HotAir Daily Express 08/22/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Trump: Unlike Michael Cohen, brave Paul Manafort refused to break!]( 8/22/2018 11:21:29 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments One thing to do upon suddenly finding yourself in criminal jeopardy is try to refrain from sounding like a crime boss while addressing an audience of 54 million people. He has somehow refrained from using the terms “rat” or [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: In New Mexico Senate race, Gary Johnson is leading the GOP candidate?]( 8/22/2018 10:41:44 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Here’s one I didn’t see coming but probably should have. In New Mexico, Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich is up for election this November but there’s a lot of interest in replacing him. The seat leans Democratic, but Heinrich [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Wake up, America: Health and work are hurt badly by not sleeping enough]( 8/22/2018 10:01:53 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Some of us can fall asleep anywhere anytime. Others not so much, too often by conscious choice and misplaced priorities. Think students studying hard for tests, office workers completing an important report for a morning meeting. Lost sleep all adds [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Duncan Hunter and his wife indicted. Now what?]( 8/22/2018 9:21:28 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Almost lost in the rest of the Cohen/Manafort maelstrom yesterday was the fact that Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter of California and his wife were indicted on charges of misusing campaign funds for their personal benefit. These stories have [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [While you watched those DC court cases, this sadness happened in Iowa]( 8/22/2018 8:41:08 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Another one of those senseless homicides that makes you wince, especially if you’re a parent. And a case reminiscent of the Kate Steinle murder that will also likely inflame the debate even more over illegal aliens staying in the United [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NBC: “The darkest day for the presidency since Watergate”]( 8/22/2018 8:01:08 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Allahpundit and I had some of the highlights of the Cohennado last night, but now the entire media world is swirling around in the storm Cohen has created. The general consensus which most of the MSM reached immediately was that this was Christmas [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Susan Collins: Kavanaugh told me that he agrees that Roe v. Wade is “settled law”]( 8/21/2018 10:01:54 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Heh. Say it with me: Every case is “settled law” until it isn’t. Plessy v. Ferguson was “settled law” (for longer than Roe has been, in fact). When you ask if Roe is settled law, you invite a Clintonian retort: It [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump campaign rally in Charleston, West Virginia]( 8/21/2018 9:21:56 PM John Sexton 0 Comments “I like Joe but he doesn’t vote—he just doesn’t vote for us,” President Trump said tonight at his campaign stop in Charleston, West Virginia. Trump was there to stump for Senate candidate Patrick Morrisey who is challenging [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Can AI produce fine art?]( 8/21/2018 8:41:38 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We don’t normally cover the fine art beat here for obvious reasons, but there was a sale of a painting to a French collector in February which drew some attention. Another work by the same artist is going on sale at Christie’s presently. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Drug overdoses kill 72,000 Americans, as governments ramp up treatment]( 8/21/2018 8:01:55 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Driven by an explosion in supplies of synthetic opiods, an estimated 72,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, an increase of about 10 percent, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control. That’s 197 deaths per day [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Illegal immigrant charged with murder after leading police to body of missing college student Mollie Tibbetts]( 8/21/2018 7:21:27 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Mollie Tibbetts is the Iowa college student who has disappeared on July 18th after going for a jog in the small town where she attended school. Earlier today her body was finally located and now authorities have revealed that they were taken to the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bad news: Omarosa part of the Resistance now]( 8/21/2018 6:41:46 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments How much would it have cost Team Trump to buy her silence by giving her a sinecure on the campaign? $250,000? $300,000? Instead Lara Trump wanted to bring her on for the same salary she was getting in the White House, seemingly knowing that Omarosa [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Shocker: U.S. leading all Paris Accord signatories in emissions reduction]( 8/21/2018 6:01:39 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’m old enough to remember when we were told that President Trump pulling out of the Paris climate agreement was basically the end of human life on the planet. The world would eventually burn away into a desert and it would be all our fault. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN reads a whole lot into Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s collars]( 8/21/2018 5:21:00 PM John Sexton 0 Comments CNN published a style piece Monday about the fancy, frilly collars, known as jabots, often worn over her black robe by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The jabots were apparently first worn by Sandra Day O’Connor who, as the first [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: Manafort jury reaches verdict on eight counts, hung on 10; Update: Mistrial on latter declared; Update: Guilty on eight counts]( 8/21/2018 4:36:42 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I cannot — cannot — believe that the verdict in the trial of the president’s campaign manager is coming down at the very moment that the president’s former lawyer is pleading guilty in federal court. The crackheads writing [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Michael Cohen says he violated campaign law “at direction of candidate”; Updates: Trump proceeding to rally, no comment on Cohen]( 8/21/2018 4:01:04 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He’ll be in federal court in Manhattan to offer his plea at 4 p.m. ET, just as this post goes live. He’s going away, says CNN — but it’s still unclear for how long. The correct answer, of course, is “not even an [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver accused of cultural appropriation over rice recipe]( 8/21/2018 3:21:34 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Jamie Oliver is a British celebrity chef who has had a series of television shows and also runs a chain of restaurants. Yesterday Oliver was accused of cultural appropriation over a rice recipe which he called “punchy jerk rice.” [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Asia Argento: I deny everything — and the payoff to my accuser was Anthony Bourdain’s idea]( 8/21/2018 2:41:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments She’s following the first rule of crisis PR: When things look really bad, blame it on your now-dead boyfriend who just committed suicide. Argento’s going to force #MeToo observers to wrestle with a hard question. Why should they give [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Wait… now Cohen is offering a guilty plea?]( 8/21/2018 2:01:25 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It sure looks like it. And we’re getting some confirmation from the press that a plea deal for Cohen is now essentially a done deal. (See updates at bottom) BREAKING: @MichaelCohen212 has reached a plea deal w feds, @GStephanopoulos reports. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Facebook rates users’ trustworthiness in an attempt to stop no-platforming behavior]( 8/21/2018 1:21:12 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This previously unreported rating system was developed as part of Facebook’s effort to combat fake news. Facebook gives users the option to report something they believe to be false. However, the company quickly found that a lot of people were [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Teens already forgot how to write. Now they don’t read.]( 8/21/2018 12:41:06 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you’re an aspiring writer thinking about penning a novel aimed at the YA (young adult) market, you may want to consider looking into a new line of work. A new report from the American Psychological Association reveals that teenagers simply [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Easy prediction: If the jury hangs, Trump will pardon Manafort]( 8/21/2018 12:01:42 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Just a quick thought inspired by this cryptic news: The jury asked in a note: "If we cannot come to a consensus for a single count, how can we fill in the verdict sheet?" The jury note also said they needed a new verdict sheet, and they [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump now using security clearances to … troll people]( 8/21/2018 11:21:51 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments I mean, I think it’s trolling. But sometimes what looks like trolling, isn’t. After a week of critics blasting him for treating natsec clearances as a royal privilege, unfit for those who would speak ill of the king, here he is last [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [It’s time to finally elect a UFO abductee to Congress]( 8/21/2018 10:41:30 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Florida’s primary is coming up one week from today and the race for the GOP nomination in the 27th district has taken an interesting turn. There are a number of viable candidates in the field and the GOP has held the seat for decades. (The [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Again, Americans list their government as top problem]( 8/21/2018 10:01:30 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments No one ever accused Americans of thinking consistently about the nation’s array of problems. Problems come and go in the American mind, often according to what media is currently focused on for a week or three. And then we all move on to the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] NPR [Lanny Davis: Cohen would never accept a pardon from Trump]( Jonathan Turley [Manafort guilty verdicts raise chances of pardon by Trump]( Brendan Hoffman [Rand Paul, Russian stooge]( NYT [“I think impeachment is now squarely going to define the midterms”]( TMZ [Photo leaks: Asia Argento in bed with accuser]( Politico [House GOP preparing to remove Duncan Hunter from committees]( WaPo [Trump’s company approved $420,000 in payments to Cohen, relying on “sham” invoices, prosecutors say]( GoFundMe [It’s come to this]( Glenn Harlan Reynolds [Hypocritical politically motivated feminism is killing #MeToo. Just ask Keith Ellison.]( Donald Trump [If you’re looking for a good lawyer, don’t hire Michael Cohen!]( Business Insider [“How ya like me now?!”: Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti take victory lap]( WaPo [Lanny Davis: Cohen has knowledge has knowledge implicating Trump in “criminal conspiracy” to hack Dem emails]( Robert Costa [Trump adviser Larry Kudlow hosted publisher of white nationalists at his home]( Fox News [Statement: Michael Cohen’s attorney accuses Trump of a crime]( Mara Altman [What our sex sounds say about us]( Lillyth Quillan [The isolating life of parenting a potential psychopath]( Eleanor Clift [Will Gretchen Carlson destroy the Miss America pageant, or save it?]( Georgi Boorman [Why thousands are obsessed with a nest of conspiracy theories called QAnon]( Karin McQuillan [Nice ladies leaving the Democratic Party]( Steven Thrasher [Why do you need the N-word tape?]( CNN [GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife indicted in use of campaign funds for personal expenses]( Matthew Walther [Fire the Catholic Church]( Andy McCarthy [Robert Mueller shouldn’t even ask Trump for an interview]( M.H. Miller [The inescapable weight of my $100,000 student debt]( Damon Linker [Will Trumpism doom us all?]( [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](. 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