HotAir Daily Express 04/20/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Trump lawyer: Michael Cohen’s not going to go be someone’s wife in prison given the “racial overtone”]( 4/20/2018 11:21:19 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments A grim soundbite for more than one reason but I can’t help but laugh at his logic. Is the idea that Cohen might be okay with being a jailhouse “wife” if he could be sent to an all-white prison? Maybe POTUS could lean on the U.S. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Beware on 4/20 and especially around 4:20]( 4/20/2018 10:41:35 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments This seems a little weird, but then I’m not a smoker. State police and public safety officials in Massachusetts — and automobile insurance representatives nationally — are urging drivers to remain alert and extra careful today, April [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Model.ThirdBox [Are the Comey memos a bust?]( 4/20/2018 10:01:37 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments After a number of demands from Congress culminating in impeachment threats, the memos-to-file by James Comey from his conversations with Donald Trump are now public. Do they provide evidence of obstruction of justice, a smoking-gun moment that could lead [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Babies on the Senate floor proposal unanimously approved]( 4/20/2018 9:21:35 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Who doesn’t like babies? Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) gave birth April 9, 2018, to her second child, a girl named Maile Pearl, becoming the first woman in the U.S. Senate to give birth while in office. Duckworth proposed that the Senate rules be [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [DC councilman’s visit to the Holocaust Museum goes … even worse than you’d think]( 4/20/2018 8:41:05 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments As an old philosopher (should have) said, “You can lead a horse’s ass to water but you can’t make him think.” Last month, Washington DC council member Trayon White made national headlines with his own philosophical musings on the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Profs claim #cellphones are addictive, short-Circuiting our brains LOL]( 4/20/2018 8:01:56 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Have you been feeling lonely recently? Yeh, me too. Must be the weather. Spending all that time being busy on my cell messaging, phoning, tweeting, posting, arguing, browsing, counting calories and footsteps and watching the cutest dog videos — [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Lindsey Graham: I endorse Trump for the 2020 GOP nomination]( 4/19/2018 10:41:56 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m flagging this just because I wanted to toss my two cents in about the CNN piece Ed blogged this morning, which is an insult to everyone’s intelligence. As to the 2020 presidential race, I believe President @realDonaldTrump will run for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [If you like eating dogs, prepare for a ban]( 4/19/2018 10:01:29 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments In a speech one day during his long presidency, Barack Obama reminisced about his childhood, hearing the neighborhood call to prayer several times a day and eating food his mother prepared including dog. That was in Indonesia. Such a diet is culturally [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Comey: Why, yes, I could testify against Andrew McCabe]( 4/19/2018 9:21:34 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Are they going to televise this trial? I mean, they have to televise this trial. Nah, I’m just kidding. McCabe’s obviously not getting charged. Former FBI Director James Comey says that he would “potentially” be a witness if criminal charges [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Two Florida sheriff’s deputies killed in apparent ambush]( 4/19/2018 8:43:32 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Two sheriff’s deputies were shot and killed today in the town of Trenton, Florida by a man who shot at them while they were eating lunch at a Chinese food restaurant. The Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office released a statement on Facebook [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Film review: Little Pink House scores a direct hit on Kelo — and on hearts]( 4/19/2018 8:01:50 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “I feel happy here,” Susette Kelo says, “I feel like I’m home.” Even those who don’t already know the Kelo saga will sense the foreshadowing in that statement in the beginning of Little Pink House. The film uses indie [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New York Gov. Cuomo: “I am an undocumented person”]( 4/19/2018 7:21:20 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It feels strange and terrible to say, but it’s true: Chris is “the smart one” among the Cuomo kids. Via Splinter, this isn’t the first time this guy has strained to pander to the left via solidarity with illegals by inviting the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [USA Today columnist: ‘NFL cheerleaders need to go’]( 4/19/2018 6:41:51 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Forget about Colin Kaepernick and his protest of the National Anthem, there’s a new problem with the NFL. USAToday sports columnist Nancy Armour wrote yesterday that scantily-clad cheerleaders don’t make sense in the age of #MeToo: The [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rosenstein to Trump: You’re not a target of any part of Mueller’s investigation]( 4/19/2018 6:01:59 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Is this news? The fact that Rosenstein said this to Trump personally a few days after signing off on the Michael Cohen raid is newsy in an “oh, to be a fly on the wall” way, I suppose. But WaPo reported a few weeks ago that Mueller’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics on Relevant Radio: Little Pink House and social justice of Kelo, North Korea concessions, Comey confessional, and more]( 4/19/2018 5:21:48 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Once again, I get to step outside the box and guest host on Relevant Radio’s A Closer Look from 6-7 ET today! The Catholic talk-radio network is heard nationwide on the air after its merger with Immaculate Heart Radio, as well as online and through their [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fearless Girl to stand on her own, at least for now]( 4/19/2018 4:41:27 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Fearless Girl is finally going to move and, at least for now, she won’t be taking Charging Bull with her. The decision to move Fearless Girl a few blocks away to a position opposite the New York Stock Exchange was prompted by concerns about crowds [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Marist on impeachment fever: Dems might need an inoculation]( 4/19/2018 4:01:13 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Alternate headline: Nancy Pelosi was right! The House Minority Leader has tried steering away from the I-word over the last year, recognizing that it might do more to motivate Donald Trump’s base to turn out more than Democratic base in the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Whoa: DOJ Inspector General sends criminal referral for Andrew McCabe to U.S. Attorney]( 4/19/2018 3:21:26 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You know who you can thank for this? James Comey! He’s the one who initiated the IG investigation into leaks to the WSJ in October 2016 about the FBI’s investigation of the Clinton Foundation, or so he claimed to the Daily Beast. Which makes [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Feds will not pay for Jerry Brown’s National Guard ‘charade’]( 4/19/2018 2:41:41 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The war of words between President Trump and California Governor Jerry Brown over illegal immigration heated up again this morning. Just yesterday Gov. Brown suggested 400 National Guard troops would be headed for the border and that the federal [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Judge: Full speed ahead on Greitens trial despite “serious” violations by prosecutors]( 4/19/2018 2:01:55 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Embattled Missouri governor Eric Greitens will have to face trial in May despite a judge’s finding that prosecutors violated disclosure procedures. Judge Rex Burlison denied motions to dismiss the felony invasion of privacy charge related to an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ted Cruz in Time magazine: Three cheers for Donald Trump]( 4/19/2018 1:31:55 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Someone pointed out this morning that this tweet is still part of the presidential Twitter account two years later. Trump never deleted it, even after he and Cruz made nice. "@Don_Vito_08: "A picture is worth a thousand words" [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Katie Couric’s downfall at Yahoo News]( 4/19/2018 1:01:52 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Page Six published a lengthy piece yesterday about Katie Couric’s time as the face of Yahoo News. The goal was to hire Couric and make Yahoo a rival to the big network newscasts without the benefit of television. It didn’t quite work out that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Job approvals for all 50 governors, top 15 are GOP]( 4/19/2018 12:31:01 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Americans like Republicans running their states. A new tabulation of state-by-state job approval ratings for all 50 of the nation’s governors finds that the top 15 with the highest approvals are all GOP. During the White House reign of Barack [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Deadline: Corker sets Monday committee vote on Pompeo confirmation; Update: Heitkamp endorses Pompeo]( 4/19/2018 12:01:56 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Let the games … continue. There’s already been a considerable amount of game-playing surrounding the confirmation of Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State. Democrats have their first real opportunity to block a Donald Trump Cabinet appointee in a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] E.J. White [You’re the Starbucks manager, white America]( WaPo [Breaking: DNC files suit claiming Russia, Trump campaign conspired to disrupt the 2016 campaign]( NYT [Intel: Assad may have moved chemical weapons from one site before U.S. strike]( Gideon Resnick [New details: How Team Hillary tried to elevate Trump in the GOP primaries]( WaPo [Trump venting privately about Gorsuch, wants Comey, McCabe, and Hillary charged]( Betsy Woodruff [Trump lawyers says interview negotiation with Mueller are still on]( David French [No, conservatives shouldn’t try to punish radical professors for offensive speech]( NYT [Push for special counsel bill shows GOP’s rising fear Mueller will be fired]( WaPo [Chuck Schumer backs effort to decriminalize marijuana]( Mediaite [Stormy Daniels lawyer: I don’t think Trump will finish his term]( NYT [Pompeo nears confirmation but faces historic rebuke from committee]( Jonathan Greenberg [Trump posed as “John Barron” and lied to me about his wealth to get onto the Forbes 400]( CNN [Trump has “weathered Comey” but Cohen is “consuming him,” White House source says]( Market Watch [Revealed: The Comey memos]( Amy Zimmerman [The morgue that handles bodies no one else wants — even the Boston Bomber]( Erielle Davidson [Stanford study: The most religious kids do the best in school]( Denyer, Gowen [By the numbers: Men outnumber women by tens of millions in China and India]( Kyle Kondik [Underestimate Trump’s reelection odds at your own peril]( Alex Berezow [Fresno State professor Randa Jarrar: The psychology of pure hate]( Conor Friedersdorf [Trump’s hold on the Republican Party is overstated]( Shawn Zeller [It’s Trump’s party now. Defectors can’t win.]( Kurt Schlichter [Never Trumpers’ whining about principles was just an act]( Noah Millman [Mike Pompeo’s secret trip to North Korea makes zero sense]( Joseph Wulfsohn [Let’s apply the Hannity standard to “objective” journalists with hidden political ties]( Ron Brownstein [Why Stormy Daniels poses a problem — for Democrats]( [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. If this newsletter no longer meets your needs we will be happy to remove your address immediately. [You can unsubscribe from the Hot Air Daily here](. 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