HotAir Daily Express 05/25/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [NBC: Trump wanted to pull the plug on the summit before Kim did]( 5/25/2018 11:21:31 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Why would POTUS think the NorKs were preparing to walk, which would have been a colossal embarrassment for the White House? Because they already had, sort of. From WaPo: U.S. officials had grown concerned that Kim’s deputies had gone silent on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dolezal’s new identity: welfare-fraud felon?]( 5/25/2018 10:41:51 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Go figure that a woman who fraudulently misrepresented her ethnicity might also fraudulently misrepresent her income. Rachel Dolezal lost her job as president of the Spokane NAACP when her parents outed her as a white poseur during a family dispute. [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]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Developing: One in custody in Indiana school shooting; Update: Police say suspect acted alone, two victims; Update: Presser begins; Update: Threat made to high school?]( 5/25/2018 10:05:41 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Not many details are known yet, but police have a suspect in custody in yet another school shooting in Indiana. This time the incident took place in a middle school north of Indianapolis. At least one person has been injured, although the nature of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump to North Korea: Now that’s more like it; Update: “We’re talking with them now”; Update: June 12 still target date?]( 5/25/2018 9:21:14 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Game on? After Donald Trump canceled the summit with Kim Jong-un in a letter that cited North Korea’s “tremendous anger and open hostility,” Pyongyang appeared to reverse its rhetorical strategy. Its #2 diplomat, Kim Kye Gwan, offered a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Weinstein does the perp-walk red carpet to NYPD station; Update: Perp walk #2 in handcuffs]( 5/25/2018 8:41:03 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Harvey Weinstein may have grown accustomed to media gauntlets as a Hollywood megaproducer, but it’s the first perp walk he’s ever done. He might need to get used to it, too, as it may not be the last. The disgraced mogul surrendered to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Spare me your crocodile tears about the new NFL Anthem rule]( 5/25/2018 8:01:35 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s still roughly three months until the first pre-season NFL game kicks off, but football is all over the news. Sadly, this heightened coverage during the off-season is cropping up for all the wrong reasons. Ever since the announcement of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gallup: Percentage of Americans who say they’re LGBT rises for sixth straight year]( 5/24/2018 10:01:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments In 2012, 3.5 percent of the public identified as LGBT. Six years later, 4.5 percent — about an additional three million people — do. Two possible explanations. One: It’s not that there are more LGBT people now than there were 10 [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Iowa Dem withdraws from gubernatorial primary over sexual harassment allegations]( 5/24/2018 9:21:31 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments One person lost a chance at a job today over sexual harassment allegations, and it wasn’t Morgan Freeman. A day after the Des Moines Register reported that three women had accused state senator Nate Boulton of sexual harassment, the Democrat [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [North Korea ready to talk if White House will reconsider]( 5/24/2018 8:41:40 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This morning Ed reported that President Trump had canceled his planned summit with Kim Jong-Un. This afternoon, Trump called the cancelation a “tremendous setback for North Korea” and for the world. But as Allahpundit noted, Trump also [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [What was Trump’s new Russiagate lawyer doing at today’s classified DOJ “Spygate” briefing for Congress?]( 5/24/2018 8:01:33 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments An important caveat to start: The lawyer, Emmet Flood, didn’t sit through either briefing, neither the one for Devin Nunes and Trey Gowdy earlier in the day or the one for the top intel members in the House and Senate later. He showed up with [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Warriors coach Steve Kerr: This new anthem policy is typical NFL idiocy, using nationalism to pander to their fan base]( 5/24/2018 7:21:23 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The new NFL policy is basically the same as the NBA’s! Both now require players to stand for the anthem and, in the NBA’s phrasing, take “a dignified posture.” Remember Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf refusing to stand for the anthem? The [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another sonic attack on a U.S. diplomat, this time in China]( 5/24/2018 6:41:50 PM John Sexton 0 Comments An American diplomat working at the U.S. consulate in Guangzhou, China has been injured by a sonic attack similar if not identical to the ones that occurred in Cuba last year. From the Washington Post: A health alert sent Wednesday said a U.S. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump pardons first black heavyweight champ posthumously for Mann Act conviction]( 5/24/2018 6:01:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If you had Joe Arpaio, Scooter Libby, and Jack Johnson as the first three pardons of the Trump presidency, come collect your winnings. My money for number four is on Mike Flynn. This is a good deed by POTUS. Jack Johnson’s story is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Irish bishop: Repealing abortion ban leaves animals with more protections than the unborn]( 5/24/2018 5:21:46 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Tomorrow, Irish voters will go to the polls to decide whether to allow the legislature to legalize abortion in one of two EU states where it remains almost entirely forbidden. (Malta is the other.) The final day of the campaign has seen the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NRA: We need common sense media control to prevent future school shootings]( 5/24/2018 4:41:19 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This new NRA video makes a point, but it’s not the one that some people thought it was making when they saw this tweet: "It's time to put an end to this glorification of carnage in pursuit of ratings because it's killing our [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [James Clapper: Let’s face it, Russia was the difference in the election]( 5/24/2018 4:01:54 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The best part here is him saying to Tapper of his opinion, casually and almost absent-mindedly, “I don’t have the empirical evidence to go with it.” That’s a healthy habit for a former Director of National Intelligence, no? [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYDN: Weinstein to surrender to NY authorities on sexual assault charge]( 5/24/2018 3:36:45 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Looks like the New York district attorney will pursue criminal charges against Harvey Weinstein after all. The New York Daily News reports that the deposed Hollywood mogul and the catalyst for the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements will surrender to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Summit squall, spurious Spurlock?, Freeman’s fall, and more!]( 5/24/2018 3:21:09 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. Join us as we [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [West Hollywood Resistance: There are some fine people in MS-13]( 5/24/2018 2:41:27 PM John Sexton 0 Comments There are really two things going on in this Fleccas Talks video. First of all, he’s in West Hollywood because Stormy Daniels and her attorney were there yesterday to receive the key to the city. Why does she deserve the key to the city? [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oh my: Morgan Freeman next to fall to #MeToo? Update: Freeman responds]( 5/24/2018 2:01:15 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Say it ain’t so. He’s played presidents, world leaders, and even God, with a voice practically dripping with authority. Morgan Freeman may be in for a big fall, CNN reports, with multiple women coming forward to accuse the Shawshank [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump on the summit: This is a tremendous setback for North Korea and the world]( 5/24/2018 1:31:07 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Not just for North Korea and the world. Also for the White House gift shop. Disclaimer, on White House Gift Shop website, for those who ordered $24.95 Trump-Kim summit coins. pic.twitter.com/zlrfFUJINX — Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) May 24, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Woman claimed Texas trooper raped her, body cam footage shows she lied (Shaun King hardest hit)]( 5/24/2018 1:01:28 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The behavior of everyone involved in this story is outrageous with one exception: The Texas Highway Patrol Trooper who was accused of rape and kidnapping by activist Shaun King. The accusations of misconduct came from driver Sherita Dixon-Cole who [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Venezuela expels US diplomats because apparently *we’re* the problem]( 5/24/2018 12:31:49 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Any story about how badly things are unraveling in Venezuela these days just starts to sound redundant. Following the “election” last weekend where the nation’s tyrant, Nicolas Maduro, declared himself the winner of another term as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pompeo: “We were rockin'” toward the summit — but got radio silence from Kim]( 5/24/2018 12:01:05 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Just how serious were the two leaders going into the US-North Korea summit? According to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump planned on a full effort in his meeting with Kim Jong-un, right up to the moment Trump pulled the plug on the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump on discharge petition: Don’t bother sending me an immigration bill if it doesn’t include a wall and border security]( 5/24/2018 11:21:15 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments If you’re not following the discharge petition melodrama being orchestrated by centrist Republicans in the House, read this first. They landed another GOP signature yesterday, putting them just four shy of the 218 they’d need to force an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] NYT [Concerned by Trump, some Republicans quietly align with Democrats]( Reuters [Players react to Trump’s comments; linebacker Marshall calls them “disgusting”]( WaPo [“Unplug your Alexa devices right now. You’re being hacked.”]( Daily Wire [Poll shows Parkland gun control push had “little lasting impact” on public opinion]( WaPo [“A lot of dial tones”: The inside story of how Trump’s North Korea summit fell apart]( The Blaze [Troops at U.S.-Mexico border a “colossal waste,” Border Patrol union leader says]( CNN [Assange’s refuge in Ecuadorian embassy “in jeopardy”]( WaPo [“We’re closed!”: Trump directs his anger over immigration at Homeland Security secretary]( Henry J. Gomez [Don’t make Bill Kristol run for president]( David French [Conservatives fail the NFL’s free speech test]( NBC [Trump wanted to cancel North Korea summit before Kim Jong Un could]( Neal Pollack [Letterman’s Netflix show is an endless, awkward parade of liberal guilt]( Carol Horton [Jordan Peterson and the failure of the left]( Jeremy Carl [Will Starbucks become America’s largest chain of homeless shelters?]( USA Today [Sleeping in on the weekend may help you live longer]( Heather Wilhelm [It’s true: These days, conservatives can’t be “feminists”]( George Will [The price of GOP protectionism]( Gallup [Poll: More say “nature” than “nurture” explains sexual orientation]( Holly O'Reilly [Trump blocked me on Twitter. Not any more.]( Karl Rove [A grim prognosis for Trump derangement]( Caitlin Huey-Burns [Pollster to Dem candidates: Focus on Mueller indictments]( WaPo [“If I can’t have you, no one can”]( Deadline Hollywood [Morgan Freeman: I apologize to anyone who felt uncomfortable or disrespected]( Live Science [How long does it take a parked car to reach deadly hot temperatures?]( AP [With death rate up, U.S. life expectancy is likely down again]( [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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