HotAir Daily Express 01/15/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Banks Get Green Light to Seize Bank Accounts]( [Trump’s finest hour: The insane Clemson championship fast-food extravaganza gorgefest]( 1/15/2019 11:21:19 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation was perhaps finer. But nothing ever has or ever will better distill the essence of Trump’s appeal than this photo from the White House Twitter account, which rocketed across the Internet last night after Trump [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [No holds Barr-ed? Confirmation hearing begins with two Lindseys; Update: Barr pledges funding, time for Mueller]( 1/15/2019 10:41:54 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Update, 11:00 am ET: It’s tough to make a case against Barr on the basis of Mueller with responses like these: Sen. Feinstein: Will you commit to providing Mr. Mueller with the resources, funds and time needed to complete his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Top U.S. Vet Reveals: The Worst Dog Food You Can Buy]( Dr. Marty SPONSORED Are you accidentally harming your best friend? [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [R. Kelly accuser: He’s trying to intimidate me into silence]( 1/15/2019 10:01:13 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It has not been a good 2019 for singer R. Kelly, who has long been accused of abusing women and leading a “sex cult.” A new Lifetime documentary has galvanized opponents in and out of the music industry, and artists such as Lady Gaga, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [French riot police now using semiautomatic weapons, live ammo against protesters. UPDATE: Full auto?]( 1/15/2019 9:21:01 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Last week, when we looked at the French government’s plans to “crack down” on the yellow vest protesters and rioters, it sounded like they were just passing new laws to allow for jail time for unauthorized marches. While a bit on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Banks Get Green Light to Seize Bank Accounts]( [New Law Cracks Down on Right to Use Cash. See Why!]( [Learn How To Rollover Your IRA, 401(k) or Other Retirement Account Into Gold Now. US #1 Gold IRA Provider. $0 fees.]( [Q-poll: Yes, there’s a crisis at the border — but this is Trump’s shutdown]( 1/15/2019 8:41:19 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The good news: Americans agree that there is a national-security and humanitarian crisis at the southern border, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac. The bad news: pretty much everything else in the poll. Not only do respondents approve of a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [When Big Brother forces you to work without pay]( 1/15/2019 8:01:08 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As previously reported, there have been a number of lawsuits filed by groups of government workers who are required to stay on the job during the shutdown despite not being paid. In an effort to speed up this process, a judge has now ordered that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [I support William Barr for Attorney General, says … Joe Biden]( 1/14/2019 10:41:53 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Joe Biden 1991, I should say. Mitch McConnell’s office is sending around the clip below on the eve of Barr’s confirmation hearing tomorrow, hoping to make mischief as the Democratic primary campaign starts rolling. It’s a fair cop, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kirsten Gillibrand running for president for some reason]( 1/14/2019 10:01:35 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I dislike her strongly, as I hope I’ve made clear in two dozen other posts about her. She’s a cynical opportunist even by Washington standards. I can’t begin to imagine what the case is for electing her president over Biden or [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [House Republicans remove Rep. Steve King’s committee assignments]( 1/14/2019 9:21:44 PM John Sexton 0 Comments House Republicans met Monday evening and removed Rep. Steve King’s committee assignments. King currently sits on the House Judiciary Committee as well as the Committee on Agriculture and the Small Business Committee. From Fox News: Rep. Steve [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [GOAT lament: “Everyone thinks we suck and can’t win any games”]( 1/14/2019 8:41:21 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments No, this didn’t come from the GOP — about whom it might actually apply — but from the GOAT, the Greatest of All Time. When it comes to acting, Tom Brady is clearly a devotee of the Stanislavsky Method. The quarterback who keeps [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: New Senate “gang” forming to try to end the shutdown]( 1/14/2019 8:01:53 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Seems legit. When has a “gang” proposal on immigration in the Senate ever been a bad idea? We need to come up with a new term for these bipartisan confabs to resolve legislative stalemates, by the way. “Gang” isn’t [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New York City Mayor de Blasio announces plans to seize private property]( 1/14/2019 7:21:53 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Mayor Bill de Blasio has never really hidden his feelings about private property. Back in 2017 de Blasio gave an interview to New York magazine in which he said, “Our legal system is structured to favor private property.” He then added, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [We now apparently need an official definition of “meat”]( 1/14/2019 6:41:55 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Whatever happened to that shining city upon a hill, whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere? In a land such as the one Reagan envisioned, you’d think that people would have enough common sense to know the difference between [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Privilege: Will House Dems subpoena Trump’s Russian interpreter?]( 1/14/2019 6:01:24 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Six months ago, this amounted to nothing more than an academic exercise. With a new House majority, Democrats appear ready to make it into a big legal fight with the White House. ABC News reports that lawyers for two House committees will meet today [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Inevitable: John Kasich hoping to join CNN or MSNBC before possible 2020 run]( 1/14/2019 5:31:25 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments There’s no pressing question in American politics to which the answer is “John Kasich.” Except “Which anti-Trump Republican is the most likely to sign up with a left-friendly cable news network to bitch about the president [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Saudi Arabia has been helping Saudi students escape justice]( 1/14/2019 5:01:33 PM John Sexton 0 Comments At least five Saudi college students studying in America have been arrested on serious crimes, released on bail, and subsequently fled the country, apparently with the help of Saudi officials. The report comes from the Oregonian which highlights one [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Who is Venezuela’s Juan Guaido, the new rival to Maduro?]( 1/14/2019 4:31:26 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This weekend we looked at the welcome news that both the United States and the Organization of American States had joined numerous other nations in condemning the administration of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, declaring his presidency [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Seriously, I don’t want to use an emergency declaration]( 1/14/2019 4:01:26 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Consider this confirmation of Lindsey Graham’s reason for gloom, and an indication that we’re in for a long haul on the shutdown. Despite floating the possibility multiple times last week, Donald Trump insisted today that he’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Meghan McCain to Women’s March leader: Why won’t you condemn Farrakhan?]( 1/14/2019 3:31:48 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Big day for left-endorsed anti-semitism. This was circulating on Twitter last night: I was honored to be at Congresswoman @RashidaTlaib swearing in ceremony in #Detroit and private dinner afterward with the entire family, friends and activists [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gillette gets woke, releases ad about bullying, #MeToo, and toxic masculinity]( 1/14/2019 3:01:14 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Gillette, the razor company owned by Procter & Gamble has released a new ad (they call it a “short film”) offering a politicized take on bullying and #MeToo. The ad is titled “We Believe: The Best Men Can Be” and the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Brexit may be heading toward an “extension” and the EU is freaking out]( 1/14/2019 2:31:41 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Tomorrow is the “official” date of the vote in the House of Commons on Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal with the European Union for an orderly Brexit. (That’s if the PM doesn’t postpone it again.) Few observers see any [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Barr: “Vitally important” to let Mueller finish his investigation]( 1/14/2019 2:01:20 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The next Attorney General won’t recuse himself from the Robert Mueller investigation, but he won’t end it either. “On my watch, Bob will be allowed to complete his work,” William Barr plans to tell the Senate Judiciary [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump’s favorite pollster has his job approval at its lowest mark in almost a year]( 1/14/2019 1:31:07 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He finally found an issue that could move his approval numbers and went all-in on it. Congrats, I guess? The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 43% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [PG&E’s stock drops as it announces it will file for bankruptcy this month]( 1/14/2019 1:01:27 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Today, Pacific Gas and Electric announced it intends to file for bankruptcy. The company is required by California law to give its employees 15 days notice so the announcement today means the company can file by the end of the month. The [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Scientist still can’t decide if Oumaumua was an asteroid or an alien craft]( 1/14/2019 12:31:47 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When the interstellar object named Oumaumua hurtled through our solar system, scientists were simultaneously excited and confused. It was the first object discovered in our neighborhood which definitively originated somewhere else in the galaxy. But [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] CNN [John Kasich signs with CNN as senior political commentator]( JNS [Report: DNC drops partnership with Women’s March over anti-semitism]( The Hill [Some Senate Dems see Ocasio-Cortez as weak spokeswoman for party]( Banco etal [Mueller probes an event with Nunes, Flynn, and foreign officials at Trump’s hotel]( WSJ [Government workers idled by shutdown turn to emergency loans]( Elizabeth Holtzman [I was in Congress during Nixon’s impeachment proceedings. William Barr is wrong.]( NYT [Breaking: Judge blocks Trump admin from asking about citizenship in Census]( NYT [At Trump’s inauguration, $10,000 for makeup and lots of room service]( Jim Geraghty [A TSA strike would be illegal. Period.]( NYT [Republicans are in lock step with Trump on shutdown. But for how long?]( ABC [TSA staffing shortages hit nation’s busiest airports amid government shutdown]( LAT [Amid trade war that’s hurting their bottom line, many farmers are conflicted about Trump]( NYT [Trump discussed pulling U.S. from NATO, aides say amid new concerns over Russia]( Nate Silver [Why Kamala and Beto may have more upside than Joe and Bernie]( Jonathan Last [2020 Republican primary power rankings: Get ready for the Trump primary!]( NYT [Stung by Florida midterm losses, Dems see a swing state drifting away]( Matthew Walther [The five most likely Trump impeachment scenarios]( Peter Spiliakos [The demoralizing of the GOP (and America)]( Karol Markowicz [Beto’s tonsils aren’t even the worst thing about modern pols’ social-media obsession]( Heather MacDonald [Women don’t belong in combat units]( Charlie Sykes [Using emergency powers to build the wall will open a Pandora’s Box]( Joel Kotkin [The Democrats finally won the suburbs. Now will they destroy them?]( NYT [Breaking: GOP leaders to try to strip Steve King of committee assignments]( A.B. Stoddard [No, Democrats, the likability question isn’t sexist]( Jay Cost [Congress is not a coequal branch of government. It’s supreme.]( [Banks Get Green Light to Seize Bank Accounts]( [New Law Cracks Down on Right to Use Cash. See Why!]( [Learn How To Rollover Your IRA, 401(k) or Other Retirement Account Into Gold Now. US #1 Gold IRA Provider. $0 fees.]( [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. It was sent to you because you signed up to receive this newsletter on Hot Air OR a friend forwarded it to you. We respect and value your time and privacy. 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