HotAir Daily Express 08/11/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Poll: Six in ten Americans tired of this key issue]( 8/11/2017 10:41:08 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Time to throw in the towel? Americans don’t like political quitters in general, but when it comes to ObamaCare, they’ve tired of the ideological war. Sixty-two percent of Americans want Congress to move on to other priorities rather than keep [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [DCCC reverses course: “No interest” in working with pro-life Dem group]( 8/11/2017 10:01:15 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Pro-life Democrats must feel like they’ve sustained whiplash over the last few months. First, DNC chair Tom Perez declares that the party is off-limits to pro-life candidates. Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin grudgingly allows that they can think [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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Brooks to Google CEO: Get out; Update: Survey says …]( 8/11/2017 9:21:13 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Time for Google’s top man to hit the bricks, David Brooks declares at the New York Times, a signal that the fog of media bias may be burning off this scandal. Brooks fingers Google CEO Sundar Pichai as the worst-behaved figure in the controversy [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [China to Kim: You’re on your own, pal]( 8/11/2017 8:41:22 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Did China just give Donald Trump a green light to retaliate if North Korea launches missiles at US soil? The Global Times, which has acted as the unofficial mouthpiece of Beijing, warned Pyongyang that any US response to an attack on its forces or soil [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The EPA needs to explain what the “emergency” in Seattle is]( 8/11/2017 8:01:46 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Have you heard of any sort of emergency going on in the greater Seattle, Washington area which has stretched on for more than two years? Was there another volcanic eruption that I somehow missed? Perhaps it was a tsunami. Whatever it was it must have [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another Trump supporter gone: CNN dumps Jeffrey Lord over “Sieg Heil” tweet]( 8/10/2017 10:01:31 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Ridiculous. Dumping him is fine, but dumping him for this is nonsense. It’s clearly a pretext. Sieg Heil! — Jeff Lord (@realJeffreyLord) August 10, 2017 Carusone is the president of Media Matters. Lord’s “Sieg Heil” is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Times editorial writer will proclaim ignorance in response to Palin’s defamation lawsuit]( 8/10/2017 9:21:32 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Judge Jed Rakoff is handling the defamation lawsuit filed by Sarah Palin against the NY Times in June. Palin filed the lawsuit over an editorial which accused her of inciting the 2011 Tucson shooting. The NY Times, which later corrected the editorial to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Susan Rice: We can learn to live with North Korean nuclear ICBMs]( 8/10/2017 8:41:08 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It takes balls to offer advice to a new administration on how to clean up a mess you and your boss left sitting for eight years, so congrats to her on that. I wonder if she already has her “We can learn to live with Iranian nuclear ICBMs” [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Medicare expansion: What could go wrong?]( 8/10/2017 8:01:02 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments As both parties come to grips with their failures to revamp the health-insurance industry — Republicans on the failure to replace ObamaCare, Democrats on ObamaCare itself — some hope that a bipartisan compromise can resolve the issue. Both [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [DNC member on Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: ‘We wish she would go away’]( 8/10/2017 7:21:58 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Poor Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. She’s become a regular Debbie Downer to folks within her own party. Politico reports one Florida DNC member going public with opposition to the former chair of the party: “We wish she would go away and stop being so [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: I’m thankful that Putin expelled our diplomats since it’ll save us some money]( 8/10/2017 6:41:05 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Even if this is a joke it’s still a conspicuous attempt to avoid criticizing Putin in public, a curious yet longstanding habit of a guy who’s famously not shy about attacking other people who’ve made him unhappy. And by “other [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Loud and clear: US boots two Cuba diplomats over bizarre attack on US personnel, families]( 8/10/2017 6:01:26 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Can you hear me now? That may be an ad jingle, but it also is an accurate description of the Trump administration’s message to Cuba in May, when it expelled two diplomats. The Washington Post reported last night that American diplomats and their [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [What draws people to anarchy? Left-wing extremism and smashing stuff but mostly smashing stuff]( 8/10/2017 5:21:58 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Washington Post published a piece today titled “What draws Americans to anarchy? It’s more than just smashing windows.” The story itself isn’t as dumb as the headline suggests, but it never does demonstrate that what draws people [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bananas: Princeton philosopher explains why it’s okay to abort babies who don’t have a “future” or something]( 8/10/2017 4:41:26 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “My view isn’t that if you do abort, abortion is OK but if you don’t abort, abortion would have been wrong,” says professor Liz Harman at one point to hosts Eliot Michaelson and James Franco. (Yes, that James Franco.) It’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Aha: It was Manafort who told the feds about Donald Jr’s meeting with the Russian lawyer]( 8/10/2017 4:01:47 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Indulge me as I quote myself from a post written yesterday, about that mysterious story from Trump’s very good friends at the National Enquirer accusing Manafort of having an affair. But … why would Trump want to make an enemy of Manafort at a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A cautionary tale: California Democrats battle over party leadership position]( 8/10/2017 3:21:46 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Wednesday the NY Times published an article about the ongoing battle being waged inside the California Democratic Party over the party chairmanship: The fight pits Eric C. Bauman, a longtime party leader, against Kimberly Ellis, a Bay Area activist. Mr. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Swift justice, North Korea fireworks, Trump-McConnell feud, the fading art of the political deal, abandoning truth, and more!]( 8/10/2017 3:21:06 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gingrich scolds Trump: This ObamaCare failure isn’t just Mitch McConnell’s fault, you know]( 8/10/2017 2:41:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He’s right, to a point. The Republican ship has been sailing the seas of health-care reform without a captain thanks partly to Trump’s apparent total disinterest in what a final bill should look like. But it ain’t Trump who spent the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Revealed: The North Korean plan to “attack” Guam]( 8/10/2017 2:01:01 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Will North Korea attack Guam, as promised, or just conduct a high-risk missile test? The regime’s state broadcaster announced earlier today that the Kim regime has finalized plans to simultaneously launch four missiles at the US territory later [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Judge orders new search for Clinton Benghazi emails]( 8/10/2017 1:21:16 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Tuesday, in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Judicial Watch, a federal judge ordered the State Department to do a search of its own email archives for anything Hillary Clinton may have written about Benghazi. From Politico: In response [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Spain is now helping Turkey arrest journalists]( 8/10/2017 12:41:16 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Well, I suppose it can’t all be good news on a Thursday. While largely ignored in the mainstream media, a Turkish / Swedish journalist has been sitting in jail in Spain for the past week and it’s not because he broke any Spanish laws. Hamza [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Backside backfire: Lawsuit against Taylor Swift going as well as you’d expect]( 8/10/2017 12:01:55 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Sue in haste, repent at leisure. After a Denver DJ got fired from his radio gig following accusations from Taylor Swift that he’d groped her during a photo shoot, David Mueller sued the pop star for slander, seeking millions of dollars in damages. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: 52% of Republicans would support Trump if he called for suspending the 2020 election over voter fraud concerns]( 8/10/2017 11:21:06 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments We held a presidential election during the Civil War, for fark’s sake. Even if there were massive voter fraud going on, which there almost certainly is not, there’s no emergency short of a nuclear attack or an asteroid strike that’s so [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Transgenderism doesn’t excuse treason]( [Some insiders “elated” as CNN sacks Jeffrey Lord]( [Behind the Trump-McConnell feud]( [Mueller is squeezing Manafort]( [We have lost the war in Afghanistan. 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