HotAir Daily Express 11/29/2017

The latest case of gun surrender calls is rather half "baked" 11/29/2017 10:41:52 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Here’s a disturbing story out of Hawaii which should alarm Second Amendment advocates as well as more liberal supporters of legalized, medical marijuana. Those may sound like two fairly disparate issues, but they intersect in a new call from the More... Stunner: War criminal takes the cheap way out at The Hague — on camera 11/29/2017 10:01:02 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Shades of Nuremberg? Convicted war criminal Slobodan Praljak, the Bosnian Croat minister of defense during the Balkans wars, decided to cheat the hangman — or at least the jailer. After having his conviction and 20-year sentence upheld by The 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] One liberal solution for #MeToo sounds suspiciously… familiar 11/29/2017 9:21:24 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Here comes the tricky part of the ongoing sexual harassment/assault conversation engulfing the country right now. A pattern has been established, victims are being given recognition and lent the credibility they have long lacked and potential More... NBC fires Lauer over sexual-harassment claim — but are more coming? Update: Assault? 11/29/2017 8:41:04 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Give NBC some credit for its own scoop. Last week, CBS had to fire its morning anchor over sexual harassment charges after a Washington Post investigation turned up a number of women who detailed incidents of sexual harassment involving Charlie Rose. More... Two familiar Democratic names tied to possible immigration scam 11/29/2017 8:01:42 AM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This could get very interesting very quickly. There has been some recurrent talk about a possible 2020 run by former Virginia Governor and long time Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe. But if a recently filed lawsuit gains any sort of traction, trouble may be More... C'mon, we all know who's going to be Time's Person of the Year 11/28/2017 10:41:19 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Is it too early for predictions? We’re a week or so away from the announcement but Jazz broached the subject yesterday so I figured it was okay to chime in. Trump is obsessed with the award and has been for years, for reasons aptly stated by More... The Democrats' civil war over abortion never really ended 11/28/2017 10:01:25 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The DNC seems quite sincere in their efforts to pull off a major sweep in 2018 and take back control of not only the Senate, but possibly even the House as well. But in order to do that, they’ve really got to broaden their appeal outside of the More... GOP tax bill advances, marking a win for Trump 11/28/2017 9:21:02 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments President Trump met with Republican Senators today and convinced some holdouts to get on board with the tax bill. After the meeting, the bill cleared the Senate Budget Committee on a party-line vote, 12-11. From CNN: With the fate of the tax bill in the More... Report: Congressional Black Caucus members leaning on Conyers to resign 11/28/2017 8:41:57 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Not a surprise that the effort to push him out would be done this way, and not a surprise that Pelosi would be keenly interested in making sure the public knows that it’s being done this way. An unspoken but important wrinkle to the Conyers mess is More... Vindication? House taking up revenge-porn law after Barton hit 11/28/2017 8:01:01 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments After six days of getting treated by the media as a villain of sexual harassment, Joe Barton’s colleagues in Congress have begun an effort that should recast the Texas Republican as the victim of a crime. Democrats and Republicans in both chambers More... Time magazine employees fear the Koch brothers influence after sale 11/28/2017 7:21:04 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Time Inc., which owns Time magazine, Sports Illustrated and several other titles, was sold Sunday to magazine publisher Meredith Corp. Some of the money for the $3 billion cash sale was provided by the Koch Brothers, the bête noire of progressives More... Round one to Trump: Federal court rejects Democrat's petition to block Mulvaney as acting CFPB chief 11/28/2017 6:41:55 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Yes, the judge in this case was a Trump appointee, having taken his seat on the bench in Washington just a few months ago. But the evidence is so clear-cut that Trump has the authority to appoint Mulvaney to the position that an Obama judge may well have More... Impeachment-pushing House Dem tried suing paramour over harassment claim 11/28/2017 6:01:21 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments For most of 2017, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) had spent his time strategizing for the impeachment of Donald Trump. Yesterday, however, Green shifted gears in a bizarre statement that tended to suggest Green was impeaching himself over an as-yet-unknown scandal. More... Trump, flanked by empty chairs: Chuck and Nancy flaked out on our meeting to avert a shutdown 11/28/2017 5:31:29 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Good optics from a practiced showman. Democrats usually fare better politically than Republicans in shutdown standoffs for understandable reasons, chiefly that it’s hard for voters to grok that the party of big(ger) government would ever really More... Rand Paul's first interview since the attack 11/28/2017 5:01:20 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments Rand Paul has given his first interview since the attack by a neighbor that left him with six broken ribs. The full interview will air later tonight but Fox News has published a preview in which Sen. Paul describes what happened and what he thinks about More... The GOP's other escape hatch on Roy Moore 11/28/2017 4:31:51 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Earlier today I was reading Allahpundit’s article regarding Roy Moore’s inevitable resurgence in the polls, now boasting a 5 point lead in at least one survey. As we all know by now, there are some caveats attached to that which should go More... "Access Hollywood" to Trump: The tape is very real 11/28/2017 4:01:42 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments A follow-up to last night’s post. Trump still hasn’t said a word about this publicly; the claim that he’s grumbling about the tape possibly having been faked comes from two sources who spoke to the New York Times. Or rather, three More... Today's hot topics: Pyongyang blastoff, Franken faceplant, Saudi counterterrorism, Compliance catch-22, and more! 11/28/2017 3:31:52 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... NY Times Opinion: 'Believe all women' has its limits 11/28/2017 3:05:08 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments The Harvey Weinstein accusations hit the culture like a bomb going off. Since then we’ve had lots of smaller bombs going off in Hollywood and Washington, DC. But we’re far enough into this cultural shift that people are (rightly) starting to More... Another North Korean ballistic missile test (Confirmed) 11/28/2017 2:31:22 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Just in case the world was getting too boring for you… We had hints of this yesterday coming out of Japan. Sources with their government claimed they had picked up some electronic signals indicative of North Korea getting ready for another test More... Hmmm: Gutierrez registers for re-election — then reverses the next day 11/28/2017 2:01:22 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This should be Luis Gutierrez’ time to shine in the spotlight. Two of his top issues, Puerto Rico and immigration, have been front and center all year in the national media. Democrats think they have a real chance at winning back control of the More... Cokie Roberts: Women reporters knew not to get on the elevator with Conyers alone 11/28/2017 1:31:56 PM  Allahpundit 0 Comments Is that right? A tidbit from “This Week” via Christine Rousselle: “The fact that people are willing to be public can change things. I mean, we all talked about for years,” said Roberts. Further, Roberts says that it “does More... Obamacare approval drops from record high 11/28/2017 1:01:42 PM  John Sexton 0 Comments There was a sudden surge in support for Obamacare earlier this year according to polling by Gallup. The law had long been underwater, with more people disapproving of it than approving but in April of this year that flipped as support for the law reached More... Black Lives Matter is dreaming of a Black Christmas 11/28/2017 12:31:11 PM  Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We haven’t checked in on the Black Lives Matter movement for a while and with the Christmas season upon us, there’s no time like the present. So what’s on deck for this winter, folks? As it turns out, the Los Angeles chapter has some More... Strib editorial board to Franken: YGBKM 11/28/2017 12:01:57 PM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Consider Al Franken’s latest round of public relations a no sale in the Twin Cities. When Leeann Tweeden went public with allegations of sexual harassment and worse almost two weeks ago, the editorial board of the state’s largest newspaper More... GOP senator says he'll vote against Trump judicial nominee ESPN eliminating 150 studio, production jobs in latest round of layoffs How James O'Keefe exposed the corruption in conservative activist media Trump retweets British far-right leader's anti-Muslim videos Former Conyers aide: "Most of us" have seen him in his underwear Report: Trump privately still doubts authenticity of Obama's birth certificate Clinton campaign planned to fire me over email probe, Obama intel watchdog says Matt Lauer allegedly sexually assaulted staffer during Olympics CNN to boycott White House Christmas party Alabama Senate poll: Roy Moore 49, Doug Jones 44 Breaking: NBC fires Matt Lauer over inappropriate sexual behavior in workplace Facebook turns to AI to spot suicidal thoughts The complicated legacy of a panda who was really good at sex Our Flight 93 nation College campus outrage culture has taken over the conservative movement Study: Racism and wonky patterns are linked Donald Trump, entertainer-in-chief It's time for a grand anti-Trump coalition You're providing the hush money for congressional sexual harassment Mr. Romney goes to Washington? Africans are being sold at Libyan slave markets. Thanks, Hillary Clinton. America is cursed with tribal morality Sexual power dynamics: Examining the missing part of the story Is Chief Justice Roberts a secret liberal? Is the Philippines the next caliphate?