HotAir Daily Express 11/08/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Tucker Carlson’s terrified wife locked herself in a room after Antifa mob broke the front door]( 11/8/2018 11:21:54 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments A harrowing follow-up to John’s post last night about the near-invasion of Carlson’s home by deranged “anti-fascists.” Because if there’s anything that signals deep moral objection to fascism, it’s kicking in a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Do we still have a Congress or is it becoming a parliament?]( 11/8/2018 10:41:28 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is a subject which came up on one of the cable news shows yesterday morning (I don’t recall which one) that I found interesting. One of the more telling statistics from this set of midterm elections was the high number of races which were [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [White House doubles down on Acosta ban using … doctored video?]( 11/8/2018 10:01:46 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The Trump administration has managed to do the improbable — make CNN’s Jim Acosta into a whiny, narcissistic Obi-Wan Kenobi of the White House press corps. If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you could possibly [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll – Dem choice for 2020 POTUS race: None of the above]( 11/8/2018 9:21:33 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Everyone knew that the 2020 presidential election was beginning pretty much as soon as the polls closed on Tuesday night. Potential Democratic candidates are already lining up like planes on the tarmac and the political press wasn’t going to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sessions out … and back in?]( 11/8/2018 8:41:31 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It didn’t take long after Election Night for Donald Trump to do what he’d clearly been itching to do for more than a year — fire Jeff Sessions. And it didn’t take long after that for Jeff Sessions to start talking about a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [13 dead in bar shooting in Thousand Oaks, California – Gunman named, weapon identified]( 11/8/2018 8:01:17 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments 10:30: Suspect’s full name is Ian David Long and he was a marine. 09:50: The shooter’s name has been released. He was 29-year-old Ian Long, described as a “heavily tattood” male who was not carrying any ID when he went into [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dershowitz: Don’t worry, Republican senators won’t let Trump appoint a crony as AG]( 11/7/2018 10:41:04 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Does this guy not know any Republican senators? A key skill for a great lawyer, I guess, is being able to say outlandish things with a straight face. Imagine how great Dersh must be to be able to get through this one without giggling — during [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Avenatti on Beto’s loss: We need candidates who fight, not ones who preach “puppies and daisies”]( 11/7/2018 10:01:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He doesn’t mention the B-word here but it’s clear enough who he means, especially after O’Rourke jabbed at him the other day. If Beto! gets into the 2020 race, he’s going to use Avenatti as his foil in the primaries — [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Antifa protesters show up at Tucker Carlson’s home (Update: Group deletes videos)]( 11/7/2018 9:21:35 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Here we go again. An Antifa group in Washington, DC has decided to protest Tucker Carlson by showing up at his house at night with a bullhorn. From the Hollywood Reporter: An anti-fascist group called Smash Racism DC announced the protest in a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: Conservatives worried about Trump sell-out with Pelosi]( 11/7/2018 8:41:42 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Old and busted: Barack Obama blew his presidency by not following Bill Clinton’s triangulation strategy after his first midterm loss. New hotness: Triangulation is the debbil!* Now that Donald Trump has gone through a midterm correction of his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Midas touch: Obama goes 0 for 4 on the trail in tight races this week]( 11/7/2018 8:01:16 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Has this guy been cursed by a witch so that Democrats now have to lose anytime he campaigns for them in a midterm? It is not true that every candidate he stumped for over the last four days rolled craps on election night. He swung by Chicago to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Progressives: White women need accountability and ‘a lot of learning’ after failing to vote uniformly for left-wing candidates]( 11/7/2018 7:23:27 PM John Sexton 0 Comments With the loss of Beto O’Rourke, Stacey Abrams, and Andrew Gillum, progressives and feminists were looking to explain why far left candidates have so much trouble winning elections. The conclusion some of them reached: White women aren’t [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Maryland’s “red flag law” claims its first victim as police kill gun owner]( 11/7/2018 6:41:38 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments While most of us were focused on the upcoming election, there was a tragic story unfolding on Monday in Ferndale, Maryland, a suburb to the south of Baltimore. Maryland has enacted a new “red flag” law which allows people to call in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hannity’s bosses gave him a real talking-to for speaking at Trump rally wink wink]( 11/7/2018 6:01:51 PM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments It’s not exactly Breaking News that talk-radio host and Fox News personality Sean Hannity likes President Trump a whole lot. Maybe more than that. So, it wasn’t surprising when Hannity showed up in Missouri Monday night at the end of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Jerry Nadler overheard on the train talking about impeaching Kavanaugh, going “all-in” on Russia]( 11/7/2018 5:31:06 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments So says Mollie Hemingway at the Federalist. The era of divided government will not be dull. If you don’t recognize Nadler’s name already, you will by next year. He’s about to take the gavel on the House Judiciary Committee. If [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [We probably won’t know who won the Arizona Senate race for several more days]( 11/7/2018 5:01:24 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last night I gave up on the Arizona Senate race between Republican Martha McSally and Democrat Kyrsten Sinema at about 3 am Eastern time, midnight here in California. It turns out that was a good call because we probably won’t know who won [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Michael Moore predicts 2020 loss if Dems go with Booker or Harris]( 11/7/2018 4:31:11 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Liberal filmmaker and general progressive gadfly Michael Moore has a message for his party. Don’t run a politician against Trump in 2020 or you’re just going to lose again. He’s particularly down on the idea of nominating Kamala [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Swalwell: You’d better believe we’ll see Trump’s tax returns]( 11/7/2018 4:01:23 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments After running a relentless midterm election message of health care as voters’ highest priority, the first action out of the gate for the new Democratic majority might be tax reform … of a sort. Rep Eric Swalwell pledged to publish Donald [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump vs Acosta: ‘Let me run the country, you run CNN…’ (Update: Acosta loses his WH pass)]( 11/7/2018 3:31:47 PM John Sexton 0 Comments CNN’s Jim Acosta apparently decided the day after the midterms was a good day to make himself the story once again. Today, Acosta’s “question” was about the migrant caravan current making its way through Mexico toward the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: Sessions out at the DOJ, acting AG in charge of Russia probe; Update: Nadler wants answers; Update: Probe must continue, says Romney]( 11/7/2018 2:59:26 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You would think Trump might have mentioned this at today’s seven-hour-long presidential press conference. Alternate headline: “Rod Rosenstein no longer in charge of Mueller investigation.” ….We thank Attorney General Jeff [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Maybe I’ll help Nancy Pelosi become Speaker again]( 11/7/2018 2:31:08 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments A serious proposal or master-level trolling? Now that the Democrats have secured the House majority for the next session, one of the first tasks they face is selecting the next Speaker of the House. That’s not as easy as it sounds these days [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Nelson: Hey, who’s up for another Florida recount?]( 11/7/2018 2:01:36 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments When last we heard from Bill Nelson’s team on Election Night, it suuuure sounded like the incumbent Senate Democrat was going to concede to Rick Scott. At the time, Scott led by about 0.6% with only a handful of precincts yet to report: “This [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s moronic hot take: The Senate results are unfair because Democrats won the “Senate popular vote”]( 11/7/2018 1:31:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Both sides are filled with screeching babies who can’t bear to believe it when their ideology is rejected by voters but the left always seems quicker to look for structural explanations for its failures. A few days ago they were whining about [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Alyssa Milano: ‘I’m disappointed in the leadership of the Women’s March’]( 11/7/2018 1:01:48 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last week the Advocate published an interview with #MeToo leader Alyssa Milano titled, “Why #MeToo Activist Alyssa Milano Will Not Speak at Next Women’s March.” The interview recounts a moment at Politicon, a recent political [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oregon Governor didn’t flip, but it was close enough to scare them]( 11/7/2018 12:31:51 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When we checked in on the Oregon governor’s race shortly before the election, there were Democrats in that state who were beginning to panic. Governor Kate Brown had been ahead by a solid 20 points at the beginning of the year, but Republican [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] USA Today [“If I release you, will you go out and murder anybody?”]( NPR [Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford continues receiving threats, lawyers say]( Politico [Beto’s consolation prize: Running for president]( Slate [“Evropa has landed at the White House!”]( McKay Coppins [Republicans’ takeaway from 2018: “Double down” on Trumpism]( CNN [New AG Matt Whitaker’s link to a “scam” company that was shut down by the government]( BuzzFeed [Trump supporters will miss Jeff Sessions now that he’s gone]( Tech Crunch [White House shares manipulated Infowars video to justify Acosta press ban]( NBC [Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized after fracturing three ribs in fall]( Quin Hillyer [Take it from this conservative: Republicans disappointed in the midterm elections]( Michael Grunwald [Dems itching for Trump investigations face a slog]( Jeff Flake [Republicans must move beyond the cult of Trump’s personality]( Michael Barone [The Kavanaugh effect was Senate Democrats’ undoing]( CNN [White House pulls Jim Acosta’s pass after contentious news conference]( WaPo [13 dead, including deputy, at mass shooting in California bar]( Kyle Smith [Insulting a wounded warrior: How comedians marginalize conservatives]( Gallup [Poll: Americans’ concerns about national crime abating]( NYT [What if the placebo effect isn’t a trick?]( David Ignatius [China’s application of AI should be a Sputnik moment for the U.S. But will it be?]( Philip Klein [Republican gains may have put Senate out of reach for 2020 Democrats]( Sahil Kapur [Rust Belt defeats are a 2020 warning for Trump]( Reihan Salam [The fate of Trumpism rests on the TIGRs]( David Brock [Impeachment cannot be on the table just because Democrats won the House]( Jonathan Last [The five things Trump (probably) learned from the midterms]( Damon Linker [What happened to the Democrats’ blue wave?]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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