HotAir Daily Express 05/05/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Delta’s turn: We’re sorry for threatening our customer with jail on overbooked flight]( 5/5/2017 10:41:17 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Fill in the blank: “We are sorry for the unfortunate experience our customers had with …” This time it’s Delta Airline’s turn to apologize profusely for a viral video detailing their customer-service experience. Brian and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [April jobs report: 211,000 jobs added, jobless rate 4.4%]( 5/5/2017 10:01:11 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Welcome back to the status quo ante. After an unexpectedly poor March, the US economy returned to its previous pace of job creation, adding 211,000 jobs in April according to today’s jobs report. However, nearly as many people left the workforce [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Affordable, Biblical Healthcare--Watch How Medi-Share Works]( Christian Care Medi-Share SPONSORED With Medi-Share, you never worry about tax penalties, enrollment periods, confusing systems, ethical issues, finding a doctor, rising deductibles. Medi-Share is affordable, Biblical healthcare that is available from coast-to-coast with over 250,000 members and accesses one of the largest networks of providers in the country. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Uber needs to stop getting into legal hot water]( 5/5/2017 9:21:07 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Uber’s legal problems stemming from their development and deployment of an app known as “Greyball” have not been put behind them. The secret tool attached to the company’s network was, in many cases, a legitimate response to dirty [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pyongyang: CIA plotting to assassinate Kim … sometime]( 5/5/2017 8:41:33 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If Kim Jong-un turns up dead, North Korea’s Ministry of State Security announced today, blame the CIA. In a bizarre statement, the ministry claimed that the US intelligence agency has a plan to assassinate the hereditary dictator of the last [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Futile NYC law bans asking job applicants about their salary history]( 5/5/2017 8:01:48 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Yesterday was apparently “Equal Pay Day!” but only in New York City. Similar to Tax Freedom Day, the actual Equal Pay Day was back on April 4th and was described as how far into 2017 women would supposedly have to work on average to earn the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Glenn Beck to Stephen Colbert: You have become me]( 5/4/2017 10:41:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Not a bad analogy even though in some ways they’re polar opposites, and not just on policy. Beck became a star on Fox in the tea-party era because of his febrile sincerity. Crying jags, chalkboard lessons on the ever-widening plot to destroy [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Venezuelan armored vehicle plows into crowd of protesters]( 5/4/2017 10:01:00 PM John Sexton 0 Comments If a large truck drives into a crowd of people in most places in the world, you might suspect another terror attack had taken place. In socialist Venezuela, it’s the government that’s responsible. Footage published Wednesday shows an armored [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Plurality of Democrats say campuses should not allow speakers whose words are thought “hateful” or “offensive” by some]( 5/4/2017 9:21:31 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via WaPo, it’s worth noting that the question asked by Morning Consult here mentioned “universities,” not public universities specifically. The latter implicates the First Amendment, the former doesn’t (or rather, doesn’t [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Here we go: Hillary launching “Onward Together” PAC next week to rebuild her political influence]( 5/4/2017 8:41:55 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Yes, I know, people on the right should greet this news with cheer given Hillary’s reverse Midas touch on the Democratic Party. But really, it’s long past time for America to be done with these people. It feels like the reboot, or I guess [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Some quick thoughts on ‘Why can’t the left win?’]( 5/4/2017 8:01:46 PM John Sexton 0 Comments At the Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf has a piece today titled “Why can’t the left win?” His goal, according to the subhead, is to provide some constructive criticism so the left can become a more healthy opposition party. Toward that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Monotheism hat trick for Trump’s first foreign tour]( 5/4/2017 7:21:44 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Give the White House and State Department credit for turning a fumble into a potential touchdown. For weeks, people wondered why they hadn’t done the basic block-and-tackle work of setting a meeting between Donald Trump and Pope Francis, even after [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Was today’s Rose Garden presser designed to convince Americans that ObamaCare was repealed?]( 5/4/2017 6:41:53 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A cynical but popular take circulating among political media today on Twitter, and not without reason. In an era of “fake news,” hyperpartisanship, and depressing ignorance about government (psssst — the “Affordable Care [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN still describing Michael Brown shooting as if ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ might be true]( 5/4/2017 6:01:06 PM John Sexton 0 Comments CNN has an article up today titled “‘Black Lives Matter’ cases: When controversial killings lead to change” which looks at how individual shootings highlighted by BLM have resulted in some changes to the law. Let’s stipulate [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Senate Republicans: Great job on that AHCA, but we’re doing our own thing]( 5/4/2017 5:21:32 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Who’s up for bailing out the House over ObamaCare repeal? Not Senate Republicans, according to The Hill, who watched the American Health Care Act (AHCA) bill pass, on a 217-213 vote, with decidedly mixed feelings. Not only do they see the AHCA as a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Democrats sing “hey hey, goodbye” to GOP after health-care passage]( 5/4/2017 4:41:43 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Was it Democrats singing to the GOP, believing that they just sealed their doom in the midterms by voting for this, or was it the GOP singing to Democrats, bidding ObamaCare a (premature) farewell? It’s stupid either way. I can’t decide which [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sen. Feinstein: No evidence of Trump campaign collusion with Russia ‘at this time’]( 5/4/2017 4:01:05 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Asked Wednesday whether or not she had seen any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, Senator Dianne Feinstein said she hadn’t. “I know that you and some of your colleagues from the Senate Intelligence Committee drove [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Thursday TEMS: Duane Patterson, Elizabeth Scalia, Guy Benson]( 5/4/2017 3:21:18 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Berkeley residents are tired of their neighborhood being turned into “Fight Club”]( 5/4/2017 2:41:27 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments What do you do when Berkeley (the college) has caused so much trouble, disruption and violence that even Berkeley (the community) is sick of it? That’s the question which local residents are now dealing with. It’s not that there’s been [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bias: No, Tillerson didn’t abandon human rights as a core US foreign-policy value]( 5/4/2017 2:01:36 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Did an American Secretary of State throw human rights under the diplomatic bus? That’s certainly the way the Associated Press and other news media covered Rex Tillerson’s remarks to State Department employees yesterday — at least in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Barack Obama worried his white girlfriend would ruin his political prospects]( 5/4/2017 1:21:25 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Barack Obama always liked to present himself as a pragmatist, someone who solved problems cooly. According to a new 1,400-page biography, that approach even guided his closest personal relationships. Specifically, Obama became concerned that his white [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Live thread: House to vote on health-care reform; Update: Bill passes, 217-213; Democrats sing]( 5/4/2017 12:41:17 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The roll call’s set for sometime between 1:15 and 1:45 ET. While we wait, complete this sentence: “We have to pass the bill so that you can ___________________.” Republicans are preparing to vote on a health care bill today that is even [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Interference? Obama endorses Macron]( 5/4/2017 12:01:24 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Don’t you just hate foreign interference in elections? Barack Obama did — until he didn’t. The former president stepped out of retirement to re-enter politics, only in France rather than the US, to make a formal endorsement of Emmanuel [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [GOP health-care bill may upend employer-provided insurance plans too]( 5/4/2017 11:21:08 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments If you think this bill is dodgy, wait ’til you see what Trump hammers out with the new Democratic House majority in 2019. What the Journal describes here is probably more of a political problem for the GOP than a policy problem. ObamaCare [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [“Ghoulish”: Australian company turns IVF embryos into jewelry]( [So much for Trump’s populism]( [Krauthammer: We’ll be in a single-payer system in less than seven years]( [Sean Spicer is doing a good job. Here’s why.]( [The health care bill could be a job-killer for GOP incumbents]( [Pollsters: We didn’t blow the election]( [“Hero” stopped mass murder by crazed bar patron who was armed to the teeth, police say]( [Yesterday’s health-care vote may have saved Reince Priebus’s job, for now]( [Trump praises Australian universal health care system: “You have better health care than we do”]( [It’s come to this]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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