HotAir Daily Express 01/28/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Howard Schultz advisor: If he runs he’ll bring Trump down to a floor of 26-28%]( 1/28/2019 11:21:47 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments No, my dude. Very much no. But I’ll bet whichever advisor is shoveling this BS at Schultz to goad him into running will be well remunerated if he takes the plunge. A Schultz adviser tells me his team sees opportunity in “the most [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Times: De Blasio may be running, but nobody cares]( 1/28/2019 10:41:39 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Is New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio running for President next year? He’s one of the few Democrats with a sufficiently high national profile to not have announced his candidacy, but he’s certainly been doing everything one would expect [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo/ABC poll: Majority opposes impeachment, has little to no confidence in Mueller’s fairness]( 1/28/2019 10:01:21 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments In other words, welcome to 1998. A new poll from the Washington Post and ABC shows that Americans still aren’t sold on impeaching of Donald Trump. Voters approve of investigations by Congress into the 2016 election and the White House, but [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Daddy Starbucks 2020?]( 1/28/2019 9:21:06 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments A week or so ago, Ed pointed out that Starbucks founder Howard Schultz was embarking on a book tour that might have signaled an interest in a presidential run. Schultz has never been one to play things particularly shy or cagey, so he decided to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Chances of getting border-wall funding “less than 50-50”]( 1/28/2019 8:41:33 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments At best. Donald Trump sounded pessimistic about his chances of getting border-wall funding in upcoming budget negotiations in Congress, but perhaps not pessimistic enough. In his interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump cites the conference [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Washington state sheriffs not planning on enforcing new gun laws]( 1/28/2019 8:01:33 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The state of Washington passed a raft of new gun control laws that went into effect this year and they have another batch making its way through the legislature right now. These regulations cover everything from most semiautomatic rifles and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Roger Stone: Sure I’ll talk to Mueller if my lawyers OK it]( 1/27/2019 8:01:20 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments Roger Stone is willing to talk to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but there’s a major catch (via ABC News’ This Week with George Stephanopoulos): STEPHANOPOULOS: You say you won’t bear false witness against President Trump, are you [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Amazon’s facial recognition software found to be racist, sexist]( 1/27/2019 6:31:49 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When covering advancements in technology including artificial intelligence and facial recognition software I’ve run across all manner of complaints from various activists. Many worry about invasions of privacy or government overreach, where [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Juan Guaidó isn’t “far right” and the U.S. should stay out of Venezuela]( 1/27/2019 5:01:54 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments Perhaps the most amusing and #headdesk inducing reaction to the situation in Venezuela is this sudden notion Juan Guaidó is some sort of tool of the “far right.” It’s a complaint uttered by Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Central Texas cemetery invites public to veteran’s funeral]( 1/27/2019 3:31:36 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments A central Texas cemetery is turning a sad story into a happier ending. The staff of Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery is extending an invitation to anyone in the area to attend a funeral for an unaccompanied veteran Monday. A United States Air [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Hillary telling friends she’s not closing the door to a run in 2020]( 1/27/2019 2:01:45 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Watch Jeff Zeleny at 1:07 of the clip below. I thought we’d almost turned the corner on “Hillary 2020” nonsense. But every now and then a little birdie pops up and starts chirping to remind us that she’s still out there. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New beginnings, social consensus, and immutable truth: Sunday reflection]( 1/27/2019 12:31:51 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This morning’s Gospel reading is Luke 1:1–4; 4:14–21: Since many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the events that have been fulfilled among us, just as those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning and ministers of the word have handed [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Are we turning over Afghanistan to the Taliban?]( 1/27/2019 11:01:47 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This has gotten almost zero coverage in the mainstream media amid all the shutdown theater drama and 2020 presidential campaign announcements, but it’s a major story. U.S. officials have been meeting with leaders of the Taliban (!) in Qatar [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Our beef with Venezuela is on hold, but not over]( 1/27/2019 9:31:28 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Last night was supposed to be the deadline for American diplomats in Venezuela to vacate the country as ordered by dictator Nicolas Maduro. After the United States, along with Canada, several South American nations and the EU moved to declare [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sunday morning talking heads]( 1/27/2019 8:01:54 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments There’s only one topic (well, one and a half) on the Sunday shows this morning. That would be Friday’s abrupt, allegedly temporary, halt to the shutdown and What It Means for relations between Trump and congressional Democrats going [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Andrew Sullivan on Covington: ‘They were 16-year-olds subjected to verbal racist assault’]( 1/26/2019 8:31:43 PM John Sexton 0 Comments In science one of the ways you confirm your results is by having someone else replicate the experiment. If follow the same procedure and reach the same result, it’s a sign your experiment wasn’t a fluke or an accident. The same thing [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [National emergencies generally aren’t conditional, right?]( 1/26/2019 7:01:13 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments With the government shutdown temporarily behind us, President Trump is essentially back to where he was in December. The government is open but will run out of funding again in a matter of weeks. He wants the wall/barrier built on the southern [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Coca-Cola cheaps out on Super Bowl ad, goes with pre-game show]( 1/26/2019 5:31:42 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments It’s the end of an era. When football fans tune into Super Bowl LIII there will be no Coca-Cola ad to watch. If the fans skip the pre-game show, that is. This year Coca-Cola has decided to forego the exorbitant advertising fees to run an ad [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bill Maher to Ann Coulter: What was your first clue that Trump was a con man?]( 1/26/2019 4:01:07 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You don’t often to get to watch a liberal and a right-wing populist teaming up to dunk on Trump. Enjoy it while it lasts. Actually, Coulter spends more time in the clip trying to sell Maher’s audience on reducing illegal immigration than [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [BBC to Irish minister: Why not just rejoin the UK?]( 1/26/2019 2:31:06 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Oh, come on. Does anyone want to tell this BBC host why Ireland doesn’t want to make the UK sovereign over the whole island again? Anyone? O’Bueller? O’Bueller? The exchange picks up at the nine-minute mark, after McEntee [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Newspaper apologizes to Melania Trump, pays “substantial” damages]( 1/26/2019 1:01:48 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Britain’s Telegraph newspaper has apologized to First Lady Melania Trump for a cover story it ran last Saturday titled “The Mystery of Melania”. An apology for an article filled with false information against Mrs. Trump is unusual [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Migrants are now being returned to Mexico to await asylum hearings]( 1/26/2019 11:31:20 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’d already heard rumors that this was coming but now it’s official. The backlog of migrants waiting for hearings to decide their asylum claims has completely flooded the system, leading to unsustainable waiting times and immigration [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The answers as to why CNN was at Roger Stone’s house make little sense]( 1/26/2019 10:01:19 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When I published my piece yesterday morning on the pre-dawn raid resulting in the arrest of Roger Stone, there was one question which stuck out like a sore thumb. It had to do with how CNN just happened to be in place for the big show. Allahpundit [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A cure for future government shutdowns]( 1/26/2019 8:31:20 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The longest (partial) shutdown of the United States government in the history of the nation is over as of last night. Well… it’s “over” for three weeks anyway, when it will probably start all over again. We should at least [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Bernie Sanders is about to announce his run for the White House]( 1/25/2019 8:41:37 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders is about to announce his second run for the White House according to a report by Yahoo News published this afternoon: Two sources with direct knowledge of his plans told Yahoo News that Sanders, an independent and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Axios [“The message from that lunch … was, it’s over. They’ll be 70 votes within 48 hours.”]( Donald Trump [Howard Schultz doesn’t have the guts to run against me]( Daniel Chaitin [Kamala Harris draws bigger crowd than Obama for launch of White House bid]( NYT [Christie: Trump thought firing Flynn would end the “Russia thing”]( Bill Scher [The foolish quest to be the next Barack Obama]( NYT [On Venezuela, Rubio assumes U.S. role of ouster in chief]( WSJ [“I hear she’s become very hostile. Maybe I didn’t return her phone call or something.”]( Axios [Report: Trump mused about “military option” in Venezuela with Graham]( The Hill [Biden allies say he doesn’t have to rush into race]( NYT [U.S. and Taliban agree in principle to peace framework]( John Horgan [Dear Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, please work to end war]( Guardian [Scientists are working on a pill for loneliness]( NYT [Washington state weighs new option after death: Human composting]( Margaret Wente [It’s official: Traditional masculinity is sick, sick, sick]( Kevin Williamson [Involuntary identity politics: Collective punishment can descend on anyone, anytime]( Salena Zito [Trump and Ocasio-Cortez use the same tricks to win at politics]( NBC [What’s wrong with Rudy? Longtime Giuliani watchers stunned by gaffes]( Roger Kimball [A better guide than elite opinion is public revulsion at it]( John Hawkins [Long term, how do we live with the sorts of people smearing Nick Sandmann?]( Tiana Lowe [President Pelosi?]( Michael Goodwin [President Trump is down, but not out]( Arwa Mahdawi [Women swear sometimes — let’s get the hell over it]( Kevin Murphy [It’s time for a #MeToo moment in hip-hop]( HuffPost [Twitter hasn’t forgotten Graham’s dire prediction about Trump and the shutdown]( CBS [Dude]( [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. 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