HotAir Daily Express 07/20/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [“So they finally fired your fat ass”: Cavuto reads hate mail from viewers angry that he called Trump’s Helsinki presser “disgusting”]( 7/20/2018 11:21:14 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Is this now a regular feature? It should be. The last rendition went so well, he must be tempted to dog Trump at this point just for the entertainment value of the content that lands in his inbox afterward. It’s basically 10 minutes of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [McConnell to Dems: Do you really want the Kavanaugh vote on the eve of the midterms?]( 7/20/2018 10:41:08 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Now that Senate Democrats scored a surprise win in the withdrawal of Ryan Bounds just before a confirmation vote, they want to use the same strategy against Brett Kavanaugh. They have stepped up demands for Kavanaugh’s writings going all the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How To Fix Your Dark Spots]( Gundry MD SPONSORED Surgeon explains at home fix for dark spots and uneven skin tones on skin [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Let’s turn the China-tariff knob all the way up to $500 billion]( 7/20/2018 10:01:19 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Does anyone ever win a trade war? No, but there are degrees of losing one, and Donald Trump wants to make sure China loses worse than we do. In an interview with CNBC this morning, Trump notes that he could have a great stock-market boom if he [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tucker Carlson: Mueller’s giving immunity to Tony Podesta]( 7/20/2018 9:21:56 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments According to Tucker Carlson, the special counsel investigation of nefarious Russian meddling in the 2016 election has just flipped a key witness in the biggest trial on their docket. And the person who got the immunity deal is … a member of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NFL on new anthem-protest rule: Never mind!]( 7/20/2018 8:41:14 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments At each stage, we ask ourselves: could the NFL could handle the controversy over national-anthem protests any worse? Never underestimate the power of combining enthusiasm with incompetence. Two months after passing a new rule without consulting the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Adios, entry level jobs at the Golden Arches]( 7/20/2018 8:01:40 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Who could have possibly seen this coming? Well, pretty much everyone, really. John wrote last month about the supposed finalization of plans to roll out automated kiosks at McDonald’s stores around the country, though some were still claiming [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another poll shows immigration soaring as top midterm issue for Americans, especially Republicans]( 7/19/2018 10:01:26 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Remember the Reuters poll from two weeks ago showing the same thing? Seemed like an outlier at the time, possibly triggered by the “abolish ICE” push that got so much attention in righty media. Per Gallup’s new numbers, it’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [White House: We’re inviting Putin to Washington for another summit this fall]( 7/19/2018 9:21:50 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments One smart thing Trump could do this fall to make voters forget all of this Russia business before the midterms is, errrrrrrrrrrrrr, invite Putin to the White House shortly before the vote. Dan Coats, ostensibly the man in charge of U.S. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [UK Police identify Russian suspects in novichok poisoning]( 7/19/2018 8:41:39 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Authorities in the United Kingdom say they have identified possible suspects in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Sky News reports the suspects were identified on security cameras and that those individuals are [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s deep question: Will Icon’s “Filibuster Endurance” panties help Senate Dems stop Kavanaugh?]( 7/19/2018 8:01:33 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Friends and family often ask me why I enjoy politics as much as I do. “It’s important,” I tell them, “and it’s a privilege,” which it is. But sometimes it’s also so silly that its entertainment value far [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [McConnell pulls nomination of Trump pick to Ninth Circuit after Tim Scott, Marco Rubio bolt over race-related writings]( 7/19/2018 7:21:17 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A legit shocker. The nominee was Ryan Bounds, a 44-year-old federal prosecutor headed for confirmation to Trump’s least favorite court. Usually circuit-court nominees get a bit more leeway than SCOTUS nominees. Not this time. WOW >> GOP [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Four years after Eric Garner’s death, officers will finally face discipline]( 7/19/2018 6:41:28 PM John Sexton 0 Comments New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board is finally moving ahead with disciplinary proceedings against two officers involved in the 2014 death of Eric Garner. This Tuesday, exactly four years after his death, Garner’s mother held a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rand Paul on anti-Russia resolution: “Trump Derangement Syndrome has officially come to the Senate”]( 7/19/2018 6:01:22 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Lotta headlines this week to the effect that not even Republicans are defending the president’s performance in Helsinki. But that’s not quite true. There is one guy. Thank you @RandPaul. “The President has gone through a year and a half [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Two polls show majority disapproval of Trump’s handling of Putin summit — but …]( 7/19/2018 5:21:39 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Are we experiencing Russia fatigue? These less-than-remarkable reactions to Donald Trump’s Helsinki summit performance in two polls seem surprising, given the near-unanimous condemnation he’s received for it. For that, the White House [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Times: Kavanaugh’s law students praised his intellectual rigor and fair-mindedness]( 7/19/2018 4:41:47 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Democratic effort to torpedo the Kavanaugh nomination took another hit today. The NY Times reviewed 700 pages of anonymous evaluations submitted by law students at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown and found that Kavanaugh was almost universally [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Say goodbye!”: Judge Jeanine’s appearance on “The View” goes as well as expected; Update: “Get the f*** out”]( 7/19/2018 4:01:08 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “I know a con when I see it,” says POTUS’s second-biggest media fan at the top of the clip, eliciting actual laughter from the audience. To cleanse the palate, here’s Whoopi explaining that she resented Pirro falsely accusing [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Helsinki fallout, Kavanaugh debate, and Judge Jeanine Pirro!]( 7/19/2018 3:21:23 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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Casting a transgender actor in ‘Rub & Tug’ won’t make it a hit with audiences (or a good film)]( 7/19/2018 2:49:06 PM John Sexton 0 Comments “Rub & Tug” is the film based on the real-life story of a transgender massage parlor owner in Philadelphia. Actress Scarlett Johansson was set to star in the film until a backlash caused her to pull out of the project. Tuesday, the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Republicans, Democrats wonder: Just what did Trump and Putin agree to in Helsinki?]( 7/19/2018 2:01:39 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Just what did Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin discuss in their private meeting Monday in Helsinki? Trump himself bragged about the impact of their tête-à -tête yesterday on Twitter, promising progress on a number of fronts — terrorism, nuclear [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Through the looking glass: Democrats attack “Russian bear,” chant “USA” on House floor]( 7/19/2018 1:31:27 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, a key step in making America great again is [checks notes] making it easy for Democrats to dunk on the GOP over patriotism? This is a stunt but a shrewd one, particularly if Russia tries any cyber-shenanigans on Election Day [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Texas to become world’s number 3 oil producer, passing Iran]( 7/19/2018 1:01:12 PM John Sexton 0 Comments America is a powerhouse and I mean that literally as well as figuratively. CNN Money reported Wednesday that Texas is set to become the world’s number three oil producer thanks to a boom in production: Plunging drilling costs have sparked an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Female golfer really excited to compete against men in PGA]( 7/19/2018 12:31:46 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This story is admittedly a bit far afield from most of our political concerns, but it deals with a topic that comes up on a regular basis. The opening round of the Barbasol Championship, a PGA tour stop played at the Keene Trace Golf Club in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Lankford: Come on, “no way” are we turning a US diplomat over to Putin’s security forces; Update: Trump “disagrees” on offer, Sanders says]( 7/19/2018 12:01:00 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Well, you’d hope not, but then again you’d hope that the White House would have made the absurdity of the request clear immediately, too. Instead, Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the press yesterday that “there was some conversation [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT: Trump was briefed in detail last January on how Russia interfered in the 2016 campaign]( 7/19/2018 11:21:04 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments This casts all of his public hedging on Russian culpability since taking office in a new light. The evidence of interference was described to him in detail, including highly sensitive evidence of Putin’s direct involvement, since before he was [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Will Oregon voters reject sanctuary status?]( 7/19/2018 10:41:40 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As with most of the left coast, elected officials in Oregon have adopted a number of “sanctuary” policies intended to defy the President’s border security policies and make it more difficult for immigration enforcement officials to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Blake Hounshell [Why I’m no longer a Russiagate skeptic]( David Byler [Trump’s Trump-iest tweets aren’t popular]( CNN [Kimberly Guilfoyle leaving Fox News to hit campaign trail with Donald Trump Jr.]( Politico [McConnell issues Supreme Court ultimatum]( Joe Setyon [Jeff Flake, who called Trump’s accusations of treason “vile,” accuses Trump of treason]( The Hill [Trump: Obama was a “patsy for Russia”]( Ellen Nakashima [DOJ plans to alert public to foreign operations targeting U.S. democracy]( Will Hurd [GOP rep: Trump is being manipulated by Putin. 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