HotAir Daily Express 02/20/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Some illegal aliens aren’t so wild about all the “Dreamer” worship]( 2/20/2018 10:41:00 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Democrats have put all their immigration eggs in the basket of the Dreamers, feeling like they’ve found a position supported by the majority of voters. And to a certain extent, they’re correct. They’ve even gotten some Republicans [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: New Mueller indictment handed down; Update: Oligarch son-in-law and dossier link?]( 2/20/2018 10:01:06 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Don’t bother checking your scorecards on this one. The special counsel announced this morning that a grand jury has indicted Alex van der Zwaan for making false statements to investigators. Who’s Alex van der Zwaan, you might ask? [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Find the best way to prevent Alzheimer’s disease]( New Market Health SPONSORED A new research paper published by one of the world's foremost experts on the topic outlines some of the most important things you can do to keep this horrific memory-robbing condition at bay. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Marines quietly lower combat training requirements to help female officers]( 2/20/2018 9:21:53 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Those of you who were following the efforts of then SECDEF Ash Carter to open up all combat roles to women during the Obama administration probably recall some of his comments at the time. In 2015, when the U.S. Marine Corps was told to integrate women [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [War, it ain’t: Trump offers “full support and endorsement” to Romney]( 2/20/2018 8:41:07 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments So much for the GOP civil war, eh? Oh, it’s still on, but it appears that Mitt Romney will not lead the opposition to Donald Trump, as some imagined when the former Republican nominee began expressing interest in succeeding Orrin Hatch in the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Alyssa Milano explains why the Second Amendment is horrible]( 2/20/2018 8:01:06 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve seen some clarifying moments in the media since the Florida school shooting. If nothing else, the secret desires of the gun-grabbing crowd have been exposed as they feel more emboldened by a tide of national outrage. Rather than the usual [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [More Rush: I’d grant America’s entire illegal population citizenship as long as they can’t vote for 15-25 years]( 2/19/2018 10:01:27 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A leftover from yesterday, and a surprising one since Republican amnesty plans already invariably include long paths to citizenship for illegals. The Gang of Eight plan in 2013, which may have destroyed Marco Rubio’s presidential hopes by forever [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Heh: Kasich deletes pro-gun section from campaign website]( 2/19/2018 9:21:16 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Very strange that the horrific massacre of kindergarteners in Newtown didn’t convince him to crack down on gun rights when he was preparing to run for the Republican nomination in 2016, yet now that he’s eyeing a run as a centrist [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Times poll: Tax law now has majority support]( 2/19/2018 8:41:03 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Taxmageddon isn’t going so well for Democrats. Today the NY Times published the results of a new poll showing the tax law just gained majority support. For the first time, more people approve of the law than disapprove of it: Over all, 51 percent [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CBS: Should a Cuomo appointee’s suspension “raise new questions” about viral videos?]( 2/19/2018 8:01:53 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Under normal circumstance, I might tend to agree that viral videos and Internet comments can take one bad moment out of context and unfairly taint a person for the rest of their lives. Anyone remember Justine Sacco, for instance? Of course you [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Survey of “presidential politics experts”: Trump is the worst president ever, Obama is top 10]( 2/19/2018 7:21:43 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Pitifully stupid. That “respectable” historians would even agree to rank a president who’s completed a quarter of a single term tells you all you need to know about this. It speaks poorly to the field of presidential scholarship that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Children’s Crusade for gun control marches on at CNN]( 2/19/2018 6:41:35 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Have you seen all the high school kids on cable TV recently, especially on CNN? Students of the Florida school where a mass shooting took place last week have become the new face of the gun control movement and news networks and activists are eating it [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [U.S. Army: New plan… how about some robots with guns?]( 2/19/2018 6:01:29 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Almost a year ago I wrote about some disturbing news out of Russia where they had developed autonomous robots capable of firing weapons. They’re not anywhere near actual Robocop levels of performance yet, but you could easily see this as a step [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem Senator to Mueller: Don’t release findings around the midterms]( 2/19/2018 5:21:07 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Oh, why not? Wouldn’t that be hilariously ironic, no matter how Robert Mueller’s report turns out for Republicans and Democrats? Presumably, the special counsel has learned that lesson from his good friend James Comey, but beleaguered [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rush to Trump: Don’t validate Mueller’s investigation by celebrating the lack of collusion in Friday’s indictment]( 2/19/2018 4:41:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I warned about this myself on Saturday when news trickled out that POTUS was “elated” that Mueller’s latest indictment said his associates contacted Russians only “unwittingly.” That’s great, but that’s just one [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Family who took in Nikolas Cruz believed they had only key to gun safe]( 2/19/2018 4:01:23 PM John Sexton 0 Comments As you’ve probably heard by now, Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz had moved in with the family of one of his friends after his adoptive mother died last November. That family, the Sneads, allowed Cruz to bring his guns but required him to buy a safe [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jill Stein: Hey, the Democrats meddled in the election too, you know]( 2/19/2018 3:21:26 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Jill Stein is still somehow making presidential election news these days, not so much for having run, but because all of the Russian “meddling” stories include footnotes saying the aforementioned meddlers were trying to drive votes her way as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Blackburn beating Corker 2:1 in Tennessee primary]( 2/19/2018 2:41:48 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Don’t expect Marsha Blackburn to back out of the primary fight for Bob Corker’s Senate seat, even if Corker decides to unretire. A new poll from a PAC backing Blackburn shows her clobbering Corker among Republican primary voters, doubling him [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Oprah’s “60 Minutes” roundtable was terrible and I hope she runs so I can defeat her]( 2/19/2018 2:01:26 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Oprah is many things but “very insecure” ain’t one of them. Just watched a very insecure Oprah Winfrey, who at one point I knew very well, interview a panel of people on 60 Minutes. The questions were biased and slanted, the facts [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jennifer Lawrence is taking a year off acting to ‘fix’ America]( 2/19/2018 1:21:16 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Well, it seemed as if America was in trouble there for a while, but now our problems are about to be solved. Jennifer Lawrence, currently doing a promotional tour for a movie in which she plays a Russian spy, has announced she’s taking a onr-year [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How a union sank a mom and pop company overnight]( 2/19/2018 12:41:58 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is a sad story out of Connecticut brought to us this week by the Washington Free Beacon. It involves J-Con Woodworking, located in Thomaston. Hilary and Mark Converse own the business and it’s been in operation there for more than three [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CA #MeToo lawmaker to staff: Let’s play spin the bottle, and I’ll tell you about my conquests]( 2/19/2018 12:01:39 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Let she who has not spun a bottle cast the first keg tap. California state assembly member Cristina Garcia tried to ride the #MeToo bandwagon to a national spotlight — until a former aide and an anonymous lobbyist came forward to accuse her of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The day the national anthem died]( 2/19/2018 11:21:39 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Time of death: February 18, 2018, approximately 7:55 p.m. ET. Location: Los Angeles, California. Cause: Murder with Fergaliciousness aforethought. “A low chuckle rumbled through the sold-out arena after Fergie finished the first line of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Parkland students show why 16-year-olds should be able to vote]( [U.S. officials tell world leaders to ignore Trump’s tweets]( [Trump accuser wonders: Is anyone listening?]( [Florida students vow to hold lawmakers accountable on gun violence]( [Fergie responds to backlash over her National Anthem rendition]( [America just got a lot closer to seeing a Speaker Nancy Pelosi]( [Trump rebound has Democrats fretting over midterms]( [Poll: Most Americans say Trump, Congress not doing enough to stop mass shootings]( [Michael Moore participated in anti-Trump rally allegedly organized by Russians]( [Poll: Most Americans now support GOP tax law]( [Mitt Romney for Senate!]( [Have our tribes become more important than our country?]( [Democrats struggle with rising popularity of GOP tax law]( [The kids are all Democrats]( [Selfishness is killing liberalism]( [Whatever Trump is hiding is hurting all of us now]( [The intellectual emptiness of “white supremacy”]( [Romney was right]( [Under Trump, America’s religious right is rewriting its code of ethics]( [“The canaries are dying”: How Trump is making Republicans pick their 2018 poison]( [Stop putting traumatized teenagers on television]( [The media’s walk-of-shame won’t end]( [What the Second Amendment means today]( [How unwitting Americans encountered Russian operatives online]( [Mueller’s indictment only scratches the surface of a widespread conspiracy]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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