HotAir Daily Express 02/28/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Tlaib: I don’t know if Mark Meadows is racist but his stunt yesterday with Lynne Patton was]( 2/28/2019 11:21:15 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments How many “racist acts” must one commit to qualify as a racist? That’s the obvious follow-up question, although Alisyn Camerota never asks it. Possibly because, after watching the exchange yesterday between Tlaib and Meadows, she [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats in California seek to ban animal dissections in high school]( 2/28/2019 10:41:03 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Having apparently solved all other problems, California’s state legislature is now considering new legislation that would ban all dissections in high school science classes. What they hope to accomplish by doing this is a mystery, but for any [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Thinning Hair? Pour This On Your Head And Watch What Happens]( Juvetress SPONSORED Shocking Report Reveals At Home Method For Fix [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Economy coasting? 2018 Q4 GDP slides to 2.6% — but beats expectations]( 2/28/2019 10:01:27 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The delayed report on the health of the US economy offered some mixed signals, especially against some pessimistic expectations. The annualized GDP number fell a little short of the previous two quarters, coming in at 2.6%, but it beat the 2.2% [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Trump-Kim summit Warmbier announcement was a bit much, no?]( 2/28/2019 9:21:03 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As Ed pointed out earlier, the highly anticipated second summit between President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un ended rather abruptly with no new denuclearization agreement reached. But during the press conference that followed the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [House somehow votes to notify ICE when illegals try to buy guns]( 2/28/2019 8:41:55 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments You can either call this a procedural trick or a fracturing of the Democratic majority in the House. Either way, the new background check bill that passed in the House yesterday wound up including an amendment that requires ICE to be notified when [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [No deal: Trump walks away from the table in Hanoi]( 2/28/2019 8:01:45 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “Sometimes,” Donald Trump remarked in Hanoi, “you have to walk, and this was just one of those times.” The Hanoi summit came to a surprising and sudden end overnight as talks collapsed between Trump and Kim Jong-un. While [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sure sounds like SCOTUS is going to let the “Peace Cross” continue to stand on state land]( 2/27/2019 10:41:07 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The requisite caveat about not presuming too much from the tenor of oral arguments before the Court is hereby duly noted, but more than one media observer today was struck by how open most of the justices seemed to leaving the cross in place. And [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“I’m gonna throw you off the set”: Greg Gutfeld, Juan Williams go nuclear over Cohen hearing]( 2/27/2019 10:01:21 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate, lotta emotions running high today. I don’t know what this is really about but it’s not about the Cohen hearing. Williams rambles on a bit too long while panelist Morgan Ortagus is waiting to cut in, then he says [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Gov. Northam’s wife handed cotton to a black child and asked her to imagine being a slave]( 2/27/2019 9:21:47 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Northam’s only had two more days of Black History Month to go but it appears they couldn’t make it without another embarrassing racial gaffe. The Washington Post reports that Mrs. Northam handed raw cotton to a group of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Reality bites: House Dems suddenly gun-shy on Medicare for All bill after winning majority]( 2/27/2019 8:41:25 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Thus far, almost every announced or speculative Democratic presidential candidate has endorsed Medicare for All. However, both Roll Call and The Hill report that the momentum for socialized medicine only grows in the theoretical sense. Now that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem rep to Cohen: Matt Gaetz should be referred to the ethics committee, and maybe prosecuted, for his tweet about you]( 2/27/2019 8:01:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments How often does a member of Congress use a public hearing to call for a fellow member to be criminally charged? Man, the Cohen hearing has everything. Plaskett thinks Gaetz should be referred to Ethics Committee, and possibly, for criminal [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Beto O’Rourke won’t run for Senate and will probably announce run for president soon]( 2/27/2019 7:21:27 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Dallas Morning News reports Beto O’Rourke is poised to jump into the 2020 race for the White House after deciding not to run for the Senate seat held by John Cornyn: Beto O’Rourke has decided not to run for Senate next year against [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [SCOTUS: Dead judges can’t vote]( 2/27/2019 6:41:48 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Even with all the Cohen hysteria going on, the rest of the government is still running normal operations, including the Supreme Court. The justices handed down a rather unusual ruling today in a case dealing with votes cast by the dead. But this [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cohen hearing derails after Rashida Tlaib kinda sorta calls Mark Meadows a racist]( 2/27/2019 6:01:41 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The most amazing clip from a day of memorable moments. “Someone,” she said, committed a racist act at today’s hearing by treating a black woman as a prop while questioning Michael Cohen about Trump’s racism. And everyone [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Hill: Come on, Pelosi’s not going to impeach Trump]( 2/27/2019 5:31:38 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Until Robert Mueller files his report — or an indictment that has any connection at all to collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign — the question of impeachment remains hypothetical. And that’s where it’s likely to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Awkward: Kamala Harris attempts to distance herself from policy that reported juvenile illegal aliens to ICE]( 2/27/2019 5:01:57 PM John Sexton 0 Comments This seems certain to generate some problems for Sen. Kamala Harris’ campaign for the White House. Earlier this month, CNN’s Kfile reported that when Harris was San Francisco’s district attorney she supported a policy that would [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Could Russia really be considering first strike nuclear technology?]( 2/27/2019 4:31:29 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Up until now, most of the back and forth between Washington and Moscow over intermediate-range missile treaties and the development of new strategic weapons has sounded like little more than saber rattling. But recent developments are starting to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [THR: Did an addiction to fame “break” Jussie Smollett?]( 2/27/2019 4:01:46 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments As explanations for celebrity hate-crime hoaxes go, this hypothesis from the Hollywood Reporter certainly qualifies as … one of them. Their reporting team reflects back on an odd comment made by Jussie Smollett last summer in a Billboard [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Great news. “Lab grown meat” is on the way to your plate]( 2/27/2019 3:31:21 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If this winds up being the only sort of meat available, it might be what finally drives me to try going vegan. Assuming, that is, that I don’t just throw myself off a building. Back in December, we learned that some scientists were working on [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Vox: ‘The knitting community is reckoning with racism’]( 2/27/2019 3:01:30 PM John Sexton 0 Comments At long last, social justice has come to the knitting community and Vox is there for it. Of course, the experience of “social justice” often winds up being a lot of ugly insults uttered by an online mob targeting anyone who doesn’t [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cohen: Yes, I’m aware of other wrongdoing or illegal acts regarding Trump but can’t talk about that yet]( 2/27/2019 2:31:55 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Perfectly normal thing to hear at congressional testimony by the president’s former lawyer. And a reminder that the end of the Mueller probe likely doesn’t mean the end of Trump’s legal troubles. Asked if he is aware of any illegal act [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmm: Did Cohen lie to Congress again?]( 2/27/2019 2:01:46 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Thus far, the Michael Cohen Act has played out as expected. Democrats want to put every sordid Cohen claim about Donald Trump’s character on public display, while Republicans put Cohen’s character front and center. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chris Christie: Not one Republican at this House hearing has attempted to defend Trump from Cohen’s accusations]( 2/27/2019 1:31:30 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Christie seems to think this is due to a breakdown of organization, which is always possible when Trump’s involved. The obvious thing to do before Cohen’s testimony would have been for the president to huddle with Republicans on the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Police seeking warrant to arrest Berkeley assault suspect]( 2/27/2019 1:01:21 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last Tuesday two men walked up to a conservative table set up in Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza and started harassing Hayden Williams, the person who was manning it. When Williams felt the encounter was getting out of hand he pulled out his [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Baltimore reverses decision on armed officers in schools]( 2/27/2019 12:31:14 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It was barely a month ago when we learned that Baltimore’s public schools had voted unanimously to ban armed security officers on their campuses. This was a clearly political move intended to make a statement about gun control in a city [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] The Hill [Senate panel approves Neomi Rao on key appeals court]( NBC [Breaking: Netanyahu indicted on fraud and bribery charges]( WSJ [Political scandal worsens for Canada’s Justin Trudeau]( Jeff Greenfield [The Michael Cohen hearing didn’t have to be so awful]( Guardian [“Semi-identical” twins?]( Michael Salter [The problem with a fight against “toxic masculinity”]( Gary Abernathy [Why a higher wall will lower crime]( Henry Olsen [Michael Cohen has blown a lot of political smoke but no impeachable fire]( David Drucker [GOP nightmare as Alabama’s Roy Moore signals he might run again]( Matt Gaetz [I apologized personally to Michael Cohen]( Politico [“Sometimes you have to walk”: Why Trump bailed on North Korea]( CNN [No deal: Trump/Kim summit ends early]( Guardian [Study: New parents face up to six years of sleep deprivation]( Morning Consult [Why Biden’s still in the driver’s seat despite Sanders’ rise]( Glenn Reynolds [Clarence Thomas is right: SCOTUS should revisit libel law overreach]( Kevin Williamson [Health care is the opposite of a right]( Megan McArdle [Harris and Warren are wrong. 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