HotAir Daily Express 07/09/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Breaking News for Dems: High taxes chase away rich people too]( 7/9/2018 11:01:11 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Let’s start from the premise that California has way too many people anyway — 39.8 million at last count. That’s twice New York state’s residents or 12 percent of the entire country’s population in two percent of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [On the Texas border, the feds are examining properties for you-know-what]( 7/9/2018 10:31:03 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Most of the discussion of the proposed border wall focuses on the 10,000 foot, federal level questions surrounding it. Will Congress approve the program? How much will the whole thing cost and how will it be paid for? (You lose three points in the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Are you ready for … Hillary 2020?]( 7/9/2018 10:01:37 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Could 2020 be a rerun of 2016? Michael Goodwin sees the portents for a rematch between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, thanks to her renewed interest in running her super-PAC. She’s sending out more missives attacking Trump, arranging [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The first post-Janus lawsuit against the SEIU has arrived]( 7/9/2018 9:21:03 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The changes foretold when the Janus decision on union dues collected from non-members first came down are already underway. Ed highlighted the public unions’ concerns over lost future revenue as membership contracts and their ability to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [SCOTUS Pick Day arrives, terrible as the dawn]( 7/9/2018 8:41:31 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments While I was out on vacation the SCOTUS pick circus seemed to be stuck in a loop of rumor and innuendo. Various reporters all had supposed scoops from “sources familiar with the President’s thinking” announcing that this or that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Developing: Thai rescue restarts, three more safely extracted; Update: Fourth today out]( 7/9/2018 8:00:47 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It took longer than the initial ten-hour estimate, but the massive operation to rescue the remaining eight boys and their soccer coach from a Thailand cave has finally restarted. After pulling four boys out from the cave system yesterday, three more [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Good to know: FAA says we have no problem getting out of cramped airplane seats]( 7/8/2018 6:31:05 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments According to ads for airline travel, there’s a lot of smiling, dancing and conviviality these days aboard commercial flights over the United States. Anyone who’s flown in recent years knows how true that is. A main issue for air travel [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Conservative students rally for gun rights nationwide]( 7/8/2018 5:01:28 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Saturday across the nation, conservative students and supporters rallied in support of gun rights. March for Our Rights is a counter to the massive student-led rallies against guns and the Second Amendment. Their movement is small and described as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pay up! IRS now sending tax delinquents’ names for passport denials]( 7/8/2018 3:31:42 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments This is actually a good news story, but only if you’re a law-abiding, taxpaying American citizen. If, however, you’re among more than a third of a million Americans in a tax delinquent category, well, then this is not a good news [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Americans are losing confidence in many things, but not these three]( 7/8/2018 2:01:58 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Americans, it seems, are growing increasingly dubious, skeptical, even cynical about many of their once-hallowed institutions. These include especially Congress. But any such disapproval list also contains TV news, newspapers, unions, public schools [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Kethledge now the “leading contender” for SCOTUS — thanks to McConnell? Update: “All but ruled out”?]( 7/8/2018 12:31:43 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Forty-eight hours ago it looked like Kavanaugh was the pick. Wha’ happened? Depends on whom you ask. Time magazine says the Bush odor around him might simply be too overpowering for Trump in the end: Kavanaugh had been considered a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Walking hand in hand with grace: Sunday reflection]( 7/8/2018 11:01:00 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This morning’s Gospel reading is Mark 6:1–6: Jesus departed from there and came to his native place, accompanied by his disciples. When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. They said, “Where [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Developing: Thailand cave rescue underway, three boys freed; Update: Six? Or Four? Update: Six out now; Update: 10-hour pause for second phase; Update: Four out, officials say]( 7/8/2018 8:46:41 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Three out, twelve to go. A rescue effort that has taken two weeks to plan has now been launched in Thailand to rescue a dozen boys and their soccer coach from the remote cave in which they’ve been trapped. The first two boys extracted have [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sunday morning talking heads]( 7/8/2018 8:01:12 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments There’s momentarily only one news topic of import and the Sunday shows are all-in on it this morning. Will Trump’s SCOTUS pick be Kavanaugh, Kethledge, or Barrett? If there’s to be a hint it’ll come from Leonard Leo, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [U.S.- Mexico border apprehensions down 20% in June]( 7/7/2018 7:01:24 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments The number of illegal aliens apprehended by US security forces on the border with Mexico dropped nearly 20% last month. The drop includes fewer unaccompanied minors as well as family units trying to illegally cross over the border. This number also [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Local man unaware of staff cuts at TheOnion.com]( 7/7/2018 5:31:34 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments It looks like TheOnion.com and Univision’s other satirical websites will soon be about 15 percent less funny. Maybe 14. Or it could be 16. Like many giant media companies anticipating rough waters in recent years, Univision had this really [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tucker Carlson: If Democratic Socialism works, why doesn’t Venezuela have toilet paper?]( 7/7/2018 4:01:48 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Tucker Carlson devoted a segment of his show last night to discussing Democratic Socialism with Professor Cornel West. After outlining some of the policy prescriptions advocated by Democratic Socialists—”state ownership of major [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [It would be a huge mistake to push to overturn Roe v. Wade, says … Tomi Lahren]( 7/7/2018 2:31:29 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via Mediaite, she means a huge mistake electorally, which is almost certainly true but which has zero to say about the life-and-death stakes at hand. If you’re pro-life, you listen to her here and analogize: “Personally I’d choose [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [With the clock ticking, can pro-abortion activists crack the SCOTUS-nominee “code”?]( 7/7/2018 1:01:18 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Can pro-abortion activists find anything to derail Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court before he or she gathers any momentum? The big red-rose reveal will take place at the White House in less than 60 hours, which doesn’t give [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [About that June jobs report: A surprising record in there]( 7/7/2018 11:31:47 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments A couple of additions to the predictably comprehensive monthly jobs report by our colleague Ed Morrissey. As he reported here, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said June jobs grew by an unexpectedly large 213,000. Market and workforce experts had been [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [North Korea to Pompeo: We regret that you’re serious about denuclearization]( 7/7/2018 10:01:49 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Looks like the two sides of the North Korean nuclear crisis have their wires crossed. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo led two days of talks with the Kim regime and offered a positive take on progress as he left Pyongyang. The North Koreans [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Clearly and bluntly, Pence leaves no doubt: Trump wants ICE here to stay]( 7/7/2018 8:31:00 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Mike Pence. Remember him, the vice president? He’s quietly out and about these days dutifully doing the grunt work of delivering presidential messages for an administration where Donald Trump is The Star. Trump goes to Montana on a rally [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [London mayor permits Trump blimp to soar over city during upcoming visit]( 7/6/2018 8:01:09 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments It’s no secret that London Mayor Sadiq Khan isn’t a fan of President Donald Trump. To help send that message as Trump arrives in town, Khan has signed off on a permit for protesters to fly a blimp of a diapered Trump holding an iPhone. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: I’d offer $1 million to Elizabeth Warren’s favorite charity if she’d take a DNA test]( 7/6/2018 7:23:33 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Trump held a rally in Montana Thursday during which he went on a riff about Sen. Elizabeth Warren and her claims of Native American ancestry. From CNN: His most extended attack was aimed at Warren, a Democrat he has long targeted for claiming that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Abolishing ICE makes no sense, says … Dem candidate for Jeff Flake’s Senate seat]( 7/6/2018 6:41:03 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, watch Rep. Kyrsten Sinema casually reach for an example of illegal immigrants to whom the audience can relate and come up with “housekeepers or working at restaurants.” Didn’t actress Amber Heard get [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Politico [Sasse tempts Trump’s wrath by refusing to bow]( Mediaite [“God bless abortions and God bless America”]( Kevin McCullough [Tomi Lahren’s six lies about SCOTUS and the right to life]( BBC [Boris Johnson quits to add to pressure on Theresa May over Brexit]( NBC [More dogs being poisoned by marijuana, vets say]( Mediaite [“No, in fact, if he wants to cooperate I think it’s great”]( Reihan Salam [Maintaining our constitutional order might require splitting up the FBI]( Bloomberg [Inside Pompeo’s fraught North Korea trip]( Mediaite [Giuliani reveals Trump did ask Comey to give Flynn “a break,” despite president’s prior denials]( NYT [Report: Trump giving fresh look to Tom Hardiman for Supreme Court]( NYT [This Italian town once welcomed migrants. Now, it’s a symbol for right-wing politics]( Kevin Williamson [Against packing the courts]( Kurt Schlichter [Should we invade Mexico?]( Cheng etal [Seriously, juice is not healthy]( NYT [Why Europe could melt down over a simple question of borders]( Harry Enten [2018 may have the largest gender gap on record]( Guardian [Meet the professor who says facial recognition ??can tell if you’re gay]( WFB [Legally armed teachers explain why they carry guns in their schools]( Gordon Chang [Trump’s North Korea policy just collapsed]( Derek Hunter [Liberal outrage is all the rage]( Derek Thompson [Why Trump’s trade war will fail]( Politico [Mitch Landrieu wants to know: Does he have to run for president?]( Jenna Ellis [When they lose, Democrats just want to change the rules]( Simon Tisdall [Whose side is Trump’s America on? The answer is becoming more and more obvious]( Kyle Smith [Kirsten Gillibrand had a better chance of being president 10 years ago]( [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. [You can unsubscribe from the Hot Air Daily here](. Or Send postal mail to: Hot Air Daily Unsubscribe P.O Box 9660, Arlington, VA 22219 --------------------------------------------------------------- * Copyright Hot Air and its Content Providers. 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