HotAir Daily Express 08/03/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [A gay wedding photographer case goes in a new direction]( 8/3/2017 10:41:49 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments How long have we been wrestling with this question now? The debate is still not entirely settled as to whether or not the government can compel someone to take part in a wedding ceremony which violates their religious beliefs as part of their [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Debt ceiling fight: Seems like old times]( 8/3/2017 10:01:20 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Some stories offer readers a wave of nostalgia for, er … the bad old times. Remember when budget fights between House Republicans and a Democratic president led to brinksmanship over the debt ceiling? Recall how we all laughed as our credit rating [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Measure your knowledge of the U.S. Constitution with this short 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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cisgenders beware. Transgender DNA testing project underway]( 8/3/2017 9:21:15 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In some ways I suppose this was inevitable, but a big old Pandora’s Box could be cracked open in the near future in terms of the ongoing debate over “transgender issues” in America and elsewhere. Medical research facilities in both the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Blame Congress for “all-time & very dangerous low” Russia relations]( 8/3/2017 8:41:27 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It didn’t take long for Donald Trump to react to Dmitry Medvedev’s trolling on Facebook last night. As Allahpundit predicted, Trump responded — by attacking Congress for the sanctions bill that Trump signed yesterday. Trump blamed [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Construction of the border wall, er… “barrier” set to begin]( 8/3/2017 8:01:26 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments But wait… I thought that the money for the border wall was tied up in the general omnibus package and wouldn’t be decided on until the fall? Well, that’s still true, but there’s some construction about to get underway in San Diego [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Of course: McCain’s favorable rating now 35 points higher among Democrats than Republicans]( 8/2/2017 10:41:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I mean, he is a Democrat. How many senators are underwater among their own party (-10) and way, waaaaay above water in the other one (+56)? Maybe ol’ Maverick should consider the big switch after all. All things considered, having just cast the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ACLU sues GOP governors over troll blocking on social media]( 8/2/2017 10:01:20 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Does the First Amendment require elected officials to give access to everyone on social media? The ACLU thinks so, and it will take two Republican governors to court over their decisions to block abusive Twitter and Facebook users. Branches in Kentucky [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [It’s happening! Mark Zuckerberg hires Clinton pollster]( 8/2/2017 9:21:47 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Mark Zuckerberg keeps saying he’s not running for president but he also keeps hiring the sorts of people you might want around if you were running. Politico reports Zuckerberg has hired Democratic pollster Joel Benenson to work for his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Russian PM taunts Trump over sanctions: The U.S. political establishment has outwitted you and aims to remove you from power]( 8/2/2017 8:51:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’d like to think the president can’t be manipulated by propaganda this crude, an obvious ploy to get him to challenge Congress on sanctions by playing to his alpha-male vanity and insecurity about Russiagate. I’d like to. The US [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Purge: McMaster fires two Bannonites on National Security Council]( 8/2/2017 8:21:40 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The John Kelly era has officially begun. Is Bannon himself next? Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence on the National Security Council, has been dismissed from the White House, two senior administration officials who are not [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Decline and fall. NYC pet owners not getting dogs vaccinated for fear of autism]( 8/2/2017 7:51:45 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Given the amount of time I’ve spent hanging around at and volunteering for animal shelters over the years (and the houseful of critters we’ve always maintained) it’s not surprising that I used to make a habit of encouraging everyone to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Molina Healthcare pulling out of two states, raising premiums 55% in remaining states]( 8/2/2017 7:21:20 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Molina Healthcare announced today that the company will be pulling out of Obamacare exchanges in Utah and Wisconsin and reducing its participation in the Washington market. The company is still considering its continued participation in other states. In [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rare question: Why has Tillerson not spent money Congress provided for counter-propaganda efforts?]( 8/2/2017 6:41:55 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Since when do department heads turn down money from Congress? Rex Tillerson may allow $60 million from Congress to slip out the hands of the State Department, but not necessarily for the purpose of saving money or shrinking government, Politico’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Boy Scout leaders contradict Trump: We never called to tell him his speech was awesome]( 8/2/2017 6:01:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I suppose there’s a scenario here in which it’s the Scouts, not the president, who are lying, having phoned Trump to thank him for speaking at the Jamboree but wanting to keep that fact a secret given the backlash his speech caused among [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Berkeley butcher shop hangs animal rights sign to stop weekly protests]( 8/2/2017 5:01:33 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A butcher shop in Berkeley has agreed to hang a sign in its window if a vegan group that has been holding weekly protests at the store will stop. From Eater San Francisco: This weekend, a small butcher shop in Berkeley posted a confusing sign to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“This is an amazing moment”: Stephen Miller clashes with Jim Acosta, NYT reporter over immigration]( 8/2/2017 4:56:49 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Anyone still want to argue against my position that the White House briefing shouldn’t be televised? Watch these two tools, Acosta and Glenn Thrush, do their grandstanding best to filibuster Miller, with Acosta reduced to citing the poem on the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Voter tech CEO: Maduro manipulated our system to rig the election]( 8/2/2017 4:31:31 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Just how many people voted in Venezuela’s assembly election on Sunday? The Maduro government, which plans to rewrite the constitution to formalize the transformation into a socialist dictatorship, claimed that over eight million people provided the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Climate data in Australia turns out to be “down under” in more ways than one]( 8/2/2017 4:01:52 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Are climate scientists at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) fudging some of their temperature records to buttress “evidence” of a warming trend? Perish the thought, they say. How could you even suspect such a thing? You people are so [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Coming soon to Homeland Security: Rick Perry?]( 8/2/2017 3:31:02 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It makes me laugh that border hawks are already grumbling at this news, remembering Perry’s soft spot for illegals during the 2012 presidential primary debates. That Perry is long gone, along with the Perry who excoriated Trump in 2015 as a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Black Lives Matter Minneapolis apologizes for claiming a man who committed suicide was ‘lynched’]( 8/2/2017 3:01:28 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Black Lives Matter of Minneapolis is apologizing for spreading photos of a man who committed suicide by hanging himself in a public park in St. Paul, Minnesota. BLM Minneapolis and BLM St. Paul had separately repeated unsubstantiated claims the man was [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [What Really Happened: Comey lands book deal]( 8/2/2017 2:31:43 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Call it The Two Million Dollar Retort. Hillary Clinton plans to slam James Comey in her upcoming memoir, What Happened, distilling all her blame-shifting after the election into one convenient — and avoidable — tome. Harper Collins wants to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Justice Department to probe a different kind of racism at colleges]( 8/2/2017 2:01:04 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments During the course of the Obama administration we saw any number of instances where the federal government was getting involved with activities on and around the nation’s colleges and universities. Most of them seemed to center on questions as to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Trump, Tom Cotton announce bill to cut legal immigration that has zero chance of passing]( 8/2/2017 1:31:47 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Not a chance in hell. Merit-based legal immigration? That makes way too much sense for a Congress that likes its foreign labor unskilled and cheap. That point system is a thing of beauty. Immigrants would be scored on a scale of zero to 100, though in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Evergreen State College’s police chief resigns]( 8/2/2017 1:01:43 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Police Chief Stacy Brown has resigned after less than a year on the job at Evergreen State College. From the News Tribune: “We are very grateful to Chief Brown for the leadership and professionalism she provided to the college throughout the past six [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [It’s on: Trump signs Russia sanctions bill, but promises fight over its enforcement]( 8/2/2017 12:31:56 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Get ready for another fight between both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue on sanctions, even if it may take a while to materialize. Earlier today, Donald Trump signed the bill passed on a nearly unanimous vote in both chambers of Congress last week that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Conservatives are mad at Jeff Flake, too]( [Kelly cracks down on West Wing back channels to Trump]( [“It must be so nice to be a white male”]( [Scaramucci to hold online event Friday to address Trump’s base]( [“This deal will make me look terrible”: Full transcripts of Trump’s calls with Mexico and Australia]( [Congress has made Russian relations worse than ever!]( [In breakthrough, scientists edit a dangerous mutation from genes in human embryos]( [Former UN Amb. Power unmasked ‘”hundreds” in last year of Obama admin]( [John Kelly assures Jeff Sessions his job is safe]( [Trump says U.S. losing Afghanistan war, considers firing top commander]( [Republicans and the lost art of deterrence]( [Amazon has two types of customers. 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