HotAir Daily Express 06/20/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Hmmm: Trump to issue EO suspending family separation by DHS?]( 6/20/2018 11:21:36 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Donald Trump might have a pen and a phone after all, but we’ll get to that in chronological order. After a late-night meeting with the president, Paul Ryan announced this morning that the House would vote tomorrow on a bill that would end [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [L.A. Mayor flushes millions into electric bus company with predictable results]( 6/20/2018 10:41:48 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments One of the less frequently mentioned hopefuls in the Democrats’ 2020 POTUS beauty pageant is Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. (Though he’s been mentioning it himself recently.) So if the Democrats want to give him a serious look, perhaps [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [We’re running against Nancy Pelosi, say … Democrats]( 6/20/2018 10:01:26 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments What a coincidence — so are Republicans! And that’s the point, of course. In order to win back control of the House, Democrats have to compete in swing seats where Nancy Pelosi’s brand of progressivism amounts to ballot-box poison. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Austin going beyond Sanctuary City status]( 6/20/2018 9:21:13 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments At the state level, Texas has been fairly reliable in terms of cooperation between immigration enforcement and state or local police. The passage of SB4 went a long way in ensuring that ICE would have the traditional levels of cooperation from [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Starbucks bailing on urban centers after minimum wage hikes?]( 6/20/2018 8:41:27 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments A ubiquitous as Starbucks appears to be, their growth has begun slowing of late, and not just because of public-relations disasters like the one that took place in Philadelphia. Existing-store sales have been declining over the past several years [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Socialists target DHS secretary during dinner at public restaurant]( 6/20/2018 8:01:06 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Normally when I write about socialists causing mayhem in the public square it winds up being a story about Venezuela, but yesterday that theme migrated to the streets of Washington, D.C. The Washington Times has the story (with video) of Department [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gowdy: Why didn’t Comey try to get a special counsel appointed in the Hillary probe instead of deciding everything himself?]( 6/19/2018 10:41:05 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via Mediaite, a perfectly fair question. Comey’s answer, I assume, would be that investigating a sitting president, which is what Trump was when Mueller was appointed, is different from investigating a would-be president, which is what Clinton [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump’s new campaign manager: It’s time to fire Sessions and end Russiagate]( 6/19/2018 10:01:45 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments At times like this, when I’m tempted to feel bad for Sessions, I remind myself that he did more than any other Republican incumbent to open the door to Trumpmania by endorsing POTUS over Cruz in the 2016 primaries. And then, like sunshine [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Seattle City Council passes plan to turn City Hall lobby into a homeless shelter]( 6/19/2018 9:21:38 PM John Sexton 0 Comments After the recent passage and repeal of the head tax in Seattle, the city’s Mayor is now eager to show some progress on the homeless problem in the city. Toward that end, the Mayor proposed short-term spending to get up to 500 additional people [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmmm: Peter Strzok seen being escorted from FBI building on Friday]( 6/19/2018 8:41:14 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He hasn’t been fired yet, but being escorted from your place of business usually isn’t a prelude to a promotion, let’s say. Although given the bizarre vicissitudes of the Trump era, when villains can become heroes and then villains [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Chris Pratt’s (mostly) awesome Nine Pillars of Wisdom]( 6/19/2018 8:01:30 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments I’d call this a palate-cleanser except for Pillar 7, which seems antithetical to palates altogether, but it’s well worth watching nonetheless. Chris Pratt, star of the Guardians of the Galaxy films in the Marvel Universe franchise, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dozens of groups considering lawsuits against the SPLC in wake of settlement]( 6/19/2018 7:21:40 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Yesterday the Southern Poverty Law Center reached a $3.3 million settlement with Quilliam Foundation founder Maajid Nawaz. The SPLC had included Nawaz in its “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists.” Though the Field Guide was later [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New “debate robot” can keep up with humans?]( 6/19/2018 6:41:45 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I try to keep everyone up to date with the latest pending threats to the survival of mankind posed by the advent of killer robots and artificial intelligence, but I’ll confess I never saw this one coming. There are plenty of robots out there [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Surprise: Schumer doesn’t want to make a deal with the GOP to end child separation]( 6/19/2018 6:01:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I asked a question. And now we have an answer. Schumer has a tasty midterm issue on a silver platter thanks to Trump. Multiple polls show upwards of 65-70 percent of the public oppose child separation. Option one for Dems: Make a deal with the GOP [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Former CIA coder charged for Wikileaks espionage … finally]( 6/19/2018 5:31:47 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It took a few months, but the Department of Justice has finally filed charges in the largest hack and leak of the CIA in its history. Prosecutors filed a superseding indictment yesterday against Joshua Schulte, a former computer engineer for the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How IG Horowitz turned up Strzok’s ‘we’ll stop it’ text]( 6/19/2018 5:01:54 PM John Sexton 0 Comments One of the many questions that has cropped up in the wake of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’ report on the FBI is how the most damning text message in the report was only discovered last month after an exhaustive search. IG Horowitz [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [American Airlines pays out for an antitrust lawsuit]( 6/19/2018 4:31:15 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Remember when gas prices (and most all fuel prices, really) fell dramatically as domestic energy production boomed? If you do much traveling by air, you may have found it curious that airline ticket prices stubbornly failed to drop at the same time, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [If Schumer wants to end child separation urgently, why doesn’t he back Cruz’s bill?]( 6/19/2018 4:01:42 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To rephrase that more bluntly and cynically: Is Schumer willing to back Cruz’s bill or is this issue simply too useful to him politically as an unsolved problem? Read this if you missed it last night for background on Cruz’s bill. The key [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Trump-Kim bromance, Gowdymania, media hyperbole, and more!]( 6/19/2018 3:36:28 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Haley, Pompeo to UN Human Rights Council: We’re outta here]( 6/19/2018 3:31:22 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The snub of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council is a long overdue move by the US, but the timing will be less than fortunate. UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will jointly announce the withdrawal this [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [‘Commie cadet’ gives US Army the finger after ‘other-than-honorable’ discharge]( 6/19/2018 3:01:20 PM John Sexton 0 Comments If Spenser Rapone didn’t exist we’d have to invent him. He’s the perfect encapsulation of far-left smugness, someone who hates his own country but adores the remnants of a failed system that killed 100 million people in the last [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Reports of the death of the gig economy were greatly exaggerated]( 6/19/2018 2:31:43 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Wherever the gig economy has sprung up, most frequently in the form of applications such Uber, Lyft, Airbnb and others, we’ve seen strident, if not desperate opposition to it. This most frequently takes the form of state and municipal [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmm: GOP challenger barely edging Heitkamp in North Dakota]( 6/19/2018 2:01:39 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Can Republicans win a Senate seat in deep-red territory even without much help from Donald Trump? A new poll out for Heidi Heitkamp’s North Dakota re-election bid shows her trailing by four, within the margin of error but far enough out from [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Great news: Americans can no longer tell fact from opinion]( 6/19/2018 1:31:22 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Ten statements, five factual, five opinion. The task from Pew: Simply identify which is which. You can take their quiz yourself by clicking here. See if you too can reason like a 10-year-old. Which, apparently, most American adults can’t. Just [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Seven reasons why Richard Painter’s new ad is a glorious dumpster fire]( 6/19/2018 1:01:04 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Once, every so often, someone comes up with a political ad that is so monumentally awful it deserves special recognition. This first ad from Richard Painter’s U.S. Senate campaign is just such an ad. If you don’t recognize him, Painter [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Page, Nzanga [Poll: Pardon me? 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