HotAir Daily Express 08/30/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [House Dems: “Damn right” we’re going to get Trump’s tax returns if we take back the majority]( 8/30/2018 11:21:40 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments They really have no choice. The lefty base *might* tolerate Pelosi declining to impeach absent evidence of collusion, knowing how impeachment backfired on the GOP 20 years ago. As a matter of pure political self-interest, it might make sense not to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [One Democrat’s unremarkable flip-flop on a national gun registry]( 8/30/2018 10:41:01 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This race probably won’t draw too much national attention, but New York’s 23rd Congressional District has revealed a rather interesting election strategy by the Democrat who is attempting to unseat Republican Tom Reed. (Disclosure: I [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Politico: Maybe Lanny Davis doesn’t belong on air any more]( 8/30/2018 10:01:37 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Oh, come on, let’s not be hasty. Just because Lanny Davis misled reporters as a source and then went public to admit it doesn’t mean he’s not a voice to be trusted, right? I mean, if that’s the criteria, one would have to ask [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Much smoke, no fire at Cuomo-Nixon debate]( 8/30/2018 9:21:06 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It seems that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and his primary challenger Cynthia Nixon settled their differences over the temperature in the hall and whether or not they would shake hands (they did) prior to their debate last night. Then the two [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Reality TV: Why is CBS giving a platform to Winner?]( 8/30/2018 8:41:54 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments A “conscience-driven whistleblower,” or someone who manipulated the trust placed in her to conduct her own politics? A naïve functionary in an intelligence job, or a traitor who pledged to support Iran in case of war? CBS wants to open [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chelsea Manning to be barred from Australia]( 8/30/2018 8:01:12 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We haven’t heard too much from convicted traitor Chelsea Manning lately, aside from his attempt to be elected to the Senate in Maryland this summer. (For those who missed it, Manning was edged out in the Democratic primary by incumbent Ben [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Robert Reich: If Mueller finds evidence of collusion, Trump not only must impeached — he must be annulled]( 8/29/2018 10:41:55 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is the most compelling masturbatory progressive fantasy about Russiagate taking down Trump I’ve read since Lawrence Lessig’s plan for Trump to be removed from office, Mike Pence to resign as president, Paul Ryan to become president [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NATO weighing whether to rename headquarters after McCain]( 8/29/2018 10:01:08 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This would be among the most fitting tributes imaginable, even more so than renaming the Russell Building after him. McCain will be remembered mainly as a hawk and an internationalist, I think, a man who believed that the west generally and the U.S. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [State Department denying passports to people on the Texas border, demanding proof they were really born here]( 8/29/2018 9:21:43 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Maybe you’ve seen this story from the Washington Post floating around today. It’s headlined: “U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question.” The problem with this headline [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mattis warns Korea’s Kim maneuvers with the South are not suspended forever]( 8/29/2018 8:41:12 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments If North Korea was listening, it heard a warning shot about those joint US-South Korean military exercises it says are so provocative. As a sign of good faith following the Singapore Summit, President Trump suspended two major joint exercises this [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [DeSantis opponent Andrew Gillum on “monkey” comment: The Trump playbook isn’t racist dog whistles, it’s racist bullhorns]( 8/29/2018 8:01:47 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I continue not to grasp an alleged strategy that calls for broadcasting your “political incorrectness” in the most obnoxious way to appeal to voters who are already in your pocket, and who will inevitably grow more enthusiastic about [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Child abuse charges dropped against members of New Mexico compound]( 8/29/2018 7:21:31 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Three of the five adults arrested at a New Mexico compound have had all charges against them dismissed. The remaining two adults are still being held on charges connected to the death of a 3-year-old boy. From Fox News: Child abuse charges against [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Keeping America great. Missouri bans labeling vegan food as “meat”]( 8/29/2018 6:41:55 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Have you ever found yourself in the uncomfortable situation where someone serves you a burger, hotdog or sausage and you bite into it, only to find out that it’s made of disgusting tofu or some other soy/veggie compound? Missouri has enacted a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [August consumer confidence highest this century. Will it matter come November?]( 8/29/2018 6:01:52 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments No doubt it’s all Trump’s fault. But the confidence of American consumers this month soared to its highest level since 2000. It’s good news, so you may not have heard much about it in media. But the Conference Board reports its [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Palin not invited to McCain’s funeral?]( 8/29/2018 5:31:59 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Sweet fancy Moses. How bad could the blood between them possibly be to warrant this snub? NBC's @KellyO reports: Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has not been invited to attend memorial services for John McCain — Jesse Rodriguez [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The sad saga of Johnny Bobbitt]( 8/29/2018 5:01:23 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Have you heard about this one? Johnny Bobbitt is a homeless man who was living under a bridge in Philadelphia. One night last fall, a woman named Kate McClure was running out of gas and Bobbitt saw her and used his last $20 to buy her gas. She set [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California eliminated cash bail. What could possibly go wrong?]( 8/29/2018 4:31:34 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Golden State continues its push to be the most woke of all the woke states in the land this month. Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law a measure which will eliminate bail for suspects awaiting trial. It’s not quite as bad as it [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Two confirmations in Florida: The endorsement powers of Trump and Bernie Sanders]( 8/29/2018 4:01:24 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Two big primary elections in Florida Tuesday, one showing President Trump’s endorsement power and the other an upset showing Bernie Sander’s political clout. In the Republican primary for governor, Rep. Ron DeSantis, who trailed early, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ron DeSantis on black Dem opponent: Florida voters shouldn’t “monkey this up” by electing a socialist]( 8/29/2018 3:31:20 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments In the year of our lord 2018 I’m not staking anything on any politician’s good faith, left or right. Riddle me this about DeSantis’s “monkey up” comment here, though: Is the claim that he made this crack [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Putin softens raising of retirement age in rare TV address]( 8/29/2018 3:01:08 PM John Sexton 0 Comments What good is it being an autocrat if you can’t set policy without hearing complaints? The Associated Press reports that Vladimir Putin has been forced to tone down changes made to a pension reform package after a backlash that has sent his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s guests at Hot Air at the Fair: Doug Wardlow, Karin Housely, Jason Lewis, and John Hinderaker!]( 8/29/2018 2:31:39 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The Minnesota State Fair returns to the Fairgrounds, and so does Hot Air at the Fair! All this week, local Salem Radio affiliate AM 1280 The Patriot will have me on the air from 2-4 pm CT, talking both national and local politics. We also will [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Louis C.K. is back from #MeToo purgatory… sort of]( 8/29/2018 2:01:08 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Back in November of last year, the New York Times reported that comedian Louis C.K. had been accused by at least five women of acts of, er… manhandling in front of them. He was only one of many men to be sent to Hollywood exile as the #MeToo [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Don McGahn is leaving this fall! Chuck Grassley: He’d better not be!]( 8/29/2018 1:31:08 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Axios reported this morning that Don McGahn, Trump’s White House counsel and the West Wing’s quarterback on judicial nominations, would be out the door sometime this fall. He still had business to attend to, including the small matter of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [College acquaintance says Democratic Socialist Julia Salazar is ‘lying about being Jewish’]( 8/29/2018 1:01:22 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Democratic Socialist Julia Salazar is still dealing with the fallout to a magazine article published last week which called into question elements of her biography including her claim to be a “proud immigrant” and her alleged Jewish [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Survey: A third of government workers would leave their union if they could]( 8/29/2018 12:31:44 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments While some of President Trump’s reforms to how unions conduct their business inside the government have been temporarily put on hold by a judge, changes are still taking place. 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