HotAir Daily Express 11/27/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Geraldo on the caravan: These people are not zombies from “The Walking Dead”]( 11/27/2018 11:21:30 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments If they were zombies from “The Walking Dead,” Sunday’s standoff at the border would have consisted of 59 minutes of aimless conversation by the good guys followed by one rote, underwhelming minute of action. Sorry, I had to. Gotta [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [British PM “confident” Brexit deal will pass]( 11/27/2018 10:41:06 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Over the weekend I dug into the “final” Brexit deal cut by British Prime Minister Theresa May with the European Union. At the time I noted that prospects for passage in the European Union Parliament were excellent, but getting the deal [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Top U.S. Vet Reveals: The Worst Dog Food You Can Buy]( Dr. Marty SPONSORED Are you accidentally harming your best friend? [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Guardian: Manafort met with Assange in March 2016 — before publication of hacked e-mails; Wikileaks: Bet us a million dollars that this happened]( 11/27/2018 10:01:29 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments One would have to think that Robert Mueller caught Paul Manafort in a pretty big lie before burning the key witness he’d been pursuing for the entirety of his term as special counsel. If the Guardian’s report this morning is true, this [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fracking has largely managed to hamstring OPEC]( 11/27/2018 9:21:46 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you were doing any traveling over Thanksgiving you may have noticed that it cost less to fill up your tank. And not a little bit less either. Gas prices have dropped as much as thirty cents per gallon or more in many parts of the country just in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mueller filing: Manafort lied, deal off]( 11/27/2018 8:41:22 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments All Paul Manafort had to do to keep his plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller is tell the truth. According to a new court filing, however, the former campaign manager allegedly lied repeatedly to Mueller’s investigators. If accepted by [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Is today’s vote in Mississippi actually in doubt?]( 11/27/2018 8:01:59 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Barring yet another bizarre recount scenario, we should know the final makeup of the Senate for the next two years some time this evening. If Cindy Hyde-Smith delivers the expected victory in Mississippi’s run-off election today, the GOP will [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Here we go: Beto O’Rourke no longer ruling out a presidential run]( 11/26/2018 10:01:46 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You should hope it happens. It’s the closest we’ll ever get to an “Obama vs. Trump” election. “I will not be a candidate for president in 2020,” said O’Rourke to MSNBC the day before the midterms. He made it [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [After parking spot incident, Alec {NAME} told a police officer ‘I did push him’]( 11/26/2018 9:21:04 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Alec {NAME} appeared in court today over a misdemeanor case stemming from a November 2 incident in which he and another man got in an argument over a parking space. Vulture reports prosecutors revealed paperwork showing {NAME} admitted to pushing [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Heh: Al Franken fans ready to punish Gillibrand in the primaries for turning against their favorite senator]( 11/26/2018 8:41:11 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I have no deep thoughts for you on this. I just want to share my amusement at one of the most cynical people in the Senate being caught in the middle of a big left-wing scrum over whether good progressive men should get a little more benefit of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Trump considering Michigan Senate candidate John James to replace Nikki Haley as UN ambassador]( 11/26/2018 8:01:09 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is random to the point of weirdness, but still somewhat less weird than Trump’s out-of-left-field decision to appoint Haley to the position two years ago. She’d been a Trump critic through the primaries and even swiped at him in her [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Students hold an anti-police protest at Evergreen State University]( 11/26/2018 7:21:56 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This happened on November 7th but it wasn’t reported until a week later by the student newspaper. The protest was organized by the Industrial Workers of the World South Sound General Education Union. They had two related demands, which they [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Conservative radio host: Twitter banned me — and never said why]( 11/26/2018 6:41:22 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Those who complain about an ideological bent in social-media gatekeeping have yet another piece of evidence at hand. Jesse Kelly, a contributor to The Federalist as well as a conservative talk-radio host in Houston, found himself not just suspended [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump on GM closures: “They better damn well open a new plant [in Ohio] very quickly”]( 11/26/2018 6:01:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Presumably this drama will end the way the Carrier drama of early 2017 ended, with a spotlight PR victory for the president followed by quiet layoffs once the cameras went away and widespread fears among employees that the plant would indeed [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [MSNBC: The majority of people who make up the migrant caravan are men]( 11/26/2018 5:21:21 PM John Sexton 0 Comments MSNBC’s Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle had an interesting segment today, though I’m not sure it sent the message they were hoping to get out about the caravan. Ruhle was speaking with MSNBC’s Gadi Schwartz who was doing a live shot [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Yes, your employer can (usually) fire you for organizing a walkout]( 11/26/2018 4:41:29 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We don’t normally feature letters sent in to advice columnists, but one question which popped up at the New York Post this week caught my attention. It came from someone who was quite impressed with the recent walkout by female employees at [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: Will Senate Dems’ midterm losses squeeze Harris off Judiciary?]( 11/26/2018 4:01:24 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Kavanaughncequences continue to echo through the Senate. Thanks to a new 53-47 Republican majority (assuming Cindy Hyde-Smith wins tomorrow’s runoff), Mitch McConnell and new Judiciary Committee chair-apparent Lindsey Graham plan on putting [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mia Love slams Trump, Republican approach to minorities in concession speech]( 11/26/2018 3:31:46 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A Mia Love primary challenge to Trump would be waaaaaaaaay more interesting than a John Kasich primary challenge. But where would she get the money? A twice-elected governor of Ohio and former longtime congressman has many more wealthy fundraiser [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Man arrested in Los Angeles being investigated for anti-Semitic hate crime]( 11/26/2018 3:01:52 PM John Sexton 0 Comments I completely missed this story until Ben Shapiro tweeted about it a short while ago. Sunday a man named Mohammed Mohammed was arrested in Los Angeles after he allegedly attempted to run down two Jewish people with his car. From CBS LA: The suspect [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Maryland high schools to allow students days off to protest]( 11/26/2018 2:31:08 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Reading, writing, arithmetic and… protesting in the streets? That last part may be showing up in the curriculum of some Maryland schools in the near future. Most students are allowed a certain number of sick days or excused absences for family [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Haley to Russia: Back off your “outlaw actions”; Update: Ukraine parliament approves martial law for 30 days]( 11/26/2018 2:01:40 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments For a first official Trump administration response to Russia’s latest military action against Ukraine, this is surprisingly strong. UN ambassador Nikki Haley accuses Russia of violating international naval law in blocking access to the Kerch [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dershowitz: The Mueller report will be “devastating” for Trump]( 11/26/2018 1:31:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Relax. He’s not claiming any inside knowledge of what the report will say — although Team Trump might have gleaned a sense by now of what it’ll say from the questions that POTUS was asked to answer by Mueller. That sense may have [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Border Patrol Chief: From what I saw, the caravan members were not seeking asylum]( 11/26/2018 1:01:06 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Rodney Scott is the Chief Border Patrol Agent for the San Diego sector where all of the action took place yesterday. Scott appeared on CNN to discuss it this morning and the exchange was interesting mostly for the contrast it presented between what [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Harvey Weinstein dodges federal charges in New York]( 11/26/2018 12:31:40 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Harvey Weinstein may be breathing a sigh of relief this morning and adding one more thing to his list of items to be thankful for during this season. Manhattan’s district attorney had determined that the government won’t be filing [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: GM to cut nearly 15,000 jobs; Update: CEO called to the White House]( 11/26/2018 12:01:54 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Workers in Michigan and Ohio will find a rude surprise in their Christmas stockings, according to NBC. General Motors plans to cut as many as 14,700 jobs, both plant workers and executives, by the end of the year. The restructuring could result in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem senator: Was this tear-gas use at the border a violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention?]( 11/26/2018 11:21:44 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments The point has been made before but it can’t be made enough: Despite what the media would have you believe, Democrats, not Republicans, are the radical party on immigration, particularly in Congress. Even some liberals are beginning to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Bill Scher [The pathetic Pelosi putsch]( NYT [No clear end to chaos as migrants confront U.S. border]( Jack Shafer [The sad conservative revolt against Twitter]( Maxwell Tani [“Fox & Friends” fed interview script to Trump’s EPA chief, emails show]( Guardian [Report: Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy]( Donald Graham [Do it, Congress: Build the wall — and save the DREAMers]( WaPo [Dems push to mobilize black voters in racially charged Mississippi runoff]( Belinda Luscombe [The divorce rate is dropping. 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But not in all the ways liberals hope.]( Kevin Williamson [The snob party]( James Antle [The hopeless folly of schoolmarming Trump]( Jean Chatzky [We’re overspending for the love of a “like” on Instagram]( Stein, Suebsaeng [How Marco Rubio learned to stop worrying and love the Trump]( Conor Friedersdorf [Why have white women so often voted for Republicans?]( Thor Hogan [Why Democrats shouldn’t nominate someone over 70 in 2020]( Nathaniel Rakich [Everything you need to know about the Mississippi Senate runoff]( Damon Linker [Why Zionism should be untouchable]( Peter Berkowitz [Liberal education as an antidote to identity politics]( Kiley Bense [How politics in Trump’s America divides families]( George Will [Civil forfeiture makes law enforcement lawless. The Supreme Court could change that.]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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