HotAir Daily Express 07/02/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Romney: The Russiagate probe is “totally appropriate” and I’m not sure who I’ll vote for in 2020]( 7/2/2018 11:21:07 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m not surprised he’d be more pro-Mueller and anti-Trump than the average Republican would-be senator. I *am* a bit surprised that he didn’t hedge more in his answers here. Watch the Russiagate one first: .@kasie: "Do you [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [About that Singapore Summit: Kim expands major missile plant anyway]( 7/2/2018 10:41:46 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Don’t trust. Then verify anyway. And when you do with North Korea this summer, you find some unpromising developments. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that analysts of satellite photos have detected the continuation of a major expansion [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [FBI: July 4th terror attack on Cleveland thwarted]( 7/2/2018 10:01:59 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Chalk one up for the FBI. After coming across online postings from a wannabe radical-Islamist terrorist in the suburbs of Cleveland, investigators lured Demetrius Pitts, AKA Abdur Raheem Rahfeeq, into overt acts by posing as a member of al-Qaeda. An [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [As Trump preps for European trip, a US ambassador there quits in protest]( 7/2/2018 9:21:40 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments You can’t fire me. I quit! The U.S. ambassador to Estonia is resigning in protest over President Trump’s critical statements about NATO. And the commander-in-chief may have even more criticism of the North Atlantic alliance to utter when [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Warning shot from Cohen: “I will not be a punching bag as part of anyone’s defense strategy”]( 7/2/2018 8:41:35 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Michael Cohen has a message for Donald Trump, and maybe for prosecutors as well. The man who once vowed to “take a bullet” if necessary to protect his most famous client told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that his priorities have [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The sad, unmourned death of a feminist, anti-capitalist bookstore]( 7/2/2018 8:01:01 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This story is just so sad and yet instructive to 21st-century society that it couldn’t be allowed to pass without comment. Courtesy of PJ Media, we learn of an innovative bookstore in Portland, Oregon which sought to break all the rules, defy [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ABC News thinks possible SCOTUS pick has “odd social media habits”]( 7/1/2018 8:01:27 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy means pretty much everyone is playing the game of “Who will the next SCOTUS justice be?” It’s almost like playing fantasy sports, but with judges. ABC News is getting in on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How Kirsten Gillibrand’s unserious “abolish ICE” comment spawned a farce]( 7/1/2018 6:31:16 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments One of the most amusing – and #headdesk-worthy – bits of politics is when everyone loses their minds over a completely unserious suggestion. The latest example of this type of puerile behavior is the call by New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem Senator: Vote for Trump’s SCOTUS pick and your career is toast (video)]( 7/1/2018 5:01:14 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington showed up on Meet the Press this week along with Lindsey Graham. The topic choice was obvious since it’s nearly the only thing anyone is talking about this weekend. How will the Democrats stop [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [O, Canada! MAGA hat-wearing diner refused restaurant’s service]( 7/1/2018 3:31:34 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments We’ve all heard stories about the MAGA hats. The red, Make America Great Again hats used in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign trigger the emotionally unstable left like nothing else does. I thought this was a uniquely American [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Hungarian Foreign Minister schools BBC reporter on illegal migration]( 7/1/2018 2:01:39 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve got a beauty of an interview for you today which won’t get much play on this side of the pond but is causing quite a stir in Europe. (Hat tip to The Last Refuge for finding this.) A reporter with the BBC sat down with Hungarian [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Susan Collins: I won’t vote for a nominee who’s showed “hostility” to Roe v. Wade]( 7/1/2018 12:31:19 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m gonna go ahead and treat this as the death knell for Mike Lee’s candidacy, as he’s very much “hostile” to Roe and hasn’t been shy about saying so. Collins was asked separately in the interview if she’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Melania Trump visits young detainees in Arizona holding facilities]( 7/1/2018 11:01:08 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments First Lady Melania Trump traveled to Arizona Thursday, spending time in Phoenix and Tucson. This was her second visit to monitor and learn about the ICE facilities that house children in America illegally. A previous trip brought the First Lady to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mexico prepares to elect “the Mexican Trump” today]( 7/1/2018 9:31:07 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The people of our neighbor to the south are heading out to the polls today to elect their next president. Assuming the polling in Mexico is anywhere near accurate and they can manage to pull off a free, fair election without the cartels rigging it [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sunday morning talking heads]( 7/1/2018 8:01:08 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments A Supreme Court vacancy means a trip to the Sunday shows for the new Most Important Person In American Politics. That’d be Susan Collins, the potential swing vote on Trump’s nominee. She’ll drop by “This Week” and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Congressman goes dramatic over rejection of tampons expense]( 6/30/2018 8:31:22 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Sometimes I see a crazy looking story and think, no, this can’t be true. Ok, it happens a lot these days, if I’m being honest. But, the truth is indeed stranger than fiction and that saying proved correct again Thursday afternoon. It [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another bill to make Puerto Rico a state]( 6/30/2018 7:01:45 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As the title would indicate, there’s yet another move afoot to advance the process of accepting Puerto Rico into the union as the nation’s 51st state. In the current context of displaced citizens from Hurricane Maria and ongoing power [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Congressional Hispanic Caucus pumps the brakes on abolishing ICE]( 6/30/2018 5:31:28 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Just when the movement to abolish U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) started catching fire on the far left side of the political aisle, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) has issued talking points to put the brakes on the idea. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hot new lefty idea: Let’s pack the Court with liberals as soon as Democrats are back in power]( 6/30/2018 4:01:38 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I haven’t heard this one yet from any big-name Democrats but give it time. With presidential primaries approaching, the left’s dumbest, most destructive ideas will inevitably migrate up the food chain. (“Abolish ICE!”) In [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Half of Democrats support Sanders’ ejection from restaurant]( 6/30/2018 2:31:26 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments We’re about lose last week’s culture-war apocalypse, Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ ejection from Red Hen, to this week’s culture-war apocalypse in Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, which will eclipse practically everything else [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [U.S. has ‘unequivocal evidence’ North Korea is making more nuclear fuel for bombs]( 6/30/2018 1:01:33 PM John Sexton 0 Comments U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded North Korea is attempting to secretly make more nuclear fuel suitable for weapons despite the Singapore Summit earlier this month. The conclusions appear in an intelligence assessment which was first [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Reporter who claimed Annapolis shooter had MAGA hat resigns]( 6/30/2018 11:31:10 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments One of the stranger stories to come from the mass shooting at the newspaper office in Maryland this week didn’t originate anywhere near the scene of the crime. A reporter from another small newspaper outlet in Massachusettes, The Republican, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jeff Flake is ready for his close-up, interviews with networks]( 6/30/2018 10:01:27 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Republican Senator Jeff Flake has dusted off his old resume and hit the bricks looking for gainful employment once he’s out of office. The junior senator from Arizona is not seeking re-election. Fancying himself the cream of the Never Trump [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bernie Sanders violates new DNC tenet about abolishing ICE]( 6/30/2018 8:31:18 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s rapidly become something of an article of faith among the furthest left wing of the Democratic Party these days, particularly for those interested in possibly running for President in 2020. You need to call for the abolishment of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Former CNN producer: Jim Acosta ‘an embarrassment on multiple levels’]( 6/29/2018 9:21:51 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Earlier today I noted that CNN’s Jim Acosta was on television yesterday drawing a potential link between President Trump’s attacks on the media and a mass murder. “We don’t obviously know what the motivation was behind the shooting [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Cyrus Vance [Manhattan D.A. charges Weinstein with new count of sexual assault]( Byron York [Donald Trump’s mainstream immigration policy]( Jacob Heilbrunn [Five ways Trump can dominate everything]( BuzzFeed [The results from Trump’s office of immigrant crime are underwhelming]( Josh Kraushaar [Can Democrats play the long game?]( Mediaite [“You abolish ICE now, you still have the same president with the same failed policies”]( MSNBC [Romney: It’s too early to say who I’ll support in 2020]( News Busters [“These people should be made uncomfortable, and I think that’s a life sentence frankly”]( Axios [Exclusive: A leaked Trump bill to blow up the WTO]( ABC [Michael Cohen says family and country, not President Trump, are his “first loyalty”]( David Frum [The great Russian disinformation campaign]( Scott Jennings [Democrats are making a big mistake on immigration]( WaPo [Seeking a scientific explanation for trans identity could do more harm than good]( Reed Galen [Trump loves to fight and his opponents are unwilling or unable to get on his level]( Adam White [Liberal law professors want to pack the Supreme Court]( Michael Goodwin [The left needs to face reality: Trump is winning]( Cindi Leive [Let’s talk about my abortion (and yours)]( Alex Griswold [America is not the tenth most dangerous country for women, you idiots]( News Busters [“We’ve seen this before in terms of the separation of enslaved human beings from their children”]( Larry Elliott [Trump will soon find that winning a trade war is not that easy]( Daniel Burke [Does the Supreme Court have a double standard on religion?]( Richard Wolffe [Donald Trump’s only fixed position on abortion is his disdain for women]( WaPo [The practically cost-free way to slow global warming that Trump won’t adopt]( CNN [Anatomy of a 97,000% drug price hike]( Bob Bauer [How to end the judicial confirmation wars]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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