HotAir Daily Express 09/22/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [HuffPost columnist: Netherlands pushing “a moral duty to abort” Down Syndrome babies]( 9/22/2017 10:41:00 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments First Iceland, now the Netherlands? Renate Lindeman, the organizer behind DownPride and the mother of two Down Syndrome daughters, accuses the country’s medical industry and government of pressuring mothers to abort their Down Syndrome babies after [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [World to end on Saturday … travel ban hardest hit?]( 9/22/2017 10:01:51 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Will the world end on Saturday, as predicted by a fringe-Christian website? We’ll get back to that one in a moment, but something definitely will come to an end this weekend — the “travel ban” that critics claimed would be nearly [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Measure your knowledge of the Supreme Court with this short quiz]( Hillsdale College SPONSORED The Supreme Court has shaped American society and politics significantly. But how much do you know about the major cases and decisions of the highest court in the land? [Take The Quiz Now]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Paul to Trump: “I won’t be bribed or bullied”]( 9/22/2017 9:21:06 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments How well is the last-ditch effort to repeal ObamaCare going? It’s proceeding so well that the president and one of his allies have taken to feuding publicly over who’s to blame for its failure. Early this morning, in between tweets about [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [North Korea: Next hydrogen bomb test will be over the Pacific]( 9/22/2017 8:41:48 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The latest threat from the Kim regime at the United Nations might wind up backfiring in more ways than one, even as the war of personal insults escalate between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump. North Korea’s foreign minister Ri Yong-ho threatened to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Race relations? Fuggedaboutit]( 9/22/2017 8:01:35 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments How good are race relations in the United States these days? That’s probably a bit on the misleading side. We should probably just switch that up and ask, precisely how bad are race relations now? NBC News has been running a poll on this question [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump’s job approval rises to highest level in four months]( 9/21/2017 10:41:34 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He hadn’t seen 41.1 percent in the RCP poll average since May 14th. That’s not … ideal as a four-month polling high, shall we say, but it’s in the right direction. And most of the latest polls tracked by RCP have him a few points [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pope Francis: No pardons possible for pedophile priests]( 9/21/2017 10:01:03 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If this statement sounds a little late in coming, Pope Francis agrees. The pontiff told  commission fighting sexual abuse in the Catholic Church that the leadership “arrived late” to the issue, and that he’s had to learn the hard way [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Emmy winning star of the Handmaid’s Tale is…a Scientologist?]( 9/21/2017 9:21:02 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel that takes place in a future where America has become a religious patriarchy which turns women into sex slaves. Because the novel is now a TV show, we’ve all been subject to an endless number of think [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Go figure: Democrats’ trust in mass media soars to highest level in 20 years]( 9/21/2017 8:41:13 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We’ll be told that this result is due to nothing as meager as rank partisanship but rather high-minded respect for crackerjack investigative reporting being done by America’s major papers. The Times, the Post, the Journal, CNN — [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Again: American protesters stomped at Erdogan event in New York City]( 9/21/2017 8:01:47 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s not as clear this time who did the stomping as it was when Erdogan’s goons rushed protesters outside the embassy in D.C. in May, but the basics are clear enough. He was in town today for the UN Assembly and stopped by an event in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Maryland Democrat a keynote speaker for group claiming Trump is mentally unfit for office]( 9/21/2017 7:21:35 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland will be the keynote speaker at an upcoming event organized by a group called Duty to Warn. Duty to Warn has called for President Trump’s removal from office under the 25th Amendment on the grounds that he is not [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [John Kasich, Obamacare lobbyist]( 9/21/2017 6:41:20 PM Jason Hart 0 Comments John Kasich is not a hospital lobbyist, but you’d never guess that if you’ve seen him on TV attacking the latest Republican health reform proposal. Kasich, the term-limited Republican governor of Ohio, has been sniping at congressional [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Alaska purchase: Graham, Cassidy try to buy Murkowski’s health-care vote with extra goodies]( 9/21/2017 6:01:23 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Every congressional attempt to reform national health coverage requires at least one clumsy attempt to bribe a reluctant member of the majority. Everyone remembers the “Cornhusker Kickback” from the last days of the ObamaCare process, yes? [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Facebook will turn Russian ads over to congressional investigators]( 9/21/2017 5:21:53 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Thursday Facebook announced that after “an extensive legal and policy review” the company would be turning over roughly 3,000 ads connected to Russian accounts to congressional investigators. The company’s General Counsel made the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Great news: Wall Street watchdog hacked — and may have impacted trades]( 9/21/2017 4:41:17 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Equifax isn’t the only entity with some explaining to do to Wall Street investors about hacks and delayed notifications of potential damage. The watchdog responsible for protecting investors may have unwittingly contributed to insider trading [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Valerie Plame: Hey, check out this thought-provoking article about Jews driving America’s wars]( 9/21/2017 4:01:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Something zesty to cleanse the palate. Remember her? Outed as a CIA analyst by Richard Armitage in Plamegate, she was a cause celebre of the anti-war, anti-Bush left in the middle of the last decade, right around the time that Cindy Sheehan was. Sheehan [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Must a baker make a gay couple’s wedding cake? Surprising number of NY Times readers say no]( 9/21/2017 3:21:34 PM John Sexton 0 Comments At this point, you’re probably already familiar with the case of baker Jack Phillips who declined to bake a cake for a gay couple’s wedding on the grounds that it went against his beliefs as a Christian. In June, the Supreme Court agreed to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: North Korea, adoption and religious liberty, relief efforts in Mexico and Caribbean, and more!]( 9/21/2017 2:41:43 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Once again, I get to step outside the box and guest host on Relevant Radio’s Drew Mariani Show from 3-6 ET today! The Catholic talk-radio network is heard nationwide on the air after its merger with Immaculate Heart Radio, as well as online and through [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New leader of the Democratic Party to Fox host: I’ll pound you when I see you, you creep]( 9/21/2017 2:01:25 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If all you’re interested in is the spectacle of Kimmel attacking Brian Kilmeade, skip to 3:30 of the clip below. You should watch it all, though, to see him rattling off talking points about the Graham-Cassidy bill like he’s onstage at a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [No one expects the return of the Title IX inquisition]( 9/21/2017 1:21:39 PM John Sexton 0 Comments In 2015 Northwestern professor Laura Kipnis wrote an article for the Chronicle of Higher Education criticizing Title IX investigations on campus. The response to the article was a forerunner of what we saw at Evergreen State College earlier this year. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [On the idea of punishing “the bad Samaritan”]( 9/21/2017 12:41:42 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’re seeing the revival of an idea which was once mockingly featured on the final episodes of Seinfeld back in the day. While Jerry and the gang were cracking jokes, the current topic is far more serious. Florida is dealing with the repercussions [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: We’re adding to sanctions on North Korea]( 9/21/2017 12:01:44 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Unilaterally, or otherwise? Donald Trump plans to keep the heat on North Korea while at the United Nations this week, and maybe on the UN as well. During a press avail with Afghanistan’s president, Trump responded affirmatively to a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Samantha Power made 260 requests last year to “unmask” Americans in intel reports]( 9/21/2017 11:21:30 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments That’s … a lotta unmasking. The fact that Samantha Power is at the heart of the “unmasking” investigation in the House barely qualifies as news at this point, as her name has been floating around in connection with it for months. 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