HotAir Daily Express 05/04/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Neil Cavuto: You sit on a throne of lies, Mr. President]( 5/4/2018 11:21:38 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Lotta excited chirps about this from Trump critics today. Spent last night flipping back and forth between MSNBC & the alternative facts world of Fox and thought there’s no hope. Then after listening to Neil Cavuto, I thought, like the rose in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WH reporter: Huckabee Sanders went “very street” on me, or something]( 5/4/2018 10:41:50 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Welcome back to yet another episode of As The Mainstream Media World Turns. April Ryan, the White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, went to CNN (where she also contributes) to complain that Sarah Huckabee Sanders was unprofessional [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Get your free Make America Exceptional Again ebook]( Hoover SPONSORED How can America rediscover what has made it exceptional? Find out when you download your free Make America Exceptional Again ebook today! [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [April showers: Second straight jobs report misses expectations]( 5/4/2018 10:01:10 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments After getting off to a fast start in 2018, job creation has slowed even as the economy itself seems to still be gaining. For the second straight month, the BLS reported a miss on expectations for new jobs with only 164,000 added in April after an even [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did Abbas apologize for anti-Semitic “Hitler was behind Israel” speech?]( 5/4/2018 9:21:26 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Remember this speech? Mahmoud Abbas addressed the first Palestinian National Council meeting in 22 years by expounding on the illegitimacy of the state of Israel and by telling the Jews that they brought the Holocaust on themselves with their greed. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT: Trump asking about troop cuts in South Korea. Bolton: “Utter nonsense”]( 5/4/2018 8:41:14 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If so, Kim Jong-un won’t be alone in trying to give away leverage before the big summit meeting — but don’t bet on this yet. According to the New York Times, Donald Trump has returned to his earlier skepticism about security costs in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Immigration policy and the looming crabmeat crisis]( 5/4/2018 8:01:47 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Visa lotteries and crabs (or crabmeat). There’s a combination you probably didn’t see coming, but if you eat crab on a regular basis you’ll likely be aware of it soon. This story features some Maryland seafood companies who are warning [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Kanye West now four times more popular among Trump voters than Hillary voters]( 5/3/2018 10:01:45 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The most surprising number here, actually, is how unpopular Kanye was among Democrats even before he went full MAGA. I can understand them turning against him once he put his Trump cap on, just as I can understand Republicans gaining newfound [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Facing cocaine charge, Rose McGowan suggests she may have been framed by Harvey Weinstein]( 5/3/2018 9:21:37 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Actress Rose McGowan flew to Dulles airport in Virginia back in January of 2017 to attend the Women’s March in Washington, DC. When a cleaning crew went through the plane Toffic Yeseuf found McGowan’s wallet had been left behind under her [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [GOP Senate candidate: “Cocaine Mitch” McConnell is in the tank for the “China people”]( 5/3/2018 8:41:52 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “This guy talks like someone moved his desk to the basement and took his red stapler,” says Jonah Goldberg. When I saw his first “Cocaine Mitch” ad a few days ago I assumed Don Blankenship was another Basil Marceaux, a novelty [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Seattle council member accuses Amazon of “blackmail” over class-warfare tax proposal]( 5/3/2018 8:01:39 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Seattle’s high-tech aspirations may run afoul of their high-tax aspirations. The city council wants to impose an employment tax on the city’s biggest businesses in order to raise $75 million to solve their homeless problem. That came as news [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ryan reverses himself after House Chaplain rescinds his resignation]( 5/3/2018 7:21:50 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last week House Speaker Paul Ryan asked House Chaplain Patrick Conroy to resign from his position. The move instantly set up what Ed called a “whydunit.” Was Conroy asked to leave over politics or was it something else? Whatever the case, the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Giuliani again: It’s time for Jeff Sessions to investigate the people investigating Michael Cohen]( 5/3/2018 6:41:06 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He wants Sessions to investigate … the U.S. Attorney’s office? Whose leader, like Sessions himself, was appointed by Trump? Remember, it’s not Mueller who’s leading the charge against Cohen. He handed the case off to the Southern [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Berkeley: Conservative speakers incited ‘violent reaction’ in order to make universities look bad]( 5/3/2018 6:01:02 PM John Sexton 0 Comments After the riots at Berkeley last year aimed at no-platforming conservative speech, the school set up a commission to write a report on what went wrong. The commission has released its report and, according to Politico, it blames the violence on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot debate on Sirius XM: The wiretap that wasn’t, Giuliani’s revelations, Alfie Evans, North Korea, and more!]( 5/3/2018 5:21:44 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Get ready for a great evening of debate and fun from 6-9 pm ET on Sirius XM 124, the POTUS channel, as I match wits with Rick Ungar! I’m filling in for Michael Steele on Steele & Ungar, and we have a full slate of hot stories to discuss and on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Better late than never: Motion picture academy expels Bill Cosby — and Roman Polanski]( 5/3/2018 4:41:49 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I understand booting Cosby, but Polanski? All he did was abscond 40 years ago to avoid charges related to screwing a 13-year-old. A 13-year-old who wanted it, per Harvey Weinstein crony Quentin Tarantino. When exactly did Polanski lose his “child [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Starbucks showdown: Young entrepreneurs in Philly the big winner]( 5/3/2018 4:01:39 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “They said they were going to take a bad situation,” attorney Stewart Cohen says of his clients, “and they did.” The two men arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks outlet reached settlements with both the coffee-house chain and the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Germany to get tougher on deportations after asylum center mob threatens police officers]( 5/3/2018 3:21:38 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A small group of police officers traveled to an asylum center in Ellwangen, Germany Monday to arrest a 23-year-old man from Togo. Authorities had determined the man would need to be sent back to Italy to apply for asylum there because it was the first EU [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NBC: Feds wiretapped Michael Cohen, caught at least one call between him and the White House; Correction: Feds are monitoring Cohen’s call logs]( 5/3/2018 2:41:25 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If this is true, whatever they have on Cohen must be more serious than the Stormy payoff. Worth noting that there is a long but specific list of serious crimes that can be investigated via wiretap, and campaign finance violations don’t make the cut. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Time Magazine: Yes, something’s seriously wrong at the FBI]( 5/3/2018 2:01:46 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Both Democrats and Republicans have taken turns criticizing the FBI over the past two years, but of late the former have been criticizing the latter for attacking the law-enforcement agency’s leadership and performance. Democrats complain that the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [More Rudy: Imagine if Stormy Daniels hadn’t been paid off and the affair was revealed in October 2016]( 5/3/2018 1:31:13 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m down to two theories on this. One: Rudy is playing eight-dimensional chess. So brilliantly, in fact, that most of us can’t see the board. Two: Rudy has an undiagnosed head injury. Jazz is right, I think, that Giuliani admitting last night [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Clapper claims he didn’t leak info on the dossier to CNN]( 5/3/2018 1:01:00 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last week I wrote about the evidence presented in the House Intelligence Committee report on Russia which stated that James Clapper had admitted leaking information on the Steele dossier to CNN’s Jake Tapper. That was significant because former FBI [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California takes another run at killing the gig economy]( 5/3/2018 12:31:37 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments A new ruling from the California state supreme court may open the door for legislators in that state to once again try to wipe out the gig economy, including companies like Uber, Lyft and Airbnb. Previous, direct attempts to regulate such companies out [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Caputo: You’d better believe Mueller’s still looking at collusion]( 5/3/2018 12:01:32 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “If anybody thinks Russia collusion is off the table,” former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo told Tucker Carlson last night, “they haven’t visited with the Mueller team.” Caputo says that collusion was the only topic [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] AP [Can Trump be forced to testify? Legal precedents suggest yes]( Rich Lowry [Rod Rosenstein has botched the Mueller probe]( WaPo [Influential outsiders have played a key role in Scott Pruitt’s foreign travel]( WaPo [Giuliani said the Stormy Daniels payment was legal. Here’s what campaign finance experts said.]( NBC [Trump: Rudy just started yesterday, “he’ll get his facts straight”]( NYT [Don “China people” Blankenship … mulled Chinese citizenship]( David French [An open letter to Trump’s evangelical defenders]( Larry O'Connor [Why is NBC News protecting their sources on the bogus Cohen wiretap story?]( Mediaite [MSNBC’s Deutsch: Michael Cohen told me Giuliani “doesn’t know what he’s talking about”]( Buzzfeed [The Corey Lewandowski comeback is on]( Elaina Plott [A Pruitt aide’s attack on Zinke angers the White House]( Eric Swalwell [Ban assault weapons, buy them back, go after resisters]( NYT [Trump orders Pentagon to consider reducing U.S. forces in South Korea]( WaPo [Revealed: The serial pooper]( NYT [A fast-food problem: Where have all the teenagers gone?]( Eyal Ballan [Cannabis versus cancer]( Guardian [Dude?]( Isobel Cockerell [The transgender conservatives who are sticking with Trump]( Mike Stopa [The GOP foreign policy establishment is getting schooled]( Liz Mair [Republican? Anti-Trump? Don’t quit — stay in the party and change it]( David French [The Democrats’ God gap]( Jeff Greenfield [Thinking the unthinkable: What if Trump succeeds?]( Andrew C. McCarthy [Mueller’s questions for Trump show the folly of special-counsel appointments]( George Will [Does Trump even understand the electoral college?]( Robert Tracinski [Yes, communism is definitely idealist, and that’s why it leads to mass murder]( [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. 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