HotAir Daily Express 01/31/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Report: White House “finalizing” details of emergency declaration in case immigration negotiations fail]( 1/31/2019 11:21:55 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments CNN reported a week ago, the night before the shutdown ended, that the White House had been tinkering with the language of an emergency decree for the border. But they were vague on the timing; it sounded from the story as if they’d begun [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [In Baltimore, teachers are being hospitalized by violent students]( 1/31/2019 10:41:27 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When these stories began showing up in Charm City a couple of years ago it was possible to write them off as isolated, one-off criminal events. Recently, however, the frequency of incidents where Baltimore public school students have been physically [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [More Trump: On second thought, never mind a DACA-for-wall swap]( 1/31/2019 10:01:58 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Say what? Just a couple of weeks ago, Donald Trump went on national television to make an offer to trade a three-year extension of the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) programs for $5.7 billion in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pennsylvania admits to thousands of registered “non-citizen voters”]( 1/31/2019 9:21:14 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The battle to publicize the findings of an investigation into non-citizens registered to vote in Pennsylvania is finally over. Governor Tom Wolf had been blocking the release of the information since last summer, fighting requests for the data in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: The DoJ will decide how to handle the Mueller report, not me]( 1/31/2019 8:41:54 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Will this make everyone in Congress happy? Let’s just say it will satisfy, oh, fifty-three percent of the Senate and forty-six percent of the House. Donald Trump told the Daily Caller in an Oval Office interview that he will issue no direction [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Victorina Morales is the best reason yet to cancel the SOTU speech… permanently]( 1/31/2019 8:01:27 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Assuming someone else doesn’t throw a temper tantrum over the weekend, it appears that we’re going forward with the State of the Union speech next week. This no doubt comes as wonderful news to almost no one, except possibly some of the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [More than a quarter of young Republicans have a positive reaction to the word … “socialism”]( 1/30/2019 10:01:41 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Some say that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be president someday. Wrong. She’ll be premier. Via Will Jordan, new data from SurveyMonkey in response to the question, “Do you have a positive or negative reaction to the word [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rand Paul awarded $580,000 in case stemming from attack by neighbor]( 1/30/2019 9:21:05 PM John Sexton 0 Comments In November of 2017, Rand Paul’s neighbor Rene Boucher attacked the Senator, charging at him while he was cutting the lawn with his back turned. The result for Sen. Paul was six broken ribs and severe pain that lasted for weeks. Today, Fox [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fox News: Talk we must about Gronk’s favorite number … again]( 1/30/2019 8:41:19 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Going into this weekend’s Super Bowl, some have wondered whether it will be the last game for New England Patriots stars Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski. After asking Gronkowski about Brady’s potential retirement, a few people want the AFC [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Trump would lose a three-way race if a strong third-party candidate jumps in]( 1/30/2019 8:01:05 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Maybe this will convince the left to dial down their meltdown over Howard Schultz’s candidacy from “Chernobyl” levels to a more manageable “Three-Mile Island.” The obvious problem for Scott Rasmussen in polling this was [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Measles outbreak spreads to new states thanks to anti-vaccination campaigns]( 1/30/2019 7:21:21 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The state of Washington has declared an emergency of an outbreak of measles and now it appears the disease is spreading to several other states as well. From ABC News: Health officials in Georgia, Hawaii and Oregon have now reported that there have [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Who’s ready for a smart Roomba-style lawnmower?]( 1/30/2019 6:41:56 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Much as was predicted in the Jetsons cartoons, the day is eventually coming when you won’t have to do any household chores for yourself. If you’re an early adopter of all of the artificial intelligence robot technology you likely already [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dolan: We’re not going to excommunicate Cuomo over abortion bill]( 1/30/2019 6:01:59 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Not even if Andrew Cuomo seems ready to shift from abortion to infanticide? No, says New York City’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who complains in this clip from The Catholic Channel about the “far right” demanding such action. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The freaky deaky Jennifer Lawrence/Steve Buscemi deepfake]( 1/30/2019 5:31:33 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate, an answer to the eternal question: What would happen if we threw one of the most attractive people in Hollywood into that teleportation pod from “The Fly” with one of the least attractive? The result, as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Washington Post goes with ‘conservative backlash’ over Gov. Northam’s comments on abortion bill]( 1/30/2019 5:01:50 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Whenever the media doesn’t want to talk about a story that makes Democrats look bad, they talk about conservatives seizing on it instead. So here we go again. The Washington Post decided to cover the Virginia abortion bill in the wake of Gov. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New Yorkers shocked to find food prices rising after minimum wage hike]( 1/30/2019 4:31:33 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The result of the Fight for 15 movement in New York City has finally gone into effect. The minimum wage jumped by 15% in many cases, to $15 per hour this month. This mostly affects employers of lower skill level workers, particularly in the food [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary’s 2016 endorsers: Stay out]( 1/30/2019 4:01:13 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The good news for Hillary Clinton: It didn’t take long for the Clintonistas of 2016 to rally to the news that their favored candidate might consider another run at the presidency. The bad news: They’re rallying to go on the record to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats: We’re taking DACA off the table in immigration negotiations]( 1/30/2019 3:31:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Disappointing. The negotiations sounded promising until now! If the committee of Republicans and Democrats now meeting on Border Security is not discussing or contemplating a Wall or Physical Barrier, they are Wasting their time! — Donald J. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [KISS’s Ace Frehley threatens to come after Gene Simmons]( 1/30/2019 3:01:42 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Why do I care about this story? Because when I was 11, KISS was the hottest band in the world. Okay, in retrospect some of their songs are a pretty schlocky but there was definitely a moment there in the late 70s when they were rock superstars who [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Look how the former New York AG was paying his sexual harassment legal bills]( 1/30/2019 2:31:17 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Anyone still remember Eric Schneiderman? The former Attorney General for New York State was a major Trump critic and media gadfly. He also made a lot of noise about supporting the #MeToo movement, at least until four women accused him of sexual [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Blink? Maduro appeals to Russia to mediate with Guaidó]( 1/30/2019 2:01:34 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Has Nicolas Maduro begun to fold? Faced with the prospect of the shutdown of his oil exports and growing unrest in the streets, he called on Russia to mediate the dispute. It’s the first sign that Maduro may have given up on using force to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Moderate” Dem Virginia governor: Our new late-term abortion bill would allow babies to be killed … after they’re born; Update: Northam responds]( 1/30/2019 1:31:54 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I must be exaggerating, you say? Watch. Quote: “If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Venezuela, socialism, and the dog that didn’t bark]( 1/30/2019 1:01:55 PM John Sexton 0 Comments There’s a Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Silver Blaze, in which one of the key clues to solving the case is a dog that didn’t bark. That’s sort of where things stand with Venezuela, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How much do we need to know about the motives of evil men?]( 1/30/2019 12:31:00 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Passing largely without notice this past week, the FBI concluded their investigation into the mass shooting in Las Vegas. After a lengthy, massive inquiry, they were forced to admit that we will likely never know what the shooter’s motivation [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hey, so much for that “we won’t see temps below 10°F in Duluth” global-warming argument, eh?]( 1/30/2019 12:01:06 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments How bad does the weather have to be to stop the Post Office’s deliveries? This bad. The polar vortex that shifted cold air over much of the northern US brought temperatures and wind chills so low that frostbite can form within five minutes or [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Donald Trump [“[G]ee, I’m in the White House, & they’re not!”]( David French [Yes, the Virginia abortion bill is just as barbaric as you’ve heard]( Politico [Conservatives fear Trump will surrender on key judicial nominees]( RTD [Virginia lawmaker: I should have read the abortion bill more closely before sponsoring it]( Emily Peck [Should billionaires even exist?]( CNN [Sarah Sanders: God “wanted Donald Trump to become president”]( The Hill [GOP poised to rebuke Trump on foreign policy]( WaPo [Illegal worker who was fired by Trump Organization to attend State of the Union]( Politico [“Get this done”: McConnell moves to avoid shutdown]( Glenn Kirschner [Roger Stone’s indictment suggests conspiracy charges may still be forthcoming]( Axios [Why national emergencies are usually declared]( Jonathan Merritt [Teaching the Bible in public schools is a bad idea — for Christians]( Jacob Grier [We are completely overreacting to vaping]( Anne Applebaum [Venezuela is how “illiberal democracy” ends]( Kevin Williamson [Howard Schultz didn’t leave his party, his party left him]( Anna Nemtsova [Venezuela is becoming a Putin-Trump proxy battleground]( USA Today [“There’s no glamour to the job. I hated every second I was there.”]( David Harsanyi [Kamala Harris sounds a lot like an authoritarian]( Howard Kurtz [Journalists now hate Twitter — because it exposes their excesses?]( Andrew Egger [A Flake primary challenge would have only helped Trump]( Damon Linker [Why America is becoming more polarized on abortion]( Tiana Lowe [Who’s protecting Bryan Singer?]( John McCormack [Most 2020 Democrats back an abortion bill just like Virginia’s]( Bloomberg [Map: How Venezuela crisis splits the world’s allegiances]( ABC [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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