HotAir Daily Express 06/15/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Palin should sue the NYT for its editorial blaming her for inciting the Gabby Giffords shooting; Update: “Sickening”; Update: NYT corrects]( 6/15/2017 10:41:24 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments On a day when a Republican congressman is fighting for his life, shot by a deranged leftist, the only way these cretins could process the villain/victim narrative switcheroo was to claim that the right started it. This is a smear, debunked years ago, and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [One very bad night launches Baltimore ahead of Chicago in murder stats]( 6/15/2017 10:01:58 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Earlier this week we talked about how Baltimore was in a “race to the bottom” with Chicago over the weekend in terms of gang murders. While there were six people killed in the Windy City and 37 others wounded in gang related gunfire, [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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Standing Rock tribe wins a hollow victory]( 6/15/2017 9:21:28 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There has been oil flowing through the Dakota Access pipeline for more than two months now. The protest camps have been bulldozed and the toxic garbage piles left behind by the protesters have largely been cleaned up. After years of wrangling with the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [GOP may leave some Obamacare taxes in place]( 6/15/2017 8:41:07 AM Taylor Millard 0 Comments The race to “repeal and replace” Obamacare appears to now be focused on whether some of the taxes will stay in place. A couple Republican senators have told reporters it’s part of the debate on Trump/Ryancare. Via The Hill: Republicans [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Should members of Congress be packing heat after Alexandria?]( 6/15/2017 8:01:21 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments After the shocking events of yesterday morning at the GOP baseball practice field, lawmakers are understandably nervous. Are changes in order in terms of security for the members of Congress who have to spend a fair amount of their time mixing with the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [So that’s why so many Trump allies have called for firing Mueller this week]( 6/14/2017 10:01:46 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It all makes sense after WaPo’s bombshell tonight. The whole “fire Mueller!” thing seemed to sprout out of nothing over the weekend — Newt Gingrich started talking it up, then Jay Sekulow reminded the public that Trump had the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Washington Post has suddenly forgotten how the ‘climate of hate’ works]( 6/14/2017 9:31:03 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Today’s shooting of Republicans by a man with a long history of anti-Republican social media postings has created a cottage industry of Republicans blame Democrats pieces on the left. Politico’s entry focused on quotes by Alex Jones and Info [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sean Hannity: Bernie Sanders isn’t to blame for this]( 6/14/2017 8:41:16 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A minor surprise, although only minor. Hannity’s a hard-hard-hardcore partisan but he’s also been emphatic on social media lately in denouncing boycotts, even when they come from the right. Whether that’s self-preservation at work or [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [GOP Rep. Mo Brooks: Why, no, I’m not changing my mind about the Second Amendment after today]( 6/14/2017 8:01:35 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A fine defense of sticking to your guns (so to speak) from a principled gun-rights supporter. But even if Brooks wasn’t committed to the Second Amendment on principle, realistically what could he have said here? “Kindergarteners getting mowed [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Mueller is investigating President Trump for obstruction of justice]( 6/14/2017 7:21:22 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Special Counsel Robert Mueller is now investigating whether or not the president attempted to obstruct justice. That’s the word from unnamed sources who spoke to the Washington Post: The move by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III to investigate [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rolling Stone wasn’t the only one who should have paid that UVA frat]( 6/14/2017 6:41:10 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Yesterday John wrote about the settlement between Rolling Stone magazine and the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the University of Virginia. It was the result of the widely touted gang rape allegedly suffered by the still (generally) pseudonymous [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Yes, Trump really has considered firing Mueller]( 6/14/2017 6:01:28 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Today: “You seriously believe Trump would fire Mueller just because some unnamed Times sources say so?” Tomorrow, after Trump fires Mueller: “Of course firing Mueller was the right thing to do. Duh.” He’s thinkin’ [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Two arrested for violence outside Turkish embassy]( 6/14/2017 5:21:46 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Remember the violent melee that broke out near the Turkish embassy in Washington, D.C. last month? A group of people, some of whom appeared to be security for President Erdogan, beat up protesters while Erdogan watched from his car. Today, two of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The “texting suicide” case is now in the judge’s hands. It shouldn’t be.]( 6/14/2017 4:41:18 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The trial of the girlfriend of a young man who committed suicide in Fairhaven, Massachusetts in July of 2014 is now sitting with the judge. Michelle Carter has somehow been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Conrad Roy III, who rigged [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hodgkinson’s brother: He was “distraught” over Trump’s election]( 6/14/2017 4:01:53 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I think we’ve got a solid handle on motive at this point, but in case you’re making a list, here’s Exhibit Z in the case that he was out to kill Republicans. The man suspected of opening fire on Republican members of the congressional [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Shooter James Hodgkinson held strong anti-Republican views (Update)]( 6/14/2017 3:21:00 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Let me put some caveats right up front. I do not blame Bernie Sanders or the House Democrats who stopped to pray for Rep. Scalise for what happened in Alexandria today. The shooter, James T. Hodgkinson, is responsible for his own actions. With that said, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Meanwhile in Venezuela, protesters set fire to the Supreme Court building]( 6/14/2017 2:41:08 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Supreme Court of Venezuela recently handed down a ruling in favor of the government of Nicolas Maduro which rejected a measure designed to prevent the dictator from rewriting that nation’s constitution. The current plan is for a group of people [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Bernie Sanders condemns “despicable” shooting by former campaign worker]( 6/14/2017 2:01:35 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments As I said in the other thread, Sanders was more vocal than most Democrats in criticizing the threats aimed at Ann Coulter by far-left fascists at Berkeley. “People have a right to give their two-cents-worth,” he said in April, “without [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Political opponents aren’t enemies]( 6/14/2017 1:21:44 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments “Conservatives are evil.” “Libtard.” “Losertarian.” Do any search on social media or the Internet and you’ll probably see at least a dozen articles or memes making one such claim or the other. I remember friends [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump delivers message of unity in response to shooting]( 6/14/2017 12:41:26 PM John Sexton 0 Comments President Trump delivered a brief speech emphasizing unity and public service after this morning’s mass shooting oin Alexandria, VA. “Everyone on that field is a public servant, our courageous police, our congressional aides who work [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Zinke recommends downsizing Bears Ears in shocking display of common sense]( 6/14/2017 12:01:49 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The President previously issued an executive order directing the Department of the Interior to review several large “National Monuments” including Bears Ears to determine if they needed to be adjusted in size, transferred to the National Park [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Suspect identified in Scalise shooting; Update: Asked whether Republicans were practicing; Update: Sanders condemns shooter]( 6/14/2017 11:15:27 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments So says WaPo: The shooter at the GOP congressional baseball practice this morning is James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Ill., according to law enforcement officials. Hodgkinson, 66, owns a home inspection business. His home inspection license expired in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Dennis Rodman just gave Kim Jong Un “The Art of the Deal.” And it may be a genius move.]( [Mark Sanford: Trump partially to blame for heated rhetoric that led to Alexandria shooting]( [The baseball shooting wasn’t an attack on the GOP. It was an attack on all of us.]( [Report: Mueller’s team looking at money laundering by Trump associates]( [They made up a phony Russiagate story, now they’re going for obstruction on it]( [James Hodgkinson’s long descent into rage]( [Leaked footage shows Australian prime minister mocking Trump]( [Fox News is dropping its “Fair & Balanced” slogan]( [Steve Scalise in critical condition, needed multiple transfusions, will need more surgeries]( [The psychology of “so good it makes me angry”]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? You can get your own free subscription to the #1 blog delivered to your email inbox early each morning by visiting: This newsletter is never sent unsolicited. It was sent to you because you signed up to receive this newsletter on Hot Air OR a friend forwarded it to you. We respect and value your time and privacy. 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