HotAir Daily Express 02/12/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Millions to be Hit Hard by this U.S. Confiscation Scheme]( [Former Head of the U.S. Fed Reveals Washington's Nasty Trick to Confiscate the Savings of Unsuspecting Americans...]( ==> [Here's How Some are Resisting]( [“Fox & Friends” on wall compromise: This is a big step]( 2/12/2019 11:21:44 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Here’s why I’m skeptical that Hannity will veto the plan, as Ed joked earlier: Plenty of Trumpers will rationalize polishing this turd of a deal, as you’ll see below. Hannity’s popularity depends on populist cred and so he [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Shocking report: Voter ID laws don’t depress voter turnout]( 2/12/2019 10:41:39 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments We’ve had more than our fair share of discussions here on the subject of voter ID laws. I’ll confess to being perpetually confused over the objections raised by opponents. One of the most common complaints is that such laws will depress [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Toxic Vegetable Is #1 Danger In Diet]( Gundry MD SPONSORED Doctor Warns: Stop Eating This Now (Shocking Truth Revealed) [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Uh oh: Giffords’ husband to take on McSally for McCain seat in 2020]( 2/12/2019 10:01:56 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Want to see two heroes do battle in 2020? Skip the presidential contest and turn your eyes to Arizona instead, where a former astronaut will take on an Air Force pilot for the final two years of John McCain’s term in the Senate. Democrats have [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Northam is stealing Hillary Clinton’s idea for a “listening tour”]( 2/12/2019 9:21:23 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The tale of blackface yearbook photos in Virginia won’t be going away any time soon. Governor Ralph Northam is sticking to his intention to not resign and efforts at filing articles of impeachment in the legislature have thus far been stymied. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [China Just Launched this Attack on the USD]( [China Just Launched this Attack on the USD]( [Alan Greenspan Warns of this U.S. Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings]( [Alan Greenspan Warns of this U.S. Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings]( [Move Your IRA or 401k to Gold]( [The Little-Known (But Legal) IRS Tax Law to Move Your IRA or 401(k) to Gold]( [Hannity to GOP: You’d better not take this “garbage compromise” on border wall]( 2/12/2019 8:41:31 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The good news: Congressional negotiators reached a deal late last night to finish the FY2019 budget — and it includes some funding for the border wall. The bad news: Sean Hannity may veto it. The Fox News host called it a “garbage [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Does Bill de Blasio really think he can run for President?]( 2/12/2019 8:01:17 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’d foolishly thought that this was a subject that was dead and buried, but apparently not. For a long time, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has been making all of the moves that one expects of a person contemplating a run for the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump touts Drudge headline: Check out my 52% job approval]( 2/11/2019 10:41:12 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We’ve reached a sufficiently advanced degree of polling awareness among blog readers, I think, that most can fill in this blank correctly now without needing more information: “The president just touted a new poll from ____________ [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Virginia Dem backs off plan to impeach Fairfax over rape claims after black lawmakers object]( 2/11/2019 10:01:19 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Help me figure this out. It was fair and reasonable to call on Justin Fairfax to resign on Friday, mere hours after a second woman accused him of rape… Virginia Legislative Black Caucus Statement on Most Recent Sexual Allegations Against Lt. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NY Times headline: ‘Ocasio-Cortez Team Flubs a Green New Deal Summary, and Republicans Pounce’]( 2/11/2019 9:21:07 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Earlier today I wrote about the Washington Post’s summary of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ efforts to walk back an embarrassing FAQ which her office used as part of the rollout for the Green New Deal. As bad as the Post story was in some [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Face-off at 9 p.m. ET: Trump vs. Beto O’Rourke at dueling immigration rallies in El Paso]( 2/11/2019 8:41:37 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Tonight we get not one but two rallies with newsmaking potential and they’re being held half a mile apart. Trump’s event is his first major appearance on the trail since the midterms and thus his first chance to riff about the new crop [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [So you’re upset that your tax refund went down?]( 2/11/2019 8:01:05 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’ve found it rather surprising how often I’ve seen this story popping up on cable news and in the papers this winter. It seems that some people have finished their taxes early and are complaining that their tax refunds are less than [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Harris: You’d better believe I inhaled when I smoked pot]( 2/11/2019 7:21:03 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Narrator: So did Bill Clinton. Nearly thirty years ago, the first Baby Boomer president tried to sidestep the question of marijuana use. Now pot has become so mainstream that Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris laughingly embraced it [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo fact-checker: Ocasio-Cortez team’s lies about the Green New Deal FAQ earn … zero Pinocchios]( 2/11/2019 6:41:35 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If you missed it Saturday, read this to see just how far her advisors went in BSing about the infamous line on the GND fact sheet about “economic security” for those who are “unwilling to work.” It takes stones to go on the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Disgust may play a role in partisan politics]( 2/11/2019 6:01:37 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last week the Atlantic published a story about liberals and conservatives and the scientific evidence that you can often tell one from the other by looking at how people respond to disgust. If you aren’t familiar with this area of research, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New Hampshire pols “freaking out” over less relevance in primaries]( 2/11/2019 5:21:14 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It sounds like the movers and shakers in the Granite State have gotten themselves into a snit over next year’s primary calendar again. The Boston Globe was reporting this weekend that New Hampshire’s top political honchos are [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [2020 preview? Newsom stops Nat’l Guard border deployment in California]( 2/11/2019 4:41:57 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Dude, he’s running. In an implicit slap at Donald Trump, Gov. Gavin Newsom will order an end to the National Guard deployment at the US-Mexico border in California. The New York Times reports that Newsom will issue new orders for hundreds of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NBC News explains why Democrats want to eat the rich]( 2/11/2019 4:01:15 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Every Democrat running for President is going to need to wheel out their own solution as to how to “fix” the terrible conditions in a country currently experiencing a booming recovery, rising wages, and nearly record-low unemployment. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Washington Post: That Green New Deal FAQ was just ‘erroneous information’]( 2/11/2019 3:21:08 PM John Sexton 0 Comments If you follow Dave Weigel on Twitter then you probably saw this piece coming. Weigel and co-author Jeff Stein write about the Green New Deal (GND) FAQ and helpfully explain how it’s really just a mistake and contained erroneous information. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi and Dem leaders: Omar must apologize for using anti-semitic tropes; Update: Omar apologizes]( 2/11/2019 2:41:17 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is a welcome effort by Democratic leaders to rebuke one of their own, but let’s not pretend Omar isn’t getting a speaking gig at the convention next year. Or that she won’t get a standing O from the crowd when she walks [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Are you ready for Shutdown II: Detention Bed Boogaloo?]( 2/11/2019 2:01:13 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments In the immortal words of John Hurt, parodying his Alien role in Spaceballs: “Oh no … not again!” The odds of another shutdown increased markedly over the weekend, but this time the issue isn’t border-wall funding. Democrats [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Klobuchar on reports that she mistreated staff: I can be a tough boss]( 2/11/2019 1:31:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, I wouldn’t call this a “good answer” so much as the only answer she can plausibly give to questions about reports that she’s The Boss From Hell. I’m a perfectionist. I expect a lot from my [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rep. Tlaib wrote for Farrakhan’s Final Call newspaper in 2006]( 2/11/2019 1:01:25 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Rep. Rashida Tlaib was a guest columnist for Louis Farrakhan’s Final Call newspaper in 2006. Author Jeryl Bier broke the story at his new site The Script: The article appears to have been written specifically for The Final Call; an online [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Amy Klobuchar throws her hat in and allegedly throws a lot of other stuff]( 2/11/2019 12:31:37 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Another day, another Democrat declaring their 2020 candidacy. This time it was Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, who decided to kick things off with a nearly hour-long speech in the middle of a blizzard. Just as a side note, there are currently only [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Erick Erickson: I was Never Trump in 2016 and I’m voting for Trump in 2020]( 2/11/2019 12:01:10 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments No matter where the Republican Party goes, lesser-of-two-evils arguments will always be there to convince righties to accept the status quo. From now on it’s “Flight 93 elections” all the way down. I’m treating his post as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [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...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Politico [GOP livid with Trump over ignored Khashoggi report]( NYT [Second Fairfax accuser also accused former Duke hoops star of rape]( The Hill [BBC cameraman shoved at Trump rally in El Paso]( Axios [Little-known liberals reshape Democratic policy]( David Freddoso [Sorry, but farting cows are here to stay]( Examiner [Kamala Harris on why she married a white man: “Look, I love my husband”]( Politico [Rand Paul will vote against Trump’s pick for attorney general]( WaPo [Poll: Mueller viewed as more credible than Trump, but views of probe are scattered]( Politico [Iowa Dems propose major 2020 change: “Virtual caucuses”]( BuzzFeed [Ralph Northam launching a “listening tour” about race amid blackface scandal]( Ross Andersen [Do animals have feelings?]( Khaled Diab [A far-right politician converted to Islam. 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