HotAir Daily Express 03/23/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Yes, Guccifer 2.0 was a Russian agent — and we had his address]( 3/23/2018 10:41:41 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This very big deal has been brought to you by a very clumsy mistake. Guccifer 2.0, credited with providing Wikileaks with the internal e-mail communications of the Democratic National Committee, turns out to be no “lone hacker” after all. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NBC/WSJ poll shocker: Majority of Americans say owning a gun increases safety]( 3/23/2018 10:01:15 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Well, maybe NBC will be shocked to learn that 58% of Americans believe gun ownership increases safety. The rest of will wonder what the other 42% might be thinking: Nearly six-in-10 Americans say that gun ownership increases safety, even as a plurality [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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: Trump tweets that he may veto omnibus bill after all]( 3/23/2018 9:21:18 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Wouldn’t this just be a perfect end to a depressing week? And by “perfect,” I mean equally depressing, but just in an entirely different way. After Congress finally passed a stinker of an omnibus bill, complete with public buy-in from [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The student ethanol indoctrination program]( 3/23/2018 8:41:44 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments You would think that lobbyists spend most of their time, energy and money trying to directly influence legislators and get them to support their agenda, and in most cases they do. But when it comes to King Corn, they’re playing a much longer game [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Developing: Shooting in France; gunman pledged loyalty to ISIS? Update: 2 dead; Update: Demands release of concert massacre mastermind; Update: Terrorist dead]( 3/23/2018 8:01:43 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments One police officer has been shot and wounded in Trebes, France, and the gunman has taken hostages inside a grocery story. Counterterrorism investigators have assumed command of the situation amid reports that the gunman has pledged loyalty to ISIS. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Booker-Flake snowball fight]( 3/22/2018 10:41:36 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Two U.S. Senators held a mock duel/snowball fight in front of the Capitol today. Sen. Jeff Flake, a frequent Trump critic, and Sen. Cory Booker, a possible Democratic candidate for president, announced the plan on Twitter this morning: "With so [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Deadpool 2 trailer: Does it live up to the hype, plus-plus?]( 3/22/2018 10:01:14 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Deadpool’s back — or will be shortly. The first *official* trailer (teasers have leaked) for the mid-May release of Deadpool 2 has arrived, and so has Dopinder, Vanessa, Weasel, the hip fourth-wall-breaking and self-referential dialogue [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Yeah, CNN probably did more to elect Trump than Facebook did]( 3/22/2018 9:21:40 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Read Ross Douthat’s piece about this if you missed it yesterday, if only to complement Jeff Zucker huffing and puffing this afternoon about Fox News and “state-run TV.” Douthat’s point about Trump and cable news is already widely [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: I think campus bias against conservatives is highly overblown]( 3/22/2018 8:41:52 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This was unexpected. He’s being questioned here by Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA, a group founded in part to fight “intolerance and bias against conservatives in higher education,” as The Hill notes. Kirk is in the traditional [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Catholic bishops: Why did GOP sell out on the Conscience Protection Act?]( 3/22/2018 8:01:53 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Good question. House conservatives had pushed hard to include statutory language to protect the rights of health-care professionals to decline participation in abortions, an issue that arose after the Obama administration largely declined to enforce the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump replacing H.R. McMaster with John Bolton as National Security Adviser (Update: Trump praises McMaster’s service)]( 3/22/2018 7:21:11 PM John Sexton 0 Comments President Trump announced on Twitter this afternoon that, as of next month, former Ambassador John Bolton will replace H.R. McMaster as his National Security Adviser: I am pleased to announce that, effective 4/9/18, @AmbJohnBolton will be my new [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Between Brennan and McCabe it does appear there is a politicization problem in our agencies]( 3/22/2018 6:41:36 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Wednesday morning, former CIA Director John Brennan appeared on Morning Joe and unleashed a fury of speculation with his comments about Russia and President Trump. Asked by co-host Willie Geist if Trump is “in debt” to Vladimir Putin, Brennan [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hey, Deep State, Americans know you’re hiding in there]( 3/22/2018 6:01:22 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments If this post fails to appear or, once published, suddenly disappears, a majority of Americans will know whom to blame: The Deep State. According to a new Monmouth University Poll, a substantial majority of Americans believes that an unelected, shadowy [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Zuckerberg: Hey, maybe Facebook should be regulated]( 3/22/2018 5:21:02 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The retreat of social media’s biggest mogul continues, but it’s not doing his investors any favors. In a CNN interview last night, Mark Zuckerberg conceded that perhaps his critics are correct, and that Facebook should be more regulated. The [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bob Corker: Our party wouldn’t be voting for this garbage spending bill if Hillary were in the White House]( 3/22/2018 4:41:46 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He’s not blaming Trump, in case the headline’s unclear. Trump’s more opposed to the omnibus than Republican leaders in Congress are. Corker’s making a point about the cynicism of GOP “small government” rhetoric. When a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [If Trump’s phone call to Putin was a mistake, what about Obama’s?]( 3/22/2018 4:01:19 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments So, what’s so controversial about the U.S. president calling a Russian leader to congratulate him on an election victory, even though pretty much everyone understands the results were set beforehand? According to the White House, after extending [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN’s Jeff Zucker: Fox News is state-run TV]( 3/22/2018 3:21:34 PM John Sexton 0 Comments CNN’s Jeff Zucker didn’t hesitate to kick Fox News when it was down. Speaking at the Future of News conference hosted by the Financial Times, Zucker called the rival network “state-run TV.” From the Hollywood Reporter: CNN [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics on Relevant Radio: Facebook woes, abortion-coverage mandate in WA, and more!]( 3/22/2018 2:41:19 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [China: You’d better believe we’ll retaliate against US tariffs]( 3/22/2018 2:01:00 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Will he or won’t he? Now that Gary Cohn has hit the road, Donald Trump’s predilection toward trade wars has few naysayers among the inner circle. So far the steel and aluminum tariffs have forced trading partners to renegotiate agreements in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Quietly, Trump team sharply slashing refugee limits]( 3/22/2018 1:31:40 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Immigration is one of the most important issues that Americans’ elected representatives refuse to do anything about. They concede it’s vital to drastically reform the alleged system that determines who gets into the United States and who [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jeffrey Toobin to Alan Dershowitz: Why are you carrying water for Donald Trump?]( 3/22/2018 1:04:36 PM John Sexton 0 Comments As Ed pointed out yesterday, Alan Dershowitz published a piece in the Hill calling for an end to Robert Mueller’s investigation on the grounds that a special counsel should never have been appointed. Here’s a sample: There are leaks galore [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ohio moves to protect parents who refuse to “transition their transgender children”]( 3/22/2018 12:31:17 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Washington Times highlights a brewing legislative battle in Ohio which is only one of many which may wind up defining the rights of parents and the need to protect so-called “transgender children” in the years to come. This follows a case [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmm: Dowd out at Team Trump after Mueller rant]( 3/22/2018 12:01:16 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Last week, when John Dowd called for the Department of Justice to shut down Robert Mueller’s special counsel probe, Dowd told the media that he was speaking on behalf of his client, Donald Trump. He shortly thereafter “clarified” that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: The shooting of Stephan Clark]( 3/22/2018 11:21:19 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments A rare case where the body-cam footage doesn’t tell the story as well as other video does. Clark’s fatal shooting by Sacramento P.D. is a national story because the most basic facts are horrendous: Not only was he unarmed, he was standing in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Trump has trouble finding attorneys as top Russia lawyer leaves legal team]( [Bannon: If Kelly leaves the WH, I don’t think there will be another chief of staff]( [“I’m f—ing doing it my way”: A jubilant Trump prepares for war with Mueller]( [Stormy Daniels lawyer plans to subpoena Trump Org and bank records: report]( [Charges dropped against most Turkish officers accused in DC clash]( [Exclusive: DNC hacker Guccifer 2.0 revealed he was a Russian intel officer]( [Austin bomber on recording: “I wish I were sorry but I am not”]( [“After we had been intimate, he tried to pay me, and I actually didn’t know how to take that”]( [Report: Bolton told Trump he “wouldn’t start any wars” if named NSA]( [Hollywood’s big bet on Christian movies]( [Is tribalism really on the rise? 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