HotAir Daily Express 10/18/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [“The damage is done”: Sexual assault victim outed by Heidi Heitkamp says there’s no way to fix it]( 10/18/2018 11:21:09 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments The most bizarre, inexplicably self-destructive campaign ploy by a Democratic candidate for high office since, uh, Monday. Remember, the whole idea of publishing the names of assault victims by Team Heitkamp was to show that her opponent was callous [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Surprise. New York’s first robocops are freaking people out]( 10/18/2018 10:41:51 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments She’s no Alex Murphy, but Rosie the robotic cop is on patrol in New York City. She’s one of five mostly autonomous robots roaming the streets and even airports, collecting information and even talking to citizens who try to engage her. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Top Surgeon Shares #1 Technique To Wash Out Your Insides]( Gundry MD SPONSORED Breakthrough Discovery Can Help You At Home in 1 Minute A Day [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Biden: I sure hope Democrats don’t impeach Trump … right away]( 10/18/2018 10:01:44 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments He’s running. Former VP Joe Biden tells Norah O’Donnell that he’s confident Democrats will take back control of the House in the midterms, which at the moment is a pretty safe bet. It’s also a pretty safe bet that if they do [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Transgender women’s cycling champion upset over people pointing out he’s a male]( 10/18/2018 9:21:12 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Earlier this week I wrote about Rachel McKinnon, the transgender professional cyclist who recently won a gold medal at the 2018 UCI Masters. I was far from the only one pointing out that a man (or “biological male” as some prefer to say) [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump to Mexico: Stop the caravan or I’ll close the border]( 10/18/2018 8:41:33 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Jazz noted in the previous post that Mexico has begun to act to slow down the illegal-immigrant caravan that began in Honduras. Apparently, it’s not slowing down fast enough for Donald Trump. As the Mexican government sends law enforcement to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mexico moving to stop the migrant caravan]( 10/18/2018 8:01:06 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Something tells me that outgoing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, having inked a new trade deal with the United States recently, is looking to score some points with President Trump. As John discussed yesterday, Trump was threatening to cut off [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pat Robertson: C’mon, we’re not going to blow up a key Middle East alliance over one little murder]( 10/17/2018 10:41:42 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Lefties are marveling that a brand-name Christian conservative would be encouraging followers to look the other way at an assassination, but they’re forgetting Jesus’s parting words at the end of the Sermon on the Mount: “If you [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Forecast: GOP now more likely to have *at least* 54 Senate seats next year than to lose its majority]( 10/17/2018 10:01:40 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A nifty catch by Philip Klein, eyeballing the latest data from Nate Silver’s model (as of 5:15 p.m. ET). Check it yourself. Democrats momentarily have an 18.4 percent chance of gaining two seats and winning a majority next month. Whereas [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Lead Detective on NYPD’s Weinstein case told witness she could delete items on her phone]( 10/17/2018 9:21:18 PM John Sexton 0 Comments There’s no evidence that the witness in question actually deleted anything. On the contrary, she is apparently the one who told prosecutors this had occurred. From the LA Times: NYPD Det. Nicholas DiGaudio, who led Weinstein into a courthouse [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi: “Nothing” to trade for Trump’s border “manhood issue”]( 10/17/2018 8:41:08 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Bipartisanship, as defined by Merriam-Webster: “marked by or involving cooperation, agreement, and compromise between two major political parties.” Bipartisanship, as defined by Nancy Pelosi: Agreeing to promote Democratic policies. In [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oof: Number of illegals crossing border with children reaches record high]( 10/17/2018 8:01:46 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You can boil down Trump’s 2016 domestic-policy pitch to three core promises: 1. Jobs, jobs, jobs. Check. 2. Conservative Supreme Court justices. Check and check. 3. Secure borders. Uhhh… “Trump 2020: Two out of three ain’t [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Definitely not a mob: Multiple reports of left-wing partisans attacking GOP candidates, staffers]( 10/17/2018 7:21:24 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Whoever dubbed this the Jobs vs. Mobs election was on to something. Yesterday we had the threatening letter left at Sen. Collins’ home. Today, Fox News reports that a “tracker” with the left-wing group American Bridge 21st Century, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: Masculinity is not a mental health issue]( 10/17/2018 6:41:26 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Good news for the bro crowd. (My apologies if I didn’t use that term correctly. I keep seeing it on lefty Twitter.) Masculinity is no longer a mental health issue, at least at the University of Texas. In 2015 the school rolled out a program [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chief Justice: Kavanaugh’s right — there is no “aisle” at SCOTUS]( 10/17/2018 6:01:33 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments To paraphrase every coach you’ve every had: There’s no aisle in team! I’m not sure this will convince many people, but it’s still a bit reassuring to hear. Chief Justice John Roberts made reassurance a priority in his address [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN anchor on “angry mob” spat: I felt obliged to call out this Republican talking point]( 10/17/2018 5:31:40 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, her logic here is just as I suspected. From last Tuesday, when she challenged Matt Lewis during a segment in which he described some anti-Kavanaugh protesters as a “mob”: The reason Democrats and their media buddies [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Politico’s Editor-in-Chief: Why, no, I wasn’t suggesting the GOP is led by a white nationalist]( 10/17/2018 5:01:45 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Is it really a secret that most of the journalists in DC basically agree with left-wing Democrats about nearly everything? I don’t think that’s a surprise to many people but the journalists themselves mostly keep pretending they’re [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Baltimore’s “Squeegee kids” need to be removed, not reinforced]( 10/17/2018 4:31:19 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Normally, when we talk about problems on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, it involves a trail of dead bodies and gang bangers terrorizing the city. So in some ways I suppose it should be something of a relief to talk about people washing car [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Collins husband: Ricin threat specified Kavanaugh vote]( 10/17/2018 4:01:20 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “There’s absolutely no reason to have this level of vitriol over a single vote,” says Thomas Daffron, who found out firsthand that it doesn’t take a reason. Daffron, the husband of Susan Collins, tells local CBS affiliate [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Friendly reminder from Louis Farrakhan: I’m not an anti-semite, I’m “anti-termite”; Update: No violation, says Twitter]( 10/17/2018 3:31:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Well, that clears it up then. Some conservatives on Twitter are wondering why the clip below, posted by Farrakhan’s own account, isn’t grounds for being banned from the platform. Fair question. Fair enough, in fact, that Twitter HQ might [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Treasury Dept. employee arrested for leaking information to Buzzfeed]( 10/17/2018 3:01:34 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A Senior Treasury Department employee working for the Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has been arrested and charged will leaking suspicious activity reports to Buzzfeed. Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards allegedly [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics on Relevant Radio: Khashoggi horror, Gosnell history, Google bias, child euthanasia, and more!]( 10/17/2018 2:41:27 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Once again, I get to step outside the box and guest host on Relevant Radio’s Drew Mariani Show from 3-6 ET today! The Catholic talk-radio network is heard nationwide on the air, as well as online and through their free mobile app that plays live and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [So Alaska’s Lt. Governor (a Democrat) just resigned three weeks before the election]( 10/17/2018 2:31:11 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments What the heck is going on up in Alaska? The Lieutenant Governor, Byron Mallott (D) just resigned from his office yesterday citing “inappropriate comments” he made. Coming only a few weeks before the election, that certainly sounds odd. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bloomberg: Mueller to release “key findings” shortly after the election]( 10/17/2018 2:01:36 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Has Robert Mueller finished his probe? Does the timing of a report portend its content? A new Bloomberg report on Robert Mueller’s special counsel probe into Russia collusion sparks a lot of questions, but provides few answers — other [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Time for another clip of Kyrsten Sinema calling Arizona “crazy”]( 10/17/2018 1:31:46 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Take it from a right-winger born and raised in NYC: There’s no shame in having contempt for your home state’s politics. Although it does raise the question of why someone harboring that contempt would want to represent that state in the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump threatens to cut aid to Guatemala, El Salvador as well if caravans continue]( 10/17/2018 1:01:09 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Tuesday morning President Trump tweeted that he would cut off millions in aid to Honduras if a caravan of migrants that originated there last weekend wasn’t stopped. By that point the caravan, variously estimated to contain between 2,000 and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Mediaite [Sexual assault victim outed by Heidi Heitkamp tells CNN: My life will never be the same]( Philip Klein [Why does Ben Sasse want to be a U.S. Senator?]( NYT [U.S. spy agencies increasingly convinced of Saudi prince’s ties to Khashoggi disappearance]( Nashville Tennessean [Tennessee: Phil Bredesen 44, Marsha Blackburn 43]( NYT [Why many Native Americans are angry with Elizabeth Warren]( CNN [Michael Cohen meets with prosecutors investigating Trump’s family business, charity]( WaPo [Jamal Khashoggi’s last op-ed: What the Arab world needs most is free expression]( CNN [Don McGahn out as White House counsel, sources say]( WaPo [WH, Saudis searching for “mutually agreeable explanation” for Khashoggi’s disappearance]( Bloomberg [Almost half of U.S. births happen outside marriage, signaling cultural shift]( Live Science [Why life expectancy in 2040 could be lower than it is today]( NYT [Why white supremacists are chugging milk (and why geneticists are alarmed)]( Warren Henry [Beto O’Rourke is a perfect picture of Democrats’ misalignment with voters]( Matthew Walther [Trump’s Stormy Daniels complex]( Samantha Page [Men and women think leaders should have “masculine” traits]( Elizabeth Bruenig [The left and the right cry out for civility, but maybe that’s asking for too much]( Justin Glawe [Meet the Hispanic voters who may save Ted Cruz from Beto O’Rourke]( Nathan Robinson [Elizabeth Warren’s native ancestry response is a complete disaster]( Christina Cauterucci [Why it’s so uncomfortable for feminists to confront Hillary Clinton about Bill]( Axios [Why Trump can’t quit the Saudis]( Roger Williams [I was attacked on a baseball field for my political beliefs, and Democrats are wrong to promote violence]( Daily Mail [Study: Women with more “male” hands are more likely to be lesbian]( Independent [“The greatest embarrassment”: Inside the kingdom, Saudis rattled by handling of Jamal Khashoggi case]( BuzzFeed [Canada will reportedly offer pardons to everyone convicted of simple marijuana possession]( David Frum [Woodward missed everything that matters about the Trump presidency]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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