HotAir Daily Express 03/05/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Yes, Cohen did ask Trump for a pardon, but through his attorney]( 3/5/2019 11:21:14 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Despite what the convicted felon said in his latest testimony before Congress, Michael Cohen did pursue a pardon from President Trump after the FBI raided his office, home, and hotel room. You may remember he denied asking for a pardon and acted as [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A QAnon book is busting the charts at Amazon and it’s really… something]( 3/5/2019 10:41:21 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I first learned of this story via a single-word tweet from journalist Soledad O’Brien last night in response to a link from NBC News. It’s a story dealing with Amazon book sales and an unexpected, anonymous author. What??? [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Test The German Hearing Aid Risk Free]( hear.com SPONSORED We have over 1,600 local partners nationwide & over 40,000 satisfied customers. Sign up today to try the latest hearing devices for 45 days risk-free. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitism “a dark day for Israel”]( 3/5/2019 10:01:40 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments A dark day for the Democrats, surely. A dark day for Minnesota too, for that matter, and maybe for the US. But does Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) pattern of anti-Semitic speech — getting firmly established in her first two months on the job [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary: I’m gone, but won’t be forgotten]( 3/5/2019 9:21:49 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The timing of this story is somewhat coincidental, at least for me. I was on Drew Mariani’s show yesterday when the subject of another Hillary Clinton presidential bid came up and was batted around for a while. (For the record, I said I [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Barr: DoJ gave me the green light to supervise Mueller]( 3/5/2019 8:41:14 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Jerrold Nadler hardest hit? Attorney General William Barr will not recuse himself from overseeing the special counsel’s Russia probe after consulting with senior ethics officials, the Justice Department said Monday. The officials advised Barr [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Muthana loses first round in court]( 3/5/2019 8:01:12 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Hoda Muthana, the so-called ISIS “teen bride” who left her home in the United States to marry three different terrorists, will be cooling her heels in Syria for a while longer. A federal judge has refused to hear her request to have her [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Dianne Feinstein” talks back to schoolkids about the Green New Deal, the sequel]( 3/4/2019 10:01:11 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A late-night treat from SNL to cleanse the palate. The leading theory in the YouTube comments to this clip is that it wasn’t cut from this weekend’s show for time, as was claimed, but was cut because the producers thought better in the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Plan to turn San Francisco public school into homeless shelter deemed an expensive failure]( 3/4/2019 9:21:01 PM John Sexton 0 Comments When it was proposed last April, there were plenty of people who thought it sounded like a good idea. But a few months later most agree that a homeless shelter set up inside a San Francisco public school has been an expensive waste of money. From [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why I drink: My record certainly doesn’t show much flip-flopping, says … Kirsten Gillibrand]( 3/4/2019 8:41:13 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, watching this is like watching Hillary claim that she’ll win the presidency because of her charisma and trustworthiness. She was pro-gun and a Trump-ish border hawk in the House until the moment she was appointed to the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bolton: When Trump said he takes Kim at his word on Otto Warmbier, all he meant is that that’s what Kim told him]( 3/4/2019 8:01:08 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You need to watch this rather than read a transcript in order to appreciate Chris Wallace’s stunned silence as it dawns on him that Bolton really would resort to an excuse this transparently lame and untrue. HUH? John Bolton: "When he [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New FEC complaint filed against AOC’s Chief of Staff]( 3/4/2019 7:21:41 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Washington Examiner reports that an FEC complaint has been filed today against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ Chief of Staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, questioning the financial arrangements between two PACs and two LLCs that he controls. The [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cynthia Nixon just can’t stop talking about Mike Pence]( 3/4/2019 6:41:58 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The Vice President has inadvertently gotten himself into the middle of an episode of Mean Girls with no clue how it all started. Just recently, Karen noted how failed New York gubernatorial candidate and Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon decided [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: House might vote this week on resolution condemning anti-semitic comments by Ilhan Omar]( 3/4/2019 6:01:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments It’s weak tea if it only condemns anti-semitism generally instead of what she said specifically, but that’s okay. Omar will barf up another anti-semitic stereotype soon enough and then they’ll have to take real action against her. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Two caravans a week: 70,000 detained along the southern border in February]( 3/4/2019 5:21:28 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Washington Post reports the number of migrants detained after entering the United States along the southern border was up sharply in February, possibly setting the stage this spring for the highest number of migrants seen crossing the border in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Apparently, a fake PAC is soaking up Trump donations]( 3/4/2019 4:41:54 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Robocalls are the worst, aren’t they? I get them too often, and I even installed one of those spam blockers on my phone. That goes for political calls as well, as most of you from purple states or districts will likely agree. But there’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Question to AOC about Maduro somehow turns into answer about Elliott Abrams]( 3/4/2019 4:01:26 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Someday an American progressive will get through an answer to a question about Maduro without trying to change the subject. Not today, obviously. Probably not tomorrow either, even if Maduro has Juan Guaido arrested or shot. I think this answer is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New York magazine: Pinkos have more fun]( 3/4/2019 3:23:08 PM John Sexton 0 Comments That’s the actual name of the piece the magazine published yesterday. Here’s the subhead: “Socialism is AOC’s calling card, Trump’s latest rhetorical bludgeon, and a new way to date in Brooklyn.” The point of the piece is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dem freshman has a lot of questions to answer about her campaign cash]( 3/4/2019 2:41:23 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments While she didn’t generate as much national attention as some of her more radical colleagues, there’s another female freshman congressional Democrat who is in the news this week for all the wrong reasons. It’s congresswoman Lori [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Impeachment alert: “It’s very clear that the president obstructed justice,” says House Judiciary chair]( 3/4/2019 2:01:37 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments He said this yesterday as a prelude to his committee demanding documents from practically everyone who’s ever worked with or for Trump, 81 people in all. The House Judiciary Committee is the first hurdle to impeaching a president so the fact [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New Yorker: Fox News killed a story about Stormy Daniels prior to the election]( 3/4/2019 1:21:13 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The New Yorker published a story in its latest issue which claims Fox News had the Stormy Daniels story before the 2016 election but chose not to publish it. The story by Jane Mayer claims the scoop, put together by Fox News entertainment reporter [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“No policy shift” as US closes Palestinian mission in Jerusalem]( 3/4/2019 12:41:34 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This news wasn’t exactly a secret since the State Department has been talking about it at least since last October, but there’s been a “consolidation” of our diplomatic corps in Israel this week. We previously moved our U.S. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Greenpeace drop-out to AOC: You’re a “pompous little twit”]( 3/4/2019 12:01:00 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Wow. If she’s lost a former Greenpeace fanatic, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s path to saving the planet just got a little harder. Granted, Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace left the group 15 years ago but the sick burn he issued to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ilhan Omar: I shouldn’t have to pledge allegiance to a foreign country to serve my own]( 3/4/2019 11:21:43 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Strange yet unexpectedly true: Ocasio-Cortez isn’t the single biggest pain in the ass for Pelosi and Democrats from the freshman class. In fact, if not for the obsession on all sides of political media with AOC, Ilhan Omar’s periodic [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Guaido comes home to Venezuela today… and a jail cell?]( 3/4/2019 10:41:48 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Following a big concert event and another failed effort to get tons of food and medical aid over the bridge and into Venezuela, opposition leader and self-declared interim president Juan Guaido is scheduled to return to his native country today. We [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hoda Muthana: Trump should study the legal system]( 3/4/2019 10:01:11 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments CBS’s Face the Nation ran an interview with American born ISIS convert Hoda Muthana and it sure seems like the intention is to make Muthana into a sympathetic character in light of an upcoming court decision on her immediate future expected [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Edward-Isaac Dovere [Bernie Sanders’s staffers want him to be less grumpy]( Politico [Ocasio-Cortez balks at Dem leadership’s rebuke of Omar]( NPR [Large study provides more evidence that MMR vaccines don’t cause autism]( Jack Crowe [Google study: Male employees are underpaid more often than females]( Sarah Sanders [Statement on Chairman Nadler’s fishing expedition]( NYT [HIV is reported cured in a second patient, a milestone in the global AIDS epidemic]( BN 12 [“I’m not running”: Hillary Clinton rules out 2020 bid for first time on camera]( Bloomberg [Ocasio-Cortez aide floats Amazon’s return to NYC if done via right “process”]( James Comey [Republicans are wrong. 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