HotAir Daily Express 08/07/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Tsk, Tsk: Senate Democrats talk diversity for us, but not for them]( 8/7/2018 11:21:53 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments You know how Democrats so often talk about diversity as a goal in itself? For others anyway. Now comes a serious problem for some of their candidates seeking to tip the narrow Senate party balance in their party’s direction come Nov. 6. In a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The latest “Trump the Tyrant” article from the WaPo is a real gem]( 8/7/2018 10:41:33 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Is there no kind soul out there who would be willing to stop by Richard Cohen’s office and check to see if he’s, you know… okay these days? I’m worried that his ongoing fixation with President Donald J. Trump is taking a toll [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT: Trump admin helping politically connected steel firms block tariff exemptions]( 8/7/2018 10:01:54 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Crony capitalism on steroids, or a big nothingburger? The New York Times’ Jim Tankersley made it sound like the former in their headline and lead about the use of challenges to exemption requests from steel-import tariffs. The two steel firms [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New York City is the next to “crack down” on Airbnb and the gig economy]( 8/7/2018 9:21:38 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Following in the footsteps of Boston and other large, liberal cities, the Big Apple is taking aim at the gig economy once again. Mayor Bill de Blasio has just taken yet another swing at Airbnb hosts and is preparing another whack at Uber, Lyft and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Buckeye showdown: All eyes on OH-12 special election]( 8/7/2018 8:41:43 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Will Donald Trump’s last-minute intervention make the difference in a key special House election? Voters go to the primary polls in five states today, but the main event will take place in Ohio’s 12th Congressional district. It’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Let’s stop saying “protesters” when you’re talking about a mob]( 8/7/2018 8:01:25 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Yesterday we all saw the news of what happened when Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk attempted to have breakfast at a restaurant in Philadelphia. At the time I didn’t feel particularly inspired to write anything about it because it just all [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Energy Transfer Partners files amended lawsuit against Greenpeace]( 8/6/2018 10:41:03 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last August, Energy Transfer Partners, the company which built the Dakota Access Pipeline, filed a lawsuit against Greenpeace, Earth First!, and a Dutch protest group called BankTrack. As I wrote at the time, ETP’s argument was that Greenpeace [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Turns out, some weekdays off are better for you than others]( 8/6/2018 10:01:15 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments When’s the last time you heard someone talk about killing time? Probably some time ago. Everyone’s so scheduled, so on-deadline, so harried and busy these days — even during peak vacation times like now — there’s little [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo wonders: Is race “Trump’s blind spot?”]( 8/6/2018 9:21:03 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’re arriving at the anniversary of the Charlottesville protest where a deranged white supremacist rammed a car into a crowd of people. You might think this would be a suitable moment for reflection on how far out of hand some counterprotests [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Congressional candidate calls First Lady a ‘hoebag’]( 8/6/2018 8:41:55 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Well, that’s not a headline you see every day, even in the ugly political rhetoric of 2018. Mark Roberts, an independent congressional candidate in Oregon, responding to a tweet (of course), labeled First Lady Melania Trump as a #hoebag. Now [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sorority to Harvard: Hell no, we won’t go … co-ed]( 8/6/2018 8:01:04 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Old and busted: Women need safe spaces on campuses to protect themselves! New hotness: Sororities must now open their doors to men! In their zeal to impose their own standards on the freedom of association, Harvard University now requires all [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Former Nation poetry editor: It was wrong to apologize for that poem]( 8/6/2018 7:21:26 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Why is John Cleese pictured in a story about a poem at the Nation? You’ll have to read to the end to find out. Last week I wrote about the controversy that broke out over a poem published by the far left magazine The Nation. The poem was only [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Banhammers hit Alex Jones]( 8/6/2018 6:41:04 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments Multiple Mjolnir-sized banhammers are coming down on Alex Jones. Apple decided to make the first move by removing the conspiracy theorist – or, if you believe him, self-proclaimed truth-teller – from their iTunes library at some point [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem gubernatorial candidates going all-in on single-payer]( 8/6/2018 6:01:59 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Never mind that three states run by Democratic governors haven’t figured out how to deliver on promises for single-payer health care. At least a dozen Democrats running in gubernatorial races have quadrupled down on socialized medicine, either [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Know anyone who relies on menu nutrition info to order?]( 8/6/2018 5:31:16 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments You know how you wait all week to eat out? Then, you sit down in a restaurant and, very first thing every time, scan all the nutrition information on the menu to decide what food you’re going to order? Or not. Remember all that debating in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Esquire: People at NBC knew about Matt Lauer for years]( 8/6/2018 5:01:24 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Sunday, Esquire published a lengthy piece on the Matt Lauer scandal. You may recall that Lauer was abruptly fired by NBC News last November after an accuser claimed inappropriate sexual behavior on Lauer’s part. At the time, NBC claimed this [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [What do the Democrats really want to make 2018 about? Obamacare]( 8/6/2018 4:31:15 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Everything old is new again. The younger, scrappier upstarts in the Democratic base obviously would like to make the midterm elections a referendum on President Trump. You hear them chanting about abolishing ICE and moving forward with impeachment. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [AP wonders: Can Kavanaugh, other Catholic judges “uphold the law as written” after Pope Francis’ death-penalty decree?]( 8/6/2018 4:01:31 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments And here we thought that we’d dodged another “dogma living loudly” moment with the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh rather than Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Thankfully, the Associated Press stepped in … and arguably [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The new underground railroad… to Canada]( 8/6/2018 3:31:37 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Back in the dark days of slavery, certain American citizens would assist runaway slaves who sought passage to Canada, setting up what became unofficially known as the Underground Railroad. It turns out that there’s a new version of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Portland police under fire for harsh treatment of Antifa]( 8/6/2018 3:01:49 PM John Sexton 0 Comments There was another Patriot Prayer rally in Portland this weekend and Portland police are being criticized this morning by the ACLU for their rough treatment of Antifa. From KATU: The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon said Portland Police [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kentucky Sec of State jokes Rand Paul “can be beaten”]( 8/6/2018 2:31:54 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Talk about a tone-deaf joke. Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes used a reference to a brutal attack by a neighbor in an attempt at humor aimed at Senator Rand Paul (R-KY). The tasteless remark was made at an event traditionally [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Buzzfeed: QAnon a Leftist hoax?]( 8/6/2018 2:01:27 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments That’s just what they want you to think! The conspiracy-theory collective known as QAnon has gotten a lot of attention from the news media of late, thanks to random appearances at Donald Trump rallies. They make a good foil for media outlets [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How you identify Korean War fallen six decades later]( 8/6/2018 1:31:15 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments The return from North Korea of 55 boxes of Korean War remains is only the beginning of the end for those casualties and their families still waiting more than six decades later. Now begins likely years of battlefield forensics and DNA testing by [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Left-wing mob interrupts Candace Owens’ breakfast with primal screams]( 8/6/2018 1:01:43 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Earlier, Ed wrote about Twitter coming after Candace Owens for quoting NY Times hire Sarah Jeong’s tweets (but replacing the word “white” with “Jewish”). Twitter apologized after realizing they had helped make [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Guess who actually lynched that black doll in Philadelphia (POTUS blamed)]( 8/6/2018 12:31:10 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is a story which was unfolding at the end of last week and into the weekend, but we’re just catching up with it now. A terrible looking event took place at a public playground in Philadelphia Thursday afternoon. Someone took a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] NBC News [Trump’s visa changes may shut down carnivals]( Rick Newman [‘Medicare for all’ could save businesses trillions of dollars]( Natasha Clark [Boris Johnson: Burkas look like ‘bank robbers’ or ‘letter boxes’]( Brett Samuels [Anonymous vows to take down, expose QAnon]( Ashton Lattimore [Ending university legacy admissions is the right thing to do]( Daniel W. 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