HotAir Daily Express 01/09/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Try to guess who Jill Stein is blaming for the latest “smear campaign” against her]( 1/9/2018 10:41:30 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments What with all the legal imbroglios currently surrounding the people who finished first and second in the 2016 presidential election, it’s tough to make room for the woes of the also-rans. But they’re still out there and grabbing the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Raw water: The latest freedom issue, or dangerous quackery?]( 1/9/2018 10:01:12 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Or both? A few years ago, libertarians made raw milk a freedom of choice issue despite warnings from the CDC and other health officials about the dangers of consuming unpasteurized milk. What if your drink of choice came not out of a cow or goat, but out [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 Sanders doesn’t want the GOP to shut down the government]( 1/9/2018 9:21:00 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments While I still don’t see it as terribly likely that we’re going to have a government shutdown, the Democrats are making plenty of noise about it. In particular, Senator Bernie Sanders (who’s not actually a Democrat, because actual [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Games on: North Korea agrees to send Olympic delegation]( 1/9/2018 8:41:10 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The first talks in two years between the two countries on the Korean peninsula paid immediate dividends. Diplomats report that the summit meeting in Panmunjom has produced a commitment from North Korea to send athletes, government officials, and even [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [On foreign policy, should we just let Trump be Trump?]( 1/9/2018 8:01:31 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments “This is not normal.” How many times have you heard or read that line from cable news personalities and WaPo or Gray Lady headlines? I’ve lost count. Pretty much any time the name of President Donald Trump is invoked, whatever it is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jake Tapper: There sure seem to be a lot of sloppy errors in this Wolff book]( 1/8/2018 10:41:59 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Yesterday the president was crowing that Tapper is a hateful, unfair CNN flunky who’d been destroyed by Stephen Miller, today the GOP’s “war room” YouTube account is circulating this clip of him puncturing the Wolff hype [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rush: C’mon, Oprah can’t get votes nationally]( 1/8/2018 10:01:49 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Before we get into this, let me offer you two tweets from 2016. The first is from Super Tuesday during the primaries, the second is from the day Trump locked up the Republican nomination in Indiana. Honestly looking forward to the now inevitable [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fired engineer James Damore sues Google for discriminating against conservative white males]( 1/8/2018 9:21:55 PM John Sexton 0 Comments James Damore, the Google employee who was fired last year after his memo about diversity efforts at the company went viral, has filed a lawsuit against his former employer. Damore’s suit, which is joined by another ex-Google engineer named David [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Romney to Utah congressional delegation: “Who’s going to stand up to Trump?”]( 1/8/2018 8:41:15 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A fun leftover from this Friday profile of Romney’s sureshot Senate campaign in Utah. News broke this afternoon that he was treated successfully for prostate cancer this past year, a personal detail that doubtless would have remained private unless [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Too good to check: Mullahs arrest Ahmadinejad for “inciting violence”?]( 1/8/2018 8:01:20 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Oh, please let this be true, even if it is about as improbable as it gets (via BigGator5). According to a report from London which has percolated through a few media outlets, the Iranian regime has put former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in connection [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Justice Ginsburg to stay on the Supreme Court through 2020]( 1/8/2018 7:21:05 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not planning to retire anytime soon. Last week a site called Above the Law published a list of clerk hires for upcoming terms and Justice Ginsburg has already hired clerks through October 2019, which means she [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Unions increasingly shifting to “shadow unions” to avoid scrutiny]( 1/8/2018 6:41:50 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments While union membership has been declining nationally and the courts are taking a rather harsh look at the tactics they employ to extract money from members, the larger labor unions have had to find ways around the system. One of these tactics has been [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oof: House foreign relations committee chair Ed Royce retires, likely handing Dems a House seat]( 1/8/2018 6:01:58 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The bad news: This is the 35th House retirement or resignation by Republicans since the start of the congressional term last January. By comparison, just 16 Democrats are on their way out. The good news: Most of the GOPers leaving Washington hail from [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [It’s beginning to not look a lot like Steyermas in 2018]( 1/8/2018 5:31:42 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments What if you threw a press conference to announce that there was no news to announce? “We have taken a disastrous turn,” Tom Steyer says of the Donald Trump presidency, adding, “I am willing to do whatever it takes to help save our [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [White House spokesman: ‘I just don’t think there’s any way back’ for Bannon]( 1/8/2018 5:01:38 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Yesterday Steve Bannon offered an apology for comments he reportedly made about a meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower last year. Bannon’s apology was very specifically focused on making clear that he thought highly of Donald Trump Jr. The [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The new smart gun looks pretty cool, except…]( 1/8/2018 4:31:58 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The debate over “smart guns” continues unabated and now there’s a new contender stepping into the ring… sort of. Tanya Basu at the Daily Beast has the story of Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams, who launched a competition for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Prosecutorial misconduct”: Judge rips DoJ, dismisses all charges against Bundys]( 1/8/2018 4:01:49 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The long legal saga of the Bundys and their armed opposition to federal land management in 2014 has come to an abrupt end. Federal district court judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial last month over violations of discovery rules by prosecutors, who [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Michael Wolff to MSNBC anchor on his book: “If it rings true, it is true”]( 1/8/2018 3:31:33 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He’s the second person in a hot media spotlight in less than 24 hours to casually undermine the idea of objective truth. The other, of course, was the 46th president of the United States. “If it rings true, it is true” may be the most [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Joe Scarborough: The Washington Post wouldn’t let me say Trump has ‘early signs of dementia’ in my column (Update)]( 1/8/2018 3:01:34 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough interviewed Michael Wolff, the author of Fire and Fury, today and this led to lots of discussion about President Trump’s mental fitness. At one point in the discussion, Scarborough said that people close to Trump [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [China is making Minority Report a reality]( 1/8/2018 2:31:00 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When I recently purchased a new Dell laptop with “Cortana” installed, the setup process was more than a bit disturbing. Before I could get anything done, Cortana had to talk to me for a while to learn what my voice sounded like. Then, perhaps [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmm: Intel CEO dumped stock before massive security gap made public]( 1/8/2018 2:01:18 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Did Intel’s CEO try to profit off a massive security breach before other investors could find out about it? The Wall Street Journal highlights trades made by Brian Krzanich in November, months after the world’s most storied microprocessor [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NeverTrumper Rich Lowry: I’d give Trump an A+ on his agenda the first year]( 1/8/2018 1:31:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s hard to justify an A+ when ObamaCare hasn’t been repealed — although the individual mandate has — but yeah, there’s plenty to like. I flagged two likable new policies myself three days ago. President Trump has been far [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Grand jury took testimony regarding failed college led by Jane Sanders]( 1/8/2018 1:01:21 PM John Sexton 0 Comments There have been leaks about a federal investigation into the collapse of Burlington College since last May and in June Jane Sanders hired an attorney. However, this week a site which has been at the forefront of coverage of this story claims a grand jury [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Sheila Jackson Lee first class airfare heist story isn’t quite over yet]( 1/8/2018 12:31:19 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments During the Christmas break last month we looked at the rather odd story of an air traveler who was bumped from her first class seat on a United Flight from Texas to Washington by Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. The passenger in question was [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NBC: We’re totally ready for … President Oprah!]( 1/8/2018 12:01:20 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Political speculation has surrounded Oprah Winfrey for a decade or more, with plenty of people calling one of the wealthiest and best-known entertainment moguls to run for office. This might be the first time that a broadcast network has endorsed a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Trump named top global “press oppressor”]( [Ivanka Trump tweets praise for Oprah’s Golden Globes speech]( [The decline of anti-Trumpism]( [Oprah “intrigued” but not planning presidential bid, friend says]( [Get a grip, people. Oprah should not run for president.]( [White House struggles to silence talk of Trump’s mental fitness]( [Don’t believe Michael Wolff’s book about Trump if you want the truth]( [Why not President Oprah?]( [Don’t do it, Oprah!]( [North Korea is going to the Olympics in Pyeongchang]( [Don’t let “Fire and Fury” normalize “fake but accurate”]( [Why Oprah shouldn’t run for president]( [Facebook and Google are free. 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