HotAir Daily Express 03/14/2019

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [He’s in – Beto O’Rourke releases presidential campaign video]( 3/14/2019 11:01:00 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments That squeal of delight you hear is coming from the Beto O’Rourke fans as they awake this morning to the news that their dream candidate is running for president. His video appeared just minutes ago in his Twitter feed as I write this early [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kathy Griffin only exists because of Donald Trump at this point]( 3/14/2019 10:38:33 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments To the amazement of many, comedian Kathy Griffin is still out there trying to market herself, set up tour dates and even produce a movie about her life. But if she has any new material to offer, it’s being drowned out by the fact that she [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Attention - Don’t Use Probiotics Until You See This]( Gundry MD SPONSORED World-renown surgeon's breakthrough discovery of the century [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Expulsions, firings, and flacking: Universities suddenly in damage-control mode after Huffman-Loughlin fraud ring exposed]( 3/14/2019 10:01:16 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The administrations of the universities and colleges caught up in the Operation Varsity Blues investigation may have escaped federal charges, but few are absolving them of any responsibility. Those schools that got gamed by William [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: ICE finding ways around sanctuary policies]( 3/14/2019 9:21:30 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments It’s beyond question that sanctuary state/city policies have hindered the ability of federal immigration enforcement officials to do their jobs. Too many criminal illegal aliens are still being released back onto the streets because ICE [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: We’re sure looking forward to a trade deal with the UK, if they ever get their Brexit act together]( 3/14/2019 8:41:54 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The Brits can’t seem to figure out what they want from Brexit. They don’t want the deal Theresa May spent the last 32 months crafting with the EU, having rejected it twice. Last night Parliament made it clear that they won’t [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The revolution (and Jussie Smollett’s trial) will be televised]( 3/14/2019 8:01:04 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Judging by the web traffic and the number of cable news segments on the subject, much of the public simply can’t get enough of these Jussie Smollett stories. What looked to me like a simple case of a B-list (at best) actor faking a racist [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Endorsement? Firefighters union to Biden: “Run, Joe, Run!”]( 3/13/2019 10:41:40 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments It looks like Joe Biden has made a decision, as he’s dropping encouraging hints all over the place these days. Tuesday Biden spoke to the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) convention In Washington and among the “Run, Joe, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Damn right capitalism’s been a force for good, says … Elizabeth Warren?]( 3/13/2019 10:01:09 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the Free Beacon, you are not hallucinating. This actually happened. In fact, that’s not the most surreal part. The surreal part is that this is obviously the answer John Hickenlooper should have given when he was recently asked whether [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New approach to homeless addicts: ‘Harm reduction’]( 3/13/2019 9:21:19 PM John Sexton 0 Comments There’s plenty of evidence that people living on the streets in our major cities are dealing with some combination of addiction and mental illness. That’s not true of everyone but it is true of a majority of single adults on the street, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Newsom: I’m unilaterally ending California executions that, um, haven’t happened in more than a decade anyway]( 3/13/2019 8:41:08 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Theoretically, Gavin Newsom may create a potential constitutional crisis in California. In practical terms, though, the new governor’s decision to impose an “indefinite moratorium” on executions creates nothing more than a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [No deal: Mike Lee to back House resolution after Trump vows to veto bill that would limit emergency powers]( 3/13/2019 8:01:09 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I won’t rehash the background to all this yet again. If you care about tomorrow’s big Senate vote on the House resolution to cancel Trump’s border emergency — and Trump certainly does — then you’ve probably read [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Vanity Fair’s new Beto profile reveals ‘He has an aura’ (Update: He’s running)]( 3/13/2019 7:21:40 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Update: Putting this at the top. Beto is now saying he’s running. BREAKING: @BetoORourke announces he’s running for President #Election2020 #fox44tx @KWKTFOX44 pic.twitter.com/3Desiez5NJ — Leslie Rangel (@LeslieRangelTV) March 13, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Maduro throws out US diplomats who were already leaving]( 3/13/2019 6:41:46 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When you think about socialist nations existing under the thumb of a mad dictator, you need to be prepared for them to possibly be even a bit more “mad” than you were expecting. Such may be the case with Venezuelan tyrant Nicolas Maduro. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [College-fraud ringleader: There are hundreds more like Huffman and Loughlin still out there, you know]( 3/13/2019 6:01:27 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Analysts believe that the FBI’s impressive bust of dozens of parents corrupting the college-admissions process represents just the tip of the iceberg. The man in charge of the conspiracy broken in Operation Varsity Blues agrees — and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Does Bernie’s spokeswoman have a problem with Israel, too?]( 3/13/2019 5:31:41 PM Karen Townsend 0 Comments Here we go again. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Bernie Sander’s new campaign spokesperson, an illegal alien living in America under DACA protection. She caught my attention again because it turns out she sounds a lot like Rep. Ilhan [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Iran appointed to UN Women’s Rights Commission same week a women’s rights lawyer sentenced to 38 years (and 148 lashes)]( 3/13/2019 5:01:58 PM John Sexton 0 Comments If the headline sounds like a bad joke, well, you’re not wrong. But it’s really happening. (h/t Free Beacon) No joke: the Islamic Republic of #Iran was just appointed to the @UN_Women's rights committee that judges complaints of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Even NYC residents don’t want de Blasio as President]( 3/13/2019 4:31:53 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In case you haven’t heard, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has been running around in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Iowa, looking very much like someone who is running for President, even if he hasn’t made a formal declaration or [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump to Pelosi: Thanks for acknowledging I’m not worthy of impeachment]( 3/13/2019 4:01:18 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Hey, Nancy Pelosi could have said worse things about Donald Trump. In fact, the House Speaker has said worse things about the president than he’s not worth the effort of impeachment, which may indicate that Trump had his tongue firmly in cheek [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Stormy Daniels: It’s “adorable” that Avenatti’s pretending like he dropped me instead of vice versa]( 3/13/2019 3:31:47 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments No words can do justice to the excitement I feel at the thought of an ugly Stormy/Avenatti legal brawl. But it looks like I might have to come up with some. It’s happening. I think. Yesterday’s Avenatti statement announcing their split [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [San Jose police chief: Sanctuary policies shielded a suspected murderer from deportation six times]( 3/13/2019 3:01:08 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Monday, San Jose police arrested 24-year-old Carlos Eduardo Arevalo Carranza for the murder of 59-year-old Bambi Larson. Police believe Carranza stalked the victim before breaking into her home and stabbing her to death. Her body was discovered by [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Could Trump’s ethanol move cost him Florida next year?]( 3/13/2019 2:31:37 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Last week we looked at some reports indicating that the EPA was preparing to allow the sale of E-15 ethanol blended gas year round, instead of banning it during the summer. Now the EPA is making it official. The new rules are being presented this [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmm: Manafort gets relatively light second sentence too — and a new indictment]( 3/13/2019 2:01:21 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Before Paul Manafort’s sentence-o-rama tour through the courts last week, he faced a potential for consecutive sentences running into decades in prison. By this afternoon, Manafort appeared to have gotten off lightly not once but twice. Judge [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Lori Loughlin 2017: When I think about my daughter going away to college, it makes me want to cry]( 3/13/2019 1:31:46 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments “Shameless” is bribing someone to get your kid admitted to a school they don’t deserve to attend. Emoting for a national audience about how much you’ll miss her as she heads off to a school she shouldn’t be attending is [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Will the President of Media Matters boycott himself over these offensive blog posts?]( 3/13/2019 1:01:31 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The president of Media Matters, Angelo Carusone, was celebrating yesterday over his attempted takedown of Tucker Carlson: Tucker Carlson red face ranting about Media Matters. He calls for us to be us shut down. Not sure how that changes that he [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How petty is Nancy Pelosi? This petty]( 3/13/2019 12:31:48 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Remember kids… Vice President Mike Pence is not a decent human being. And when you find such an unacceptable cullion hanging around your workplace, what do you do? You give him (or her) the boot. That’s precisely what Speaker Nancy [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] WaPo [Pilots fumed about being left in dark on Boeing plane software]( The Hill [Democrats upset over Omar seeking primary challenger]( Mitt Romney [Romney to vote to cancel Trump’s border emergency]( NPR [Andrew Weissmann leaves Mueller’s office]( David Wasserman [Why a long Democratic primary slugfest might help re-elect Trump]( NYT [Facebook’s data deals are under criminal investigation]( CNN [A political upside to impeachment for Trump? 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Dougherty [Don’t laugh, Bernie can win]( Peter Beinart [How bigotry made a dove out of Tucker Carlson]( [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. It was sent to you because you signed up to receive this newsletter on Hot Air OR a friend forwarded it to you. We respect and value your time and privacy. If this newsletter no longer meets your needs we will be happy to remove your address immediately. [Visit the Townhall Media Preference Center to manage your subscriptions](. Or Send postal mail to: Hot Air Daily Unsubscribe P.O Box 9660, Arlington, VA 22219 --------------------------------------------------------------- * Copyright Hot Air and its Content Providers. 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