HotAir Daily Express 01/22/2019

[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]( [Does Trump’s immigration bill contain poison pills for Senate Dems?]( 1/22/2019 11:21:52 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments I haven’t had time yet to read the bill myself but Gabe Malor has. He’s smart, a straight shooter, and knows his immigration law. (He’s an occasional guestblogger for us too.) I trust his reading — and his reading is that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kamala Harris’ platform would bankrupt America as it nearly has California]( 1/22/2019 10:41:15 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Having officially tossed her hat in the ring for the 2020 Democratic nomination, California Senator Kamala Harris has trotted out her initial platform to campaign on. Keep in mind that we’re currently experiencing one of the most robust [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: SCOTUS lifts temporary injunction, allows Pentagon to exclude transgenders]( 1/22/2019 10:08:41 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Eeeeeeenteresting. The Supreme Court ordered on a 5-4 vote the lifting of a temporary injunction against the Pentagon that had prevented the Department of Defense to block transgendered individuals from service in the armed forces. The move does [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [French President Macron vows not to follow Louis XVI to the guillotine]( 1/22/2019 9:21:33 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Emmanuel Macron hosted a meeting of major foreign investors from Wall Street and the tech industry this week in advance of the Davos conference. The primary topic he sought to address was the concerns of investors over his failure to fully implement [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.]( [The EU is preparing to tax the internet out of existence]( 1/22/2019 8:41:23 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Well, it’s not exactly a “tax” per se, but more like a series of fees being paid between content providers and aggregators. The EU has been working on a new copyright law since last summer which is now in the final stages of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [YGBKM: Twitter suspends troll account that spread Covington video]( 1/22/2019 8:01:47 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Old and busted: Russian fake news. New hotness: Brazilian waxed news! [Or maybe not — see update.] What could possibly be a more perfect ending than this to the Covington media pratfall? Twitter suspended an account on Monday afternoon that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Huckabee: If Ann Coulter thinks she could do better than Trump, maybe she should run]( 1/21/2019 10:01:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Daily Beast, nothing much happening here, just the father of Trump’s press secretary inviting his foremost immigration critic from the right to put up or shut up. My idea when the shutdown began was for POTUS to invite Coulter to be [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Women’s March protesters express concern over anti-Semitism among leadership]( 1/21/2019 9:21:33 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Usually, the way these Campus Reform videos go is that the interviewer walks onto a college campus and asks people at random about some progressive issue or group and it turns out the students don’t know much of anything about the topic beyond [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [It may not be the GOP wanting to block the release of the Mueller report]( 1/21/2019 8:41:13 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Is the Special Counsel report from Robert Mueller going to be released in its entirety to the public when the investigation concludes? Everyone is waiting for the other shoe to drop and generating as much mileage as possible off of it. At least for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Are you ready for the *Democratic* mega-billionaire populists of 2020?]( 1/21/2019 8:01:30 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Don’t be silly. How can mega-billionaires like Michael Bloomberg or Howard Schultz ever connect with a populist-minded segment of voters? The entire idea sounds … er … more than vaguely familiar. It might present a bit more of a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Question for Gillibrand: Was it “racist” when you held all of the same immigration positions as Trump?]( 1/21/2019 7:21:45 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments She is so, so bad. So bad. Read Friday’s post for a quick-and-dirty summary of her immigration “evolution” over the years, which wasn’t an evolution at all and certainly didn’t take years. It happened so quickly and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrat on House Judiciary Committee says they will likely investigate Justice Kavanaugh for perjury]( 1/21/2019 6:41:46 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Rep. Joe Neguse is a freshman Democrat from Colorado. Last Friday, Rep. Neguse held a small meet-and-greet with Colorado residents where he was asked, “Looking ahead at the whole impeachment thing, do you see Kavanaugh as like a key part of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [When doctors ignore a living will and prolong suffering]( 1/21/2019 6:01:07 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The wife of a retired periodontist suffering from Alzheimer’s, Dr. Gerald Greenberg, has filed a lawsuit against a New York hospital claiming that doctors violated his last wishes. As the New York Post reports, Mrs. Elaine Greenberg’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Unreal: 25% of all deaths in Netherlands by forms of euthanasia and suicide]( 1/21/2019 5:21:04 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments When the Netherlands embraced euthanasia, along with other European countries, it claimed that it allowed for compassionate ends to lives already doomed to a suffering end. Critics warned that it would not only go far beyond the supposedly limited [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Watch company ad counters Gillette on “toxic masculinity”: “We see the good in men”]( 1/21/2019 4:41:10 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Somehow I missed this last week. Fans of Gillette’s “toxic masculinity” ad will point out that the spot never once paints all men with the same brush or suggests that masculinity per se is bad. What it’s concerned with are [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California may ban paper receipts next, but it won’t make much of a difference]( 1/21/2019 4:01:57 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A couple weeks ago a California Assemblyman introduced a bill that would ban paper receipts in the state. To be precise, the bill would require the customer to ask for one, similar to the state’s straw ban. The announcement made some news, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Looks like #MeToo and “Ban the Box” aren’t a very good fit]( 1/21/2019 3:21:35 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The problem with running a political movement composed of a wide variety of single-issue groups is that it can be like herding cats. As long as everyone stays primarily in their own lane and agrees to cooperate you can gain a lot of ground. But as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gillibrand: That debunked Buzzfeed report sure does show that the president obstructed justice]( 1/21/2019 2:41:58 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The best part of this dead-horse-beating exercise is Martha Raddatz’ reaction to Kirsten Gillibrand’s take. Raddatz asked the potential presidential contender whether Democrats jumped too quickly on the debunked Buzzfeed report that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Let’s talk about that garbage non-call at the end of the Saints/Rams game]( 1/21/2019 2:01:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Is there anything to talk about? Even the man responsible for this travesty says it was pass interference. In terms of both incompetence *and* the magnitude of the error in influencing the outcome of the season, it’s likely the worst call in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Social media mob threatened two different teens and their families over incident near Lincoln Memorial]( 1/21/2019 1:21:29 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Jazz wrote about the media response to this incident earlier. I wanted to focus on the social media aspect of this incident. As soon as a clipped video of the confrontation between a Native American man with a drum and a high school student began [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Art of the Deal requires two parties who actually want a deal]( 1/21/2019 12:41:31 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Now that the halfway point of Donald Trump’s first term in office has officially come and gone, the Washington media crew has been scrambling to find some way to commemorate the occasion, define the results of the first two years and make [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hot Air reader survey: Trump’s new immigration offer amnesty — or The Art of the Deal?]( 1/21/2019 12:01:20 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments We certainly know what Democrats on Capitol Hill think about Donald Trump’s immigration proposal. We also know what Ann Coulter thinks about it from the Right. “Trump proposes amnesty,” she tweeted immediately after the speech. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [No takers thus far among Senate and House Dems for Trump’s new immigration offer]( 1/21/2019 11:21:11 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments My hunch on Saturday, shortly before POTUS went on TV to float his new “BRIDGE Act for the wall” proposal, was that the final vote count in the Senate was likely to be closer to 50 than the 60 McConnell would need to pass it. Looks like [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [We’re still finding more undisclosed North Korean missile sites]( 1/21/2019 10:41:25 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The timing of this revelation is rather disconcerting, all things considered. NBC News is reporting that a new study from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) indicates the North Koreans have a previously undisclosed ballistic [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [House Homeland Security chair: “Would not rule out a wall in certain instances”]( 1/21/2019 10:01:51 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Has Donald Trump’s weekend address created some vulnerabilities for Democrats on national security? “I don’t think Democrats are opposed to any physical barriers,” House Homeland Security Committee chair Bennie Thompson [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] M.B. 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