HotAir Daily Express 02/15/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Beto O’Rourke: Yes, we should tear down the border fence near El Paso]( 2/15/2019 11:21:41 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments A few years ago this would have been evidence that he’s not running for president. No one with national ambitions would claim that not only do we not need more border security, we should undertake to remove some of the security measures [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [AP wonders: Will AOC’s Amazon victory push Dems off a cliff?]( 2/15/2019 10:41:56 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Democrats may be on the verge of throwing away an election they could easily win, the Associated Press warns this morning. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may do a victory lap for her win over Amazon in New York, but the leftward drift of the party has [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How To: Fix Cracked Feet]( Footmedix SPONSORED Doctor's New Discover Makes Foot Calluses "Vanish" [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rogers: Mitch McConnell’s “not enjoying that manure sandwich” of an emergency declaration]( 2/15/2019 10:01:25 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments How did Donald Trump get Mitch McConnell to sign off on an emergency declaration? After all, McConnell had initially warned Trump that it would precipitate a civil war in the GOP and that Trump might well lose a vote to sustain it. By yesterday, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: Bill Weld launches primary challenge to Trump]( 2/15/2019 9:21:14 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Oh, wait — is Bill Weld a Republican again? Gary Johnson’s running mate on 2016’s Libertarian ticket announced this morning in New Hampshire that he will launch an exploratory committee as the first step to challenging Donald Trump [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ABC: Here’s where Trump plans get $8 billion for the wall]( 2/15/2019 8:41:17 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments At 10 am ET today, Donald Trump will declare a national emergency in order to redirect funding from the Pentagon to the border wall. That will only account for about half of the additional funding Trump will claim above the $1.37 billion Congress [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [So we had secret meetings with Nicolas Maduro]( 2/15/2019 8:01:08 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Is Nicolas Maduro on his way out as the dictator of Venezuela? To listen to him talking this week you certainly wouldn’t think so. He’s setting up meetings with foreign leaders, discussing new trade deals and making changes to domestic [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Andrew Cuomo: A small group of politicians who shall remain nameless blew this Amazon deal for us]( 2/14/2019 10:01:29 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I wonder whom he has in mind. A popular headline on the wires for today’s news is “Amazon to New York: Drop Dead,” a riff on a famous New York Daily News front page from the 1970s. This was more of a drop-dead effort by [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Biden “95% there” on running for president]( 2/14/2019 9:21:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m honestly surprised. This guy’s been dithering about whether to run through not one but two election cycles now. Clearly he’s not that eager to do it. Just as clearly he’s going to face a barrage from the left if he gets [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Third suspect in Skripal poisoning identified as high-ranking Russian agent]( 2/14/2019 8:41:34 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Remember the two guys who were identified by the Brits as responsible for the Skripal poisoning? They subsequently went on the Kremlin’s RT network and claimed they were not Russian agents but just a couple of regular businessmen who had [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [AOC, frosh Dems fracture points that Pelosi can’t contain]( 2/14/2019 8:01:25 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Perhaps the only thing worse that presiding over a House minority caucus is running one with a bare majority. Paul Ryan certainly learned that lesson the last two years, and now Politico reports that Nancy Pelosi already hip-deep in the same [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Coulter: Signing this bill will *weaken* Trump’s court case that there’s a national emergency at the border]( 2/14/2019 7:21:15 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments That’s a take, all right. I think there might be something to it. Hate me, love me, this isn't hyperbole. This is it. Trump is about to walk in the winning run. — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 14, 2019 Trump HAD the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New developments in the Jussie Smollett investigaton (Update: Staged? Police dispute)]( 2/14/2019 6:41:56 PM John Sexton 0 Comments I haven’t been paying close attention to this case, more like watching it happen in the background. But today appears to be a big day with some major developments. For a start, Jussie Smollett appeared on TV this morning to talk about the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pelosi: You want to talk national emergencies? School shootings like Parkland are a national emergency]( 2/14/2019 6:01:35 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The more I think about it, the more I think today’s fiasco is low-key one of the stupidest, most self-defeating episodes of Trump’s presidency. He had total control of government for two years, at any point of which he could have [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fox poll: Capitalism still beats socialism … for now]( 2/14/2019 5:21:53 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Ronald Reagan once observed that “freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” Is this the generation that embraces socialism over liberty? Despite the best efforts of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Green New Deal supporters can’t explain how it will prevent climate change]( 2/14/2019 4:41:10 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Earlier today I wrote about Megan McArdle’s contention that the Green New Deal won’t work even if it’s goals were adopted wholesale tomorrow. At best the GND would reduce carbon emissions in the United States that contribute about [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [McConnell: Trump will sign this terrible immigration bill — and also declare an emergency on the border]( 2/14/2019 4:01:12 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Here we go. .@senatemajldr: "I've just had an opportunity to speak with President Trump…he's prepared to sign the bill. He will also be issuing a national emergency declaration at the same time." pic.twitter.com/iukGKjmoZ8 — [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: McCabe’s coup, Shutdown II?, Barr’s whew, GND tour, movie reviews, and more!]( 2/14/2019 3:41:37 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. Join us as we [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Brexit bust: May suffers another embarrassing defeat in Parliament vote]( 2/14/2019 3:21:27 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments For the second straight time, Theresa May’s own party cut her legs out from under her in her dealings with the European Union on Brexit. May failed to win an endorsement from Parliament for her efforts, with members of both the Tories and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Avenatti gives up control of his law firm after being accused of hiding millions]( 2/14/2019 2:41:35 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Wednesday, lawyer and CNN guest Michael Avenatti agreed to give up control of his law firm just hours after a former law partner, Jason Franks, filed papers claiming Avenatti had hidden millions in income to avoid paying a $10 million legal judgment [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Federal judge to Manafort: Your plea deal has been revoked after lying about Kilimnik, payment]( 2/14/2019 2:01:07 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Looks like Paul Manafort will spend more time in prison than he previously planned — potentially a lot more. Late yesterday, a federal judge agreed with the special counsel that Manafort materially violated his plea agreement by not disclosing [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Amazon kills plan to build HQ in NYC over local opposition to tax breaks; Update: AOC declares victory]( 2/14/2019 1:31:42 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I’m itching to use this to dunk on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow travelers for leading the charge against a major economic opportunity for their hometown, but the hard fact is that she and they were right to object to all of the pot [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why the Green New Deal won’t work]( 2/14/2019 1:01:33 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Green New Deal isn’t a bill, it’s just a resolution, no different than the kind of resolution that could make today National Ice Cream Day. What it lacks is any legal power to force people to eat whatever Ben & Jerry flavor of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Big Apple moves to approve driver’s licenses for illegals]( 2/14/2019 12:31:23 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Continuing their ongoing efforts to undermine law enforcement in their own community, the municipal government of New York City is launching another effort to #RESIST President Trump on matters of illegal immigration. This week the City Council will [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ocasio-Cortez: Get ready for our 15-city Magical Green New Deal Mystery Tour]( 2/14/2019 12:01:52 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “Let’s go,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says in promoting a new 15-city tour in support of her Green New Deal. Just one question — how exactly will they “go”? Unless it’s by bicycle or on foot, the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Could Clarence Thomas step down this year? Should he?]( 2/14/2019 11:21:45 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments There’s no inkling here from Jeffrey Toobin that Thomas is thinking of resigning, only that some conservatives are chattering about it strategically. In fact, to the extent that Toobin’s aware of Thomas’s own inclinations, they [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Ann Coulter [The national emergency is a ruse for the rubes in Trump’s base]( Mediaite [“Morning Joe” blasts AOC: It’s shocking how little she knows about economics]( Axios [Trump liked the idea of declaring an emergency because it’s the most dramatic option]( Fox News [Dershowitz: Ousting Trump via 25th Amendment is “clearly an attempt at a coup d’etat”]( Politico [Trump shocks GOP with emergency declaration]( Tim Miller [The president is hallucinating and I think we should be concerned]( David Ignatius [We’re entering a new phase of the Trump-Russia investigation]( Politico [2020 Democrats split on spending deal]( ABC [Report: Trump to announce he’ll spend $8 billion on wall construction]( Ryan Saavedra [Beto O’Rourke wants to knock down existing El Paso border wall]( NYT [Behavior at age six may predict adult income]( WaPo [Report: Airlines stranded a record number of passengers last year]( Joel Kotkin [If high-speed rail can’t make it in California, it can’t make it anywhere]( Joe Uscinski [Is the Internet driving a new age of conspiracy theory?]( Jesse Jackson [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is under fire because she’s right]( George Will [Green New Deal: Reality continues to leak from American life]( Hans Fiene [Why infanticide isn’t a bridge too far for many abortion supporters]( K.S. Anderson [“Mean Girls” meets the MAGA era]( Scientific American [Humans are still mating with Neandertals]( Kimberly Ross [Never Trump conservatives can’t be tempted by Amy Klobuchar]( Benjamin Parker [The devolution of Lindsey Graham]( Mike Pesca [Klobuchar may be a bad boss. That shouldn’t disqualify her from the presidency.]( Larry Sabato [Democrats hope for a nationalized Virginia election this fall]( A.B. Stoddard [Could AOC, Tlaib, and Omar be Dems’ blessing in disguise?]( Ruth Margolis [Physical aging is nothing compared to the horror of not “getting” young people]( [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. 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