HotAir Daily Express 07/16/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Crowley: Hey, losing to the socialist was on me, guys (Or not?)]( 7/16/2018 10:41:49 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’ll bet you thought that the shocking loss of senior Democratic Congressman Joe Crowley to socialist upstart Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was in the rearview mirror and everyone is just getting on with their lives, right? Maybe. But developments [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cave rescue hero: Yes, I’ll probably sue Musk for calling me a pedo]( 7/16/2018 10:01:33 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Did the man who’s reimagining space exploration just accuse the man who ran a wonderful and miraculous rescue a pedophile? The saga of this year’s best story, the extraction of twelve boys and their coach from a Thailand cave, had a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The astroturfing of Kavanaugh opposition has hit epic levels]( 7/16/2018 9:21:27 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to fill Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the Supreme Court set off a firestorm of liberal opposition before his name had even been announced. Democrats are already busy fundraising off the nomination and encouraging [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump kicks off Russia summit: The world wants to see us get along]( 7/16/2018 8:41:48 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “Getting along with Russia is a good,” Donald Trump told the press while greeting Vladimir Putin, “not a bad thing. … The world wants to see us get along.” That may depend on which part of the world one asks. Trump [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cummings slams politically charged Trump EPA program. Turns out to be Obama EPA program]( 7/16/2018 8:01:12 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments On Friday evening there was a story at Politico which didn’t seem to gain much traction, what with all of the Trump activity going on. Congressman Elija Cummings (D-Md) is the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee and he’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sam Bee: I was really impacted by using the c-word]( 7/15/2018 8:01:40 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments What’s happened with Samantha Bee since the fateful night when she called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c-word” earlier this year? Well, times have been hard. It’s true that she hasn’t lost her TBS television show. She [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump wants more “rich American people” in space. He’s right]( 7/15/2018 6:31:26 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Last night I came across one of those awesome, breaking news stories from Gizmodo on Twitter in which they rocked the world with a shocking discovery about SpaceX boss Elon Musk. Did you know that he not only donated money to a GOP congressional PAC [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [University of Minnesota further beclowns itself with proposed transgender sensitivity rules]( 7/15/2018 5:01:38 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Just because we don’t have the federal government pushing changes to Title IX rules regarding transgender policies anymore doesn’t mean that the issue has gone away. Even without an iron mandate from Washington, the University of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Missouri’s teen marriage law is a fair compromise]( 7/15/2018 3:31:33 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Missouri Governor Mike Parson signed a new bill into law this week which alters the state’s requirements for marriages involving children under the age of 16. Critics hoping for a more restrictive cutoff may see it as only trimming around the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bolton: Why, I think the new Mueller indictments strengthen Trump’s hand in his summit with Putin]( 7/15/2018 2:01:59 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments There’s no better evidence of how uncomfortable Friday’s indictments were for the White House than the fact that this nonsense is the best a brilliant guy like Bolton can do to spin them. National security adviser John Bolton on the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump’s opportunity at the Putin summit]( 7/15/2018 12:31:22 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments President Trump is on his way to Helsinki, Finland for his one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The negative media hype over this summit (if we can really consider it a summit when the two leaders have already met twice) is off [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Walk of faith: Sunday reflection]( 7/15/2018 11:46:23 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This morning’s Gospel reading is Mark 6:7–13: Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick— no food, no sack, no [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Anti-Trump protests, baby Trump balloon follow president to Scotland]( 7/15/2018 11:01:18 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump traveled to Scotland when they departed from London. Staying for a couple of days at TrumpTurnberry, the golf resort, Trump was able to get in a round of golf Saturday before he heads to Finland for his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California shocker: Democrats deny Feinstein endorsement]( 7/15/2018 9:31:59 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This November, California Senator Dianne Feinstein will be running for a fifth full term in the upper chamber, capping off a career on the public payroll dating back to her time as Municipal Supervisor of San Francisco back in 1970. She’ll be [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sunday morning talking heads]( 7/15/2018 8:01:23 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Duty calls this Sunday morning for John Bolton, who’s been enlisted to defend two forms of diplomatic outreach with which he’s privately not thrilled, I’m sure. He’ll be on “This Week” to preview Trump’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Post-Freddie Gray, Baltimore police backed off from crime]( 7/14/2018 8:31:14 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve written here at length about the skyrocketing murder and gun crime rates in Baltimore over the past few years and the various measures which have been proposed to combat the problem. But lost in much of this debate is the question of how [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Melania Trump wows Europe with style, soft diplomacy]( 7/14/2018 7:01:59 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments By all appearances, First Lady Melania Trump has bounced back nicely from her recent kidney surgery and a rather lengthy recovery. While Trump critics in the media enjoyed some rather silly speculation because she was not in the spotlight as she [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: White House cancels John Bolton interview with CNN after Trump criticized network at presser]( 7/14/2018 5:31:35 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I agree with Jonathan Swan. The most interesting thing about this is the fact that someone close to Bolton wanted CNN to know that it wasn’t his decision. Not everyone in the West Wing enjoys playing the “fake news” game as much as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [More delicious Democratic infighting over the Kavanaugh nomination]( 7/14/2018 4:01:28 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This story is like a delicious buffet that you just keep going back to for more, more, more. To appreciate this, all you need to know is that Democrats are in a real bind over Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. On the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Awww: Chevron Shakedown lawyer in search for new career]( 7/14/2018 2:31:23 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It didn’t get the headlines that Brett Kavanaugh and Donald Trump got this week. Heck, it didn’t even get the headlines that Steve Donziger used to get earlier in his career, after the attorney scored a $8.6 billion judgment against [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Papa John: You know, I was pressured into using the n-word]( 7/14/2018 1:01:17 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As I said on Thursday, when the end finally came for Papa John’s Chairman John Schnatter, it certainly came quickly. During an online conference call which was ironically designed to prevent future public relations debacles for the company, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [2018 and the rise of the “meh” voters]( 7/14/2018 11:31:18 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Is it a blue wave? Or maybe a red wave? It’s too soon to tell, but one thing you may be sure of is that people on both sides of the aisle are fired up and ready to charge out to the polls this November in a showdown over President [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kavanaugh’s former clerks, classmates speak in favor of his nomination]( 7/14/2018 10:01:41 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Brett Kavanaugh, America’s next Supreme Court Justice, has a small army going to war in support of his nomination to the nation’s highest court. While the women on the left are dramatically proclaiming an end to life as they now know it [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Man, Mika Brzezinski *really* liked that baby Trump balloon]( 7/14/2018 8:31:46 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you were watching the news of President Trump’s visit to England yesterday you no doubt saw the much anticipated “Trump Baby” balloon. The way most of the reporters were talking, I was expecting something on the scale of a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Republicans: Lisa Page a ‘far more credible’ witness than Peter Strzok]( 7/13/2018 8:41:16 PM John Sexton 0 Comments You may recall that Lisa Page was originally scheduled to testify to a closed House committee on Wednesday. That didn’t happen but the testimony was rescheduled for today with a second session scheduled for next Monday. By all accounts, Page [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] NYT [FBI confidence in leadership fell in year after Comey’s firing]( The Hill [Sasse: Trump shouldn’t dignify Putin with Helsinki summit]( Eric Wilson-Edge [The radical left isn’t radical. Republicans have forced the center to move that way.]( Spencer Ackerman [Trump aides scramble to stop him from selling out Syria to Putin]( Politico [Trump-Putin summit mystery: What about Snowden?]( BuzzFeed [“We don’t want people to get lost in a wish list of fairy-tale tactics”]( Politico [Gowdy says he won’t support Rosenstein impeachment]( NYT [How Israel, in dark of night, torched its way to Iran’s nuclear secrets]( Donald Trump [Our relationship with Russia is terrible — thanks to our own stupidity!]( The Hill [Huntsman: There won’t be “much of a relationship left” if Moscow meddles in 2018 elections]( MST [It’s come to this]( WaPo [In about 20 years, half the population will live in eight states]( Michael McFaul [I’ve been in meetings with Putin. Here’s what Trump can expect.]( DNJ [“My daughter sat there and cried that day because they had to get out of the pool”]( Joshua Zeitz [Never Trumpers will want to read this history lesson]( Randall Eliason [The latest Mueller indictments provide a template for what could be coming next]( Michael Goodwin [Peter Strzok’s arrogance is the product of a corrupt FBI]( Uri Friedman [What’s missing from Kim Jong Un’s “very nice note” to Trump]( Mark Galeotti [The danger of a deal with Putin]( Barrett Wilson [I was the mob until the mob came for me]( Emma Green [Even Never Trump evangelicals might be swayed by the Supreme Court]( Daniel Flynn [Who kept putting Strzok in charge?]( Richard Wolffe [Let’s drop the euphemisms: Donald Trump is a racist president]( NYT [“See ya later, suckas!”]( Jason Pearl [Hot-air balloons are useless]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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