HotAir Daily Express 06/05/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Miss America goes woke: No more swimsuit competition at pageant]( 6/5/2018 11:21:38 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments The bad news? No more bikinis. The good news? The eventual angry presidential tweet about this will be amazing. Henceforth this will no longer be a beauty pageant, it’ll be a beauty competition. At least until they inevitably drop the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [San Francisco mayoral candidate pushing to repeal sanctuary city policy?]( 6/5/2018 10:41:17 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments San Francisco is one of the pusling, beating hearts of the #RESIST movement, right? I mean, we all know that. It’s a given. Or… maybe not? The City by the Bay is preparing to elect a new mayor this year and candidates are lining up to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump unblocks Twitter critics, appeals court order. But maybe they’re Muted? ;-})]( 6/5/2018 10:01:37 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Because America has so few fights going on, here’s another one to add to the mix: Remember the Manhattan federal district judge who said President Trump’s Twitter account couldn’t block seven of his most annoying Twitter followers [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [You won’t have Keith Ellison to kick around any more]( 6/5/2018 9:21:51 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Assuming the Washington rumor mill is still functional, we’ll be learning shortly that Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) will be turning in a pair of resignations shortly. First, he’s going to drop out of his role at the DNC citing [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Yo, Philly! Trump says your Eagles can go take a knee somewhere else]( 6/5/2018 8:41:12 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments As you can see from the photo above, the annual White House visits of championship professional and collegiate sports teams has been a light-hearted gathering where the nation’s chief executive, regardless of party and sports allegiance, pays [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Manafort develops yet another Mueller problem]( 6/5/2018 8:01:52 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Paul Manafort has been out of jail (though under limited house arrest) while awaiting trial. That may be coming to an end if prosecutors can prove their latest allegation against him which is really quite a doozy. Manafort allegedly began attempting [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The longest pause: Ted Cruz passes when asked if Trump has the power to pardon himself]( 6/4/2018 10:21:30 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Hoo boy. This must be the first time in his life, all the way back to his pre-school years, that Cruz has passed on a question about the Constitution claiming insufficient knowledge of the topic. Alright, folks. Here's the audio [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A new 2020 candidate emerges: The … chairman of Starbucks?]( 6/4/2018 9:41:03 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Man, and I thought the GOP clown car was full in 2016. This brings the total number of Democrats running in 2020 to, I believe, an even hundred. At least now we know what that barista wokeness reeducation program was about. [Howard] Schultz’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tariffs aren’t just a form of American protectionism]( 6/4/2018 9:01:27 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments The saying goes you can depend on death and taxes as two constants in life. It may be time to add a third in the notion of governments protecting favored businesses from unwanted competition. The latest example of this is National Trade Council [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“No one may be a judge in his own case”: The president can’t pardon himself, says 1974 DOJ memo]( 6/4/2018 8:21:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A blast from the Nixonian past that’s making the rounds today thanks to, among other people, Joe Scarborough. Per CBS, this is indeed the most recent pronouncement by the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel on the topic of presidential [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Seattle has collected 42,000 pounds of garbage around homeless camps in just 3 weeks]( 6/4/2018 7:42:46 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Seattle Times reports that the city’s mayor is quietly trying to clean up homeless encampments and has so far collected 42,000 pounds of trash in just three weeks. But it seems efforts to break up vehicular encampments (people living in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Spain’s Catalan problem isn’t going away any time soon]( 6/4/2018 7:01:07 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It was barely a week ago when we talked about how the government of Spain was the verge of a major upheaval, with Prime Minister Rajoy having become embroiled in a serious campaign finance scandal and facing a vote of no confidence. Well, that vote [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [China suggests promise in trade talks with U.S.]( 6/4/2018 6:21:40 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments There may be a ray of sunshine amidst dark stormy clouds when it comes to avoiding a massive trade war between the U.S. and China. The state-run China Daily reported today the government was mostly pleased by the results of weekend negotiations with [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Day 500: Dems’ generic ballot share drops to lowest of Trump’s presidency as his job approval rises to highest since March 2017]( 6/4/2018 5:41:47 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I know what you’re thinking, that his numbers are rising and the Dems’ are falling because of Friday’s dynamite jobs report. Not really the case, as it turns out. Here’s Trump, who’s at 44.6 percent today, a number he [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chicago public schools: Over 500 reports of sexual misconduct, over 100 involving adults]( 6/4/2018 5:01:37 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Gang violence isn’t the only serious problem plaguing the city of Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reported Friday that over 500 reports of sexual misconduct have been investigated in Chicago public schools over the past ten years. Over 100 of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Damage to the nation from Snowden still ongoing]( 6/4/2018 4:31:43 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments He’s gone but not forgotten. I’m speaking of Edward Snowden, who has largely disappeared from the news cycle of late. But he’s still hanging out in Russia as a continual reminder of how he betrayed his nation and released a trove [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Yonhap news: Kim Jong-un ousts three top military officials]( 6/4/2018 4:01:47 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments North Korea’s Kim Jong-un has given the heave-ho to three top military officials in a move that has tongues wagging. Is he paving the way for success in denuclearization talks with President Trump? Or, it is simply a generational shift. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rod Blagojevich’s wife panders for a Trump pardon on Fox News]( 6/4/2018 3:31:05 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The worst part here isn’t Blago’s wife kissing Trump’s ass in the expectation that he was watching live, as he often does with Jeanine Pirro’s show. Any spouse might do the same for a loved one who’s behind bars and has [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Antifa and Patriot Prayer clashed in Portland over the weekend]( 6/4/2018 3:01:25 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Joey Gibson’s Patriot Prayer group held a going-away-rally for “Tiny” Toese who has been a visible member of the group for the past couple of years but is now heading back to Samoa. From KOMO News: The Vancouver-based group Patriot [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Female comics agree Sam Bee should call more women the c-word]( 6/4/2018 2:31:46 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There’s yet another comedy festival going on in San Francisco this week and it’s attracting plenty of female comics. Given the events of recent weeks, you’d expect them to be weighing in on some of the controversies and most of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Samantha Bee denied press credentials for conservative conference]( 6/4/2018 2:01:31 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments It looks like conservatives are wising up when it comes to handing out press credentials for conferences. Vulgarian television host Samantha Bee has been denied press credentials for the upcoming Western Conservative Summit. The conference is touted [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [No, Chris Christie, Trump wouldn’t be impeached if he pardoned himself]( 6/4/2018 1:31:43 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Not only wouldn’t he be impeached, but as a Twitter pal said yesterday, all Trump would need to do is give Christie a job and he’d be back on the Sunday shows next weekend arguing the opposite of this position. Watch, then read [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Finger-wagging Bill: ‘I do not’ owe Monica Lewinsky an apology (Update: ‘sleazy obfuscation’)]( 6/4/2018 1:01:58 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Bill Clinton’s book tour with author James Patterson keeps getting interrupted by awkward questions which the former president appears ill-prepared to answer. The Today show spent about 10 minutes asking Clinton about the #MeToo movement. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Victory? NYC adding “x” gender to birth certificates]( 6/4/2018 12:31:36 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It must be an election year. (Oh, who am I kidding? It’s always an election year these days.) Having apparently solved all of the other problems plaguing the Big Apple, Mayor Bill de Blasio took to the stump this weekend to announce that there [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Do ya think? Americans expect gas prices to spike this summer]( 6/4/2018 12:01:37 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments As schools empty and Americans map summer vacation plans, the same families are glum — but realistic — about the likelihood of spiking gasoline prices. Perhaps it’s a dependable history of higher summer fuel costs that tipped them [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Ruth Marcus [Mueller has waited long enough. It’s subpoena time.]( AP [Iran informs UN of increase in nuclear enrichment capacity]( Megan Garber [Bill Clinton feels his own pain]( Ben Shapiro [Trump is wrong to disinvite the Eagles. He’s even more wrong to lie about them.]( Sarah Jones [How journalism got so out of touch with the people it covers]( Daily Caller [“F***ing Islamophobe”: Wasserman Schultz screamed at House officials to kill hacking probe]( Henry J. Gomez [“The deplorables, we’re the hot ones right now”]( Twitter [NFL Players Association comments on Trump disinviting Eagles]( Dan McLaughlin [Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling is a win for religious freedom, but . . .]( Politico [Review of Michael Cohen’s records finds just a fraction fall under attorney-client privilege]( Jim Kenney [“Fragile egomaniac”: Philly mayor rips Trump for disinviting Eagles to White House]( WaPo [Trump’s legal team readies for fraught showdown with Mueller]( ABC [Miss America scrapping swimsuit competition, will no longer judge based on appearance]( CNN [Bolton sidelined by Pompeo as Trump readies for North Korea]( Donald Trump [I would have picked a different AG if I knew Sessions would recuse himself]( NYT [Mueller accuses Paul Manafort of attempted witness tampering]( PFT [Report: Fewer than 10 Eagles players were headed to White House]( CBS Philly [Researchers: Too much bad news can make you sick]( Gallup [Poll: Most in U.S. say consuming alcohol, marijuana morally OK]( Henry Kissinger [AI: How the Enlightenment ends]( Karol Markowicz [How “Sex and the City” betrayed the sisterhood]( Adam Kirsch [Does honor matter?]( WaPo [China increasingly challenges American dominance of science]( Conor Friedersdorf [The celebrity pardoner]( Rich Cromwell [Confession: I’m the time-traveling hacker who is destroying Joy Reid]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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