HotAir Daily Express 02/11/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Fairfax: I won’t resign because “I’m standing up for due process”]( 2/11/2019 11:21:21 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments So was Brett Kavanaugh, but he had more standing for it, if readers will pardon the pun. In a phone interview with the Washington Post last night, Justin Fairfax insisted that he will not resign despite the emergence of multiple accusers and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Warren: Lock him up?]( 2/11/2019 10:41:09 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s still easy to remember all of the chanting about Hillary Clinton at various Trump rallies during the 2016 campaign. Lock her up! It was a signature move for the President, but most of the political media thought it was simply obscene. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Attention - Don’t Use Probiotics Until You See This]( Gundry MD SPONSORED Doctor Reveals The Real Reason You Aren’t Losing Weight And The At-Home Method To Fix It [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“It’s all about the Benjamins baby”: Even fellow Dems object to Omar’s anti-Semitic attacks on Twitter; Update: House Dems circulating petition demanding action from Pelosi]( 2/11/2019 10:01:43 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Twitter may be a sewer run by hypocritical hacks, but occasionally it performs the public service of mask removal. Last night, frosh House Democrat Ilhan Omar from right here in Minnesota suggested that Republican support for Israel originates in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Democratic wolves are circling Justin Fairfax]( 2/11/2019 9:21:18 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Thus far, with multiple accusers of sexual assault coming forward, Virginia Luitenent Governor Justin Fairfax is insisting that he isn’t going anywhere. Instead, he would like the FBI to look into these allegations, which he categorically [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Indentured servants”? Northam’s racial-healing tour off to predictable start]( 2/11/2019 8:41:24 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Ralph Northam refuses to resign as governor of Virginia after admitting to dressing up in blackface as a young man, after fumbling to explain a yearbook-page photo with blackface and a Klan outfit. Northam insisted on Friday that he would stay to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Yellow vest riots spreading from France to Latvia]( 2/11/2019 8:01:09 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments France has now experienced thirteen straight weeks of yellow vest protests in the streets, many turning into riots, where demonstrators have demanded President Emmanuel Macron abscond from office. It’s a clear signal of public opposition to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Elizabeth Warren’s ‘capitalism without rules’ comment is no solution]( 2/10/2019 8:01:47 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s run for the presidency is going to be focused on restructuring the socio-economic system of the United States into one chock full of rules in hopes of hindering those with the most money from having [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [British woman arrested for identifying gender of transgender attorney]( 2/10/2019 6:31:10 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you’d like a peek at what will happen in the United States if you let the social justice warriors in the Democratic Party take over complete control of the government, just take a look at what’s going on in Great Britain today. Over [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Guaidó: I’m okay with a possible U.S. invasion of Venezuela]( 2/10/2019 5:01:14 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments National Assembly of Venezuela President Juan Guaidó seems okay with the possibility of the United States getting militarily involved in the current political standoff with Dictator-in-Chief Nicolas Maduro. Via AFP: National Assembly president [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The new, alternate pro football league is in motion]( 2/10/2019 3:31:44 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Are you ready for some football? An odd question to be asking one week after the flop of a Super Bowl and eight months before the next pre-season NFL game will kick off. But American football is back as of yesterday and there’s a whole season [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The greatest honor a U.S. president has ever received]( 2/10/2019 2:01:43 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments From yesterday’s Carnevale di Viareggio in Italy. Watching this, I felt like the dad in “A Christmas Story” seeing the leg lamp through the window: “Why, it’s … it’s indescribably [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Accused NY murderer gets charge dropped thanks to new infanticide law]( 2/10/2019 12:31:48 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Much of the recent infanticide news has focused on Virginia, where there was simply a proposed bill to allow abortions up to or even after (!) the birth of a child. What doesn’t seem to garner as much attention is the fact that New York [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fish or cut bait: Sunday reflection]( 2/10/2019 11:46:00 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments This morning’s Gospel reading is Luke 5:1–11: While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Nat’l Black Farmers Assoc President: Forgive Governor Northam, impeach Trump]( 2/10/2019 11:01:28 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments I saw an interview on CNN Saturday that interested me because of the interviewee and the subject of Virginia Governor Northam’s current woes in office due to alleged racism from his medical school days. This wasn’t one of the countless [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Warren announces candidacy to a collective yawn]( 2/10/2019 9:31:50 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Yesterday’s “big announcement” from Massachusettes Senator Elizabeth Warren was exactly what everyone has known for ages. She’s officially running for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president. Of course, it’s looked [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sunday morning talking heads]( 2/10/2019 8:01:50 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments I don’t think anyone here blogged it when it happened but acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney dropped one of the most mind-bending quotes of the Trump presidency a few days ago, before the SOTU. Remember now: Before he became [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Vox’s spin on Finland’s Basic Income experiment is about what you’d expect]( 2/9/2019 8:31:08 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Friday I wrote about the initial results of Finland’s Universal Basic Income experiment. Though the conclusions so far only involve the first year of the program, Finland’s Social Insurance Institution concluded the experiment failed to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Free the nipple” heading to SCOTUS?]( 2/9/2019 7:01:14 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This has been a closely watched case in New Hampshire, both in terms of free speech and gender discrimination. (And I don’t mean “closely watched” just because it involves topless women.) Three Granite State ladies, Heidi Lilley, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Nicolas Maduro blocks incoming food for his starving people]( 2/9/2019 5:31:12 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There’s a standoff (or perhaps a showdown) taking place on the border of Venezuela at the moment. It’s not 5,000 American troops (as hinted at by John Bolton) facing off with the Venezuelan army. It’s not even the army of Colombia, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Is Betomania fading? Oprah begs him to declare 2020 candidacy]( 2/9/2019 4:01:10 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments The question now for failed U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke is this – is he a strong contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination for President or is he going to turn out to be a flash in the pan? Oprah wants him to hurry up and let [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [AOC advisor lies his ass off about what the Green New Deal fact sheet on her website said]( 2/9/2019 2:31:39 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments As a Twitter pal noted, this is yet another point of commonality between Ocasio-Cortez and that other populist politician from New York who’s good at social media, likes brawling with his political enemies, and whines endlessly about his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New York Democrats may drive Amazon out of new Queens HQ]( 2/9/2019 1:01:26 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’ve had questions about Amazon’s “contest” to pick a host city for their new headquarters from the beginning. The original pitch made it sound as if they might go to some smaller to middle-sized city that was down on its [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Legislative Black Caucus, Kaine, Warner, and Virginia Democratic Party to Fairfax: Resign. Now. Update: Removed from DLGA chair]( 2/9/2019 11:31:39 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If you had “Democrats conduct impeachment” in your 2019 pool, prepare to collect your winnings — but not in the way anyone would have guessed a month ago. Rather than Congress impeaching Donald Trump, Democrats in Virginia will [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Ivanka Vacuuming”: Crumby performance art trashes Ivanka Trump]( 2/9/2019 10:01:26 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments First Daughter Ivanka Trump has had an interesting week. Along the way, a message was delivered that performance art solely created to denigrate a woman associated with the Trump administration is a-ok, even if it is his daughter. The new [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gillibrand’s South Carolina event takes a detour]( 2/9/2019 8:31:24 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments New York Democratic Senator and 2020 hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand had a campaign event scheduled with South Carolina State University students last night. Being one of the early voting states in the primary, that’s a natural choice and plenty of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Nate Silver [How Amy Klobuchar could win the 2020 Democratic nomination]( Michael Goodwin [The Democrats’ disastrous week highlights Trump’s sanity]( Bill Scher [The weak rollout of the Green New Deal]( Guardian [Plummeting insect numbers “threaten collapse of nature”]( WaPo [Jewish House Dems urge Pelosi to denounce Omar for “hateful tropes” in tweets]( Eleanor Clift [“This is bullsh*t. 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