HotAir Daily Express 12/22/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [About that “Vote Trump” church burning] 12/22/2016 9:41:33 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments You probably recall the shocking story which headlined every major paper in the country and ran in a loop on all the cable news stations during the final week of the election. Some horrible, racist Trump supporter burned down a church in Mississippi, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Conway takes official White House job as “counselor’] 12/22/2016 8:51:54 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It took a few weeks, but the Trump administration finally formalized a role for campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. Rather than run an organization outside of the White House to support Donald Trump’s agenda, Conway will serve instead as [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Too many Americans are NOT passing this Constitution quiz. Can you?] 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] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Boo hoo. Entertainment “A-list” doesn’t want to play at Trump inauguration] 12/22/2016 8:01:29 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’m seeing a bunch of strutting among liberal media and entertainment outlets over rumors that “nobody” wants to perform musical numbers at Trump’s inauguration. Gee… try not to faint from shock. Given how many of these [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: 62% want the new Trump administration and Congress to investigate whether Russia tried to meddle in the election] 12/21/2016 10:41:33 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Yeah, I wouldn’t get my hopes up. Trump’s spent months questioning Russia’s involvement in the DNC and Podesta hackings even though the entirety of U.S. intelligence seems to have little doubt about it. (Russia’s motives are a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Comey explainer would be an inaugural fiasco] 12/21/2016 10:01:33 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Which Inauguration Day event tickets will be tougher to get? An official President Donald J. Trump Ball, or an excruciating exercise in which James Comey tries to “prove” he wasn’t acting in a partisan manner? The latter might hold more [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Not with her: Democrats would much rather see Sanders run again than Hillary] 12/21/2016 9:21:14 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A Suffolk University/USA Today poll published Wednesday found little appetite for another Hillary Clinton run for the White House. Just 23% of respondents said they would be “excited” to see her run again. Meanwhile 62% said she should not [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Do liberals really want Obama to “permanently” ban new offshore drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic?] 12/21/2016 8:41:19 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Read Jazz’s post from yesterday for background on this if you missed it. Briefly, a law passed in 1953 grants the president power to negotiate drilling rights in U.S. waters, but it also grants him the power to designate some of those areas [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Scarborough: Bill Clinton’s the last man to complain about a “post-fact” world] 12/21/2016 8:01:36 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Bill Clinton has lots of targets for his ire over the failure of Hillary Clinton to get another gig in the White House. Those include the FBI, the media, “angry white men,” and the existence of a “post-fact” world in which all of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [After meeting with Trump, Boeing CEO says Air Force One will get done for less] 12/21/2016 7:21:20 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Donald Trump’s methods may be unorthodox but he seems to be getting some results. A couple weeks ago he tweeted this: Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: House conservatives might support giant infrastructure stimulus even if it’s only 50 percent paid for] 12/21/2016 6:41:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments One of the dark pleasures of the Trump era will be finding out day by day which high priests of conservatism, who were ready to guillotine Boehner for budgetary compromises with Obama, are themselves now prepared to cave to Trump’s government [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Joe Mixon and when it’s “okay to punch a woman”] 12/21/2016 6:01:50 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Christmas is nearly here and the warm glow of love and fellowship is in the air, so what better time to explore the subject of huge, athletic men punching women in the face? This actually isn’t a laughing matter at all. Even if you don’t [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another hijab hoax: University of Michigan student claimed man threatened to set her on fire] 12/21/2016 5:21:07 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A University of Michigan student claimed last month that a man had threatened to set her on fire unless she removed her hijab. Now police say the story was a hoax. From the Detroit Free Press: According to a statement from the Ann Arbor Police [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rush: Obama’s going to try to create “unrest” and “disunity” during Trump’s presidency] 12/21/2016 4:41:17 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A leftover from yesterday via the Daily Rushbo. “Unrest” and “disunity” are merely synonyms here for “opposition,” unless you think Ex-President Spock is going to embrace the radical within during his retirement and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [German truck attack suspect was under surveillance and scheduled to be deported months ago] 12/21/2016 4:01:26 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Anis Amri, the man German authorities say is a suspect in the Christmas market attack in Berlin, was previously under surveillance for allegedly planning a terror plot. The Associated Press reports the previous investigation was opened in March based on [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Homelessness is apparently now a human right] 12/21/2016 3:48:07 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Do homeless people have a “right to camp” wherever they find it most convenient? That’s the discussion taking place in Seattle right now, where hordes of homeless individuals have set up makeshift tent cities (for those able to come up [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Let’s face it: The Electoral College worked exactly as it should] 12/21/2016 2:41:01 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments You’re not going to hear the argument in the headline from many Hillary Clinton supporters, but University of Kentucky law professor Joshua Douglas is one exception. Douglas argued on Monday at CNN that we should have “celebrate[d] American [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Swamptastic: Corey Lewandowski to launch consulting firm a block from the White House] 12/21/2016 2:01:25 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments See now why Trump is staying away from the phrase “drain the swamp”? Simply too many opportunities for ironic blowback. Question: Why would anyone hire Lewandowski for “political consulting”? He was fired from Trump’s [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Comey may respond to criticism after the inauguration] 12/21/2016 1:21:02 PM John Sexton 0 Comments FBI Director James Comey may defend his decision to announce he was still investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails just prior to the election, according to a report by the Hill: Several former FBI officials told The Hill that they have heard Comey is [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [New York City mayor fined for even more campaign fund abuse] 12/21/2016 12:41:02 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Given all the attention which liberal media outlets love to shower on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for his progressive agenda and “reforms” in the Big Apple, it’s amazing how little attention is given to the many scandals which [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dunham: My abortion comment was from my “delusional girl” persona, you know] 12/21/2016 12:01:06 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Clown nose on … clown nose off. After commenting in a podcast that she wished she’d had the opportunity to have an abortion, Lena Dunham sorta-kinda apologized on Instagram for her “distasteful joke” last night. Her explanation? [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gingrich: Trump doesn’t want to use the term “drain the swamp” anymore] 12/21/2016 11:21:24 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments But why? Surely Gingrich doesn’t believe his own BS here that Trump is planning to be more “dignified” as president. As recently as two weeks ago the guy was still flaming nobodies like that Carrier union local boss on Twitter. If [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Navy abandons plan to rename jobs with “man” in the title] 12/21/2016 10:41:48 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Of the many idiotic plans put in place for the military during this administration’s tenure, few were up there on the absurdity scale with a scheme to rename a number of jobs in the Navy because their titles contained the word “man” or [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Trump considering imposing tariffs by executive action] [Really? 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