HotAir Daily Express 07/06/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Signs point to Kavanaugh as the pick]( 7/6/2018 11:21:44 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments The usual caveat, that a loose-cannon president might do anything at any given moment, applies. But various news stories today point to the choice as being essentially a two-person race with Kavanaugh seemingly having the inside track. The strongest [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [In Africa news, Lions 3, Poachers 0]( 7/6/2018 10:41:04 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments You may know that major dangers to endangered species in Africa are poachers, hunters who sneak in at night and illegally kill wildlife for various body parts. The mammoth animal corpses are simply left to rot. Now from South Africa, comes an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mission irrelevant: Left presses Schumer for zero votes on SCOTUS nominee]( 7/6/2018 10:01:15 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Can Chuck Schumer keep 49 Democrats opposed to Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee regardless of who it is? That’s the mission liberal groups have given the man who helped put them in position for irrelevance in the next few weeks. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rolling on: Jobs market maintains momentum at 213K added]( 7/6/2018 9:21:13 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Economic growth continued in the US to close out the second quarter, boosting employment while wages still lag. The US jobs market performed better than expected in June, adding 213,000 jobs during the month and beating market guesses on the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [His Montana rally reveals Trump’s emerging midterm campaign strategy]( 7/6/2018 8:41:50 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments No matter who wins the U.S. Senate race in Montana come November — State Auditor Matt Rosendale or incumbent Democrat Jon Tester — Big Sky Country will send to Washington someone with a flattop. It’s still that kind of place. And [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Be careful about wishing for politicians to act more like Lincoln]( 7/6/2018 8:01:47 AM Taylor Millard 0 Comments Abraham Lincoln enjoys a special place in American politics. The 16th president is showered with love from all political parties these days for refusing to accept the Confederacy’s secession and orations such as The Gettysburg Address where he [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Judge: Sacramento panhandlers can ask for money near ATM’s]( 7/5/2018 9:51:40 PM John Sexton 0 Comments I’ve written a bunch of stories about the homeless problem in cities on the west coast. So when I first saw this story my thought was, ‘Oh, boy, this sounds like a terrible idea.’ But I have to confess that on second thought [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi unites black and white women in anger over remarks about Waters]( 7/5/2018 9:01:43 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments When Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) issued her mandate to supporters that they continue to harass and bully any member of the Trump cabinet they may run into in public, the other end of the political spectrum reacted in a predictably indignant way. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Amy Coney Barrett’s SCOTUS interview with Trump went “poorly”]( 7/5/2018 8:11:38 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m surprised. You’d think a devoutly Catholic woman academic and President Playboy would get along swimmingly. This is but a breadcrumb of news, admittedly, but when we’re all starving for SCOTUS updates a morsel is a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Man threw a drink in teen’s face and stole his MAGA hat]( 7/5/2018 7:21:03 PM John Sexton 0 Comments I guess this is the new normal. A group of high school kids went out for some food at Whataburger after midnight. One of them was wearing a red Make America Great Again hat. Video posted on Twitter, which has been viewed over 5 million times, shows [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NBC analyst: Come on, Roe‘s not in danger]( 7/5/2018 6:31:38 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments I’ve had the same thought, the Handmaids Tale handwringing over Amy Coney Barrett notwithstanding. How likely would the second Supreme Court appointment by Donald Trump be to produce a reversal of Roe v Wade? NBC legal analyst Danny Cevalos [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Facebook: The Declaration of Independence ‘goes against our standards on hate speech’]( 7/5/2018 5:41:59 PM John Sexton 0 Comments In the run-up to the 4th of July, a small Texas newspaper called the Vindicator decided to encourage its readers to read through the Declaration of Independence by breaking it up into 12 smaller segments on its Facebook page. However, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ABC: Red-rose delivery coming Monday on prime-time The Justice]( 7/5/2018 4:51:40 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Why mess with success? Donald Trump knows that scoring a hit on prime-time television requires one to milk the concept until the public loses interest. The White House managed to sustain the Supreme Court suspense between Thomas Hardiman and Neil [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Finally: Scott Pruitt resigns]( 7/5/2018 4:01:45 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m going to miss the daily “petty Scott Pruitt scandal” story, a reliable source of grim swampy amusement. They were being published practically up to the moment Trump made the announcement on Twitter today that he was out. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bill Clinton on the Daily Show: ‘You know I regret very much what I did all those years ago’]( 7/5/2018 3:21:18 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last Friday Bill Clinton and James Patterson took the book tour for their co-written thriller, “The President is Missing,” to the Daily Show. Host Trevor Noah spent most of the interview talking about the book, but eventually asked [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Aww yeah: Schumer privately urges Trump to nominate … Merrick Garland]( 7/5/2018 2:41:17 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I don’t understand this even as a stunt. Which rank-and-file liberals, knowing there’s no chance of it happening, are going to read this story and say, “Thank you for trying, Senator Schumer! You’re a true warrior for our [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Blue wave alert: Dems underpeforming with Hispanics?]( 7/5/2018 2:01:29 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Welcome to the junction of “despite” and “because.” Democrats have assumed that Donald Trump’s harsh immigration-enforcement policies would inspire massive turnout in Hispanic communities, especially with the media [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The left stands at the brink of a return to 1960s-era extremism]( 7/5/2018 1:23:52 PM John Sexton 0 Comments We’re living through an interesting moment in modern politics. The left has not reacted well to the election of Donald Trump and has been decrying his violation of norms while also testing the waters for some norm violations of their own. But [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Michael Avenatti: Yes, I will run against Trump]( 7/5/2018 12:41:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m resigned to this happening just because we live in a sitcom now and whoever’s writing it obviously has something bigger planned for the “Michael Avenatti” character. He gets too much screentime to be just some lawyer [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Abolish ICE” is a trap, says …]( 7/5/2018 12:01:48 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Well, okay, it’s Newt Gingrich, but it’s not just the former Speaker and now-Trump supporter making the argument. Karen Tumulty leverages Gingrich’s experience in pledging to eliminate federal agencies as part of her own argument [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fox News: Kavanaugh and Kethledge new SCOTUS frontrunners?]( 7/5/2018 11:21:55 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Three days ago the alleged finalists were Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, but that was before Trump began interviewing shortlisters. And the interview with Raymond Kethledge reportedly went very, very well. .@FoxNews is told that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Finally, something you like is also good for you]( 7/5/2018 10:41:38 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments You knew it all along. Or wanted to. Now, we have grounds for a firm belief that coffee is not only good for you. It prolongs your life. Even if you down eight cups a day. It’s a habit. It tastes good. And it helps your heath. What’s not [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WSJ on SCOTUS: And then there were three]( 7/5/2018 10:01:45 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Or maybe two, but Allahpundit will get to that in a little bit. According to the Wall Street Journal and corroborated by Robert Costa at the Washington Post, the search for the next Supreme Court justice has narrowed even further from the short list [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [North Korea’s official media drop their hostility toward Trump and the US]( 7/5/2018 9:21:05 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments North Korean propaganda, chronically showing heroic North Koreans crushing imperialist powers like the United States, has taken a dramatic turn toward moderation in recent weeks. Driven by the Kim Jung-un regime’s open meetings with Presidents [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chelsea Handler apologizes to world for Trump on July 4]( 7/5/2018 8:41:14 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments While most of us were enjoying a politics-free Independence Day, Hollywood celebrities decided that July 4 was the day to weigh in on Twitter about how awful it is that Donald Trump is president. So, you know, it was just another day for them. The [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Roger Scruton [What Trump doesn’t get about conservatism]( Politico [How Scott Pruitt blew it]( CNN [Trump mocks #MeToo movement in riff on Elizabeth Warren’s heritage during Montana rally]( Mitt Romney [I am not a fan of trade wars]( CNBC [Trump privately indicated that he has settled on a Supreme Court nominee]( David Drucker [As the border crisis festers, House GOP fears Trump will betray them on immigration]( WaPo [Trump narrows list for Supreme Court pick, with focus on Kavanaugh and Kethledge]( The Hill [When Democrats cry “Abolish ICE,” they really mean “abolish borders”]( NYT [Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court frontrunner, once argued broad grounds for impeachment]( Chosun Ilbo [Pompeo brings “Rocket Man”CD for Kim Jong Un]( CNBC [Trade war begins: U.S., China slap $34 billion in tariffs on each other]( Gallup [Poll: Slight preference for having boy children persists in U.S.]( Danny Cevallos [Why Roe v. Wade is likely not in grave danger no matter whom Trump nominates]( Natalie Nougayrède [Putin will run rings round Trump in Helsinki]( Axios [23% of Americans have no emergency savings]( Source Not Found:ID-4079723 [The next American revolution: #WalkAway]( James Antle [The Donald delivers]( Matthew Cochran [When the left uses civility as a weapon, drop it and fight back]( Ruth Marcus [The Trump Supreme Court pick who’d pose the biggest danger to abortion rights]( D.C. Johnston [How to make Trump’s tax returns public]( George Will [One atrocious summit may lead to another]( David Greenberg [Here’s what happened the last time the left got nasty]( Josh Kraushaar [Democrats underperforming with Hispanic voters]( Linda Sarsour [Now that you see the brutality of ICE, help us abolish it]( Kelly Weill [Far-right Twitter keeps falling for the same liberal troll]( [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. If this newsletter no longer meets your needs we will be happy to remove your address immediately. 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