HotAir Daily Express 10/31/2017

Danish submarine murder mystery just gets stranger and stranger 10/31/2017 10:41:27 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments A few weeks ago we talked about the horrific murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall aboard a private submarine owned by Danish inventor Peter Madsen. The grizzly descriptions of what remained of Wall’s body were enough to give anyone nightmares, but More... Trump: Say, you know Papadopoulos is a liar, right? 10/31/2017 10:01:48 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Yesterday, the White House distanced itself from former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos after news of his indictment broke, noting that he served as a “volunteer” in an “extremely limited” role. This morning, Donald Trump 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] New jobs at the DNC! (Cisgender, straight, white males need not apply) 10/31/2017 9:21:05 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Remember back during the summer when Clinton insider Mark Penn advised the Democratic Party to get out of the business of identity politics if they want to win back power in Washington? Somebody clearly missed that memo at the DNC. The Daily Wire has a More... Navy SEAL raid nets Benghazi attack leader 10/31/2017 8:41:00 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It took more than five years, but the US has captured another alleged leader of the terrorist attack that took the life of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi. A Navy SEAL raid in Libya captured Mustafa al-Imam, a radical More... Catalan leader is said to have fled the country 10/31/2017 8:01:08 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Over the weekend we discussed what seemed more like the plot for a foreign intrigue novel than actual news out of Europe. Could Carles Puigdemont, the unemployed, former leader of Catalonia, actually make a run for it, leaving Spain to avoid possible More... "Walking Dead" grumble thread: Shootout at the ho-hum corral 10/30/2017 10:41:22 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Twenty-four hours later, I’m still not sure what the plan was. Those were three separate assaults on three different compounds that Rick’s gang launched, right? There was the Rick-and-Daryl raid to find heavy weapons, the Ezekiel-and-Carol More... Rosie O'Donnell to Kevin Spacey: We all knew about you 10/30/2017 10:01:28 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments I wonder how many underaged Spacey accusers it would take before Netflix shifts from canceling “House of Cards” to disappearing the show from its servers entirely. Perhaps we’ll find out. Rosie’s catching tons of flak for the More... Russian agents used Facebook and YouTube to sow division prior to the 2016 election 10/30/2017 9:21:53 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments The big social media companies are scheduled to give congressional testimony this week about the abuse of their platforms by Russian agents. Reuters got an advance look at written testimony Facebook will provide which suggests as many as 126 million More... Pat Robertson: Trump needs to end this Russiagate thing now with blanket pardons 10/30/2017 8:41:00 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Via Mediaite, Drew McCoy made me laugh by succinctly capturing the dynamic right now. Team MAGA: Good news, Manafort indictment is not about Trump. Also Team MAGA: Quick, pardon everyone! https://t.co/SSrZCsxoto — Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) More... Kurdistan chaos after Barzani bails 10/30/2017 8:01:18 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments In September, Iraqi Kurd leader Masoud Barzani insisted on holding a referendum on independence despite warnings from allies and neighbors alike of the destabilizing nature of the move. The referendum rallied Kurds and reinvigorated Barzani as their More... Corey Feldman on the Today show: I'll name names when I have legal protection 10/30/2017 7:21:25 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Last Wednesday I wrote about Corey Feldman’s plan to raise $10 million dollars so he can make a feature film about his experiences being sexually abused as a child actor. Today Feldman appeared on the Today show to make his case for why he wants to More... If DC needed a new statue I suppose it should be of this guy 10/30/2017 6:41:56 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Here’s the question plenty of people have been wrestling with. We’re tearing down statues, monuments and plaques left and right these days, but what’s going to replace them? Few older icons are safe from the chopping block. Even George More... Stone: I'll sue Twitter for the right to insult Don Lemon, or something 10/30/2017 6:01:09 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments What happens when a free speech claim meets a private property right? I’m not sure, but I’ll bet it will generate 10,000 or more tweets. After finding himself bounced out of Twitter in part for insulting former CNN colleague Don Lemon, Roger More... D.C. court has four more sealed indictments pending between Papadopoulos's and Manafort's 10/30/2017 5:31:37 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Another nice catch by a USA Today reporter to go with the one by Brad Heath in this post. The floor is open, legal eagles. How much should we infer from the fact that there are four sealed indictments pending in D.C. federal court filed between George More... Netflix cancels House of Cards after allegation against Kevin Spacey 10/30/2017 5:01:33 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Netflix has announced it will be canceling House of Cards, the series starring actor Kevin Spacey, in the wake of an allegation leveled against Spacey Sunday. From Deadline: Coming just over 12-hours after the Star Trek Discovery star first made public More... Ending sexual harassment in the workplace: a primer 10/30/2017 4:31:49 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This pattern of women coming forward to expose incidents of sexual harassment and assault in their respective industries has had the beneficial effect of kicking off a national conversation seeking solutions. Unfortunately, that conversation More... Judge to Menendez legal team: "Not even palpable merit" to mistrial motion 10/30/2017 4:01:32 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Nice try. A last-ditch effort to derail the corruption trial of Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) with a motion for mistrial flopped with Judge William Walls when court resumed. The ruling sets the stage for the jury to get the case soon, perhaps this More... Did George Papadopoulos wear a wire for Mueller? 10/30/2017 3:31:44 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments I noted in the Papadopoulos post this morning that his plea deal says he’s cooperating with Mueller’s investigation. Brad Heath of USA Today made a nifty catch, though, about the possible extent of that cooperation. According to the plea More... Evergreen State College president spent part of the summer talking to a psychologist 10/30/2017 3:01:19 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments The Chronicle of Higher Education published a story Friday offering a lengthy (but still incomplete) look at what happened at Evergreen State College last year. Few of the details in the story are new, but near the end of the story, we learn that More... The ethical dilemma of de-extinction 10/30/2017 2:31:04 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s nearly impossible to have a discussion on this subject without making Jurassic Park references, but it’s actually getting more serious in the real world. There’s been a project going on for some time now which seeks to extract DNA More... It's come to this: Activist group's Virginia ad shows Republican trying to run down minority children 10/30/2017 2:01:02 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments That’s what the mystery man is trying to do here, right? Run them down. Murder in cold blood. Either that or kidnap them so that he can bring them back to his dungeon and force them to watch “Fox & Friends” until they want to More... Breaking: Tony Podesta steps down as Manafort indictment raises questions 10/30/2017 1:20:16 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The Manafort indictment scored some damage already this morning, but in a surprising direction. Politico reports this afternoon that Tony Podesta will step down from the influential Podesta Group lobbying shop after becoming a target of Robert More... Dershowitz: Manafort indictment is 'all about leverage' 10/30/2017 1:01:46 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Alan Dershowitz appeared on Fox and Friends Monday morning to discuss the Mueller indictment of Paul Manafort. According to Dershowitz, this is all about strategy. “They’re going after Manafort for something that apparently has nothing to do More... The next liberal craze: Trump may break up the United States 10/30/2017 12:31:17 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments That whole secession thing isn’t going very well for Catalonia or the Kurds in Iraq at the moment, but what about back here in the United States? Perhaps disaffected liberals should take their ball and go home, so to speak. That’s the point More... Friendly reminder from CBS: Manafort indictment "not even close" to Trump-Putin collusion allegations 10/30/2017 12:01:28 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The White House will see this as “a limited victory,” Ryan Grim tells CBS News this morning, assuming that nothing else comes out of the Robert Mueller pursue. “Is it the Trump administration colluding with Vladimir Putin to win an More... Tillerson and Mattis warn against repealing war power authorizations Weinstein tells pals scandal happened so he could "change the world" Bannon looks for ways to kneecap Mueller Manafort charges grew out of records seized in "no-knock" raid The Manafort indictment: Not much there, and a boon for Trump Trump asking advisors if Manafort charges are within Mueller's mandate John Kelly: I'll never apologize to Frederica Wilson Upstairs at home, with the TV on, Trump fumes over Russia indictments Comparing Trump to Reagan is an insult to Reagan The terrifying trend of eyeball tattoos Ladies, you haven't been raped if someone catcalled at you George Washington's old church should be ashamed for removing his plaque Omerta, GOP style It's time to admit that allowing men into the workplace was a mistake Is anybody actually asking for tax cuts? Weinstein set off the left's version of the televangelist scandal If the GOP establishment rises up against Trump, he will destroy them America never understood Iraq Is there a civilization war going on? Why feminists must understand evolution The army wants a tank it can roll out of a plane Doctors prepare for deep dive into Las Vegas shooter's brain California clears first hurdle to breaking into three states The Weinstein scandal is leading French women to name names too Dirty Hillary, hoist by her own petard