HotAir Daily Express 01/11/2017

Priebus: Buzzfeed report "total, complete garbage" 1/11/2017 10:01:13 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski took a lighthearted approach to Buzzfeed’s questionable publication of unsubstantiated intel last night, but Reince Priebus was in no joking mood. He called the memo published last night “total, complete More... Pew: Only 1 in 3 Americans can name a single Trump cabinet pick 1/11/2017 9:21:02 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Have you been watching the wall to wall coverage of the cabinet confirmation hearings? If so, good for you! It turns out that you’re in a fairly select group because a new survey from Pew Research tells us that roughly two thirds of the country More... Defending the Constitution begins with knowing the Constitution. Take this 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] Dems wonder: Why won't Hillary just say no? 1/11/2017 8:41:17 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Will she or won’t she? She almost certainly won’t — but Hillary Clinton can’t bring herself to say no to a run for mayor in New York City. Politico’s Edward-Isaac Dovere reports that even some of her allies are starting to More... The transgender bathroom case arrives at the Supreme Court 1/11/2017 8:01:11 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Back in October I wrote about the announcement that the Supreme Court would be hearing the case of G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board. This is the long awaited “transgender bathroom law” challenge to the Obama administration’s More... Science confirms: Conservatives are better looking 1/10/2017 10:21:34 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments I mean, we all knew it even if we didn’t “know” it, you know? You remember those crowd shots at Hillary rallies. [flushing sound] Jokes aside, there’s an economic explanation. A recently published study in the Journal of Public More... NBC's list of "most telling" Obama quotes missing a few 1/10/2017 9:41:55 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Perhaps the urge to offer substance-free hosannas to a departing president would be understandable coming from his ideological allies, but … it’s not a good look from mainstream media outlets. NBC News’ Politics reporter Adam Howard More... Dangerous storms hit California but it's very good news for drought relief 1/10/2017 9:01:40 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments California has had the wettest winter in 10 years. While that’s great news for the drought-stricken state, it’s also becoming a danger to people in some areas as rivers flood and blizzards threaten to drop up to 10 feet of snow in mountainous More... Live at 9 p.m. ET: The final scolding 1/10/2017 8:21:37 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments After eight years, he’s finally going to tell us exactly how much we’ve disappointed him. It’s like the Obama version of Festivus. He’s got a lot of problems with us people; the time for the airing of grievances has More... Vaccine skeptic RFK Jr: Trump just asked me to chair a commission on "vaccine safety" 1/10/2017 7:41:48 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Just this morning, there was a story out claiming that Jared Kushner has told people privately that Trump never really believed the Obama birth-certificate skepticism he pushed in 2011. Which is … sort of reassuring, I guess? Better that he More... NY Times: Assange did what he said he always wanted to do 1/10/2017 7:01:10 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments New York Times author Jim Rutenberg’s devoted his Sunday column to the subject of Julian Assange and the role he played in the most recent election. Rutenberg points out that the impact Assange arguably had on the 2016 election is in line with what More... Yikes: Intel chiefs told Trump Russia claims to have compromising personal and financial information on him; Update: CNN video added; Update: Memos leaked to BuzzFeed 1/10/2017 6:21:16 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Quite a bombshell from Jake Tapper and CNN. It suuuure is interesting that this is dropping the night before Trump’s big press conference, just in time for the press to tear him to shreds over it face-to-face. Mike Pence is going to make a great More... Dylann Roof's closing arguments were no arguments at all. It's the death penalty for him 1/10/2017 5:41:02 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Well, that was quick. It took all of three hours for a Charleston jury to come back with a death penalty verdict for Dylann Roof. (Fox News) A federal jury Tuesday sentenced Dylann Roof to death for killing nine black church members in Charleston, S.C. More... Cost of policing Dakota Access Pipeline protests: $22.3 million 1/10/2017 5:01:53 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Policing the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota has cost state taxpayers $22.3 million according to a press release put out Monday by the Morton County Sheriff’s Department. Morton County, where most of the protests against More... Looks like the "cops as pigs" painting is back up in Congress… for now 1/10/2017 4:31:15 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There are too many adjectives available to describe this story, none of them pretty. Dumb, stupid, embarrassing… take your pick. John Sexton brought us this tale back on January 6th, when it came to the attention of the nation that a painting was More... Uh oh: Senate GOP moving towards delaying repeal of ObamaCare … as Trump demands no delay 1/10/2017 4:01:13 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments There are three approaches to repeal kicking around the caucus right now. One, the most popular, is “repeal and delay,” in which the GOP votes on repeal immediately but delays implementation until 2019 to give them time to come up with a More... Tuesday TEMS: Question Time with Jazz Shaw 1/10/2017 3:31:02 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... GOP slows pace of confirmation hearings 1/10/2017 3:01:49 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments As I noted Friday, the GOP launched an aggressive schedule for confirmation hearings, probably in the hope that it would limit Democrats’ ability to push back on each and every nominee. However it seems that schedule was too aggressive as some of More... PETA: Tilikum the Killer Whale was a martyr for the cause or something 1/10/2017 2:31:51 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments You may recall the rather horrifying story from 2010 when Tilikum the killer whale made good on the species name and drowned his SeaWorld trainer, 40-year-old Dawn Brancheau. She was, in fact, the third person that Tilikum had killed. And now the orca More... More Sessions: Racism allegations "damnably false" 1/10/2017 2:01:07 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The best defense is a good offense. Jeff Sessions knew what was coming, and decided to pre-empt it before it got rolling. In an impromptu addition to his prepared remarks, the nominee for Attorney General ripped accusers for painting a “damnably More... Sessions: Waterboarding is illegal and I oppose a blanket ban on Muslim visitors 1/10/2017 1:31:36 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Jeff Sessions: Wokest AG ever. These two answers are getting buzz today because they contradict things Trump said during the campaign, but as Sessions himself notes, the “Muslim ban” proposal of winter 2015 was long ago watered down to call More... MTV News writer: 'kindly return this Asian baby to the Toys 'R' Us you stole her from' 1/10/2017 1:01:29 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Ira Madison, a culture writer for MTV news, published this tweet about Jeff Sessions today: The little girl in the picture is Sessions granddaughter. This was pointed out by dozens of people including CNN’s Jake Tapper. The tweet also brought a More... WaPo writer ponders how to "remove Trump from office" before he's even sworn in 1/10/2017 12:31:56 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Just in case you were wondering whether the owners of the Washington Post learned anything from the last election and their failure to stop America from voting for Donald Trump, fear not. They haven’t. If there was any sort of change coming to the More... Sessions: I'd recuse myself from decisions relating to Hillary investigations 1/10/2017 12:01:47 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Not just the wise move, but the right move … albeit a familiar one. During his confirmation hearing at the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions got challenged on his comments about FBI and Department of Justice actions on probes of Hillary More... Meet Hillary's cabinet that never was 1/10/2017 11:21:54 AM  Allahpundit 0 Comments An historical curio via Mike Allen, whose sources in Clintonworld say these are the short-listers in an alternate universe where Hillary took Trump’s threat in the Rust Belt seriously. Don’t ask me why there are so many misspellings. Apart More... VA once again fails to recoup large amounts of money from employees 1/10/2017 10:41:54 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It seems we couldn’t let the era of Obama end without at least one more scandal in the Veterans Administration. The list of shortcomings (to put it mildly) in this agency is already legendary and we’ve been repeatedly assured by the White More... The man to watch in Rex Tillerson's confirmation hearing? Marco Rubio Why we should rid ourselves of bubbles Mistaken identity in BuzzFeed memos? It was a different Michael Cohen who was in Prague, says CNN Poll: Public sees Russian role in campaign hacking, but is divided over new sanctions U.S. companies have new business risk: Being labeled "anti-American" by Trump Tillerson to testify Russia must be held to account for its actions Trump's lawyer on BuzzFeed memos: I've never been to Prague About that explosive Trump story: Take a deep breath The real reason Trump won, part one Science confirms: Revenge is sweet