HotAir Daily Express 06/04/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [7-2: SCOTUS rules in favor of baker who refused to make cake for gay wedding]( 6/4/2018 11:21:45 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments A nice win that’ll hopefully provide the foundation for a more sweeping victory later, but this isn’t the home run righties were hoping for. Conservatives wanted the Court to hold that business owners have a First Amendment right to free [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Biden 2020 still not off the table]( 6/4/2018 10:41:44 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments A news alert popped up in my feed yesterday which momentarily caught me by surprise. While I had thought this question was pretty much settled, NBC News was sending out a flash alert to a story claiming that Joe Biden was not only back in the hunt, [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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [GOP doubles number of female House candidates]( 6/4/2018 10:01:57 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Another sign of how competitive this fall’s midterm elections have become to control the House of Representatives: The Republican Party, led by an up-and-coming female representative from New York, has more than doubled the number of women [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Can the President pardon himself? Obviously]( 6/4/2018 9:21:07 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This morning the cable news talkers are predictably up in arms over the question of whether or not President Trump could write himself a pardon, despite a complete lack of any indication that he’s even considering it. While the argument will [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [China Trade Tariffs Kills The U.S. Dollar.]( [Protect Your Future With Tangible Gold IRA.]( [Interior Secy. Zinke orders park police and rangers to Mexico border]( 6/4/2018 8:41:47 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Calling the border with Mexico an “environmental disaster,” Interior Secy. Ryan Zinke has ordered both U.S. park rangers and park police to Arizona and New Mexico to help stop the movement of illegal immigrants into the country. He said [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jon Tester goes to court to save his seat]( 6/4/2018 8:01:28 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s become something of a cliche this year to say that Senator Jon Tester (D-Montana) is in trouble. He’s been at or near the top of everyone’s list of Dem senators ripe for having his seat flipped. Donald Trump carried Montana by [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California votes to expand Medicaid to illegal aliens]( 6/3/2018 8:01:36 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This will probably turn a few heads. The California state assembly has voted to “remove the legal residency requirements” for participation in the state’s Medicaid program. (That’s the California version, known as Medi-Cal, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bill Clinton: I couldn’t be elected now because I don’t like embarrassing people]( 6/3/2018 6:31:12 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Of all the ways he could try to dunk on Trump, he’s going to get high and mighty about personal decency? C’mon. Your honor, the state calls to the stand Juanita Broaddrick. What he means to say, I think, is that he doesn’t like [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Melania Trump is not missing, reassures press she’s “feeling great”]( 6/3/2018 5:01:56 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments First Lady Melania Trump checked into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on May 14 for what was described as “an embolization procedure to treat a benign kidney condition.” She remained hospitalized for almost a week before [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Giuliani: Sure Trump can issue a pardon for himself]( 6/3/2018 3:31:39 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani dropped a bit of a bombshell during an interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos by saying Trump could pardon himself (even if he has no plans to). GIULIANI: He — he’s not [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi trashes excellent jobs report, good economy]( 6/3/2018 2:01:08 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments May’s jobs report released Friday was really good, according to most people who keep track of the monthly reports. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, however, is not happy and she wants her supporters to know. Friday she wrote a statement to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A GOP primary might not be the place for a prisoner rehabilitation story]( 6/3/2018 12:31:25 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s been a few years since we heard from former New York Republican congressman Michael Grimm. When we last checked in, he was resigning from his office and preparing for a trip to the crowbar motel on charges of tax evasion, wire fraud and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Tariffs mean companies are NOT using American steel]( 6/3/2018 11:01:36 AM Taylor Millard 0 Comments There’s a scene in Christopher Nolan’s excellent Dark Knight where Joker plants bombs on two different boats. One boat contains law-abiding citizens while the second contains prisoners from Blackgate. Joker tells them they have two [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Answering questions raised in yet another leaked letter in Mueller probe]( 6/3/2018 9:31:04 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There’s yet another “bombshell” letter from the Mueller investigation in the New York Times this weekend, brought to you once again by Maggie Haberman and her band of would-be Trump prosecutors. The document in question was sent by [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sunday morning talking heads]( 6/3/2018 8:01:02 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments The Sunday shows this morning are organized around a single theme: War. The star guest is Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, who suddenly finds himself in a trade war with the U.S. that’s apt to deepen if a NAFTA deal doesn’t get worked out [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Shotspotter” paying early dividends in Baltimore despite protests]( 6/2/2018 8:31:55 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Back in February, I wrote about “Shotspotter” technology, and how some cities have been using drones and audio sensors to detect gunfire and respond to it quickly. One city considering the possibility was Baltimore, Maryland. After [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY AG wants law changed due to D’Souza pardon]( 6/2/2018 7:01:53 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood is pretty rankled by President Donald Trump’s pardon of Dinesh D’Souza. Underwood is so irritated, she’s calling for New York to change what she’s calling the “double jeopardy [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Inspector General’s report isn’t out yet, but the Washington Post is already worried Republicans will seize on it]( 6/2/2018 5:31:04 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Whenever some news that is harmful to Democrats becomes a story, someone in the media will publish it under a version of this headline: “Republicans Seize on…” For instance, outspoken members of the Democratic party have been [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Surprise: NBC’s newest political contributor is…]( 6/2/2018 4:01:02 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Yes, it’s the Shemp of the Obama administration. Happy to announce @brhodes is joining @NBCNews and @MSNBC as a Political Contributor. The former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications for President Obama makes his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hungary not joining the “America bashing chorus in Europe”]( 6/2/2018 2:31:04 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s become very popular in the more socialist sections of Europe (which is most of it) to take shots at the United States these days, with a particular focus on President Trump. Angela Merkel was recently overheard saying that Germany may [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kim Jung-un’s letter delivered to Trump in giant envelope]( 6/2/2018 1:01:14 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments The much-anticipated letter from North Korea’s Kim Jung-un was delivered Friday to President Trump at the White House. Kim’s top aide (and former intelligence chief) Kim Yong Chol presented Trump with a gigantic white envelope and the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Student wins right to wear pro-Trump shirt to school]( 6/2/2018 11:31:52 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There was probably a time when we would have been shocked to learn that a senior at a high school with no dress code needed to go to court to gain permission to wear a shirt to class which depicted nothing pornographic and had no words which [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cleveland family suing on claims CBP seized life-savings at airport]( 6/2/2018 10:01:00 AM Taylor Millard 0 Comments There is a new lawsuit in Ohio – spearheaded by Institute for Justice – claiming Customs and Border Protection seized the life-savings of an immigrant family at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport without charging anyone with a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California fails to block shipment of Elon Musk’s (not a) flamethrower]( 6/2/2018 8:31:15 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments For those who may have missed it over the winter, back in February, SpaceX boss Elon Musk had a bit of a fundraising/marketing initiative going. He was selling ballcaps for his Boring Company subsidiary, who are generally involved in planning [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Evergreen State Prof: ‘Independent’ report on last year’s events is a joke]( 6/1/2018 8:41:40 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Evergreen State College released a 38-page report about the events that overwhelmed the campus last year and Campus Reform spoke a few professors at the school, several of whom said the report fell short in various ways. Though the report is touted [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Irwin Stelzer [The Trump jobs machine is roaring]( NYT [When guns are sold illegally, ATF is lenient on punishment]( Alan Draper [Dear liberals, have more faith in your legacy. 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