HotAir Daily Express 10/17/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Report: Khashoggi was dead within minutes of entering Saudi consulate]( 10/17/2018 11:21:44 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments The consul himself was in the room, according to the Journal’s sources. Yesterday the tentative cover story for Khashoggi’s death was “interrogation and attempted rendition gone wrong.” If he was dead in minutes, things went [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Out: Gay wedding cake fights. In: Gay wedding video fights]( 10/17/2018 10:41:18 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Telescope Media Group in St. Paul, Minnesota was in court this week, preparing to begin yet another fight in the gay marriage wars. Reminiscent of the Masterpiece Cakeshop case which wound up going all the way to the Supreme Court, the couple that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: Say, this Kavanaugh Effect might actually be a thing]( 10/17/2018 10:01:30 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It turns out Mitch McConnell was right about the “gift” of the Kavanaugh hearings in the midterm cycle. In an open-ended question on a new Survey Monkey poll co-sponsored by the Washington Post, the name Kavanaugh barely comes up in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Beto O’Rourke’s “lifelong Republican mother” not so lifelong]( 10/17/2018 9:21:01 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Beto O’Rourke may be down in the polls by double digits but he’s still out on the trail trying to win over voters with his compelling life story. One big part of that tale involves his mother, a “lifelong Republican” who has [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Women to Heitkamp: You’ll hear from our attorney]( 10/17/2018 8:41:56 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Sometimes an abject apology can defuse a situation before it escalates into a catastrophe. At other times, however, the offense is so egregious that escalation is all but assured. Heidi Heitkamp found out last night that her campaign’s bizarre [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oregon governor’s race up for grabs?]( 10/17/2018 8:01:58 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Could the nation’s only openly bisexual governor be in trouble on election day? Serving as Oregon’s Lt. Governor, Kate Brown took over when her predecessor, John Kitzhaber, was forced to resign in 2015 because of the increasing number of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The robot dog that will murder you will also dance on your grave]( 10/16/2018 10:41:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate, obviously I don’t know if there’ll be “graves” as such after the robot apocalypse. I assume it’ll depend on their olfactory capabilities. If they’re not equipped to detect scent, maybe the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [I’m available and willing to campaign against Trump and the GOP, says … Michael Cohen]( 10/16/2018 10:01:00 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Forget what I said in the last post about Avenatti being a flash in the pan. Now that I’ve read this, I see that the writers of the virtual reality which we now collectively inhabit are obviously gearing up for an unlikely alliance between him [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: This rush to judgment on Saudi Arabia is just like the Kavanaugh hearing]( 10/16/2018 9:21:47 PM John Sexton 0 Comments I kind of get where he’s going with this but it seems like a bad idea to connect your recently confirmed Supreme Court Justice to a probably murder by a tyrant. From the Associated Press: In an interview with The Associated Press, Trump [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Yes, he’s running — and he has 100 million reasons]( 10/16/2018 8:41:27 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Wonder if Donald Trump might just do a one-and-done and bow out of the 2020 presidential race? It’s not an impossibility, but we can put the odds on it at 100 million to one. Both NBC and CNN reported earlier today that Team Trump has a big [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Avenatti’s new Super PAC raised less than $12,000 last quarter]( 10/16/2018 8:01:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via former GOP consultant Liam Donovan, who knows his way around a FEC report much better than I do. Avenatti's PAC raised a whopping $12k last (partial) quarter and has $4k left on hand. Hope the Beto gambit paid off. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: I’ll cut aid to Honduras unless the ‘caravan’ stops]( 10/16/2018 7:21:52 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Monday a “caravan” of as many as 3,000 Hondurans marched across the border into Guatemala after a standoff with police. The Hondurans said their goal was to reach the U.S. border and apply for asylum. This morning, President Trump [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Coincidence or corruption? In Andrew Cuomo’s government it’s hard to tell]( 10/16/2018 6:41:29 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Given the parade of people in the orbit of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo who have recently either been shipped off to jail or come under investigation, it’s amazing that none of the dirt ever sticks to Cuomo himself. How does he account for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ellison accuser: Why won’t anyone believe me — when I’ve provided corroboration?]( 10/16/2018 6:01:44 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Three guesses, and the first two don’t count. Sharyl Attkisson took a long look into the allegations of domestic violence from Karen Monahan against Keith Ellison, the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and candidate for Attorney [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Surrender? Schumer’s Super PAC dumps $3 million on ads — to protect Bob Menendez in New Jersey]( 10/16/2018 5:31:45 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Hoo boy. Only two possible explanations for this that I can see, and they’re both bad for Dems. (And not mutually exclusive.) 1. Team Schumer is showing rank favoritism towards Chuck’s tri-state buddy Menendez, prioritizing his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Google News’ search results aren’t rigged but they are biased]( 10/16/2018 5:01:27 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A group called AllSides put out a report Tuesday which concludes that Google News’ search results are biased toward the left end of the political spectrum. However, the report also states that this bias seems to reflect the general bias of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Stephen Hawking issues a warning from the grave]( 10/16/2018 4:31:50 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is more than a bit creepy but worth considering with an eye toward the future. Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking passed away earlier this year, far exceeding the lifespan many of his doctors expected for him after he was first diagnosed with Lou [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Atlanta coughs up $1.2 million to former fire chief in religious-liberty case]( 10/16/2018 4:01:01 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “Was a city employee fired over faith or prejudice?” asks the anchor for WXIA, NBC’s affiliate in Atlanta. The city of Atlanta finally admitted — tacitly, anyway — that it was over faith, and also free speech. When fire [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Endgame: Cruz 52, O’Rourke 45 in new CNN poll]( 10/16/2018 3:31:14 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Many thanks to CNN for producing this, the fifth poll of Texas in 11 days, instead of polling Indiana, Florida, Missouri, or Montana, all of which are much tighter races and none of which have been polled since October 2nd. There are many ways to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Times: The attorney’s fees Stormy Daniels has to pay are not going to be ‘insignificant’ (Update)]( 10/16/2018 3:01:43 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The president and Stormy Daniels are now trading insults on Twitter which, as Allahpundit pointed out, seems like a bad way for Trump to highlight a genuine win in the defamation lawsuit yesterday signified by Daniels being required to pay his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [That time when I totally agreed with the Washington Post on an issue]( 10/16/2018 2:31:12 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This doesn’t happen very often, but when it does I feel obligated to put out some party balloons and celebrate. Regular readers know that we’ve been following the story of the Renewable Fuel Standard here for years and discussing the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Google CEO: Yes, we really are helping China quash dissent and free speech. Why do you ask?]( 10/16/2018 2:01:12 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Out: Don’t be evil. In: Let’s be bad guys! Last night, Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed months of rumors in a presentation hosted by Wired Magazine last night. Not only has Google worked on a new platform called “Dragonfly” [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Great moments in presidential decorum: The ballad of Don and Horseface]( 10/16/2018 1:31:12 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments April 22, 2016: “At some point I’m going to be so presidential that you people will be so bored.” No one’s bored yet. Gonna remind you here that the following series of tweets is an entirely public communication between (a) the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Heidi Heitkamp: Hey, sorry for releasing names of sexual assault survivors without their permission (Update: ‘I’m furious’, Heitkamp: ‘huge mistake’)]( 10/16/2018 1:01:26 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota is trailing her challenger, Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer, in several recent polls. Last week, Cramer made news when he said of the #MeToo movement that the women in his family couldn’t understand [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Liberals would like to double the size of the House of Representatives]( 10/16/2018 12:31:14 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve already heard some of the Democratic plans to stack the Supreme Court with more justices if and when they return to power. Some have also been bringing up the old argument against allowing the smaller states to have the same number of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Daniel DePetris [The Saudis need us, not the other way around]( WaPo [Google really is trying to build a censored Chinese search engine, its CEO confirms]( NYDN [FBI looking at Manhattan DA’s office over potential undue influence in handling of cases]( NYT [“Fat.” “Dog.” “No longer a 10.” How Trump talks about women.]( Noah Millman [Why is President Trump letting the Saudis push him around?]( Maxwell Tani [Republican Sen. Ben Sasse roasts Sean Hannity in new book]( Gabriel Sherman [“I was ordered silent”: How Jamal Khashoggi fell out with bin Salman]( Florida Politics [Florida: Rick Scott 49, Bill Nelson 47]( AP [Trump: I won’t accept the blame if Dems retake House]( CNN [Sources: High-ranking Saudi officer with ties to the crown prince oversaw Khashoggi operation]( Bloomberg [Sources: Mueller ready to deliver key findings in Trump probe — after midterms]( WSJ [Alleged audio recording: Khashoggi killed minutes after entering consulate, then dismembered]( BGR [Google’s AI is now better than doctors at staging some cancers]( Olga Khazan [Inherited trauma shapes your health]( Alex Berezow [Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test tells us nothing]( AFP [As more newspapers fail, news “deserts” expand in US: study]( M.B. Dougherty [Foreign-policy idealism isn’t going away]( James Poulos [The humanities degree is dying, and that’s a good thing]( Matthew Walther [Elizabeth Warren’s embarrassing self-own]( Rich Lowry [Hillary’s #MeToo nightmare]( Edward-Isaac Dovere [Michael Bloomberg can buy popularity, but can he buy the presidency?]( Bridget Alex [The human brain evolved to believe in gods]( NYT [Revealed: Suspects in Khashoggi case had ties to Saudi crown prince]( Weill, Sommer [Republicans are adopting the Proud Boys]( Bloomberg [Trump on Saudi Arabia: “Here we go again with you’re guilty until proven innocent”]( [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. 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