails]( 7/12/2017 1:31:14 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “Trump increasingly questions the loyalty of everyone, including his own staff and personal lawyer,” wrote Axios of the Don Jr fiasco this morning. “Every day, it feels like the walls are closing in and it’s unclear who to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Evergreen President: We’ve seen a ‘slight decline’ in enrollment since protests]( 7/12/2017 1:01:37 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The President of Evergreen State College, George Bridges, says he has seen a “slight decline” in enrollment at the school following campus protests which made national news. From the Olympian: Bridges said they’ve seen a “slight decline” in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Health insurers applying to participate in Obamacare are disappearing]( 7/12/2017 12:31:27 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments By the way, how are things going with Obamacare these days? It’s an important question because the GOP’s efforts to repeal and/or replace it seem to be going about as well as Napoleon invading Russia at this point. So if we might be stuck [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Wray: Mueller not “on a witch hunt”]( 7/12/2017 12:01:06 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments So far, so good? Christopher Wray’s Senate confirmation hearing has not provided too many significant headlines, which is just the way that the White House wants it, and perhaps Republicans and Democrats alike on Capitol Hill — with one [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [John Kelly won’t commit to defending DACA in court]( [“I’m just going to ignore the insults”]( [Was Donald Trump Jr’s Russian connect in U.S. illegally?]( [No, you don’t “take the meeting”]( [White House official on The Rock 2020: “I’ll believe it when I see it”]( [It’s not treason, but it’s not defensible, either]( [Trump in Paris: The curious case of his friend Jim]( [Trump crafting plan to slash legal immigration]( [Scoop: Trump lawyers want wall between Kushner, president]( [Poll: Are hairy women unhirable? 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