HotAir Daily Express 05/09/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [WaPo: Republicans managed to avoid embarrassment in last night’s primaries, huh?]( 5/9/2018 11:21:10 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Credit where credit’s due, right? Depends on who’s giving the credit. The Washington Post’s report on the Senate primaries notes that Republican voters actually did a pretty good job of choosing competitive candidates this time [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Do the Democrats even have a midterm messaging strategy?]( 5/9/2018 10:41:06 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Some of the talk about a pending blue wave is receding, particularly as the President’s poll numbers continue to creep upward, but Democrats still have to finalize a messaging strategy for the midterms. Given historical trends, anything less [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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Haspel opener: No more “enhanced” interrogations on my watch]( 5/9/2018 10:01:10 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Democrats have their best chance of rejecting a major Donald Trump appointment on the floor of the Senate coming up in the next few days, but Gina Haspel won’t make it easy for them. The nominee to run the CIA has apparently made a good [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [No “Joy” in Reid’s ratings]( 5/9/2018 9:21:40 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments MSNBC host Joy Reid has been a reliable critic of President Trump on, well… pretty much anything and everything that happens. She was never going to get in any trouble with her fans for that. But when her old blog posts with less than [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: North Korea frees three Americans, Trump tweets]( 5/9/2018 8:41:58 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Mission accomplished — for now. Mike Pompeo scored two major successes on his brief jaunt to Pyongyang, and Donald Trump scooped everyone on both: I am pleased to inform you that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the air and on his way [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Avenatti, Cohen and Oligarchs, Oh My!]( 5/9/2018 8:01:15 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments After the latest, breathless round of headlines regarding Stormy Daniels’ attorney revealing that he somehow learned of various large payments made to Michael Cohen, I read Allahpundit’s coverage of it last night. Most of the key [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cocaine Mitch: I don’t support legalizing marijuana]( 5/8/2018 10:41:50 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Well, of course not. They don’t call him Marijuana Mitch, do they? Cocaine Mitch supporting legalized weed would be like Google supporting tax breaks for Apple or Amazon. Why give the competition an advantage? Although … legalized weed [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CBS poll: Political taint on Mueller probe now reaching majority level]( 5/8/2018 10:01:16 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Tick tock? Rudy Giuliani told Politico yesterday that Robert Mueller has sensed time running out on his special counsel probe into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election. Mueller’s probe has no official clock, but the goodwill of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The thing I like least about the Intellectual Dark Web is the name ‘Intellectual Dark Web’]( 5/8/2018 9:21:38 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The NY Times published a piece today by Bari Weiss which takes a look at the so-called Intellectual Dark Web. That’s the half-joking name for a group of talkers and thinkers that includes everyone from Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro to Jordan [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Check out how much accused Boston city employees make while on paid leave]( 5/8/2018 8:41:55 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you follow the news at all you’re probably familiar with the following scenario. A story hits the news cycle about a police officer, municipal worker or aide to some elected official who has been implicated in or charged with a crime or [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Stormy Daniels’s lawyer: Cohen may have been reimbursed for his payment to her by a Russian oligarch]( 5/8/2018 8:01:03 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Seems … important, at least potentially. At long last, the streams of Russiagate and Stormygate cross. After significant investigation, we have discovered that Mr. Trump’s atty Mr. Cohen received approximately $500,000 in the mos. after the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Lawsuit takes on University of Michigan’s ‘Bias Response Team’]( 5/8/2018 7:21:14 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A free speech legal group called Speech First filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the University of Michigan. The lawsuit claims the university’s “Bias Response Team” is investigating and punishing constitutionally protected [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [West Virginia primary thread: Blankenshipgeddon]( 5/8/2018 6:41:52 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “Blankenshipgeddon” is a terrible headline, I know, but I thought it was better than any of the puns in the offing. “Down with the ‘ship in West Virginia”? “GOP ready to draw a Blank”? [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Eric Reid follows Kaepernick into grievance suit territory]( 5/8/2018 6:01:56 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Hey, it worked out pretty well for Kaepernick in the end, right? After all, he was invited to Amsterdam to receive a social justice award from Amnesty International. And now, according to the NFL Players Association (PA), his similarly unemployed [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics on Sirius XM: Schneidermania, Iran deal, Logan Act, primary watch, and more!]( 5/8/2018 5:31:04 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 [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gallup: Trump’s job approval hits highest level seen in a year]( 5/8/2018 5:01:13 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A Gallup poll released Tuesday shows President Trump hitting 42 percent approval, his highest rating since last May. The President’s approval rating improved among Democrats and Republicans though the former change was not statistically [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Is Iran preparing to attack Israel?]( 5/8/2018 4:31:30 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The timing is no coincidence, I’m sure, but Trump tearing up the nuclear deal (probably) isn’t the proximate cause. Last month Israel announced that it had shot down an Iranian drone in February that was launched from Syria. On April 9, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [GOP: Pelosi will raise taxes! Pelosi: “Accurate!”]( 5/8/2018 4:01:06 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Is this the tweet that launched a thousand campaign ads, and burnt the topless towers of Democratic midterm ambitions? If the Republican Party and/or the National Republican Congressional Committee doesn’t cut a version of Nancy Pelosi’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Orrin Hatch: Hey, sorry for suggesting McCain has some duty to invite Trump to his funeral]( 5/8/2018 3:31:01 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is what happens when you’re politely yet righteously shamed on national television. From “The View” this morning: A chastened Hatch was confronted afterward by the media and agreed in hindsight that complaining about a dying [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Samantha Bee: Hey, I’m really sorry for portraying Eric Schneiderman as a superhero]( 5/8/2018 3:01:42 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Samantha Bee’s show, Full Frontal, is apologizing today for portraying disgraced former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as a superhero in a segment last November. The show left two videos featuring Schneiderman on its YouTube account but [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pastor Andrew Brunson sent back to prison in Turkey… again]( 5/8/2018 2:31:39 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The situation for American Pastor Andrew Brunson is not improving. For those who haven’t been following the story, Brunson has been the political prisoner (more correctly, “hostage”) of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Live from the White House: Deal or No Deal, international edition; Update: No deal; Update: “The United States no longer makes empty threats”]( 5/8/2018 1:55:06 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Update: Newly confirmed ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell warned German companies to “wind down” their business in Iran as soon as possible to avoid running afoul of new US sanctions. But John Bolton says that there will be a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Majority thinks media treats Trump fairly — or isn’t critical enough]( 5/8/2018 1:31:07 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Give people three choices on how the press treats POTUS — too critical, fairly, not critical enough — and the first option wins a plurality because Republicans almost unanimously agree on it. But that plurality is really just another way [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Majority of Hillary supporters say they were better off 50 years ago (Are they the new deplorables?)]( 5/8/2018 1:01:18 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Hillary Clinton has been mocking Trump’s MAGA campaign theme for nearly two years. In June 2016 she said, “Saying that you want to make America great again is code for saying you want to go back to the way it used to be.” And just [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Groups urge Trump to fully repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard today]( 5/8/2018 12:31:13 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In the midst of all the political chaos in Washington, normal business has to keep grinding on. One item on the President’s schedule today is a meeting to discuss ethanol mandates and the Renewable Fuel Standard. Thus far the White House has [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Megan McArdle [I went back to the man who hit me. 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