HotAir Daily Express 07/11/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Tomi Lahren: We can’t be sending “religious judicial activists” to the Court to overturn Roe]( 7/11/2018 11:21:21 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments I think her point here is being distorted by righty critics. Although it’s understandable that they’d withhold the benefit of the doubt from someone who’s not just pro-choice but has already begun to echo the Democratic line that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Candidate says in public what she’s not allowed to say in public]( 7/11/2018 10:41:44 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There’s nothing quite like a good candid camera moment to spice up an otherwise boring congressional campaign. One of these tidbits popped up in New York’s 21st Congressional District this week where Democrat Tedra Cobb is attempting to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump to NATO: Germany is Russia’s “captive,” you know; Pompeo: We need “strength and cohesion”]( 7/11/2018 10:01:32 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It’s always good to have breakfast with friends, no? Well … no, not always. Donald Trump launched a blistering rhetorical attack on Germany at a breakfast meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, calling it “a captive [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats plunge forward with bill to abolish ICE]( 7/11/2018 9:21:19 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In today’s hothouse environment of toxic politics, rarely do we see such an opportunity for bipartisan cooperation. Despite numerous warnings from within their own ranks, several Democratic representatives in the House are moving forward with [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dems to Kavanaugh: If we lose, you must recuse … on Mueller]( 7/11/2018 8:41:35 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Senate Democrats signaled yesterday that Brett Kavanaugh should prepare for the kitchen-sink treatment with a ridiculous demand for a recusal. Earlier, some Democrats had seized on an article written by Kavanaugh arguing that Congress should pass a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Lisa Page tells Congress what they can do with their subpoena]( 7/11/2018 8:01:29 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments So much for all of the anticipated excitement in Washington today. We were all set for former FBI attorney and Team Mueller member Lisa Page to show up and testify before the House Judiciary Committee. While it was going to be a closed session, at [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pence: Yes, of course I still want to see Roe v. Wade overturned]( 7/10/2018 10:41:52 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Is this news? CNN and Mediaite are treating it as news. It’d be major, major news if his answer was anything other than this, for sure. As it is, the angle seems to be that a guy who’s now the country’s most prominent devoutly [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Schumer: It’s time for Supreme Court nominees to dump the Ginsburg standard and tell us their views on legal hot buttons]( 7/10/2018 10:01:33 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Chuck, m’boy, I don’t believe that’ll be happening. Poor guy, though. This makes twice now that he’s been hobbled by a Democrat setting a judicial precedent which seemed clever at the time, only to have it detonate later [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [No records of the small business Senate candidate Jacky Rosen claims she built]( 7/10/2018 9:21:36 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Earlier today I wrote about the tough map Democrats are facing in the Senate. One of the places where Democrats hope to unseat a Republican incumbent is in Nevada where Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen is challenging incumbent Sen. Dean Heller. One of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Personal foul: NFL players union throws flag on anthem-protest rule change]( 7/10/2018 8:41:26 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Finally, after two weeks of irrational delirium and demagoguery over a Supreme Court opening, we can focus on the rational issue of … the speech rights of professional athletes. NFL team owners thought they’d settled the issue with a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How significant is McCain’s cheerleading for Kavanaugh?]( 7/10/2018 8:01:40 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This slipped under the radar last night amid the kerfuffle over Trump’s announcement but it shouldn’t be overlooked. The Kavanaugh pick has pleased Trump’s least favorite maverick: “In selecting Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [There was another amazing rescue this week]( 7/10/2018 7:21:06 PM John Sexton 0 Comments We’ve all heard about the successful rescue of a soccer team and their coach who had been trapped in a cave in Thailand for a week. There was another rescue this week in Montana which is just as miraculous. A five-month-old was found buried [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [In the era of social media, should we delete the dead?]( 7/10/2018 6:41:24 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is a situation which our family ran into recently, so when I saw an article on the subject at the Boston Globe it immediately caught my interest. These days, social media isn’t just for those annoying kids who won’t get off your [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kavanaugh pick: Who expected a conventional choice from the most unconventional president?]( 7/10/2018 6:01:58 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Now that the choice has been made, we can expect the divisions that erupted on the Right over the preferred Supreme Court nominee to largely fade. Brett Kavanaugh checks all the boxes, even while the other contenders largely did as well. The tussle [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [More Dershowitz: Obama should have had Garland sworn in and dared Republicans to remove him]( 7/10/2018 5:31:36 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments What? When did this guy go full YOLO on presidential power? Harvard Law prof. Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) discusses Pres. Trump's #SCOTUS pick Brett Kavanaugh — and criticizes the GOP for refusing to consider Obama’s 2016 nominee Merrick [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Feminist Apparel founder fired staff after they learned he’d been an abuser]( 7/10/2018 5:01:35 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A site called Refinery 29 has a piece up about a small group of very unhappy progressives. These individuals became employees of a company called Feminist Apparel which produced woke t-shirt popular with the Women’s March set. But their dreams [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New Army fitness standards. Now no push-ups, sit-ups]( 7/10/2018 4:31:14 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Every time the military changes their fitness requirements lately it leads to controversy. This is mostly because so many of the recent changes created at least the suggestion that accommodations were being made for female recruits, or perhaps even [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Alan Dershowitz: If Trump gets impeached, the Supreme Court could block it]( 7/10/2018 4:01:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We’re in a weird place where Trump’s own SCOTUS nominee thinks Congress’s power to remove him from office is broad while liberal Democrat Alan Dershowitz is on TV arguing that it is, and can only be, narrow. From his new book, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh, and more! (Kavanaugh, that is)]( 7/10/2018 3:36:26 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Leaked U.S. FART Act could be negotiating ploy]( 7/10/2018 3:31:49 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments The White House received a flurry of derision and scorn from across the political spectrum following the revelation by Axios of a possible new bill regarding tariffs. Most of the chuckles (including AP’s analysis) derived from the acronym for the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Business Insider deletes piece defending Scarlett Johansson in a trans role, then bans use of ‘social justice warriors’]( 7/10/2018 3:01:34 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Business Insider pulled an opinion piece by a conservative writer after members of the staff objected. The piece, which is now available only on the Internet Archive was a reaction to the controversy over the casting of actress Scarlett Johansson as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Confederate flag to fly once again at South Carolina capital]( 7/10/2018 2:31:24 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Following the social unrest over Confederate flags, statues and symbols in 2015, a lot of southerners and their supporters around the country were rather unhappy with the results. (Regular readers already know you can count me among their ranks.) [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Deep thought from CNN: Why do Catholics have a “strong majority” on the Supreme Court?]( 7/10/2018 2:01:27 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments And here I thought that Donald Trump had passed up a golden opportunity to fire up his faith-based voters by passing over Amy Coney Barrett. Thankfully, CNN’s Z. Byron Wolf comes along less than fourteen hours after Trump picked Brett [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NBC: On second thought, there was no transaction between Trump and Kennedy about his replacement]( 7/10/2018 1:31:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Even sadder than the fact that this “story” was reported out by a major network based on one source is the fact that so many lefties bit on it this morning. Confirmation bias in action: They want to believe that there’s something [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: The Senate is looking grim for Democrats this year]( 7/10/2018 1:01:36 PM John Sexton 0 Comments As you probably know already, Democrats are facing a tough map in the Senate this year. They have to defend 10 seats in red states and try to pick up two additional seats in order to take control of the Senate. This morning, Axios published a poll [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Politico [Poll: Voters oppose abolishing ICE]( Stuart Rothenberg [Brett Kavanaugh and the midterm effect]( Sarah Palin [“Yup – we were duped. Ya’ got me, Sacha. Feel better now?”]( Jeff Stein [Democrats ready “Abolish ICE” legislation]( Rick Wilson [Do svidánija, NATO]( Ronald A. Klain [Kavanaugh faces a tougher path to confirmation than Gorsuch. Here’s why.]( CNBC [Trump administration announces list of tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods]( Courtesy Quirk Books [It’s come to this]( WaPo [Trump blasts Germany as “captive to Russia” in fiery opening salvo against NATO]( Jennifer Tsang [Should you let your dog lick your face?]( NYT [“I’d argue we also have Avenatti because the left so desperately desires an anti-Trump”]( Jeff Greenfield [David Souter, the justice who built the Trump court]( Michael Doran [The anti-Trump conservative firing circle is wildly out of touch with the American electorate]( Russell Berman [The precedent that Democrats want Brett Kavanaugh to break]( Damon Linker [There’s nothing conservative about overturning Roe v. Wade]( F.H. Buckley [It’s not Bernie who’s holding the Democrats back — it’s Obama]( Drutman, Wallner [Why filling the vacant Supreme Court seat is bad for the country]( Paul Bedard [Older immigrants “crowding out” U.S. teens for summer jobs]( M.J. Stern [How Brett Kavanaugh will gut Roe v. Wade]( Perry Bacon [The abortion debate isn’t as partisan as politicians make it seem]( James Rogers [European nations — not Trump — are undermining NATO]( BBC [“We live in a 3D-printed home”]( WaPo [It’s come to this]( Bloomberg [Kavanaugh resembles Roberts, but they’re hardly clones]( Daily Mail [Survey: Now even more Britons want to leave the EU]( [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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