HotAir Daily Express 09/08/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [DoJ makes “shocking” flip in SCOTUS religious liberty case]( 9/8/2017 10:41:28 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments In the previous administration, the Department of Justice was not shy about sharing its position on cases involving tension between religious liberty and non-discrimination regulation at the local and state level. The Trump administration’s DoJ [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Graham demands Comey testimony: “I smell a rat”]( 9/8/2017 10:01:24 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Lindsey Graham wants former FBI director James Comey to return to Congress because he “smells a rat” in his previous testimony. If so, it’s only the last of a series of them. Last week, a letter to his successor Christopher Wray [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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bernie: Come on, does anyone really believe Hillary’s whining any more?]( 9/8/2017 9:21:41 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Give Hillary Clinton this much credit — she has come up with new excuses for her massive 2016 faceplant against Donald Trump. MSNBC host Chris Hayes digs up a beaut in an excerpt from What Happened, which is that Bernie Sanders just copied her [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Scott warns Floridians: Irma will be “bigger than Andrew”]( 9/8/2017 8:41:28 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments And that’s saying a lot. Until Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Andrew held the record for the most destructive US storm in the previous several decades. The Category 5 hurricane destroyed over 63,000 homes and damaging twice as many, with a total [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Was Delta “price gouging” people evacuating from Miami?]( 9/8/2017 8:01:35 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments To be fair, it’s United that claims to fly the friendly skies, but somebody at Delta might not have gotten the memo. Raw Story created a brief uproar on social media this week when they covered the story of Leigh Dow, a woman who was attempting to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mike Lee warns Democrats: Your hostility to religion makes average Americans feel despised by their leaders]( 9/7/2017 10:41:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The occasion for this speech is yesterday’s pitiful religiously-oriented grilling of judicial nominee Amy Coney Barrett by Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin, but Lee’s thinking big picture. This isn’t just about Feinstein and Barrett or [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [At Reed College, the left clashes with itself over free speech]( 9/7/2017 10:01:55 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Evergreen State College wasn’t the only progressive school in the northwest where protesters were disrupting classes last year. At Reed College, dubbed the most liberal and least religious of 382 schools surveyed by The Princeton Review, far left [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: 55% approve of Trump’s handling of Hurricane Harvey]( 9/7/2017 9:21:52 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Conspicuously good numbers for a president whom Democrats despise and whose job approval has been stuck in the high 30s/low 40s for months. It’s hard to imagine Dems ever coming around on Trump, especially when so many view his victory as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ben Sasse: This Trump-Schumer-Pelosi bill leaves Democrats with most of the cards]( 9/7/2017 8:41:52 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Watch it all if you can spare the time, but if not, things start to pick up at 4:45. Sasse wanted a clean hurricane relief bill, not the Trump-brokered compromise that tacks on three months of government funding and a debt-ceiling hike, setting up a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Equifax announces data breach potentially affecting 143 million Americans]( 9/7/2017 8:01:00 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Credit reporting company Equifax announced Thursday that it had suffered a massive hack potentially affecting 143 million Americans. The company posted an explanation on its website: Equifax Inc. today announced a cybersecurity incident potentially [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Here we go: McCain, Trump endorse last-gasp ObamaCare repeal bill]( 9/7/2017 7:21:06 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments With the shot clock about to expire, Republicans on Capitol Hill may have the ball in their hands again for another chance at what was supposed to be an easy lay-up. Yesterday, Sen. John McCain — who stuck a stake through the heart of the previous [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Bannon, Mark Meadows chatting about possible replacements for Paul Ryan]( 9/7/2017 6:41:06 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Stories about Ryan being ousted as Speaker are the easiest stories in political media to write. All it takes is one grumbly House conservative brain-farting out loud about a coup in front of a reporter and you’re in business. This one bears [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sec. DeVos: Obama-era Title IX guidelines on campus sexual assault will be replaced]( 9/7/2017 6:01:25 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Speaking at Geroge Mason University, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced Thursday that her department would be reviewing Title IX guidelines on sexual assault. DeVos said she was “grateful” to those who sought to end sexual [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cornyn: Pelosi, Schumer don’t control the Senate agenda]( 9/7/2017 5:21:54 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Er … wanna bet? Nancy Pelosi might have gained control over Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, but she doesn’t control the Senate floor. Or does she? Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn told reporters this morning that Republicans would not [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Super upbeat” Trump gushes to Schumer, Pelosi about glowing media coverage over yesterday’s “deal”]( 9/7/2017 4:41:56 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I mean, there was no “deal.” The Democrats asked for a three-month debt-ceiling extension and Trump said “okay.” They wanted a short-term punt on fiscal-cliff issues and he gave it to them. It’s not a deal unless both sides [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Defense attorney: Menendez bribery trial an ‘attack’ on Hispanic-Americans]( 9/7/2017 4:01:59 PM John Sexton 0 Comments In his opening statement, Kirk Ogrosky, the defense attorney for Sen. Menendez’ co-defendant Salomon Melgen, claimed that the government’s case is really an attack on Hispanic-Americans. From Politico: “Sal and Bob were part of a fellowship [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: NYT best-seller bias, Little Nancy’s Twitter-fu, the Hillary Show, Impossible DREAM, and more!]( 9/7/2017 3:21:42 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A big ruling on gay marriage from Australia’s highest court]( 9/7/2017 2:41:53 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Earlier this week we looked at the prospective derailing of the upcoming Australian plebiscite on gay marriage. The tenuous agreement on how to proceed on this question was already threatening to undo Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s majority in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Whoa: Trump and Schumer working together to … repeal the debt ceiling altogether?]( 9/7/2017 2:01:23 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I thought there’d be some middle phase in Trump’s drift towards the left between “Trump agrees to Democratic timetable on fiscal issues” and “Trump agrees to blow up legal limits on borrowing by U.S. Treasury.” My [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [National Action Network plans to protest Kid Rock concerts in Detroit]( 9/7/2017 1:21:32 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Detroit chapter of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network plans to protest a string of concerts Kid Rock will give next week. Kid Rock will open the new $860 million Little Caesars Arena by playing six nights in a row starting next Tuesday. From [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bannon: Catholic bishops “need illegal aliens to fill the churches”]( 9/7/2017 12:41:27 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Catholic bishops may or may not be wrong about immigration policy, but are they purely venal about it? Steve Bannon gives his first formal interview after leaving the White House to CBS’ Charlie Rose and lashes out at he US Conference of Catholic [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi to colleagues: I took control of Trump’s Twitter feed, you know]( 9/7/2017 12:01:00 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Even Agatha Christie might find this whodunit fascinating. It starts with a tweet from Donald Trump clarifying the meaning of his six-month extension of DACA. Trump tried to allay fears that enforcement action would begin immediately, a concern that got [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Lou Dobbs: Trump slaughtered Paul RINO by making a deal with Democrats yesterday]( 9/7/2017 11:21:45 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Right-wing populism has been building to this moment for years, and not just the two-plus years since Trump entered politics. As sticking it to the GOP establishment gradually became the supreme goal of the grassroots right, the reasons for wanting to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [What if the FBI had a lot to do with that fake Trump “dossier”?]( [For DACA recipients, losing protection and work permits is just the start]( [The beginning of the end of the debt ceiling]( [Florida man selflessly gives last generator in store to crying woman]( [Why Steve Bannon’s next act revolves around Alabama and the religious right]( [Report: Fox News will not hire Spicer]( [McCaul emerges as a leading candidate for DHS secretary]( [DOJ sides with baker who refused to make wedding cake for gay couple]( [Koch brothers will push Congress to protect DREAMers]( [Appeals court rules against travel ban restrictions on refugees, close relatives]( [Three Equifax managers sold stock before cyber hack was revealed]( [8.1-magnitude earthquake strikes off Mexico coast]( [Dissolve the dead? 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