HotAir Daily Express 01/18/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Pelosi: We were going to fly commercial to Afghanistan — but Trump’s letter created a security risk]( 1/18/2019 11:21:16 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments I can’t believe we had to wait almost 24 hours for her to reply to yesterday’s White House letter. We live in the Netflix era. We should be able to binge-watch every episode of this pitiful melodrama in a day. “After President Trump [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump to Mnuchin: Your junket to Davos is canceled too, pal]( 1/18/2019 10:41:30 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments First the State of the Union address gets canceled, and then all CODELs get grounded. Now the US delegation to the World Economic Forum has its wings clipped. Maybe government shutdowns should happen more often! Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin got [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Buzzfeed reporter: No, we haven’t actually *seen* evidence Trump suborned perjury, but …]( 1/18/2019 10:01:52 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It’s not the first time a major media outlet has reported on documents without seeing them, but this one might have created the biggest potential for backfire. Buzzfeed’s huge scoop alleging that evidence existed of Donald Trump ordering [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmm: North Korea envoy lands in Washington while “secret talks” take place in Stockholm]( 1/18/2019 9:21:48 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments After a few months of relative stasis, engagement with North Korea has shifted into high gear — on two fronts. A top military figure from Pyongyang arrived in Washington last night after a first trip got canceled two months ago. Neither side [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Does Mueller have evidence Trump ordered Cohen to lie to Congress?]( 1/18/2019 8:41:00 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Firing James Comey does not amount to obstruction of justice. Telling Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a real-estate deal in Russia almost certainly would be. Buzzfeed reported last night that Donald Trump “personally instructed” [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oregon’s scheme to defy Janus, prop up unions and rob workers]( 1/18/2019 8:01:00 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Here’s a case you’ll want to keep an eye on in the months ahead. Since the decision was handed down in Janus v AFSCME, public sector unions, in particular, have been on the ropes. No longer able to extract union dues (or “agency [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Good news: Congressional Democrats learned how to sh*tpost on Twitter today]( 1/17/2019 10:01:04 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The last thing We As a People need is more legislators focused on owning their critics with sick burns on garbage social media. But this is the path we chose in 2016. And so now we must trudge on, to whatever dark place it takes us. That dark place, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s interview with HuffPost is unintentionally amusing]( 1/17/2019 9:21:25 PM John Sexton 0 Comments HuffPost’s Ashley Feinberg published an interview with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey this afternoon. I found some of it amusing. It’s like a text version of one of those Jordan Peterson interviews where the interviewer keeps trying to trap [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [We need a total ban on “Late Show” jokes about Trump until we can figure out what’s going on]( 1/17/2019 8:41:56 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Here’s the thing about Colbert. Hate him for his politics, fine, but he really can be hilariously funny. One of my favorite shows, then and now, was “Strangers With Candy” on Comedy Central circa 2000. He was a supporting player [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: We’re “100%” behind NATO even if they’re behind on investment]( 1/17/2019 8:01:22 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Donald Trump may not like the New York Times, but he — or his White House team — keeps up with it. Two days ago, the NYT reported that Trump had spoken “repeatedly” about withdrawing the US from NATO. In a Pentagon speech [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Beto’s first presidential ad is unfortunate]( 1/17/2019 7:21:19 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Let me rephrase. This isn’t O’Rourke’s first presidential ad; he hasn’t announced yet. This is the first presidential ad for O’Rourke. It’s the handiwork of Draft Beto, the group that’s trying to entice him [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sarah Silverman: ‘I’m heartbroken’ over Tamika Mallory’s refusal to denounce Farrakhan]( 1/17/2019 6:41:56 PM John Sexton 0 Comments It’s a sign of the zeitgeist that even reliable lefty Sarah Silverman is signaling her displeasure with Women’s March co-chair Tamika Mallory just a few days before the 3rd march is set to take place. I cannot imagine having such mild [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Laura Ingraham: I sort of admire Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and she should come on my show]( 1/17/2019 6:01:43 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via Mediaite, I’m probably the only person on either side who thinks an AOC appearance in Fox primetime would be good for her and her cause if she can get the host to agree to certain ground rules beforehand. I made that case half-jokingly on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kennedy to Barr: Does your Catholicism disqualify you from office?]( 1/17/2019 5:21:19 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Does the dogma live loudly within William Barr? This exchange between the Attorney General nominee and Sen. John Kennedy comes as close to fireworks as anything seen in the two days of Barr’s confirmation hearing, and it’s not aimed at [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Times Opinion: Democrats should embrace open borders]( 1/17/2019 4:43:17 PM John Sexton 0 Comments NY Times opinion writer Farhad Manjoo says it’s time for the Democratic Party, or some brave person in it, to drag the Overton Window to the left on immigration. He believes there’s a solid case to be made for open borders and it’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Shutdown complaining, deplatforming and deplaning, Barr raising, Gosnell movie reigning, and more!]( 1/17/2019 3:41:59 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. Join us as we [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Revenge: Trump postpones Pelosi’s foreign trip after SOTU snub]( 1/17/2019 3:21:03 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Just a reminder that this is the greatest show any of us will ever watch and we should appreciate it as such. President @realDonaldTrump’s letter to @SpeakerPelosi concerning her upcoming travel pic.twitter.com/TtBCvwp080 — Sarah Sanders [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Georgia man planned to attack the White House with a rocket launcher]( 1/17/2019 2:41:05 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Wednesday, the FBI arrested 21-year-old Hasher Jallal Taheb in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia on the grounds that he was planning an attack on the White House. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: On Aug. 25, 2018, Taheb allegedly put his vehicle up [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi: Why no, I’m not denying Trump a platform by canceling SOTU]( 1/17/2019 2:01:39 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments No? How about a dais? A riser? CNN’s Manu Raju asked the question that John Sexton raised yesterday. Isn’t her “suggestion” to postpone or cancel the State of the Union address just another form of deplatforming by the Left [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Trump’s job approval dropping with core MAGA groups]( 1/17/2019 1:31:27 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “I’m just gonna tell you point-blank: Donald Trump can win this if he hangs on,” said Rush Limbaugh to his audience yesterday. “I actually, folks, really believe that if he hangs on and continues down this road, at some point [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rep. Omar doubles down on Sen. Graham: ‘He is somehow compromised’]( 1/17/2019 1:01:09 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Tuesday, Rep. Ilhan Omar said on Twitter that Sen. Lindsey Graham was “compromised” in some unspecified way. This was her way of explaining Graham’s shift from someone critical of then-candidate Trump, to someone now seen as a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Where do criminals get their guns?]( 1/17/2019 12:31:04 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is a question which has regularly shown up for many years in the gun control debate. It’s also a question that Democrats and their enablers in the media really hate to discuss. Where do most criminals obtain the firearms they use when [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oh my: Jackson Lee fired staffer in retaliation to lawsuit against CBCF over alleged rape?]( 1/17/2019 12:01:53 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Did Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee fire a staffer for suing the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation over an alleged rape? A new lawsuit takes aim at the Texas Democrat for retaliation in an attempt to quash the plaintiff’s attempts to seek justice [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [White House looking to see if McConnell can invite Trump to deliver SOTU]( 1/17/2019 11:21:58 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Does Cocaine Mitch have a, er, trump card to play with respect to Pelosi’s disinvitation? Top White House officials are discussing whether the GOP-controlled Senate could invite President Trump to deliver the State of the Union address. This, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gillibrand continues flip-flopping her way toward the nomination]( 1/17/2019 10:41:22 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Kirsten Gillibrand kicked off her presidential bid recently (for some reason) in the city of Troy, New York. Since that time, she hasn’t exactly been taken to task by the media. But if any reporters are looking for subjects to question her [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Michael Gerson [Anti-Catholic bigotry is alive in the U.S. Senate]( Politico [How the shutdown will inflict lasting damage]( Andrew Bacevich [Our elites’ selective support for democracy]( Debbie Wasserman Schultz [Why I refuse to walk with the Washington Women’s March]( Politico [Popular GOP governor Hogan flirts with primary challenge vs. Trump]( WaPo [Pelosi: Trump created a security risk by announcing our trip to Afghanistan]( ABC [Pence: North Korea taken no “concrete steps” ahead of reported meeting with nuclear negotiator]( Kirsten Powers [Gillette commercial controversy: Men should just get over it and adapt to #MeToo era]( CNN [How Kirsten Gillibrand went from pushing for more deportations to wanting to abolish ICE]( Eli Lake [Mitt Romney fails his first test on Russia]( WaPo [McConnell courting Pompeo to run for an open Senate seat in Kansas]( CNN [Trump startled by cozy Barr-Mueller relationship]( BuzzFeed [Report: Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress about the Moscow Tower project]( Emma Teitel [Gillette ad fallout suggests many men harbour disdain for #MeToo movement]( Warren Henry [There’s no way Beto O’Rourke can duplicate Obama’s success]( Jonathan Last [In praise of Trump! No, really.]( Erica Komisar [Masculinity isn’t a sickness]( Nate Silver [The shutdown is hurting Trump’s approval rating. But will it hurt him in 2020?]( Rich Lowry [Trump’s probably not going anywhere. Get over it.]( Jeff Greenfield [Pelosi might have just blown up the SOTU. And that’s okay.]( V.D. Hanson [Trump’s reelection chances may be better than you think]( Damian Reilly [Masculinity isn’t toxic — corporate moralizing is]( Yoni Applebaum [Impeach Donald Trump]( Edward-Isaac Dovere [Democratic operatives are building Beto O’Rourke’s campaign without him]( Rachel Lu [What Republicans miss about the dignity of work]( [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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