HotAir Daily Express 10/15/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Kavanaugh effect? Nevada poll shows Dean Heller surging to seven-point lead]( 10/15/2018 11:21:22 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments That’s a nine-point shift towards the Republican in a month, according to Emerson Polling. Gotta be a Kavanaugh effect, right? Except … the Kavanaugh effect is supposed to be a red-state phenomenon. Heidi Heitkamp and Phil Bredesen are [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Young Virginia voters aren’t sending in their ballots because…]( 10/15/2018 10:41:10 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Democrats are already worried about turnout this November, particularly because polling shows that the youngest voters – college students in particular – are the least enthusiastic and the least likely to show up at the polls. That gap [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Saudi king tells me he knows nothing about Khashoggi disappearance; Update: “Rogue killers”?]( 10/15/2018 10:01:49 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Is it news that the Saudi king denies any knowledge of the disappearance of Washington Post columnist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi? Donald Trump thinks so: Just spoke to the King of Saudi Arabia who denies any knowledge of whatever may have [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Could Keith Ellison actually lose the Minnesota AG race?]( 10/15/2018 9:21:40 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) thought they had a sure-fire winner in the state attorney general race this fall when Keith Ellison tossed his hat in the ring. The DFL has held that office for almost fifty years and there [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Money, badly spent: Sears on the ropes?]( 10/15/2018 8:41:17 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments After more than a century of retail dominance, Sears looks close to collapse. Its holding company filed for bankruptcy today just as a massive payment on its debt was due. The company says it will restructure with fewer stores, but there seems to be [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Okay, let’s talk about Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test]( 10/15/2018 8:01:47 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Let’s all say it together for the bazillionth time: She’s running. Apparently continuing her effort to stave off criticism of her previous claims to Native American ancestry, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is releasing the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Multiple nations want joint Saudi-Turkey probe into Jamal Khashoggi disappearance]( 10/14/2018 8:01:10 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments Several European countries are pushing for a joint Saudi-Turkey investigation into what happened to Jamal Khashoggi. France, Germany, and the UK released a statement on Sunday encouraging the two countries to work with each other (they already are) [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Blaming Trump for Jamal Khashoggi is a little…extreme]( 10/14/2018 6:31:12 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments It is yet to be determined whatever happened to Jamal Khashoggi. The prevailing theory – one which has plenty of merits – is the House of Saud critic was killed by Saudi agents inside their embassy in Turkey earlier this month. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Toomey: Trump’s ethanol plan will hurt him in Pennsylvania]( 10/14/2018 5:01:37 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Earlier this month we talked about President Trump’s ill-advised plan to extend the sale of E15 blended ethanol gasoline year round. The plan flies in the face of common sense and causes additional problems for consumers, particularly boaters [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN poll: Biden leads Dem presidential field by 20 points, Avenatti at one percent]( 10/14/2018 3:31:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Biden’s the challenger who most worries Trump, for good reason. He’s universally known, has a common touch (in every sense of the word), and might be more formidable in the Rust Belt per his Scranton pedigree than, say, Elizabeth Warren [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pastor Brunson is home, but our diplomatic crisis with Turkey is not over]( 10/14/2018 2:01:52 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments On Friday, Ed Morrissey celebrated the good news when we learned Pastor Andrew Brunson was being released by Turkey and heading home to the United States. We’ve been covering the Pastor’s story for well over a year here and it’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NFL week 6 open thread]( 10/14/2018 12:31:54 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Jazz: Week 5 was another mediocre outing for yours truly. I went 4-3 again, edging my season record forward slightly to 19-16, but still only one crashing bad week away from being underwater. At least the Jets had a strong showing against the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Good and plenty: Sunday reflection]( 10/14/2018 11:46:17 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This morning’s Gospel reading is Mark 10:17–30: As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus answered him, “Why do you call me good? No one [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Beto O’Rourke supporter: “You’re Luke Skywalker”]( 10/14/2018 11:01:56 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments We are now 22 days out from Election Day, November 6, 2018, and things are getting a little weird. As the socialist left continues to embrace Beto O’Rourke and lionize him into a Kennedyesque fairy tale character, guess who came to Texas to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [France won’t build a wall for migrants, but they will for… pigs?]( 10/14/2018 9:31:06 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Construire le mur! Okay, there probably aren’t any crowds chanting “Build the wall” in French through the streets of Marseille, hoping to keep out throngs of migrants and Islamic terrorists. But it turns out that the French [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sunday morning talking heads]( 10/14/2018 8:01:41 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments The Sunday shows trade one storm for another this week, replacing coverage of Hurricane Kavanaugh with coverage of Hurricane Michael. The lead guest is Marco Rubio, who’ll be on “Meet the Press,” “Face the Nation,” and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Joe Biden accuses Trump of “trashing American values”]( 10/13/2018 8:31:54 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Campaigning in rural Kentucky, in a Republican area, Creepy Uncle Joe Biden claimed that President Trump is “trashing American values.” It sounds like to me that Biden has run out of material as he hits the road for Democrat candidates [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gavin Newsom’s bullet train to nowhere]( 10/13/2018 7:01:38 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Gavin Newsom is the Democratic candidate for Governor of California who is widely expected to win next month thanks to the state’s overwhelming blue tilt. This week Newsom was asked about his plans for California’s bullet train project [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Just how accurate is Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer?]( 10/13/2018 5:31:28 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Yesterday, the crowd-funded and independently produced film Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer opened on 750 or so screens across the US. My wife and I went to the opening, along with friends of ours; the theater where we [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mitt Romney: I never led the Never Trump movement]( 10/13/2018 4:01:34 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Good lord. He really is going to be a Trump lackey in the Senate, isn’t he? He’s asked in the clip below about having led the Never Trump movement, which he denies. And I suppose that’s fair enough: There was no formal Never Trump [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo columnist blames Trump for Americans drinking more]( 10/13/2018 2:31:28 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Donald Trump is responsible for all manner of things, particularly if you ask anyone at MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times or the Washington Post. He’s caused unrest around the world using nothing more than tweets, sparked riots in the streets and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: “Severe punishment” for Saudis if they killed Khashoggi]( 10/13/2018 1:01:30 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments That’s still an if, Donald Trump tells Lesley Stahl on an upcoming segment of 60 Minutes, even if it’s not in most minds by now. The Saudis deny murdering Jamal Khashoggi “in every way you can imagine,” Trump says after Stahl [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“It’s not a mob!” Antifa attacks NYC GOP headquarters]( 10/13/2018 11:31:58 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Are you still sure it’s not a mob? On Thursday night, the New York City headquarters of the Republican party was struck by vandals. It wasn’t a minor attack, either. Windows were smashed, the locks were glued shut and Antifa symbols were [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [‘The View’ host slams Melania Trump as one of Trump’s mistresses]( 10/13/2018 10:01:50 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments ABC News has really been milking scoring the first solo interview with Melania Trump all week and the network’s morning show did its part to increase audience interest. The liberal women hosts of The View are known as nasty, gossipy, mean [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why is the death toll from Hurricane Michael so low?]( 10/13/2018 8:31:17 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Hurricane Michael has come and (thankfully) gone, moving far more quickly than the last such strike on U.S. soil. While we’ve grown used to many “false alarms” in terms of precisely how bad approaching storms may be, Michael [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Michael Goodwin [Why liberals are ganging up on Kanye West]( AFP [Men as the real victims? 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